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A user needing to actively check in is a good thing, as it means the user wants others to know he is checking in there. If a user was to check in to every grocery store, gas station, and so on, it wo…

We offer long working hours How is that a good thing?

"if search engines were forced to disclose their algorithms and not just the signals they use, or, worse, if they had to use a standardized algorithm, spammers would certainly use that knowledge to g…

I've seen many of these posts asking about "ideas that will generate x money" coming up lately. While it is certainly possible to make $1000 per month after a year of development, I'm not sure how li…

Comparing the officially supported iOS SDK to 3rd party open source libraries is more than a bit disingenuous. I wonder what 3rd party libraries they are using for the iPhone. We've had the same expe…

While block based programing environments like this make programming look easier at first glance, I'm unconvinced they actually make things easier. For instance, I don't really see how the example sc…

Here's a post from a couple of months ago on it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1317004

Harvest for time and expense tracking.

Is there really any software you can build in hours or days and return vast sums of money? If you have a really specific market, I would imagine even if the software itself was simple, the challenge …

Is the main focus of your site transferring money between users? If not, why not just use paypal or some other 3rd party service? If it is, you are opening a whole can of worms with regards to the l…

As a software development company, all of our code is in a git repository that has a remote on a VPS. Our documents are primarily Google docs. Important docs are checked into git. Nothing we have lo…

They do offer credit card payments.

I've heard in France, you don't even need to do a lousy job. You just need to ask to be "voluntarily fired", and you can receive benefits. If you have a startup, you can receive those benefits indef…

Care to elaborate? Whether or not you have a professionally designed logo would make an interesting A/B test. Have you done or are you aware of any research about this?

Do you have a source for this? According to this blog, twitter's logo cost $10-15 and nike's cost $35: http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/cost-of-famous-logos/ …

Facebook does appear to use SSL. If you look at the login form, they are submitting to: https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1 …

Even though the title says the employees succeeded to bypass Facebook security, it seems they did so by breaking into the user's home network. It is not clear whether they actually got in due to bad s…

The cheapest option would be to make something up yourself. Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/ ) is a decent open source vector graphics editor that you should be able to use to whip up something hal…

For most, starting with a mobile website is the best option as the cost is lowest to develop and you reach the widest audience. If warranted, you can follow up with apps for specific platforms.

If you take the leap and regret it, what is to prevent you from getting another good job? You'll probably regret it if you don't take the chance, so I'd go for it.

In Canada at least, you can get a degree in Software Engineering which is aims to teach you the skills you'll need to develop software (not just programming though).

I'm missing your point. Physics is also a subset of what you need to know to be a mechanic.

Nice as an MVP, but I'm not quite sure the value it provides. As a company, we have plenty of recurring expenses, but not much recurring income (as defined as getting the same revenue every month). …

Using video on the mobile seems awkward to me. I'll be interested in seeing some stats about how much this feature is actually used.

Where are you getting that number for Skype from? In October, 2009, they had 521 million registered users, and 40 million registered users in the preceeding 3 months: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/2…

I'm still a vim newbie, but something I find helpful is using ctrl-{ to go back to normal mode (instead of escape), as I find it a faster and more natural motion.

PivotalTracker is good for managing user stories: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/

It seems like this could be a new feature for github - archive a project.