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> Apart from mini-crashes.

The Flash Crash was caused by the NYSE's faulty time-stamping system. It essentially broadcast false information that caused traders to think there was an arbitrage opportunity. This was entirely the NYSE's fault. See here for details: http://www.nanex.net/20100506/FlashCrashAnalysis_Part3-1.htm...

> And massive profits for companies that create nothing

They prevent you from paying even more to corrupt exchange specialists. This creates billions of dollars a year in value. They also have a neat ability to help the market recover from irrational crashes in 20 minutes, instead of lingering there for days or months while everyone is too scared to provide liquidity.

> and actually were the cause of the recent financial meltdown.

HFT is completely unrelated to the financial meltdown. The financial meltdown was caused by a housing bubble. HFT market makers don't even trade mortgage-backed securities. Those were traded over-the-counter (basically via phone calls) by investment banks.

If you don't know what these words mean, then look them up instead of complaining about it. If you want to make a point, it is your obligation to understand the subject matter. Don't argue about things you don't understand.
On the contrary, learning to learn is exactly what graduate school teaches.
so the software is opensource, but they are providing official binaries for a Fee. Hmm..very similar to what XChat did a while ago
Why not making it a GitHub project? ;)
How much did he pay (time and cost)?

You can rent and buy these sort if simulators. Prices range from a few grand per month to millions.

Obviously you miss out on the build process.
Just as matter is never created or destroyed but merely changes form, so it is with Steve Jobs.
You can certainly manage all these cadences separately, but for most folks sprints of a week or two in length give you fixed reference points to then optimize around.

Curiously what I've been hearing from folk in this situation is that it's the separation of the cadences that they see as an advantage. With the large teams they were finding there was just "too much stuff" happening at a single point and it became impossible to manage. Moving to a kanban style, and moving the various end-of-sprint rituals and spreading them out into their own cadences helped enormously - but I would imagine that it would be very context dependent.

The other thing I find useful about the kanban style is when the cadences of some work doesn't match up well with the sprint cadence. For example the more generative UX work (user interviews, etc.) doesn't always naturally fit into that 1/2 week cycle. Sprint-ahead/-behind is an abomination in my eyes - so having separate cadences helps a lot there.

Going from something like RUP to full-bore program-level Kanban in a complex business environment is just too far

Heh. With RUP you can probably find enough things in method composer to evolve it into something kanban-ish ;-)

Personally I'm not a fan of the big-bang rollout of new processes. Never seems to work well. And having folks who can actually understand "It's kind of like Scrum only bigger" means you've already got folk with a fairly sophisticated knowledge (assuming that they actually understand Scrum that is...)

One of the things we don't talk about enough is that we struggle quite a bit with teams doing Agile, much less programs. It's simple concepts, but application is a bear.

Seems that it's pretty much all I talk about - probably why I keep getting sucked into coaching roles away from more fun thing :-)
That is an exceptionally good idea. As far as green tech goes, I reckon a load of these combined with polytunnel aquaculture could be on a par with the seawater greenhouse, it would probably produce less water per hectare but then it doesn't need the big pipe to the sea - http://www.seawatergreenhouse.com - would be interesting to see a proper comparison.
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Mostly agree, except:

> Actively traded funds are evil.

Actively traded funds are not "evil." Actively traded funds are the only reason you can buy an index fund and actually expect a decent return. Without active traders, the market would be inefficient, i.e. things would not be fairly priced.
This, I believe, depends on where you get your education. Graduate school teaches something in where I live but it is mostly memorizing the right information at the right time (like finals or visas) then you can safely forget it.

If your graduate school eschewed rote learning, perfect. But there are some countries who still structure their educational system while thinking this kind of teaching means something...
Wait a minute, Andrew Mason - the founder and CEO of Groupon - used to work at Electrical Audio? Music degree --> Electrical Audio --> thepoint.com --> groupon? And having been somewhat of a Camper/Low fan for a decade and a half I had no idea about Lowery's background. My feeble mind has been blown.

