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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions pointed this out decades ago. New paradigms tend not to win by converting existing practitioners, but instead by converting everyone entering the people and lasting until the skeptics die. I could cite a great many examples of this.
There will always be money in figuring out how to make the latest technology work.

Most people, though, can't be bothered. The payoff takes years of self-guided study. After all - it's new stuff - the established education system probably won't "get it" so you have to guide yourself.
I've been wondering this as well, and I didn't see it mentioned in any post thus far. It seems like the most obvious step to do; if police can get the CC number from AirBnB, that should be enough to resolve the SSN. Assuming the info isn't stolen, the criminal is going to have a problem.

I'm not an AirBnB user, so maybe I'm missing something.
so the matlab solution ships data back and forth for each line of the code? ouch. i looked at your package back then and got the impression you mapped variables to the GPU main memory, which i agree makes more sense.
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But if they made no cuts they would have been downgraded anyways. They should have raised taxes and done cuts to the point where they would not have to pay another 2 trillion in interest.
Retiring is equivalent to financial independence. You can start a khan academy and change education more than any amount of money could.
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Supply and demand for bonds is heavily influenced by ratings, and investors always have choices.

There are plenty of stories out there of large institutional investors who have already reduced their asset allocations on treasury bonds because of this dangerous brinksmanship on the part of the Republicans.
What value does this actually create for the economy? You get some extra cash in your pocket, but for what actual gain? You spend hours, or days, or as is the case for some people I know week of their free time doing creative accounting. This is pointless busywork with no actual economic gain to a nation. The government gets less money from you, and you personally spend an amount of time on something that could be much better spent /generating/ or spending capital.

I honestly think governments should remove all deductions and just charge a lower tax rate. I know it is an economic tool to get people to do or buy certain things but income tax deductions really add very little value to the economy and waste people's time. Note, that I am talking about income tax deductions, deductions can be put on other taxes to encourage purchasing but then it is your choice to buy it or not and the gain is immediate instead of at tax time.
FYI, most competent developers are going to see that and decide it's worth roughly what you give them in free coffee. If you want a competent developer to do work for you and they're not a cofounder, you generally need to be paying them in something which they can turn around and use for paying bills.

There are a few exceptional cases. For example, would it make an interesting research project? But in general, you'll get something very close to what you pay for.
Agreed. I think it was Boehner who compared the US debt situation to a household. These comparisons are like comparing a 747 to a Hotwheels car, and not just useless in most cases but damaging in the sense they cloud the more complex bigger picture.
I fully understand you. The problem is that I, for example, drive typically alone (to work and back) and would be in the same category as those irresponsible drivers. It would be nice if one could somehow let those drivers know that there is a complaint. Maybe if more people participated in this and there would be critical mass of complaints someone like DMV would probably use the information.

The idea behind my website is to help people get a rid of daily frustrations that can be dealt with. Simple stuff, noisy neighbour, guy in the office that makes annoying noises etc. How else are you going to tell them.
Yes, I know about the Keyensians. If spending cuts are bad and tax hikes are good, then why not go all out? Why only $800B for the stimulus? Why not $8 trillion? We'd surely get the necessary loans with a 1.5 multiplier, right? The truth is that if there was a 1.5x multiplier, we would have had a much larger stimulus and it would be made permanent.
... and keeping people who can perform Black Arts reliably is expensive.

I have nothing to add ("me, too!"), but would like to point out that this sounds like a line from a fantasy novel written by an economist. If such a thing actually exists, I would love to hear of it.
More to the point, the CEOs and shareholders of the big businesses who pay for politicians to be re-elected are in the highest tax bracket.
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Take another look at the graph.

Historically US debt traded at a substantially lower interest rate than other AAA debt. In fact we even hit a negative interest rate. People paid to loan us money! (They were willing to do it because markets were incredibly volatile, and buying treasuries was cheaper than putting large amounts of money in a warehouse, paying for a guard, and risking theft. I'm not joking.)

With the USA downgraded to AA and widespread awareness that stupid politics can result in us not paying, it is hard to conceive of a way that our interest rate will not rise.

