Padmapper has been a wonderful service. It is confusing why Craigslist is blocking it unless they (Craigslist) are thinking about coming up with similar user interface soon. Craigslist has been hiring UI designers.
Actual goal of Elon Musk is to send someone to Mars, but since seems far reaching goal for most people and since they might call him crazy, he is sticking with near space for now. Do not be surprise when he starts talking about Mars.
He talks about Mars quite publicly already and various of SPaceX's corporate videos contain CGI dragon capsules landing on mars.
Also he's not 'sticking with near space for now' to avoid being called crazy as you imply, he's sticking to near-space now because you have to get that capability working and reliable so you can build on it for going further afield. It's not a smoke screen, it's all quite consistent with a road-map to mars.
Facebook know exactly how much Instagram is worth. They don't even have to ask the data from Instagram. They can just look at their own Facebook data to see how many of their users use the service. Also, every photo you see on the web has a Facebook Like button. They have all the data they need to make the decision.
Looking at their data, Facebook feared that not acquiring Instagram is a risk to their business, so they rather lose $1 Billion than giving advantage to other social networking sites such as Google+. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is determined to stay on top.
I remember reading from Instagram blog that they found Gunicorn to be less CPU-intensive:
We use http://gunicorn.org/ as our WSGI server;
we used to use mod_wsgi and Apache, but found
Gunicorn was much easier to configure, and less
CPU-intensive.
I wasn't able to add additional choice. I clicked on "add choice" and entered additional choice but doesn't show up on the poll. Am I doing something wrong?
edit: I think it didn't like when I entered "<40". Maybe it took it as html code. So I added "less than 40"
I've seen many people type "google" or "google.com" into google's search bar, while on google.com. Then they typed "facebook.com" into the search bar or something silly like that ...
I don't know where I heard this, but I was told that its very common for inexperienced internet users (of which there are many) to search for google in the search bar built into their browser, then click google to search for there.
"We had to spend two months writing the whole billing system up; Chargify and those services didn’t exist at that point. So, if we wanted to have recurrent billing we had to write it ourselves and do all the logic"
If you implement a new service out of necessity to solve a problem you have at work, it is a very good indication that service is also needed by other companies. Instead of using this service you created internally only, you should release it and see if there is a great demand for it.
I think this was a missed opportunity for Wufoo to create another great service.
I'd guess that their work on Wufoo was taking up all of their time. They solved the payment challenge, except it was a front-end solution for customers, not developers. Might have been a larger market to go after.
I don't know how much Chargify makes, but Rusenko had to build Weebly's payment system and he didn't like doing that. Same story with Djangy. WePay also comes to mind, but I don't recall them seeming frustrated about implementing theirs. I would imagine it's such a difficult problem (or would have been in 2006) that it'd feel like running another full-time startup when they still had the challenge of delivering a good form builder as their main priority.
