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As much fun as the other reply is, the real defense against your point is that "efficient" doesn't mean what you think it does. Efficiency in a market means that there exist no long-term arbitrage opportunities, because they will be exploited and thus cause prices to shift until those no longer exist. It emphatically DOES NOT mean "good" or "desirable" or anything like that. The market very efficiently went over a cliff, efficiently responding to incentive misalignments created by government regulation and efficiently ensuring that you had no significant arbitrage opportunities in the meantime.

The free market is more force of nature than construct of man, like gravity or a huge river. It can be harnessed, but it will efficiently crush you if you get in its way. It is also like the forces of nature in that it is extremely difficult to successfully harness it when one willfully chooses to not understand it because one does not "like" it, which is why the track record of social systems that start out with "Let's pretend the market isn't a force of nature but that we can will it into compliance with our ideology" tend to fare so poorly in practice; it's hardly any different than assuming gravity won't actually hurt you if you just love hard enough, then trying to get into rocket design. (The problem isn't that you won't get a rocket off the ground with such a plan, the problem is that you will....)
It's a question about the author. It's a stupid question about the author that could easily be answered with five seconds on Google, but that doesn't make it irrelevant, except in the eyes of an indifferent, exclusionary mindset that prizes signal-to-noise-ratio above simple politeness. I ain't asking for people to _upvote_ it, just to ease off on the downvotes and maybe provide a courteous explanation.
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Couldn't that be a symptom of other tablets not being competitive, rather than the cause?
I'm sure there are startup/web events going on in your area. Literally just pick a few and sign-up. There will be a lot of hit and miss but the most important thing is to stop thinking about it and just do.
>Seriously, DDG's killer feature is a founder interacts with the users. //

Doesn't scale well, how sustainable is this going forward.
I appreciate the bold vision. I also appreciate focus; here's hoping they get their current model fully fleshed out and in more hands before they expand into other verticals.
cool. yeah - this is more for developers of photo apps. but there might be a market for what you want as well. thanks for the feedback
Usually it means they are going to announce something and the store goes down until it announces and then comes up with the new thing.

I have seen it could just be broken though. If that is the case no doubt someone is yelling "We sell several BILLION dollars a quarter worth of stuff here, you're damn right I'm 'antsy'!"
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A valid point that was brought up in the discussion on the blog:

"I’m surprised no one has asked how the studies accounted for survivorship bias. One could easily imagine that while a certain number of, ahem, disagreeable men, stand out and increase their earning, it seems likely that this cohort is also terminated in greater numbers."
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I think the subtext to a lot of Groupon hate is the suspicion that their success is going to come at the expense of honest but smaller players.

It's legitimate to be concerned that an insolvent Groupon could leave thousands of small businesses without promised rev share from promotions. It's legitimate to be concerned that an over-zealous sales team will make one-sided deals that favor Groupon and shaft the small business owner.

And it's legitimate to be concerned that practices not publicly disclosed, along with obviously goofy accounting, could mean that IPO investors could be buying shares in a shady, radioactive concern.

I saw Andrew Mason be asked, point-blank, if his business was sustainable. The brittle, curt, brief response, when compared to his otherwise exuberant, voluminous presence, left me pretty startled – and planted the seeds of my personal skepticism.

To me, the many people looking askance at Groupon have no beef with their success. The beef seems largely about the source of that success.
Thanks for posting that, it was much more interesting and relevant than the OP link.

By the way, if you (the figurative 'you', not RyanMcGreal) find yourself unhappy and unable to concentrate on your work, consider that you may be depressed. Several years ago, I went through a bout of deep depression. I took Zoloft for about six months and was, for the first time in a long while, able to really focus and get work done. Accomplishing things leads to satisfaction, which snowballs to help ease the unhappiness. I've read elsewhere that borderline ADD-type symptoms are associated with depression, and let's face it, sitting in front of a glowing box all day probably isn't the most psychologically healthy activity in the world.
Thanks for responding. Sounds like pip supports most the features I was wondering about.

By transitive dependencies I mean that it will intall C when installing package A if A depends on B and B depends on C. It looks like it would do that.

