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If you read the details of that paper, they are really not relevant to what I mean.

Let me be more specific.

So when I talk about the asynchronous nature twitter/texting/facebook what I mean is that there are people now (usually young people) who are comfortable with carrying out multiple conversations with different people/groups of people that occur at different rates of time. I am not suggesting that someone who is frequently using twitter/texting/facebook while at work would be more productive than someone who doesn't, but that this experience helps them be able to manage multiple workflows better.

From my own experience, when I talk about multi-tasking as far as it relates to a developer anyway, let me give you an example of something that I can do all the time: I get assigned a bug, I look at the bug board to see what other similar or related bugs there might be, and I assign them to me. Usually this means that some or all of the steps to reproduce the bug are the same, so that if I have to step into the debugger to identify the problem I can set breakpoints in places that should help me figure out more than one bug at a time. In the middle of this, a co-worker sends me an instant message asking for something. I don't immediately know the answer, but I know the general area of the code to look for the answer, so I dig around for a few minutes and then either reply with what was asked or a "I don't know but xyz worked with that code and might be able to help you better." Then I go back to my debugging. I find the bug, or I find a clue that will lead me to the bug, and I write some code, deploy it on the test server, and start a test, which I know will take 20 minutes or so. In the meantime I might reply to some e-mail, do some code review to see what might be refactored to be more readable and/or maintainable, or work on another set of bugs. Then when the earlier test completes I go back to check on it. I might not immediately go back to it after 20 minutes depending on where I am with my other tasks, I would probably find a good natural stopping point first, but the point is at the end of the day I am able to finish all these tasks much faster than if I did them one at a time sequentially.

I don't think what I just described takes particular mental prowess and most of the younger people at my work (and a few of the older ones too) do the same as well. But there are enough older workers who just get hopelessly lost if you ask them to do more than one thing at a time, whereas if I ask a younger co-worker to do the same thing they have no problems, that I have noticed it.
Get a damn clamp.
You're not wrong to be confused. How anyone could transact for goods and services in such an extremely volatile currency is a mystery to me (assuming it remains as volatile as it has been).

Especially on the supply side. Let's say I'm running a coffee shop that takes orders in USD and in BTC. Let's say I want to sell a cup of coffee for $3 or 1 BTC. Or is it $3 or .0001 BTC? Or is it $3 or 1000 BTC? How do I, as a simple seller of goods and services in exchange for BTC, know how to price my items when they can be acquired via other currencies for relatively fixed prices, and huge arbitrage opportunities constantly exist?
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Ohh, so that's what it is. I've been hearing about it, and never actually bothered to figure out what it does.

So... it's a fancy lolcat generator?
Well, in the case of my parents (who ask me the most for help, who feel the most obligated to help), I know resources where they live (which is far from me) who can help them solve their problems simply. I usually get a call from them directly when my dad brings the computer in so he can get a technical description of the problem he's having and the technical solution I recommend for him. They know I know what I'm talking about and they know when to offer their opinion and when not to. This is perfect arrangement for all parties as they will act as my ears, eyes and hands; offer feedback appropriately; and follow detailed instructions.

Regarding your site, I think it's a great idea. Not sure how you intend to monetize this yet (which you identify and embrace, great!). I'd personally decide on the business model and test it now. If you don't charge any money to start, there's no way to know if there's a viable market to build your business around. (The real proof is when people pay you to solve their problem.) Even if you don't charge the person who needs help, find some business model and test it out.

There's not much i can recommend at this stage of your prototype. I tried a few zip codes but couldn't find anything where tech listings would show up to see layout. (This matters.)

I'd make the copy more succinct and straight-forward. Your mission has great information in it. Find a way to distill this down in to short bites of text that visitors can quickly scan and absorb. (Visitors decide if they need your site in seconds!)
If the numbers in the article are correct, an IPO might be the beginning of the end. As a public company they will have to submit to outside audits. Based on their business model and cash situation they might not be of 'Going Concern' much longer.
They haven't kept up with the exponential increases in productivity that we have had in the last 5 years.

