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I'm personally torn on RSS readers. Admittedly, I'm an almost entirely unproductive person lately, so I can't claim that it's because RSS is getting in the way of other things. My chief suspicion is that as the number of subscriptions goes up, the propensity to fly through headlines rises as well, and so too does the efficiency of applying whatever criteria normally applies in choosing whether or not to read past a headline. What normally would be signal gets converted to noise because of the quantity needed to be consumed. Of course, one can always lower the number of subscriptions, but on the other hand, as one approaches lower bounds, the less sense RSS makes: one can simply and probably with more aesthetic pleasure, just make rounds to the website. Another point: there's more information and more of interest in a website than what gets printed as words in an article or in the images or whatever media that accompanies that article. And this is another suspicious element of RSS readers: they divorce content from the context in which it "originally" appears (scare quotes because of complexity). One can learn a good lot of important stuff about a content provider by looking at that provider's website, layout, design, ad priorities, etc. And not only about that provider, but about just what the hell the web looks like these days. If all I did was read via RSS, I'd probably have no clue. And more over, if all anybody ever did was read via RSS, websites themselves would be something else entirely and that something else probably wouldn't be much to look at.

So really that's two chief suspicions: one, it's hard to find an optimal number of subscriptions (or even if there is such a thing); and two, RSS annihilates the experience of everything it can't contain.

(I said I was torn, but I think I've started to convince myself that maybe I need to ditch Google Reader...)
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I simply separate my RSS feeds into two folders - A list and B list. A list is for independent writers who only post a couple times a day. B list is for news-centric websites. I do not hesitate to simply mark the entire B list as read.
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You have basically no practical experience, and you're worried about getting "fair compensation" for this job? You should be taking this job to absorb as much practical experience and knowledge you can get -- thats the opportunity for you; not some mediocre paycheck.
Yeah, we did not really include nicknames, just first and last name. You could change your first and last name under Settings to your preferred name. If enough users want an additional option of a nickname, we could add that in the future
For a design-studies take even more on the "how things work" side, I like Herb Simon's classic The Sciences of the Artificial, which conceives of design as a science of man-made artifacts.

I also like Nigel Cross's stuff. His book Designerly Ways of Knowing (2006) is good but published in some absurdly expensive, for-libraries-only monograph series, so find it in a library rather than buying it. His more recent book, Design Thinking, is a collection of case studies with some analysis, a bit lighter but also good (and not $149: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847886361/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...)
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I spent about a year working at a non-quant hedge fund out of NYC, and I saw people in similar-sounding situations making $100-125k base, plus another 20-50% in year-end comp ("bonuses"). Recruitment bonuses (or "relocation incentives," what have you) vary widely, too, but seemed to be usually in the lowish-five-figures range.

Of course, I don't know anything about your particular situation; maybe the firm you're talking to has specific interest in you that will take them higher!

Also, like some others have mentioned, your year-end compensation ("bonus") is a big chunk of your take-home---but hard to anticipate ahead of time. Even within a team there can be huge variance (depending on your individual awesome) so the "mean" or whatever figure they're willing to give you doesn't really help.
Can you please change the skin so I can read it comfortably? The content area is too narrow.
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Three options:

1) Liquidation preferences.

2) "We wipe out common stock at acquisition and offer employees retention bonuses, leaving 2% owner who moved on totally shafted."

3) Pretend your corporate charter is a Ruby program and a malicious adversary gets write access to it. Seriously, the sky's the limit. Integers might be kitten pictures now, and multiplication returns shades of pink.
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Sure, that's another way of looking at it. (I mean, obviously, nobody is going actually believe that a businessman doesn't care about money, but looking at your idea from the point of view of "what problem am I solving" I think, is a great thing to do, and many people respond better to the "change the world" rhetoric than "make lots of money" rhetoric, even though we all know that the speaker is saying the same thing.)

"If I made something like service X, only cheaper, would that solve a real problem that people have?"

which is the same question the OP is asking, really, just a different way of phrasing it.
On Windows "Print Screen" and "Alt + Print Screen" also take screenshots of your entire screen, and of your currently focused app, then stick it in the clipboard for pasting elsewhere.
Therefore, it would be a good thing to educate more web developers and the public in general about what it takes to make sites more accessible.
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Do you think there is a similar explanation as to why Scotland's economic fortunes haven't actually improved over the last 304 years despite being in a union with England which promised and still promises that there is economic benefit for Scotland to be in a union with England. Is it possible that they are deliberately or through their own ignorance/incompetence be keeping Scotland poor.
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Considering the current Google+ brouhaha and the target demographics, I'd recommend something like that.

