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You're right but it doesn't mean that it's not a zero sum game. When you buy a stock you do not assume it has perfect liquidity (if you wanted that you'd invest in a more liquid investment). So you trade liquidity for growth. Liquidity correlates strongly with volatility.

If (as you approach retirement) you decide to trade growth for liquidity and convert to cash, you may end up penalized if the volatility of the stock reduces your return (if you have to sell in a dip). This is part of the trade off that you entered into and you are not penalized as long as you can afford to wait out whatever volatile price movements make the conversion temporarily disadvantageous.

As for your point 2, while this is true for an individual trade it's the sort of thing that averages out over time...
Why does it assume that everyone is a lesbian or male heterosexual? Seriously, people, there are women on the Internet these days. Lots of them!
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Lots of people have. Unfortunately they all have different APIs, which we've been trying to fix with the CommonJS project: http://commonjs.org/

Personally I work on Narwhal (http://narwhaljs.org/). All of Cappuccino's (http://cappuccino.org/) build tools are written in JavaScript (and Objective-J) using CommonJS APIs now too.

Also, Narwhal comes with a nifty "json" tool to convert Unixy formats to/from JSON: http://narwhaljs.org/json-tool.html
In 2010, search engine traffic continued to rise aggressively. More searches have been conducted each month, more people are using search engines each month. The growth may not be as stratospheric as Facebook's, but the rise of social media has not in any way affected the fortunes of web search.

Until I can use Facebook to find everything I need and it does a much better job than Google, I can't see how they're going to kill SEO... That, and SMM (Social Media Marketing) is essentially an offshoot of SEO and something web marketers pioneered when they realized they could get SEO value from it (back in 2004-2005 before "social media" was a buzzword).

Danny Sullivan has written excellently on this topic many times:
http://searchengineland.com/an-open-letter-to-derek-powazek-...
http://searchengineland.com/is-seo-dead-1997-prediction-meet...
I found this fascinating so I'm posting it. It asks the user to copy-paste JS code in the URL bar, which is obfuscated code that automatically suggests the page to all your friends. And it redirects to a SMS scam. Wow!
Yeah, but...who uses Opera?

...I kid, I kid!

In all seriousness, though, a widget on a browser with a chronic ~2% usage share is one thing. The exact same thing available on any standards-compliant browser is quite another, wouldn't you say?
Expecting to be in a job where there's never any conflict is a lot like expecting to be in a relationship without ever fighting.
No, it's not. Social networking and traditional search are orthogonal. Of course Google wants a piece of that action, because it's obvious that social networking traffic is big, and has more growth potential than traditional search at this point. But the value of ad inventory on Facebook is absolute horseshit, so it's not as if they'll be dwarfing Google profits any time soon. No amount of social features can replace search, and search will always be more intentioned then the kind of viral loop that Facebook has made a science of.
I like how the boss tried to figure out what's wrong before complaining. Now it's usually "AAA IT'S BROKEN GO FIX IT".
Yeah, I'm ashamed to say that I fell for it. Thinking that it would simply show a request dialog with all of my friends selected (like other pages), I ran the Javascript. In hindsight, that was a moronic and dangerous thing to do, and I ended up bugging all of my friends about it...
Fact is, Yahoo is a directionless arguably dying company and very much a large company rather than a startup with all that entails, probably meaning many meetings before you can ever change anything and so on.

And Jason said something in the heat of the moment? So what? They just promoted the guy and he can't even sit down and have a conversation? I'd be horribly disappointed too.

Remember "disappointed" means you actually care and had high hopes/expectations for that person. That's WAY better than no expectations whatsoever.
Having built it once, you could probably write it again in half the time. Even if you don't have the code, you have the experience.

Writing code changes you.
It's strange to imagine a time when "oh, look, a motorcar!" might be uttered with the same sense of technological novelty as "oh, look, an iPad!" today.
He didn't say that.
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> I don't work well while being yelled at. I don't want to deal with that. And so I refuse to work in environments where I get yelled at.

Completely agree. I have a very simple philosophy: Nobody yells at me. Ever. Nobody has that right - not my parents, not my wife, not my boss, not my friends, NOBODY. I am very compassionate and understanding. If you are nice to me and reason with me, I will climb mountains for you. If I make the smallest mistake, I will man up and apologize before you even know something's up. But if you yell at me, I walk away regardless of whose fault it is. I am an adult, treat me as such with respect and dignity.

