It's pretty obvious that its company v. consumer these days. Its a war throughout the world - businesses can easily corrupt public servants in all walks of life. Is there a way to eradicate corruption?
It seems like from this it would only take a few minutes to put this on an existing site. What sets you apart from the other instant and "easy to set up" checkouts I could use? Is there a lot of customizability that one can easily add to the checkout, like size and quantity and color?
I'd also like to style some of the checkout to be more branded - is it possible to change the colors or logos?
Good job on clean styling of the checkout. Also, will there be support for Amazon Payments in the future?
I wrote a lot of the code for https://www.airbrite.io/, which we are quietly launching on hackernews today.
The dashboard is all backbone, the backend is all node.js.
We wanted to build something that could become a core toolset for all developers. Hopefully it'll help frontend developers with e-commerce sites, but I'm excited to get to use it myself.
It's not just booting a computer though. Hypothetically, if Silicon Valley is wiped from the planet tomorrow at the same time as a massive EMP killing all electronics on earth simultaneously (extreme), its assumed we could get most of that data back. I'm guessing we'd lose a significant amount of information though.
The real loss would be the engineers -- without people manning these systems I'm not sure we're getting that data back very quickly. What if you lose the key players -- the people who have the passwords, the knowledge, and control over these systems? It's losing the combination to the worlds most valuable vault, but the vault is digital and restoring it takes privileged information.
While I do like that everything is moving towards paperless, I hope we keep archives of all our knowledge in some permanent form. Should a world wide power failure or some other catastrophic event occur and we were "sent back to the stone age", the amount of knowledge we would lose from losing the internet is unimaginable.
How did you pick the font? I find myself having problems figuring out is a single letter is a l or an i or a j sometimes. Seems like there's a lot of fonts out there with better readability.
It might be the first thing they do, but if they don't check their email immediately you have until they print/download. That window of 5 minutes to 6-8 hours or even over the weekend is worth using Google Docs alone.
I've been emailing my resume using the Google Docs url (read only) and it works well. There are rarely any issues with someone being able to open it, versus a pdf or doc. Those might cause issues if you don't have Word or Adobe installed, but no installation means a better experience for the person on the other side. Sometimes Macs will format PDFs oddly in Preview and other issues always arise with doc and docx unless you are sure they are on Windows with Word.
Sending a Google Doc also allows you to edit it even after you send it. You can even see when they view it if they are logged in. If they don't like it, you can always just save it to your hard drive as a doc or pdf and send that.
Firstly, symbols have been around for thousands of years. Our written language is built around them, and our everyday life is surrounded by them. These aren't going anywhere and are a required abstraction for higher thought. These aren't going away.
Second, logos are prettier symbols, but they are pervasive in our world. Every single business has a logo and tries to push that logo and brand at you every chance they get. These aren't going away.
Third, icons are logos and/or symbols. It stands to reason that if the previous two aren't going anywhere, then icons aren't going anywhere.
When they come out with new algorithms for searching, they are completely replacing their old engine, correct? Are they rewriting the core? Or is this more like v1 was PageRank, v2 was Caffeine, and Hummingbird is v3? Is a lot of the code is just being refactored or is everything getting rewritten?
Microsoft's direction under Ballmer has been underwhelming, especially the lack of innovation in the tablet and mobile spheres. I'm curious to see if his successor is someone future thinking and if he/she will be able to bring Microsoft back into the limelight.
At the time they felt very strongly about it. The employees were adamant about the fact that they had a certain way of doing things and they were concerned that Microsoft would disrupt whatever it was they had.
I don't know if it was the right thing for either party, but that's what happened.
Except none of those places are Silicon Valley or San Francisco. There are few major hubs of startup activity, the other major one being New York City. The atmosphere and population density of ambitious programmers and like minded designers and business guys play a key role in why those active hubs exist in very few places.
VC money and the active community play huge roles here. There are dozens of meetups you can go to and meet people interested in programming or startups. There are hackathons every other weekend and a lot of tech based conferences are pretty much routine. There are happy hours almost every day of the week at various incubators or shared work spaces or even at clubs hosted by a startup.
The sheer volume of events and startups and tech based companies here blows Boise, Denver, Phoenix, .... all other cities out of the water. That's why SF is so expensive to live in -- all these tech guys get paid $$$ and landlords feel as though they can just keep raising prices to take over that income. It's similar to how NYC got extremely expensive because of all the financial guys making tons of $$$. If there is cash to be had, it'll raise the cost of everything.