Also, having a bookmarklet for a pop up version of the "Just Post" page might be quite neat.
This raises several important issues.

The first is that most people don't review things. No matter how easy it is the vast majority of the population just won't do it. The simpler you make it the more that will but the simpler it is the less useful it becomes.

This has several important implications.

- It makes local hard to scale because your audience size is that much smaller that reviews are far less reliable both in frequency and volume; and

- Again I'll say something I've said here repeatedly: the value of so-called "social search" is limited to nonexistent because most people in your circle won't review anything.

Secondly, businesses like Yelp risk going down the comScore route. 10 years ago comScore was the source for visitor numbers, which drove advertising revenue. If you paid you got accurate numbers. If you didn't, comScore "guessed", and for some reason those numbers always seemed low, so much so that lots complained.

The problem is that comScore (and now Yelp) have an economic incentive to get people to advertise such that they are not impartial and site therefore cannot be trusted.

It's why I think companies like Google (disclaimer: I work for Google) should stay out the content business. We're great at connecting people to things they want. If we're one of those things they want then we have at least the potential for the appearance (if not the actuality) of impropriety, at the very least.

I just don't see local reviews and social search going, well, anywhere, certainly anytime soon.
To compete on price, the prospect has to have heard about your business, and heard about your competition and realize that your price is better. That's a lot of conditions. The bigger struggle is getting the prospect to even know you exist in the first place.

One way to compete on price is to find something you could replicate, take their price and quadruple it. By charging 4 times as much, you can spend a lot more on marketing. Sure you'll lose some sales to people who price shop, but that's a small part of the market. It's possible that with four times the marketing budget you could bring in more than four times the number of customers of your competition. I don't know.

This might work best where your primary value add is repackaging a scalable service that is mostly offered by others.

Maybe you could copy patio11's appointment reminder service, only charge four times as much. There are a lot of businesses in the USA that take appointments... with the higher margins, maybe you can afford to send every one of them a nice packet of information.

The approach I take, though, is to do something original. Even if others have done it (and others are trying what we're trying, but nobodies really been successful) I expect we'll do ok because the opportunity is huge and there aren't that many others doing it.

But even still, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think that I had a really compelling competitive advantage. If the others weren't totally screwing up the opportunity, I'd be a lot less interested.

I think github is NOT screwing up their opportunity, and so that might not be a business to try and compete with... but there are lots of ideas... just find something where you can do it better than anyone else, or where you think you have a compelling advantage.... that would be the idea to pursue.

Maybe charing four times as much would give you a compelling advantage in marketing, I don't know. But that's the kind of price competition I'd go for.... otherwise, have your own spin and then use that difference to find the part of (a preferably very large) market to get for yourself.
"Embrace sunk costs" had got to be my favourite (albeit painfully common)
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The obvious thing to do for the guy is to post a note explaining the situation on his website and link to Chicago Tribune's article. That should alleviate most if not all concerns of those who read that Yelp review.

(edit) And display the note only to those coming from Yelp.
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I'm not a fan of fluxflex and I've discontinued using them. Too much middle-man for my liking. Last Friday I worked through http://cuppster.com/2011/05/12/diy-node-js-server-on-amazon-... , better than http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/09/01/deploying-node-js-on-a..., in the afternoon and save for a couple of idiot glitches on my part, it works fine. EC2 is a real bitch, for me at least, so I'll stick with Linode for now. With a little elbow grease you'll be able to get it to work with Github as well, but I'm looking forward to using whiskey_disk today.
Would you go work for IBM as just an employee for half your salary and double your hours? No, then you shouldn't do that for any company.
I second this. Triageing feeds is the way to go. Also don't think you can read it all.
> Sounds like you have a bad recruiter. (2) is a situation that should never happen, as they get paid by a percentage of your base salary.

You sure? Situations like that are ripe for recruiters lowballing the hires. Why? Because the recruiter can get many commissions from a steady client, but only gets one commission from the employee. As long as they can make it up on volume, there's a real incentive to be a slack negotiator.
I don't want to burst your bubble, but you probably won't make enough off it to live. Let say there are 5,000 android developers in the world (you can probably get the exact number off Google somewhere), out of those maybe 10-20% are doing it professionally.

