These are just a few of the tools that help us work together, even when we aren't all in one location. Caveat, the apps, AFAIK, are Mac specific.

That sort of makes it _harder_ to work together unless you force all employees to use Mac, which I guess you can do.

A alternative list of techs that'll help (imo, despite being nothing like yours):

> IRC

> XMPP

> Email

> Skype (alternatives welcome)

> Vagrant

> Favourite bug / productivity app.

> Your favorite wiki (if in doubt, use mediawiki)

> VPN (assuming you have need to connect to the office, you probably don't if you're using github type resources)

> Git

Basically, all the same stuff that'll help you work even if you're in the same office. I've worked from home for over 3 years, the #1 problem for me is the people in the office who don't use these tools.

To be fair, most of the actual collaboration tools (Trello, Flowdock, Hackpad) appear to be webapps. iMessage/Facetime is the big exception.

Fortunately I haven't had to use the cattle prod yet, everyone here was a Mac user since before we started. We find tools that work for everyone, it just so happened to be some were Mac specific, over time I'm sure this list will morph quite a bit.

tl;dr -- use flutterapp.com to detect head position for article scrolling

Sometimes it's hard to understand what problem something solves because you may not be in the target market/demographic.

Pinterest? I have a large number of friends that have used Pinterest to help come up with ideas for apartments, weddings, etc., Previously the only place they could look for inspiration was through online searches or magazines.

Skype? How did you call overseas <edit>for free</edit> prior to Skype? I was able to do it with my Ham Radio license, but for that I had to take a test and buy equipment -- with Skype you just had to install an application and you could run with it.

As for the other game categories, I agree with John, entertainment has a huge demand with a market that seems to be ready for the next exciting game at every corner, Angry Birds and Little Wings filled that demand.

Really interesting, would be even better if it parsed my SSH config file. Interested to see how this progresses.

It looks like that's how they're doing it since they have the caveat of "may receive messages from txt@textbelt.com" As for the open source comment -- they're probably running a carrier lookup on the numbers via another API on the back-end, so that dependency on another service doesn't make it as straightforward as just open sourcing it.

I would be interested in knowing what API they are using for the carrier look-ups.

I doubt very many people find it strange -- just because you have revenue, or are profitable, does not mean you're "in the clear". Companies typically raise additional capital so they can accelerate their growth. Your assumption that companies only raise because they aren't cash-flow positive is misguided.

That wasn't my assumption. It is the scale that I find strange. If the company is pulling in $100k/month, then having $1M in the bank is not going to significantly change what you can accomplish, but the effort required to raise the money is a substantial distraction.

You might want to take a look into using something like twill (instead of requests) and BeautifulSoup instead of pyquery -- twill in particular will allow more control over cookies, etc.,

Thought about that, but using Requests + PyQuery was what made this project a joy to work with in the first place :)

I'm planning on just writing cookie data to a file and using that if available.

I prefer lxml to BeautifulSoup.

I can’t find the link now, but I remember something about BeautifulSoup being deprecated—it didn’t support HTML5 last time I checked. LXML is great. http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ is also a nice parser for HTML5 documents.

Edit: pyquery wraps the aforementioned LXML. Seems like a good fit for jquery style selection…

I tried PyQuery ~1 year ago, and immediately found issues with it (IIRC it was having trouble selecting an element that had two classes, when the selector was only specifying one of those classes). I may have to revisit that if people are recommending it with positive reviews.

Give it a shot again. I've used it with several projects over the last 6 months and have had no issues. One of the projects also involved some fairly heinous malformed HTML, and PyQuery performed well.

When placed on the same site as your product, you're already at a disadvantage because everyone that goes there will believe it to be biased (with good reason). One of the things that bothers me the most w/ these is when someone points out their own product with all green checks, and the competitors with obvious missing points (red x's). It's typically easy to find a skewed perspective that gives you a 100% on features, and the others lesser so -- these are difficult to "believe".

You are right but I think the checklist could be used as a starting point. It can be updated so users can make informed decision.

Users can also send features that they think are important and missing in other or our products. So I hope this becomes a good resource

The way the current rules are written for fair-use, if two people send in an identical book, are they allowed to send the same PDF to both rather than scanning twice? I wonder how the governing bodies would view that. Side-note, I think it'd be interesting if if they collected/published data about what books are sent in, and from where.

> if two people send in an identical book, are they allowed to send the same PDF to both rather than scanning twice?

In somewhat-analogous circumstances almost 30 years ago, a court said "no." The case was Micro-Sparc, Inc. v. Amtype Corp., 592 F.Supp. 33, 34-35, 223 USPQ (BNA) 1210 (D. Mass. 1984). The defendant offered a keyboarding service: It typed in the source code of programs published in a hobbyist magazine, then sold disks to purchasers of the magazine. The court rejected a fair-use defense and held that this infringed the copyright in the programs. (Adapted from a chapter in a treatise I published long ago.)

After reading this case, it seems to me that a different section of the copyright code was tested here. I believe space shifting of media other than computer programs has a solid history...

That the subject was a computer program is what seemed to trip up the case in my opinion.

To be very accurate, they'd have to keep track of slip streamed versions. I had a maddening email debate with some friends some years ago over what the ARM said. We were all using the same "edition," but we finally worked out that they were actually different. Stroustrup or his publisher wanted to correct something without actually changing the edition number.

So for your scheme to work accurately they'd have to try to keep track of that.

I think it's too risky, and would go with "scan the exact book in."

To your first point -- some people do need to control their weight (or even lose weight), not everyone is in the same category with regards to health/weight/etc., And to be quite honest, I'm pretty sure last time I saw my doctor they told me "it'd be a good idea / healthy to lose X pounds..." -- that's fairly cut and dry to me, I need to lose some weight -- this service is just a method of tracking that progress while offering up helpful advice along the way.