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Probably to add a bit of diffraction to the incoming light, and to discourage the growth of algae/bacteria.
Have you used a GPS device in that house with that IP address? That's one possibility how they might have acquired the location. Same thing if someone accessed your Wi-Fi using a GPS device.
> SQL is much more versatile and flexible than objects/structs

SQL isn't even turing complete. How can it be more versatile and flexible than your programming language of choice?

> How would you expect an ORM to generate a "dense" query like this with it's simplistic view of things ?

In SQLAlchemy,

cls.query.filter(<some_condition_on_another_field>).update(dict(one_field=value))
The start-up I am contracting for is in a similar business (homeware and interior design) and has recently made the same decision to shift focus from a low margin, high volume affiliate model to a low volume, high margin "boutique" model. Curious to see how it pans out.
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> Only Ponzi schemes should depend on confidence. Governments should never need to
“restore confidence”.

I wholeheartedly disagree. Confidence in this instance is just trust that your assets won't suddenly become worthless or your standard of living won't drop drastically overnight. It is a GOOD thing that I have the choice to have or not have confidence in the Government. It means (a) I am not expected to have blind faith and (b) I have the right to assess the level of risk involved in trading and conduct my economic activities accordingly. I absolutely need the Government to restore consumer confidence in the housing market before I buy a new house. Last time people felt overconfident about the housing market, it caused a boom and bust.
I do not understand how it could nail your house with just your IP

If you've submitted contact information (mailing address, billing address) on a site that partners with MaxMind, then you may have provided them your exact address and IP. I'm sure Google must use this as one of their geolocation sources.

http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location-explained
Sigh. Buffet isn't at all a disinterested party in this matter. A tax affecting the lower end of the rich puts a barrier to entry into the ranks of the megarich. Lowering the cost of real estate, airplanes and businesses for him.

Can't we all just have a flat consumption tax and be done with it? 10% would benefit everyone (in particular retirees and savers), increase actual collections and be simpler to administrate (you get to fire a bunch of government employees). Increased revenue, reduced complexity, favouring savings. That sounds like a win to me.

In particular Alexander Hamilton wrote in the federalist papers about how these sorts of taxes were harder to raise to confiscatory levels. which 35% certainly is.
Making financial subjects into moral parables is not an effective way to deal with complexity. Simplicity will fall naturally out of the process of refining derivatives markets. Insurance is a derivative. Options are derivatives. Common Stock is actually arguably a derivative as well. Welcome to capitalism!
Complexity is born of there being lots of people on Earth who trade goods and services. No way back except to wish calamity on us all?
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What do they think money is? It's basically just fungible units of "confidence". Or maybe "trust" is a better word. That goes for gold as well as the "fiat" variety.
Hmmm, yes, my wife used her iPhone. But who is "they"? Who has my precise coordinates?
Absolute rubbish metric, if anything it measures the absolute opposite of monetary velocity. The value is basically guaranteed to grow and grow even in the face of flat or declining economic activity

Monetary velocity is the sum of all transactions in a period divided by money supply Vt = nT / M

Imagine a model where the number of bitcoins is increased by one each period, and one random bitcoin is transfered to another party as economic activity

day 1 day2 day 10
Total Money Supply: 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.0
Actual Transactions: 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Mean BTC days destroyed: 0.00 1.00 1.33 1.66 2.00 2.33 2.66 3.00 3.33 3.67
Monetary Velocity: 1.00 0.50 0.33 0.25 0.20 0.17 0.14 0.13 0.11 0.10

As you can see monetary velocity goes in the exact opposite direction of bitcoin days destroyed and doesn't follow any similar curve.

Whats worse is it doesn't have a consistent relationship with any of the real measures as you change your assumptions. Imagine instead you model a situation where every coin turns over every period. In this case Total money supply, actual transactions and BTC days destroyed will all be the exact same thing, instead of the earlier wide divergence. Monetary velocity will be exactly 1 each time because total transactions will equal total money supply.

BTC days destroyed also has a hard upper limit at total days created which means it can't measure very quick activity accurately (all money turning over once a day will be identical to it turning over 10x a day) and will over weight economic growth after a period of low activity.
The majority of time I was at Apple, I was basically
focused on delivering the same kind of performance metrics
that I delivered at Pepsi. So, for example, when I joined
Apple we had just achieved $570 million of revenue in 1982
and we were No. 3 in market share. When I left Apple in
1993, we had reached $8.3 billion in revenue, Macintosh
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Apple was the most profitable PC hardware company in the
world and we had $2 billion of cash.

