Sorry, but my guess is that there is no demand for this. You could test this simply - just offer to run these sorts of batched calculations to people and don't specify how they will be run. If anyone takes you up on the offer, then you have some demand. If nobody takes you up on the offer, then you should think of something else.
I was hoping this would be about Battletoads, which IMO is the hardest platform game I have ever played. Even on an emulator, with the ability to freeze frames and save/reload game state, I could not beat Battletoads.
The lady’s husband, a semiconductor engineer, has been unemployed for three years, yet people in his field are being brought in on H-1Bs. She doesn’t think this makes any sense.
My nephew, an avid basketball player, has been unemployed for three years, yet the NBA is bringing in basketball players from other countries!
This article makes the incorrect assumption that if two people have the same job title, they must have the same skills. I was initially surprised that a "leading authority on H-1B visas" would make this mistake, but it turns out he is a professor rather than someone with any experience in the software industry, which explains why his arguments are driven by statistics without any understanding of how the industry works.
They say "please don't take this seriously" and pretend it's a parody. Yet... the product is real, and the "see plans and pricing" button still takes you to a payment page. So because they're promoting their site on HN instead of on Techcrunch they think it's okay? This is like building a knockoff MacBook with an Apple logo on it, and pasting a "parody" sticker on it.
I guess the GemFury folks just wish they could get as much publicity as CureBit did, even if it's mostly negative.
You don't think Apple and Google are solving big problems? They were startups too, once. I think the flaw in your logic is that once a startup successfully solves a big problem, they quickly stop being a startup, and become a big company. It's a mistake to conclude "startups can't solve big problems".
Really interesting slides. As someone who has only briefly played around with Haskell, I do envy some of its features, particularly the type inference. I wish there were more languages that could combine the ease of scripting languages with the maintainability of compile-time typechecking.
It's also often a very successful strategy for companies to copy the design of competitors, and differentiate on other things. Zynga copying competitors' games is a great example.
In this case, Curebit was only copying the design of a landing page, so it was probably not worth pissing off DHH even if that landing page was legally usable and worked better. Although it really seems that DHH was more pissed off by Allan's tweets and posts about it than by the design itself.
Look at what Zynga did with FarmVille. At first, it was exactly like FarmTown. Same appearance, same menu layout, same gameplay. They weren't actually serving assets from FarmTown's servers, but besides that, the design was exactly the same.
Was this illegal? Probably not - design like this generally can't be copyrighted.
Was this successful? Yes - this sort of strategy led Zynga to be worth billions of dollars.
Was this ethical? I think intelligent people will differ.
Either way, DHH certainly uses his audience to attack people who come too close to the design of 37signals. A similar thing happened when Google launched Huddle, and DHH complained it was too similar to Campfire. In the end, Google rebranded it as a PR move and nobody cared any more.
Whether it's ethical or not, it certainly seems like a tactical PR mistake for a startup to annoy DHH this much.
So let's say I am running a startup with two employees. A friend of mine is also running a startup and needs to hire people. Is it wrong for me to ask him not to hire my employees?
That sucks - chasing payments sounds really frustrating, because it's not even like you're doing something wrong, it's just this situation that you shouldn't even have to deal with, but you do. It sounds really stressful. Good luck with everything.
Sort of a silly thing to bring up, but at my previous job bitbucket was down so often we started calling it sh*tbucket. At my current gig we're on github and it seems far more reliable.
For people with experience and multiple job offers... there is no incentive
That's true. But think about a smart programmer who is fresh out of school, or maybe dropped out. If you don't have anything on your resume yet, this could be a reasonable way to break into the tech scene.
Quite an interesting product. I typed a competitor's name in and immediately saw a huge list of ads they were running. Very helpful in just ten seconds!