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Cancer sucks.

If you care to learn more about the disease and the search for a cure, check out "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Fascinating, scary and sobering.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Q66B5C

> I made it through the month with $150 to spare.

So you ate up $850 in savings and have no way of paying rent the next day.

The game isn't realistic. It condenses in one month what could happen in the span of a year or more, but the result is the same though. you end up broke.

Looks great, but returns 0 plan that includes maternity coverage in my area. I don't know if it's an issue with the app, or just the sad state of health insurance in the US... probably a bit of both.

I like the idea, but I would expect to see a lot of very confused users when that error message is displayed.

Any feedback on that from your users?

yeah, that was confusing. Don't assume that people actually read every single word on your page ;-)

Ok. I can see myself using this for my business, since I have some solid data for most metrics. I could then get a better sense of the kind of impact improving one metric or another would have. Still not sure of the usefulness when you start from scratch and make assumptions for everything though.

I guess I don't see the point of this tool. You have to make wild guesses for every single metrics in there. Is it a MBA thing? Do people really find this useful?

EDIT: Maybe I got confused by the 'business plan' part. Is it intended for an established business? or for someone putting together a business plan for starting a business?

Firefox 6 seems to ignore the encoding declaration in the xml prolog. Setting a content-type meta tag should fix this (or setting the encoding in the http headers).

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

Your browser probably auto-detects the encoding as Western (ISO-8959-1). Change it to Unicode (UTF-8) to see the Arabic characters.

We're currently in the process of sponsoring two foreigners for H1B visa, and we're a small bootstrapped startup, so yeah it's definitely possible.

The legal costs are fairly high, but we have been working with the 2 applicants for several months already, so I'm comfortable sponsoring them. I would not have done it based on a resume and job interviews alone.

I'd be happy to answer any questions if you need more details.

oh, and to address some of the other comments here, my understanding is that it's illegal for the applicant to pay for the legal costs.

Also, as employer we cannot underpay the applicant. Part of the application process requires us to disclose the salary offered and document prevailing wages for the same position in the same area. Should the salary offered be too low, the visa would be denied. (many requirements in the application process are designed to protect American jobs)

It reminds me of the Measure Map acquisition. Launch a new product, then acquire a talented team that worked on something similar. It worked pretty well I believe for Google Analytics.

http://techcrunch.com/2006/02/14/google-buys-measuremap/

another nitpick, use the 'label' tag and the 'for' attribute with your yes/no radio buttons to make them easier to select.

For what it's worth, I think it's fairly common practice these days. Not long ago I booked a car rental (I think on Avis.com). The first time I got a quote, I didn't book it right away as I was shopping for better prices elsewhere. When I came back the quoted price went up, and it basically went up every time I tried to get a new quote. I had to use Tor to get it to give me the original cheap price.

It always amazes me how cultural differences find their ways in the oddest little details. I had never heard of the 2 space rule until I moved to the US, and only recently did I realize that the question mark was missing its preceding space... I had to do a bit a research and I'm relieved to read that the ellipsis can still be used to indicate a pause, or a trailing off thought.

If you have cash sitting around, you'd want to spend it to accelerate your business. Buying a company with a successful product, great team, large user base and actual revenues can be seen as a much safer investment (assuming the price isn't inflated) than spending 1 or 2 years trying to catch up with the competition, with no guarantee of success.

It doesn't mean of course that buying a company is always the best decision.. it boils down to whether the acquired product and team ends up being a good fit.

We do. http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/7750

Interns ok. No freelance / agencies please.

Comcast pulled quite a bluff, but I don't see how they can win in the long term. As a Comcast subscriber, I'd more than happy to switch to a different ISP if Comcast starts to limit access to Netflix or any other content provider.

1 in 30M? so, with over 600M passengers per year, that's roughly 20 people a year who would get cancer (and die?) because of those machines. I'm not sure how credible are those stats, but I wouldn't want to be making decisions at the TSA right now...

From your description, I'm guessing that the company will go under the day you quit. The founders can go on for a while on empty, but they need you if for any of their hail mary plans to have a chance to succeed.

However, their only obligation to you is payroll. As long as they can pay you, they surely expect you to keep working for the team, and they probably wouldn't be happy if you jumped ship early.

Obviously, it's up to them to be candid about the situation and give you advance notice if money runs out. So, if I were you I would put it on the table. Make sure they understand you will quit if they can't pay you, and that you expect them to give you 30 day notice.

Welcome to the joys and sorrows of hosting user-generated content. If this makes you feel better,rackspace is just your first problem. You'll also find soon enough that abuses can get your domain blacklisted in chrome, firefox, and for opendns users.

Where's 'here'? His $6 rate if for Filipinos, which I'm guessing is an ok rate (given a minimum wage of $2k / yr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_countr...)

I think the key is that they've been in business for 11 years. You need 100% focus to build a profitable business, but once you get the recipe right (and for 37signals, when was that? 5 years ago?), it gets easier and easier to diversify.

I use Eclipse as my main development environment. I'm familiar with vi, I use it regularly for sys-admin stuff, and used it extensively a while back in college.

As far a text-editor goes, I'm 100% sure that vim/emacs power users are extremely productive (And I'll wage that this video isn't the best example of productivity vs. a GUI).

What I haven't been able to figure out though is the workflow of vim users when working on real projects, not a single source file.

I rarely spend a lot of time writing code in a single file. I often have to navigate the project folder structure to look for stuff, I need to compare files, work with the source control and so on.. all of this I feel I can do pretty efficiently from within Eclipse.

So how do vim/emacs users do? I presume it's all command line and a lot of typing. Am i wrong?

Like an evolutionary black box. All the details stored will help the brain make sense of the event and prevent it from occurring again.

That sucks, we left basecamp/campfire for Google Wave and it was a really good fit for us (collaborative work with a distributed team).

Right, maybe I should have said the republic is still working well...

Softlayer, and yeah, they're great (at least on their dedicated hardware, not sure about their cloud services).

another quote: "Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., introduced legislation last week that would repeal the new 1099 requirements."

Bottom line, a misguided attempt to improve income reporting and tax collection is going to be either watered down by the IRS or killed in congress. Maybe I'm a sad optimist, but to me it looks like democracy's still working well :-)

Make me wonder why our hosting provider keeps handing over 6 IP addresses for free each time we order a server (we usually don't need them).

It wasn't offensive and I wasn't offended. Sometimes it's a better use of my time to stop reading an article half-way.

Anyhow, this post is in the same vein as the AA redesign by Dustin Curtis. The criticism is interesting and useful. The complete redesign attempts are however a step too far. IMHO. You can't suggest solutions to identified flaws by completing changing the parameters of the problem.

(I'm not specifically talking about OP here, it's more about redesign posts in general.)