For years I've observed that the situation with music is very much like the hollowing out of the middle class. The big guys like Metallica, Rolling Stones, Radiohead, they already have their money. The countless small bands that play local shows, tour regionally every once in a while, put out a couple records - they're going to keep doing what they're doing as a hobby. No problems there. It's the mid-level bands (and the small bands that aspire to something greater) that are getting screwed.

And I think you're dead-on with your diagnosis.

There are isolated examples of labels taking the challenge. Warp Records started Bleep.com years ago. I have no idea how they handle their finances or share revenue with artists but they seem to be at least moderately successful. My impression is that Lowery is speaking from 20+ years of experience in the rock/indie rock world - how do things look for those making electronic music in all its shapes and sizes? My sense is that the kids are more into Girl Talk than Death Cab for Cutie these days... that is to say that guitar rock seems to be in a waning phase.

For a long time I've wondered if there's an opportunity here for a different kind of record label, or really a new kind of music company. Figure out a way to pay the artists fairly, with enough capital to be able to both invest in artists long-term and also take chances, with enough marketing muscle behind it to have a chance at breaking bands into the mid-level, and with enough tech savvy to (directly) co-opt and profit from drains like filesharing and piracy. Basically upend things enough so that (in Lowery's words) you could have a small operation could truly compete with the multinationals. I've been thinking about this for a long time and I have no answers, just lots of questions.
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For someone without much cash, expeimenting in a new market I would give the following advice:

-Don't use broad match to begin with.

-Stay off high volume terms - instead make up the numbers by adding a large number of long tail terms.

-Consider geo-targeting: I've seen much lower CPCs on ads targeted at a small region.

-Take your time - getting big fast will cost you.

My email is in my profile if you have specific questions
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As a non-participating viewer from afar, Clojure community seems to have less hipster, less emotional, less roller-coaster, but more mature feeling when it comes to software development.

I wonder if the average age of clojure hackers is higher? I'm not in the Clojure community but it appeals to me (in my forties) coz... well... Lisp! Brings back fond memories of when I shared an office with the dude who did the Common Lisp implementation for Poplog.

The folk I know who are into Clojure are all in their 30s-40s.... but it's probably just sampling bias.
At this point, I'd say Pharo is the most actively developed, and the most polished, of the open source Smalltalk implementations. There's been a fair amount of work cleaning up the UI since they forked from Squeak, and the free ebook "Pharo By Example" has a good overview of the UI and development tools in the opening chapter.

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He uses Flight Simulator 2002 via networked machines for each screen!... I'm surprised he couldn't get one rig to run all the screens now. Really impressive setup.
The video says he spent 3 years building it, nothing about the money.
This is a simple, well not so simple, project for making programming microcontrollers easy, without to know anything about C/C++, compilers, etc.
The main idea is to use web-based tools to make program, debug them and deploy on your hardware. It is REST-API based so you can make HTML based dashboards and control your programs remotely.
I'm just curious what you think?
>"A bid I can never hit because it will be gone any time I'd actually want to hit it..."

Why should they let you hit them when they expect to lose? The HFT firms have some pretty decent traders. They're not going to sit there idle and let you pick them off. If you want to win this game, you have to be better than the competition.
It is 2012, and anyone using PHP with Apache 2.2 will be using mpm_prefork.

Much as the popularity of nginx deployments with PHP/fastcgi has grown, I suspect we'll see more mod_php-less Apache deployments as Apache 2.4 grows in popularity.
The entire point is that there are intermediate holding periods. Think about intraday speculators and statistical arbitrage funds who trade on scales of minutes to hours. They bridge the gap. Further out you have fundamental hedge funds, individual traders, pension funds, etc.
They weren't bypassed. The deal was brought to them by the CEO for ratification. It will be subject to extensive due diligence, like any deal such as this is. That's exactly how it's supposed to work.

There's nothing "arbitrary" about his decision to buy Instagram. And the fact that he makes decisions like this shouldn't be any more cause for concern then the fact that he makes decisions about whether to buy hundreds of millions of dollars worth of servers, hire 5000 more employees, or whatever.

The board is there to advise and prevent malfeasance -- not to run the company.

