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This is a good thing. I disagree with your grim outlook about jobs in intellectual capital being a zero sum game though. Innovation begets more innovation. The more well-educated people around the globe that are innovating in ways that increase productivity, the more capital that is freed up to invest in more intellectually-intensive research and development. Hopefully the allocation of intellectual capital into non-productive activity the financial services sector has caused will be short-lived.
ITA Software provides the back-end for other online travel companies. They don't actually sell tickets, so if someone is misinformed about their site and tries to buy a ticket they are told where to actually do so.
Completely disagree: we need technological paradigm shifts and work our buts off... That was the way to our current standard of living, successfully copied by the East, and it will be the successful path to future growth and industrial/scientific advancement. Not that socialist whiny I need more money and less work attitude a la dying Europe.
Firefox was killing Microsoft's browser monopoly, without any sort of government intervention, and against enormous inertia.

Not all markets are efficient, but some are ripe for the taking by an entrepreneur.

Think about all the firms that used windows. If they become less efficient due to using windows, than they will eventually be out-competed by firms that use Linux or MacOS over time, all else being equal.
Please define children. The fact that my grandma had her first son at the age of 16, makes me realize this whole thing about children (minors) and pornography is a bit exaggerated.

It's not exactly marriage, but I do know some girls who watched porn with their boyfriends.
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ABCPL, actorScript, ada, afnix, alef, alice, APL

Axum, C*, chapel, cilk, clojure, curry DAPPLE,

E, eiffel, emerald, erlang, fork, glenda

Go, id, janus, joCaml, Join Java, joule, joyce, labView

[[etc]]
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The real elephant in the room, which Grove and practically everybody else knows very well but refuses to talk about, is that nobody starts a company to employ people. People start a company to make stuff. To the extent this can be done with fewer people, this is always a good thing from that company's perspective, with no exceptions I can think of offhand. People suck, and you don't want to deal with them if you can help it. Just as factory farmers would love to be able to grow meat in vats without dealing with the messy parts of animal welfare and husbandry, most managers would love to be able to carry out their missions with fewer people. This is a simple reality of productive life, not a question of social morality or human values.

Why does it make sense for companies like Foxconn to take on more and more of our high-tech manufacturing work? Simply because, in contrast to most of the twentieth century, most consumer products are built pretty much the same these days. There is absolutely nothing about a PS3 that requires different components, production lines, or assembly techniques from a desktop PC. There is nothing about an iPhone that justifies building it in a factory that doesn't also make pocket calculators, handheld game consoles, or, hell, competing phones such as Droids. Massive contraction and consolidation of the manufacturing sector, whether here or elsewhere, is both desirable and inevitable. Right now this is true of high-tech items but soon enough, it will be evident enough across the spectrum of durable goods.

This wasn't the case when producing a new widget required a lot of custom tool and die work, specialized worker training, or the development of advanced processes unique to that widget. For a drop-dead awesome example of what I'm talking about, look at the processes Tektronix had to develop in the 1960s in order to build CRTs for their oscilloscopes: http://classictek.org/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid... (Flash required)

Grove is basically saying we need to start more companies that "scale up" to require factories where people sit doing stuff like what's seen in that video. He's wrong. Today, if I design a better oscilloscope, I'd be out of my mind if I didn't find a way to use the same generic LCD panels that Chinese factories produce by the tens of millions for sale to everyone from Apple to Boeing. And when my hypothetical design is complete, it will use at most one or two custom ASICs (the fewer the better -- I'll use FPGAs if I can), and Foxconn can start building it as soon as they finish their rush order of iPhone 5G Extremes.

I have a lot of respect for Grove, but as a captain of industry, he's fighting the last war. His subtextual premise is dead-on, though: we need to figure out how to put 200,000,000 underemployed US workers to good use, or things are going to suck.

To me, it's obvious what the future of mass production will look like, but it's not at all clear how to stave off a future where 10% of us are shouldering the entire productivity burden for the rest of the country.
Speaking of life, hacking together with someone of the opposite sex would be more productive than by yourself.
The answer is yes. Wealth is the unlocking of human potential through productivity and efficient use of finite resources such as labor and goods. What these companies do is shift costs, not unlocking potential. Luckily for humanity, this is mostly a temporary condition. It only takes a few decades for labor markets to modernize and they will eventually run out of new markets to exploit.
for the next poster (randallsquared) - banks don't loan money they don't have - or at least we have to be very careful with the terminology here.

