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Plenty of people who haven't read that book come across as insincere, fake, and borderline manipulative.

All thru-out the book, Dale Carnegie tells you that you must be genuine in order for it to be ethical.
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Tolkien did a bunch too. But I think that's overstating the case. The fact that we're drowning in these things in popular fiction is an existence proof that all you need is a linguist with too much time on her hands.
It got me wondering if it might be possible to compete with a similar app by just illustrating how much less bandwidth your app uses. Except for Sprint and people on grandfathered plans, people pay per GB for bandwidth on their mobile devices. If you can show your app uses 10% of the bandwidth of another would that make an impact on the typical buyer?

The security stuff is really worrisome. Apple ought to be vetting this stuff in their review process, as having a bunch of high profile identity theft start happening to people using iPhone apps is not going to do anything good for Apple.

Finally, I've added flurry.com to my /etc/hosts.
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If this data is as actionable as it seems don't piecemeal subscriptions, you will rob yourself long term by dealing with all the headaches of direct-to-consumer(ish) selling.

Revisions and accuracy on the data set and protecting that IP is where you're going to extract maximum value.

A good place to start calling would be Bloomberg - they have dialed in how to extract maximum profit out of business data.

They have a venture division that would be a perfect fit http://bloombergventures.com and can push you in the right direction if they pass.
“There are no alternatives in our ecosystem,” Mr. Daisey pointed out, noting that FoxConn makes more than half the electronics purchased by Americans each year.

Does anyone have a citation for that? That's hard to believe.
Unless they delay the publication a bit, and profit on the volume of trades done by their subscribers. The old dirty trick of moving prices of low-volume stocks.
It might be time to review your start-up's intellectual property situation and file for those patents you've been intending to apply for, but have not gotten around to doing so. Would your intellectual property block others from competing? Note that the "new" patent law changes the priority of patents from "first to invent" to "first to file" at some point in the future (2013?).
haha, I'm not opposed to it as a rule; I can enjoy doing nothing as much as most. I just especially hate it when coupled with calling others self-absorbed.

I guess I always saw it as a result of unhappiness, and expected that unhappiness to eventually manifest into anger and action, rather than just a self-righteous bitterness.
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The location based reminders use cell phone tower-based location, not GPS. Since your phone is constantly polling cell phone towers anyway, it shouldn't use more battery than usual, unless it forces the phone to poll towers more frequently. (I'm not sure of the implementation details)

I personally have not noticed more battery drain than normal on my 4S.
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A lot of my peers would say this is just one line of code away from a society in which our every single action or movement is influenced by hyper personalized advertisements. They fear losing control of their own lives.

I say bring it on. I look forward to the day when an algorithm tells me my taste buds prefer extra spicy beef panda express, order now and have it air delivered to you in ten minutes
I would go one further: build your API first, and build your application on top of it.
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We talked about exactly this in my Ethics in Technology class and came to the same conclusion you've stated. Yes, this is terrible from our perspective because we outlawed those kind of working conditions years ago. But if there were better options, then there wouldn't be so many people working for Fox Con. And if it's bad to us but manageable to them, then there is worse out there that they are trying to get away from.

Thinking and talking about the situation in terms of our lives sensationalizes more than it informs.
If I'm not mistaken, this is the first non-eInk device that Kobo has released. They've switched to an AFFS+ screen, an LCD technology, which means that they're sacrificing battery life (they claim 7 hours, compared to weeks or months on their prior devices) and passive illumination (which is easier on the eyes in low light) for refresh time and colour gamut.
Well now, that's an assurance that it wouldn't work, but not an explanation of how.

I understand you don't want to give away all your secrets, but any hints? Any assurance that you really have worried about the problem that someone might try to manipulate your system?
This would be neat to do, but it introduces a number of additional implications. For instance, the scheduler must be considerably more fair in match allocation as this then has a huge impact on bot performance. It might also mean that newbie bots get trounced by more experienced bots so quickly that they don't learn much from the experience.

Not an easy problem, but perhaps a worthwhile one.
Ok, why would you pay for Dropbox of you didn't have to and they didn't ask you to? They clearly are not going out of business, at least until something better comes along.
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I couldn't agree more. Really don't see what the big deal is. In a perfect world, they wouldn't be selling my data, and I wouldn't have to pay for all the services I use.