That is an interesting point in defense of his tenure there. To his credit, he admits the rot began under him (and then things really went to hell under Spindler and Amelio).

Growing revenue 14X is not too shabby, though! In an alternate reality, maybe Sculley would have been Jobs' Ballmer, the corporate type focused on growing the current product, with Jobs tasked with making sure the company didn't miss the next technology wave.
MaxMind shows my location as 25 miles to the south.
Most people don't change default settings. Therefore most people have a pretty crappy experience with all the gunk on facebook. Therefore people will get bored with it and you will have less reason to go yourself.
You've missed his point. He's not arguing that people should not assess their confidence before investing. He's arguing that the government should not need to prop up confidence. The comparison to Ponzi schemes is because he believes (rightly or not) that many of these interventions are not sustainable.
Yes, I do have a router, but I doubt google has visited us, we only recently moved here. There's no street view anywhere near here, as I said.
Taleb would call you a "nerd". I think he'd be right.

edit: FWIW he'd probably say the same about me.
I understand it is a very neat piece of CSS scripting, but how does this compare to a simple animated GIF from practical perspective?
Nope, maxmind detects my location incorrectly (25 miles off).
Any insights on how this (sustaining a healthy and positive culture with growth) is handled in Google/Apple/even Facebook?
That's good to know. If my app ever needs it, it will be a nice problem to have.
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thanks for all the comments, i find it very encouraging. however, i have a follow-up question. most of the companies here are quite formal in their requirements, they are not quite satisfied with sample codes, demo applications, etc. Most of them honors a certificate over an actual demonstration of programming capabilities. I came across this online course, http://www.zend.com/en/services/training/course-catalog/php-.... Its quite expensive but i have a feeling that completing it might make it easier to convince prospective employers. What do you think of this option? Honestly, i really feel out of place here, its kinda tiring always trying to convince people that your worth something.
I stopped hearing about AIM at all within about two years of Google Talk being released. It may have died out for you around the time Facebook messaging showed up, but this is a great example of correlation not indicating causation.
I guess your uppercase letters were done on purpose. It's distracting too.
If you think about it, the way we teach now is really primitive. So much feedback could be gathered and incorporated so easily, and greatly increase the effectiveness of the whole process. Imagine something like this incorporated with the Kahn Academy. Also, imagine the feedback being used not only to help the teacher improve the lecture, but also in a "stack overflow" sense to cause the best lecture videos to "rise to the top". I am very excited about what is going to happen in the field of education.
Well you could script it to change the rate of pulsing in JS I guess... Still don't think this is very exciting anyways. Why the png and not pure a pure css icon for instance (although that's not very interesting to me either)?
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My suggestion: don't bother cleaning it up, just publish it. If the two realistic options are your code dropping off the face of the earth because it's never published, or it being put in a place where someone might find it useful and run with it, the latter is far more beneficial to society.

If you're concerned about your personal reputation (which in my experience tends to be the case) then consider you're likely better off as a prolific coder than a sparse one, and if anything we should be pushing the industry towards more open exchange of code so as to reduce loss & waste.
A little bit (i.e. completely) derivative of the Maps app on the iPhone.
You have misinterpreted this completely. The linked PDF doesn't mention fiat currency once. NNT says a lot of bullshit, but it's amazing how willing people are to comment without even reading the paper and taking some time to reflect upon it.
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Without better documentation I can't really evaluate this. Who runs the central repository? How is it kept up to date?

I feel my skepticism is warranted for a week-old project.
You may want to give her more credit. She did a fashion startup for a few years.

About the 3-8% affiliate fees, that's not a viable business model. You would have to deliver north of 15M dollars to get 1M dollars. Assuming the average ticket is $150, you need 100,000 conversion. The average internet conversion rate is 3%. So you need 3M uniques. That is not very easy to get. Even if you are buying it.
Consider it this way: a lot of less successful startups and service providers would love to be issuing refunds!
There's some Core 2 Duo-replacements in the 2 core i5s and 7s.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3876/intels-core-2011-mobile-r...

Clocks are 2.2GHz to 2.7GHz, all hyper-threaded. Dual and quad-core.