Also, I've noticed that yelling is a VERY good indicator of the morale of an office environment. I can't much speak for warehouse/construction-type jobs where yelling might in fact be the rule but I have not once seen happy employees in a place where managers or CEOs can yell at anyone they so choose. This is a free country. A salary does not entitle anyone to belittle me, regardless of fault.
I think the point is more incendiary conflict, ad hominem, chest thumping than a lack of conflict. Conflict sharpens the mind, conflict examines all the avenues, but that conflict is measured and rational.

If you devolve into a shouting match under any professional circumstances, you have failed. It doesn't matter which side of the table you're on.
Statiscally speaking, it is a sad episode for both Jason and Evan: the former will be condemned by several people for handling the matter not in the best possible way, and the later for making its employer's inadequate response public. Which is relevant, as Jason, being more well known, is more likely to actually suffer a bigger impact from this bad press than the engineer. Not a win-win situation by far.
or by major -- I'm sure medical and law schools have a big impact on later in life earnings. Especially since it's based on salary and not wealth, stock options etc are probably not counted.
Python has as much support for closures as javascript. The only significant feature in this respect that it is missing (that I am aware of) is multi-statement, in-expression lambdas.

Javascript's syntactic nicety is higher there, but on balance I think python's is far superior.

Both great languages, though.
Probably not most people, but I try to. Having 20 tabs open means that your brain must keep track of all of them. Having only 1 or 2 instead is a different story.
Agreed. I'm also surprised how people find it comfortable. I found it physically painful to use relative to a laptop, due to the awkward head/hands positioning, needing to constantly slide my fingers instead of just hitting page down, etc.
As always, WolframAlpha is your friend:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3+millilight+seconds

558.8 miles or 899.4 kilometers

They even have "comparisons", e.g. for 30 millilight seconds:

~~ 1.4 x Amazon River length (~~ 6400 km )
First of all, California is a right to work state, and even if Calcanis were the noblest of them all, no one should have any doubt that were something to go horribly wrong with their revenue stream,the company would let its employees go just as abruptly. Secondly, as far as changing jobs go, the guy wasn't leaving two months into his stint, he was leaving after a year.

Thirdly, when the boss throws out a blatant insult because someone resigned, you conveniently let it go as "done in the heat of the moment" but the fact that someone resigned over email is worthy of scorn?

And please, spare us the "He got so angry because he cares" sermons. Someone who cares about an employee as a person does not tell them "no need to come to the office". I have been at both ends of this type of transaction several times and never once have I seen such lack of grace as Jason exhibited.
Maybe not Open Source but you can always View Source.
Writes can be faster if you don't have to write through to a slower media; also it would be faster if you can append to the end rather than seek to a specific location. Seeking takes up the majority of the time spent doing disk IO (not talking about SSDs).
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That's true. I've been thinking about doing a version for Android.

The hardest part was actually doing the artwork. I spent weeks doing dozens of little 16x16 pixel sprites. Even walking animations for the characters.
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would the observer [participator?] effect make a time traveler's stock market even more vulnerable to manipulation?
And it's going to be a whole lot worse with the new features. But at they'll be able a to recommend you the best LOLcat picture based on your and your friends' online behavior.
I knew I had seen this on HN before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514838
It was on the 22nd of May in Adelaide. Anyone know the address still?
A brilliant Ponzi business scheme model.
Your comment only made me want to try it more!
I have about 20 total tabs open right now.

What are you doing? How focused are you on reading any one of those tabs?
Fantastic work. I wonder how long before this sort of thing can be used to do 3D development on the mobile web for devices with full browsers (iPhone, Palm Pre, Android, etc...)
I use http://www.freepopfax.com for the rare occasion when I still need to send a fax. Always worked fine for me. It includes an ad in the fax which might look unprofessional, but I figure it's unprofessional to still be insisting on faxes in 2010. :)
Clickable:

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I don't get it. It says "watching this video makes you sleep instantly".

I guess it's sort of true. If sleep means "closing the window out of boredom".
> Fact is, Yahoo is a directionless arguably dying company and very much a large company rather than a startup with all that entails, probably meaning many meetings before you can ever change anything and so on.

Does not matter. The boss has absolutely no right to judge the next company. Everyone moves around in the tech world. MS employees joined Google, then Facebook, then Amazon, and so on. Bosses are supposed to wish employees good luck in the future or at the very least be polite and respectful.

> And Jason said something in the heat of the moment? So what?

So TechCrunch. So permanent record & documentation. So bad PR. People in the IT/startup world should know the internet never forgets. Also there is no heat of the moment when you reply to an email titled "Resignation." I can believe heat of the moment if an employee walks into your office and says "Screw you! I quit." But you can't play the "heat of the moment" card if it's an email. Take some time to cool off before you reply.

