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It makes me happy to see more advertising networks such as The Deck and InfluAds spring up.

If you run the numbers on the rate card, number of advertisers, and number of impressions (all public knowledge), The Deck works out at somewhere around $2.50 CPM and I bet not all advertisers are paying ratecard. $2.50CPM won't pay anyone's wages on a niche site unless they're getting silly traffic. I love The Deck philosophically but from a business point of view, I wouldn't run their ad unit even if I were invited.

Not many people outside of media circles are talking about the real trend that's going on nowadays (although Monocle magazine keeps sharing the secrets, but their circulation is small ;-)): advertising/editorial crossover and product development. The real money is in building audience loyalty and producing your own premium products or services targeted at them (and not a paywall that just locks up the previously free stuff). Keep an eye out for sites that advertise their own stuff (training courses, merchandise, reports, premium subscriptions) rather than other people's - it's a growing trend.
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I have two very simple questions for you:

1) Do you believe it right that the financial sector was, and is still being, bailed out?

2) If not, how do you describe the system producing that result, if not "fundamentally broken"?
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting the jury be only check and balance, and I don't think it would be a silver bullet.

We are where we are because business (those who desire money) and politicians (those who desire power) have overlearned the system.

There is no reason why they couldn't overlearn the jury check as well, I can't think of a simple solution.

Perhaps we are doomed to cycles of people being complacent, which lets tyranny flourish only to be ended violently?.
> Mom and grandma don't want to migrate their photos from F-Spot to <photo app of the year>. That is a pretty cruel task to burden average people with.

And frankly, it would be nice if they could have one which actually worked.
In addition to the pie fallacy, it also fails on several other levels, notably that even if every single person had an identical income, simple savings for retirement would cause a significant "wealth disparity". "Inequality in Equalland" showed that even in completely "equal" conditions, the wealthiest 20% of people would have 64% of the wealth. http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-10-inequality-in-equ...

Talking about "income disparity" at least makes marginal sense, albeit frequently with a large dose of entitlement thrown in. But the concept of "wealth disparity" makes no sense at all.
I'd venture to say that the downvotes are coming from the very broad brush with which you're painting tens of thousands of people, few of which you personally know.

I'd argue that the unprecedented unemployment rate represents a clear systemic dysfunction. These aren't temporary job losses due to the natural boom-bust cycle, a very large portion of these jobs are simply never coming back. Whose fault that is is hard to say, but I don't think it's at all cynical to doubt that the unemployment rates will abate on their own.

It's also no secret that wages have been stagnant (if not outright dropping) for the past two decades. None of the trends indicate a cyclical nature, so it's not hard to suggest that these are systemic issues that won't correct themselves.

The quality of life of the average American is dropping precipitously. In a singular case we can point to any number of causes - lack of education, lack of self-discipline, substance abuse, etc etc. When multiplied a couple hundred million times over, it suggests systemic failure.

In other words, "broken", though of course we can argue about the meaning of "brokenness" till the cows come home.

FWIW, I'm the "4%". I'm definitely not doing badly at all for myself, even in this economy. In fact, my quality of life has never been higher. Despite this, it would be a mistake for me to dismiss the problems this country faces, or to jump to conclusions about those affected. It is perpetually disappointing to me how judgmental the wealthy and successful can be, using their singular case of triumph over the system as a wide brush with which to paint all those who have failed to beat it.
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I think it's a good approach to collect a few screenshots, order them into coherent groups and them try to abstract some "pattern".

The screenshots themselves aren't really a pattern though... so I definitely agree with you :)
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Still does not explain what it does.

From your excerpt:

- the platform now supports Android,

- it worked on iOS before too,

- the process on Android is similar to iOS,

- it's easy.

But it still does not answer the question: what it is?

Few more clicks and I found it: you can design REST API, integrates notifications, analytics and social platforms. I guess it has its niche, someone may be interested in this, but hardly most Android developers.
My theory is that they all object to socializing losses, and privatizing gains. Bailing out big corporations (while their CEOs and shareholders purportedly make out like bandits) pisses off socialists, social democrats, and libertarians alike, and they won't all agree on what should be done.

