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Unless it can also go back in time and fix the economy so that luxury discretionary spending like a $4 cup of coffee is prevalent across America again, I don't see it saving Starbucks. That said, the…

Rent A Coder (www.rentacoder.com) and I also went through university student web pages and cold emailed people. That didn't work quite as well, though.

I've done just that and it's worked spectacularly for me. If you have a good job, don't drop it for your startup -- outsource the components instead.

I think Paul is missing something here, and that's soft skills. I, like him, was at the D table, and it was only much later that I realized why. I was much more interested in left-brain activities a…

All the paradigms were discovered by the 70's, and a language is only really the View/Controller for the paradigm. At least that's true as far as what's currently published.

Sure it's not. Not yet. But I think they're some exciting alternatives brewing. Check out Glancing Pad: http://yanooshray.googlepages.com It's basically a pad that detects movement. You can use …

Till it's dead.

Yes. Or at least I hope so. I think it's convoluted, cumbersome and an embarrassment. We can do better.

It's redirecting from here in the Czech Republic, so it's not your ISP. It looks like the dns has changed. Who knows why. What's your blog url, by the way? I'd like to read it.

Outsourcing is your best shot, in my opinion. It's what I do, even though I'm a developer myself. I just don't have the time. It only takes a few thousand and you can have any app developed. The t…

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It's a good idea. I'll be interested to see how well it does. To me it's missing a big piece: scalability. I would like to see, for $10,000, the result in Google AppEngine or Amazon's EC2/S3. Somet…

I agree that if you're starting a new venture and you don't have optimism, you won't get anywhere. But if you also hide from reality, you're toast as well. This stuff isn't from 'sky is falling' koo…

David, the turkey and the butcher story? That's Taleb's story, not mine. And it's important because it shows that to see a black swan coming, you often have to look at things from a different perspe…

I've also seen it coming for a long time and can point to every friend and relative as a reference. That whole time, for the last year and a half especially, I was always thought to be a crank. Now …

But a good translation is really, really tough to do. It's an art form. Just having a basic context isn't usually enough. "I'm going there to see you." Am going on foot or by car? (Gehen vs. fahr…

An open translation dictionary is a fantastic idea. You would have to be careful to clarify the context. A word in one language can often translate to several words in another language, for example.…

A new way to create software and a new operating system built from the ground up based on it.

Fair enough but that's because the question contradicts itself. 1) Sharing the information isn't that hard; the internet is amazing that way. Sure most people won't get it, but if it has value, enoug…

First, if you have no formal training there could be something you're missing, so don't get your hopes up too high. Second, find out "if it is what you think it is." I wouldn't worry as much about pro…

That's a good point but it's only one aspect. Another striking feature of the late 20th century is our ability to use advanced technology to extract resources optimally. So instead of getting a slow…

Sure we do. Really? And we have software that can recognize a cat from a dog (as that kitten can do)? And my face from yours even if I cover my ears (as the kitten will be able to do once it impri…

I'm channeling a pharmacist friend here. Either a pill has no effect (such as Vitamin-C) and just gives you expensive urine, or it has an effect. And if it has an effect, it has a side effect(s). N…

God bless him; those pills are exactly what will kill him. The singularity is coming, but Moore's law won't have much to do with it. I remember seeing a few-days-old kitten and for the first time in i…

I think the future belongs to a wristband (like a watchband) that picks up the electric changes of your wrist muscles (their myoelectric signals). No keyboard. No mouse. Just train finger press com…

But that has to be offset by how easy it is to immigrate, and it is tremendously easier to immigrate to the US as opposed to most other industrialized countries. I also think this study is skewed but …

I was in the same situation and I was able to make progress by consulting and paying outsourced coders on the side, then taking time off occasionally and working on it myself. It was hard but it work…

There are lots of examples of poor people who are hard working and still poor, and lots of examples of wealthy people who fell into it. There is no moral value to wealth and to say so not only insult…

I disagree (without the economics pedigree, so forgive me if I'm missing something). Politics and greed aren't all powerful and they certainly existed in the 30's. But I think he's exaggerating some…