Don't get me wrong. We'll still have a large and liquid debt market. But we won't enjoy the absurdly low interest rates that we have gotten used to.
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2% may use IE6, but I'd guess that 2% uses the web WAY less than the other 98%. IE6 is probably 0.5% or less of total page views. As a group, IE6 users are also probably significantly less likely to spend money on the web.

Then there's opportunity cost. Time and budget spent on supporting IE6 could have gone into additional features. It's true that supporting IE6 is a business decision and it could be worth it for some companies, but even that 2% statistic makes IE6 seem a lot more relevant than it really is.
Output is inconsistent over time and typically in the microwatt to low milliwatt range. This can be quite limiting.

Sensors with a low update frequency are a good example of things that can work.
> So how about instead of populist pleas of taxing the rich we simply make everyone pay their fair share? What about 25 cents in every dollar for every dollar you earn each year above $20,000 (and nothing below)?

That kind of misses the point. It's still a progressive rate structure--it just has fewer brackets than the current rate structure. If we are going to have a progressive rate structure, it's hard to make a sensible argument that fewer brackets are better[]. The most logical would be to have an infinite number of brackets, with your tax being the integral of continuous monotonic increasing function that starts at 0 and raises to whatever the highest marginal rate is.

[] Some people argue that fewer brackets simplify the tax code. They do, but in a trivial manner. All having fewer brackets does is reduce the number of entries in a table on page 1. All of the complexity in the tax code comes from determining what is income and who owes tax on it.
Entrepreneuship is not a really "calculated risk", its a deeply uncalculated one on the contrary: leave your job (or your normal career track), get no revenues for an undefined while, bet most of your credibility on idea that may change or become irrelevant, etc...

Teachers can tell stories about all of those, but they won't really "teach" them, since there are too personnal to be replicated.
Re: fresh out of college kids competing with the oldtimers, I'm thinking that yes, the field is being leveled and certain types of experience are worth less and less. The greater the pace of innovation, the greater the chance that new tools are adopted that make certain knowledge obsolete. This is good in many ways, but it also requires constant learning and change, which is frustrating. Not that it's right or wrong, but I think it's the reality. Once this plays out, I really think we'll see calls for unionization, which would be unfortunate.

Re: supporting IE6, there's a cost associated with that. So if someone shows me that 20% of my traffic comes from IE6 users and that traffic is profitable traffic (enough profit to offset the costs) then yes, let's support IE6. But I think the payoff on supporting IE6 is becoming lower and lower.
I am very interested in this info as well. Between work, contract gigs, and my own projects I spend too much time sitting.

I had a habit of going for a mid-day mile or two walk to help balance things out, but the weather has been so toasty lately that I just can not bring myself to do that anymore.

I am definitely feeling the effects of the sedentary lifestyle.
Another point to be noted. Wearing any sort of shoes with heels will increase the pain in the legs. So it's better to wear flat soled shoes. Am talking from my personal experience. I took to the extreme end of standing all day but I couldn't sustain with that regimen for more than a week. Perhaps standing for 4-5 hours works in the long run.
I would immediately have a lawyer involved as well, but then I can't imagine finding myself in EJ's position to begin with, i.e. renting my home out to a complete stranger without even a background check. I think we're dealing with a rather different mind set here, and not the "lawyer up" type.
"5. Better VCs Provide Better Deals: Venture capital firm experience is positively related to pre-money valuation. More experienced firms pay more for new ventures -- likely because they have higher success rates. "

Kind of tautology, no?
The only sites that should support IE6 are the download pages for the newer browsers.
Simple: Large private-sector companies sitting on a mountain of cash right now; they're not using it to create jobs. This means that additional tax cuts (or keeping taxes at the same rate) will not create jobs; it will just make the mountain of cash larger. Closing corporate tax loopholes (which the US system is plagued with) and creating a temporary surtax for those who earn, say, $500,000 or more, will force businesses and people in that category to find more productive places to park their money. Hiring people has historically been a great way to do that because it prevents you from having to pay tax on the money while giving you or your business a productive benefit which you can hopefully use to make bigger profits in the future.
Same with Yahoo Mail. So annoying. You'd think that after two times, the service would realize that I don't want to receive e-mail from them.
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So recently we've seen that anyone with a web app has a "startup". Then, anyone with a landing page has a "startup";
is it now even worse? That you don't even need to make the landing page yourself, just fill out a form, and you have a startup :P
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I look after an Australian e-commerce site. About 6.5% of our users are on IE6 (I assume they're mainly office-workers on shitty, out-dated PCs).

