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Your website looks nicer, but I can get more and better materials at http://crossfit.com for free. This market is already over-saturated with businesses trying to take people's money. I think you will find it very difficult to compete.
> Can anyone think of a software package — or anything else, really — that proudly displays a version number higher than 23?

Well, there's Emacs.
Plus if you're a functional noob like I am, you can pop out and do traditional OO/Procedural code.

It slices, it dices. Heck -- probably even makes Julianne fries.

Tying type inference to IntelliSense is a huge win for the programmer.
I think the approach does matter, and is one of the reasons there is such a big difference in fund raising in the first place.
I think the guy simplifies the whole thing just a little beyond what's fair.

Technocratic incompetence at least doesn't describe the guys with (R)'s next to their names in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
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Yeah, Preview is awesome. Bu Firefox on Mac OS X by default saves all docs, this sucks.
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That's media jargon, I am pretty much sure, he wouldn't address himself as "finance guru".
Sure, American hackers will be just as knowledgeable as Chinese hackers, but if in general the Chinese population becomes more learned (which is happening at a rapid pace as China gets closer to being a first world nation), we would have disadvantages that they don't have, such as the anti-intellectual attitude that exists in many parts of the US.
The latest research on the correlation between religion and niceness.
MGM to post full movies, TV shows on YouTube
I think the whole gestures thing is NOT intuitive. There is nothing that invites the user to do that stuff. I think scrolling is OK because we have all seen it in the iPhone advertisements. But do stuff with 2,3 or even 4 fingers? Why would I ever even try it? It's like pressing CTRL+@+ALT+AppleKey+xyz.
Completely agree. Not only is the "magic" of SEO long-gone, people are sick of every possible avenue of the Internet being "leveraged" for marketing purposes.
There are several roll-out phases from Beta to complete interactivity. The training videos are made and digested by the community. Think of trainers as developers and PaceFit as the AppStore.

Being fit does not take a herculian or "incredible" interface, it takes the consumer being mentally stimulated in just the right way.As such, you need huge variety.

I could elaborate more if you'd care to email me: ferguson@pacefit.com
We are a platform. Not a content provider. You are right, nothing new is ever going to come out of the fitness industry. It's pretty simple stuff. Yet people still under-sweat and over-eat.

See my responses below.
It's kind of like "socialist" - many people think of it as inherently bad, instead of just a different set of relative values. I've lived in Sweden and can say that atheism, agnosticism, and socialism aren't bad, just different.
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* I would allocate at least 50 per cent of a clients' money in Asia and move it away from the US.*

Asian markets have fallen very badly almost 50-60%, I am wondering if this was the right advice.
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yahoo days? :)
"While giving my notice I practically begged for my job"

Why on earth would you do that, after the way they treated you??? Seriously, I don't get it. Get some self-respect! Next time something like this happens to you, quit sooner (like before your girl-friend leaves you).

I don't have a condition that is as severe as yours (I think), but essentially, my sleep is so irregular that I have also suffered in any 9 to 5 job I had so far. I even admit that sometimes this makes me anxious (because the normal career path is not open to me), but on the other hand, I simply realize that a 9 to 5 office job is not for me, and I have to look for alternatives. As a programmer, you can get by doing contract work from home. Get a spec, deliver a couple of weeks later - at your own sleep schedule.

I am not a doctor, but I don't think you can expect to live a normal life with your condition. But it is not so bad either - office jobs suck anyway.

Even with jobs where developers where allowed to come in as late as 12pm initially, sooner or later the issue of my schedule would always arise. A couple of weeks in, suddenly the company policy would change and people were expected to be in the office by 9am. So I really can not encourage you to keep looking for that understanding company that adjusts to your problems (not saying that there aren't any, just that I wouldn't count on it).
My sympathies on your sleep disorder.

To me, your biggest solvable problem is learning to stand up for yourself.

You are telling a story about your sleep phase syndrome, but I am reading a story about how you were bullied by people who picked up on your fear and anxiety. That's something you can fix.

It may be difficult to find a job that works with your unusual schedule. You should be honest with prospective employers before you take any position. Everyone should understand what they're getting into. But once you are hired, you need to take care of your health. Walk out the door when it is time to go. Don't justify yourself or be apologetic. You already know how that ends up. Your managers and coworkers will adjust if you stand up for yourself.

Of course, starting your own company is good too. :)

Good luck.
That seems backwards. Adolescence is more about fitting in and doing what other people are doing (including adopting the "I'm an individual" battlecry) than it is about individuality.
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It's a subject I'm interested in but I don't see any value in what you are trying to do, it doesn't seem very well thought out.
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It's very well thought-out, simply that I don't care to share, in a public format, every facet of the roll-out plan.
Silver predicts White Sox lose 90 games. Is ridiculed in baseball circles. Vindicated when they end up sucking.

