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I can't see how a vertical monitor is helpful. Some of the touch screen PCs that HP and Lenovo have launched tilt back so you can use your hands without gorilla arm syndrome.

I imagine the bigger hurdle isn't the tech, but selling people on horizontal monitors that they're touching all day and the lack of a keyboard (or keyboard as non primary input).

I feel like we're stuck in this middle land of tablets without kickstands and PC monitors that can't turn into horizontal touch screens. I imagine there's a compromise here that'll work. Maybe all-in-one desktops that tilt with hide-away keyboards and tablets with built-in stands and perhaps even little pens for when you're using an app not optimized for tablets or if you need to draw or mark up a document.
The thing that scares me most about this redesign is that Facebook is spending resources making half baked UX changes instead of focusing energy into doing something new an innovative.

Lists might have their place in the future, and somehow users might get used to a more cluttered design. Ultimately, these types of features are tweaks on a product and not a game changer.
Tips for starting a company book club
We are looking to grow the developers at our small application development shop. We want to get them interested in new technologies, concepts, patterns, really anything that could expand the type of clients we can service, as well as increase the skill level of all of our coders. As well, we want to grow the camaraderie of the department, most everyone is silo'd away on individual projects and we want to get us all working together more often.
One of our ideas for this is a book club, so I'm looking for any suggestions. We're primarily Ruby/Rails and iPhone, and while I'm open to books about that, we really want to be more generic or hone in on technologies we haven't used yet. If your company has done a book club and you have any tips or tricks for it, or have a suggestion for a good book, I'm all ears.
I imagine it must be US only too, as I've had full Internet banking from my UK bank for more than 10 years. I hope Bank Simple has learnt from the experience of First Direct and the many others in the UK, covering millions of accounts.
Facebook is about to feature-creep itself into a usage U-turn
Realize that you have a huge amount of power and ability. There are thousands of people like me: tons of ideas but no technical knowledge to implement them. Many people would kill for the ability to build an idea at will.

You've got the power; don't waste it.
Sorry for your loss Ed, that was beautiful and sad writing. My condolences.
As someone who have worked a lot for banks and actually already done some of this work let me offer a viewpoint.

Last year my company managed to get a large Danish bank to implement tracking into their netbank. This is no small accomplishment, which anyone knowing just a little bit about how the IT departments in the banking industry normally works, the systems they work on are arcane.

It took us 18 months from getting the bank to like the idea into actually getting it launched.

The results have been nothing but extraordinary everyone loves it.

The reason they love it is because it's automatic. They get insights into their economy that they could not previously get. There is something quite amazing about seeing your spendings categorized for the first time without you having to do anything.

The banks have a unique identifier on each transaction that can be measured up against a category list. This is something Mint and Wesabe can't do because you can't export that unique identifer from the banks.

The big advantage of BankSimple and why I think it's going to be huge is because they don't have a legacy system to deal with.

In other words BankSimple can potentially be anything you could ever dream of a bank being, because BankSimple will be able to cross reference the data in order to provide not just cost reduction but service improvement.

The banking industry are just waiting to be disrupted by someone like BS. There are thousands of ways to create a better banking experience. BS is a good first stab at it IMHO.
Each redesign they do lately seems to bring them closer to the look & feel of myspace.

wtf are they thinking?
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My condolences Ed. She sounds like a terrific person, and a great inspiration.
I am sorry for your loss. She lives on through you.
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One of the issues I've been struggling with is dedicating the time for writing a blog. An entrepreneurs we offer have to: code, test, manage other devs, provide customer support, design features, market, manage business, etc. Everytime I think about starting a blog, and I do think it's very valuable, I am discouraged as I know that some of the other areas of the business will likely suffer. Any advice or insight on now to add blogging to the todo list?
not only does this prove an upward moving trend in NOSQL databases, but that neo4j is ahead of the curve. I know some of the guys behind Neo4j, and they work harder than anyone to make sure the database is stable, reliable, and all around kick-ass.
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I did this last year at a friend's spot in exactly the same place (right by Heavenly in South Lake Tahoe). I paid him for "rent and hospitality".

Work in the morning, snowboard in the afternoon, work a couple more hours, then a short drive to the vegas border for some fun.

