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It's not more funding they need; it's people that actually know what they're doing. Let's face it: all systems are hackable in some way, but it is the security's job to make those hacks have minimal effects. This skill requires people who actual know the general security principles that are taught at most technical institutes today.
We at http://internals.nektra.com have done this for several customers. It's not easy but it really works.
New German Apple Store Gets Defaced With Windows Logo [video]
Free trade will make us all better off in the long run - but in the long run we are all dead.
"And this could be why Waterfall survives: It's the process that optimizes for blaming other people."

nah. Waterfall survives because it lets business development share world-views with the customer.
Well, PoF just isn't going to get bought. OKC has a special algorithm. PoF is a cheap free copy of dating website ("select users with X miles of Y where gender = Z").

Which one would you want to acquire?
New Cinema displays to support Thunderbolt? That's what I'm holding out for.
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Yeah, we go to Hungary for our major dental work and have always thought you could organize groups to do the same. "Bridges and Bridges", alluding to the bridges on the Danube in Budapest.
They definatly don't take security seriously at Sony, if you get hacked with a sql injection - you suck. When I was creating PHP websites as a 12 year old kid, they where even protected against sql-injections -- and it's not that i was a super smart or paranoid kid

I don't think that if anonymous would target Microsoft (or a normal company) that it would be the same.
In reference to this part:

"Yes, the amount of money they’re spending on customer acquisition and retention is absolutely insane. (And the amount owed to merchants is especially troubling.) But look at what they’re up against. Pretty much single major player is now coming directly at them — including the company that tried to buy them for several billion and was turned down, Google."

Wouldn't a proper business model dictate just about the opposite? When trying to build a profitable customer base, you should focus on keeping customer acquisition costs DOWN, not spending 3x revenue on it. For example, Super Bowl ads just don't seem like an appropriate way to spend money for them right now.

This is nearly identical to what happened in the last dot com crash. Sure, Groupon does have significant revenues, but they haven't proved (to me anyway) that these revenues are sustainable without their massive expenditures.

We've heard numerous times that Groupon considers its sales force to be a major asset, partially justifying its valuation and forthcoming IPO. Maybe. However, unless that sales force proves to be a strategic asset to a customer-facing feature, whether it be cheaper or more interesting deals than the competition, I don't see a multi-billion dollar value there.
If you ask me (and I think you did!) this is kind of a mini-burnout. Take a vacation - a real one. Don't think about anything, just take a month in Sicily or something. Meet some new friends who aren't in the startup scene. Go hang out with your dad, or some cousins.

Disengage.

Then come back. I'll bet you'll find you're more excited.
I really like the idea, but the front page does a very bad job at teasing me. The concept is simple, so I think they could explain it in a simpler way.
Anyways, good luck to them !
12 hacks in 46 days. That's a rate of 1 hack every 3.83 days. And that means we can expect to see it get hacked again by Thursday this week. Everyone keep your eyes peeled!
BugCam sounds neat. I've seen people use Jing & Camtasia for this, and I've always been surprised that no one created something similar and included integration with bug trackers.
Check your definition again. In Game Theory, that's a different game, where cooperating outweighs suckering the other guy. That's called a "Stag Hunt:"

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prisoner-dilemma/#StaHunPD

It could be that in some organizations, the rewards are such that a Stag Hunt is a better model.
Thanks for the feedback. Yea the UI could use some work and a nice logo would be good too, I'll see if I can get that done soon.

Yea it's not meant to be literal, the companies that post offers are able to disable them whenever they want. So it's really about getting your first few customers I guess. This being a spur of the moment sort of thing, the name was a tad humorous as well.

Good points, and glad BugCam got an early signup - I really hope it helps people discover cool new products.
If you have a distributed architecture you are probebly going to build some nodes. When programming that software for these nodes you want to use all the 4-8 cores that the node can use. Sure you could only use one core on every maschine and spin up 4-8 maschines but that not effective.
I don't think a multithreaded GUI toolkit is a failed dream. But it might take the creation of a GUI toolkit designed from scratch to support it.

Though the possibility that some relatively small and clever bit of code could wrap STM around a GUI toolkit is not out of the question.
I signed up on a lark. We'll see if it drives anything. They may need help getting their first customer.
Can someone explain how this is enforceable if a citizen renounces citizenship while they are abroad? Would that be similar to renouncing citizenship while you owe taxes (I'm not really sure what would happen in that case either)?
> I think there will be Garbage Collection added to iOS5

I wonder if iOS5 will be backward compatible to iPhone 4.
Most games manage their own memory allocations/pools - this won't be that useful to games. But to the average hobbyist programmer this means the bar will be lowered and more noise will be introduced into the App Store. But Apple still has the best tools.