Complaining about how some of the most successful companies in history are run (Google/Facbook/Apple/Microsoft) is rather odd. Do you really think their shareholders would be better served with boards like HP's?
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Those who did are probably keeping it to themselves, which has been the historical case.
> My phone has never, ever, ever had a privacy issue...

Has everyone forgotten about CarrierIQ?
I think you have a good intent (promoting business for transgender people), but I find your article coming off a bit defensive, especially when you ended with:

"I'm playing hard mode. A victory now will be more meaningful. I am Allison Mobley's Crsytallized Resolve. And I am here to say hello, world."

Perhaps you need to go beyond the question of why there needs to be an incubator for just transgender people and ask just yourself: why you are personally doing this?
Well if you don't agree that somebody with an IQ of 120 can be reasonably expected to be better at making money, and in the aggregate people with that IQ do actually make more, than somebody with an IQ of 80, then you have such a radically different view from the mainstream that any discussion is pointless.

FYI, adjusting for certain variables is a fundamental aspect of statistics. All studies in social sciences and economics of real-world data do so, because no real-world effect can be isolated to the point that it can be measured independently.

"Haven't we reached the point yet where the whole idea of IQ testing is pretty discredited?"

What? No, of course not. Are you saying that there are no people who are smarter than others?
Exactly. How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? How do you tell when a person actually gone through learning experiences (which is how one acquires knowledge) and isn't actually just padding their resume?
Are they arguing that all languages are free or that the Java language specifically was free? If it's the former it seems a little strange. If I tomorrow invented some programming language that for instance described some novel way to handle concurrency, why wouldn't that be protectable? I'm not pro-patents but languages being public domain per default doesn't seem right either
It's fair to say that I love sleep :)

Indeed, very few people in our industry don't appreciate a daily hit (or two) of caffeine.
That was on a small subset of phones and was placed on by specific carriers and manufacturers. But yes, I did forget.
No, but 2.5k/month is a friggin' mortgage... if he brings the cost down he can sustain it for longer while he tries out various ways of generating money.
It means normalizing a certain data set for the IQ that the subjects from whom these data points were taken have. In other words, adjusting one property of something be an amount relative to some other property of that something. This is done in cases where it is suspected that this one property influences the other. In this case, the assumption (quite reasonably, imo) is that (in the aggregate) people who are smarter make more money.
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What country was that? In my original European high school, those with the highest grades went studying the classics, with maths being a fallback for those who didn't quite make the cut.
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yes. I think the fastest to a million was this video game

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adv...
To protect your idea/product using patents is OK but using them to stop innovations is a dark side. How to define the balance between using patents as weapons and using them to secure investments is the big question. If your innovative project uses something well-known, but adds the essence on top of that, do you have to pay a license for all the bricks you use?
> "I assume that most ATS's are located within a short distance of each other."

... if only. Reg NMS is a massive headache. This sort of price convergence would be better left to the arbitrageurs. Let the market deal with the light speed issues instead of trying to regulate physics.
I don't think etsy is there for that, there are lots of people making random tatt by hand and trying to sell it, not because they can't mass manufacture, but because they like making stuff by hand. Is essentially 21st century folk art and craft, much of it is rubbish, but never mind, 90% of everything is rubbish ;)
+1. We pity you because you contribute to open source projects? I pity you for not having found a job you love. In my experience, the people who work on open source are the ones who innovate, create cool cutting-edge products. And then the 5:01 guys come in and maintain the code. Who is to be pitied?
I worked on something similar for my final-year project at University in Python, at https://github.com/basicallydan/Onda - clustering related articles in the online media.

In retrospect it's pretty ugly, but it worked pretty well. I really wanted to implement named entities and n-grams but never got around to it. I'm glad you guys did :)
> That's why we have one dominant iTunes Music Store; they got to be the first mover on "downloading music not for free" when the whole industry was getting shellacked by pirates.

I largely agree with your points (that musicians are getting screwed), but this seems to place too much blame on technology. The record labels actively fought digital distribution for a decade before iTunes won. If the record industry wanted a better position, maybe it should have been more strategic.