> They just promoted the guy and he can't even sit down and have a conversation?

Irrelevant to the discussion. He could have been made CTO and still wanted to resign. It was a very polite email and it is a free country/world. As a boss, you need to be a good leader and say positive things even when someone wants to quit.

> I'd be horribly disappointed too. Remember "disappointed" means you actually care and had high hopes/expectations for that person. That's WAY better than no expectations whatsoever.

I'd be horribly disappointed too myself. But saying "horribly disappointed" is not constructive criticism or even a poor choice of words. It is outright insulting. Instead of going back and forth over these words, let me just write out what an appropriate reply should be, so you can decide yourself how far this is from what really happened:

Hi Evan,

I accept your resignation and have notified Elliot to take care of the paperwork tomorrow. You can take the next two weeks off and have someone pick up your personal belongings or let Elliot know where to ship them.

I had high hopes for you and am disappointed to see you leave. Good luck with your future ventures.

There. Said nearly the same things without sounding rude or insulting. Senior employees resigning can't possibly be such a common occurrence that a CEO can't even take 2mins to think the reply through. Could it?
1871 points. I'm not dead yet (and I got bored after a while, just managed to go back to the ground floor). Last time I was good at tetris was on the Game boy, which is ... old.
I don't know which reply of mine you say was deleted. I haven't deleted anything.
I know I use open tabs like a stack. I read the web breadth first.
Jason needs to chill. It is not clear to me if Evan has damaged his brand as an individual. But it is clear that Jason has damaged Mahalo as a brand. As the CEO, Jason has responsibility to his shareholders. If you promote someone and still he leaves, you need to find out why and you need to ensure that the team left behind is still motivated. A good CEO does that by inviting the departing employee to a face-to-face in order to provide a reasonable explanation to the rest of the company. It is all optics, but it is important optics. How Jason feels emotionally is not important. What he does to maintain shareholder values is.
Because the author is not a politically correct ass.
other formats support is planned. we just launched with the minimum that we ourselves needed. Rails HAML templates :)

Thought for your case we don't only need to add another format (more or less easy) but also support for re-uploading new designs .zip file, which is somewhat harder to implement and so is further down the todo list :)
Also, it does not gracefully degrade for us married folks. Still amusing though.
Having 20 tabs open means that your brain must keep track of all of them.

That seems backwards. If I have 20 tabs open, the browser is keeping track of them, not me. If I can only have one page open at a time, I have to actively remember other pages that are relevant to what I'm doing.
its not JUST html fragments. it actually gives you the real syntax to use in Rails ERB/HAML, including support for variables. i.e. if you select some word and assign name '= @user[name]' to the fragment, it will actually use proper ERB or HAML syntax, i.e. <%= @user[name] %>. etc.

we will definitely add more formats. to decide which to start with we have the vote form on the homepage. so if you want django, please vote for it :)
This was demoed at today's jQuery Conference: There is no canvas used to render the tiles (it's all images). There is some canvas used to compute out the hit detection logic - but I suspect that that's something that could be generated server-side, rather than dynamically.
As far as pricing, you may have to do better.

Outgoing: I use greenfax.com for sending 7 cents per page, 5 cents per page after with no setup fees.

For receiving, used Packetel for unlimited fax-to-email (PDF) for $3.95/mo, they have since been acquired so now I use:
Popfax $5.49/mo - unlimited incoming

I suppose if it's easy to use on a web browser, it may not be too bad.
The story claimed Venetian which implies Italian. He was actually born about 70 miles away, but that was still in Italy. And he swindled lots of people.

That is why I said "mostly".
I know a simple upvote is the way to show appreciation here, but this was too good to leave at it. Excellent! Captures a lot of nuances well.
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SEO is not dead it's just been entered by players with more money to spend for each search than this author. It's pretty irritating that so many searches on google are compromised by pseudo pages that contain shit and a link to what you are looking for. These companies mine google for searches where it's easy to get into the top 10 and then utilize their content farms to spew garbage on the net. It will be interesting to see what google can do to combat this. search results have really taken a turn for the worse in 2010.
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You can still charge for licenses to open source code.

The reason for Open Source is so that YOU, the developer can control your destiny. What if the company tanks, or they decide they want to take the library in a direction that's incompatible with my game? Unless I have the source I'm screwed.

