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> And Krugman has a Nobel Prize in Economics, and numerous other awards for his work in Economics. I honestly think you'd be hardpressed to find a more qualified economist (on matters of economics).

Krugman's Nobel work was on international trade, and it's lightyears different from his popular work. Outside of international trade, I'd say if you compared him to someone like John Forbes Nash or Vilfredo Pareto, you'd find him sorely lacking. His Nobel is arguably well deserved, but his popular stuff is not Nobel-quality economic work and shouldn't be mistaken for it.

Edit: This is all tangential to the Silver discussion. I like Nate Silver, he seems like a smart guy who explains things well and it's very cool he's moving over to a larger platform.
Getting to the bottom, he describes how he no longer beats himself up about not being better at tennis since he knows he could be better if he was willing to invest the time in it.

The same realization about foreign languages is what caused me to gradually stop studying them. The value in being near-fluent in something is pretty clear, but the value of being sub-conversational is usually not. Once I realized I was unlikely to travel and live in the countries whose languages I was studying, it made more sense to give them up.

The whole 10000 hour thing is both exciting and depressing. Exciting because it means you can do anything ("any (one) thing") you dedicate yourself to. Depressing because it suggests limits to how many areas you can reasonably excel at.
I was referring more to how they are handling Solaris, but Java is another prime example of a technology that Sun failed capitalize on in spite of making it open source.

OSS is a great idea for commodity software that has little margin left in it anyways, but very few open source their core competency and live to tell about it. The exception to that rule is probably Red Hat.

The smart thing to do is to open source your complements, something Google and Apple do phenomenally well at.
Everyone is comfortable with different language. I prefer statically typed languages because I have been burnt by my silly mistakes before. Compilers that help me in catching my mistakes go a long way. Note that I do use scripting languages but those tend to be short and throw-away-able codes. If the Android SDK requires a dynamic type language, I would have to write a lot of boiler plate unit tests to catch my mistakes. That's just my programming style, might not applicable to others.

Android being a semi-embedded device implies that application deployment is more difficult compared to web apps, where the developer can upgrade anytime he wants. That puts pressure on getting things right with fewer release iterations.

I don't mean to start a language war. I just want to give a data point on what works for me.
Maybe $4 per year. GOOG keeps reducing AdSense payments to help provide quarter-over-quarter income growth.
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> I can't name a company which did too much OSS.

Of course you can't. They failed and faded into obscurity. Unless you were directly involved, I don't think you would have heard of any of them.
The "vote for the price you think is fair" thing is brilliant. I'm assuming that you're using this data to inform the decision on the actual price.

I think though, that having a limited set of choices will influence the votes. People will pick the middle one. You should have a fill-in box.

I see this problem all the time with people trying to implement the "wisdom of the crowds" or market concepts. It is important that people make their decision in isolation of other people's opinion. Otherwise social pressure and other factors distorts the outcome.
Yeah, this definitely is an important component of their success. The authenticity of their marketing message, thanks to that pride, resonates with people who are being fed bullshit everywhere else.

Regardless of how you feel about him, it's impossible not to be at least a little captivated by a Steve Jobs keynote. The joy of watching someone stand up and just be proud of how honestly hard his company works – it's refreshing.
I love it... I'm looking forward to the stable release being available in a few months. The web app space is now maturing and competitors like Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox and Opera are at the forefront right now. Lets see what IE can do with its newest release.
I know where you're coming from with that comment but I don't necessarily agree. Each year, information systems become a bigger and bigger differentiator on the business side and should be a business focus.

Maybe when you said "IT projects" you meant projects where IT is the customer, and if so I still don't agree. These tend to be "luxury" projects for a lot of companies and, as such, the developers tend to have a lot more decision making authority than on business projects. Letting them open source their code or contribute to existing OSS projects is a huge motivator (especially if the OSSed project gets popular and the company starts reaping the benefits of additional contributors).
So we all know it's important to go public as fast as possible

That makes it all the more important to write clean, well-documented code. I'm an OO PHP developer, I use an MVC framework I developed myself (similar to Symfony, based on the Doctrine ORM, using Smarty for templates). I tend to write self-documenting code, e.g. Website::listAllByUser($id), but I comment extensively anyway. It would be very easy to get a decent programmer up to speed on any of my projects in under an hour.
Wrote you an article :-)

http://mahmud.arablug.org/java-try-with-resource-in-lisp.htm...
I like to think that my code is pretty clean, but that might be observer bias... but download the Tarsnap code from https://www.tarsnap.com/ and let me know. :-)
Probably more out of defense than attack
And in 2008 he disregarded females and acquired currency.

