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Ubuntu, Apache HTTP Server and Nginx, Digital Ocean, Java, Freemarker, Firefox, WebKit, a slew of Apache Software Foundation projects, and numerous other open source projects.
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A p2p distributed ad network would be interesting, if the money can flow back to the server operators maintaining the network. Overall though I just meant there really wouldn't be a profitable business model, much like BitTorrent, and
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OPs can delete links for a brief time after submission. Mods will sometimes change links to a better source of the story. Also the auto-mod system will mark certain links "dead" based on various signals. It could have also been li
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12y ago
WSJ has some reasons to suspect North Korea: http://online.wsj.com/articles/more-signs-north-korea-may-be... But I think most of the media pretty much just reads the news, press releases, and their social media feeds t
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12y ago
For non-captcha OCR also consider Mechanical Turk. And there are a variety of services built on Turk too.
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12y ago
I always like this blog which focuses on stable/growing dividends: http://www.dividendgrowthinvestor.com/ But I tend to think that an S&P 500 index fund is just as good. However, I also believe central banks have b
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12y ago
These p2p "sharing economy" sites are begging for a solution that's actually p2p. The star-rating of users could be maintained by a modified form of bitcoin. I don't know what the business model would be, but that's
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12y ago
Plus you don't have to figure out how to hide $100K on your taxes.
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12y ago
http://www.deathbycaptcha.com/ http://www.captchasniper.com/ http://captcha-breaker.gsa-online.de/ http://textcaptcha.com/
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They send the captcha to their servers and how they solve them is a secret. http://www.webvisum.com/en/main/faq#q15
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12y ago
I think you should look into ACA plans. This link might help regarding taxes: http://www.taxact.com/support/715/self-employed-health-insur...
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12y ago
> What exactly is the incentive for the private sector to go to Mars? Sponsorships, reality TV, claiming undiscovered land
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12y ago
Proportional to karma?
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All information we collect about the use of Google Fiber TV (including use of programs and applications available through Google Fiber TV) may be associated with the Google Account being used for Google Fiber TV. ... information from the
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12y ago
I learned when buying a condo that mixed commercial/residential buildings are hard to get loans for because Fannie/Freddie won't buy them from banks. NYC is probably its own beast, but in the rest of the US it's a proble
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> just there's an huge volume of text Think of how CS students are going to approach these. They'll watch lectures, skim the text, and do exercises. Few students would sit down and read these like a fiction novel, and if they d
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12y ago
I wish RadioShack would transition to selling hackable electronics (Raspberry Pi, Arduino, stuff on SparkFun, Maker Bots, etc). That's how they started and now as they're nearing bankruptcy, that market is finally back and getting
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I've always thought http://solvemedia.com/ looked nice. It's captcha via advertising. E.g., "Please type 'Just Do It'" Not sure if it's applicable to your use case though.
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My former remote boss used to spend his day going through Skype contacts to video conference his reports. His theory was that it's hard to lie face-to-face. He'd basically do one-on-one scrums.
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For a C-corp you'd be in over your head trying to meet all the requirements to stay legal. And it's totally not needed unless you have investors. An LLC in your home state is easy and probably about $100. But it's also not ne
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Generally, I think the value of programming at an early age is that you have the time and context to develop an earnest interest in programming. You're doing it for fun. And then when you proceed to take courses on it, you're genu
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Here are links that go to MP3 files (versus their webapp players)... This American Life bookmarklet: javascript:var i = prompt("TAL episode number:");window.location=i?"http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/j
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If I had to choose between: "I developed everything from 1 page parallax websites to custom CMS's, Wordpress installs as well as maintaining the local office equipment" and someone who did that in addition to Linux systems ad
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There's a line between sysadmin and developer and larger companies will abide by it. But "full stack developer" and "devops" blur that line. I don't think you're changing careers. You can craft your resume
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less pejorative term than "lifestyle business" Independent business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_business MicroISV: http://www.singlefounder.com/2009/11/17/the-d
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ClairMail was a company that provided off-the-shelf mobile banking. Banks essentially needed to just implement their API. ClairMail was acquired by Monitise. So if you're looking to actually make an open API, you could acquire Montise,
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If the politicians want to reform the citizenship process, I'm all for that. As it stands, becoming a US citizen is extremely difficult. But what they tend to do is carve out visas to help particular corporations which floods particula
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If someone is emailing me due to something I messed up on, it's important. If replying means I can close a sale, it's important. If not replying means I can lose a customer, it's important. If I am blocking someone's pro
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Most payment systems will allow sellers to issue refunds either free or with low flat cost (e.g., $.30). But Kickstarter is a different beast. I think they're probably only losing 10%, but maybe they're factoring in the cost of se
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12y ago
If you're going to do an MIT license, why not just Apache 2.0? That offers some protection against patent trolling. And the Apache license can still require an attribution notice like the MIT license.
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