Android, by contrast, has garbage collection built-in and lots of mediocre apps. Hopefully with their new ADT 11 Interface Builder-like GUI tool, they will get better.

Apple doesn't want to you to make poor quality apps. Google could care less (it is so designer-unfriendly, I had to apologize multiple times to our designer for having to deal with skinning an Android app)

After hours of effort and frustration, he effectively failed. When it is all in XML files using obscure attributes like layout_width and Horror of All Horrors... selectors (for stuff like custom click colors/states), it is more programming than design. And Google, why is it so hard to define Colors and Themes (XML?!)
No, I mean best outcome for all parties -- ie win-win -- and the story sounds to me like there is no actual good outcome for this tale. I am well aware that in prisoner's dilemma if one person betrays/blames and the other does not, that's when one party gets over.

Sorry for being unclear.
I like ideas and have several brewing. However I don't really think this is the way it works... my ideas come from an evolution of other ideas that come together to form something bigger than I could have imagined.

I encourage you to take your time, to think about problems that you see discussed here or on Reddit, and find the problems those problems create, then you're headed in the right direction.

If you want to chat about ideas or creativity, my eMail is in my profile. Don't be shy!
Amen Brother! My new internal customer just had a wonderful surprise as we are adopting Agile. He asked if he needed to work through me to reorganize the backlog for upcoming sprints. No - you own scope and timeline. Reorganize as much as you like on items we have not yet begun as long as you respect the total effort estimates per sprint.

Value working software and healthy collaboration with a process that routinely measures real progress and you'll never have to explain why you slipped 3 months since last week's status report.
A dating site is more than just an algorithm; its main asset are the users. Match, PoF, etc. have no fancy algorithm, but they are still among the top because of their users. It's the "network effect".
interviewing at startups despite past rejections, bidding on and winning freelance projects despite flakey clients in the past, competing in coding competitions despite the fact I'm not highly ranked, quitting a lucrative full-time job to pursue my own interests and grow as a person. Sometimes the above lead to uncomfortable feelings. However the mental and spiritual growth upsides always out-weigh the downsides.
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Frankly, I don't think I am good enough to work at startup where I am at right now. I have a better chance at landing a job at Interactive agency with my background then a startup. I will still try but I don't think it's going to happen.
I completely agree with this statement. True intelligence is self-discipline, and it takes discipline to understand that you won't grow unless you try out new things. And oftentimes, these new things will make you feel uncomfortable.
Easy for Socrates to say. He made his living sounding good. As you've readily demonstrated!
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So it doesn't look much, if any, off from the projections that led to the prediction of app Store and Market numbers crossing in August (http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/05/android-to-surpass-apples-a...). Though the number of approved apps not on in the Store, is that a reserve they can draw upon, or is there some reason they can't put them in the Store? If they can, they can bump their app number up at any moment and push off the projected crossing.
Does Facebook hurt relationships
Google really needs to turn up the heat with Docs. The spreadsheet, etc need to get a lot better if they want to steal market share from Microsoft. Office is hard to beat.
Haha, I could only hope to achieve even half of what Joel Spolsky has :)

I've previously written about how I created my sleep ritual (http://joel.is/post/5303723252/creating-a-sleep-ritual) and what you mention about committing to too many routines has been key for me. I'd say that is the reason I've not managed it until now and also the reason I've managed to put a decent routine in place now and I'm able to keep adjusting it and improving it.

I think the key is to adjust one thing at a time until it becomes a "ritual" we are pulled towards rather than a "routine" which we force ourselves to do. At first, I got up at 6am and went to the gym at 6:30. Over time, I've gradually got up earlier and earlier so that now I am starting to get up at 4:30am and have 1.5hrs of productive work time before I go to the gym. I've also adjusted my exercise routine at the gym whereas before just getting there was hard enough.

I don't do a whole lot in terms of diet right now, however I want to soon when the current routine becomes more comfortable.

The article you mention is written by Tony Schwartz who I've mentioned in my post, and I can't recommend his book "The Power of Full Engagement" enough. The two main things I took away from it were the importance of renewal (I now break up my day with various activities, such as the gym, meals, or reading a book for 20 minutes) and relating tasks to my core values (this is related to Simon Sinek's "Start with Why").
> She showed him the daily progress report. "What I did today? What I want to do tomorrow?" That her 3rd graders had to fill out everyday.