Quite interesting stuff, though I might be annoyed if I bought an i7 laptop then discovered it wasn't a quad-core.
I don't think the people going in to fashion start ups are going in to them to make large profits. It seems to me they are motivated by wanting creative control over some product or line of products and this is just another way to go about doing that.
Might be nice if the link title mentioned it, so save the rest of us the time.
Well, there's your answer. iPhone sends GPS coordinates, wifi mac address, cell tower ids, and IP address to the mothership. Your browser can then send the same IP, and MAC, to get back the GPS location.
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I don't think he's going to succeed at changing the culture he intends to criticize. The people who wage these stupid political wars don't care that people of conscience hate them. If anything, it energizes them to be hated by the decent among us.

Something I found myself unprepared for is the bad-decision-as-an-assertion-of-power pattern. It literally was not until age 27 that I realized (despite seeing this behavior several times first-hand) how common it is, in business, for people in charge to make intentionally bad decisions for the sake of (a) asserting power, and (b) testing others' loyalty. I guess one could say I was too naive and hyper-rational to believe such a thing to be possible-- except in the movies.

I wish I had a solution. For the record, people who say "Startups!" don't know what they're talking about. Startups can be great, but office politics can get just as ugly in small companies.
OK, if Google didn't drive by, then another company could've -- or perhaps someone used an Android device near your house.

For instance, check this map to see whether Skyhook Wireless has wardriven by your house: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/coverage.php

And again, they don't need your router. You just need to have a WiFi receiver in your computer, turn it on, and your computer will scan for nearby networks. The MAC addresses of your neighbors' networks are checked against those in Google's database. If Google finds three or more, it knows exactly where you are.
Python and/or Django aren't listed anywhere here: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cedar

Suggests that Python/Django aren't so much first-class as incidental...
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A sound wave may not be an object, but it is a noun and has properties such as frequency and amplitude. Though I could imagine defining a sound wave as a function.
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unfortunately, on practice the "intuition" too frequently is just a camouflage for "uneducated/uninformed guessing". Have you been to the "performance" meetings with customer's DBAs, developers/analysts, PMs, business function managers, integrator's PMs, engineers, vendor's PMs, developers/managers? A Niagara of "intuition" that one can drown in.
English letters seem to be most common in variable names, but dashes and underscores are often used as word delimiters. Numbers have their place, too.

I see other keyboard symbols used in a lot of variable names — especially $. And, CSS uses . and # as prefixes.

I once saw a JavaScript library whose main object was named ƒ. Some symbols and accented characters are surprisingly easy to type, especially on international keyboards.

If a character is printable and doesn't conflict with symbols used in the language, how would you decide if it should be allowed?
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He also wrote a great exit mail when leaving MS. http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/?page_id=193 .
We got 30-40% on each sale. Not sure it's a US issue - in Europe it's 30%+.
Because she used Google Maps over her home wifi with the GPS turned on?
And what percentage of Ivy Bridge users are going to be using ultra-light laptops? It's a desktop part as well.
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I would wager you are pinpointed because you are using wireless, and the Google streetView car recorded the name of your access point. They need not have made streetview of your area online, but it is likely if you are in the US or Canada that they did drive by. There are also other companies collecting this data, so it may not be just Google's.

Browser geolocation uses the id and signal strength of wireless access points. But as mentioned in this thread already, that is only one of many signals including your device's gps and rev-ip data.
you must have something running on your computer giving your location. my browser can only find me to within about 150km. theoretically, they should have me on skyhook or whatever because i've had the same wifi running for a couple years and streetview has been down my street.
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Interesting approach, who are YOUR target customers though? What is their shopping profile? I signed up out of curiosity, but never spend $120 on a shirt (I do spend $75 maybe on a dress shirt). I'm not in fashion, just a fan of e-business in general.
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I'm on cable, and my results both in google maps and with this call are highly general. (City Level / accuracy: 24000) We've had this cable account for years and many different people have used it so it's interesting that neither the street view car nor MaxMind have pinpointed it.
Google does not need to visit you as the collect this data over the Android phones. So basically if there's a single Android user with WiFi enabled (but with GPS disabled) they already know your approximate location (due to the GSM cellid). If that happens multiple times they can use triangulation to increase the accuracy of this data. And if there are some Android users with GPS enabled that "see" the WiFi access point, Google can pinpoint the location very very accurate.

