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I think you're taking quite an extreme interpretation of Graham's/Buffet's thoughts on index investing. It's a given that, with index investing, your returns will match the market. Index investing isn't aimed at getting higher returns. Rather, Graham actually spends more time discussing and differentiating between different classes of investors.

For the "enterprising investor", s/he can afford to spend more time to find undervalued stocks and possibly outperform the market. For the "passive investor", to paraphrase Graham, it is good enough to simply invest in a representative set of securities, such as an index.

In fact, if I remember my Intelligent Investor correctly, there are various passages where Graham actually admits to the EMH being somewhat inevitable. Note that there are different variants/degrees of the EMH, and Graham probably subscribes to the weak or semi-strong versions.

Nonetheless, the point is that a belief in the EMH is not mutually exclusive with value investing. It depends a little on the extent to which you believe the market is efficient, and a lot on how much work you're willing to put into it.
Push your children to succeed. Don't let them give up at the first impasse, because kids really can be lazy if you let them get away with it.

Take that sentiment and mix it with some freedom: Instead of making them play the violin/piano and study pre-med, let them choose their goals. "Want to be an actor? Great! But you're going to be the best actor in that play and I won't tolerate anything less." "Guitar? Sure! ... You're not coming out of your room until you nail Stairway."

Not all Chinese folks are as psycho as this gal. A Chinese guy I worked with told me that he put it to his son this way: "You can do what ever you want, I just want you to excel at whatever you do."

(on the balance, though, this essay is garbage.)
The Evolution of Lisp [pdf]
That quote asserts a lack of causality, not a lack of causation.
There's a strong team behind a new competitor to Blackbord, http://www.instructure.com/.

Decent article about them: http://mfeldstein.com/instructure-canvas-a-new-lms-entrant/
Little of both, really. I actually think Lisp is beautiful, although it can be difficult to read. As for Perl...

http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_2/tpj0302-0012.html

No excuse.
Fair enough. I 100% concede that the onus is on you to sell your ideas and rationally respond to criticism, even when the criticism seems irrational.

That said, my point was simply that it's a myth that to be successful at Google is to just have good ideas. You have to play the social game as well, as it's an environment where reputation plays just as much a role as innovation.

For what it's worth, I didn't mean to attach this specifically to Google. It happens at every large company, almost by default. It's just that many folks are surprised to find that Google is so "corporate", especially many Googlers that started straight from graduation.
This coincides with my experiences: travelling to NY or SF turns my iPhone into an iPod touch. However, it works flawlessly in the very flat region of Virginia where I live.

It's my understanding that GSM is more prone to geographic disruption, hills in SF and buildings in NYC, than CDMA.
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Still? I've been checking their site for a ~15" wuxga laptop, but all seem to be "HD".
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If I remember correctly NESL programs are compiled into vcode a special bytecode that handled vector instructions particularly well. If vcode is ported/specialized to the commodity multicore machines and SSE instruction set, one could profitably run NESL program on contemporary machines. I do not know if there is any such ongoing initiative.

It might be the case that C source for vcode is still available so with a good optimizing compiler one could do the same. It wont quite be the same as a hand optimized assembly implementation of vcode. But perhaps still a satisfactory implementation.
Isn't it interesting that x < y, y > x, !(x >= y), and !(y >= x) all express the same thing differently (barring NaNs)? Why should one of them be considered more "inside out" than another? Why does it make a difference if one is a constant rather than a variable? Does one of "x + 2" and "2 + x" seem inside-out as compared to the other? How about "2 * x" vs "x * 2"?
Very interesting that more subscription models didn't make the list (Spotify is the closest but so few people opt for premium).

And I only really see 4 business models here:

Take a cut: Flattr, GroupOn, HumbleBundle, Quirky (40% of sales), Airbnb, Kickstarter

Razor & Blades: Free with in-app sales

Fee-based: Quirky (the $99 fee)

Ads: Spotify, PatientsLikeMe

And Paywithatweet does not seem to have a way to make money.

I really like subscriptions, fees, and razor & blades. Take a cut is pretty good too, but you take the risk that nothing (or not much) gets sold. I don't like ads very much; the entire incentive structure is totally messed up. If you're not getting paid by your users, but rather by advertisers, you're not incentivized to create value for your users. There will be conflicts between the interests of users and the interests of advertisers, and given the incentive structure, over time and on average the interests of the advertisers will win out.

