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A friend of mine has lived in Japan teaching one-on-one English lessons for a number of years. A good chunk of his customers are recently married women. Their husbands don't want them to work, but with nothing to do at home they end up taking English lessons out of a desperate need to find something mentally stimulating to pass the hours.
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On the other hand, considering that humans are on top of the food chain, maybe what you describe is a good thing (and we have it in our genes):

Population can not grow forever on a planet with a limited amount of resorces. So people either stop having children, or begin killing each other.
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I wrote an app for a large customer (a bank) that automates some mainframe jobs from the unix side, then publishes its logs in a very simple webpage with only PRE html tags.

I was amazed and confused when some users, all of them mainframe developers, came to me to ask if I could put a search box into that page. I replied "come'on, use Ctrl+F". You should see the look in their faces when they saw me doing it, with the keyboard first, then from the "Edit" menu. They replied "yeah, but most users don't know they can do that". I ended up incorporating a (slow) javascript search box from the web into that page. Now they're happy.

So it's not just grandpa who doesn't know about Ctrl-F.
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More like something like iPad.
It is, in any case, a nice little saying.

I used to have my data structures & algorithms class (back when I taught DS&A) read "On following rules" by Kirit Saelensminde [http://www.kirit.com/On%20following%20rules]. This little saying goes along with it nicely.
I'm gonna have to disagree here. First, something provided as free open source is significantly different than something non-free without a permissive license. For starters, there's an implication of improvement either by the original author or a forker. Second, something coming from Twitter developers includes a not insignificant amount of social validation. Third, I go to Themeforest and I can barely figure out where to begin. Finally, the themes I actually am able to find there mostly seem quite a bit "thicker" than what I would want to use to start a project.
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What are they going to do with a military? Why not just go through Tokyo with a baseball bat and break as many windows as possible? That'll put people to work without risking the peace.

I don't disagree with your thesis that peaceful societies tend to amuse themselves to death, but I don't see how military spending is a magical way out of that trap, unless you go looking for trouble.
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Ah. Thanks for clearing that up ...

Its a risk one must take but you don't just wake up one morning and 'fail' ... you see it coming, and you should be able to line up interviews and at least make an attempt at getting a gig before that happens .... thats what I'd do, but that's just me.
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Gmail was a huge step forward from Hotmail/Yahoo. People went from 4MB storage ad-riddled sluggishness to massive storage AJAX interface awesomeness.

Unless you have ideas that are as big as that you probably shouldn't bother stepping into the ring. The product quality bar is very high and so is the lock-in for email (Yahoo/Hotmail are still bigger than Gmail).
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Yes, please. And thank you. The reality is that IE8 (and probably IE7) are widely used and lack of support is a non-starter. And from what I've seen, some of the gaps looks reasonably fillable.

And to nit-pick, can you make the drop-downs a bit less fancy?
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I've written server-side software that generated a meaningful Last-Modified header (it's very useful information) and also did an exact comparison instead of a time-based one. I did the exact comparison because I realized that it was very hard to guarantee correct results otherwise (correct being that I never 304'd a request unless the client already had the exact version of the page that I would have served). The problem is that there are a number of situations in a web server that can cause page modification time to go backwards. For example, several ways of doing rollback to previous versions of content will also roll back the page time, such as simply renaming an old version of the file to the current name.

To do correct time-based If-Not-Modified comparisons you really need to guarantee that all changes moves your Last-Modified time forward, no matter what. My view is that this is surprisingly hard once you start looking at corner cases. Certainly it's not something that a web server that serves general file content can ever guarantee; there are too many ways to shuffle files around behind the web server's back.
1. The only thing you can't do with the extended license, which costs a tiny fraction of what a comparable amount of webdev costs, is resell the theme on Themeforest.

2. Unless your customers are themselves webdevs (in which case, AAAAAAAAAARGH!), none of them care where you got your pixels.

3. Search for "admin" themes. I'm sure most of what's on Themeforest is terrible. Just look at the highly-rated admin themes. And use the parts you care about.