I believe that's how the meme goes.
I've found that listening to videos on BloggingHeads.tv at 1.4x speed works just great, and really improves the user experience -- and I never have to slow down or rewind, either. All video sites with people talking should have this as an option.
I would have a cogent answer to where you see the company going. You need to be able to convey a realistic vision of the company's goal and the path to getting there. And that destination needs to be large enough and lucrative enough to justify a minimum VC investment.

You may have a team of talented hackers but if you don't have this vision, you could very well end up hacking away at a product which fails to grow b/c your actual market size isn't big enough, you're target customers don't need your product, or they don't want to pay for it.

So you'll need a justifiable answer to your market size and who would actually open up their wallets to pay you.

Lastly, don't bullshit him/her. VCs see through this pretty easily, so be confident in what you know, and honest about what you don't.
Recent U.S. court rulings against the MLB say that MLB statistics, at least, are public domain and can't be copyrighted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Advanced_...

Note that soon after the MLB's ultimate appeal to the Supreme Court was not taken up by the Court, effectively ending that case, ESPN opted out of their multi-year deal with the MLB for the rights. Presumably ESPN still pays STATS for the compilation services, rather than compiling their own.
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My router and desktop are both black with blue leds.

Best solution? Electrical tape. You can't even see it unless you look close and I really couldn't care less about the led. If the router isn't working I'll know.
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It just convert the chunks to an image (the final format is a PDF as well). The result is a little bit hacky, but it works. If your goal is to catch up with your reading pile, so it may work for you. On the other hand, if you need/want to go over every single detail (tables, formulas, etc), it may not work so well. As usual, YMMV.

[Actually, mobipocket creator seems to be not too bad at converting multi-column documents. The problems I had converting academic papers were tables and math, and not the fact they had more than one column]
Another tactic besides trying to move out the curve is: screw the skeptical aholes and create another product that the early-adopters will go for. If you have people tearing holes in their pants trying to get their wallet out faster, capitalize on it. Focus on that very small wedge on the left. Let's call this "the Apple strategy".
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RE the dock: that's an awful lot of screen estate to waste - and how do you do it? make things space out wide when you only have a few items in the dock? (which increases the need for more precise mousing).

remember that the dock can go the full width; you just have to fill it with crap. :)
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I view the debate over free will as missing the point about context. Context is everything.

An analogy would be rolling a dice with your hand onto a table. Is this random? A physicist could say, "no", how you roll it, what the speed it's going, how hard the table is, etc, etc, determine exactly what number will come up. But we don't know all that. To the context of our experience, that dice roll is random.

Similarly, everything we think or do is predetermined by the current state of the universe and our own nature, but to us, we are making choices. In the context of our human experience, we do have free will. Just like it could be theoretically possible to predict the dice roll, it is theoretically possible to predict any persons future action. But we don't have access to that information, so for us, that information, and thus the determination of the future might as well not exist.
cool service. Im surprised others are not seeing how cool it is.

I mean im in a train station waiting til my train arrives 30 minutes from now. I see a few cuties, yet Im shy; such an app/idea would allow this geek to break the ice easier.
First, don't be nervous. You've got some publicity, you've got paying clients, things are going well and will continue to go well if you have this call or not.

Second, only raise money when you're ready to raise money. I'd make it clear from the start that you're not raising at the moment so the VC doesn't interpret your conversation as a week pitch. Tell the VC that when you're starting your fundraising process you'll naturally get in touch with them.

Third, who's actually calling? Is this a partner or is this an associate? Associates are often just gathering information about areas they think might be interesting - they're just looking to get educated / educate their firm, and they figure you'll be willing to help them out for free. Sometimes associates are doing due diligence on a potential investment by calling up competitors and seeing if they say the same things about the market.

In general, the conversation won't be that technical. They'll want to understand what you do at a high level, get your opinion on the size of the market you're in, figure out if you're going to need to raise, figure out how you're making money / plan to make money, etc. Don't feel compelled to tell them anything you wouldn't be comfortable telling everybody.

Also, it's a two-way street! Ask them a ton of questions about what they're doing, which companies they've been looking at, what they think of your market, who they think your competitors are, what challenges they think you'll face - take everything said with a grain of salt, since you know your business better than they do, but sometimes you can glean interesting bits of information that way.
More importantly, depending on the USE of the devices (I assume for tracking the movements of police cars), you might be nailed for obstruction or something other than 'trespass'.

