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A college buddy of mine recently started a wedding photography business. He has had great success with FB ads. Word of mouth and referrals are starting to ramp up but FB was where he got his first 10-15 contracts (it helps when you can target "Women who are Engaged in Metro area"). The only thing that drives him nuts is that he hasn't figured out a way to not advertise on apps.facebook.com (games) because the bounce rate is obviously insane.

Awesome. Is anyone familiar with MessageMedia's sms software and how it compares to Twilio?

"...nothing beats the uses of F# to implement statistical machine learning algorithms as part of the Bing advertisement delivery machinery." For those interested, I found a bit more information here (AdPredict): http://www.slideshare.net/lgayowski/taking-functional-progra...

"when the top 20% are taking over 80% of the money" Who exactly are the rich "taking" money from in general? Creating wealth is not a zero-sum game. If you insert the word "earning" in the above phrase, the argument you present loses some luster.

As mentioned in the TC comments, Bing's cashback program has had some excellent rebates recently (20% cashback from Wal-mart for example) which needs to be taken into consideration.

The Web Developer Toolbar add-on for FF has a View Generated Source feature which is nice when dealing with dynamic markup (and of course Firebug rocks).

View Cookies Tab

So does Google.

Looks promising. You might want to add a "Loading" splash screen (The first load of your app takes awhile on my old computer). Also, when I try to load an .NET assembly, I click "My Computer" and none of the drives appear.

Hoppy Beer and Golf (preferably together)

We eat food that was appropriate when you worked outside for 12 hours a day. We also live in rural areas so you have to drive everywhere.

Sorry I couldn't resist:

https://store.theonion.com/kitten-thinks-of-nothing-but-murd...

Nice :P You can have wolfram and I'll take ACC titles and we'll call it even :o)

My Alma Mater:

Input: Virginia Tech

Results: Wolfram Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.

What is this?! Amateur Hour!

If you watch it in reverse, you can visualize Circuit City's fate.

Great minds think alike!

Fansnap should acquire Ticketstumbler (This assumes Fansnap has not spent $10.5 million on coke and hookers).

Patton - "Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!"

Christ. I read the title as "Iceland after the fail". I need to take a break from the internets.

This is very true. I was not attempting to port the author's code to .NET 3.5 as much as to introduce C# lambda expression syntax to the readers here.

Comparing C# 2.0's functional capabilities to Haskell/Python is terribly misleading. You can perform functional tasks easily in 3.5 using lambda expressions and built in functional operators such as:

listOfTestObjects.ForEach(x => sOutputDescriptions += "\n" + x.Description());

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/04/08/new-orcas-...

Nice The Who ref.

I was expecting an Onion article.

Michael Scott: I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day.

If you work in an IE world, Fiddler is a nice tool.

As someone who codes in C# during the week, I would much rather play around with other languages on the weekend to gain new insight and motivation. If Ruby was a popular 9-5 language, I would expect to see a similar drop over the weekend.

"What about fundamentals? Fundamentals is a word invented by sellers to find buyers."

Great to see another Hokie in the startup world! Legal question: If a professor requests his/her test to be removed, I am assuming you will have to comply?

If the other providers do not catch up with Stubhub, won't TicketStumbler end up being a nice front end to Stubhub?

Interesting Outlier: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/the_bonus/07/1...