I also heard that tickets will be non-transferrable this year. Last year people were scalping them on eBay and craigslist because of the free hardware that is usually given away.

The segment on Khan Academy was a good one. Khan's vision of a free world-class education seems like it has real potential at home and in school systems if they adopt it. I wish it was around when I was a kid.

I remember seeing this project on kickstarter a while back. Does anyone know if it's the same group of people?

Yes, it is. My old pitch video was me talking into a webcam - which wasn't really awesome. People liked the idea, but they advised that I demonstrate more ability to pull a team together and actually produce something. So I canceled it and relaunched it.

I love this idea.

I've used Namecheap, Moniker, Hover and Godaddy. The only one I didn't like was Godaddy due to how difficult their site is to navigate.

Godaddy seems to get more orders through affiliate than retail.

This looks like a cool site, but I don't have a facebook account and won't create one for the purpose of logging in to another site.

Someone should write a quick bash script that'll automatically create a facebook account with random information, specifically for this type of circumstance.

Obviously it would break the TOS, but it would give you a way of checking out some Facebook-only services. And if you have anarchist-leaning feelings, you'll also be sticking it to The Man by adding noise to their signal.

I'm pretty sure you can't create a working Facebook account using a quick bash script.

The biggest problem I can see is the e-mail verification, but I imagine even that sort of thing would be scriptable. It's all just squirting characters over HTTP, right?

In theory, yes, but the problem with this kind of complex scraping is that you're constantly chasing the moving goalposts of facebook's code updates, which are frequent.

See also: poker bots.

Nice, bet you don't have a TV either.

I started at a medium size company, went on to a large and am now at a startup. I think it's good to try different environments. Some people prefer the stability of a large company, but it wasn't for me.

openhatch.org and launchpad.net are good sites to look for projects needing help. Take an open source application you use on a daily basis and think of ways you can contribute. Bigger projects may be difficult to dive into, but its always worth a shot.