nathanlrivera

Paper manufacturers should start making consumables for 3d printers.

Just look at Markus Persson. He was a relatively unknown indie game developer until Minecraft.

A recent article in the New York Times called "Generation Sell" also talks about this issue: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-entrepr...

"Well, we’re all in showbiz now, walking on eggshells, relentlessly tending our customer base. We’re all selling something today, because even if we aren’t literally selling something (though thanks to the Internet as well as the entrepreneurial ideal, more and more of us are), we’re always selling ourselves. We use social media to create a product — to create a brand — and the product is us. We treat ourselves like little businesses, something to be managed and promoted."

Here is a video of the launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irBg4DvHI6c

Generalizations are an anti-pattern.

Here is the EDGAR filing: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1341704/0001193125111...

Haha: <img class="profilePic" src="/themes/pimp/me.jpg" title="Ladies - I'm taken.">

This is very very cool. However I noticed something familiar about the logo:

http://www.brumfieldhay.com/images/PurinaLogo_LG.JPG

Personally I would change it to avoid trademark issues. Although you might be okay as long as you don't use a red colored version of your logo.

http://www.techmeme.com/ is all you need.

1. It just works - I have never encountered an issue with the bookmarklet not formatting an article correctly.

2. Day vs. night mode. You can configure it to automatically switch to white text on a black background at night.

3. Performance - even with 100+ articles the app doesn't slow down and downloads new articles in seconds. Switching between articles and scrolling long articles is liquid smooth.

Overall, you can tell just by using it that a ton of thought was put into the UI.

Apple should preinstall Instapaper on new iPads. It's just that good.

The article falls under "Anything that good hackers would find interesting"

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The W3C HTML validator gives up after the second line of the document:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fna.isobar.com...

There is no denying Steve Jobs is a brilliant leader who can inspire people.

Marco Arment, the founder of Instapaper, was also the former lead developer of Tumblr. It's clear that he has great a sense for UI design.

http://www.marco.org/

Have you ever had a situation where you had to negotiate multiple offers? How did you negotiate to get the highest possible offer from each?

Auto-generated content is the future. Look at how good Minecraft is. The terrain in that game is all procedurally generated.

Better question: how many people (developers or not) over 40 keep learning and stay hungry? How many people over 30?

This is not an issue unique to developers.

For books published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf, you should link directly to the publisher, in my opinion. PragProg.com sells DRM-free ebooks (in pdf, mobi, and epub) for cheaper than Amazon. They are a great value and I bet the PragProg folks keep more money this way, which is a good thing.

For example http://www.hackerbooks.com/book/rails-for-net-developers-fac...

Should link to http://pragprog.com/titles/cerailn/rails-for-net-developers instead of Amazon.com.

Your product is off to a great start. How do you plan to scale?

1. The logo seems similar to the United Nations logo. What was your inspiration for the logo? 2. In the video, who is holding the camera? And who is holding the signs? 3. Did you use an ad agency to make the video, or did you put it together yourselves?

The first card says "welcome to the future" which I thought was perfect :)

Yet it is still very hard to find and hire good developers and system admins.

I heard the top performers are getting the 10% raise and a bonus equal to 40% of base pay.

"We decided from the start to make our games incredibly fun and easy so that they appeal to everyone."

For me, that is one of the most important lessons to take away from this. Keep it simple, keep it fun and engaging, and the users will love it.

The rise of Minecraft has reinforced this point of view in my mind.