I would love to know where you've seen exponential increases in productivity in the last five years. In my experience, developer technology has been largely chasing its own tail for quite some time. Productivity improves dramatically on individual, emerging platforms, but seems little changed in a wider, overall view.
You have to remember what the meaning of "doing well" there is:

They want the AAA titles that are going to go out
in many, many millions of units. And I'm like,
"Hey, we made a half a million dollars here, a
half a million dollars there, it pays everybody's
salaries"

His "not doing well" would be my huge success!
A hundred years ago a Rolex was the best timekeeper you could put on your wrist. Now it's a ridiculous bauble that can barely keep time despite constant expensive maintenance. Technology has made the rich silly.
known as front running, and happens often on other exchanges
You're just looking at the shape of the bell curve. It tells you that it represents a population, but it doesn't tell you what population it actually is. That bell curve could be for the age of people owning cats, for example. There is no evidence that SO users is a good sample of the developers population, in fact it makes sense that it is skewed towards young people that have lots of time to search and answer programming questions on the web.
I suppose I was thinking along the lines of: if a nation state, or group of nations, or banks - the kind of people who have a vested interest in devaluing bit coins - decided to attack the Market, what would happen? They would be free to use tehniques they can't use is real money markets, such as artificially inflating values ( via rtt) or misleading investors. Plus, they have large amounts of real money. Bit coins are a nice idea, but you can't buy a house with them. These are the kind of groups who have Pockets deep enough to invest enough to cOntrol bit coin, and also lose that investment in favour of longer term gains. And no matter how they do it, no one would have any meaningful legal recourse.
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The problem is, the people that would know about your ad-free service would be the same people that know about Adblock Plus, so it would be a hard sell. Perhaps if you marketed it to older generations with no technical experience it might work out, but they would probably want to buy the software from a store.
When a real physical constraint is lifted... the thing to do is spend effort inventing ways to realise this advantage.

That's a little too glib. I think we are better off not looking for more ways to use our ability to kill more people faster. The right response to the atomic bomb wasn't to use it more, but to find ways to avoid using it.

I don't completely disagree with you, so I suppose there must be more nuance to it than either of us are picking up right now.
Why throw exceptions in async code?
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I wouldn't claim that the market generally is efficient, but I strongly suspect that it a lot like Brownian Motion. No observer could possibly predict which direction it will jump next, but the overall parameters are determined in some fundamental way. I call this Brownian because to someone observing the motion of a single atom, it appears random, but it is entirely determined by the motion and position of other atoms that end up colliding with it, and there are fundamental conditions, such as the overall temperature or density of the stuff surrounding the atom being observed, but while knowing those things lets you make predictions, those predictions only hold after averaging over a very large number of atoms or a very long amount of time, and by then, if you aren't in a carefully controlled laboratory environment, the global conditions will have changed enough that your predictions aren't sensible any longer.

However, it's not efficient, since there is a lot you can do to make a better guess than assuming it is a completely random process.

While this will make it more efficient, there are plenty of people making random guesses, which reduces the effect your better guesses have on the overall efficiency of the market.

There are also plenty of fools, and they are investing on all sorts of techniques which ignore any of the global considerations, and of course this is how bubbles expand.
I thought it was pretty well known that sites give themselves those rights in the TOS, especially with the recent Twitpic issues where they were selling user content.

In any case, from SmugMug's terms:
"However, by uploading and/or posting any User Content to the Site, you grant SmugMug a perpetual, nonexclusive and royalty-free right to use the User Content and the name that is submitted in connection with such User Content, as is reasonably necessary to display the User Content, provide the Services and to facilitate, at Content Owner's direction, the license of Photos or the sale of Products on the Site."

Under #13, http://www.smugmug.com/aboutus/terms/.

From Facebook terms, "you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."

Under #2-1, http://www.facebook.com/#!/terms.php.

Noticed you had no response to the value gained from OpenPhoto over the download all.
Good question, what were some of the keywords for your promotion? Did you target accordingly? I'd think that simply putting up an ad on Google with the default network settings resulted in low CTR because the people who would have seen this are already using other methods.
What games did they make that require user accounts? Or is it only accounts from support forums?
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Isn't there any way around adblock? Maybe you can't stop adblock from blocking your ads, but can't you make it impossible for adblock to distinguish between ads and content?