HIGHLY recommended. It was a blast.
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I think the "creepy" factor of the images is probably due to the "uncanny valley"... Pixar fought this effect when they were first rendering humans

"The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's human likeness."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Agree that FB should not be trying to make things more complicated. Simplicity and the large number of users they had were their two strong points. Now one of those is starting to go.
I highly doubt there will be a larger screen. They won't force developers to code for another screen resolution and they won't want to lose the retina.
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The board should fire themselves.
Yes, plenty of the places I've gone have been by plane, to tourist locations. However, I've travelled extensively by car throughout the middle to lower sections of Georgia and Alabama (fairly poor areas).

I'm fascinated with how technology has changed rural life, so I like to visit small towns just to observe. For instance 10 years ago I noticed fairly substantial differences in the way teenagers from rural areas dressed compared to suburban teenagers (i was a suburban teenager at the time). Now the differences, in apparel are closing rapidly. Also, when I was a kid and the Nintendo 64 came out but everyone was out of stock. All you had to do was drive to some small town (Hazlehurst, GA) Walmart to find one. Now because everyone is so connected, that same Walmart had a line out the door on the day the PS3 was released.

I'm also the type of person who likes to go to a city with no plan in mind and just wing it. A few friends and I, went to New Orleans about 2 years after Katrina, we got a hotel near Bourbon Street, but we spent most of our time just walking. We walked for miles, covered a huge part of the city, and definitely ended up in some places where we probably shouldn't have gone.

In summary, yes I've definitely been in places where one would expect to find tent cities.

I'm not saying they don't exist, but if you do find one, it's likely to be just a handfull of people living in the woods, not what I'd really call a "tent city."

Also there is a problem in the US, there is a financial crisis, but the average person gets up everyday and goes to work. They may be worried about the economy, but no more than the other stuff the 24 hour news warns them about (you know--child murderers, plagues, terrorists etc...)
The grumpy old man in me wonders why, exactly, people are supposed to be sharing a meal and convivial fellowship together need to have entertainment. I could understand the benefit of perhaps being able to order (drinks, particularly) via such an interface, but playing games and watching videos? Really?
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My deepest condolences.
Thanks for the recommendation, I just started reading the book and really liked the initial parts. The author has a very good discussion of how a result in sociolgy is obvious, and it's opposite is equally obvious which leads people to undervalue the findings in studies.
The Strata spec states that a body may be either a string or a stream. All Strata middleware that needs to modify the body in some way must account for this. It's not difficult to do a "if (typeof body == 'string')".

Strata borrows many concepts from Rack, but not the synchronous part. Instead of expecting your app to return something, Strata gives you a callback that you can use to serve the response when you're ready.

I admit the manual could probably give a better example of streaming a response. For now, check out the static file serving middleware (https://github.com/mjijackson/strata/tree/master/lib/static....). You'll see that the response body is simply a readable stream to the file on disk.
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Along those same lines, I'd bet that the floating section was added to get more eyeballs looking on the right side of the screen where the ads are.
Actually I am always ready to say how much I love their keyboards (I am on my 4th natural keyboard now), mice (lost count) and I also have a healthy dose of respect towards SQL Server (it IS a very decent database server). The fact I dislike Windows, Exchange, Sharepoint and other miscellaneous infrastructure technologies they build has nothing to do with my opinion that they have bad HR problems, a spotty product lineup and questionable business methods.
I think that your question will be a good topic for a future blog post, but as a quick answer regarding AngelList.

As an investor you specify which industries/verticals/geographies you are interested in. Their system then emails you with matches to those criteria, and FlashSoft initially came through this way. I then went and did more research on their full-length AngelList profile, shared with the team, did an intro to their CEO Ted, and the process started from there.

We hadn't ever met Ted, and this was their first institutional round as well. We didn't need to have a pre-existing connection or network, rather it was specific to the types of startups we wanted to receive information on. You can see the criteria that we set out here: http://angel.co/thomvest

Thanks!
Cool! The title should be edited to describe the link though.

And as for being an open source project, link/source please?
My interpretation is that Facebook is more valuable if the content you see when you interact with it is more useful to you. Facebook is about connecting you with family and friends, and that's easier to do if you see valuable content more frequently than low-value content (which might pop up in a simple chronological stream).