Or, you know, rebuild your own admin theme using Twitter Bootstrap as a starting point. Sure. I'd rather just spend, what is it, $25?, to get a fully fleshed out app as a starting point, but that's me.
Absolutely. People complain about it being plural, but words in English have both number and gender, and I don't see why being "wrong" on the number is any worse than being "wrong" on gender.

That said, it's not "wrong" at all because English has a long history of using the word "they" for a generic pronoun. It's basically a different word from the "they" in "they are my friends", just written and pronounced the same.
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^60% of divorce settlements favorable to women, 40% even, 10% favorable to men. UK, 2004.

http://www.attorneys.com/legal_center/articles/child_custody...

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I am not a fountain of sources, so I hope this will do for now.

A fun story illustrating how weird things are getting:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2011/02/27/man-receives-oral-sex-or...
I doubt it was a trial. HP only have a billion dollars in cash left now, and their stock has tanked to a market cap lower than SAP's.

I think they found out that SAP was too big and too expensive and had no need for HP so went with Autonomy as a second choice
Another issue I find is lack of education given to users after installing software/application. Commands like Ctrl/Cmd + F are not easy to discover. Especially for the people with lesser computer literacy. I believe a simple tour of how stuff in your application will work; right after installing it will give some idea to majority of users. Of course not everyone will sit through whole tour but there needs to be some sort of education of end-users in interactive format rather than typical "read me" files.
Can't find any reference online, but remember that some US grammar teacher had proposed using him'er and his'er but just never caught on.
crazy. I have _days_ I write 500 lines of production grade code.
I think that today, it's hard to learn from history about such things because of some disruptive changes that happen to war and politics.

1. Democracy

According to the democratic peace theory[1], two stable , long term democracies, rarely or never go to war between them.

2. Nuclear weapons

The threat of nuclear weapons does change the rules of war substantially. I can't see a peaceful nation, that has nuclear weapons , totally conquered by an enemy.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory
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You never buy DNA. It has to be there in you. Tell me one example who bought a plaform in and made it successful. HP never had a chance. Leo was dreaming when he bought WebOS. I'm glad the dream is over sooner than later.
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If you add the infrastructure needed to live combine the video feeds of say 1000 units into a coherent view, available to each of those units and their commanders, but not to the enemy, things can get expensive.

Having said that the combination of 'finger-sized' and outdoor operations will be quite a challenge. Even moderate wind will be a problem.
I like your point. It reminds me of how facebook was initially cobbled together with some (likely) hodgepodge php and mysql code. It was a great user experience and took off. After it becoming a hit, they optimized it and improved it.
The title (which comes from the original article, so blame the Times, not the submitter) is a bit misleading.

A living smoker or obese person generally costs more to care for than a living non-smoker, non-obese person of the same age, according to the study they cite.

However, the former die sufficiently before the latter that the lifetime total care cost for the latter is higher than for the former.
Agree dev tools don't have to be tied to any OS and come to think about it, the fledgling Windows Phone OS will benefit if there are more people adopting the dev platform if it runs on Linux BUT you have to draw a line somewhere. realize that this is a new platform and they are trying to prioritize resources. What do you think will give Microsoft more bang for the buck? Supporting a platform that is will likely land them a dev or two or making their core platform kick-ass? I think we all know what the answer is.
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I think it comes down to drive. If you want it bad enough you'll figure it out. Don't understand the difference between the stack and the heap? Read about it for 4 hours after work, etc. etc. etc.
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I can't see a peaceful nation, that has nuclear weapons , totally conquered by an enemy

Then we are doomed to conquer ourselves. Or at least, be totally conquered in the economic sector. I don't think we can use nuclear warheads to settle China's stake in the US, lest we receive a serious credit downgrade from S&P.

P.S. It's funny because it's true.
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what do you guys think of branching out in the sense of:

-a c# programmer learning python
-a sql expert learning cassandra

etc?
I had a chairman during the first dot-com bubble who would carry around a copy of 'Blown to Bits'[1] and read from it like it was his bible.