But they are all pissed off, and that's what unifies them.
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Thanks for pointing out this new trend. After reading your comment quite a few such "niche" advertising websites and models came to mind. Maybe I will write an article about it in the near future.

On a personal note as a user I'm more inclined to purchase a course or a report from such a website rather than from an ad on a big website.

Thanks

EDIT: Also what I tried pointing to is relevant advertising. The networks I mention are probably one of the many but at least they target specific niches.
Your coworker is an idiot and/or doesn't work well others. Don't put up with this.
I think taking issue with 'fundamentally broken' is fair though.

The current recession is not as bad as the great depression, and I'm very, very glad that in the US, we pursued incremental, evolutionary fixes to the breakage then, than much of the radical transformation that happened elsewhere, and turned out to be far, far worse than the 'broken' in the US.

I mean, if something is genuinely fundamentally broken, you should throw it out and completely remake it, no? Terrible idea, as far as I'm concerned, with regards to the US economy.

Other than that, I think your original comment was as good, although I still think the whole thing ought to be flagged as a political discussion that doesn't belong here.
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Ah, ok. So "Its possible to create wealth without taking wealth from others".

Unfortunately, although it is possible to do so without taking it from others, taking it from others is still a viable way to do it. Further, its also possible to destroy wealth. And its possible for the destruction of wealth to be asymmetrical.

So is the current financial state an example of wealth creation, wealth transfer, or wealth destruction?

I'm looking at the national debt, the median house price, and the DJIA and I'm not seeing "wealth creation". What leads you choose "pie fallacy" as your answer?
You should read this http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870426150457620...

99% of TARP has been repaid already. That's more than you can say about regular people paying back their credit card debts due to limitless spending.
As good as it is to learn to code, much as is the case with any situation where you'd normally hire a professional (doctor, lawyer, accountant) don't kid yourself that you know everything once you can sling some code.

A good example would be how terrible the code the Google Founders wrote. Their initial engineering hires had to rewrite everything from scratch.

And the Google Founders did have a background that would lend well to coding.
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We should ban the words "ugly" or "dirty" when refering to code. These concepts are not clear, and are used to justify a lot of rewriting and redesigning that is not always needed and often counterproductive.

If you want to criticize code, say exactly what's wrong with it, so we can have a detailed and rational argument about it.

If you say "this script is ugly, it should be rewritten", there's not much discussion that can be had about it. If, on the other hand, you say, "this script is written in a way that is not modular enough", then we can discuss whether modularity really is a requirement or not, for that specific script in that specific project.
Let's assume for a moment that the richest 400 people in the US "create jobs" in some reasonable proportion to their personal wealth.

Let's also assume that all of them disappeared tomorrow.

Do you believe that half the jobs in the US would go away?

Let's assume none of them were ever born.

Do you believe the US would have half the jobs it does today?

I hope you can see what I'm getting at.

That aside, take a look at who the 400 are:

http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

Just go down the list. Google them and their companies. Take a look at how many people they actually employ.

Some of them you might argue made significant contributions to the creation of entire industries, but many are just investors. Hedge fund managers. Bankers.

OWS isn't pissed about Bill Gates or Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos or Michael Dell. They're not looking at the guys who started value-creating businesses and contributed directly to their success. That's not who this is about, and it never has been.
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There are other good replies here. But one of the reasons you can't figure this movement is because it's a grass roots movement. There is no central body defining agendas, goals and slogans. Only thousands of people fed up by what they see going on above them.

30 years ago, you could probably see the hand of Moscow in this.

Last year, the involvement of the christian right and at least some members of the republican party was very clear when looking at the Tea Party.

