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The prob with..every..mainstream story on (e)poker is the unflinching marketing élan of the writers, and necessity to give a (stil truly) sub-terranean slice of life immediate resonance to the audience.

Not too encroach upon anyone's character or existence, let alone the actual people in the article...

Poker is an inexorable gambit; both in lifestyle (subjectively define by 'sanity', and career (objectively define buy debt and financial bottoming out.

Poker is a fairly pure, distilled hologram of the caprice/randomness, and skill/will that resides over living and life itself, and a stripped bare interplay of emotional and psychological alchemy that everyone has, and lives with.

The greatest poker success carries little to not weight, in terms of posterity. IMO, greatest difference between poker and "other jobs".

Even aject fail in other occupational pursuits almost always carries over some tangible good productive benefit for you and your career. Whether it's contacts, savings, reputation, experience itself.

Contra poker; even after enormous success, the above benefits are a double edged sword at best, where your experience and connections (ability to get back in) are as likely to be the underpinnings of cyclical, fixed failure.

At best, it's a totoal unknown; emoyrically, it's pretty obvious.

And either way, poker is devoid of true metrics...in the same way -- IMHO -- other businesses get/should be hinged upon.

Ironic, since poker is all about a scoreboard and 'statistics'. But the living and breathing reality of metrics is a seperate (undomesticated) species from standard business metrics.

One more thing, hopefully more concrete (I'm reticent to be too specific since I know/knew a lot of the actual ppl involved),

The luck of poker, applied to people otherwise talented and able, is most profound in the beginnings of their poker experience, most often at adolescent ages where an underlying emotional caprice and aversion (or tolerance..) to risk is extremely strong.

Majority of the "long"term winners, had remarkably pain-free beginnings, when their emotional and psychological poker fortress got created. Still, many dropped out of school after losing/borrowings appreciable sums, to persevere.

Pointedly, of the latter...most were in financial umbrella's of school and family, and insulated from the psycholigical tumult n emotional traumas that define any poker career.

This got too long n fumbling, but personal experience/a vacuum of time on the treadmill/and a general interest necessitated.
fairly regularly.
I am exactly in a similar situation. I just don't know how to focus my attention get things done. I have some great ideas for Iphone apps but it hasn't gone anywhere.
Considering the article hand-picked them from "the height of the dot-com boom", many of those 24 companies didn't do too badly.

TD Waterhouse - $76 billion

priceline.com - $24 billion

Juniper Networks - $22 billion

Agilent - $15 billion

Red Hat - $9 billion

Akamai - $7 billion

Ok, maybe they weren't great investments, and some went to zero, but as a group they weren't horrible.
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ps...check out the mathematic models/programs that play out and distill "variance", the "long term", and 'luck' in poker..It's remarkable stuff.
Why Microsoft should concentrate on the post touch devices?
This reminds me exactly of the whole dick wolves fiasco. Some topics, it seems, have no way of NOT alienating almost everyone, and causing quite a stink. I'm even hesitant to post this .......
Now I'd like to see a response from 'protocol'!
Right, but it costs nothing to join FaceBook.

Measuring their success by counting membership numbers is the same as measuring the success of a shampoo brand by counting the free samples they've given away.
Flash's video decoders are written in native code and pretty heavily assembly-optimized. They're not as fast as they could be, but they're nothing compared to something truly slow (e.g. reference decoders).

The high CPU usage is typically because of two things:

1) Flash has to do extra compositing to add ads and such onto video.

2) Flash typically doesn't use hardware acceleration for the actual blitting -- their excuse is that on a significant % of computers, bad drivers will result in crashes, and they'd rather be somewhat slow on 100% of computers than crash 1% of them.

If you want something to complain about, go after the sites using Cortado to decode video. Yet even that is still JIT'd, though completely lacking SIMD asm due to being Java.

Disclaimer: I am not a developer of Flash, I just know one.
Thank you for typing it out :)
"Over the last five months, many venture capital players have raised giant chunks of capital. One Facebook investor, Accel Partners, is about to raise $2 billion for investments in China and the United States, while Bessemer Venture Partners is said to be closing in on $1.5 billion for a new fund. Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have collectively raised more than $3 billion in the last six months."

I keep people hearing people say things to the effect of "it's not a bubble, because the investment is confined to a small amount of private equity". And I suppose that even rapid, multi-billion dollar growth in VC might be explained exclusively by the irrationality of a few private investors. But is that the likely conclusion here?
Is there something they can do about this?
There is something I find interesting about online discussions around performance issues (I am looking at you SO). The moment the question is asked, people try to gang up and out-compete each other in providing the cookie-cutter, patronizing, zero-information responses. Along the lines of (i) check whether it is actually the bottleneck, (ii) use a better algorithm, (iii) dont do it etc etc. Usually accompanied by (mis-attributed) quotes. Such advice would typically be the highest voted.

