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> Oh no we don't. Claims that Google Docs are better than MS Office are total BS.

For many it is, for others it's insufficient. But: "do a product similar to yours, not quite as good, but sell it at 1/5 the price."

The only reason we have MS Office at work is Exchange and Outlook, and that's because we dogfood a component of the service we're providing to our customers. Everything else is taken care by OOo/LO and we have a Google Apps around (used mostly for XMPP) but that one would be put to full use the moment we drop Exchange.

Agreed with offline though.
Re #3: Game theory suggests theaters can approach the same higher prices without colluding. Seeing as how price collusion is illegal (in the U.S.), and the results are reachable in another way, the accusation isn't necessary.
And in a world where you need a job to have food, we all starve to death.
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Still ... Slovenia is in Europe :)
I think you just destroyed astronomy, cosmology, and geology too. Some sciences are more observational than experimental.
I found it humorous that the writer announces his bias by identifying other biases and then doing the same thing himself.

The current economic downturn has been called a housing crisis, a financial crisis and a debt crisis, but the simplifying logic of the political season has settled on what is really more a result than a cause. We are now, according to nearly everyone running for office, in a jobs crisis.

Jobs are like money -- they are the end of the process. They are the socres on the scoreboard, but you don't play the game by watching the score. These are metrics of results, not causes. I don't open a business with a chair and a big sign that says "give me money," even though money might be the way I judge success. Likewise, and for exactly the same reasons, you don't sit around trying to "create jobs" Jobs are the result of somebody creating value, they are not a goal in themselves.

I hate to say it, but this was a really bad article. I had a premonition of this when I looked at the title "Can Anyone Really Create Jobs?" It's yet another in a long line of political commentary that takes whatever the current problem is and announces that it is insolvable. This reached ludicrous levels in 2008, with lots of articles asking "Is this the end of capitalism?" I don't know how many of these you have to consume before you finally figure out that no, whatever is happening right now, it's not the end of something that's been going on for thousands of years.

Americans need to start getting honest about their economic situation, no matter what their politics. If you drop hundreds of billions of dollars paying for government workers that the government cannot afford, you are not simulating anything. Money is just continuing to be spent in the same patterns as before. Likewise, if you cut taxes for the rich, and they continue to spend their money in the same way, you are also not doing anything except to run up the debt. If you are living a house you cannot afford, no matter how much we help you, you are probably still stuck in a house you cannot afford, and the rest of us are much poorer. Simply because an idea sounds good to your political party doesn't mean that it accomplishes anything but buying votes. These facts sound cruel, and I apologize, but some of this commentary is beginning to sound like dispatches from somebody's fantasy land. People are smarter than that.
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While I would be hesitant to call it immoral, it can be alarming for a westerner to see that rate and realize the inevitability of it all. That being said markets find an equilibrium so long as they remain free, we have all kinds of things like unions to corporate collusion to corrupt governments, that work to keep them from actually being free in the real world. The reality is in some countries $3/hr is a respectable wage and corporations are exploiting wage and labor imbalances to pay that livable wage in one country while marketing their wares in a totally different economic environment. It may be immoral that we allow companies to exploit trade imbalances to the detriment of the people that are trapped in the reality of different economic conditions (e.g western workers), but that is a really complex subject to untangle.

To me, the part that I find perplexing is that if technical workers around the world knew exactly how short they are in supply they would understand their leverage in the market and not be asking for $3/hr. The thing is in some countries their is collusion to keep that realization from happening. I am not suggesting massive corporate conspiracies but rather people not knowing their true worth by gauging themselves and their income to local cultural norms instead of looking at global supply and demand and adjusting their rates accordingly. The reality is a guy in India or China could be charging $15 to $20 to $30 hr depending on specialty and still be competitive in the market.

That awakening happened among western technical workers and I think it will happen among other cultures, the cold hard reality is there is a small percentage of the population that choose technical career paths, and even fewer who are actually good at it. Once one realizes that the balances shifts in their favor.

I guess my point is in our field we only have our selves to blame if we are asking to little for our services. At one point outsourcing was used to leverage the price of technology down, but that has come back to bite the creator, it created new technical markets and constrained the supply of talent even further.
Yes, I took some rhetorical liberty in that last point. But even so, the fact that they are volunteers matter less that you seem to suggest: their rent and groceries were still paid for. Wether that came from parents, other benefactors or part time work or savings (being their own benefactors), the fact that they were at liberty to do what they did is a product of the changes we're seeing.
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I had some hassle filling in the final part of the registration form with my company details, this might help if you're have the same problems:

If you're in the UK and registering with your Limited company, you need to put your company name in the "Tax Identification Number" field, and your VAT number in the "Registration Number" field (if you're registered for VAT, obviously.)

