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What if you're a coder who has no interest in any of those things? Many people get into SaaS specifically so they don't have to work with bureaucracies any more.

Book publishing can sometimes be alternative, but what if your code is so intuitive and easy to understand that no one needs a book about it? Or what if you're a bad communicator and someone else writes a much better book?

This has essentially happened already. Comedy central censors South Park in a direct response to threats made against them regarding depictions of Mohammed.

Isn't this easily mitigated by making all request that change state (update data in any way) as post requests?

Is there any reason to believe the modern day incarnations are more sustainable then their dot-com counterparts? It certainly feels that way but the article is very light on evidence.

Since you have traffic, you could work on monetizing in other ways than adsense. Think of a product that visitors might be interested in and try to sell them that.

Ah, good point

This is excellent. Thank you!

It seems like they're using cursor tracking to validate human-ness. Assuming thats the case: Since the cursor is outside of javascript's control, it would force the attacker one level higher (to the browser/os, instead of the dom). Not impossible, but still a significant barrier.

I think a better way to look at it is "information addiction" or "social snooping addiction". "Internet addiction" is a silly concept, because the internet is merely the medium. Its like referring to gambling addiction as "casino addiction".

I think the author comes to that conclusion, the article is just a thought experiment

we've traditionally done for free

I don't have stats, but my guess is that most people don't carpool. So traditionally we haven't done it at all.

Just read the backstory. What a bunch of crap on apples part.

Very cool. Do you have any information about pushes other than the content of the push itself?

If you like (American) politics, Political Junkie and the Political Gabfest are both awesome.

This is excellent.

Any chance we'll see an API? It would be cool to be able to use it as a micropay button on top of a microdonation button.

Also a nitpick, the implication that things like this

    > aren’t possible with traditional payment networks

What kind of marketing did you do? It seems like a pretty reasonable idea but I can imagine it would require a heavy investment to get a sustaining userbase.

You should have an overview of the rules on the game page.

our company also claims that our salaries are pretty algorithmic based on experience level

It sounds like the algorithm has changed

This information wasn't "shared" in any sense of the word

No data, just anecdotes

I think there's plenty of evidence that humans by nature are uninterested in "politics", except when it might effect them. Then it becomes an object of great importance.

As for the role of the algorithm, I think its just an extension of "garbage in, garbage out".

Stories like this are a nice reminder that every community is also a bubble.

I find this explanation extremely hollow. Most programmers didn't start programming when they were kids. They started when they realized it was a good paycheck.

One good reason is the market. The wider your skillset, the greater your opportunities.

Doesn't the UK already have laws against threats of bodily harm? If so - what is different about threats made online than offline?

This is a great way to find ideas for a niche project. Awesome.

By that logic, this is a very expensive book. If it takes 6 hours to read fully it costs $600 + sticker price!

Just because you get paid $100/hr doesnt mean you value your time at $100/hr. In fact in means that you value your time LESS than $100/hr (though not by how much).

Its hard for me to imagine ever selling an app for a lump sum single payment. Software development is an iterative process and there needs to be a payment system reflecting that.

right decision

You're asserting that not only a right decision exists, but that you are more aware of the right decision than the person actually involved.

Why is it only mobile?

I would suggest better explaining the birds-eye-view overall architecture of an app built on Nimbus. I don't really understand how any of this is supposed to work.