What galls me is that they assume, without any basis, that the person has not (a) benchmarked the code, (b) is obviously running an inferior algorithm and (c) just because they have not worked on an applications were speed mattered, the poster could not possibly be working on something where speed matters. If I were the one who asked the question I would be mighty pissed, given that just reading such comments as a third party irritates me enough.

The advice about premature optimization is valid. But it is a well assimilated folklore by now and I dont see how repeating that adds value. I think Hoare and Knuth's message was intended for a specific audience and the majority of the online crowd is not that audience.This message is often interpreted by enlightened newbies as an encouragement to be sloppy.

People would be better served if the discussion shifted to a different landscape, where people pointed out that particular construct that was typically more efficient among constructs of comparable clarity. Pointed out possible bottlenecks ahead of time, so that it is on the developers mind and he/she does not have to go through the process of coding a poor solution and discovering that it sucks.

Also regardless of the fact whether the code construct is actually a bottleneck in the application or not, it is always good to know what the more efficient alternatives are. It might not be the bottleneck in the current application, but it might well be in some other. Besides, there is something called intellectual curiosity.
while I understand that sql injection is mostly a fault of the host programming language/developer (php in this case) and not of the dbms/dba, couldn't the latter have avoided this in part by limiting user privileges so that it was impossible to "list the internal databases, tables and password dump" e.g. "REVOKE SHOW DATABASES, SHOW VIEW" ?

(I'm aware this may make impossible to use some web frameworks which rely on rdbms reflection, but I have the feeling this is not the case)
surprisingly I saw 2 of their competitors advertise on TV last week...so maybe the business model isn't dead just yet
Actually, I've experienced something similar when moving from India to the US. In India, you just walk into a store, and say I need x, y, z and get out of the store unless you know the owner of the store personally (in which case, the transaction differs completely and you don't get to the point before chatting about the weather, how the respective families are doing and complaining about the roads/traffic or some such thing).

Compare that to the US, where a coffee shop like Dunkin' handles like a thousand people every day during rush hour and people still mechanically say, "Hi, How are you doing? What can I get for you today?" and it's inevitably met with "Good, how are you? and I'll get x, y, z..".

I'll admit to finding that transaction incredibly dishonest when I came here first, to the point that I was actually complaining about it to people. I mean, does the person at the counter really care as to how I was doing? I'm used to it now, it's almost become an instinct, but still cringe a bit when I catch myself doing it involuntarily.

Old habits, etc. I guess.
I also took 5 because it was close. Also, since I know people tend to pick 7, I somewhat tend to don't pick 7 when I'm asked something :p You could maybe "randomize" the order of the numbers, or hack them up so, for instance, 7 is far left and 3 is far right.
Here's some background info on Blind SQL Injection:

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Blind_SQL_Injection
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I love co-op games, so thanks for the tip.
It's meaningless to compare the market caps of those 24 public companies from 1999 (that had IPOs within that year) to the valuations of those 5 private companies from 2011. Companies are doing their IPOs much larger and later than back then.
> email based

Is your target demographic really using email to communicate over Facebook, Twitter, SMS, IM?
Until dumb money and pension funds can get in on the action, the transfer of wealth (and the bubble) will not be complete.
A post on how to pick a backend dev (eg what questions to ask) would be just as, if not more, interesting :)
TD Waterhouse was a subsidiary of TD bank. TD bought back TD Waterhouse. The successor company is TD Ameritrade, but I'm not sure how much of that is Waterhouse and how much is the old Ameritrade.

It's also tricky to look at market cap versus price. Many of these companies issued additional shares at low valuations. Priceline, for example, is at about where it traded right after the IPO--but its market cap has more than doubled.
This has come up many times on the bitcoin forums/IRC. There's a few hardcoded nodes that the client will initially connect to, but you can also grab a third party list. The client is open source. The USA fortunately does not have jurisdiction everywhere, though they would like to think they do.

By the time it pops up on their radar, it will be too late anyways.
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I picked a number and was hoping to see the current results for which numbers were picked most often.

Instead I got a message "Science thanks you."

How about if you want something from the user, you give something back.
Definitely must have been Sony's inspiration. Geohot only proved they're XKCD fans.
> And like the term "Windows", "App Store" is a generic computing term that was in use prior to Apple's product.

Is there an example of the usage of the term "App Store" before Apple popularized it? The date search via Google hasn't turned up anything.

edit: I did find this blog post from 2006: http://nerddawg.blogspot.com/2006/08/debugging-windows-prese...
FYI: Scott Adams reposted it as part of a new entry http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/im_a_what/ along with an explanation as to why he deleted it in the first place.
I wonder a bit that there isn't a real binary protocol for SQL.