If you're not sure what your VAT number is internationally, you can check it here: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vieshome.do?select...

For the UK, you have to put "GB " in front of your VAT number.
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The fine print on that page says:

"Coupon codes are not valid anywhere but the HP online store"
"You will use your PayPal account to pay HP for things like PayPal Account update fees and annual developer membership fees (free for a limited time)."

I'm signing up now but will likely cancel just to avoid any big charges in the future.
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> The recession would be long over before the environmental impact reports are even submitted

For megaprojects where a municipality might be creating new infrastructure or modifying infrastructure, sure. But there are plenty of big projects involving deferred maintenance that would require little or environmental impact work (or may have even had the environmental work done long ago).
Only until the next referendum ;)
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It depends to whom you're asking this question. Some people have high standard than others.

I wouldn't bet a consulting project performing integration of various systems using Ruby if the programmers on my team average of 2 years "side-project" Ruby/Rails.

I still wouldn't bet on Ruby developers with 2 years of experience on certain type of web-apps either unless I've seen their code, code style, discipline, judgement, etc.

I would trust a Ruby developer who got burned by some of the Ruby tricks though.

Case and point (or anecdotes):

I recently brought in a veteran Java, 2 year-ish Ruby/Rails, and 1 year-ish JS (thanks to Node.js and Crockford "The Good Parts") programmer to help us working on some of the JavaScript codebase. Java knowledge is intermediate despite the number of years(I consider deep JVM and standard JDK knowledge around hard-to-use packages such as NIO, Thread, Networking as expert, other than that, just intermediate). Pragmatic guy. Understand OOP and its gotchas.

I made an observation of her work in Ruby and JS. On the JS side, she wrote much more code than needed and my gut feeling tells me that she does this to increase her experience using JS. Kinda using it as a playground.

On the Ruby side, certain bad OO practice tends to be a little bit more accepted by her. Where as she would be critical when it comes to bad OO practice in Java.

Hence this is why I would prefer to observe developer's attitude more as oppose to the experience level. Because sometime 1-2 years are considered as "Honeymoon" period where everything looks fine and dandy. As soon as the honeymoon is over and your significant others start to show its true colour, then you're back down to the earth again.
I'm enrolled in the online Applied ML class from Stanford, and I've also been watching this course from CMU (I'm up to the Graphical Model 4 lecture - almost the midterm). If you've taken at least one stats class you'll get much more out of CMU's class.

BTW, here are some good online resources for machine learning:

* The Elements of Statistical Learning (free pdf book): http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

* Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (free pdf book): http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/

* Videos from Autumn School 2006: Machine Learning over Text and Images: http://videolectures.net/mlas06_pittsburgh/

* Bonus link. An Empirical Comparison of Supervised Learning Algorithms (pdf paper): http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~caruana/ctp/ct.papers/caruana.icm... (Note the top 3 are tree ensembles, then SVM, ANN, KNN. Yes, I know there is no 'best' classifier.)
I wish they'd sort out the Windows version before they moved on to sorting out other platforms, but I can understand why.

I wrote about my gripes with Winamp a couple of times:
http://s00techified.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/soo-what-happen...
http://s00techified.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/soo-alternative...
That would also be the notion behind a system of awards for copyable works, so I'm not sure what your point is.
I'm curious what the effective difference to society is between a group of businesses all agreeing not to compete on price, and a group of businesses which each individually decides not to compete on price.
I've talked in 2002 or 2003 to a guy who was still developing fro BeOS at the time. Better have a near monopoly on an uncommon OS than be some invisible me-too :)
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And of course, if you manage to do it without the hack, you still end up with many of the downsides, disrupted sleep schedules and whatnot.
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Or maybe some people can move to farms, supplying more farm labor, sending farm worker wages down, and lowering the price of food to close to nothing? Ohh wait... minimum wage laws stop that from happening.
On the love of Jobs vs hate of Gates (or Microsoft), I am currently reading Steve Jobs biography, and I found a passage that highlights Apple as hypocrites quite more efficiently than anything I might say :

" The Apple raid on Xerox PARC is sometimes
described as one of the biggest heists in the
chronicles of industry. Jobs occasionally endorsed this
view, with pride. As he once said, “Picasso had a
saying—‘good artists copy, great artists steal’—and
we have always been shameless about stealing great
ideas.” "
It sounds like you've never payed much attention to the antitrust actions against Microsoft.

