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We used Baby Signing Time after we discovered our child was deaf at 10 months old:

https://www.signingtime.com/baby-signingtime/

You can find their videos on YouTube too, but we love supporting the organization. When we started signing, everything was unlocked - not just communication, but also creativity, personality, and delayed fine and gross motor skills.

The Hanen Centre has used this back-and-forth as the foundation of their teaching for over four decades. Check out their take on the same study:

http://www.hanen.org/Helpful-Info/Articles/power-turn-taking...

We took one of the Hanen Centre parent education courses (“It takes two to talk”). I can’t recommend it highly enough - best training I’ve ever received:

http://www.hanen.org/Programs/For-Parents/It-Takes-Two-to-Ta...

I'm waiting for v2.0 when they will have a drone follow my dog around so I don't even need to use the app.

The first author of the original cited work makes some of the data available on his group's website: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/index.php/data

Case Western is in Cleveland and Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh is close.

Well said. Add "in a regulated industry" too.

In my experience, the barriers to entry into the bitcoin/cryptocurrency world are much higher than the equities world for lay persons.

Shot across the bow of IBM, SAP, Oracle, etc? Amazon and Google continue trying to eat everything.

Edit: and yes I know Amazon is already at full war with IBM, etc since before the CIA contract.

As a freelancer, you can put a great deal of time into carefully considering the needs of a new/prospective client, developing a preliminary plan for the project and preparing a carefully considered estimate. This is typically done gratis. It is in one's best interest to spend this prospecting time on the highest likelihood/value prospective clients. Behavior like the spam-and-ignore on behalf of some of these companies reflects poorly on the group and will make the best freelancers reluctant to participate.

As an aside for freelancers, I recommend following Brennan Dunn's work:

http://brennandunn.com/ http://brennandunn.com/category/podcast/ http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com/ http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com/build-a-consultancy http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com/the-blueprint

He does _so_ much for the freelancer community.

Yes, this. As a group, it's a bad practice that will result in reluctance to respond on the part of the best freelancers.

The idea of selling equity in oneself is the topic of a great book (written in 2000) called "Future Wealth" by Chris Meyer and Stan Davis:

http://www.amazon.com/Future-Wealth-Stan-Davis/dp/1565113942

David Bowie sold bonds backed by his IP in 1997:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_bond

The book talks about equity being a logical next step and about the value of being able to diversify and distribute risk. I think there is definitely one possible future where this is very common. It probably starts with athletes and celebrities - as you can see, this guy has gotten a terrible valuation (for several reasons).

For years, I have been talking myself out of starting a company that serves as an exchange for people selling equity in themselves. It is inevitable that someone tries this because the crowd-funding industry is so sexy. It will be an interesting experiment, but I'm not sure the effects on society will be net desirable. At its best, it would give people the ability to sell a fraction of themselves for some up-front cash and give them the ability to take bigger risks in the projects they do. Anyway, if you want to talk more about this, hit me up.

Your project, Cucumbertown, is a cooking/recipe site/platform/network. Hacker News is not your audience/customer. Any "launch" on Hacker News is a fail, regardless of downtime.

successful trader:analyst with clever idea::successful founder:wantrepreneur

I think this comment from Wesley Chun on the GAE team is key:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/obfGjbIkOTI...

"your app can be slashdotted or tweeted by demi moore -- http://adtmag.com/blogs/watersworks/2010/10/mobile-app-creat... -- or perhaps you may need to build/host something on the scale of both the royal wedding blog and event livestream with traffic numbers that are mindblowing -- http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/05/royal-wedding-be... ... these are the reasons for using App Engine. it was not meant as free/cheap generic app-hosting but to provide a premium service that's difficult to get elsewhere in the market. if you're just after the former, there are plenty of options for you."

My take-away is that GAE is hard to justify unless your usage pattern is unpredictable and spike-y. I'm taking the long weekend to give dotcloud a serious test-drive.

the only reason this OS exists is so microsoft can drive samsung's search - Bada Bing!

Every San Diego and SoCal hacker should check out the Founder Institute! There is an introduction for the fall session tonight led by Adeo Ressi:

Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 6:00 PM (PT)

Location: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP.; 4401 Eastgate Mall; San Diego, CA 92121-1909

It was great to get to know you through the SD Founder Institute, Bill.

Join us at the San Diego Tech Founders meeting July 16th. I'm organizing a group of San Diego Tech Founders with the purpose of meeting monthly to discuss customer and product development and business strategy. I would also like the group to develop into a great place to meet potential co-founders.

http://sd.techfounders.org/

http://twitter.com/sdtechfounders

If you are a founder of a technology company, or have the desire to start/co-found a technology company, please join us for presentations and networking at our first meeting on Thursday, July 16th at the Hive Haus co-working space in downtown San Diego.

Details and RSVP at http://bit.ly/15qTnn

Mike