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I agree... like an economic bubble, I don't think it's possible to ever "call the top" except in retrospect. But it does worry me. I don't think human beings like to think about it because it bruises our collective ego to think that there might be a bunch of stuff that we're too dumb to get.

But I do wonder if we've passed "peak innovation." The biggest reason is the 1960s. It really feels like virtually every piece of technology that we use outside of maybe biotech was invented in the 50s and 60s.

Looking back, I see two peaks. I see a peak in per capita innovation in the early 20th century, and then a second peak in absolute terms centered at approximately 1960.
A government that has an expansive attitude is like a positive feedback loop - we all know how that eventually ends - at best we get oscillations.
San Francisco is fine
You sure get lots of sun
But I'm used to four seasons
California's got but one

http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/bob_dylan/california-lyri...

Which shows how little time he actually spent in SF, of course. Mark Twain's famous line about the coldest winter he ever spent being a summer in San Francisco is a lot closer to the truth. Unfortunately, Twain never actually said that. The internet, destroyer of illusions. :(
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"Why can't I delete ALL spam in GMail at once?"

What's wrong with using the "Delete all spam messages now" link?
Have you seen http://just-ping.com/ - not as nice an interface as yours but seems to have rather more locations covered.
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If you have access to that kind of stuff, you probably know what to do next.
It is me, or does that article not talk about any of the actual uses of this valuable data they've collected?

It is an interesting idea, might be useful here in Manchester (UK) where in the city centre (and possibly only one weekends) black cabs aren't allowed to pick people up from anywhere, only from the designated taxi ranks.

This service means that you can still get a cab directly to you. Not sure why it's limited to black cabs though, surely ordinary taxis would be suited to this just as well.
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So what is the story here? That the FTC is probably investigating the ban? We don't need an FOIA denial to tell us that. I would be surprised if they _weren't_ investigating.

The title paired with a near-contentless story makes this look like page view baiting by Wired.
May be you should try a different spin on your business model. Instead of trying to setup one big central site and attract photographers to it, you should create a product that can be hosted or installed on photographer's own site.

George Lepp was mentioned earlier in the comments. He set up sales directly from his web site and does not have to pay to stock agencies. I bet many photographers would like to do the same - a niche your platform / product could fill. It should be beautiful out of the box, yet customizable since photographers are artist and sure they will want their own look and feel. It should offer easy integration with payment systems (major point of pain), help with discoverability (built-in SEO), embed watermarks for free demos and what not (you should know that way better than me).

In other words don't try to be next Amazon, Zappos, eBay or Yahoo Shopping of stock photos. Be shopify.com of stock photos.

Different model, different niche, maybe even different requirements to the product, but still something to consider. Good luck with your endeavors!
I agree. I'm a photographer (but not in stock), and I've watched as the stock/microstock industry has threshed around. I think the future might consist of a few high-end boutique agencies/collections (probably all owned by Getty), and well-run microstock sites built on the backs of hobbyists. Maybe you ought to pursue the latter? Curating hobbyist work, 'assigning' by publishing needed themes and images. Make it a community. Something like JPG magazine, but with images for sale.
You can wear a scarf all summer long in San Francisco.
Seconded. I rarely interact with those types, and I work for a major consulting company in the city. There are multiple ways to avoid that crowd, starting with staying out of Murray Hill.

The thing I love about New York is the inherent challenge. You're among some of the most competitive people in the world who love nothing more than to squash your idea. And if you manage to convince those people or rise from their negativity, you know you're onto something.

I view it in many ways as its own little market economy with (close to) perfect competition among commodities. If something facing fierce competition (like restaurants, for example) can hold its own, you know there's some quality behind it.
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The new one flattened the design of the page, giving a scamsite-look to the site.
The old one make it clear (not that it's necessary) what bcc sells and is more inviting for the target imo.
then it's not literal.
Good stuff. Could we immediately stop taking taxes from anyone who takes this pledge? Considering the high percentage of the government that's full of corrupt and incompetent bunglers running questionable programs, I have immensely more faith in talented and driven people deploying their resources better to improve the world. The idea that $300M would go into the U.S. government sending "aid money" directly to a dictator's government in Africa instead of Gates deploying it to wipe out malaria is no good, for instance.
The Kindle may not have been perfectly suited for blind people, but I don't understand why printed textbooks aren't worse.
> "The complex sugars were long thought to have no biological significance, even though they constitute up to 21 percent of milk."

