badave

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?

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.

Oh yes. We do live in slavery. Money is the only key to our chains.

The answer is just a flat and obvious, "No".

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.

Until we have telepathy, that is.

I thought they shut down Geocities years ago?

It's been down since 1999.

Aaron Swartz would be proud of you.

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.