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Having signatures may also help people understand the difference between your 2 products... right now, it seems like your premium product (the graphological signature) is just the "extended bs edition" of your entry-level product.

On the other hand, obeying the golden rule in the article helps me lose weight. I tracked my weight for the past 4 months with the Wii Fit, and there's pretty good correlation between not eating 12 hours before wake-up time and the day-to-day weight delta.

My bottom line: the rule about not eating too late helps, one way or another.

Does this count?

I'll admit that, right now, it's little more than a tech demo for my iPhone libraries:

http://github.com/costan/zergsupport - iPhone-side

http://github.com/costan/imobile - Rails server-side

For many nutritionists, the answer is nothing." (the following phrases say revamping the system is too expensive)

We have enough money to study all sorts of disease and weapons and phenomena, but we can't afford to fix an issue that impacts most people's everyday lives? Yay.

On the other hand... there's no easy way to charge. The provisioning profile is all that's needed to run the app.

Also, these profiles are intended for "internal distribution" (inside a company). I'm sure Apple will blow up your certificate if you try public distribution.

Too bad. I was hoping they'd make a decent attempt at cloud hosting, so the Google App Engine sees some competition, and we get better pricing overall.

I don't know a good way to do that, without running the risk that big company M will take the software, get a patent on it, and then sue me for writing my own software. Disclaimer: this is an over-simplification.

I wanted to point out that simply releasing code into the public domain can bite back. I use the MIT license because it's as close as possible. The BSD license has too much baggage due to that stupid advertising clause in the old 4-clause version.

I think this is the takeaway.

In my workplace, we have "peer bonuses". They're small-ish rewards (post-tax, it'll get you a dinner at a decent place) that some co-worker nominates you for when you go beyond duty to help them. These bonuses are unexpected and small, so there's no competition or motivation-ruining.

It would be nice if ICANN or someone would shut down the big squatters though. Everyone knows what their pages look like, and who they are.

I believe Google will pull this off, because it entails repackaging and refining software that's already well on its way.

I wouldn't believe Microsoft will pull this off, for 2 reasons: (1) they don't want to threaten their Windows cash cow. (2) business partners (Intel) don't want netbooks to become an acceptable replacement for full-fledged laptops.

None of the reasons is technical.

I'm all for high-level languages. But it's going to take some optimization to get there.

The part I wasn't happy about was that you need 8000 lines of tests for 3000 lines of code. Without having actually read your code, these numbers make me think that your framework makes testing difficult. I strive to keep my tests smaller than the code they're testing, and I'm sad when that fails.

Perhaps it's better to advertise 100% code coverage, rather than say that tests are 72% of your codebase?

Re: the previous TDD comments... TDD is supposed to make you think about tests, so when you write the main code it's more testable. TDD projects supposedly have smaller tests. Disclaimer: I haven't grasped TDD yet.

And this is a win?

Come to think of it, we, ruby programmers, don't really pay our dues. 1.9.1 has been out since January/February, and nobody bothered to package it for OSX, Windows, or Ubuntu.

Thanks for bringing this issue into the light.

If that's the case, T-Mobile US has UMA working already. Caveat: you need a special WiFi router so the cellphone gets good battery life on WiFi.

Does anyone know what Cherry is using?

I compared to Ruby, because that's the language I would choose for scripting, based on the ability to create nice internal DSLs.

Disclaimers: I can't into the heads of the people in the admissions office. Also, the Dean of Admissions was changed a few years ago, so my input is likely to be irrelevant.

What I like in rubygems is that (1) it works on the 3 major OSes, (2) it compiles code for me, if the stars are aligned in the right way, and (3) there is an open central repository.

Achieving the first 2 out of 3 would rock. 3 could happen later.

I come from an eastern European country, and I participated in the IOI (high-school equivalent of TopCoder). If I were still living there, I would have gone to Top Coder, because the prize looks good for someone in eastern Europe.

Now that I'm in the US, the prize money isn't worth the time I would need to train. I have better opportunities to make money and add to my resume. I miss competitions, but I really like what I'm working on.

I'm not saying that the US school system doesn't suck. I'm just saying that TopCoder performance isn't a valid argument for that.

I foresee a niche in getting all this data out of walled gardens and putting it together seamlessly. Google Health would be a good place... except Google has too much data and it needs to see someone else do this first.