It's possible to disable this "feature" in the Android settings, but I guess most users don't bother changing this.
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I've been frustrated by this for a long time. You would think the authors would want to document when they published new findings. This paper doesn't have a publication date, but its bibliography provides publication dates for cited papers!
I was actually discussing this very point with a good friend of mine who also runs a fashion startup the other day.

To refine what I said: it's not that discoverability is not a problem, it's that all of the new fashion apps (from Lyst to Fashism to Inporia to Svpply to Google Boutiques) seem to have only increased the "noise" versus decrease it. In fashion, customers pay for the edit: a small, curated collection of products that an editor has determined best fits her customer's profile. To argue that we can somehow replace this very right-brained activity with crowdsourcing or algorithms is untenable.
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I don't really need the external validation anymore. If people do or don't like some of the tools and techniques that I find useful, it doesn't matter. Their tastes and tolerances and scenarios are often different.
thanks for this! You are right I had no idea this existed. Just goes to show I really should read the source over depending on datamapper.org/docs/ too much.
I'm not sure if you're being serious, but I believe he was referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
This is a good read, and the author hits on some solid observations about the online apparel industry.

That said, I am shocked about the claim that a single VC has funded an apparel retailer recently. I am in this industry, and I can assure you that it is about as unsexy as one could get from a VC perspective.

I would love to know who all these recently funded apparel businesses are.
"iPhone sends GPS coordinates, wifi mac address, cell tower ids, and IP address to the mothership."

Apple does collect this kind of data, but they don't sell it (and especially not to Google). The Maps app on the iPhone doesn't send this data to Google either.

Apple built the Maps app themselves, they only use Google's map data. It's in Apple's interest to keep the data they've collected to themselves, they're using it to build an alternative to Google Maps.
If you look at the graph pictured on the post, copied from the bitcoin wiki, it does not always "grow and grow", because it is in fact graphing the percentage of the total bitcoin days, not the absolute number. This is further described on the stackexchange post, and you'll note that my answer there explains that it has been flat over the last 3 months.

I agree that it is quite different from a velocity measure, simply because it was not intended to be a raw velocity measure. Bitcoin has some unusual features which require unusual metrics. This is just one that is being explored, as an alternative to raw transaction volume, as the posts explain.
Don't know why you were down-voted, it is a perfectly good question. Personally I don't know but then again I'm not samy.pl. I know there have been unicode vulnerabilities in IIS in the past but what I'd be more concerned with would be XSS. While most sites sanitize data to prevent XSS, maybe someone could come up with a dirty input that doesn't get filtered and runs an exploit.
rorrr: Just deal with it. Its set that way so that a user can grant you the permission to ASK EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE.

You can provide a prompt to allow the user to give you permission, but seriously? Its ridiculous that you're complaining about security =p
Try it on every lock in the neighborhood?

I once saw a shady character try the same key in every car in a parking lot.
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Keep in mind that this would be one of many data points Google pieces together to get the most accurate location. MaxMind is 1000 feet off for me (likely because the data was incomplete because of privacy scrubbing), but spot on with Google Maps (down to my location within my condo complex). Some other data points that would give Google this information are Google Maps on my Android phone. With explicit permission to read and report my coarse (network-based) and fine (GPS) location, it would be able to read any WiFi access point in range of my phone and link that with my exact GPS location and report that to Google. I leave this enabled at all times for Google Latitude. I would imagine that anyone with a smartphone and Google Maps who came near enough to your house could have reported your access point and GPS location to Google. Even if you don't have WiFi, if the neighbors on both sides of you do, they could extrapolate that to your house in the middle.
Decent list you put together. Isn't youtube great. Something for everyone really.

If you want a full (though not as detailed) list of all the top youtube channels (currently tracking 80k+ channels hourly/daily) I've actually been running a site that monitors youtube for the past year now. It also estimates how much partners make and lets you track your own stats too.

Check it out: http://SocialBlade.com/youtube
CSS beats graphics because it can be changed programatically. Browser supporting, _all_ the parameters can be changed to suit the rest of the UI. If the designer writes their CSS in browser like I do, it's instantaneous and immensely powerful.

With images, it's, well, you know, slower.
Reality from my perspective is somewhere in the middle. We pay between 10 and 15 percent.
I wonder if both Facebook and Google have become essentially too big to fail. That is, the collateral harm caused by them going down would hurt so many other people and organizations that not propping them up would be considered a policy failure.
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Dude, Larry IS the lunatic.