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Ability to run on Heroku

> Not exactly a geological timescale

A. Humans don't live on a geological timescale

B. .com TLD's are in the formidable first ~15 years of socializing the web the mass public.

Like climate control in your house

But you'd be one typo away from being blocked by proxy filters

Consider tablets and desktops versus notebooks and smartphones. Biggest impact is on notebooks whose vertical real estate is at a premium. Second are smartphone because of their form factor. As far as tablets and desktops: You can rotate your tablet and you can use a big monitor (or rotate that too if supported).

Kodos hasn't seen a release since 2006

I think what the blogger is saying indirectly that is a test that is necessary but not sufficient to qualify a non-technical co-founder. If you ask this as the first question, then it will save you the time for the rest of the questions.

Kinda like Congress, huh?

What kind of book? A math book? biography? romance fiction? In that respect, programming is also like cooking. For cooking, you can go from one extreme of food science, like NASA practices for food going up in space, to popping a frozen pizza into the oven, to many points in between. Programming allows a wide range of discipline to be executed in the process.

What might be important which I've observed is that no one of importance seems to read signature disclaimers. Or at least they didn't in my case.

As a grunt programmer while working for one large defense contractor some years ago, I put something similar to the following, embedded in a paragraph of mind-numbing boilerplate and no one up the food chain seemed to notice.

If you are not the intended recipient, you need not do anything. Men in black will come to erase your memory. Have a good day.

One could argue that it is inaccurate, but how is it dangerous?

Unless you can hit the Balmer Peak

http://xkcd.com/323/

This is what I got when I tried the page an hour after posting to Hacker News:

Error 403: Forbidden

Your PHP settings have been disabled by an H-Sphere administrator

Now that is rude

I tried to link to the original AP, but guess it is problematic. Too late for me to try to fix the link. Google search any number of consumers of this feed:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Schwarzenegger%20orders%20min...

For some reason I had a sense of deja vu on this exact topic, so searched the archives and found this (from my earliest days lurking before I signed up for an account on HN)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72115

What I like better of Tomorrow's World is the mobile phone (1979):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY&feature=chann...

Did you read the article? The discovery was accidental. There were charts secreted away by Afghan geologists during the Taliban years.

In 2004, American geologists, sent to Afghanistan as part of a broader reconstruction effort, stumbled across an intriguing series of old charts and data at the library of the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul that hinted at major mineral deposits in the country. They soon learned that the data had been collected by Soviet mining experts during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, but cast aside when the Soviets withdrew in 1989.

I find myself categorizing people into 10 types.

And I have to actively not slouch in front of computers.

What is old is new again

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833443

Yes it is.

So we add a bunch of oregano and call it the great gulf salad dressing?