They cannot create money out of nothing - they can only loan out a percentage of hte money they have on deposit. The key is they have to have it on deposit in the first place.
This effect compounds itself across multiple accounts and banks and does end up inflating the money supply by a factor of about 10 (assuming the reserve percentage is 10%) - but this is subtly but importnatly different than the bank being magically able to create money it doesn't have.

(the bank can't lend me $90 if it does't have $100 on deposit - it will have to keep the $10 in reserve. OTOH - if someone simply deposits $10, the bank can't possibly lend me $90, because they just don't have it.)
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The article: because the buyers aren't the users

Nice comment below the article: because accommodating the long tail of user requirements is too expensive to be worth it, so they make a cut somewhere, get something good enough for 95% of employees and squeeze everyone else into the same box.

37 signals doesn't try to accommodate all user requirements either. They're free to tell people to go somewhere else if their tools don't suit. In an enterprise, they save costs by standardizing. People would no doubt be just as unhappy being squeezed into the 37 signals box as any other.
Why would you offer the $100K programmers $150K?

Ah, you are saying that because programmers don't come with labels, you are unable to tell the two apart. I would suggest that you don't be involved in recruiting then.
Found this great comment in underneath that particular YouTube video:

"He﻿ was just a curious kid in a grown up's body."

You've only got to watch Feynman's face as he's telling the story, or any story for that matter. His excitement and enthusiasm for the curiosities of life is infectious.
I'm a greedy, conservative capitalist and I still thought this essay was garbage.

First, it totally failed to address the question of wealth received through means other than entrepreneurship: What about athletes, movie stars, heirs and heiresses, etc?

Second, it posits that owner-CEO's will always grow the value of their companies, ignoring that many CEO's with significant shareholdings in their companies have nevertheless plundered their companies for their own benefit.

Third, it claims that the rich got that way by doing work other people don't want to do, by which logic the average garbage man should be rich since he is doing work no one wants to do either.

Fourth, it lumps short sellers in with various other parasites trying to feast on the wealthy. But if good entrepreneurs will always (always!) grow the value of their companies, why should they fear short sellers? If the company goes up in value, the shorts will get taken to the cleaners. It sounds like the author resents the fact that short sellers perform a valuable function in exposing the overvaluation of companies that aren't doing as good a job as other people might think.

Simply put, this is a poorly-reasoned essay with little to add to the debate about taxing the rich.
You guys are misunderstanding me, I was referring to bots that autofill any form they come across on hundreds/thousands of sites, not about preventing a direct attack against this site. If someone wrote a bot specific to this site, yes, they'd easily get by it of course.
It seems like these examples are given to "excuse" human homosexual behavior ("See! It's perfectly natural. Look at the Giraffes!"). I don't have a strong opinion about human homosexual behavior but I do think these examples are meaningless for this intention. Giraffes are probably too dumb, too horny and too indifferent to care about gender or anything. They see a sexual opportunity and they take it. I speculate that if they did know the difference and had the opportunity with members of both genders that they would choose the opposite sex. (Actually it looks like males are doing all of the choosing). I am not saying that this is the point you were going to make, but it does seem to be what most people think about after this topic.
It's not just about prices, it's about routings. For roughly the same price (give or take $100), I often have 50-100 options for each segment, of wildly varying convenience and robustness (in terms of flight time, layover, delay likelihood, airline, etc.). Their system does an incredibly good job laying out this info in a comprehensible form, and more importantly, providing an advanced routing language that allows me to say, for example:

MSN :: AA ORD AA X AZ

BLQ :: AZ X AA ORD AA

...which means I want an American Airlines flight from Madison, WI, connecting through O'Hare, and continuing on to Bologna, Italy, with one and only one intermediate connection, with the over-the-pond leg on AA, and the final leg on Alitalia.

It can then lay out the options for me graphically, so I can instantly see which flights have nasty layovers or bad schedules without having to parse a single text digit.

It's not just about price.
isn't it possible to make a swf not respond to scripting?
[one of the comments on the blog, in its entirety]

“Oliver Stone, Carl Marx you insolent impertinent “putzes”, your character Gordon Gekko is a putz! It’s not greed that drives this nation, or the “doers”, or the titans of this great nation; it’s Ambition, incentive, and the pursuit of The American Dream!!….. (Not the European Dream, the Soviet Dream, ….the Socialist Dream,……or the “Obama Dream” ….it is THE AMERICAN DREAM!). ….Work ethic, hard work and taking risks for the enjoyment of the fruits it produces. …And it will be shared with whomever the producers are willing to share it with. You don’t decide with whom I share my prosperity (success)…………I DO! You have every right to pursue happiness and wealth. Be not ashamed of doing so. Your founding Fathers penned it in permanent ink: “…..We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness….” (The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America -In Congress, July 4, 1776) I am willing to pledge all I have to preserve this promise, this hope, this Dream. I will “not go quietly into the night”! The government will not take these liberties away without a fight to the end. As long as there is just one shred of a chance for the “pursuit” of happiness, The American Dream is alive and I will give my full measure, if necessary, to preserve Her for me and my family. Be “resolute”. Pass this on now or risk the fate of working the rest of your life to come out from under the tyranny of socialism, the strong arm of government and the suppression imposed on you by the "Statists".