Lets say you can convince 10% of those developers to buy your app, that's 50-100 sales. At your price point that's between $2,500 - $5,000 in revenue.

(these are back of the envelope calculations, so I may be mistaken here, but it seems unlikely there's a huge market).

You might be better off selling it as a service rather than as a product, because at least that way you'll turn it into a recurring revenue stream rather than a one-off one and won't have to deal with piracy.
Heh, good point, and fodder for another interesting post - how working at a startup is like Vegas...
I use a great car rental service at LAX. I've tried to put a glowing review on their Yelp page to help them get business to no available. It doesn't even show up. I'm guessing this is because they choose not to advertise with yelp either?

I just wrote another review right now to test this out again, and my account shows I have written two with them. Why is Yelp not displaying these on their business page, and their star rating is unchanged?
Confessions is a good read, suspect it covers a lot of the same ground, but with autobiography added, although havent read the other. Good writing about advertising is interesting, though there is not much of it.
I would expect that the note is then buried or removed under Yelp's labyrinthine terms of service.
From what I understand (again, heresay), in the heavy-investment locations like NYC, it was something like over 70% of your income was in the form of a bonus, perhaps more, ie, you might take a $30k salary, but if performance of the company is good, you may end up with a $100k bonus.
Earlier this summer, a Yelp salesman called Brader's house to ask if he wanted to advertise on the Yelp site.

Yelp will never make it as a public company, which means that it should technically fizzle and die sooner rather than later. What they do isn't illegal, but it should be; its revenue model is unethical, sleazy, blackmailing, extortion.
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You can set the treshold, and it will dim out the items that are below it. It greatly increases your ability to "fly through" items, without worrying too much about what you're missing.
They should really reply to the negative review and point to the other positive reviews. Whether genuine or fake, you will always have unhappy customers, but you have to deal graciously even with the nastiest of them.
How can a computer evaluate the 'realness' of a review? The idea of Yelp, crowdsourced business reviews, is great, but do we really prefer trusting super active web content contributors, seeking cyberspace attention, over experts (eg Zagats)?
And the influx of redditors on HN is complete.
Making it as a public company is not mutually exclusive from being sleazy.
What level is your degree in Math or Physics?
What specialized experience do you have in programming quantitative finance applications?
What specialized experienc do you have in high performance computing applications?
Do you have business side experience in trading - what markets?
...So, then you know nothing of the business, nothing usefull to the developers and nothing usefull to the quant team...
I'd back of the "negotion" until you have something of value to negotiate over.
And it's probably not a good idea to piss off the recruiters at this point in your career - it is a very small an incestious world
Cheesy company reverts to extortion when the profits arent high enough. SHOCKING. Welcome to America.
It's impossible to read just one story from James's blog. He has to be one of the most entertaining writers online.
Seems to be way too slow to be useable right now. Did you get "knocked out"? ;)

My JS says

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://observer.no.de/deploy/observer.js#{observer:undefined...;

Is 'undefined' correct? Seems wrong. :(
Although I agree with your sentiment, it has been reported that drone pilots flying remote missions from the US exhibit similar problems with post-traumatic stress as those flying in-theater:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26078087/
Extortion. This is the racket of the 21st Century. Once you got the eyeballs, you call every business in your database and threaten to cut its legs out from under it unless it pays up. Google's running more or less the same racket. It's "soft"...there are no threats, exactly. But imagine if the Chicago Tribune called vendors and threatened to run a miserable review of them if they didn't pay?

So why hasn't that happened? Because of libel laws, for one thing. RICO for another. Best answer would be a class action to subpoena Yelp for the IP & personal info of the posters of questionable negative reviews that had survived the removal of legitimate positive reviews, and file a lawsuit against the authors and Yelp for libel. A few thousand of those and they'll be pushed back into their corner.

2+2 Poker Forum has been doing this in the online casino industry for awhile... but they're real criminals anyway:
http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/poker-complaints/45662-2...
I wonder if there's not an important distinction being lost somewhere between free speech and Google.
You are thinking of mechanical combination locks, not electronic locks (keycard locks).
Competing on price is a bad idea unless you can substantially change the cost model.

If you're competing on price you'll have a much smaller margin and you'll get the worst customers.

When your competitors innovate or increase spending (on talent, marketing, etc.) you just won't be able to follow because you won't have the margins.