Serious, modern biologists still say things like this? Amazing. It is the biological equivalent of proof by lack of imagination.
I’m a bit a a loss as to what problem TwitPic is trying to solve. Hurt feelings?

Everyone could have told them that all this is going to get is bad press. Oh, and probably five users who won’t switch after they planned to. And another five who are so annoyed that they will.
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Thanks for the help -- but that link must only exist for advanced GMail. I use the HTML version because it is wicked fast on my PC and there is nothing like that I've ever seen.
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I agree, the stylism that The Designers Republic brought to the table definitely was a cornerstone of the Wipeout series for me. The other part of the equation that got me hooked was the soundtrack Messij by Cold Storage and every other track by this Artist for that matter. For the nostalgic, the tracks can be found here: http://www.coldstorage.org.uk/music.html
Someone who's in the industry you're looking to disrupt thinks you're crazy? Probably just evidence you're on the right track.
"My city is better than yours!"

"No, it isn't!"

It's weird how opinions work, isn't it? I don't like either place - where does that leave me?
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You should mention the what the old and new urls are, that would make it easier for people to help you.

One common mistake is to robot out the 301 source, therefore making it impossible for Google to see that it's a redirect. Are you sure you're not doing that?
The original article title is "Why Japan is Doomed (and the U.S. and the E.U. too)". The Greek debt crises seems to be looming in the future for Japan, the U.S., and the E.U. as well. There doesn't seem to be very many serious plans to stop the accruing debt, and those who think that the debt is no problem are addressed in the article:

Those in denial about Japan's reliance on ballooning debt to fund its status quo (and on America's exact same reliance) basically claim that "It can't happen because it hasn't happened."
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Ugg, don't do what we did. We basically turned on the PR waaaaaaaaaay to soon.

Get out your pen and paper, draw some screenshots, identify who your customers are. The thing here is that it may be more than one group.

i.e. do you need to sell to both bar owners and their customers? do you need to sell to the vendors? do you need to sell to the umbrella manufacturers guild? (also by selling I mean convince them to do something, not necessarily give you money for stuff)

Figure this business ecosystem out, put it down on a sheet of paper. Then for each of the groups identified, posit a sales pitch. Don't worry if it's terrible. It always is. The idea here is to get a starting point for these people to talk to you. Now go talk to these people.

If you're serious about testing the market, go get Steve Blank's book (whoa, do I sound like a broken record!!!) and go through the worksheets.

If you don't really want to do all the above, then go ahead and post your value prop here.
Hopefully it leaves you in the city you live in, content with your life and work and surroundings, just like the rest of us.
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> I’m very, very open to the notion that there exist circumstances under which this test would have come down the other way.

There almost certainly are circumstances in which result would have been reversed. Testing the hypothesis that logo A is better than logo B, he did get a significant result (n = 17,000, p < 0.01). But if he was attempting to test the hypothesis that logos from population A (custom-designed) are better than logos from population B (off-the-rack), his results are completely insignificant, since n in that case was 2. You'd have to test many more logos to reach that sort of conclusion.
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Indeed. I shifted into skeptic mode after hitting that absurd statement. If Apple ever gets the kind of monopoly position in any market that Microsoft has enjoyed in desktop operating systems you're going to see lock-in like you never dreamed of.
Why I agree that the judgments are unwarranted,(in every case)

Like I said, I don't agree with people being judgmental, I'm saying it exists to counter years of what can best be described as corporate propaganda.
That may be true of LA, but the Bay Area has seasons - two of them. Summer and Rainy.
I read Breakfast of Champions a while ago and really enjoyed it. I'll have to check that one out.
A crowd sourced checklist/todo app.

Just a small extension of a little iPhone app I made for myself. Realized that most of my 'todo lists' are more like checklists... for launching a new site, compiling a distribution build of an iPhone app, etc. So I have a little app for myself that let's me quickly re-use these checklists.

So now I'm building in a web based back end to allow everyone to share their checklists for other people to use.