To be honest, it sounds just as insane—possibly more—that children have to do this kind of thing. There were fewer assessment exercises of this sort when I was in school, albeit appreciably more than my parents had to contend with. The main lesson I took away from them was to avoid, wherever possible, any job or career where I'd have to waste everyone's time pursuing such ridiculous make-work.

I worry that the more we force this stuff on children from an early age, the more they will take it to be the normal (de jure, not de facto) state of affairs rather than an aberration stemming from the awful tendency to value managerial gestures over productive work.
Absolutely agree with this. If you aren't scared, you're being too comfortable and not reaching for heights that are incredibly difficult but radically rewarding.
In the first Block Battle thread, someone noted[1] that the individual matches are often just replays of past games. At the higher levels (around 20+) you can actually randomly play against the AI, but this is at least a little more honest, as its name is A.I., and it goes very fast.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389740
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The Art of Learning
One or two chuckles here, but overall not worth the time.
I've been developing software for over 15 years and without question communication and politics are just as important as technical skills. You have to get key people on your side and you have to keep everybody up to date on the status of the project.
Welcome!

btw, is your office on Beach rd? ours is too (Shaw Tower), hope to run into you around the area.
I don't think it's a techique, per se. (disclosure: I've worked with Andrew a bit). Andrew is an awesome guy and he's got a REALLY peculiar sense of humor. I'd wager that he was sitting at lunch someday talking with someone about the press and said: "Wouldn't it be funny if I did something a bit more creative than say 'no comment'?".
This is 2 days old. They already restored the internet and images and videos of the violence have already made their way out.
Good points about communicating your idea to your mother-in-law and using pictures to avoid the tl;dr issue.

The advice in here would have been helpful to the Google Wave team I think.

Communicating complex technical ideas is hard. Whenever we have an idea for a project, we see if we can sum the project up in a 5 or 6 word slogan. If we can't, it's too complicated and we ditch it.
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may you please elaborate? to what ideas of the enlightenment you think they aren't subscribed?
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Business Stewardship: Are You Really Serving Your Clients?
Actually, I think those managers are right. The problem is that the right ingredients to produce a satisfactory cake are not the same as the right ingredients to succeed in a large corporation.
Having graduated from grade school many decades before NCLB, I fear that adults are irrevocably changing education for the worse. Test taking isn't learning, yet it the main priority for many schools (especially poor ones).
First look at DjangoZoom.com
Algorithms for Massive Data Sets
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I dont think the pitch of Wave was bad... just the UI and the lack of integration with your existing contacts.
New university to rival Oxbridge will charge £18k a year
+1. The pitch was after all the best part, remember the expectations just after the announcement?
after all, these are just the slides :-/
> Why not hate on Zynga for coping other games?

This is quite common.

> Why not hate on Linked In's 500 P/E IPO that has already lost 25% off it's high?

This too.
I think the developement on docs is going at a pretty fascinating pace. They just don't necessarily have the focus on things you'd expect them to work out first.

But they have a pretty rock solid collab feature that is currently unmatched in any other office suite. Once you get the habit of working like that on certain projects, it's hard to go back to the old way of collaborating by sharing files.

Spreadsheet is the least polished app of all, but i think this is no coincidence. SpreadSheet is the app in which the functionality gap is the biggest, and also where user expectations are the most tainted by excel's idiosyncrasies. I wouldn't be surprised if the spreadsheet app doesn't get much love for a long time.
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> It is usually easier to modify working code than to write something from scratch, if my suspicion is right, I expect Google will launch its own Groupon-like service integrated into its other offerings eventually.

https://www.google.com/offers
Google is by no means immune from error/failure/mistakes.
Also, the United States had practically free immigration before 1920. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyJIbSgdSE
Not sure I agree. A small number of sophisticated users really use Excel in something close to its potential, but most people I know use spreadsheets for simple lists and maybe adding up a column of numbers. If Google start chasing Excel on features, they could find themselves on the losing side of a "fire and motion"[1] strategy.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
Take a look at many of the startup ideas on our website, pitchups.com, where anyone can submit their startup idea or pitch and get feedback and comments from others. Some of these ideas may be of interest to you. And I am sure many of these startups would welcome an experienced entrepreneur to collaborate with and help them take their ideas to the next level. Our vision is to make pitchups into a community and ecosystem to foster startups - and allow anyone with a great idea to find others willing to collaborate. In fact, we ourselves are looking for experienced partners to collaborate with us on pitchups.com - and would love your inputs, if this is of interest to you.
A few best ways to raise your Designing Rates.
Everyone wants to earn more money even though he works or not for it. The attraction of big sums and raising rates of your projects always exist. It may sounds greedy but it does not change the fact. In the case of freelancers, they really want to ask for high price for their services, however; they could not do so because of fear of losing the client.
Hire some writers to make your help docs and how-to guides more robust. That content can last forever and boosts your page rank plus eases customer retention/acquisition (at least while its still accurate to your implementation) but the ppc ad investments only last until the money is spent. Also get those articles translated into some languages as the non-English world is under served.