Is this... spam? A Markov-chain generated comment? WTF.

I've really gotta quit reading comments on random websites.
I've been building things with tornado and pymongo for going on six months, absolutely love it. Light and fast, easy to customize, a solid auth system builtin, a realtime chat demo (!); keep things simple and it is a joy.
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I'm sorry, I don't think this is the place for a thread that will inevitably devolve into tit-for-tat politics, but I really have trouble stomaching the commentary that the EPA should have less regulatory power over industry when proof of the big-picture bankruptcy of environmental deregulation is current gushing into the gulf at a few tens of thousands of barrels a day.

This kind of reasoning is tricky, though. Do we shut down the airline industry when a plane crashes? No, we pick up the pieces, study what happened, and move on. The result, over time, is a safety record that almost no rational person could criticize.

Nothing made by God or Man will ever be perfect, and that includes deep-sea drilling rigs. If you want to regulate the industry with the goal of making accidents impossible, well, good luck with that.
Thankfully since we've captured parts of Feynman in the form of writing, audio and video, even though he has died he will in all likelihood be teaching people for centuries more into the future. How awesome is that.
I was front row at one of her matches. Her reputation will always be fine with me ;)
I think 37signals is half-right, but the other part of the dynamic is that enterprise software is "hidden," while consumer/web software is public.

Things suffer in the dark longer than they suffer in the light.

HP/IBM/BMC web interfaces for (intranet) products sold _this year_ would be laughed off the public web in five seconds (really bad frames, client-side Java applets, etc).

(Not to mention the poor organizations buying this stuff tend to have it for about 5 years post-purchase.)

That said, the dynamic is changing. Enterprise software/IT is getting consumerized. Sometimes unofficially (everybody uses their ipad at work, but gets/expects no help), sometimes officially (Google Apps has been adopted by some big organizations. Its enterprise product is slightly different from the consumer Google apps, but it's really dang close.)

Big business aside, I believe about 10 million students use Google Apps as their official collab/email tool (not counting people's personal accounts. And Google adds a few big schools every month.). These students simply won't arrive at their jobs post-graduation willing to use Lotus Notes + .doc attachments.

Younger workers aren't the only thing leading to the consumerization of IT, there's a lot of influence coming from the Internet, and consumer hardware.

I don't want to hijack the thread, feel free to crawl my profile to find other places where I write about this stuff. Consumerization of old-school IT is my new pet area of research.
Why not focus on how to make stuff more efficiently locally, i.e., robotics? At least that could keep some manufacturing jobs local.
Firefox and Internet Explorer aren't products that sell on a market though. There is zero cost to the consumer for using one or the other, so competition is exclusively on features. Open source is sort of post-capitalist in a way.

Often markets that suffer from stagnation and seem ripe for the taking by an entrepreneur are that way for a reason: monopoly, government policy favoring large corporations, conditions created by the dominant players, etc.

These firms use Windows because of the tremendous cost associated with switching, which is a key strategy of Microsoft. Software is one of the few industries where products are designed specifically to create lock-in scenarios, and it is accepted by the mainstream.
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The creators were the users when Basecamp started out. They didn't want to be forced to use shit, therefore their philosophy was to not make shit.
Interesting.

The user experience of the Cleartrip site is startingly similar to that your link leads to.
Between passion and experience what would you choose?
I didn't even consider that. I just assumed he meant that the kids that they did hire with superior academic backgrounds didn't outperform the kids who didn't have those backgrounds.