It is the earliest source, that I know of, of the theory that software and the web will destroy every other industry - and it was from the mid-90s (the HBR article was).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Blown-Bits-Economics-Information-Trans...
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Interesting idea. I'd love to hear more about the birth rate numbers historically. I wasn't aware that any large societies experienced sub-replacement fertility levels until the late 20th century, which are typically attributed to the empowerment of women (education, entering workforce, legal equality, etc.), huge reduction in infant mortality, and strong economies/social safety nets.
Exactly. It's just like the interviews with some of Bernie Madoff's clients. They knew that he had to be doing something not quite legit to be getting the returns that he was getting, but they all figured that they could make some money off of it.

Everyone sees a chance to make some money and convinces themselves that they will get out before the crash so that they won't be the last one holding the bag.

The smart ones realize that it's a bubble, and the dumb ones don't. It's just that the people that know it's a bubble convince themselves that that knowledge shields them from getting burned because they know more than the other guy.
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> I can't see a peaceful nation, that has nuclear weapons , totally conquered by an enemy.

You don't need soldiers to control a country a puppet dictator will do.
It would have been useful if this article had taken into account the fact that the laws of certain SE Asian countries (i.e., the Philippines) do not provide for divorce:

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the bubble was in the price of the collaterized debt. having read a few accounts of hedge funds in that time - it seemed preposterous that these things would ever lose value because of the way they were engineered.

some of the big fund managers who made big at the time were embarrassed to tell their peers that they were short CDO's.

David Einhom was probably the only one who came out and said it - the rest, like Poulson and co. were quiet.
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it can be readily and universally exchanged for goods or services, and has been that way for thousands of years

so in short, it is valuable because we all think it is
That would be the US dollar. The Fed is independent of "dumb politicians", who cannot coerce monetary policy, and its value is determined by supply and demand, as is any commodity.
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So my statement is still valid ;) Thanks for the correction! Think I mixed up things in my memory with the Eurozone, should have checked it.
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I can tell you for sure: no one I've ever met is remotely loyal to Groupon. Groupon is viewed as, at best, a deal – at worst, an off-target annoyance.

There are no meaningful barriers to entry. Margins will tend to zero in the face of competition. Users have no lasting connection to Groupon's web presence. Every new model propose by Groupon further erodes its original appeal: false scarcity. Meanwhile, there's a war for customer acquisition, with spending up to $40 per user, when it should be closer to $2.50.

Anyone who gave this market a serious look saw these issues coming a thousand miles away.
I am married to a Japanese and live here right now, so I can only comment on the situation of the country.
I will try to give an economical assessment of the situation. As you might be aware Japan had a “lost decade” during the 90s. It experienced almost no growth of the GDP. There are many theories as to why, but the most convincing one is: The Japanese “Baby Boomers” retired during this decade. In fact the percentage of workers in the population (age 15-64) decreased by 5.6% during this time, as the number of retirees increased by 10.7%. http://goo.gl/kVZxB

What does this have to do with anything? / What happens when you have fewer people in the expected working age?
2 things happen:

1. More people have to work
2. People have to work longer

The official retirement age for Japanese is 63/61 (M/W), the effective retirement age is 69.5/66.5 http://goo.gl/s9slK (very interesting graph)

My wife held a managerial position before our son was born, amongst her friends hardly any of them want to stay single, they simply don’t have a choice. If they want to sustain their current life standard, marriage would be impossible. One man working has a hard time providing for his wife, kids, paying for a decent home & the mandatory elderly taxes. The taxes are almost 2000 USD per person / year, no matter if employed, or not. And those are just to pay for the pensions; insurances, social etc. come on top of that.

Many women still life / moved back in with their parents, even in their late 40es. It is not because they want to, or cannot find a partner (many of them look quite stunning). The pensions simply don’t suffice and they feel obliged to support their parents. The same holds true for many men.

I very much disagree with the statement that women in Japan enjoy their single life so much, as they choose not to marry. I have yet to meet a Japanese woman, who will state this. Compared to Europe, where this kind of ideology is quite common.

Edit:

Japanese women are expected to do 90% of the housework, where as American women will “only” do 60% of the work. http://goo.gl/qj64W This fact and the very big distance Japanese develop for their spouses are certainly not helping. http://goo.gl/QlAfx Surprisingly no women I ever conversed with, complained about this lack of love between a married couple, on the contrary it is expected by the women. And it often leads to problems in marriages with foreigners.

