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That'd really block away the potential cognitive interest, wouldn't it? At least you could name it like "Why this is the last link you will follow that contains the word 'brain'."

Satisfaction is not black-and-white. I think it is perfectly valid that someone is satisfied with the existing work environment (hey, there is just so much you can expect from an employer), yet, they want to create their own. It might be that they just want to show the world that they are capable of creating the same (or better) on their own.

John: have a good luck pursuing your dream!

This is a really great concept, that enables client applications on a different scale (and reduces their complexity very much). Thanks Twitter team!

A big advantage over web components (or angular, or others) is that this is much more lightweight, less polluted and has a better separation of concerns. (On the other hand, web components will be a great deal for browser-app shops developing for third parties).

Thanks for the link, it was refreshing to read it!

I guess by 'modern approaches' you mean (and the faq suggests) that making everything public and highly visible. The idea behind the "publish it as book" is that it makes it public, but not that highly visible. I guess it depends on the business requirements.

Btw. it was not clear from the site how much it costs. Is it entirely free?

As one answer, I do remember an advice from years ago:

1. Write down the ideas and some of implementation details in a book.

2. Submit it to Lulu or other self-publishing site, order a few copies to yourself, but don't open some of them.

3. If the case comes to court, you can provide the package with the postal stamp on it, and the content of the book shows that you were aware of the idea before the patent-troll filed for the patent.

One issue with this is that the court might reject the package with the postal stamp, so it might be useful if you have a copy with a notary signature or like that.

Please let me know if you see any flaw with this approach or share if you have a better one.

I tend to think that if someone is willing to pay $250k for permanent residence, they should be allowed to do so. I mean, most immigration laws are against the poor and uneducated, and not the rich guys who are bringing their wealth and knowledge to a country.

edit: the focus is not on the amount, it can be whatever amount the government sees fit (e.g. $800k as mentioned below). I just don't see any problem that the wealthy ones can buy a residence / "retirement plan" / whatever you name it.

Transferring the person (incl. moving, flight, cost of living) is still high-cost. Transferring the information about/from the person becomes cheaper-and-cheaper. So I suppose things get (slowly) better for remote teams over time.

Why does it bother you that others care about getting into YC? People have different understanding of our world and their positions in that. It is fairly legitimate for them to express what's on their mind and their feeling about their actual priorities.

Having said that, I think you shouldn't care much about getting into YC. One size doesn't fit all.

It would be really interesting to know that if someone downvoted this link, why did they do it? I'd be eager to learn about the reasons and to understand it better.

+1 to share your experience. Kiip and other companies do that, and if you need to decide on a certain technology for your upcoming development, these are really exciting and far-from-boring posts.

Thanks for the lead!

I've found bing login for casperjs, but otherwise most example out there assume anonymous access. I wouldn't use my cookie files, especially because it limits automation.

It is so stunning that nobody tried to solve this before / nobody published the scripts.

"All your data processing codes are belong to us." Unfortunately, this is not as funny as it should be.

It is a selection bias, we would like to be part of the success story, therefore we talk, write or read about it more. Learning from regretful decisions or failures is undervalued in many ways.

This page has some maps: http://www.sfmta.com/cms/venf/truckbus.htm

Check: "Truck and Bus Restricted Streets Map (PDF)"

Why do you think so?

I think the capacity is there, but we might need to change our media-consumption / media-creation habits to see the small players too. In other words: it is a discovery problem.

"Social networks are extremely risky investments, no matter what." ?

yes, although I'd include an AND condition, like "If your site has googleable content AND you engage your users in a meaningful way..."

e-mail account is different, as it gives you an address that others will use exclusively to communicate with you. On the other hand, Facebook friends will use your name and the search field to look up for you, unique address is not that critical in such infrastructure.

it is really early to bury a tool that has just started to take some shape. why do you have doubts?

You shall create a wikipedia page for that, that way we can refer to it :)

For us, the following talk was the closest to describe what we like to call agile: http://www.agilord.com/en/radar/2012/09/dan-north-embracing-...

This part is especially important: "A good methodology allows us to defer decisions, let them be about scope, tooling or technologies."

You should not force yourself to quit X/Y/Z, rather, you might want to choose a balanced approach: limit the use of such sites to 5-15 minutes a day, a have best of both worlds.

nice, thanks!

Yeah, right, the definition of the database is fuzzy. As every technology, S3 has its pros and cons, and the latency is a con this time. Take a latency-intensive application (1), and it will feel miserably slow with S3. Take a storage-intensive application with not-so-frequent access requirement (2), and it will be just OK with it.

(1) any page-load that requires 3-5 sequential DB access (based on the results that are returned in the previous steps).

(2) Netflix's "let's store somewhere until we really want to use it" qualifies.

Your example (reddit using S3) is not a database use, it is a content delivery network use. For that, it is good enough, but I'd choose a different key-value store for database, and mostly because of the latency (been there, tried that).

latency (and costs)

App store is all of the following: distribution, discovery and promotion. apt-get was really a distribution platform at first, and you could use it for discovery as well. Apple's store is full of promotion, and I haven't seen any Linux solution that even tries to fill that (marketing) gap.

"Booom! You've been inspired. You've a big idea. Yeah? Now what?" - Astro Teller shares a few of his mantras that help him to make through challenging times.

A blog entry that provides a summary of the talk: http://www.agilord.com/en/radar/2012/08/astro-teller-getting...