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kind of an unfortunate name, given that there's a linux command by that name...

Uh, what you describe is rewriting, not refactoring... Refactoring is often a great investment, and is not done 'from scratch'.

I would question your assertion that modern states have 1,000+ solved problems. They have no unit testing, shoddy QA if any, etc. It's a bad analogy, imho. When they do generate a 'tweak' it is often not solving a problem, but generating more problems than it solves.

This is a great idea. It doesn't need to be the answer to everything for everyone. It just needs to work for some folks.

Immigration is just one aspect to this. I hope that blueseed is not just looking at this as a tech incubator, as I believe there are a number of complementary markets they could go after.

I could imagine a lot of high net-worth families in Asia being interested in this, if it's marketed properly (and the proper package of services is put together etc).

Another regulatory area that could be arbitraged nicely is the inefficient and irrational processes in the FDA approval programs. Take a little trip to Blueseed to get your stem cell injection (etc.).

Thanks for posting this. Great food for thought and something to learn from. And to make sure you would leave in a relevant situation... where he did not.

I moved and my startups are non-US.

nice! ;)

white, fat boy should quit his day-job and rap full-time. for real.

I primarily use whatever O/S my customers, users and site members predominantly use. Not a bad rule of thumb.

Somebody forgot to water their crops... For those of you asking about pre-purchasing your stock, you can exercise options prior to full vesting, but the stock is still subject to vesting, so you can lose them through termination etc., afaik...

I'd send them some atoms... Pizza, chocolate, roses, cards, ...

This is one tool you can use in your toolkit for learning: http://www.coderbuddy.com/ -- free, social web IDE with testing environment and integrated publishing to free app hosting on Google App Engine (up to their quotas)

would welcome any feedback on it...

uh, but Posterous has a higher valuation than MySpace... wish they would work on site performance though...

fyi, url's are giving 404's

The Origin of Wealth:

Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Wealth-Evolution-Complexity-Eco...

don't let the false prophets of equilibrium theory and efficient market theory bend your ear too far ;)

if you get into looking for a job, there are a few books that list common questions for quant jobs also...

Paypal, WorldPay, ...

There's a few starter apps w/ source code at http://www.coderbuddy.com/ and you can start editing and testing them using the site.

(You can also upload and expand zip files of other projs/code you may find, as well as copy public projects into new projects of your own.)

Hope this helps...

Yah, that's the hilarious part about them being so excited about Google saving them from having to get visas, supposedly... #RealNames...

This is a huge step forward, can't wait to dive into this for CoderBuddy.

I do agree with others though that there should be more than 30 days notice on pricing. And it would be nice to have some guidance on pricing, given recent history...

Show up. Physically go to the startup and say you're there to help and ask what needs to get done. Worry about a contract/salary later on once you've shown you're solving headaches.

Oh my Gaahd! I like totally can't wait to buy Arrington's next startup... the transition will be so seamless... he'll help preserve and expand value during the transition and afterwards...

well, on second thought, maybe not...

You're being very diplomatic. Probably a function of priority more than time, hehe ;)

AppInventor is so cool; glad it has found a home.

Actually nobody's talking about actually cutting spending. They're just talking about maybe increasing spending less than they were previously planning to increase it. Crucial distinction, but sadly nobody's taking the media to task for their reporting on this.

I find Firefox using up 25% cpu a lot with 40-50 tabs open whereas chrome (on win 7 64-bit) is nowhere near that; similar memory usage... so I use Chrome more...

You should read the book, "In Search of Stupidity - Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters"

Refactoring is almost always preferable to throwing out all your code, imho.

I think most great examples of MVP are pretty invisible because you are typically starting off testing it with small groups of users -- just enough to get feedback to move it to the next stage. Otherwise it isn't the M in MVP -- It's not the minimum.

We are big fans of using Dave McClure's Pirate Metrics model... building activation first, then retention, and then going for acquisition, etc.

The first version of CoderBuddy was very minimally-viable compared to where we're at today. It was enough to get something done and to use in workshops. Since then we've analyzed where the biggest bottlenecks are improving activation etc., along the lines of the Pirate Metrics model.

Hope this helps.

(fyi, we're fixing a little bug with publishing that some of you might experience.)

Hi, thanks for the suggestion re interfaces and such, that sounds cool.

I've been able to reproduce problems with the new editor in my copy of Opera, but our classic editor is working fine for me. We'll investigate this more and see what we can do -- thanks for reporting it!

And yeah, we'd like to add more git support over time! ;)

Thanks,

Thanks, we'd like to build towards support for a good range of tutorials and other educational and performance-building/enhancing interactions. It may take a bit of time to build it out towards supporting large application development well, but we hope to get there over time!

Thanks, that's a relevant question. There are the overall benefits of moving to the cloud (as one experiences in gmail, google docs, etc.). Specifically in CoderBuddy, the benefits right now, which are going to be more valuable to some folks than others can include:

- quick accessibility, nothing to download, install and configure (especially useful for folks who've been meaning to play w/ App Engine for a while but haven't gotten around to it, and also folks who are newer to web application programming in general -- something we've seen in tests with workshops)

- cloud backup

- easy accessibility of code from different machines

- collaboration with multiple developers (you can add developers to a project)

As we build out the application and start growing a community, there'll be more neat things going on with collaboration and more.