That is way too big a chunk of revenue to ignore in the name of ideals or standards or what-have-you.

But please, feel free to redirect any IE6 visitors to your blog to whatever the latest "IE6 is shit and you're an idiot" single serving site of the moment is.

I agree that IE6 is a turd, but have never found making my designs work in IE6 too much of a hassle. There has always been a positive ROI beyond just pleasing the spec-writers.

I think a lot of developers write overly complex, fragile mark-up with lots of nested floats and the like. Keep it simple and you'll realise IE6 support is generally just a few tweaks or at worst a conditional or two.
Ron Paul follows the Austrian school of economics. They believe that economics cannot be mathematically or statistically modeled, and the economic theories cannot be tested experimentally.

Family analogies are probably the best you are going to get for "analysis" from these people.
The analysis is interesting, and I think it fits for low values of n (and even then, only if the VCs LOVE the team), but I think you might be looking too far ahead without doing the non-numerical analysis. If you failed seven times, do you think you'll get funding and have an 83% chance of success? I think your chance of getting funding, no matter how much the VCs love you, will plummet drastically after a certain value of n, and I'm guessing it's a lot lower than seven (but I have zero data to back that up).
It doesn't matter whether the private sector is more efficient or not (although you can argue that Wall Street was almost comically inefficient during the credit meltdown of 2008).

Government doesn't exist to be the most efficient actor in an economy. It exists to invest in the things that the market cannot or will not provide -- public safety, military, education, transportation, and so on.
Here's a company doing something similar: http://www.tumultco.com/hype/

Seeing as how Adobe has interests in the prolongation of Flash, I'm not sure I'd trust their HTML5 app...
because body { -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; }, now the question is, why apply this rule?
It's simple for EJ to come clean by positing a copy of the communication between airbnb and her.
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"Everyone loves the story of the overnight success... the reason is perhaps that everyone likes to think they too can do it..."

Perhaps it's the opposite. If they turn founders into mythical characters, then it's much easier to disregard the idea of ever starting a business. They don't have to take responsibility for their own lives or accomplishments.
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Great idea. Going to do the same.
"supporting their meth addiction" might have worked
It will be interesting to see which does better - the entrenched giant or the agile upstart.
until you make it a rule... and that's not entrepreneurship either
Ok, I'm using WSGI every day but I haven't delved down into the details of it. But what would be the benefits of using WSGI Lite instead of the regular WSGI? Performance?
It's weird how full-circle I've gone on this. I went from "the naive solution is easy enough to write" to "I bet there's a more efficient way" to "oh crap, my solution doesn't actually work, because the preferences can have ties."

I did have the fun of coding up the algorithm I saw on HN a while back, though, so it was fun.
I think the reality is that Abobe isn't stupid. They see the future and are getting on the bandwagon "early" to ensure their place in the HTML5 future is well established.
Traditional forms of success usually involve some degree of gerontocracy. People who hold traditional positions of power in business, politics, law, and the media are in their 50's at the earliest, maybe their 40's but that would be considered young.
Regarding "nag their parents" -- be careful, be very careful, you are treading on sore thumbs here. If my preschooler starts nagging me about IAP prompted by whatever ad mechanism that is in the game, the app gets promptly deleted and it gets 1 star rating and a review with a warning to other parents.

As I said in another comment, while I do not like to say "no" to my kid, I really hate him being used as a pressure point for milking parents for IAP money. If your app is respectful towards the parents, I will gladly pay you and probably more than you think.
Creepy for guests: One could book AirBNB space and then reoffer it on AirBNB (is this possible?) or craigslist. So when you arrive, there is a "host" which is not the real one.
Unless I put that dollar under my mattress, it will be spent by someone, provided that we have stability in the banking system and regulatory structure (i.e. not yet, but getting there). With inflation, however, I'd be a fool not to spend it or earn interest on it (let someone else spend it, or let a bank finance the federal debt with it).