In the world we have, though, I'll take what I can get.
but I can certainly see it increasing condom use among horny American college students.

Most likely. Although, to be fair, condom use is a lot easier after multiple applications. The first time is difficult, but after a while you get pretty fast at it.
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Our startup was dependent upon their data feeds and they're the sole provider. There's nothing to get back to work to.

This startup has been my baby for 9 months and has been a roller coaster... blood, sweat, and tears. We're two weeks away from launching and we get stonewalled.

It's either give up completely or fight.
Yes! I would love it if advertisers could figure out my preferences and run ads for products that I didn't even know I wanted. Instead, because they don't have enough information, I get ads for things I couldn't care less about.
It would be great to have open access to iMessage, that would probably be cheaper for Apple than release a 3rd party API for Siri.
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Reviews and ratings are very important on the App Stores and you don't have any for your app yet. It's a bit of a chicken and egg type problem to get those first reviews but they are really important. I don't know of a good solution for getting genuine user reviews reliably other than asking in-app. That's something that's done often in iOS apps, but I haven't seen it in a Mac app. It can be annoying and intrusive so it's definitely something to consider carefully. I don't have your app, perhaps you could suggest a user review in an intro screen that comes up the first time your app launches?
"Tell the lawyers you've decided not to bother and get back to work."

Probably the best legal advice you're going to get.
Relevant advertising is relevant. Everything else is a waste of everyone's time (yours and the advertisers). Steps should be taken to safeguard privacy (you should never get a letter blackmailing you because of what you've done in the past), but if the focus is on making sure you only get relevant advertising and everything else is filtered before it gets to you, I consider that a win.
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While I agree that these development practices are pretty awful, they aren't particularly iOS specific. You can easily do the same thing in a web/desktop/Android app.

How many websites submit password forms over HTTP or store them in plaintext on the backend or make large, unnecessary downloads or spew tracking data all over your browser?

Unfortunately, many developers are too lazy to bother learning best practices and this is what you end up with.
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Agreed. Duplicate info (why do you need to show the text "Color" if you show a white and black iphone with white and black under it also, and what is up with the wasted space.
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Very cool game spec. One thought: your ants are basically telepathic, so they are able to share information instantly--e.g., the squares they see flow back to your "master bot" which can instantly use this information in the current turn for every other ant. I wonder how much more challenging it would be if you had to build not a "master bot" that controls all ants, but a "bot" that runs for each ant, and they have their own individual inputs and state and can perhaps transmit messages to other ants within a 3 block radius. Maybe they can even lay down pheromones to mark territory... (too much SimAnt as a kid, can you tell?)

Certainly it would be more realistic, and I think even more fun--but maybe a little taxing on the server. But this is run by Google, right? Maybe next year.
Abstinence works however at 100% effectiveness (for both prevention of conception and prevention of spreading disease) whilst condoms work at, what is it, about 97% prevention of pregnancy for experienced users and much lower for inexperienced users. I don't know the figures for disease spread but presumably things like genital warts and pubic lice aren't hindered much by condom use.

I don't think this is really the place for this discussion/ your snide remarks.
"By definition getting to the same results without co-founders requires a much higher level of ability than if being part of a 'collective'"

I think in order for this to be true, you'd have to assume that the team as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is not always the case with cofounders.

In general, though, I agree with you. Results speak for themselves; build a business for customers, not investors.
If the WWII generation was the greatest generation, as Brokaw put it, then the baby-boomers are the worst since the Dark Ages. For all their high-minded idealism they've created a society, at least in US, that is more divisive than it's ever been.

Note: remember your history. There was this little jungle war thingie in Vietnam (started by the Boomer parents) that sorta pissed people off and divided the country. The 2006 election showed that in full glory, leading many to comment that post-Nam people should run. And, for the most part, they did.

Boomers were the hippies, but their time spawned Quebec nationalism here in Canada, and probably had a little to do with the Prague Spring, ...
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It's best to think of performance in two contexts: implementation and semantics.