As for 'obsoletes' I meant the case (this is from the RPM 'world') where on package changes names or 2 packages are combined into one, so let's say you maintain package A. Then you change its name to B because Oracle's lawyers have threatened to break your knees over a trademark ;-). Now everyone in the world depends on A so you declare that B obsoletes A so not their package will still install and corectly pull in your new package B. The same would happen if say you got together with another project and merged their project into yours. So you would 'obsolete' their old package name. Yeah, this probably doesn't apply to pip as much as RPM, it is more of feature of the package index server rather than pip itself perhaps.
They publish fallout, but develop the elderscrolls games themselves.
That is my experience as well. I've never heard anyone refer to it as just "scrolls."

I have heard all of the things you mention, though (TES, The Elder Scrolls, Daggerfall, etc.), but never ONCE have I heard it called just "scrolls." Ever.
This reminds me of a certain high stakes rock-paper-scissors match... For future reference, use scissors against normal people:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29scis.html
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Voted for a custom deploy script. However, I use unison rather than rsync as it runs on Windows without depending on cygwin.
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1) It is actually worse than having to compete with the best programmers in the world. Rapid development tools and high level abstractions have created the same sort of "level playing field" as the handgun did (i.e. a small weak guy with a gun can take on Hercules).

2) As you get older, some people realize that you don't have to compete. You don't have to be the smartest person in the room. Your life experiences make you unique. It might so happen your unique perspective is what is needed to make some breakthrough happen. You come to realize how much being in the right place at the right time matters more than anything else.

Intellectually, I know #2 to hold true. But that doesn't stop me from feeling that I'm not reaching my full potential :(
Ah yes.

By "original wolfenstein" I understood "wolf3d" (as opposed to the new wolf1d).
Yes but when time-sensative information relies on speedy calculations or approach then there is inherent usefulness to the invention. A competing firm may choose to solve the issue by paper in order to avoid lawsuits for stealing the patentable invention but its impractical.
Read around a lot. There are plenty of stories out there about how/when things have gone wrong. Then start asking yourself whether you could have the same or a similar problem.

Similar. Don't look for a "plug-and-chug" formula. Understand what went wrong and why. When you look at your own work, those lessons will be floating around in your subconscious and sometimes surface into conscious concerns.

Have a deep-seated concern about "getting it right". If you don't have this, you won't "make" yourself do the rest. You need the interest in getting things right, as a precursor.

(I've seen a lot of QA that reduces to "pushing buttons in return for a paycheck". This level of involvement won't get you too far -- although it is, or was a few years ago, quite prevalent.)
> Groupon isn't adding value to anyone.

I don't think this is true. The fact that so many people are using it is proof to me that it provides value. I can safely say that Groupon provides value to me.

I can't say that it provides value to any business',as I'm not a business owner, but that's not what you said above.
it wont be hard for them to IPO on a small float at 20-30B valuation... what will be hard is for VC's and employees to sell at that valuation once the lockup expires.
> Nice work, China: this is pretty much the most effective indictment I can imagine of Cameron's idiotic response.

I agree, but they'll probably claim it's different when they are the ones doing it. After all, they only want to silence rioters, while China wants to silence protesters.

Or something absurd like that.
Thanks for sharing! You've had nice continuous monthly growth with the direct queries. API usage seems to be hovering at 10M...any reasons for that? Was the jump in direct queries between December(2.4M) and January(5.1M) a result of the Donttrack.us site?
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It would make more sense to HTML escape the input than to strip out tags.
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Anyone have any experience with this?

Seems like there could be some good advice in there, just have no experience with paying for advice other than purchasing books that have been recommended to me.
Much better. This has more to do with income than "seduction" theory or whatever.
I would say the fall of 2008 was pretty close to optimal, especially in terms of what Heyek would predict.

That is not to say it was good for the population, but it was a reasonably efficient reaction to the information the market had about the state of affairs. Note that it didn't fully reflect the entire state of affairs because the market did not have sufficient information, and still doesn't. (I think if it did, the S&P 500 would be about half where it is now.)