It would be a good place to store, and use, the 100's of different checklists i've seen on blogs, hackernews, etc.
Somehow I misread that as "Linux and OSX" and completely missed the "and Windows" part. Mea culpa.
Production capacity for gold exceeds 100 tonnes per year according to http://www.preciousmetals.umicore.com/metals_products/precio...
California is an absolutely humongous state and it most certainly experiences all of the seasons. San Francisco and the surrounding areas are a moderate climate, southern CA is certainly warm most of the year. Northern CA and Eastern CA experience all four seasons and the central valley is a bit of a mix depending on how far north you are. Lake Tahoe for example is a just a three hour drive (roughly) from the Bay area and will go from 80-90 degree days in the summer to 0 degree days with six feet of snow on the ground in the winter with typical spring and fall weather also.
Chances are these billionaires are pledging to make these donations specifically to avoid taxes. I agree that the government would probably waste the tax money anyway, but ultimately the government needs some way to pay off its debt, and taxing the rich makes more sense than expecting the middle class to foot the bill.

Of course if these billionaires put significant amounts of money toward various respectable aid programs it may reduce the amount that the government needs to spend, allowing it to direct more money toward paying off the debt.
I googled 'epoll "O(1)"'. You're the first hit (congratulations), followed by some random person on stackoverflow, the documentation for a CPAN module, the repetition of that documentation on github and in various package repos, and some random bloggers and mailing list responders who are either just referring to the work that you have to do to find an active fd when the wait call returns, or are confused.

The man page says nothing about O(1):

http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man4/epoll....

The original epoll writeup says nothing about O(1), and shows graphs explicitly for dead connection scenarios (iow, it never claims better performance per active fd):

http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html

The Dan Kegel writeup that's pretty much universally cited on this issue says nothing about O(1):

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html#nb.epoll

The link you threw up yesterday that "flat out gets it wrong" says nothing about O(1) and simply shows epoll doing exactly what it was designed to do (again, it never claims better performance per active fd), including graphs that actually do show poll outperforming epoll with small numbers of dead connections:

http://lse.sourceforge.net/epoll/index.html

Can you show any authoritative sources who claim epoll is O(1)? If not, then yes, you built a fluffy little strawman and took him down hard.

I have no problem with your work on superpoll. I'm skeptical it will help much, guessing there will be situations it will hurt, and overall not convinced it's worth the effort to find out, but it's your time. Have fun with it, and I'm eager to see the results.

I just don't get why you feel the need to imply that everyone who ever used epoll without finding the ATR performance cut-off is a blind moron snowed into doing so by some shadowy malevolent epoll cabal spreading misinformation about how it works.
I'm assuming you are getting tired of your "pre-launch" promotion activities to drum up beta users. At this point, I would suggest: Just Launch It. Get it live, have a great intro into subscriptions, contact bloggers, send press releases, cross-post positive and negative posts on related forums, etc.

Getting on Mashable and some of the larger blogs will get some major traffic and lead to potential coverage elsewhere.
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There was a DEA agent giving a speech the other day. One of the stories he told was about a meth user who used his 3-4 days of being awake to harvest the gold from cpus/motherboards over the months. He stated the guy had a ball in between the size of a golf ball and baseball. He was just getting free equipment out of dumpsters in the city.
I think one major argument that he didn't mention is that NYC beats SF hands down in the 'getting laid' department.

If you are young and your idea of having a good time is going out, partying until 4am, and getting laid often, then you should stay in NYC.

If you a super hipster, social outcast and/or into weird stuff, then come to SF. Your friends are already here.
Those women who have difficulty producing enough milk should know that (in the US at least) that there are mother's milk donation programs that can help out. Those women who can should donate.
Hear hear.

I do suspect no seasons makes some of the LA natives a bit wacky. It's good character building to deal with shitty weather for a while.

But CA has all the advantages here. The day-to-day weather is consistent and mild, and there is easy access to whatever nature you desire for a change. Mountains for skiing, the ocean for swimming, surfing or boating, forests and deserts for hiking.

I was stuck in Michigan weather for 20 years too. Literally stuck in the winter. Having options is much nicer than not having options.
If you're in SF and still wondering why people are excited, they're having a pretty cool meetup next week: http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Riak-Meetup/calendar/141...
I think she has come to the same conclusions many teenagers have come to before her. Although perhaps she frames them a little more elegantly. Most teenagers just have the instinctive realization that, "school sucks."