I think this way they're trying to improve the "keep-alive" of relationships between you and people on your friend lists by showing you more valuable content, which in turn will lead to higher engagement (eg. likes/comments/etc), which in turns keeps relationships going through interactions, which in turn keeps you coming back to Facebook. And that obviously is a good thing for Facebook.
The discovery of these incubator models is one of the most interesting things happening in the startup community - in addition to giving aspiring entrepreneurs an opportunity to build great things, they are creating an even more tightly knit startup community. They are making it easier for new people to get involved in this network/community, who in turn give back because they have such a great experience.
already getting served some godo recomendations this morning... new site is kicking @$$
These new changes have made Facebook an unbearable platform for application developers. Firing ajax requests in a constant and fast pace is making the platform unmanageable. Combined with buggy and incomplete apis debugging and managing canvas apps are nearly impossible. I really hate building applications for the platform now.
It means different things to different people I've seen.

Most of the time when people explicitly say they want a "Front-end Web Developer" they want someone who is good with all the front end code (html, css, javascript, <insert scripting language>)

They would like it if you can design but its not necessary.

More often I've seen people who say "Web Developer" or even "Web Designer" really want someone who can do both web devel and design

This often frustrated me because I can code but couldn't design my way out of a paper bag yet.
I'm quite happy with my bank's customer service, interest rates and fees. And I use Mint.com to get a view of all accounts including retirement, investments, etc.

So, from my view, BankSimple just does not provide enough value. Hopefully for BankSimple's sake, others are not satisfied like I am.
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The problem is people with many hundreds or thousands of friends. At that point, your feed gets too unwieldy to read chronologically, or it might scroll by so quickly that in the time you catch up, dozens more have been fed in at the top. Facebook is trying to just show you what they think you're interested in the most. Sadly, they aren't doing a great job of it. I agree that they should at bring back the "Most Recent" feed for those of us who have a manageable friend count.
The guy in the video sounds Australian, but for some odd reason he says 'math' instead of 'maths'. So you're probably right... boo. Looking forward to the day when people don't stay in one place and startups begin catering to us itinerants.
It's such a shame. G+ has so much potential but unless everyone joins the game it won't succeed. Facebook really has a TERRIBLE User Experience compared to G+
Let's hope it won't end in a new Bing vs. Google situation
The point is still valid. How is the tax break going to affect his imagination?
Because 'going through the whole thing' is nearly impossible for some people, who either log on spargingly or have a lot of friends. Additionally, since Facebook is full of relationships that are less than actual 'friends', a lot of people have complained for years about the quality of the posts. I think they must have realized their algorithms needed a stronger signal than what they had, and this UI is a way to get that data.
The right-hand bar feels very "app" like. I wonder if their intention is to transition, through many iterations, Facebook into more of an "app-like" design and less of a "website"?
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For those who want to know the title without having to examine a PDF:

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Phillips Thompson

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283

P.S. Gave you an upvote. Just would have preferred to know the title / have a pointer to a non-PDF reference since one was available.
This is why I still enjoy using FriendFeed. No fuss no confusions. A working social environment.
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So sorry to hear of your loss. What a beautiful and touching tribute. May all mothers live long, very long
With only ~300 friends, it seems sort of pointless to curate my feed into 'Top Stories'. Over the course of a day, there are only a couple of things that get my friends commenting or clicking 'like', and they don't get lost because there is no noise.

It's as if Facebook thinks we're all Power Users (TM) with 1,000+ friends who cannot possibly keep up with the demands of 'real-time' updates.
I love it. It works just like my brain does.

Sadly (for me) it also works just like my iPhone App "Payday" does (without the live bank ability) that was released last year and then sank without a trace (albeit partly due to a silly bug).

Being able to earmark money for bills in advance and set yourself saving goals is really cool (and was also the core feature of Payday).

If anyone would like to try these features before the release of Bank Simple you can find it here:

http://toccame.com/

and here

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/payday/id351013628

Just beware of a small bug that makes the calculations go off if you choose the last day of the month as Payday. (Yeah. I know. Sadly the talented programmer I worked with has had to move onto other projects. Maybe one day we can fix it. sigh)
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I think they are wary about being a has-been site like all the big networks before them. Whereas the other two failed to innovate quick enough, Facebook seems prime to innovate itself right out of existence.
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Providing the same services as Google will not get people to switch from Google, even if Bing provided somewhat better results. Google got people to switch because they didn't just provide astonishingly better results, they did things quite differently than others. If Bing wanted people to switch, they have to do something different, not just do the same things "better".

Bing can't win by offering "a better way to Google": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYVCk10AzS0
That or they move more towards the resolution independency thats been around since Tiger.