Run many ad tests but spend small amounts (less than $50) each time while you learn how to do it (analytics, AB tests) and what works (platform, content, offerings) and what changes help.
Prediction: Facebook Will Surpass Google In Advertising Revenues
Yes. The approach is probably as good as it can get. And yet, it's not perfect. That functional interpreter could have a bug. And thus Knuth's quote is applicable. Testing the compiler could reveal to you that your specification wasn't really what you intended.
Glad to hear it. Yes, we're aiming to reduce the number of clicks from, like, 15 (not an exaggeration) to just a couple. Also, we're imposing a limit on the length of the bug video, and forcing other constraints, which we hope will turn into a certain type of video (think of twitter vs. WordPress). More at blog.getbugcam.com, if you're interested.
It depends where you are, I know I have jaywalked next to cops without so much as a word from them, but this was on the street next to a college campus.
Windows 8: HTML5 and AJAX/JavaScript == Modern UIs
You say:

"When I worked in Zurich a colleague once described it succinctly: in England (and, by extension, the US, Canada and Australia) you can do whatever you want except for those things that are banned. On the mainland (of Europe) you can't do anything unless it's specifically allowed."

As an European I tend to disagree. You confused 'mainland Europe" with German-speaking parts of Europe (Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway). Trust me you will feel even more free than in the UK when living in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece... and then once you hit Eastern Europe - Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, etc. - you can be pretty safe by actually doing everything OPPOSITE to what the law, authorities, etc. tell you to do. Don't confuse Germany with whole Europe. I find it personally offensive. It's like saying that US is like Mexico just because you lived in certain parts of LA.
Unless each of your processes needs a lot of memory, the easy way to leverage those cores is to spin up a server process for each core.
Does the SEC really not assert jurisdiction over US residents selling equities (possibly even to other US residents) when they are shares of a primarily US-held foreign corporation, or being offered through a foreign market? Somehow that surprises me.
check out profounder.com they do just that
like written by myself ..

custom-made soft development service could suite you, or poker game if you are looking for suitable business, or travel business

do you have business ideas evolving in your head all the time ?

looking forward to hear the cure ..
Collapsing Revenue Metrics - Skyrocketing Costs = Groupon's Disaster
You are my hero Sivers. Very few people are bad ass and contribute. Thank you showing me it can be done.
While the general idea is interesting, I think that we've been mislead a bit. My take away is that we could use XQuery for everything. JQuery is used to back the whole thing. While XQuery might be the language that the front end is programmed in, it still needs JavaScript to do its job. Also, index.html is still HTML filled. So the XQuery manipulates the app that way, but still needs HTML in a template to get to the user.

I was expecting the whole thing to be generated by XQuery.
Link to the hacked page: http://www.sonymusic.com.br/index.asp
That is a remarkably good point... considered for v0.2!
Have you considered using one of the PHP PaaS solutions like dotcloud, phpfog, pagodabox or cloudControl?
I think some people can't understand a CEO who doesn't act like the typical corporate robot clone, and others can.
Yeah, exactly. It's a proof of concept, with plans to turn it into a production-ready solution that relies on a typical difficult PHP Captcha, which is then replaced with the cooler MotionCAPTCHA on page load, if the user's browser supports.
Judging from the few products that are now listed, it does seem like there needs to be some categorizing and/or curating. The offers need to be really great, the products need to be really cool. I recognize that this isn't the most insightful comment ever - the point is, it can't just be a free-for-all, I think.
Yeah, this is the plan - use a text-based captcha that's replaced onload.
Groupon: $20B? $30B? Questions, Questions
Was this a failure of process or people?

Neither.

It was a failure of management...

Anyone who conducts a post-mortem with their people would be much better off simply looking in the mirror.

Where were the Vice President of Development and the Vice President of Marketing when things starting going bad? Things simply don't go wrong at the end of the project; there had to have been plenty of warning, if only someone was noticing.

Vice presidents do best by having their finger on the pulse of the things that are important and providing the right resources and leadership to enable both their people and processes to be successful. These two were in a time warp, reacting to failure instead of preparing for success.

The President needs to find a way to get the job done at the Vice President level. He's the one who needs either better people or better processes.
You legend. Heh