Performance problems that stem from implementation can be fixed, and can yield significant benefits. This work is continually ongoing in Ruby (see the recent GC improvements) and the proliferation of alternate implementations will benefit this effort significantly (see the speed improvements to JS resulting from competition between V8, Nitro, and IonMonkey). That said, these sorts of improvements probably won't appear on any roadmap, since they can happen without the knowledge of the language's users.

Performance issues arising from language semantics, on the other hand, are a very real concern for the roadmap going forward. Here, I'm thinking specifically about the refinements feature. Charles Nutter had an excellent breakdown of how this feature might have far-reaching impacts on performance here: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4085#note-46 . Additionally, there may be avenues to improve performance by subtly altering the semantics of existing features (such as 'define_method'). Unfortunately, while these changes/features will be discussed as part of the roadmap, performance is typically only addressed in a bit of a side-long manner (i.e. if you want to know what the performance impact will be, you'll probably need to pay attention to the discussions on ruby-core).

All that said, I think you can rest easy knowing that, even though performance may not be a first-class concern for the Ruby 2.0 effort, it is something that the community is very cognizant of and will be paying attention to.
One major concern that remains relevant is the prospect of abuse. You can't steal, misappropriate, or abuse what doesn't exist in the first place. You can't subpoena or execute a warrant to retrieve data that was never stored.

Privacy laws and rules provide some projection, but that only goes as far as they are enforced. Nonexistence of data cannot be subverted and is a much more robust protection against the data falling into the wrong hands.

The issue isn't necessarily who has the data now. It's who might get it later.
There is an argument (from advertisers, actually had a AE for a digital media company tell me this) that basically says "If we can't track you and your interests then you won't find out about new products and services that serve your personality and interests"

On one hand, I think "I can find my own products thank you" while on the other I understand the crowded space and targeting advertising does reduce the signal to noise ratio. (this is debatable I guess?)
I shouldn't have to block the domain to stop them from tracking me. They just shouldn't track me.
But sometimes the best way to do something is to do nothing:

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It sounds like this job is your ultimate goal or at least close. If you have your ultimate goal in hand, there's no reason to continue striving for it. I would take the job.

Working there for 5 years will probably be more useful than the degree anyway.
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This reminds me of my physics days at the City College of NY! Awesome puzzle and a cool way to learn about cellular automata...
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Oh, you're the other one. Glad to meet you :)

(FWIW, I chose Pentax because of on-board image stabilization. That should allow me to save money by not paying for it in every lens (as Canon and Nikon do). However, it seems to turn out that the big names get enough economy of scale that the lens price isn't better for Pentax anyway.)
It's interesting to see the school simultaneously make a big push for free educational content online while also expanding it's for-profit online reach.
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Deprecation warnings are a huge issue in 3rd party libraries. You'd have to rewrite those the way iOS works basically if you do turn on "Warnings as errors". I wish it were not so, but sadly, it is.

On projects who don't have this problem, I turn it on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS#Accuracy

There are already chips that combine the results from GPS and GLONASS. Because it moves from 31 satellites to about 50, time to get a fix is improved (since it might see 4 GPS satellites and 2 GLONASS ones more easily) and accuracy is better.
I understand this and I agree with you. I don't even deny that the 4s has a great camera. It does! But to compare it to an S95 and a 5D Mark II isn't a story that's ready to be told. I wouldn't have said a peep if they just showed the iPhone 1-4s comparisons. That's the story - Small sensor technology is rapidly advancing and it's great! BUT it's not a replacement for the niche the s95 fills. The image presented here of the city is the most striking example of that.
Nice try, but I've always been suspicious of "Certificates" even at top tier schools. The best way to signal skills to potential employers is to gain experience (either through employers or maybe through contributing to some online collective endeavor).

As an employer I wouldn't want to pay people to go to school I pay them for results. Show me.

I do like the fact that elite schools are offering online certificates, but for $10K there has got to be a great value proposition.

I find the hard GPA requirement a little odd. So an MIT engineering alum with a 3.4 GPA wouldn't be accepted, but a liberal arts grad from a third tier school who happened to pass one probability and one linear algebra course, would be accepted?
The ICFP contest from 2004 [0] was a bit like what you're talking about. Rather than a bot, though, the submission was a description for a state machine that each ant would follow.