Silver predicts Rays win 88 games. Is ridiculed further. Rays win 97 games and go to the World Series. Absolute vindication.

That said, I hate his player projection systems. You can't predict baseball (though he comes about as close as you can).
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Uh, no. The final result was not predicted from March's data.
For one thing, remember how the polls changed in October when the Economy hit the fan?
Dean Kamen Making the 'Segway' into Hybrid Cars
One option: Abolish Congress and the presidency. I mean, what have they done for you lately? Can you name a single good deed they've done in the past 30 years? Use some sort of board of trustees to select the Supreme Court justices and the Joint Chiefs. Perhaps this board of trustees would be selected by existing trustees, or perhaps we could use something like the Venetian lottery system ( http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/03/unpredictable-elect... ).

Other options include something like Juristopia ( http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2007/05/juritopia.html ) or Formalism ( http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/04/formali... )

Or, if you want something a little more proven, there is always Monarchy.

Basically, anything that doesn't use a ritualized form of gang warfare would be better than democracy in my book.
CrossFit is a platform as well. It's a platform that has also created what is possibly the most effective system (and content to go with it) out there. They also have been experiencing massive grass-roots growth recently.

As a paid site, you bring nothing to the table for me personally. If you were free, I might be interested in browsing. But it would still be very difficult to top the current well-thought-out, well-tested, and still free online resources already available.

That's not to say that you can't bring something to the table that reaches a different group of people. In fact, I think that motivation is probably the reason there are so many players in the fitness industry. So be sure to view my thoughts with this in mind.
"I think what Darwin was really saying was: It's not the fittest, not the smartest, not the strongest; it's the ones that can adapt to change. And big industries that have long histories, particularly successful long histories and a lot of ingrained infrastructure become the least adaptable to change."
Gee, only the thousandth article I've read of this title. The nature of SEO will change, obviously. Those who don't adapt will fizzle out. That's always been true, though. SEO now isn't the same as SEO three or four years ago.
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It might be worthwhile to note that third edition of the book is in the works (supposedly). Given that the current (2nd) edition was published almost 20 years ago, I'm waiting to get the 3rd one. This page claims it's scheduled to be published in February 2009: http://isbn.nu/0521809266
I genuinely appreciate it!
Let a dead horse rest.

SEO is what it is. Right now it isn't such a bad thing, it is primarily a bunch of best practices. They might seem elementary to hackers, but they are necessary.
Are you smart enough to work at Microsoft?
External coverage here: http://niteshok.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/effective-tribe-man...
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

You've got a serious problem, so make a serious change. You're not working for minimum wage so your job isn't necessary for survival.
I watched the demo over the weekend and was pretty impressed with what they're doing. Being able to write client-side and server-side code without switching contexts should yield a nice productivity boost.
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't everybody shift by half an hour a night?
The question is, can your users tell the difference? I didn't see one. It strikes me that yours might be a little more personalized, but that's about it. An online personal trainer rather than some ripped dude at the gym--although you are cheaper than him.
Founders, be ready for the long haul
It depends on where you are, but many jurisdictions have laws about reasonable accomodation for diagnosed illnesses. See a lawyer.
It's the same, except when it is different.

As a single example, it is often useful to repeat a point when writing to hammer it home. Doing this in code just creates maintainability issues.

I know this wasn't the core of Jeff's point. I think his point can be more clearly stated:

It is important to be clear first and terse second when writing and coding.
Dement has a book: "The Promise of Sleep"

I read a book by one of Dement's colleagues, James Maas: "Power Sleep".

I first heard Dement in pure-audio form on the Stanford iTunes. That talk was moderately better organized than the video version, although it would certainly be better if there was a punchier video available on such an important topic.
I am incredibly happy to see the progress coming to the JDK since it has gone open-source. I'm not a fan of Java the language, but the whole ecosystem benefits from the changes.
If you're talking about the Ivy Leagues, it's because those schools are the most selective for people with high test scores and leadership experience.
Unfortunately, Obama is an exceptional case, and the research does not back you up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_pregnancy#Impact_on_the...
Evince chokes up on large PDFs but xpdf does not. I started using xpdf to read PDFs in OLPC, due to necessity. I liked it so much that I'm using it in my dev laptop as well. It is faster too.
This is yet another non-news blog post with a sensationalised headline (which, to his credit, he admits).

Here's another problem. The author hoists himself on his own petard with this nugget of wisdom:

Twitter, Facebook, even the biggest social network, MySpace, which was built as a place to market to young people, has been destroyed by the attempts to commandeer them by marketers.