The thing that makes me listen to people like Mises and Heyek is that other people who follow their teachings were telling me in 2001 that there would be a housing boom and bubble, and that it would crash eventually due to the inevitable excesses of a bubble. I researched this hypothesis and decided I agreed with it. This made it very easy for me to watch housing prices go up, profit from it, notice when things were ready to change, and then profit from the change.

I think the question of whether markets are efficient or not is one that is placed in a vacuum and thus meaninglesss. Is the market more efficient than government? Yes, always. (It is impossible for a central planner to have sufficient information to set prices correctly.)

Were there people who had the same information as I did, but lacked the economic perspective that I did and thus made bad investments? Yes there were. This is happening today, in fact. We have politicians saying a lot of economically silly things, and the market reacts to this "information".

The question of market efficiency ignores the issue of perspective. You can talk about information asymmetry, and people can debate the amount to which it exists, but I'm absolutely certain that there is perspective asymmetry. I'm going to make a killing in the markets simply because so many people's perspective of economics comes from people like Krugman.

Is that efficient? Maybe-- the markets reflect the perspective of most people, even though they are wrong. But I don't really care.

I'd love it if I couldn't profit from this perspective asymmetry... the benefits to society would far outweigh the profits I'd loose from not being able to bet on these sure things. But so long as people will continue to roll their eyes when an austrian is mentioned, I'll take my profits as a consolation prize.
"Some independent bookstores have already said they do not intend to carry any books from the retailer, not wanting to give a dollar to a company they feel is putting them out of business."

Oh no! How will Tim Ferriss recover from the 2% of books he'll lose from the mom & pop stores? His market is 99% 18-35 probably haven't stepped foot in an independent bookstore in ages.

Good news for him, I enjoy reading his stuff, even though some of it goes too far in my opinion.
Really like it, this is of the same "I should have thought of that" smartness as Slideshare was when I was first told of it. Youtube for presentations - brilliant! Photoprint api for photo apps - brilliant!

And a built-in business model. Good luck guys!
I still don't get it. If the offer was turned down, it would be because they think that either the offered price was too low, or because they think they can do better on their own(thus make even more money later). Why would any of those scenarios need a 'gift' from the company like this?
Much better article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/16/facebook-riot-calls...

"Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, of Latchford, Warrington, used his Facebook account in the early hours of 9 August to design a web page entitled The Warrington Riots. The court was told it caused a wave of panic in the town. When he woke up the following morning with a hangover, he removed the page and apologised, saying it had been a joke. His message was distributed to 400 Facebook contacts, but no rioting broke out as a result."
I don't know a single good programmer who isn't subject to the impostor syndrome, actually.

I've been wondering if the daily work is shaping us in this specific way.
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What's a "sidebar" in a mobile context (I'm an iPhones user)? Is it a reference to scroll bars?

I absolutely detest the Wikipedia mobile version with all the sections collapsed.
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I often feel this way as well. I tell myself that I'll learn faster if I can get over this feeling, or learn an effective way to cope with it.

Looking back at difficult things I've learned helps. That is, knowing I felt this way about some other topic or domain, whether it was real analysis, fourier analysis, cooking, or more recently, RoR. Having a community to ask questions to also helps. Stackoverflow boosts my confidence a little whenever I see one of my questions or answers upvoted.
Any computer program could be performed with pencil and paper

This ruling requires that doing it my hand or purely mentally be achievable as a practical matter.

It is not practical for me to draw frame by frame the contents of an AVI file by hand, even if it were theoretically possible, etc. While this ruling does leave judgment calls and grey areas, there are also a lot of cases where it can be decided very directly whether or not it is practical to do the operation by hand.
Bad research, lousy generalizations, and crappy conclusions.

> The hypotheses were supported across four studies.

I wonder which study Warren Buffet, that disagreeable guy, fell into?
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Also in addition to getting older, your perspective changes, especially if you end up doing something life-changing like starting a family. Then I think you might find you care a lot less about jobskill insecurities, but that this laid back attitude may actually help you.
Peter, I have to agree. I nearly made the mistake yesterday of visiting a restaurant claiming "best overall restaurant, <cityname> dining awards" on their website. The reviews contradicted this, and it turned out they'd been making this claim since at least 2008. Much can change in 3 years in tech as restaurants. Similarly, being in the Times Top 50 is impressive, top 1000 less so, so the number is important context.
The title should be "Xinhua Applauds UK Move To Restrict Access To Social Media".