[0] https://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/ants...
You can actually build pretty complicated queries using Google. I could never find documentation for queries like this:

"This-is-*-(dog|cat)"

... but they work. Occasionally you might be accused of being a robot, though.
But not all newspapers are the same as "Cambridge University Press". Here's an article from the very popular UK 'newspaper' The Daily Mail saying that Facebook gives you cancer: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-...
I think we're going to see a fork in the community, and I think heroku will end up supporting both MRI and rbx as equals.
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I know carrier phase differential GPS is used on satellites to get amazing accuracy. I'm not quite sure what the implications are on mobile phones.
Raw precision is only part of the story. GPS + GLONASS provides a number of significant practical advantages over GPS alone, mainly due to the increased number of satellites.

Performance in urban canyons or heavily wooded areas is greatly improved, as there's a much better chance of the receiver seeing enough satellites. Likewise, startup times can be much quicker.

An intelligent receiver using GLONASS only when needed could have dramatically better real-world performance with only a minor increase in battery consumption.

We're inevitably going to see GLONASS everywhere due to the Russian import duty, but it's a real boon to most ordinary GNSS users, for whom the main limit on practical precision is being able to see enough satellites. This is likely to become increasingly important as the existing GPS satellites reach end-of-life.
If this saves me say, 10 seconds, I'd love to say that it would add up over the course of a year...

But in reality, I'm probably saving about ten seconds a year.
The NASDAQ crash of 2000 put a big damper on the employment of tech workers. If you were in this field at that time things sucked. That's when most of us ended up in graduate schools.
You've been led to believe wrong, if you ask me (I know you didn't).

History has always been a constant stream, but you're ability to sample it with a certain frequency diminishes as you "look" back into the past. The historical, archaeological/material, and memorial, if you will, records all become less preserved, and your relatively flawless memory of the time you've lived will of course lead you to see the the time you've lived in as happening more quickly.

Disclosure: my background is in archaeology/anthropology.

Sorry for the rant, but this is a meme that I see all the time and really bothers me.

As far as the OP goes, this article is asinine and meaningless. As a "millenial," I honestly don't give a shit about whether I have it worse or better than some X'er; what I do care about is a sane and just world.

We'll continue to fight for that, thank you very much, while the OP continues to feel self-righteous.
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I was thinking the same. Also, I'm not sure it the plastic applicator is really a good idea: could it have a sharp edge that tears the condom? how much would increase the cost?
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You have a tool that quantifies real-time performance of indivicual stocks. This information is helpful to make long-term buy/sell decisions. Making such decisions based on this information is apparently profitable.

How is that NOT a stock market predictor?
Yeah - lots of people are saying they're having worse battery performance on the 4S or iOS 5 (lots of people aren't, too), and then lots of those people are claiming lots of different things such as turning off various features (and also not doing anything different at all!) has dramatically helped. In other words, essentially no science is being done and no one to my knowledge can say anything definitively yet, but lots of folk remedies are being tweeted. Assuming there's not a bug in the geofencing code, it shouldn't use too much more battery at all because it only goes out to the GPS when available cell towers—which are being constantly communicated with anyway—change.
I agree, but most people probably haven't thought it through, or if they have considered it, they're stuck on the revelation that they are the product, not the customer. Perhaps some of these companies should be more up front about 'the deal' to their users, and what its boundaries are.
Also, see this comment thread in a previous entry:
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I see where your cousin is coming from by thinking that if she isn't on Facebook, she's ostracized, however people tell me the same thing when trying to get me to sign up.

Thankfully, since I never actively used any social networks as a kid, they never became a crutch for me, and any time there's a party worth going to, I'll know about it either through text, a call, or (what most kids seem to avoid these days) face to face social interactions with my friends.
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Worth checking out this article on StormPulse, they were in a similar position - incredible data - just needed to get their head around monetizing it properly:

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This actually sounds like something Cisco would integrate into the Cius and any other Android devices they make. Though the Cius is built on 2.3 and a lot of effort would probably need to go into migrating to 4.0 (even to get to 3).