Edit: It seems there are ways to work around server-side SQL parsing: http://www.xarg.org/2011/01/is-it-possible-to-avoid-query-pa...

I was thinking more about why it is allowed at all to send text-like SQL queries to a server. A binary protocol would both be simpler to handle and would have saved us from a lot of trouble.

Edit: If all client-side libs (for PHP, Python, etc.) would just use those [prepared statements](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/c-api-prepared-statem...), it would be like what I mean.

Edit: Ah, I was wrong (as I hoped): For Python: https://launchpad.net/oursql
Awww. I was going to pick seven but I thought it's too meaningfull so I changed it to first meningless number that came to my mind. Namely 4.
I wish this data could be analyzed- I was debating between three, five, and seven, and chose nine just to throw off Benford's Law. I really think it is the first time I have ever chosen nine.
> How much are we spending to efficiently allocate capital? About nine percent of the whole economy, apparently.

What is the optimal amount we should spend to efficiently allocate capital? I don't have a principled reason to be able to pick a number; all I have is a gut feeling, which isn't worth anything.
If you have no idea what in the hell BitCoin is, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQPSwA2Itbs (skip to around 42 minutes). Really explains it well.
Doesn't really seem responsible to post the vulnerability details to the public list like that, all necessary shaming on weak passwords aside.

I wonder if the timing on this has anything to do with Oracle's continued dismantling of the useful parts of the MySQL website.
"The American smile does not mean anything really. Many Russians take the American smile as strange and artificial. "

On the other hand, by defining the default behavior as "smile", if somebody looks unhappy, you can actually tell that something is wrong. When the default expression is "gloom", it's impossible to separate "default gloom" from "actually unhappy."
SQL Injection isn't even really an issue with the host programming language. It's an issue with processing input that's submitted "as is".

Aside from implementing bound parameters (which is useful for more than just preventing sql injection), we usually recommend using stored procedures if at all possible.

It's really suboptimal to rely on the user to specify what table they're accessing.
"Science thanks you" made me smile. So I got something back.
The cryptographic problem is finding a nonce that, when concatenated with current transactions, gives a SHA256 hash below a certain value. Not sure about quantum vulnerabilities.
The class is available as open courseware, too. It is a no math physics course that focuses on concepts.

This is the course site, click webcast lectures on the side:
http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/physics10/pffp.html
Absolutely. The web application should be logging to the database as an unpriviledged user. Seems that by now most people have learned that running web services as root is a bad idea, but they still forget that they should also have an unpriviledged database user for them.
I just had a daughter, and experienced the opposite. We're beyond the point of financial sufficiency, and I could make a lot more money if I chose to work more.

What I really want is more time every day to spend with her AND get work done.
I've heard of depleted uranium, but depleted plutonium is new to me.

Googling a bit, I think you mean depleted uranium, but perhaps wrote 'plutonium' because one of the problems with depleted uranium is that it is (often?) contaminated with plutonium. Just guessing.
SQL is a human readable language .. what do you mean by "real binary protocol" ?
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> except for those who have put up status rotators.

Wow, I didn't even know that these existed. Do people just have a set of statuses that they randomly cycle between?
I think a good example is this: Google Talk may use the Jabber protocol, but most users don't care or know. The protocol itself isn't what matters -- Google's market proliferation matters more than the protocol. Similarly, even if Twitter or another company used open protocols, the alternatives would have to provide a better service on top of the open protocol to actually convert people or make the protocol a useful component of the service itself.
What i always answer to this question:

It's not a bubble until we (Twitter) install a slide in the office.
Same guys hit Sun.com via SQL Injection as well - http://tinkode27.baywords.com/sun-com-sun-mycrosystems-vulne...

Shameless self plug: Netsparker ( My startup: http://www.netsparker.com/ ) could have identified both of these vulnerabilities.
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Really tough lesson to learn, and especially so for women. Fred Wilson recently posted an interview of his wife on AVC.com. When asked about one piece of advice she would give female entrepreneurs, Joanne said something like, "Learn to stand on the table and say "I rock"." Great advice for all of us, I think!
Reply to your edit.

SQL is text. Also no one is sending a query to the server. It's a value that is embedded into the SQL query that circumvents it.
I hit 5 because it was in the center, I only wanted to see what was next - not choosing a number
At least in PostgreSQL you can use binary parameters: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/libpq-exec.html

Of course that does not help if you construct the entire query string as text before sending it to the server, which is how SQL injection most commonly happens.
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If you're using a web framework which is constantly querying the database to determine table structure, then you have two problems.
I remember here (in Bulgaria) 10 years ago storekeepers and taxi drivers wouldn't even say hello or goodbye or thank you. In fact if there was any communication it would be probably be rude.