I'm not an expert on how adblock works, but I thought it just blocked stuff coming in from certain domains.
Our growth is entirely a function of the growth in applications. So we don't have much choice about our growth rate. To grow faster we'd have to fund people we thought would fail, and to grow slower we'd have to reject people we thought would succeed. Either would be painful.
I'm sorry you've had that experience. I've worked as a waiter, and was never pressured to report anything other than what I made. I'm not advocating for poor tipping, I was just clarifying for those not in the US how the law is written.
I imagine anonymous users, who are such by choice, are less likely to pay for things purely because it breaks their anonymity.
There are some new exchanges that will probably take a share of the market. One of the more promising ones is tradehill.com. They offer a nicely polished interface, offer dwolla payments/withdrawls and have a "viral" component by giving a 10% rebate on fees for people singing up using a referral link. In addition, they charge less than mtgox.

p.s. I was told that posting a direct link is frowned upon and I understand that. But since not using a ref id will lead to a 10% penalty on fees, I feel bad not leaving one: TH-R11089

Discussion about tradehill: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14010.0
(You can find other referal ids on the bitcoin.org forums too)
Because of their attitude I won't be back, that's the cost for making an assumption about me as a customer.

That's the rub, really. I find it hard to blame Groupon themselves for stuff like this (though certainly Groupon has other aspects that are complaint-worthy). If you're going to treat customers poorly because they've taken advantage of a deal, I don't really want to be your customer. And if it's such a bad deal for you, as the restaurant, why are you participating anyway? If you really feel that the extra customer acquisition is worth the lower revenue for the sale, then you should be happy when Groupon customers come in. If you don't believe it's worth it, why do a Groupon deal at all?
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This is basically Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, distilled to five paragraphs. Very nice.
Do you have an estimate of the storage/transfer costs if doing self-hosting?
The 'mixing' needs to be as pure laminar flow as possible, and that's generally between two cylinders that are rotating at different speeds. The speed of the fluid across the space should be a linear function of the relative distance from each wall. Any variation of that is going to reduce the reversability. So what they're doing is very carefully not mixing, but shearing. The fluid here is behaving like a very soft chunk of rubber, not like any fluid that you're used to dealing with.

If you've got a spoon, there's going to be some turbulence as the flow goes around the edges and the flow detaches from the surface. Turbulence absolutely destroys the reversibility.
Because open source is the juggernaut, bitch. It's hard to outmatch a swarm of coders doing it for kicks.

It's true that the library and packaging loadout in Linux tends to be always in flux, and certainly not stable from distro to distro, making proprietary application development on the Linux platform difficult (except for niche markets like high-end modeling and rendering software; a typical Office desktop will probably never take hold on Linux if it's proprietary). But what that really means is that open source apps are the only thing which can keep pace with an open source platform. And once there's a critical mass of app developers working in a niche, open source apps rapidly come up to speed with the proprietary world.

The other day I was messing around with recording my voice. I was doing some voices from Portal 2, and found that the post-production effects I needed to make my voice sound like Rick the Adventure Sphere (specifically, an equalizer to make it sound tinny and an Auto-Tune-like vocoder to make it sound "computery") were all available in the Arch AUR and I could do everything right from my Linux desktop with Audacity. That wasn't possible a year ago. I would've needed an expensive tool and hoped it worked in Wine or else used a VM to achieve this.
A friend of mine bought about $2000 worth of Bitcoin a couple of weeks ago and (despite my advice to transfer it to his wallet) left it in his Mt. Gox account. A couple of days ago, the Bitcoin and his transaction history completely disappeared from his account. No response from Mt. Gox yet.
They specifically said they are not leaking all of the juicy user data they found.

It's nice that they did that, but it's kind of like breaking into your house and stealing everything except your Rolodex because, well, that would be a dick thing to do.
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At risk of sounding like a broken record, would it help to know that Apple/iTunes runs SAP?
Union Square Ventures has made a lot of big bets on big networks of highly engaged users without a clear biz model. Tumblr and Twitter are the most obvious.

Course, they sold a stake in Twitter on secondary markets already...
That really surprises me. So disappointing. I've always been taught to tip on the full cost, even if I'm getting a deal. This isn't new because of Groupon; gift certifcates/cards and vouchers have certainly been around forever, though perhaps not as prevalent or well-publicized.
Well, that's unexciting. What am I looking at, the contents of senate.gov's public_html directory?

Dear lulzsec, if you're gonna brag about "owning" the US Government's security then at least steal something of interest.
Not sure what the details of your startup are/were but the goal of this project is to create and release an open source photo sharing service and a hosted version of it for non technical users.
We stopped doing phones screens a little while ago (work at a small startup in seattle). Check out mrinterview.com
Design is fundamentally about solving a problem. In this case the problem was that the product was ugly, not something more serious such as the design hindering successful interactions with the product. People can deal with a certain kind of "ugly" if it makes sense to them and works. This could help explain the lack of a significant, immediate uptick in the provided metrics.