On the other hand if you can shift the costs of business then that can be a very strong competitive edge, as you can have higher margins at the same price point as your competitor.
Not sure what the down votes were for, it was clearly meant tongue in cheek, I do actually believe the guy, I merely wished I didn't.

Man, this place it very quickly turning into reddit with the voting.
Has anyone required anything? The OP said there were no additional things necessary to cater to some groups, and I said there were.
The problem Yelp has is that they don't allow unfiltered reviews to be contested. So even if Brader or his customers wanted to contact Yelp and say "Hey, our reviews aren't spam or for gaming the system" and explain what happened, there's no easy/official way to do it.

The one and only time I wrote a review on Yelp, I gave a restaurant a one star rating because the customer service was truly terrible and I left with a horrible taste in my mouth (figuratively). The review wasn't riddled with spelling/grammatical errors and it extremely close to the word limit Yelp has in place. Anyone reading it could tell it wasn't a fake review. Heck, in the few days the review was up, it got voted up to most useful review. But I got hit by the filter anyways. I suspect the algorithm really is flawed and not being manipulated like some people claim, but maybe I'm an optimist.
And reverse engineer TCP/IP, HTTP, unicode, etc.? Maybe we should come up with a simpler one-way protocol and just broadcast the whole thing continuously, on loop.
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Having two versions that only differ in the ads would also make it very easy to take only the common (non-ad) content and throw away the rest.

Considering that there is DRM software, and that it's largely accepted for at least some content (PC games), it's a wonder that there's no digital format where a DRM software plays the content you downloaded after playing some relevant ads to you. (Kind of like crunchyroll, or youtube, but with bittorrent distribution like vuze).

Saying that, if vuze or bittorrent.com implemented that scheme, would there be enough of of an indie films community that would supply the first round of content to such an app?
And - would people prefer this to youtube or crunchyroll if they can get the same content without installing a bittorrent program?
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I guess you're being "slashdotted", the site is very slow...

*bookmarking and i'll check on later, i'm curious.
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The article could have revealed that of the 18 "hidden" reviews, 14 were the only review by the Yelper and 11 were in a one week period. These are two of the main criteria for Yelp's filtering.

I'm surprised people believe that Yelp would be so clumsy and unethical to simply penalize non-advertisers.
Reminds me of listening to old radio dramas, the actors or announcer often do the adverts themselves during the breaks. Nothing like wanting to go out and buy some Palmolive or make sure I'm honoring my sugar rations.
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You're probably right. Seems mostly a case of.. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Mix in a bit of "lazy" and you've got yourself a situation that sucks for the small people unable to fix the big system.
From the perspective of a web searcher, a SERP with reviews for four [Buffalo Grove dentists] written by amateurs beats a SERP with zero reviews written by experts.

From the perspective of a large advertising firm, consistently replicating that at scale gives you a lot more inventory to sell.

One could say something similar regarding content farms and big daddy G.
So be it then. That's when the upvote system takes over to filter in the good this community sees.
Seems like a great way for a startup to get some inexpensive attention via your services. Wish I had something to offer right now, good luck!
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It's always about conversion. More people, less bounce.

The former is introductory design (and the focus of the article). The latter is advanced design & expression - applying one's voice towards different fundamentals.
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Here's how I'd think about it...

1. If someone is already charging for it and they have customers, they've already done the hard work. Now you can copy them.

2. You need to solve a problem better than anyone else. There are lots of cars, but people buy a partiuclar one because it moves heavy things better, or impresses the mother in law more, etc.

3. You should pick a problem that really sucks and charge more for it. I'm sure there is a specialized case you can solve for related to repo hosting. Solve that really well and people will gladly pay more for it than github.
Those are some pretty bold accusations based on rather thin evidence. Are you suggesting that such a service is incapable of running above-board? Is there anything Yelp could do to prove to you that it is operating in an ethical and reasonable manner?
Thanks for writing this down. That is a really great talk.
Its SEO'ers....

A competitor of the dog training business hires an SEO Search Engine Optimiser to increase his business.
To do that they post negative reviews of all the competitors.
They post fake positive reviews of their client.

I have tracked this down before. The positive reviews all looked suspiciously similar and over-glowing.
I have seen the same review, the same day, by the same guy, in multiple nearby neighborhoods.

This also can happen when an SEO marketer calls and you turn him down. He then spites your site and calls back again later to see if your more agreeable....