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Sure, but the title of this is "Girl figures out how to program giant computer". "The boy down in ballistics got in a shootout" is not something our hypothetical police chief would…

Why refer to these women as 'girls'? It'd certainly stick out if anyone said that a bunch of 'boys' had learned to program a computer – it would be implied/assumed that children we…

While SOPA and PROTECT-IP deserve to burn for all the obvious reasons, this ‘infographic’ is appalling. It’s rare to see propaganda as brazenly deceitful as the “self-censorship di…

Gruber addressed this in a footnote: "You might wonder, Hey, don’t you feel like a jerk walking around the city talking to your phone? But here’s the thing: Siri, by default, kicks…

http://artistorm.com I started the website as a senior design project in 2005. My team won a $10k entrepreneurship contest, but we were all finishing college and drowning in debt, …

For the record, it states in their Seller Policy ( https://checkout.google.com/seller/policies.html ) that you have to capture within 7 days and ship within 24 hours of capture. I …

Got my HP Laserjet (CP1518) cartridges to last literally 2x as long by setting the manual override. The printer will complain for months that it's out of ink, all the while printin…

I read Investing for Dummies back in 2004. It taught me all the basics I needed to know -- mostly lingo, since I had no clue what all the TLAs meant. I had just gotten my hands on …

Does it strike anyone else as petulant, childish, or vaguely illegal that he's prodding people to short their stock? I can never take this guy seriously, even when I want to.

Seconding this. Just started using it last week, learned everything I needed to know in a distraction-filled day or two. Any CSS pro could pick up HAML/SASS in a matter of hours, i…

I don't think so -- Fundable was targeted toward much larger transactions ($5k+ campaigns weren't rare, iirc) and specifically set up to 'self destruct' if the goal wasn't met. So …

Pretty one-sided, but I suppose a domain name can only belong to one side of any argument. For the uninitiated, Fundable was a site where you could input a dollar amount and accept…

Can't provide a good suggestion yet, but I'll try to make your pool of options smaller: don't go with Chase. I've been a personal customer for 7 years and a business customer for 3…

Honestly, it just never went anywhere. I'd pick it up today if I wasn't already seeing a lot of success bootstrapping an online retail store. It's often in the back of my mind, tho…

That was the entire premise of my YC app back in 2007, actually. Here's a mockup, in case anyone's interested in working on it ;D http://reidesign.us/misc/veracifyWebsite3-5.png Pr…

This article, and the last paragraph in particular, strike me as another disingenuous snowball fight. Except with semantics instead of snowballs. It seems pretty obvious that 37sig…

Hmm, a domain leasing agent...paying rent for a domain name, kinda like renting office space. Has this been done already?

Instead of packing slips we've been including cardstock 'receipts' with each of the orders we ship. We write the recipient's name, circle the merchandise they purchased, and includ…

Google Checkout has no customer service, not for merchants at least. No phone number, no email address, just a knowledge base and a forum where GC merchants vent their frustration …

Same here. I switched away from them back in 2003 when the "car salesman" mentality (an excellent and concise term, btw) really started to kick in. Went to Domainsite -- http://dom…

tl;dr version: Can someone point me to resources designed to help someone understand IT basics? ------- I've got an acquaintance in her early twenties who is unhappy at her current…

Although I agree that Etsy is the best for this particular situation, Shopify is great for larger-scale sales. We're filling 500-1000 orders per month with their software and havin…

We just sell merchandise -- t-shirts, posters, etc. We were thinking about doing advertising stuff, but since we're a video game site, we decided to just give our users what they w…