How does the government know what the correct level of spending for a given company is? How does government know how to "balance this out"?
>>I feel it has 95% of the problems of C++, without the advantages (predictable speed, mostly).

>I suppose you'd have to get a little more particular in the 95% of problems angle.

Hmm...getting very much off topic here, so I want to keep this brief, but roughly speaking I'm talking about the problems of the language being very verbose and missing a lot of useful features: no duck typing (C++ at least has templates, which have their own drawbacks -- Java generics need to be Object-derived), no coroutines, and no first-class functions are three examples that come to mind. Just look at the size of programs in the "Language Benchmark Game" -- Lua's entries are tiny compared to Java. Call me lazy. ;)

In addition, in Java you HAVE to force everything into an object paradigm, whether it makes sense or not. Lua can act object-oriented if you want it to, but you can also use it in other ways that simply make more sense to the problem at hand.

>Yes it's not a complete game engine nor is Moai which you mention you have your eye on presently.

No implied criticism there. As you mention BatteryTech is also low-level. There's a place for that.

For what it's worth, Moai does come with things like physics; not sure how they bind things together, but I would have guessed that they have a very basic engine with game objects. Could be wrong.

JavaCPP looks interesting, though I'm instead just minimizing my use of Java so I can have a Windows and iPhone version trivially.

>>I know that middleware providers will step in to fill in the gaps, but it's just annoying to be non-native on ALL platforms.

>Hrm? C / C++ is available on the majority of platforms... ?

Yes, but it's the API for getting events, putting up native dialogs, etc. that will be non-native everywhere. On Android more so than usual.

And actually...C/C++ isn't currently supported on Windows Mobile, at least in the public SDK, for what it's worth. Though C/C++ are supported on pretty much every platform where the company behind it isn't being stupid, yes.

No implied criticism toward your project in general, by the way. It's just not my thing, since I'm not a Java person. It does sound like you've solved a lot of the problems that people often have with Java, though, which is great.

>Regardless of what you choose though I hope you make some cool games for Android! :)

Thanks. :)
Not true!

If we'd voted for the usual "bare increase" back in Feb, the bond markets would have not noticed and our rating would have been fine.

The cause of the downgrade is that our politicians demonstrated that even when they are negotiating under the best of all possible circumstances to solve our long-term problems, they act like idiots. A "grand bargain" was the only way that put us on a course to actually bring debt under control. Our inability to negotiate that combined with our long-term fiscal problems is a major long-term problem.

If you want to know more about our fiscal situation, I highly recommend http://www.kpcb.com/usainc/USA_Inc.pdf. It is very long, detailed, and depressing.

Here are a few key facts. Our government's cash flow last year was -$11,000 per household. Our government's net worth, if we used standard business accounting, is -$44 trillion. Or -$370,000 per household. By 2025, CBO projections show that our total tax revenue will be entirely absorbed by interest payments and entitlements.

As a country we need dramatic changes. Soon. And there is absolutely no indication that the political will exists anywhere to create them.
"Having more control over the emails you receive from your Meetup Group Organizers is a great suggestion. We really appreciate your thoughts on this, and your patience while we make changes and improvements around here. :) "

AKA we're going to ignore you and throw a useless smilie face in a feeble attempt to placate you.
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I try to make my websites work in ie6 but with minimal work, I'll let IE6 users use it but it will be a degraded experience and most of my website for normal people actually haven't seen such high IE6 usage as 6.5%.
I like. I like. What a hack.
I spend some of my free time customizing my environment, which for me means basically zsh and emacs. I find this process somewhat enjoyable, and I find that using said environment to get actual work done makes the work much more enjoyable.
cool thing is that it looks like the animation is pretty much generated from a json object (likely generated from the program). not that there's many other ways to do it, but still a nice simple implementation.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/resources/ferriswhee...
Ok. I looked at skweal.com. It's one of the use cases that I considered.

The problem is that businesses have to activate account with Skweal upfront. I am talking more about complaining to teacher of your son, to your coworker who makes annoying noises, to the post office about postman etc.
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Well, that makes sense for China, but not for Japan, Hong Kong, or Singapore.
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I'm aware of the situation in SK, but what about Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore?
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