The argument can be made that you can simply follow the police cars around and see them on public streets when they pull out of the police HQ - but that may be considered harassment or some other crime.
I call BS on this. Debtor democracies almost always end up rewarding debtors and screwing savers (through inflation, government bailouts, etc). Why fight the system? Get the largest fixed rate mortgage you can, at the lowest possible rate, with as little down, and then pay it off as slowly as possible. In 15 years, $1 will probably be worth less than $0.25 today. Let inflation gradually discount the cost of your house.
This is a great post and great suggestions!

1. doh. get one up asap (little launch things we overlooked thanks!)

2. we are working on a bit more custom notification settings. right now they default to post ON but you can always turn them off for specific group. you get notifications if someone comments on your post as well as if you have commented on something and there is follow up. the idea of subscribing to a post is great. on the list!

3. yes, we have a new photo upload interface coming out soon. know that it is not ideal!

4. youtube (and vimeo) native URLs are supported if you don't add any text. if you do it is just the video (like FB actually) however we do let use the embed code to post videos inline and add comments before or after. works for any video service as well as any flash embed.

5. see 3. but yes. coming soon!

6. absolutely. we are working on the whole photo experience one step at a time.

7. well for the dedicated email addresses for each group you have to be a Member of each group in order to post to that group. we check the sender email with the group members so people who aren't members but just try to spam all the groups won't be able to.

Thanks! We are working on rolling out a much easier to use and "polished" design that keeps the simplicity but fixes alot of these UI issues.

As you continue to use it would love any feedback, comments, or concerns. cheers!
Google's spots are certainly brighter and happier, but still not quite as humanistic as Apple's advertising. OK, "Parisian Love" is redeemed by the sappy love story, but out of all three videos the only thing I saw or heard of an actual human being was a disembodied voice giving the phone voice commands. Other than that, the Nexus One spot was just an animated feature list with electronic music--still pretty robotic, even if it's a bright and happy robot.

Apple's very first iPhone ads had a real human voice talking to you and a real human hand operating the iPhone. And before that, their iconic iPod ads had human bodies dancing. People respond to the human form better than they respond to facts or figures or even the most beautiful industrial design.

Here's Apple's FaceTime ad. There's more human beings in the first frame than in all three Google ads put together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yatSAEqNL7k

But even before that, here's an iPhone ad. Note the key difference: there's a dude talking to you and you see actual human hands operate the phone. It's not some abstract robotic thing, it's something meant for humans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhbaaWBgnk

And I'm sure you've seen the old iPod ads, but again--the focus is "iPods shuffle help human beings enjoy music", not "iPods shuffle have this feature list": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE4EEwQAfxo
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Main Site- http://www.graFighters.com

Footage from the Demo - http://bit.ly/9J1wdc

More videos - http://vimeo.com/user1881676/videos
Edit: should have added a date above, "this Fri" is 8/27/2010
i agree completely and group platforms is one market we are trying to address in that Fridge groups are super easy to create, invite friends, and share/socialize.

one thing we are rolling out soon is gmail and google group contact import.
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Here is an alternate theory.

Stick the numbers post-conversion in to http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/g-test-calculat... (41 successes out of 638 trials versus 35 successes from 416 trials) and the conclusion of unequal performance has 72.42% confidence. Meaning that more than 1 time in 4 you'd have a difference that big or bigger by chance.

In other words the entire basis of this post could be a chance statistical fluctuation that should be ignored.

It is true that there can be effects where pushing less qualified leads through the top stage of the funnel doesn't get them to the end. However my experience with A/B testing is that it is more common for the extra people put in the system by an A/B test at the top to convert the rest of the way relatively similarly.

But not always! Which is why if you have sufficient volume you should always measure to actual sales. There is no other way to be absolutely sure that you are improving end sales.

However in this example that would mean running the test for something like 20x as long. In that case it makes sense to be pragmatic, test from one step of the funnel to the next, and then pivot on the answers you get. Furthermore to start you should focus on the top of the funnel for the simple reason that higher volumes will get you answers faster there - you can easily try a dozen ideas before you could test one idea deeper in the funnel.

Once you've improved your site enough to get a better percentage of actual sales, you'll be able to purchase more traffic. Doing both of those things will put you in a position to conduct more rigorous A/B tests to eke out more subtle differences. But that is down the road. Focus on testing what is easiest in the quickest possible way first.
Yes. we are currently developing our API that will support customization of groups as well as the ability to take your Fridge groups with you with an iphone app being one of the first uses.