Of course it's impossible to say what the world would be like if there had been no Microsoft. It's impossible to make any long-term projections, whether or not they're for an alternate reality. But that doesn't matter, because it works the other way: You can't say that the good done by Microsoft was worth it in the long run, because you don't know what long-term successes they prevented.

All we really have to go on are the short-term what-ifs, such as the dozens of times that Microsoft illegally screwed over their competitors and restricted consumer choice. Those aren't hypothetical events, but they did result in at least short-term harm.
For one thing, they're relics of the cheap gas era, when it didn't matter how many miles per gallon your car got, and you didn't care how much you wasted while idling in line.

They also don't make much sense in daily life: are people really so busy they can't stop to eat?
I tried out Xtend, but got stuck on a deal killer: no apparent support for defining static fields or methods.

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This seems like a really clunky way to do things. I have to a) create an account if I haven't already b) send an email and c) somehow redeem that coupon.

They already have my PayPal info...why not set up the program to integrate with my developer account so that I can click a link there to make the purchase.

I wonder if this inefficient process is indicative of how HP operates; if so it's pretty clear why they're on the ropes.
Not quite. We are seeing massive shortages of workers at global extremes, but an oversupply in the middle. We have too few engineers, but not enough unemployed Americans are retrainable, numerate, and intelligent enough to fill that gap. We also have too few apple pickers, but not enough unemployed Americans are willing and able to perform that kind of manual labor. It's the comfortable but not intellectually difficult jobs that are in short supply.
We are currently in a huge bubble. I wouldn't try to ascribe rational valuations to anything investors do in the middle of a bubble.

When a company like GRPN, who lies about its own revenue in its own S1 filing, loses money on every deal, and whose idea of scaling is "just add more sales people", pops off a wildly successful IPO in the middle of a very volatile public market, that's when you throw your hands in the air and stop trying to see rational behavior where there is none.

If you're old enough, you would remember this story from 1996-2001 repeating itself.

Of course, there's no end to the supply of twenty-something startup hipsters who will breathlessly inform you that this time it's different. Sure it is, kid. Sure it is.
Given Jobs' reaction to e.g. Android, that is, in the Apple parlance, "stunning".
yeah. the whole op was the unsupported idea of one guy. according to http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57319073-245/anonymous-say...
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Right. Read that. But where in the HP online store is there a "buy now" button? I can buy all kinds of accessories, but no touchpad.

Remember, I'm dumb. I mean, I write PHP, fergawdsakes. I'm going to have to be led by the hand here.
Too bad it's Lion-only. I guess that most people still stick to Snow Leopard (I'll do, heard way too many horror stories).
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Here's another comparison. Sprint doesn't offer the iPhone 3GS, but assume it did for $0. Their unlimited service plan is $99/month. So to own the phone for 2 years would be about $2400.

In comparison, let's say you get a Samsung Android phone from Boost Mobile (which uses Sprint's network). That costs $150. But Boost's monthly unlimited plan is $55/month. So the plan cost over 2 years would be $1320. Add the phone and you're at $1470. So going the Android route on the same network would be $930 cheaper.
Thanks for the insight. I agree ropeadopeandwink.com is an ugly design I will go in and clean it up shortly, font sizes especially need help. Comparing it to the blogs you suggested I honestly do not think my design is that far off from those but definitely needs improvement.
In the old days, when competitors were afraid to even say Bill's name, Microsoft would have hedged their bets.

Microsoft sold some crazy UNIX thing called Xenix, DOS, and ported their software to OS/2 and Mac OS.

Microsoft did not care who won, as long as they were positioned to get their foot in the door, make a huge profit, kill off all the competition, start displacing their upstream and downstream dependencies, and cement their position by extend-embrace-extinguish.

They have one offering on the mobile, nothing to speak of in the tablet space, and very few apps / trojan horses for iOS / Android. It's like watching Ulysses stick to the Marquess of Queensberry rules.
Are you absolutely sure that Clojure can fit all problem domains? Clojure might be great for MapReduce type of programming. Does it fit a typical Accounting, CRM, Claim management (those kind of business-y app) software projects?
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Winamp with the Bento skin, and the 'Local media -> audio' pane open is far better than any player I've come across on the Mac.. I'm really hoping the Mac version gets as good as the Windows version.

The 'Local media -> audio' pane makes it really quick and easy to browse music by genre or artist, and if you rate your songs, your top songs, or top songs by genre or artist.