What do you guys think? Any favorite business models or ones you particularly dislike?
It is for those that haven't fully internalized the symmetry of ==. Is it a lack of effort, or a lack of ability?
Interesting side note that when this article was originally published it was under the title "Googirl" which, it was pointed out, had a pretty strong nsfw meaning (http://valleywag.gawker.com/362143/googirl-article-vanishes-...).

It was quickly pulled from the site and reposted with the current, more boring title.
I don't really get what you find disrespectful. Religious people generally believe that death is just a transition into a different plane. Why shouldn't a religious person be able to represent this in a comment?

For the record, I read the note, and there's nothing in it that would make it inappropriate to leave a comment like "hope he is happy now" or whatever. Even if he asked people not to say this about his death, which he didn't do, or even remotely hint at, they still would. It's just the common way of addressing death. Most people are religious.
I grew up in China. My impression was that indeed many Chinese parents are like that, but their kids also tend to be very mediocre. Kids trained like this lack real passion for things, as they were always forced to do this and that.

Those Chinese that are elites, on the other hand, tend to have parents who are easy-going, and give more room to their kids' development.

It's sad that this author is proud of what she's being doing. I'm personally quite disgusted by this article.
Getting a patent for something isn't necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. Doing harm with those patents is. Many companies get patents to protect themselves from situations just like this one.
My school used eCollege a Blackboard competitor. Let me tell you, it is just as bad.
You're right. I think it's just what people are used to. Compare:

"If two gallons is less than the amount of gas in your tank, you should fill it up."

"If you have less than two gallons of gas left in your tank, you should fill it up."

In everyday speech, as well in mathematics, it is usual to state the variable first (what are we're going to compare) and then the amount to which it will be compared.
Anyone got a mirror of this? Google Docs just tells me "You need permission to access this item."
You make useful points. The efficient market hypothesis, particularly in its stronger forms, is in retreat. Value investors like Buffett are a big reason for this. But... for most people without the skill or the time to find the next great investment or the next great investment manager, index investing offers the lowest cost of investment and, if you dollar-cost average over a long enough time, you will invest in up and down markets, thereby minimizing your market timing risk. Clearly this is not a swing-for-the-fences investing strategy, but for most people it is good enough.
That's a pretty condescending thing to say. To answer your rhetorical question, we are taught from elementary school to say, "x = 3", not "3 = x". Yes, it's the same, but it's jarring.
I'm sorry, but I think that it's a terrible idea. If it ever gets popular, it will get swamped by trolls from Something Awful, 4Chan, and other cesspools. The last thing you need is for someone to go looking for help and have someone go "LOL KILL YOURSELF." Followed by rude language.
I think it's Kind of like my app http://netshowtim.es except yours looks way better (but mine is at least partly up).
I would sign up. We desperately need something like this for web shows or webinars or whatever you want to call them.
i didn`t say it was that simple. but no one had mentioned this factor and i thought it worth pointing out that sony might have done the calculation and determined it`s not in their interest to be subsidizing linux computing clusters.
Does anyone know why the link to the fast version is called Linux/Unix? Is it just to make it salient to nerds?
I did not intend to portray extreme views, and I believe that I've represented their views fairly. Buffett recommends index investing, but also believes that it provides great opportunity for the enterprising investor because of its passivity and ignorance of security values. Graham did indeed differentiate between the "enterprising" and "defensive" investor, but did not recommend an index approach to investing, even for the defensive investor, as he specifically recommends that no security should be bought at a price over 20x its earnings (Ch. 5). Graham recognized that the "defensive" or passive investor does not have the time, energy, or expertise necessary to engage in rigorous security selection, but ignorance does not protect an investor from risk - risk here being defined as risk of permanent capital impairment, which is the risk of overpaying for a security.

My basic point is that every investor, passive or active, must protect him or herself against the risk of overpaying. Passive index investing does not protect you from this risk, and is therefore very dangerous.

Fully agreed that good investing is pretty much totally dependent on how much work and emotional discipline you're willing to put into it.
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I have found from my own experience that ICT teaching is quite shoddy, and a waste of time at best. This has been confirmed by accounts from friends and family at other schools.

Most teaching revolves around the ability to use certain microsoft products (Word, Excel, Outlook and Access if you're "lucky"). In some cases, they may even teach you Dreamweaver. I remember one lesson being taught to create websites in Dreamweaver - we were told to use tables to design the website, told off for viewing the HTML or heck, even changing the view mode so that each panel was a window.