To what standard we integrate with we aren't sure yet. We know it won't be FB connect...!
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I'm generally more interested in the 'motivation' aspect of Game Mechanics. (see profile for startup info) The 'fun' you speak of in FPSs is a bit different than the 'fun' that can come from a normal web application which offers some sort of incentive or status for your contributions.
A sneak preview: http://pastie.org/1117052
To the OP, since you say you're great at front end, I would find 3-5k and hire a recommended East European hacker to build a minimum viable product. Put in a lot of sweat equity on your end to make sure the product is well polished.

Then use your claimed marketing chops to see if you can get any user traction or press coverage. Are people receptive to your product??

If they are, you'll either start making money enough to pay a superstar programmer, or you now have a real case to present to credible angels who may invest $50-200k to give you some cash to hire the superstar programmer.
It's pretty clean, I want to move to continuous deployment as soon as possible, right now I have automated deployment, but it's not continuous.

I think a great code base is essential to being able to pivot and iterate. I don't think a startup can afford much technical debt unless you are using the VC rocketship model and taking on tonnes of real debt / loss of equity anyway.
Interesting, do you think StackOverflow.com users are going to be part of this backlash? If done right, the game mechanics aspect of an application shouldn't feel like a separate feature or game.
His posts feel like they have a bit of a cleaner voice; I'd guess they've been run past Times editors.
Absolutely. I was just trying to get it under 10k for the contest so I used packer.

The code is messy right now because I was scrambling at the end to try to finish in time for the contest submission deadline, but I'll upload the original source after I have a chance to clean it up.
This article is a little bit imprecise at times. It refers to pipes as FIFOs and seems to mix up FILE* and file descriptors.

Also it has a lot more IO redirection and not really much file descriptors except for the very beginning. The description of how redirection works is rather vague. There should be something about how the shell dup()'s over standard file descriptors to create redirection.
Apple wants to sell iPads even to people who are afraid of PCs. My grandmother got rid of her PC because it intimidated her. I doubt she would even consider using something named 'Android'. Even if it was exactly identical to the iPad.

The world of Normals is a world of insecurity and shallow, emotional, surface judgements. Apple is superb at targeting them.
I plugged my iPhone headphones into my MBP. The volume control works. The play/pause button loads, plays and pauses iTunes music.

The Apple Bluetooth keyboard has an option in OS X to show the battery life. It does not when connected to Vista.
Not really sure; I've never written a jQuery plugin before, so I'll need to look into what's required. If I have time, I'll do my best.
"... I think that your co-founder also has to believe in your idea just as much as you do. ..."

Has to believe in your idea? For me this is a warning sign. It could be the result of the other party being dominated or submissive. I'd much prefer a committed co-founder who is flexible and can be swayed by merit at the same time be critical where necessary.
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>I'm not hating on the story

I think it's not the flow of the narrative as much as it is the "drama for the sake of it." I mean, the way it reads, Matt seems like the guy who came up from nothing, on food stamps and government cheese. Not some son of a professor.

I mean, I don't care where you come from, but most people mow their own lawns. That ain't hardship, in my opinion. And, his stories of being dejected for being not rich was kinda cloying, especially for someone who has done as his dad has and clawed his way out from a lower-middle working class background in a school where most people didn't mow their lawns because they didn't _have_ lawns.

That said, he did do forest fireman work. And, he was a Paramedic. That's pretty cool. In other words, it's the choices he's made that's semi-interesting, not that he was forced down those paths he chose. He has a rebellious streak, and it's discordant with his abilities and drive for achievement in school and entrepreneurship. And, I think the takeaway (at least in his eyes) is he's not some stuff-shirt stiff when he easily could be given his abilities and work ethic.
Just go up to someone, give them a small compliment and strike up a conversation.

Stop being so god damn scared of other people.
It's not a "this computer is a person or your friend issue at all".

It's a device for a human, so you use natural cues to tell the user something. Your computer is on, but it's in sleep mode, so here's signals that naturally signify sleep.

You should notice that it's MS that came up with that retarded paperclip and Microsoft BOB. There are cartoony characters all over its history. That's real cheap personality.

What does Mac OS or iPhone have?
Fantastic! Quite neat - I like it. If i ever decide to compete with photoshop in the browser, i'll talk to you ;)