darkmethod

Obviously, I don't have all the information to make an informed opinion. Also, IANAL. No cash to pay salaries might be indicative that its time to shutdown or at least seriously contemplate doing so.

My wife insists that it is white and gold. And I see blue and a light brown.

My team of five software developers were all born in December. I didn't think anything of it until I saw this post on HN.

The creativity in her work is inspiring. Also, I really enjoyed her Wired interview (she mentions her previous career as a programmer).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TTX0ryyoac

There is an opportunity here. The first thing I thought of is the iWatch.

I haven't used Lob myself. But I hear good things. https://lob.com/

I think this question may be better suited for http://stackoverflow.com

I can attest to this. I've done this several times for the energy boost. I didn't know there is a name for it; "coffee nap". I tend to add dance/techno music to know when to wake up and get back to work.

Acquire 10.15 Bitcoins and hope that the 2013 Wedbush Report [1] will be correct.

[1] $98,500 per BTC http://www.scribd.com/doc/188644617/Bitcoin-Intrinsic-Value-...

Back in early 2011 I ran a BTC miner for awhile on a spare system and generated around 18 BTC. I bartered them later in 2011 for a pair of movie tickets to take my wife out to see Moneyball (ironically).

Agreed. I'm going to have to remember that one.

Honest question. Is this any different from spam?

The end users of MailChimp require double opt-in before being signed up for receiving news letters, email, whatever, etc. Your use of "Automated cold e-mails" in the headline sounds oddly similar of spam to me.

"Don't Make Me Think!" ~ Steve Krug

I'm a fan of anything by Zoe Keating. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TTX0ryyoac

"Into the Trees" is my default coding music.

Is this the will of the people?

I'm starting to question if morality and legality are considered the same by those in power? Honest question, although off topic and a bit esoteric.

This post has some special meaning to me. I work as a developer at a cancer hospital. The work I do directly helps clinical trials. I handle everything from trial conception to actual patient accruals and the resulting deluge of data.

Every little bit of tech I get to use which has a net positive affect on my efficiency reduces the time of my deliverables/milestones. My team and I develop the tools/software/data which the doctors/nurses/practitioners rely on to provide care, solve interesting medical puzzles, etc. It is a race against the clock. I get the privilege of writing code that has the potential to help cure cancer.

I switched from TextMate to Sublime Text 2 recently. I've been monitoring Light Table and ST3 as of late. Keep up the good work.

Trading time for money doesn't scale.

I wish the ladder and replays were available publicly, I have a few friends that are interested but are put off from the signup form. I think if I could send them a link to a replay without signing in, they would get a kick out of it and potentially join in on the fun.

I kinda wish there was a dedicated forum/community of some sort for this.

There is a "Submit to Ladder" link under the title of your species. From what I can tell, after clicking that link, the ladder takes over and sets up matches automatically.

I'm having way too much fun with this.

Thank you so much for sharing this.

Tidbits of resources like this is _the_ reason I frequent Hacker News.

I'm trying to get perspective on the size of the bitcoin economy.

As far as I can tell, there are 10.86m Bitcoins in existence at the current market rate $40.05. [1] That means there are almost $430m in "circulation".

According to the federal reserve 1.17trillion USD currency is in circulation. [2]

USD: $1,170,000,000.00

BTC: $0,000,430,000.00

0.0367%

Not a perfect comparison, I realize that. It is more of a rough estimate.

[1] http://www.bitcoincharts.com

[2] http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12773.htm

If https://www.usertesting.com had an API, I think it would handle the majority of the points you listed.

UserTesting may already have one, however my brief two minutes of poking around didn't reveal that they do.

I'd rather see this as a newsletter too. In fact, please reach out to me when it is available. Thanks.

You may want to look over your current contract to be certain that anything you build on nights/weekends is indeed your own and doesn't end up your employer's by default. Otherwise... go for it!

Agreed. Communication is a skill and it is learnable. I suggest attending a PHP meetup [1] in your area or nearest city. I'm sure many of them would be interested in your background and they in return would be able to help you hone your communication skills, both verbally and in code. Good luck!

[1] http://www.meetup.com

Thank you for writing out your perspective on this. It had a positive impact on my perception of my coworkers. I see that they are simply looking for an optimized customer experience to solve real problems. Previously, I saw them as part of the team but not part of the "problem solving" team. My perspective has shifted. Thanks for sharing.

I tweeted, tried to sign in with twitter which didn't work, then eventually created a standard account via email/pass to get into the content. The majority of the content is either a direct copy as cited or in reference to a post on a different site [1]. Not really ground breaking information, other than an Excel worksheet with mildly helpful formulas relevant to the topic.

[1] http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/