vishaldpatel

I think that it isn't the value of digital media that has increased... no one values something that is readily available. It is the value of LPs that has significantly decreased in the face of the convenience that digital media provides.

Something to keep in mind: Not paying works best when everyone thinks that everyone else is a volunteer.

I don't know about your body, but mine was definitely built for sitting =).

Cool.. it'll be interesting to see how different their answers are from my own =).

Even if everyone is skilled, there can still only be one #1.

Hmm.. objective of any startup is to survive. This requires hard skills:

-> Being able to build the product / service.

-> Being able to sell.

-> Being able to market creatively (on a low budget).

-> Being able to take care of operations, legal, accounting, hiring.

Want to work for a start up in a non-technical role? No problem! Show em' that you can do do one or more of the other essentials better than the incumbents, who are probably too busy taking care of the technical bits anyway.

In that scene, he isn't acting. He has simply lost fear and is therefore presenting his case openly.

It mentioned in the article that it costs the patent office more money than what they charge for processing patent claims. Why is that? Why don't they just charge the full amount?

Hey.. no one stopped them from making a Whack-a-human iphone game! All they do is eat, sleep and shit. They don't even roll over and play dead. No! They want you to pet them - but not all the time! no.. only when they want you to pet them! Its about time we had our little revenge! Even if it was only in electronic / imaginary form. Viva la revolucion! Viva!

Merry Christmas break everyone... wish that your new year kicks atleast as much ass the old one! =)

Cheers, - V

Alright, thanks for all the comments everyone. I added an example of a rendered ad, instructed the users to fill the form out as best as possible (implying that the whole thing is optional... I hope), and and stuck with the yellow - until it stops raining. Cheers!

Ah good point. I'll mention it in the intro text for the form. Thanks! =)

It is a good suggestion. In my defense, it was raining here in the Bay Area and all I could think of was, "I need a yellow umbrella..".

Three people just said this. This is a good idea, thanks. Rendered example coming soon.

Yes - craigslist is free for the most part. I'd like to figure out a way to keep this as free as possible.

They'd have to agree that your bottom dollar rate is reasonable and that you can easily make your top dollar by spending that time elsewhere.

Okay, so where are you now and what do you do on weekend nights?

I wonder how much of a role the fact that Americans mistrust their government (and one part of the government mistrusts the other) plays in increasing the size of government - at the end of the day, every last piece of legislation - good or bad, needs checks and balances, right? Could it be that the cost (in both time and money) of checks and balances eventually outweighs the benefits of having them? Perhaps that should be a way to measure if a government has grown too large.

Pretty good story =)

I liked C! =). I finished my undergrad in 2006 - also went to community college before finishing my degree. I learned C in community college - it was a prerequisite to all other programing classes (unlike university, where I wrote all my algorithms assignments in python).

We also learned C# later on in college, and there was always this, "this new thing is nice and shiny but C rocks" feeling among a lot of people in my class.

Also, most of the people (since it was community college) weren't your typical, "I've always wanted to be a computer programmer/scientist/engineer" types.

Hey man! Congrats!!! =)... Success stories are among the best type of stories :)

An ironing board + 2 dumbbells under the laptop.

Really sorry about you giving up an income stream - I hope you've found other, better, more rewarding projects to work on.

So, can I have your clients, then? =)

Hmm.. being Indian, I actually thought that he was praising us, rather than trying to offend.

A thought about "having more friends". People like people who are like them. Since most people drink, you are more likely to have friends if you do.

Heh.. first thought was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDvqPOn6g4 (Lord of War - plane salvage scene)

Yeah that was my first thought - supply has kept up with demand enough to offset inflation.

Tobacco, coffee, gold are better currencies alternatives to weed due to their stable legality. Weed's stable demand in relatively illegal times may change drastically if it becomes completely legal. But if that happens, it may be more stable a currency than tobacco since most people on it feel that it does no harm and therefore don't feel incentivized to quit.

I think it'd be better to check out drinking habits of aged Japanese to figure out whats a good level =)

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Found this in the comments to that prof's blog post: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36538677/1004-Bbg-Professors-and-P...

Basically, yes - pensions are a problem. But the graph on the number of California gov't employees that lost their jobs vs. private sector employees may be misleading because we _need_ the public sector employees to service basic needs in the state, and California employs one of the lowest number of public sector employees per capita of any state.