Grading is a system that can be gamed. However, it's not a system that doesn't encourage you to learn anything. I'd say you are rather clever if you can get good grades but not very smart if you didn't learn anything along the way. In one of her criticism she claims "I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I'm scared." She should be scared. Scared that she made a mistake to not learn anything.

But of course I don't believe that to be true. She did learn something even if she is spiteful of the methods by which she came across the knowledge. I also do not believe that the system is perfect either and it is good that she recognizes this. However I think she, like the vast majority of people charged with writing a speech for an audience, got hold of a single idea and stretched it beyond its logical limits.

Is the system perfect? No. By any rote definition of perfection any system wrought of the mind of a human cannot be perfect. Could it be better? Certainly. Though I think you will have a tough time educating people by removing the goal of excellence.
This is a common misconception about donations. Donating money never makes you better off financially because donations are eligible for tax deductions, not credits.
Love it! I'd recommend though that instead of using a hash in your URL, you use GET Data. So a URL would look like: http://pingbrigade.com/?query=google.com&type=1 . Could be useful in some situations.
It seems like this is basically a web-based replacement for a spreadsheet. I like the idea of tracking and timing things so as to minimize your capital gains tax. It's not a problem I have in particular, so I can't specifically speak to it being useful to me.

I like the site layout in general and the tour was very helpful.

Good luck. :)
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Sven Carlsen, the author behind this and basically every other study that forwards that breastmilk isn't as wonderful as it is (he's a lone voice) has questionable ties to GlaxoSmithKline.
You've completely mischaracterized my comment, which is why those aren't my assumptions, as you're thinking I'm saying something more comprehensive than I am. I've shared my observations, but those aren't my assumptions.

I am merely commenting on one of many influences on the store which lead to it filling with crap, not the Unified Field Theory of Apps which explains every trend in the store. I know there are lots of OTHER reasons, which you'll see in my comments all over this page as well.

I'm in no way saying apps cost 200k. I am saying some concepts do, and the apple approval process drives them out.

Most apps cost 1-25k when done non-agency and 15-90k when done through an agency.

I am not, in any way, saying small apps can't be good, nor am I saying I'm an omniscient being. I'm saying I talk to people all day long about this, I watch them choose to go low quality over high quality sometimes, and I see the decision as they make it. It's not just companies I talk to, its companies the 100 or so other iPhone devs I know talk to. Same story all over the place.

I AM saying given the level of limited funds people put into apps, it's not surprising they chose to spend their limited budget on increasing functionality rather than making a smaller subset of functionality work very well (aka, Quality), especially since limited functionality is yet another reason your app gets rejected, no matter how pretty it is. Given the chance even if you do everything right, you will still get a rejection, it's not surprising they spend X instead of 250% of X on their app, as its a business risk. If you don't think people spending 20-50% of what they would if there was no chance of rejection effects quality, you're asleep in a haywagon.
Logos evolve over time - If it is not right the very first time, it can be improved gradually. Unfortunately, it works the other way round as well.

Bad to Good - Apple: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_fir...

Good to Bad - Pepsi:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Pepsi_logo_200...
Of course, the pictures you link to are the norm, and clean recycling very much the exception...
Will someone be able to exploit this for profit?
I haven't enough macro-economy knowledge to evaluate this, but looks likely.
Sadly, i haven't seen yet any article on future scenarios in case of a global crisis caused by multiple nations going to default... any interesting link about this will be highly appreciated.
More on this -- realize that the "insider" you're talking to will have some dissonance of his own going on. After all, if he's in the industry and hasn't done it yet, (to him) the idea's not worth doing!

If he thought it was a good idea, he probably would be acting on it. Just because he passed on the idea doesn't mean it's a bad one.

Now, if your customers (maybe his readers, by proxy) hate the idea... then you've got some work to do.

I'd suggest that you ask him if you can write up a post for him, for his blog, explaining the idea (make sure it seems like idea generation, rather than pitching your product). Have a poll / encourage comments. That's a cheap way to do customer discovery and validation.

If he won't post your article, try making him a bet. Something like, "I bet 75% of people who respond to the poll will love the idea" or "I bet you get 15 comments on this post." Wager a small amount, like $20 amazon gift card on it.

Step 3: profit!
From your link:

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