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Accounting/record keeping/informatics systems, industrial controls - anything that would lead to a catastrophic loss of some kind.

I'm trying to determine what common practices for support are with applications that are hosted in a client's data center. Without getting too far into specifics, let's say that yo…

Did you do any validation on the book idea before you started writing? How much time did you invest before you decided to publish it?

What was the response like when you originally posted on Reddit? Which subreddit did you post in? Reddit seems like a great place to test ideas, but I'd be concerned about being la…

Another point - I agree that adding customer reviews would be a nice addition, but how about a twist - allow for "trip advisor" style reviews to show off the designer's end product…

First, beautiful design and implementation! A couple ideas for growing and monetizing: - partner with wedding planners to help grow your community of designers and users - start su…

I did a few quick searches and Vancouver would be at 25 on their scale for a single-family detached house. That's using a median listing price of $900,000 and median rent of about …

Plug and Play Tech Center is supposed to be opening a branch office here, but nothing concrete has happened AFAIK.

You might find http://www.leadgenerationbook.com/ useful. It will seem like common sense, but for me the book was valuable in that it showed what a comprehensive sales and marketin…

What an excellent app, great job! Have you thought about adding a social angle, i.e. allowing users to make comments on or recommend specific seats? Perhaps another heatmap layer t…

You could combine IP geolocation and caller ID phone verification. Geolocate the user's IP during the sign-up process and provide the user a code to activate their account through …

Thanks for the painfully juvenile replies, guys. I was looking for something more insightful than the press releases and media coverage that turn up in search results.

I was out for dinner with family last night, when I noticed a group come into the restaurant wearing Google Ocean fleeces. One member of the group was carrying a laptop and some do…

That is fun to play with! It reminds me of Circuit Simulator? from the MacPlus days. I think you should make the simulator stopped/active control more obvious.

This idea has a lot of potential, especially if you were to focus on a few situations that I've seen over and over in the corporate world. The most common scenario I've seen is dat…

Any plans for receiving SMS messages?

I have the same issue with the naming - it needs to be related to suggestions, comments, feedback. I had to chuckle when the 'create a premium dropbox now!' button took me to... a …

I'll second a few that have been mentioned already: * http://blog.startwithalead.com/weblog/ (Brian Carroll's blog) * http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Get-Real-Not-Play/dp/1883219507 you…

I would caution you against looking at e-learning as a single market - there's the K to 12 market and then the post-secondary market. You also need to look at geography and the edu…

I'll second http://kuler.adobe.com as a great tool to find or piece together a color scheme.

This sounds like a good way to keep motivated, having tried and failed to get through SICP on my own. Count me in.

I've incorporated a number of companies in BC and the process has been simple enough to do on a self-serve basis. After a quick search, I found the following site for incorporation…

I'm not a naturally born coder, don't have a CS background, and my career has been more on the sysadmin, project management and IT management side of things. I've always loved buil…

You've got to look at the native resolution of the LCD, which for a 1080p TV would is 1920x1080. For a comparison, a 30" Apple Cinema Display is capable of 2560X1600. So, fewer pix…