He never said kids with good grades never applied for a job, he said that they were less likely too.
Just a guess, but I think maybe girl's search that young to explore why society is so obsessed with beautiful/sexy women and to learn more about society's expectations of themselves.. I, perhaps naively, think that they are not searching for stimulating experiences like boys likely are.
I wish they'd unveil more details about the Model S sedan. I thought it was supposed to come out 2011, but this explains everything why it's pushed off.
I think that's a valid point, but it will quickly devolve into an argument as to where the robots should be built. It still won't magically add any objective value to your product just to have the nuts and bolts tightened in your hometown.
Masturbation is as at least as old as Onan[1], but I doubt porn is a few centuries old. Maybe erotica.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onan
The problem that I run into more often is memory usage. Before iOS 4, I would often times have around 100MB of free memory. Now, I usually have 4-10MB due to all the running applications. So, I occasionally go through and close them.
I think of this as the internet equivalent of the crazy guy with a sign standing on a street corner.
I recall people panning the purchase of grandcentral because of the incredibly long delay between purchase and launch of Google Voice...

It is hard to tell what purpose a company is acquired for (talent, technology, marketshare...) and thus difficult to tell whether it was fruitful.
This is exactly the problem. The cost of labor is a cop-out for short-term profit. Industries where the cost of shipping exceeds the savings in off-shore labor almost always find a way to automate labor and eliminate these costs.
You're confusing a capital investment (the robots) with cost-of-goods-sold (the widgets). Automated manufacturing systems are complex systems that require highly trained individuals to maintain and operate, while reducing the total labor cost. In addition, if more manufacturing utilized these systems, scales of economy could be reached that would allow them to be more modular and commoditized.
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This is a startup? Your About page freely admits there's nothing special about it, so what are your plans?

With no focus/theme for the questions other than tagging, I can see the front page having a very low S/N ratio if this gained even a fraction of the number of questions Yahoo Answers and Stack Exchange sites get.

The Stack Exchange sites have shown that having domain knowledge bleed over into other areas can be very beneficial, so I think you'd be better off giving the site some sort of focus/theme. Easier to market and more interesting for the users. Good luck.
They go to tree church on Sunday, duh.
It may not be a zero sum game but there is a limit to the number of people that can be employed doing purely intellectual work. I expect that eventually we'll see more and more manual jobs displaced by automation and that the population as a whole will drop because the demand for labor isn't there. Either that or we'll see increasingly large slum classes like in Brazil. The efficiency of global markets will push the value of unskilled labor to rock bottom.

I agree that a more even distribution of wealth around the world is a good thing, although we may also look back at this era of US hegemony as a kind of Pax Romana.
Jason didn't dig deep enough on this one. Why is the buyer not the user? Because enterprise operations are too big and complex for any one person to do the job.

Likewise, there is no one person that understands how the processes work or even why they all exist. This makes the job of enterprise software development incredibly difficult, it also means that individual stakes are smaller, and the law of averages makes it much more difficult for anyone to rescue the project and pull it above the fray.

Now consider the demand for qualified software developers, the glut of incompetent developers, the difficulty of identifying which is which for the non-technical hiring manager, the variety of world-changing and otherwise sexy jobs available out there for quality engineers, and it's no wonder enterprise software isn't as good as small boutique software like Basecamp.

I'm happy for Fried and company that they were able to dodge the enterprise software world even more deftly than they maneuvered themselves free of a different scourge of the creative persuasion--client work--but this article is a bit too self-congratulatory without offering any real insight or potential solutions to the very real problems that large companies face.
The first artist I tried (Ronald Jenkees) came back with no recommendations.
Citation? Evidence? Data? Or are you just saying that because economic experts like Thomas Friedman have drilled it into our heads for a decade or more?
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If you can automate it then by definition it's not a CAPTCHA
A great use case for Protocol Buffers or Thrift is adding schema to other technologies which just use raw byte arrays, like Hadoop files, Cassandra columns, and Gearman parameters
You mean 3D printers like Cupcake CNC from Makerbot Inc? It's already happening to some extent. People, more than ever before, are accumulating technical skills in their hobby time.

At least some of them will be able to accumulate enough knowledge to build something cool, kits, startups, or something else.

Eventually, you'll end up with a scavenging masses that scavenge junks thrown out by the Doctors, Lawyers, movie stars, and all sort of non-technical people of the world.

It'll be an interesting world to see half of society built on high tech junks and sophisticated hacking.
> Not only did we lose an untold number of jobs, we broke the chain of experience that is so important in technological evolution...

wow ! just amazing.
What I like better of Tomorrow's World is the mobile phone (1979):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY&feature=chann...
Because they don't care about a spammer joining fb, they have spam prevention system on the publishing and friendship actions. I see the re-captcha very often while publishing stuff (but I'm connected 24/7 to the fb chat with pigdin), also I've heard that people who try to add too many friends in a short period of time, get a message from the spam prevention.

also:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=403200567130