I trialled (and have friends and family at different schools that actually did) a GCSE ICT exam, and I was somewhat bemused at a program that simulated XP, in which the purpose was to do a number of tasks (designated by an Outlook lookalike program) such as create a database, write a word document etc. The program would record every mouse click and keystroke, whilst timing how fast you did each task.

It depresses me that that is what people regard as computers in this day and age. The teachers were often primarily of another subject (Art, for example), and refused to teach at a rate faster than "don't you DARE press OK in that alert! Has everyone got that alert? Right! Now press OK!".

I also find this disappointing:

“There is confusion between teaching IT, and using IT as part of the learning process,” Mr Fish said.

This seems to be very fashionable in many schools across the UK. I have no idea why - is French better taught through the medium of computers? Does the use of interactive whiteboards really increase productivity and ability to learn - or even attentiveness amongst pupils? Certainly Maths and English were not helped by an increase in technology, at least in my opinion. And exactly what are the pupils learning about IT in the process?

When top CS departments across the UK scorn ICT/IT A Levels/GCSEs, and in some cases appear to treat them as anti-requisites (Cambridge list ICT as a soft subject and I remember Oxford jokingly say at an open day that they look at candidates more favourably if they hadn't been taught ICT before), and when they don't appear to be teaching pupils anything that will be much use in the workforce (or rather, stuff that they don't already know that will be any use in the workforce) - what exactly is the point?
Don't think so. None of the founders of the two original companies that merged to form blackboard.com list Cal in their background. 2 from Cornell and 2 from American University

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc.

Founders:

* Cornell 1. http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcane

* Cornell 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gilfus

* American 1: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chasen

* American 2: http://investor.blackboard.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=177018&dc...
Thanks!

Now I wonder what percentage of vets are below the poverty line vs outright homeless. I know people who joined up because they were poor to begin with... and in general it seems to have worked out pretty well for them, though none of 'em are particularly rich. But maybe these are the "good work ethic" slice of the bunch? I have nothing but anecdotal evidence.
I only glanced at it but it looks like you were saying that the problem is caused when using qdbusviewer together with rythembox, but neither of the nokia guys have rythembox and requested a Qt-only project to use instead of rythembox which demonstrates your bug, which you didn't provide them with. They also said that, from the log you provided, the problem appears to be with rythembox and not with Qt - ie, it is not a Qt bug - and asked you to demonstrate that the bug is on Qt's side with a Qt-only project.

They did ask you for a Qt-only demonstration of the bug a number of times and each time you didn't provide one.

Their actions seem quite reasonable to me.

I guess you could spell it out for them by posting the d-feet and dbus-monitor log and showing exactly where qdbusviewer gets it wrong (and d-feet gets it right). Better yet: do as they ask and reproduce the problem with a Qt-only project, instead of rythembox.
By people who aren't actually your friends? Chances are they won't even miss you.
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There is very little spam; what's to elaborate?
Is it generally trying to solve the problem of having so many video platforms that people can't keep track of what's on? Would you just link to the video stream? What's the social feature exactly - just letting your friends know something is on? Is this something the content provider would use, or the viewers? Seems like a cool idea to have a centralized database of what's streaming on the web at any given point. Would you break it up into categories? Would you rely on crowdsourcing to get all the links? Website looks great though. Great colors and logo. Not sure if others agree, but a few too many exclamation points for my taste.
I think he took it down because it's just a draft (and maybe because his feelings are hurt): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2082241
I've had the same problem with the recently-released browser RockMelt: I can't help but reading it as "rock-me-it".

Which, I admit, doesn't mean anything, while "dolt" is a word. (does RockMelt mean anything though?)
Isn't Sprint like third by a lot?

Verizon doesn't really lose a lot of customers to the iPhone. If Verizon had the iPhone when I was getting my new phone, I might have gotten one, but they didn't so I got a droid, because I'm on a family plan and it's way cheaper. Thousands of other people are in the same position and just get droids because that's what Verizon has had.

The only player that stands to lose from this deal is AT&T. iPhone on Sprint would not be a big deal to Verizon.
Note: I copied the title exactly from the original post, but according to Declan McCullagh of CNet, Twitter was served with a court order not a subpoena:

http://twitter.com/#!/declanm/status/23625686077935616

He writes of the distinction here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20027893-281.html

Buchanan's order isn't a traditional subpoena. Rather, it's what's known as a 2703(d) order, which allows police to obtain certain records from a Web site or Internet provider if they are "relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation."
You're correct, except that it is "unlocking" that allows you to use an AT&T iPhone on another carrier. "Jailbreaking" is completely different - it simply allows you to install unsigned software.

