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I will be giving some free copies in my future posts. You may watch my facebook account for details. I will consider discounts in future. It is the price that I have decided to share my knowledge and below this price it is not as worth to create competitors ;-)
FYI, no one is paying $1,000/month for rent in NYC... At least not anywhere reasonably close to Manhattan.
1-minute demo / tablet pdf presentation

Huh? Do people really do this?

The last thing I want to do is demo anything about myself to a bunch of people hunching over a tiny screen in a crowded room. Even Hacker News would look like shit, no matter how well you tried to pull it off.

The next-to-last-thing I want to do is watch your demo, hunching with a bunch of other people over your tiny screen.

I have enough technology back at the office. I came here to meet people and get get to know them. So just shake my hand, share some cool stuff with me, and meet me for a drink later. I'll remember you much better that way.

[EDIT: Replaced "the Mona Lisa" with "Hacker News". Thanks, JshWright.]
Just for the record...

I believed it was more of negligence to update the webpage than a passive-aggressive attack on Chrome. It just seemed amusing to me in light of the recent competition between the two companies =)
While I agree with the whole article, I take issue with the phrasing of the title - You are exactly as successful as you want to be if by 'you', you mean your procrastinating, excuse-seeking, risk-averse subconscious. You know, the 'real' you, as opposed to the marionette who answers questions like this and naively thinks it's control ;)

It's a simple change of perspective that, if you can hold on to it, will give the marionette some real power to notice and correct self-harming and/or restricting behaviour.
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Because optical is expensive, less flexible, does not provide enough power for devices (think portable HDD) and not many people use long cable.

Once the technology is widely used, the name doesn't matter anymore I guess.
A decent board game often gives you a difficult choice on each move. In Monopoly, it is nearly always a foregone conclusion, so it is not much different to playing ludo. A really good game will have you anticipating other players moves, negotiating, misdirecting and betraying them, and forming and breaking alliances.

It feels like Monopoly could be a better game if only it had better rules. There should definitely be a trading and negotiation phase in there, and some way for players to stop a player who's getting too far ahead.

Maybe a decent, well-known, alternate set of rules for Monopoly would make all of those monopoly sets out there less useless.
Are you sure that's false? The Wikipedia article on carbohydrates[1] says: "Carbohydrates are a common source of energy in living organisms, however, no carbohydrate is an essential nutrient in humans."

It cites a letter to the editor in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition by Dr Eric C. Westman[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate#Nutrition

[2] http://www.ajcn.org/content/75/5/951.2.full
And I want to be fair - it is why I give numbers of pages. The price is for knowledge about my methods - no for the ebook by itself ;)
I bought my MBP in summer 2010 and the HDMI audio spec and adapters weren't known or available yet.

Haven't checked monoprice yet, but these look legit :)

Thanks!
An honest question: Why do highly skilled professionals like teachers require union representation whereas computer professionals do not?
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Free, as many charts as you like, and no data limits! :)

Just a word of warning ... it's barely even an MVP at this stage. More a sort of experiment to see how far I can push one of those free Amazon micro instances (pretty far when you use node.js as it happens!).
Major issues just a week after moving to a new Linux-based system [1]? It has potential to be a fairly nasty PR-blow.

[1] http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3260727/lond...
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Monoprice needs to release their version of this cable!
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There are a surplus of qualified teachers, in Canada at least I know of several people with teaching degrees and none of them can find work because the only time a spot opens up is if someone dies or retires. The software industry is in desperate need of people by comparison.
I shared a 3BR apt in Williamsburg and paid $1000, then moved into a 1BR down the street that was $1500. 12 minutes to Union Square.
I don't think the page checks for the browser version. I am using the latest version of Firefox (3.6.13) and still get the same message.
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Since we're sharing our HTML5 clocks which peg the processor: http://sandbox.mikepurvis.com/js/clock/
that link doesn't contain the text 'F#' any where on the page.
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An honest question: Why do computer professionals not exercise their rights to prevent abuse (unfair firings, increased work hours without compensation, demeaning bosses) like some teachers?

Edit: Also where do you get "require" from. Not all teachers belong to a union? Did you read the article at all?
The London-based is widespread in the commonwealth (other than Canada), less now than twenty years ago when they begun to emphasise regional versions. When I got to London, I knew correct pronunciation for several of those places where with odd spelling-to-pronounciation. If I designed a new version now, I'd do it just with those places. Leicester Square. Holborn. Beauchamp Street ("Perhaps you were hoping to go to beach'em street, sir"), Pall Mall, Maryleborne Station, Marlborough Street. Those names stick in your mind as navigation points in the early days when you don't know much else.