So it's shocking, shocking that marketers would "commandeer" a service that was expressly designed to aid and abet marketers. Hm.
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Those practices are not 'seo practices'. They are 'usability, accessibility practices'.

Make it easy, relevant, valuable to users, and the search engines will value it too.
I don't expect you to publicly share your plan, I get the sense you don't even have one. You don't seem to be offering anything different than any of your competitors, except a slightly better designed website.
I've never read an article by an author more out of touch of the real SEO world than this. Maybe he needs to be punched more in the head?

Here's the formula for writing an "SEO is dead" article.

1. Take on tech person who's not directly involved in building, maintaining or marketing websites for a living.

2. Send him to a conference where a panel of similar out-of-touch 'experts' decry the death of SEO.

3. Said tech person goes home all jazzed up about the concept and posts a Tweet or some crappy Facebook message regurgitating what he just heard without doing any research.

4. Is amazed at the response (because let's face it, their swimming in unfamiliar waters).

5. Writes article explaining all the wonderful things he learned about SEO and how SEO experts are scum and how the concept of SEO is dead in X years.

6. Profit?

The point is this guy is not living in the real world, where not every site is based on Wordpress, and not every business skyrockets to the top of Google rankings without doing any sort of optimization.

Lesson? Stick to what you know, and don't make conclusions based on what you hear coming from the mouths of Internet celebrities.
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The network was one of the ways Obama got the money. If it weren't for Obama's ability to encourage a large number of people to donate money to him over and over again, Clinton would have crushed him in the primaries.

(As the article makes clear, the money isn't the only reason Obama skillfully used the Web, but all that community-building stuff had the happy side effect of providing additional fundraising channels.)
The saying my mother used when I was growing up was that "a boy becomes a man when a man is required."
China Says: If You Must Infringe On Copyrights, Use Baidu
You could have also Googled a bit and found a program called "The Unarchiver", which will handle StuffIt files on OSX.

Now if anybody has a Mac-compatible program that will play RealMedia files, yet isn't RealPlayer, I'd be really happy...
"There is only one thing that breeds success, and that is passion."

And when you've learned to fake that...

Seriously, though, he doesn't make any concrete suggestions about what SEO/SMM should be replaced by -- just "hire an internal evangelist" and get passionate, with a mention of personal branding (which links to an article which seems distinctly anti-personal branding). The article is like a mini-Cluetrain Manifesto, without the timeliness.

I wrote a lengthy piece for my boss a few years ago, detailing how to improve our websites and content for SEO purposes, advocating the use of blogs, social networking sites, etc, etc. Response? None, just "thanks, maybe we'll talk about this later." Then he went off and quietly hired some dodgy SEO company to artificially inflate our websites' rankings. He was faced with the choice of following something which was (to him) new and outlandish, or taking a safe "bet to nothing" (on the SEO company) for a fixed sum of cash. I'm fairly sure people like him will keep SEO specialists in business for a long time to come.
Choosing an apt in Palo Alto
I'm looking for an apartment in Palo Alto. I know they're pretty expensive.

What's the typical cost of 2br in the safe place? I don't need something luxurious, but not a ghetto and definitely not an old cracked building with mad landlord.

What're the good spots to live there?

Personally, I was thinking about the block that starts with Sand Hill Rd and ends with Oregon Expy, and Middlefield Rd and El Camino Real from the other side. I don't know how are my chances to find something affordable there though ;)

Speaking of this, how safe is to move closer to 101? What're the limits where I can stop and look around for good apartment without compromising safety for me and my family? I have a small kid, who'll go to school eventually, I want him to be in a good one.

I also liked San Mateo, but it is too small and old for me. I came from Los Angeles area, and even if I used to live in suburbs (Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank) they still had kind of more interesting downtowns there. But San Mateo has got a great placement, with making it easy 20-ish minutes to almost anywhere (with no traffic).

Thank you!
I mean, what have they done for you lately? Can you name a single good deed they've done in the past 30 years?

Luckily, the job of the government isn't to do good deeds -- it's to hold onto power in order to stop even worse people from getting it.

The purpose of democracy isn't to get the best people into power, it's to stop the worst people from getting into power.
Which isn't a useful skill either. I want someone who can work like Knuth, not someone who can quote Knuth. Knuth didn't become Knuth by quoting people like Knuth.
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http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

Plays pretty much everything.
Which one do most startups choose? LLC?
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Worst headline today: this is not a segway car with two side-by-side wheels, it is a car with a new (Stirling) engine, from Dean Kamen, whio is the Segways's inventor.
My college actually maintained its own service, but it wasn't super-clever and sort of backwards compared to a webapp. You would submit an email to them and they would include your post in a weekly email that went out to everyone on campus.
Completely and utterly way off-topic but who else enjoyed watching Fox news the day after the election just to watch in pure joy the 'news anchors' talking about how Obama won?

