Actually, I want to amend that a little bit.
Rocket city, spaceport, JPL, etc., I feel space travel is on the same precipice that tcp/ip and compuserve were in the 80's. The next 20 years will be fun.
There must not be much going on in the world right now. So many headlines have similar grandiose statements recently. The valley is not dead. There are future disruptive companies being ran by two guys in a garage all over silicon valley. Sadly, you have to have the foresight to wait five years while they build momentum. There's never not a next big thing.
I have been around the block using these! Springpad, remember the milk, wunderlust, evernote, onenote, outlook tasks, I could go on and on.
i. I carry around a real notepad for quick notes. I fill up about 1 every 6 months, sometimes I take quick notes on iOS Notes app.
ii. Short term TODO's I email to myself and flag important.
iii. Daily stuff goes in Notepad or Sticky notes on my desktop, open all day, synced in dropbox.
iv. Long term stuff goes in Google Tasks under different categories, and relevant web links to those goes in it's corresponding folder in chrome, synced across browsers.
I'm working on #5 as well. Including videos and tools. People simply don't know enough about this. But others are right, it's being done on blogs a lot - the catch is doing it with interaction. I think that will break the mold.
I'm also doing #5 with college financial aid, tuition, etc. People don't know enough about this when entering. It took me years, but I know some amazing tricks now. Time to share.
Wow, two hackers in one thread looking for a business guy?
I have 40+ business ideas - some well fleshed out and others just a couple lines from a notebook - but I have no one to execute them. Between school and work I haven't had time to translate my basic knowledge of data structures into something like rails and python. And to be honest, I don't enjoy building as much as I should to be able to code them on my own.
However I do have a BS with a focus on business and basically a minor in EECS.
I pretty much figured I was SOL at finding a tech co-founder.
At this point I'm convinced that it's going to require new regulations to make this happen. The information is not required to be kept open and available on a large scale. There are no repercussions for having an out of date floorplan with the building commission. Neither owners nor brokers have any incentive to put this information online during vacancy because it creates unnecessary work in a market where an opening sells itself. And when that vacancy is filled they have no incentive because they have better things to do.
If you could somehow incentivise tenants, owners, or brokers to update this information when they move in or just before they move out then you could solve this. But I don't think that's going to happen without deep pockets lobbying an addon bill in washington.
hacker news has had several discussions stating 'if you can fizzbuzz you can get an entry level coding job' so I thought it would be useful. I have a couple semesters of programming and can answer most questions up through year two because of continued studies on my own after I changed majors. However I haven't had any real software development experience. (I'm a new grad.)
I'm applying for jobs in a few areas:
Systems/Network Administration
User Experience Design
Business Analyst or entry lvl at some software dev places
Social Media Management / Communications & Web Design
I'd venture a guess that the solar energy provided wouldn't even cover a quarter of the energy cost required to cool a data center.
I'd go on to say that the energy coefficient between 35 Deg N and 55 Deg N probably isn't enough to offset the equation significantly.
As such I think that removing heat more efficiently via naturally cold climates would have a greater impact on bottom line. Check out wikileaks cave-based data centers in old Swedish nuclear bunkers. http://bitshare.tumblr.com/post/2383169988/the-wikileaks-ser...
(Sweden's bandwidth to the rest of the world also blows ours away.)
I've had two types of free prime memberships for two years now and I buy tiny things like a $1.55 audio cable or a $1.99 grill lighter every week (sometimes every day.)
Ups actually offers insane bulk shipping discounts with huge retailers like amazon and newegg. The amount basically ends up looking like a quarterly fee on the balance sheets.
Then amazon uses fixed shipping costs for all their 'amazon fulfilled' items with few maxing out the base cost, this means that they may net anywhere from 0% to 90% profit on their shipping of each item depending on where it's going.
I'm fairly sure that at the $79 price point was chosen so that if every single customer switched to prime, they would still run a positive balance on shipping.
I have the opposite problem. I'm an entrepreneur first, and a developer fifth ;) But getting dev's to see their own potential as a partner is like pulling teeth.