That quirk aside, it's a stupid game. It communicates that wealth is a zero-sum game, and encourages a mindset whereby ideas about wealth are oriented around ownership of real-estate. These are both brain viruses in the anglosphere, although causation is unclear. And it's laborious.

A better wealth game is Pit/Billionaire. It's zero-sum, but that reflects the reality of the setting (commodity trading) and has interesting social dynamics. Consider this valid tactic: make a deal with someone not to pass taxman across, and you both aim to stick with that principle over several rounds.

Settlers is great because when played between nice people or with children, it can be played as a non-zero sum game that everyone gets something out of.

Scotland Yard has a better take on central London geography, and has team dynamics, lateral thinking and requires risk judgements. Flexible on the number of people you have to play.

The likes of Monopoly give board games a bad name. There's other awful mainstream board games though - I thought of Ludo.
I don't think the page is doing any processing or browser identification. I think it just displays the same static message regardless of how and who visits it.
The BoM for the iPad is around $259.
(http://www.electronicsadvocate.com/2010/04/08/ipad-bom-is-25...)
Apple buys a majority of all touch panels and flash memory manufactured as well as highly optimizing the design and integration of the hardware.
The game console model would mean Apple loses money on the hardware, hoping to make it up in sw sales/fees. Obviously this is NOT the case.
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That's because that's the page you're directed to when they detect an incompatible browser. This page is probably static.
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The Mona Lisa might not be the best example... it _is_ a tiny picture in an (often) crowded room.
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Whom would you rather be oppressed by: an employer you can quit from, or a guild you can't?

Besides the end game of unions are what happened in Detroit.
So monkeys are shown high density images and low density images and they can press the correct button for a treat. For medium denisty images they can either make an incorrect choice, or press a skip button.

If I wrote a computer program to do the exact same thing it would not prove computers had self-doubt, just that they had a programmed intelligence. Pressing the centre button gets you to a sure treat quicker.
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If I were to be abused by my workplace, I'd vote with my feet and leave.

I'd rather work in a system where the quality of my work determines my wages and not my seniority or how many masters degrees I've obtained.

I'd rather work in a system that doesn't strong arm my employer into paying benefits they can't afford. I don't know about you, but I'm not worried about my 401k being there in 40 years, but I'd be really scared if I had a municipal pension.
Being a popular target for funding cuts and working a lot more (off-the-clock) hours than people typically seem aware of puts them in a weak bargaining position to begin with.
> humans can realize that it may be desirable to change a behavior. Animals can not do this.

Are you sure about that?
I'm slightly biased here because I will almost certainly never need a union to protect my job or interests (I'm well educated, with in-demand skills, and I'm mobile). But it really bothers me how unions produce such inefficiencies in specific industries. Teachers and autoworkers being the biggest have crippled the ability of their respective industries to innovate and compete globally. While this may protect the livelihood of current workers, it hinders the ability of future workers to compete and earn a living. Like national debt its one generation fucking over the next...

PS - I'm young and pissed with the general recklessness of baby boomers.
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Biggest question: how does Fabrice's analysis play out for someone that isn't extremely wealthy?

Yes, if you have $20 M dollars and are talking about simply allocating assets he is probably correct. However, what about for the avg working person who's buying a house with money that isn't his (a mortgage) so that by the time he retires, he isn't burdened with paying for a place to live.

Also, as an aside: I think most people don't have the personal fiscal discipline to take the money they would save by not paying a mortgage and invest it--they spend it. A mortgage is like a forced savings account for many.
An interesting idea, but the experiment as described in the article doesn't prove it. If I played this game without knowing what "S", "D" and "?" stand for, I'd just assume that "S" means "few", "D" means "a lot" and "?" means "a moderate amount". No meta-cognitive reasoning seems necessary.
It depends on the country.

For many (most?) countries, the education system is dominated by state-run schools. This typically means that there will be one very large employer and possibly several much smaller employers (ie private schools).

In this scenario, the very large employer wields a disproportionate amount of power. I guess it's analagous to a monopoly or near-monopoly: the very fact that you are so dominant means rules apply to you that otherwise wouldn't to protect the market--competition itself--from breaking down.

Unions are probably the mechanism for keeping the government, as that large dominant employer, honest.

The problem is the reverse is also a problem: now the government and the private schools face a monopoly in the form of the teacher's union. That monopoly can--and does--extract unreasonable concessions [1].

