As a playwright, Chekhov is second only to Shakespeare.
And you get get through his 4 major plays in only a few days. There are even great adaptations on YouTube in English or Russian (with subtitles). Highly recommended.
I would pay >$100/mo for something that has intelligence. If you could create an AI to replace a junior marketing analyst, it's worth it. But you have to first talk with businesses and really understand what kind of intelligence they need.
Knowledge is an interesting subject. When I read, I don't remember the exact order of words. Especially in the age of Google, we have a choice of what to burden our memory with and what to leave to Google. Are names and dates important? What's important is to have models of how things work in your mind. It is through the process of reading that we develop and refine these models.
If you do many small tests, you can pick confidence level less that 95%. Even if you call tests at 70% confidence, as long as you are iterating rapidly, you'll end up ahead in the long run. Also, you can revisit the same tests later. As long as your testing ideas aren't prohibitively expensive in time and implementation, there's very little risk at calling tests below 95% confidence.
So, what about Basecamp Classic? That's something they won't sell to another company, but is it something they'll continue supporting? I'd imagine it's simple to maintain.
1. Apple won't release a new product category (like an iWatch). But they'll do just fine by having the best industrial design and hardware.
2. Bitcoin and other digital currencies will take the world by storm.
3. Google will make a major improvement in AI with Google Now.
4. There will be another SnapChat or Instagram like product that'll make communicating with phones fun in a new way.
5. The internet and social networks will continue to cause social upheaval in authoritarian nations.
6. Facebook will add auto-playing video commercials and people will hate them.
7. Low-end cameras will start dying off rapidly. There will only be phones and high-end professional cameras in the future.
8. As technology automates more and more things, it'll contribute to unemployment of people who are unprepared to be knowledge workers.
9. People will start taking MOOCs a lot more seriously as an alternative to higher education, especially in meritocratic fields. Not a big change in 2014, but it'll be more obvious.
10. TV will start feeling like print media in the face of the internet, it's inevitable.
https://github.com/aemkei/fishbone.js/ - A super lightweight (½kb) JavaScript library with automatic method chaining, automatic context binding, event support and simple inheritance. c-{{{-<
Easy to program, but how do you get it off the ground? It has the same chicken and egg problem every two-sided marketplace does. 37Signals can do this because they've built an audience.
This isn't a data science question. Especially if the data science is blind to meter and to phonetics.