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Has anyone noticed the rank difference between General and Specialist in any modern Military force?

I would personally not want to quantify the worth of someone such as PG. The 'value' of the likes of him are very qualitative.

The product is very thought-provoking for a bunch of reasons: The positives: 1. It celebrates 'creation' as opposed to performance. The lose-control-of-performance-during-fight is …

Truly a leaf from the Art of War. Confound before Conflict.

Like! :-)

Hm. So if there are say - 5000 customers like you, the business is sitting on a potential annual revenue of $300k. Sounds good! Are there 5000 such customers?

I understand the impeccable logic behind not building an advertising driven model. I just wonder about the magnitude of the 'problem'[recording ThingsToDo], and the cost of the 'so…

Sorry - I think I mistook your reply as addressed to myself.

You are welcome. I am seeing a potential use for this as a personal to-do list. Can I delete an atom after it is 'done'?

1. The price is a barrier of entry for me. But that could just be my scrappy upbringing of trying to hunt up free stuff, before spending a dime. 2. Is there a deeper plan to this? …

@hga: Appreciate your response. Replying late, as I was away from all possible lines of communication. Taken to cleaners risk, technology sufficiency: I would choose to have faith,…

@exline: Appreciate your response. Am replying a little late, but was deep in the jungles of India [seriously] for the past few days. Quality of Code:I have found the best guys pos…

This was a seriously crass comment. What was I thinking? My apologies fir trivializing the original inquiry of the thread.

Trouble is, we are making it a mathematical problem. It need not be. The same logic applies to human [as opposed to mathematic] problems like: 1. Don't you wish your girlfriend was…

Right. It is pretty difficult to run a web startup alone. Especially in the early days of excitement and terror. You need shoulders on your side to bear part of the pain. And the t…

Big Brother, Redux

Answering the base question - everyone is a designer - a Hacker, a civilian, all. All persons I know of (where I am currently located) are hackers - whether they know how to write …

@ido: I am a designer and architect [built spaces, not code], have managed major projects and programs over the last ten years, and I have a solution to this, which is immediately …

@DeusExMachina: Where I come from (India), poor parents go through considerable adversity to send their kids to good schools. Young adults of disadvantaged opportunity (and this is…

@avalore: What, if I may ask, is stopping you from getting the hell out of there? I have faced similar experiences,albeit far back in history, and in a non-technocratic context, an…

"In the innovation arena, we know that failure is part of the process, in fact, a critical ingredient that often propels game-changing ideas. But in soccer? Not so much. A recovery…