An important aspect of unions is collective bargaining (pay, conditions, etc). This is a somewhat controversial topic that tends to divide down political lines. Collective bargaining sprang up in the Industrial Revolution and in periods like the Great Depression to protect workers from essentially bidding themselves down.

[1]: http://reason.com/archives/2006/10/01/how-to-fire-an-incompe...
In my family,

Games we tend to like: those where everyone is actively playing most of the time: Boggle, Scategories, Pictionary, poker, chess.

Games we tend to dislike: those where 1 or 2 people are actively playing and everyone else is doing nothing: Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, Dominos.
It's not fake, people actually trade privately held shares on there. Significant amounts of privately held facebook shares have been bought and sold there and hence it's one of the sources of valuation.

He is right to say so though. I don't know about SO being worth 8 or 9 figures, that's very comical. If you don't think so, then I have a one way first class ticket to reality that i'd like to sell you for $4,200.
Wait, is this true?

iOS GMs have always been ready to ship, minus a few 3rd-party apps and last minute exploits(JBs). If they are throwing GM designator on anything that isn't usable than I'm severely disappointed.
It's insane the rdoc is generated at install on every client machine, if it was compiled by the author of the gem this would not be a hassle.

I sometimes use the local rdoc, but I have it turned off by default, online docs are useless when working with older versions of gems.
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I love board games. And I used to play Monopoly too as a kid, then stopped.

In retrospect I know why: it has a self-enforcing feedback loop that leads to the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. Thus the outcome of the game is often determined very early, but the game still drags on for long, being not much fun for most players.

The same feedback loop can be found in "The Settlers of Catan", though less (the poor don't get poorer, it's just that the rich grow ever faster). I liked it too, but it's not fun for too long.

An example where it's done differently is Dominion, where resources for development and resources for winning are distinct, but mixed into the same heap. During your turn you take a fixed number of cards from that heap, so if you have many winning resources, your progress actually slows down.

And of course there are also lots of games where the current position doesn't really affect your chances to progress. In the long run I like those (and the ones with negative feedback loops) better than the ones with positive feedback loops.
Because if it means my pay is going to be related to how long I've been doing the job (as opposed to how good I am at it) then I'm not interested.
You're using one specific industry and one specific example to paint every single union with the same brush. Bravo.
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Heh. He forgot to mention the wonders of gopher, archie and IRC. Now I feel old... :P
A lot of states (Wisconsin and Iowa included) force teachers to pay at least some union dues, even if they aren't a member of the union
I think this is a bit of a straw man. I haven't met anyone that believes that teachers unions are the problem. Schools face many problems, and the inability of school districts to fire lousy performers is just one of them. Teenage pregnancy is fast rising as one of the major problems in urban school districts, but I don't foresee any politicians campaigning on a "kids these days need to stop fucking" platform.
I assumed he was referring to casual one-on-one demos later whilst meeting for a drink, rather than many people crowded in a tiny room.

My experience of conferences is limited, but normally there's times when you're hanging around sharing drinks with people. It's one thing to say 'hey, I've built some really nice online calendar syncing software', it's another to pull out a tablet, load up your account in the calendar and quickly show him creating a couple of events and inviting people and get him seeing just how usable and fast it is.

In fact, I think this, more than anything, is the 'killer app' for tablets - as Tim Bray said, they're a 'shareable' computer, and being able to quickly demo stuff live is invaluable.
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Apart from discussing whether Monopoly is a great game (which I think it is not, Funkenschlag, You're Bluffing, Werewolves and Tichu, for example are much better) I do think that automating the transactions, and some of the other more administrative sides of board-games, is a real improvement...
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tl;dr

Many schools suck because they are full of low quality students. Rhee made some improvements, but no improvements to teachers can compensate for low quality students.
And 88kb isn't even gziped. When it's actually downloaded from your (or a CDN's) server it's less than 30kb.
No, df07 is talking about the fake stock market game Secondmarket built for the launch conference. http://simx.secondmarket.com
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interesting post! that explain it - thanks
I find those sites stress-inducing. There are so many tips and guides on how to do things better that I feel overwhelmed. I was avidly reading zenhabits some years ago but at some point I realised that I rather live my life with few simple ideas in mind than following a weird ideal.
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It's even worse when you forget to turn it off server-side. Slow deployments ahoy!

This is the real problem IMO. Especially as capistrano's bundler module kills the log output when installing gems in the deployment environment, I bet a lot of people don't realise that 50% of their deployment time is generating docs, because they see no direct indication of this on the console output for capistrano.
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yeh that comment bothered me as well, different site have different targets.