If I have the source, the worst case scenario is I have to hire another developer or two to keep improving the engine.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure most game engines are open source. You license the engine and they give you the source code.
Too bad I run Linux.
because some people like to point and click. I don't think command line utility would be very fun to use. you would have to open the files in a text editor, at which stage you might as well cut it by hand :). I know both TextMate and vim can extract fragments into rails partials. We are using this for all new projects and its MUCH easier then using a text editor (or command line for that matter)

it could be an open source rails application, of course, but so is a lot of other commercial projects out there :)

It is free for now and we don't plan on adding payments right away (and basics will probably stay free forever), but we do think about monetizing it some day.

For now though we are focused on creating something that people will like and use.
Really? I try to love mine for browsing (on it now) but the silly thumbnail tab screen that feels like a clumsy iPhone leftover kills me. I almost feel like I'm going back to IE pre-tabs.

Copy/paste is also so much slower than a laptop... I don't know how to improve it, but it is relatively tedious.

I don't care about the lack of Flash, but broken iframes, no drag/drop, no way of bringing up the keyboard for things like javascript/canvas apps, no proper fixed positioning for CSS, no resizable or even scrollable textareas and the ocassional full page refresh when switching apps and/or "tabs" that kills form input all combine to make it a mediocre experience IMO. Granted, all this is also true on the iPhone, but it's a phone, not a 10" tablet.

I really like my iPad and I'm by no means going to return it, but browsing doesn't seem like the high point.
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I wouldn't be surprised if I have more experience of conflict and relationships than you have.

My experience tells me that it is possible to have conflict without yelling. And that yelling makes conflict more difficult to resolve. Which is important. If you're trying to achieve a shared goal, then the inevitable conflict needs to be resolved so you can return to what is important - the shared goal.

My opinion on relationships is similar. I've been married for 20 years. And in that time I've learned the importance of finding ways to recognize conflict, de-escalate it, then re-engage and deal with the source of the conflict. Furthermore I firmly believe that if I hadn't learned that lesson, I wouldn't still be married 20 years in.

For both cases, what are the key steps to turning theory into practice?

Step 1 for both cases is realizing that you have a choice. Realizing that you do is the first step in making the choice you want.

Step 2 is recognizing that while you're in the grip of strong emotion you don't have much control. That's why you need to develop the habit of disengaging when you go off the rails. And since the same holds for other people, choose to be around people who have learned that lesson as well.

Step 3 is returning to the underlying issues and actually addressing them. If you don't do that, you'll find yourself back at step 2 repeatedly until you do. (Even so you'll wind up at step 2 from time to time. But with less frequency.)
> > They just promoted the guy and he can't even sit down and have a conversation?

> Irrelevant to the discussion.

It's entirely relevant. If you accept a promotion, you are making some kind of commitment. To turn around and quit 2 weeks later just goes to show your actions were, at best, disingenuous.

> As a boss, you need to be a good leader and say positive things even when someone wants to quit.

The chance to do that went out the window once this private email was made public. That's kinda the point of this whole thing.
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The screen in gorgeous. It’s the first thing that strikes people when they see the device.

I am not so impressed with the screen. The dpi is ~30 dpi less than an iPhone, but it is noticeable... especially since you have to hold it at less than arm's length away. If the new iPhone dpi is really 2x what it currently is, the iPad's lower resolution will become very noticeable.

Edit: changed 4x to 2x. I wanted to convey the total pixel count going up 4x, but I guess since dpi is a linear measurement it should only be stated as a 2x increase. Either way, it will smoke the iPad's pixel density.
Yeah, I don't get the recent Javascript love-fest when Python and Ruby (heck, even Perl) are tremendously superior. Mainly due to lacking insane design decisions like default global scope and having standard libraries that are actually useful. I mean, did it not occur to anyone that a language heavily used for processing user input might benefit from String.trim? And you'd think a language built on key-value pairs would come with a hashtable object.

Yes I'm probably ranting; I've spent a large portion of the last 12 hours writing a bunch of Javascript that I really shouldn't have had to.
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It can be summed up as brilliant ideas, that fall apart due to lack of rigor in research.

The insidious part of this is that brilliant ideas and pithy quotes and the essays that result from them are so memorable, that in a way the bar for research disproving them is even higher that it would be if the statement in question was some dusty historical or physical science hypothesis.
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Wow, I have created a monster. I didn't create this javascript code to be used with promoting malware/viruses. Jesus christ, I love how people ruin everything.
This is the tragedy of the modern education system in that it rewards participation not winning.

Winning is entirely beside the point. Sure, merely showing up should not be enough (never mind what Woody Allen said). But education should be about bettering yourself, not defeating others. Oh, and learning how to learn. Not just memorizing facts to pass tests.

Eighty percent of success is showing up. -Woody Allen
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