Think scaleable vector graphics vs pixel. But we'll see.
And those already have their own businesses. And if not, quitting your day job and starting a business... -1 + 1 = 0
> Facebook is completely useless

FTFY
I find it similar to connect/express http://expressjs.com/guide.html but a less tasty DSL and nothing new, or am I missing something? I'm sure one inspired the other since the API is strikingly similar (app.use app.get etc), strange that no comparison is given. Anyway, kudos to the devs for free software!
I often wonder the opposite: why do FB users care about seeing the updates of just anyone in their friend list?

But I'm thinking along the lines of a more cynical user, as in, I realize FB is a huge timesuck, I've probably friended more people than I consider friends in real life, I should get off the computer more, etc etc., and so I appreciate the way that FB shows me the updates of people who I'm most interested in.

Does it bother me that I don't know the criteria? Not really, in the same way that I'm not bothered that I don't know the details of PageRank. But I'm guessing FB makes its judgment based on how much I chat with a certain person, interact with their updates and walls, and browse/stalk their profile. If that's the case, their "Top Updates" has been right on the mark.

I end up spending less time than I have to to see the "news" that I'm most interested in. If I log onto FB later and see that the Top UPdates largely remain the same, then I am satisfied to log back out for the day. At the same time, I'm more engaged with Facebook as a user because I'm always seeing things that I care about, even if some of them are half a day old. Strangely, this curation saves me time from FB yet fulfills FB's mission to keep me on its site, as I'd be less enthusiastic in coming back of 7 out of 10 items in my default news feed were drek.

And yes, you can say that I should maintain my friend list better and silence/unfriend the users that I don't care about...but if FB does a good job of that (the silencing part) without me needing to go through another options menu, I don't have any complaints.
But this option already existed (you could choose "top stories" instead of "latest stories"). What annoys me is imposing a one-size-fits-all version on everybody.
Once they get over that barrier, though, it'll become much creepier for an entirely different reason.
The one thing you can say for Microsoft is that they stick to their guns and keep trying.

With Google, you never know if a product has a team behind it or it was someone's side project that got out of hand and received too much press that they'll kill a couple in a couple months because it didn't get enough traction.

Now sure, in the startup world the idea of sticking with an idea and plotting along losing money is a terrible sign, but on a personal level I can't help admiring Microsoft's fierce tenacity.
Safe-to-spend balance is great but will it be enforced? I currently calculate my safe to spend balance but nothing stops me from over spending. I don't have the willpower. It would be great if the bank simple card will only let me spend my safe-to-spend balance. So if my safe-to-spend balance is $20 and I go to an ATM and try to withdraw $50, it will decline.
My only point is that any kind of analysis has to be careful about the way its mathematical assumptions relate to how the real-life experiment is conducted.

I'm not even going near the question of whether the Bayesian approach is "better" than the frequentist approach.

I was trying to point out that the frequentist analysis in the OP does make assumptions about the nature of the experiment (that you will run exactly N trials) and that if you break those assumptions by stopping the test for some N' < N because the answers are looking good, then you'd better understand that your earlier analysis did not apply.

And in another reply, I wanted to add that there is a frequentist answer (the Wald test) to the practical question: Can you widen the scope of the analysis so that I can stop early if I'm getting results that point strongly in one direction?

Being sure that your assumed sampling distribution matches the actual experiment is key, even in the Bayesian case.

My graduate statistics class was taught from Berger, your second link, so I'm broadly sympathetic to the "Bayesian choice" -- but more important, I wanted to give some usable insight to someone who just wants to do an A/B test.
A shot in the arm with a placebo.
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Love the design! While I think there is quite a ways to go, I will most certainly give BankSimple a shot when it is publicly released.

Upon seeing the video though, specifically when he was searching through for the bar that he went to, I started wondering how long it'll take before we can actually see precisely what we paid for at said location rather than having to dig through receipts.

I have no idea when that time will come, but when it does, I'll welcome it with open arms.
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my condolences ed, words seem inadequate to express the sadness we feel.
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I'm sorry for your loss. I went through this last year.
I'm guessing the screen resulation will stay the same, just put on a larger screen.

But, this creates a smaller DPI and kind of ruins the retina display.
Perhaps, it's that motherly instinct that comes from bitching at everyone to pick their stuff and put everything where it belongs and to stay on task? I know my mom would have been a great project manager...