tfitzgerald

Prometric is one of the largest certification testing companies there is. Microsoft is the one giving the test away: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/offers/html5.aspx.

Don't ask, show.

What is so unattractive about it? I actually like it.

You should work on helping those without access to clean drinking water instead of wasting your time criticizing what someone else would like to do.

I'm curious: What do you need the disk space for? Is it something that can be farmed out to say, Amazon S3?

A lot of technology jobs revolve around solving problems. Maybe technical sales? technical writing?

Hartl's Ruby On Rails 3 Tutorial book is great, and available for free online: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

Depends on your definition of "tracking users". Netflix tracks your viewing history to recommend new movies and TV shows. Amazon tracks your purchasing and browsing history to recommend items for you to purchase.

In my opinion, neither of these is inherently unethical.

Having never used myBalsamiq, I'm not sure what they built it in, but some of the tools you could use:

Flash, jQuery, ExtJS, HTML5

Isn't their desktop app built in Adobe Air? or have they moved away from that? I haven't used it in a while.

I'm on Server Fault everyday. Even if you don't ask or answer questions, it is interesting to read all of the content.

This isn't really an itch because my current bug tracker does this already but being able to update issues with svn/mercurial/git commits is a great feature to have.

ted.fitzgerald (an invite would be great!)

Fatcow: http://www.fatcow.com/free-icons

Ahh, I misunderstood the question.

It is possible that you gave Google permission when you signed up.

I think it is more likely that the URL has all of the information Gilt needs to process the request:

    http://www.gilt.com/google-
    chromebook?opromo=Google_Chromebook&ocl=Email&ocat=Link&
    email_address=<any email would work here>

I visited that URL and replaced the original e-mail address with a different one and it worked fine.

Did you sign up to try and receive a CR-48?

If so, that is why you got the e-mail.

Not all of them may be good, but here is a comprehensive list: http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/degrees.asp.

I was considering either Iowa State or Carnegie Mellon. CM is supposed to be really good but is also pretty expensive.

Even when I search for LibraOffice the first link is LibreOffice.org...how did you make it to HN?

There is nothing wrong with asking myopic questions. The author did not state that startups are the only thing that are important; they asked a specific question about a specific issue.

The sparkfun forums might also be a good place to ask: http://forum.sparkfun.com/

What happens when they grow beyond a few laptops and monitors?

My favorite for a while has been FatCow: http://www.fatcow.com/free-icons. 2000 16x16 and 32x32 icons.

I have a CentOS box that runs a few headless VBox VM's. I use them for development / testing before pushing changes live. I have one of them setup pretty much exactly like our production server.

I do all of that work over ssh. None of the VMs have an X window system installed.

That baby is pretty creepy. Also, you may want to get a native English speaker to look over your copy. There are some weird grammar / structure things going on there.

Who is your customer? Are you targeting non-SaaS startups? I would imagine that any SaaS startup would want to be hands on with server choice and setup.

Not go off topic...but that is actually a Wayne Gretzky quote...not Michael Jordan.

Also, building reusable code is a good way to get future projects done in a weekend!

What is your day job? If your day job involves any of those things just quote them a comparable hourly rate and don't feel bad.

I usually let people know up front how much the service they are requesting is going to cost. A lot of the time this scares them away.

You could always try to work out some sort of service exchange. Given the people you are helping offer services that you'd want / need.

or you could learn to just say no.

I work at a Big Ten college. Girls. Everywhere.

and it seems that somewhere on campus they are always looking for devs.

Painting, cooking, and photography.

This depends, what grades are we talking about?

I worked in a K-8 school where the computer teacher used Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) to teach programming in the lower grades.

What are the challenges you feel need to be overcome?