Edit #2:

If my experience with the Japanese Culture is in any way representative employing more men in the military will be the worst thing imaginable. The country has a deficit of 180% /GDP and every person in the army is one person less doing productive work to keep country afloat.

Edit #3:

When the "Baby Boom" generation will retire in the United states, do you expect the country to sustain a positive GDP? This would mean that every person working will have to work harder and produce more just to reach 0 growth. Something the Japanese managed to do. The only solution to this is immigration, something Japan is battling against.
For how many years did Amazon lose money on every customer?

Fewer than most people think. Consider the financial model of a (successful) grocery store ostensibly losing a penny on each transaction. If you're clever, you can make plenty of money by arranging your contract terms carefully.
I believe that book used to be titled Men and Marriage, right? Essential social science book, I agree.

EDIT: Actually, I see now that those are two different books. Men and Marriage was a re-titling of Gilder's Sexual Suicide, and the sequel to Naked Nomads.
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We need more posts like this. Success stories are great, they make us believe it can be done.
But failure stories are maybe even more valuable as they teach us that so many things can go wrong..so many.

Success stories makes us dream (which is great) and failure stories wake us up (which is necessary).
Also, failure stories make us appreciate more the success stories. It's never easy even if sometimes it seems so.
It's not just about who will build the software, it's about who will use the software.

The way I see it, we're on the edge of going post-material. The trend is that the proportion of the population involved in the manufacture and distribution of physical goods is dropping. Follow that trend for a century, and you get a society where most people's jobs involve only virtual goods (although many of those goods will be turned physical by 3d printers or large bespoke manufacturing companies). Apple and google are the vanguard of the all-digital companies (apple isn't in the business of making stuff, only designing it). This means the majority of people will be making their money producing digital content, and spending it purchasing digital content. Already a sizeable portion of our income is spent on content (tv, dvd, games, books, magazines, ...). I see no reason why that trend shouldn't continue until we have a digital post-material economy.

And if we will have a digital economy, that means most people will be software users, producing content for others to buy. We're not just going to have to train the people that will make the software, but also the people that will use the software. I think the actual production of software will remain a small share of the economy.
Yes, that's what I mean. Ponzi schemes are about investors - who expect to earn money from their investment - not about consumers.

In the end, if after the IPO the business starts making money and that money gives a healthy return to the latest investors, everything is fine. If, on the other had, it turns out that the business model can't give a return on the investment and the latest investors lose their money, which was used to pay off the first investors, the mechanic of a Ponzi scheme is perfectly respected :)
Yes, and I think one reason for that is the discrepancy between the huge potential of software in so many industries and the greately varying barriers to entry to these industries.

It's no coincidence that Andreessen speaks of oil and gas exploration, defense, logistics, the auto industry, etc, but most of his investments seem to be in the entertainment/leasure and advertising space.
Hollywood (media in general) can create self-fulfilling prophesies, but that doesn't necessarily mean things are set in stone:

1) Where is my flying car? Where is my personal jet pack? Where is my faster than light travel? Where is my single world government? What about space elevators? Why are we still eating food and not geometric shapes in primary/secondary colors (ala Star Trek's 'food cubes')?

2) People try to emulate the cool things that they see movies and read in books. Creating software that takes us to a post-apocalyptic world isn't 'cool.' People want to create light sabers, phasers, and/or transporters. People don't want to create master control programs that will manage the population.

3) There are many more things to be afraid of. We have nuclear arsenals that can wipe all of humanity off the face of the planet. We are so dependent on industrialized agriculture and mechanized supply lines, that we would be totally and royally screwed were they to be disrupted for a significant amount of time (e.g. a super-volcano goes off and we can no longer use most of a continent for farming).
Divorce and annulment are not the same things in legal terms. Filipino law does not provide for divorce. I'd also suggest that legalities are hardly "the only reason" divorce isn't more prevalent. As the OP suggests, tradition, societal expectations, and welfare have a lot to do with it as well.