I don't think I've ever watched so many hours of Fox news with a bigger smile on my face.

--

Back on topic, I think this current vacation from oil price increases is obviously temporary, and is only delaying the inevitable move to new technologies until the economies around the world fully recover. Expect to see prices rising again fast as soon as economic indicators start improving, which will cause everyone once again to start looking into alternative energy.
Dude ... that went right over your head.
He was putting them in things like high dividend yield utilities, not the broader markets indexes. I'm not sure how his Asian holdings have done.
Same thing here, but even more erratic. When working a normal job (which I did for 7 years before founding a company) the best strategy was to sleep 6 nights a week. I almost always skipped sleep on Saturday night and would go to bed Sunday afternoon as kind of a weekly reset.
Researchers build "haunted" room
The Bell Curve is incredibly controversial. I recommend reading some criticism of the book. Here's a good start: http://goinside.com/98/3/postmod.html
Wondering how the family proved that the claimed Yahoo account was indeed their son's.
Circuit City files for bankruptcy
Code is read more often than it is written, so readability counts.

No, I'm totally not language-evangelizing :)
Russian programmers are not smarter, they're just willing to do things like this without feeling like they're the scum-of-the-earth like most Americans would.

In Russia they don't believe in black/white, right/wrong like we do here in America, there's about an 80% gray area in between which means things like SPAM, Botnets and taking money from suckers is acceptable (notice I didn't say right or wrong)
GM Stock Sinks 30% After Analyst Sets $0 Price Target
Pretty much every college (or every technical one at least) has a homegrown system or three.

From what I've seen, most students just use Craigslist. I don't see the problem with it.
Submitter: "finally" as in you were hoping they were going to file? Or finally as in they were teetering on the brink for a long time and just fell over the edge?

Best Buy is the evil around my locale, so I don't have any negative associations with CC, which is why I ask.
FYI: Massachusetts is the only jurisdiction in the US (that I am aware of) that requires at least 2 members for an LLC.
I was hoping to see this, however as a del.icio.us user I'm afraid I'll be left out seeing as how I'm sure Google will not implement an 'open' social bookmarking mechanism.
I thought about death and information in the cloud a few times earlier.
There were two problems with handing over the information to the next of kin:
1. How will the family members prove that the claimed account indeed belongs to the deceased?
2. Was the account holder OK with passing the information to his kin? When it comes to physical diaries and mail, we know that someone will have access to it after we die. I don't think same applies to digital content.
Does the ruling in Yahoo's case mean that the laws in the US dictate handing over information to family members?
If so, why has Yahoo not amended its privacy policy to reflect this.
I think it's pretty easy for all these service providers to add an option where the account holder can nominate a heir for his information. Options should be:
1. Details of the chosen heir
2. Default legal heir
3. No one should get access to my information.
China has money, which means they can get away with pretty much anything. It's too bad really, I'd like to see an international "great wall of tech" that would force China to change it's ways.

/not holding my breathe
Underwater stock options flooding Silicon Valley
No, but like most netizens I feel qualified to criticize the company and talk about how almost every other tech is superior.
Like many others have said, I'm not sure you want to stay with that company. But it seems that if this is a diagnosed disorder and your doctor can certify that this "impacts a major life function" then the Americans with Disabilities Act may be on your side and the company would be obligated to supply "reasonable accommodations" for your disability. I briefly flirted with disability as a result of my RSI, but the rules are complex and I probably know about enough to be dangerous, but it might be worth talking to your doctor about.
Classic FUD.
Before you fall in love, make sure to hear some opposite opinion, like this one:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/9555f5757e...
It does but he seems a little too personable and maybe even jock-ish.
If Google had more inventory I'd buy it. For those of us that have mastered our niche in AdWords Google is practically a money printing machine.

For others? Not so much. Maybe this will get rid of some of my pesky competitors.
I was interviewed (and quoted) by the NY Times reporter who wrote this article. He had read my earlier essay on the topic, The Coming Digital Presidency: http://mathoda.com/archives/189
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Talk about a waste of time/money.
If the entire tech world moves to touchscreens with no buttons, I'll be the first to invest in the only company that offers products with 'real' physical buttons.

Also, I hate product/consumerism futurists.
Infrastructure 2.0: Aligning the network with the business (and the rest of IT)
Do we really need a slideshow for this? It's just a collection of screenshots, business names and URLs.
Actually, her mother was the one who raised him. Barack's mother ditched him with her parents so that she could live with her husband and daughter in Indonesia.
here, here. you should seek counsel and find a new job.