The relationship between Xinhua and the Chinese government is complicated. Treating them as synonymous is a little clumsy.
I concur. The first iPad was ridiculously well done in my opinion. However, one should remember that it was essentially the same software on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Consider the folders thing. Or background tasks. Apple usually releases things that work. I'm shocked how rare this is.
Right, why would Congress see any problem here? They're all lawyers, and it's the lawyers who are the real winners under the current policy.
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this is dead-on... local = massive sales expense.

elon musk tried to create one such company, Zip2, back in the late 90's. cost of sales ate it alive.

reachlocal, profitfuel, etc has been successful by making their companies into freakish sales-driven machines. the core competence of any "local" is maximaizing sales effectiveness.
Well, yes, Groupon thought the offer was low and that it could do better on its own. And so cashed out some investors and employees in return for delaying a complete exit.
Agree completely.

You are simply not a well-rounded programmer if you can't architect an application / piece of functionality to do whatever it needs to do.

Designating someone to be the architect just causes strife / encourages 'normal developers' to shut up about architecture because there is no credit to be made.
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I actually feel really lucky RE: all the technology that's out there now. When I learned to program, the only option available was 'BASIC', then years later, C++. When I went to university (1997) I was surprised at how many other languages there were, but it still was relatively simple compared to today.

I remarked to my partner who's also in IT that I feel sorry for people trying to get into IT nowadays, because the number of languages, frameworks, platforms etc. is so huge. It's awesome in some ways but it must be overload for a newcomer trying to figure out where to get started.
If I had a dollar for every time I wondered when I was going to get fired for incompetence, I'd be a millionaire. Most of the time I know that I know my trade -- I get a fairly regular stream of compliments from coworkers, customers, peers on random projects, etc and I generally feel I produce a lot of value. But the second something happens that points in the other direction, even something minor like a slight flaw in a report to a client, I immediately fall into the "how am I still around?" trap. I've gotten good at pushing that down and moving forward until I feel good about what I'm doing again, but it's tough.

I'm just glad I'm not the only one that feels this way; from what I can tell, this is fairly common. I wonder if this ever really goes away? It seems that for me, the more I realize I don't know (which is, of course, always increasing along with the things I do know) the more common it gets. Curse of knowledge, I guess.
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Unfortunately, most big corporations still judge progress by scheduling and budgeting performance. Did we meet the schedule? Yes! Did we stay under budget? Yes! This is a paper victory.

Nobody asks "is the product ready to ship to customers?".
For a long time they didn't own the trademark for Excel, having to call it "Microsoft Excel" in all official communication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#Excel_2.0
As an extreme example some believe that the Westboro Baptist Church is a group of these "reverse shills". I don't think I believe that myself though.
I don't think this is such a bad finding.

Let's look at this from the perspective of the "brand." I make apps. What gets me pumped more than anything is an email in the morning from a customer who says they really enjoy my app and use it every day. Strong customer feedback and loyalty are what drive me to make better products.

If we were to take the opposite case, that customers saw brands as interchangeable cogs, then the only incentives out there for the people making products would be money, and that isn't what motivates creative people on a deep level.

A base of highly loyal customers creates, if you will, a very, very high bar of "social pressure" that makes it harder for managers to make decisions that screw them over.
The mobile Wikipedia site is being worked on, I think. At least, the tech team were rolling out updates the other day (which ended up displaying for normal Wikipedia too, oops).

I'm not sure if there is anything more to come.
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I find this happens when
1. we fruitlessly compare ourselves to others, and
2. 'worship' smartness. I'm reminded of a quote from David Foster Wallace's commencement speech:

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship -- be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles -- is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things -- if they are where you tap real meaning in life -- then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already -- it's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power -- you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart -- you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.

edit: changed DFW to David Foster Wallace.
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