grishick

This is awesome! I've seen different startups try to tackle this problem for the last 4 years and so far this looks like most useful solution.

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we even have our marketing guy use lechat. Try making your marketing use emacs ;)

We have a distributed team of 4 engineers in 3 different locations. We have been using lechat.im for the last month and it has improved the information flow dramatically. Before lechat.im we tried hangouts, Skype and gTalk and those all fall short of the features that matter for a distributed team. Things that I love about lechat: search, SVN and git hooks (checking go into a separate room as messages), notifications, chat history.

Rather pathetic of them to run this challenge

Maybe when we hit first 10 million downloads :)

International or local, anyone who is arriving to SFO and is not a Bay Area resident qualifies.

Thanks for the advice. I think, we'll do that too. Personally, I don't like when people come up to me in the street and demand attention, but maybe that's just me.

If you have wifi on the flight, you could test while on the flight.

Yes, the app is Citybot. It isn't in the app store yet, but we can deliver it via Testflight and as an APK file. The app lets you create custom itineraries in seconds.

what bothers me is that giving any money to the gov-t is the least efficient way, because the gov-t is not efficient with money. That brings the question, do we really need to raise taxes or open more opportunities for charitable foundations to do what gov-t cannot.

As a friend pointed out. This guy is unemployed by choice and his 2011 income is probably $0. On the other hand, if this gov-t got around replacing income tax with a consumption tax, that would actually tax those who can afford it.

Large patent portfolios owned by big companies represent the most danger for small companies trying to make something new. Big companies can afford to fight each other with armies of lawyers and settle on large piles of cash. However, if your startup gets a threatening letter from Google telling you that you are infringing on their patent, you are done. Google is a public company, so they have an obligation to their shareholders to turn their investments into profits. Hence, I don't see any reason, why Google's lawyers won't google through their newly acquired patent database to see how they can extort some juice settlements or shut down some small players.