One must jailbreak their iPhone before it can be unlocked, because you need to run special, unsigned software to unlock it.
Well that's the first 30 of 50 years - in desperate need of an update, I think.
Of my many years of dev experience I worked 4 as a team lead for a consultancy. Eagerness to earn more money and serve more customers got me into that position. At the end of that time all I wanted, is get into proper project work again and say good bye to all the admin,sales and management bullst.

It is hard enough finding good projects for your employees, being profitable and keeping your admin stuff upto date. If you go down that road, you'll come to realize that you have less and less time for development yourself.

To answer your question directly: Yes I think the management overhead is usually grossly underestimated. Whether it's worth it depends on how what you want to do: Manage consultants, develop, sell projects, have a private life...

You'll be learning a lot of new things, and I definetly don't regret my time, but I know that I love developing and handpick the project I do.
Heroku IPs are 75.101.163.44, 75.101.145.87, and 174.129.212.2, if you want to update the script to make the distinction from raw Amazon EC2.
More than patents, what keeps potential competition from attacking the problem is people telling them blackboard will sue them.

This is a horrible meme. No other company that I know of has its potential competitors talked out of the business by this gossip of fear.

Hint: not everyone is operating in the U.S.
Just remember that he invented the blink tag.
#7. Agreed.

I had a recent interview at Apple, and was heavily criticized for my research background. They kept re-terating "we don't do research here", as if I was then supposed to do something about it.
What happens if those kids could have emigrated to study in the U.S.?
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It's not really much more than the patents. People tell people that Blackboard will sue them because BB has patents and has sued others before.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of other companies that sue competitors instead of trying to compete with them. I mean, one such company is currently in the #1 spot on the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2081938 Need I list more?
Not really. The iPad that Verizon "supports" and sells in their stores is merely a WiFi-only iPad bundled with a separate portable WiFi hotspot. This is completely different than an iPad with a built-in Verizon-compatible radio, which does not currently exist.

The iPad that AT&T supports has an actual GSM 3G radio built in.
This is a good story but it is not true. See snopes: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp.
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Someone explain to me the difference between "programmer" and "software engineer", because it sounds like it's just a padded label to make it seem more fancy (and worth higher pay).

"Engineer" makes me assume college trained and more of a design/comprehend systems from scratch but I suspect it's just hype in a label?

ah, wikipedia to the rescue:

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

there is still much debate around what software engineering
actually is, and if it conforms to the classical definition
of engineering

Based on that, with all due respect to Jesse Severe (from the article) he sounds like a programmer and not a "software engineer" if he is constantly working on different jobs for different clients.
on the other hand, most people are idiots.
It would reduce the ratio of bad/good patents - not number, this is my argument: increasing ease of submitting (speed, etc.) will probably lead to more patent submissions - the relation of these curves says whether the number would decrease.

I wasn't arguing for pricing it at true cost - I'm saying that if you're subsidizing an activity and increasing throughput - you tend to get doubly more of it.

Defensive patents also restrict innovation - see: "patent thickets". Having IBM patent worthless things is just as bad - probably worse than smaller ones because of their credible threat.
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I was far from a beginner at programming about 15 years before W3Schools came into existence, but I find them useful on occasion. If they cover something I need to learn, I find it works better to spend 30 minutes or so going through their material first, THEN going to things like the Mozilla documentation that the submitted document recommends.

That's because those Mozilla documents aren't actually all that good. (But more documentation nowadays sucks, so that's not really saying anything bad about Mozilla in particular).

If the subject is new to me, having that first approximation from W3Schools--even if they aren't necessarily teaching best practices or have a few errors--gives me the lay of the land. That just makes it a lot easier to navigate around more accurate and complete, but poorly organized or written, documents from other sites.
I don't think you're supposed to be able to get used to obfuscated anything. By that metric, C is equally unreadable: http://ioccc.org/

I've seen very readable perl code, although I won't use that to make sweeping generalizations about the entire language.
You may not be able to just feed Flash WebM files: Adobe has only committed to supporting the VP8 codec, not Vorbis or Matroska (http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2010/05/adobe_support_f...). I wonder if the primary purpose Flash video will be making timeshifting impractical for normal people through weird formats and protocols.
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That document now says you have to request permission to access it. Flagging.
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