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"I work from home and I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner with my kids."

That's crazy impressive. I tried working from home and was only ever productive if I worked till early in the morning. Daytime productivity was terrible with 2 little kids detracting me... perhaps my house is just too small.

Looks to be down atm, here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.mak...

Yes... "You will need a Mac running OSX 10.6 or higher."

- http://www.rubymotion.com/support/#faq

Yeah this doesn't work at all if you live outside USA. The post code for Auckland CBD (in New Zealand) is 1010.

So if I try http://zip.elevenbasetwo.com/?zip=1010

It gives: {"country": "US", "state": "MA", "city": "BRIMFIELD"}

Pair is actually quite a cool idea, never heard of it before now.

Couples like to hang out with other couples, so there might be revenue potential in the idea as well...

Someone should put together a "Founders At Work" for lifestyle software businesses.

Yeah I agree, it sounded like it was some VC deal. Nevertheless it was an interesting article (worth reading).

What I like about rubymonk is it tells you what it expected when you give a wrong answer. Codeacademy on the other hand just informs you that you were wrong and gives an extra hint (can be annoying if you perhaps, didn't understand the question properly and hence leaves you stuck on that question).

"What doesn't make it any easier is that I'm 20"

Dude! You've got your whole life ahead of you, go make MORE mistakes, lots more.

Ultimately though don't give up. If you're not sure what you want to do, go get a job (any job) and go back to the drawing board.

Want a job? Just land yourself some interviews and when they ask for an explanation of the gap in your resume, just say "I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pursue [insert your story], in the end it didn't work out, but I learnt a ton and am excited about re-entering the workforce".

The majority of people (that I know) with iPads are using them for consuming content or playing games - something they could easily do for $300 less with a Amazon Fire.

No 3G, not much storage space, lower resolution (as soon as Apple releases iPad's with retina display) and lack of an Apple logo make the Fire inferior, but with a much lower price it could make things interesting.

Leonardo da Vinci has shown that it's possible to master more than one thing.

(mind you, how many Leonardo da Vinci's are there in the world?)

I'm going through the Eloquent JavaScript book at the moment and am finding it slow but rewarding (there's a free HTML version of the book online). It's probably the next step after mastering jQuery...

"...this is an alpha release..." Not exactly what you want to hear when you're testing... I already have enough problems trying to run an actual version of IE6 on Virtualbox

Looks like a great easy-to-use service, but not one that I expect hackers would use. Why wouldn't you just host your video on Amazon S3 and play them back on your website using something like JW FLV Player?

That solution would cost about 10-20 cents a month (unless you've got heaps of traffic, in which case you're hopefully making heaps of sales anyway...).

Yeah upvote that! Pulling all photos from a Flickr account would be a great (almost necessary) feature!

Fish n' chips or mince pies? ;-)

Here are a couple of recent articles on New Zealand's startup scene:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-truth-about-new-zealands-...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&#...

NZ's economic forecast is positive at the moment (unlike countries such as US or Australia) but our tech scene is still quite fragmented across the country (though it is a small size country compared to America).

Probably the biggest NZ tech startup is Xero (http://www.xero.com).

Yeah it sucks, buying Apple products in NZ puts you in the same situation.

11 inch MacBook Air (64GB) = US$999 (which should convert to NZ$1,169.46 using the current exchange rate).

In NZ we've got a 15% GST (sales) tax, but that should only bring the price up to about NZ$1,345. Instead the entry level MacBook Air costs us NZ$1,549.00.

So that's a NZ$204 mark up for what??? Wish we could just buy them directly off the US Apple website!

You're considerably limited as far as customisation goes if you go for a Wordpress.com blog.

IMO if you want a hosted solution go with Tumblr, if you want a self-hosted solution go with WordPress (www.wordpress.org, not .com).

You can customise a Tumblr blog quite a lot and you have the added benefit of not needing to worry about bandwidth (should you strike it lucky and land on the first page of Digg). For greater customisation though (i.e. do basically whatever you want) you should go with WordPress (by far the most popular blogging solution on the Internet).

I do.

The Bible has changed more lives than any other book, movie, or song you can name.

India is definitely a country to watch. With China's one-child-per-family rule, it could very well be India that becomes the new super power in the next 20-50 years...

As Google has become THE search engine, Facebook will be THE social networking site (which it already is). I don't think it will get bigger than being a social networking tool, and on the other end of the scale I highly doubt it will end up like MySpace...

Or you could be getting consumers who are already buying tickets to buy more tickets. For instance, I average one international flight a year. If I could get flights for cheaper that number would most probably increase...

I like it a lot! I use Omniwriter on my Mac, but there are lots of computers I need to work on that aren't Macs and where I can't install desktop software.

@richcollins there are tons of good minimalist writing apps out there, but they are all downloads - this solves the problem where you aren't at your main computer but need to write...

@nametoremember are you serious? Google Docs has many great features, but for the simple task of writing it is actually pretty clunky and definitely NOT minimalistic.

That's true but it doesn't mean potential investors with deep pockets aren't keeping an eye on listings.

This is very big for Square.

The main issue with their flagship product is security. When every other country in the world is moving fast to accept chip card transactions a United States company comes out with a so called "innovative" product which reads the magstripe only.

Visa have been heavily pushing chip card technology so for them to push this product shows they are willing to allow Square some slack in the security requirements.

Hmmm fair point, also looks like Instapaper isn't registered as a trademark, 'Insta' is probably too generic, and paper is definitely too generic to trademark.

Perhaps I should stand corrected.

This is actually a really good idea. I use Read It Later and saving videos I want to watch later just doesn't work.

Big problem: Copying the "Insta" prefix just isn't going to work (unless you're Instapaper). You're using their branding and marketing efforts to your advantage, so if your site happens to take off you'll be up against legal issues.

Can you get to another country and reside there while working remotely? 37Signals is just one company that has proved remote workers is possible.

Just because someone else is doing it shouldn't be a reason to ditch it. In fact, it could validate your idea as it proves there is a market and if your idea is better and your vision greater you could have a success on your hands (just look at Wufoo for a recent example).

On the other hand if your enthusiasm for the idea isn't high enough then you should go ahead and ditch it.