Some commercial sites are aspirational, they want their their customers to know they exist out side of some impersonal google search, some places are more your home on the internet that google is, some want to be found through your friends.

I would be surprised if apple, facebook, zynga are in that 90% category and its very hard to say they are "under performing"

Its self important generalisations like that that give SEO as an industry a bad name.
I feel I should speak up about this one as a teacher (admittedly Australian however) and a supporter of teachers unions.

Let's assume we are in a performance based pay system. How do we measure performance? Is it average student grades? If so, then do we pay teachers who work in affluent areas more because every effort is afforded the students (tutoring etc)? Do we pay teachers who choose to work in more challenging schools less (and more likely have lower grades but possibly greater impact on students' lives with their successes)?

What do we do with teachers hand picking elite classes to improve their perceived performance? It already happens even without performance pay? Or it could just be the luck of the draw. Sometimes I end up with difficult student groups simply because of a timetabling issue. Less pay?

There are other metrics for teacher performance that have been proposed, and all the ones I have heard have been very flawed.

Just to touch on the abuse bit at the start, if there was one employer in your town (as there effectively is in many rural areas when it comes to schools), should you relocate because of abuse you have received? (or indeed at all? Who doesn't deserve to feel safe from abuse in their workplace?)
Monopoly on the surface looks fun, but even when all the rules are followed there are very few mechanisms in the game where someone can actually use skill to outwit their opponents, far to much luck involved with a little bit of basic principles in the trading and deciding when to put down houses and how many.

I've got into it a few times with family but been left frustrated when it seems as if you can play perfectly and still lose regularly.
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The point he was supporting was "no matter how rich you are, there's only so much time you can get by trading money for it," in which context $500k/year isn't out of place--especially, as you noticed, with Warren Buffett as the example.
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I have a startup that has been in business for about a year. In the last few days I started to notice that a competitor put some Google ads when you search for my company name (or company domain).

What is worse is that those ads are a bit agressive. Like "the truth about company X" or "why X is a not the best solution for you", all linking to their pages where they try to sell their stuff.

Is that allowed by Google? I couldn't find a way to flag/report those. What would you guys do?

I know it is a good sign that we are growing, but could influence some customers against us by reading it.

*using a thrown away account.

Any help is appreciated...

thanks!
Also where do you get "require" from. Not all teachers belong to a union?

Many states require non-union employees to pay the union. I believe DC does as well.

Your only choices are to be taxed by the union with voting rights or be taxed by the union without voting rights.
When they make it work, it could be ;-)
We've had this debate about "catchup mechanisms" or negative feedback loops with my boardgames friends countless times. I personally tend to prefer games with a minimal amount of luck rather than a strong negative feedback loop. I dislike settlers of catan as much as as dislike monopoly. As long as luck is under control, I have no problem losing -- because I can understand where I made my mistakes and be better next time :)
That is a terrible summary of the article.

The author's actual point is "Michelle Rhee's war on teachers' unions was a sideshow that distracted from the more important effort to give more low-income students a chance to attend middle-class public schools."
I don't know much, but for high-frequency trading, fast is never fast enough. response times are measured in microseconds.

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Depends how serious you get with scrabble, in a game against half decent opponents unless your abnormally good at forming words your probably going to need to concentrate when it isn't your turn also to come up with options for your next turn.
Not so plausible to me, considering that the old system was in C#.
Btw, that company is actually bigger than ours and has been in business longer.
It's a bit like bestseller books in that the big stores only run with a small and mainstream collection to choose from. Only with board games that collection seems to stay fairly static from year to year.
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You can compare unencrypted system files to those on your Time Machine back-up or installation media.

What if system and program files were modified from within the system? WDE doesn't help in this case.

WDE doesn't solve integrity or availability problems. It's primary goal is confidentiality.
Monopoly is certainly not my idea of a good time. The monotony comes from the number of times you have to see the same board state. It's not even that I don't like long games. In fact, I adore them - as long as they're interesting.

I would highly recommend the following over Monopoly: Carcassonne, Medici, Taj Mahal, Tigris and Euphrates, Mensa Connection, The Confrontation, Civilisation, Age of Steam, Dampfross (Railway Rivals), The Lord of the Rings board game.
The biggest worry here is that HBGary is not being held accountable for their criminal activities. They have been using tools and psy-ops practices developed for the military against U.S. political targets. That is against the law.