Now, everyone says hello, thanks even smiles sometimes.

It is much more pleasant and appears natural. And I guess people have learned that manners sell.
6661, is that his ATM pin as well?
What makes you think that there's anything more "real" about 1999 IPOs relative to 2011 valuations? They are both numbers based on hypothetical best case scenarios that some pool of idiots have imagined (a much larger pool of idiots in the case of stock markets).

One big difference is that today money is almost free. 1 year treasuries in 1999 were between 4 and 6 percent. Today, they are 0.30%. This has a huge influence on the availability of capital for investment... i.e. if you're a big bank, you can get money cheaply and it's much harder to lose. Does that sound "real"?
> That's great about income preservation, but what about wealth preservation?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
12 seconds is alot of time
Pointing a new English writer at Wallace is like pointing a Lisp newbie at the SBCL compiler for a code sample.

I love his writing, but it is dense and hard to comprehend. It is not, IMHO, a good example for a beginning writer.
While not the same thing, show me one person who's touched Linux that didn't immediately scream "Repositories!" when they first heard about the iOS App Store...

It's a Storefront for Applications. There's only so many variations of the name you can come up with before they start stepping on each others' toes.
Damn you! 9 is mine! : P

I figured 9 had to be the least picked, but I'm starting to think I should have gone with 6...
I was a barista at Starbucks and I meant every word of my greetings. The 5 seconds you make eye contact with someone and say hi to them are vital for gathering your senses, and starting this interaction a new. If you didn't say "hi, how are you", asshole clients would rub off on you and you would smear that bad vibe on all subsequent clients. However, when you greet someone, and they greet you back warmly, crap-vibes get washed away and you get good energies.

I used to look forward to my favorite clients; it's like stones in a puddle, you jump from one to the next to get to where you're going. Same with good people, they help you go through the day. So start the day positively, greet everyone cheerfully, serve loyally and enjoy yourself; the 8 hours pass QUICKLY.
You need a simple hook that you repeat over and over again.
The database in this case has to share some of the blame. For years MySQL did not support parametrized queries or stored procedures (or did not promote them), and many of the people coding against it consistently claimed that they didn't need that kind of "enterprise crap" polluting their favorite DB. This gave way to a MASSIVE code base that is inherently vulnerable to injection attacks.

So yeah, it's the fault of the developers but it's also the fault of the people who aggressively marketed and evangelized MySQL and helped create the ditch they're just now digging themselves out of. It's a bit like the VB/Access culture Microsoft promoted back in the day, which generated some of the most hideous corporate apps I've ever seen. Yes, some developers are bad, but the company or group doing the evangelizing/marketing also needs to share some responsibility.
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They could make that one step less confusing by just attaching a protocol scheme (coin://1Nqr...), so that users could click on a labelled link instead. They could make it two steps simpler by making it work like OpenID, where a URL can defer its bit coin "alternate" using a <link> tag—so you could just enter someone's web address in your bit coin client, and be able to push coins to them that way.
I'm convinced that being 100% present, "in the moment" for as many moments as possible is the real key to happiness. It's where the magic happens, in terms of productivity, relationships, learning, creativity... but BOY is it challenging to live that way every day!
I highly recommend the Battle of Chernobyl documentary. It's available in parts on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3a4LXi_qc
Or the combination on his luggage.
Let me put it this way: after the massive MySpace exodus a while back, it was clear that people don't mind switching services as long as a large portion of their friends switch as well. I admire what you guys are doing a lot, but I'd love to see some way for buddycloud to evolve over time without causing version conflicts in the different clients and servers who may be running different versions. I guess my main point is that a single point of failure is also a single point of success since there are much fewer moving parts.
It's definitely unfair to mod this down. It's a very pertinent question when Python is discussed.
FWIW, regarding your Flash problem: you might try checking to see if there is an update for your video drivers. The latest versions of Flash have been using increasing amounts of hardware acceleration, so they could have started using some feature that is poorly supported in your current driver.
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I really don't get how they failed. The business model was sound (financially if not ethically). What went wrong?
ohmiword... That is very interesting...
If you invested money equally in all the 1999 IPO companies, you would have less money now, 13 years later, than what you started with and thats not factoring in the time value of money.

Its a horrible investment in aggregate.
Except when the unhappy people are so used to smiling that they just force a smile because that's what's socially acceptable. Default expressions are two-faced.
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That product looks awfully similar to Metasploit ( http://www.metasploit.com/ ) , no?

How is it different? I watched the demo video and couldn't really tell.
Reply to your further edit (let't hope this is the last one ;)

Prepared statements should afford you a clean conscience because the values never make up part of the SQL query .. unless you are using a library that emulates it, and there are libraries out there that do, so don't assume anything.