There’s no chance this is true. Please share the listing

There's every chance this is true. Except I just checked the listing, and it's now $181.

Perhaps they should be.

Libraries are, but in larger cities like LA or SF they tend to evolve into coworking spaces for the homeless, at which point they cease to be public spaces that people feel comfortable taking their families to.

https://github.com/voltrb/volt is a new ruby framework that does exactly what you described

How is #1 not always true? In its early days, YouTube extensively benefitted from (then) copyright-infringing music, perhaps not directly via ads but certainly indirectly via a larger user base.

Yes, it's basically a mashups of the two books. Each successive word is chosen randomly in proportion to how often in appears following the two or so words preceding it in the combined text.

No, this company has built its model with search engine results as a primary player.

Google just happens to be the monopolist (and, furthermore, the cartel) in search.

I disagree.

That said, the landscape was already formed when they made that decision, so I imagine it was an informed one and doesn't change the meat of my comment.

Haven't we all?

Missiles penetrate shields. Target their shields system with your missiles and then target their weapons system with your lasers and you should make short work of most enemies. With the starting ship (The Kestrel), this strategy can get you through sector 4 without any significant upgrade.

There's the dynamite circle (http://www.dynamitecircle.com), but they're less about programming and software and more about internet marketing and blogging. Also, more emphasis on baselining your expenses via traveling / living in southeast asia.