OWS appears to be something else.
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Funny, I'd actually intended my comment as a complaint about the very broad brush with which the protesters paint all the world's problems, or at least the ones they personally see. I'd argue that we don't have a "fundamentally broken" system which we could simply fix and solve all the problems at once. A large number of people have a large number of individual problems, and some of those problems look superficially similar. I'm pointedly trying to not paint a huge number of people with a broad brush. :)
> If it happens that it is effective to make money by repeatedly crashing and booming the stock market, then that is exactly what they will do.

The two crashes of the past decade were painful exactly because "they" expressly failed to make money. They caused a lot of pain to a lot of 1%ers. If you think the financial sector likes, and purposefully causes, crashes, well, you're wrong.

> Our economy has been rooted.

Thing is, the box was left with numerous unpatched known vulnerabilities for the better part of half a century. Whenever it got sluggish, the sys admins eagerly added memory and processors, not bothering to consider what might be wrong. And when the box finally collapsed the sysadmins are more than happy that all the anger is directed at the hackers.
WikiPedia on this:

"Many English speakers use "begs the question" to mean "raises the question"; for example, "this year's deficit is half a trillion dollars, which begs the question: how are we ever going to balance the budget?" Many philosophers and prescriptive linguists deem such usage incorrect. Academic linguist Mark Liberman recommends avoiding the phrase entirely."
99% of the people who use it have no choice, so not really.

But it's nice to see a semi-tutorial wrapped in an argument. Arguments are more fun to read than tutorials, so I picked up a few factoids (named args) without having to read Apple's documentation (which is a little dry).
Please, a bit less hyperbole and more constructive criticism.
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I'm a Developer of web apps working at a startup, and I'm passionate about UI design. I regularly get praised for apps I make because of the extra touches and good design, but primarily I'm developing some sophisticated apps with 90% of the time spent on the backend code. At this point most of the apps are R&D prototypes. It kind of makes me feel bad as other developers who are way smarter than me don't get any praise for just delivering the functionality which was asked for in the spec; either they don't have the UI skills to show off, they don't think a good UI is important, or they are more experienced and less rebelious!

If I'm creating an app which may take 10 hours, I'll make sure I spend a good hour or two on top of that making it look great and usable! These two things are never asked for, quite the opposite in fact. Sometimes I do this bit in my own time.

The problem is, on every project now I'm getting told by my peers "don't spend any extra time on this", "nothing fancy", "knock this up as quick as possible, we'll do design if the client likes it". I often ignore this advice, as sometimes these apps are demos sales guys are showing off to prospective clients, if I didn't provide a good design then I wouldn't be motivated to do my job, I just don't agree with the decision. To back this up even more, when I disobey this advice I don't get told off, often the feedback is very positive simply because of the 'extra time' I've put in! If the sales team come back with good feedback, it cancels out the imminent telling off I was about to get from my technical manager. It seems no matter how important I prove the UI design is, I'm getting increasingly pressured to forget it, and if it were upto my peers every app I produce would have no stylesheet, Times new Roman fonts on a white background with raw HTML tables!

This is starting to affect my motivation and I'm constantly hiding photoshop and anything with color on it if someone important is looking! I need a job where spending a little time to make things usable and attractive is ok. Am I being too rebelious here? Should I raise this formally with my manager?

Thanks in advance for the help guys.
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And how much of that profit flowed through into the real economy? That's the protesters' point.
1) No

2) Because bail-outs aren't a fundamental property of "the system".
I think most of the anxiety comes from expecting the results very fast. In this fast pace lifestyle, reaching a goal, like learning a programming language is not a craftsmanship challenge but a huge motivational and focusing challenge.
Clearly he wasn't much of a trader.

I did read another article where they interviews other traders about what he had said. While they disagreed with some of his other points they were in general agreement about that one.
I think the phrase about thinking in dimes refers to not realising where true cost lies.

You will find some business people that cost themselves thousands in staff time to save a few hundred bucks on some software that could improve the efficiency of their business, for example.
Sorry, you are right - their system essentially cuts out the need for credit cards and therefore merchants can take payments over the web without the massive servicing costs traditionally charged for propping up bloated credit card processing.