And the window-shade mode is nice for letting you see what's playing and controlling with minimal distraction and taking up minimal space.

I've really missed it since switching to a Mac.
"Native Windows support using I/O Completion Ports for sockets."

"Integrated load balancing over multiple processes."

These two improvements are just the nudge I needed to start tinkering with Node. I've been following along and reading about node almost daily but native windows support and integrated focus on multiple processes make a big difference to me. I can no longer sit on the sidelines.

Thanks for picking me up and shoving me onto the field!
That's odd, because the economists are agreeing with you - in your analysis, that is, not in your opinion of economists. But further than that; the microeconomic theories are more generally applicable.

(Me? I hate the stink of popcorn. I'd pay extra to go to a cinema that didn't sell it.)
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If I were an author or publisher, I'd try the drug dealer model -- give away ($2.99 Kindle price, or participation in Lending Library) the first book or two in a series, or the first non-fiction book on a related set of topics -- with the remainder being $9.99 or higher.
When I hear people talk about wanting an iPhone, I hear them talk about how they'll use it, not about the fashion aspect. I mean, no doubt some people want it as a status symbol, but it's not at all clear to me that that's "why people want an iPhone".
The question is: is there a profitable long-term market in the Touchpad?

Who actually bought the device? Corporations who will commit to long term usage (I doubt it) or tech nerds who will flash the device to run Android (leading to a different, well-populated market) or tech nerds who will use the device as is (and abandon it in a year or two)?

Honestly, this sounds like very short-term thinking on the part of Palm.
Guard is in no way dependent on rails. It is a generic system for binding to filesystem events.

But yes, I can see that there is a decent market for this in the command-line illiterate, but I can't imagine that there is much crossover between that group and users of less/sass/coffescript/jslint.
I'm replying here because I can't reply to your last comment ...

I have no idea what you are on about, care to explain?
Good point.

I went to their web store http://www.shopping.hp.com and searched for "touchpad" but all I found for sale were accessories: cases, stands, cables, etc.

Maybe this coupon signup is some kind of marketing survey, to help HP decide what to do with the touchpad.
Sorry to have mislead - I was just making a dumb joke (against my better judgment) on the name... Winamp (which was famously skinnable and has "Win[dows]" right in the name) for Mac.
Did you read the second page? Because, the author essentially says a similar thing. In fact, the last paragraph is pretty blunt. (but, I can't get to the text anymore, to verify)
It sounds like you're blaming the Community Reinvestment Act for the mortgage crisis. The downvoters probably consider that a GOP talking point with no basis in reality. I know I do, but I'll reply instead of downvoting.
Alternatively, it just may be another barrier so that they get more committed developers rather than people that know the word developer and want a cheap Touchpad.
So if a company is efficient and has to terminate people they will have to pay more taxes?

Smart businessmen (with smaller businesses) would just start a new company every year and move the profit from 1 to another. It isn't a very big accounting challenge to change which one of the companies you control shows a profit.
I would argue we are still in an era of cheap gas. Expensive gas is more like $5 - $7 in the midwest. I'm sure out on the coasts you're pumping up against that already. You're idling for maybe 10 - 15 minutes, so most people don't care.

In my experience a drive through is a dine-out experience. It's not so much we're eating in our car and not stopping, but I'm going to go get fast food to go.
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I remember having to play games without any sound because I couldn't figure out how to fit the SCSI Hard Disk driver and CD Rom driver and soundblaster driver into the 640k especially since lots of games flat out refused to work if you loaded himem.sys or QEMM which allowed you to load the drivers into the extended/expanded memory areas.
What you describe sounds like an industry based on a pre-internet business model, waiting to be disrupted.
It was just a light-hearted reference to how disfunctional European political leadership in general is right now.

It wasn't intended as a slight against Slovenia in any way (and if you took it that way, please accept my apologies).
"Hacking rewards thinking carefully and doing the Right Thing The First Time"

You have just won the gymkhana for linguistic drifting.
I just put my name in there.
I guess it all started with http://drop.io (which is gone now) (thanks, btw.)
In direct answer to your question: just launch.

In response to your app itself: I would suggest offering arbitrary thumbnail sizes( not just 72px ), up to and including full-screen resolution. In addition, I would suggest a snapshot scheduling service, such that regular images are captured for given urls on a regular schedule.

A company like us, for instance would probably pay for a service that allows us to build a design history of our web properties automatically, instead of adding "screenshot the existing live site before deployment" to the design or technical workflow, or relying on the Wayback Machine to do so.