Also, even though the current design may look nicer, it may have also introduced some new issues such as confusing users with all of the detailed automotive illustrations.
Yeah, bitcoin is getting some high level interest, unquestionably.
This same argument applies if I were to convince 1M people to each give me $1000, all on one day, I would go from 0 to $1B in revenue in one day. The thing is, it still applies if I take that $1B and burn it in a big bonfire. I suspect you must see why your statement isn't convincing now, right?

If I raised a few hundred million dollars, I could create a website where you went, and gave your credit card number. I would charge your card $1.00 and then credit your card $1.40. I would be Groupon, except I would be slightly more profitable.
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That's the big use case right now. A more flexible version of http://www.quickmeme.com - though I'm sure users will come up with other cool uses in the coming months.
I don't feel any smarter than I were on my 20's. OTOH, software has gotten much more complex. Mastering the Apple II ROM routines is one thing, but understanding how every piece in a complex web application (app server, rdbms, non-relational storage, cache) interact is much harder. After wrapping my brain around some concepts, it feels very thin. We rely on Google and the web to supplement our memories for things that 25 years ago depended on books and synaptic pathways.

I'm quite sure I am much more effective today than I were 25 years ago, but a lot has to do with cognitive prosthetics.
I am not sure you understand what "deregulation" is. Certainly an antitrust & monopoly busting lawsuit from the US government is not deregulation. When a regulated monopoly is broken up into smaller, regulated regional monopolies, that is not deregulation. It is also not deregulation when state & federal law has to mandate that line sharing be allowed.

Deregulation is the removal or simplification of government rules and regulations that constrain the operation of market forces.

The break-up of AT&T & the 1996 Telecommunications Act were nowhere near deregulations.

Also I certainly do not believe that AT&T would have broken itself up or the regional operators would have opened their lines up, had it not been for government regulatory actions.
I've also noticed that many lower-end restaurants will print pre-computed tip values at the bottom of the sales receipt for 15%, 18%, and 20% (both as a prompt and as a "nice" thing to do so you don't have to do the math yourself). But these values seem to always be calculated off the post-tax cost of the meal, whereas convention seems to be that you tip based on the pre-tax subtotal.
Will this be the new design for TC? I hope note because the header section is pretty ugly.
Does that spending include their dividends or other cash outflows to the founders? Because if it is straight spending money they are in trouble.
These might be practically difficult to realize just on brainpower alone.

For example: how do you avoid drinking alcohol if your only sources of drinking water are contaminated? You can boil the water — but you don't know a priori whether the pathogens or toxins in the water can be destroyed by boiling, or how much boiling is needed. If the toxins are things like arsenic, boiling the water will concentrate them, while various kinds of biological processing may filter them out.

And where do you get vitamin C? Tomatoes are a great source of vitamin C, but you can't just go around eating random local tomato-like plants; almost all of them are deadly. Plants like rhubarb have lots of vitamin C, but also lots of oxalic acid. Raw meat is also a good source of vitamin C, but raw meat can harbor many different pathogens. Are you going to build a microscope, synthesize some stains, and inspect a bunch of meat samples to see which ones bear pathogenic bacteria?

And once a couple of your human-subjects experiments go wrong, or just have coincidental unrelated deaths, you're a candidate for a witch-burning.

(Even in the best cases, modern hygiene is not without its drawbacks; the poliomyelitis epidemic is one example.)
Interesting; in the US it's common practice for all tips received to be pooled, and then divided among the waitstaff, busboys, etc. I'm not sure if they're divided equally, but everyone should at least get a pre-decided portion.
It's CYA policy for blame-shifting, a variant of security theater. When the next attack happens, the map purveyor needs to be able to say "he didn't do it with my maps". The map maker is not really interested in preventing attacks; just preventing blame. His self-interest is to make sure he can't be perceived to bear any fault for any attack that may happen.

And this effect works recursively for any entity that has power over the map maker. The Israeli government similarly wants to shift any blame away. So they can ban publishing a map of anything they consider vulnerable, not to realistically prevent any attack, but just to make sure they look like they tried and nobody can play the card of "why didn't they do something?" against them.

For a tech example, consider a system of stringent password requirements, with specifications for length and no dictionary words and special characters and so on. We know that this leads to the Post-it approach by users. But the password designer is only looking to avoid blame for any hypothetical attack - if the password is stolen off the written note, he can blame the stupid user and point to his own "secure" requirements.