The system basically taps into the interbank transfer system.

From what I have seen, they respond well to all the security concerns too.
The idea of type-safety has nothing to do with this: a type-safe language implemented entirely with reference counting, having no ability to write to arbitrary memory locations on purpose or on accident, has this same tradeoff.

Additionally, as I think this is also relevant to your comment, if you take a step back for a second from the notion that an object /is/ memory, and think of memory as being one of the resources that an object is using, things become more clear.

Simply put, we have two common ways of reclaiming objects automatically: garbage collection and reference counting. The tradeoff is that with garbage collection, you get free cycle detection at the cost of not having deterministic finalization.

Each of these options has downsides: neither is fundamentally better than the other, and not having either one causes you to have to scratch your head occasionally, or add extra code to deal with the lack of automation.

(edit:)

Thinking about this overly simple description, I realize that I'm over-simplifying a little too much... a lot of the fundamental problem has to do with an inability to determine the order of finalization of objects in a cycle, which is what causes a lot of mistakes in Java finalizer implementations.

In comparison, the practical problems are that the common implementations involved take extreme positions: if you have a garbage collected language, it normally is not "reference counting with a cycle detector bolted on", which yields a weird property of possibly arbitrary delays on finalization of valuable resources when you aren't under memory pressure.
a) My best guess at the weather tomorrow is the weather today. 2007 was the latest data I saw. I did not read 99% of that document. After the dot-com crash the wealth distribution became much more equal, so a major crash can go either way.

b) You're right, my assumption was wrong. Thanks for finding that quote and sharing it.
Also take criticism with a grain of salt. Often it's much easier to complain than to create. If you don't have a critic you might be doing something wrong.
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I don't like the idea of excluding all comments from the code. However excluding useless or local comments from a repository can be legitimate.

Two potential solutions:

1) Use a regexp to match your comments and trim your code before committing.
That shouldn't be too hard, and is pretty efficient since you only need to care about it before submitting your code.
If there are existing comments that should stay in the code, use a specific markup for your comments.

2) Another idea could be to maintain a stgit patch integrating all the comments.
This requires a bit of process though.
What happened with the code you generated, have you open-sourced it?
A good point but I wonder how many Mom's and grandma's install operating systems on their computers. :)
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1) No. I also don't consider said bailouts the root cause of anything except one more instance of wasteful spending.

2) "Too busy fighting over local minima/maxima to ever escape them and make core changes, but as a result at least mostly harmless except as a drag force on productivity." We could argue all day about core changes that might fix the system, but we'll never agree on precisely which core changes to make, so they'll never happen. And that still probably works better than the case where the wrong core changes occur.

(And a meta-level comment about search heuristics comes about as close to a political comment as I'd like to get.)
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Advertising is awful because the incentive system is fundamentally broken. The only thing a publisher has to risk by showing crappy ads is you going to another site. Even the sites with the most annoying ads will only lose a small percentage of visitors if the ads become more annoying. They have nothing to gain by making ads appealing.

The problem with online advertising is that the system is entirely skewed to the advertisers. Since they are the ones injecting money into the system, they get whatever they want. If they want to annoy you, then they get to annoy you. And there's nothing wrong with that. They are the customers.

The Deck is really cool, and so is InfluAds. But those solutions don't seem to scale. Exclusivity doesn't solve the underlying problem, it just passes it along to someone else.

The solution to the problem lies in finding a way to make money from a website that doesn't involve doing whatever an advertiser tells you to do. The details of this solution are left as an exercise for the reader.
They are a result of the system. I find it hard to believe that a not-fundamentally-broken system would produce that result.

What non-fundamental properties of the system do you think should change to halt now, and prevent in the future, bailouts and related actions (e.g. corporate subsidies)?
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We're talking about elementary school education here, I find it extremely difficult to believe that some languages are "better" than others at conveying the ideas at this level of education.
Only if that statement is false.
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