> I have a diagnosis. At least with regards to the geek mindset. We're bullies....It's bullying when you break contracts, promises, and the law just to get convenient access to a piece of music by a guy who's making less than a McDonalds manager

I'd argue it's not that techies are bullies, but that techies are human, and humans are lazy. One person builds DeCSS or Napster because it's fun and cool, and then someone else downloads because they're lazy, or they don't feel like spending $20, or they get irritated by unskippable ads at the beginning of a movie. I've certainly done all of the above.

I don't want to say "That's human nature" and let it be, but any economic/political system should take into account the skills and motivations of several billion humans.
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Why is the first tangible reward a t-shirt and not the product?

If I was going to fund something, I would want to know my money is going to the product and not merchandise.

I don't think a YC pitch would go well if they said "And with the first $10k we're going to send out t-shirts to the first 1000 subscribers on the mailing list."
It is helpful that the same story is often written off of PA or AP articles and thus includes pretty much the same info - but it doesn't change the fact that stories on the same subject almost always include the same set of key words unique to that subject whether or not they were rewritten from a press release. That's the beauty of TF.IDF weighting - that it'll cluster stuff based off of words that are uniquely important in one article.
there were a lot of touch devices pre iphone. I owned the nokia 770 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet around 06 and sony p900 around 04 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P900. The biggest difference was the capicitive screen vs resistive screen and the requirement of a stylus for most things.
I might print out your post and frame it. That's really well put.
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You've hit the nail on the head. I'll back for $15, but not for $50.

Kickstarters are a bet: I expect 50% of them to succeed, so I have to be able to extract double the backing value per project for it to be worth backing.

I'm obviously not the only one, which is why the $15 price point is so effective..
Potential strategy:

1. Acquire VC/other funds

2. Put product on kickstarter

3. Use initial funds to hype up and create explosive kickstarter trends

4. Let the hype do the rest.

It's like the Palin PAC strategy.
I've done a similar thing but put them on my colo server. Hopefully getting SSH access in an internet cafe doesn't work out to be too hard.
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You could easily change it if you want to, send out an update and everyone who's contributed will be notified of the changes.

I must admit that I'm having a really hard time justifying donating to this project, if it really will be pay-what-you-want when it's released.

Looking at the kickstarter page, it looks like you're completely missing out on the low tier donations that many other kickstarter projects get the most money from
Here to confirm the same thing from the school side. It may be true, but it's a terrible thing to tell yourself as an excuse for being ignorant or inattentive. Unfortunately I think teachers (at the undergraduate level anyway) are too complacent when it comes to this attitude and for some people it leaves them 4/5 years older and more mature, but not more skilled (except at Google or maybe JSTOR searches).
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I was going to include this like my my original post, not sure why I ultimately decided not to. But, I think to answer how to hire, I'd start with this simple post from 37 Signals:

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My name is Alan Byrne, I work in IT and I'm a password re-user :(

On that note, does anyone know of a secure keysafe app that will sync across my various PCs, iPad and Android phone? This is what is stopping me from going the single use password route.
Affirmative Action[1] is not discriminatory, but it is inherently _exclusionary_.

Discrimination:

> the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex

Is Affirmative Action unjust? No, it is justified by the vast wealth of research backing it and pointing to its success in changing the status quo towards a more equal environment.
Is AA prejudiced? No, because prejudice is about not being based on reason or actual experience, and AA is very specifically based on both reason and past experiences.

Being left out of a group that is openly being exclusive may not feel right or sit well on your mind, but that doesn’t inherently make it a case of discrimination. AA can be an exclusive treatment based on gender, but it is neither unjust nor prejudicial, thus it is not discriminatory.

Hope that helps clear up the distinction for you! :)

[1] This is partly why it is no longer called “Positive Discrimination”—because that term is inherently oxymoronic—and instead is known as "Positive Action" elsewhere.
I'm waiting for homeland security to visit him and ask him what the hell he thinks he is doing building a terrorist training device in secret.

Jokes aside that's a pretty sweet setup, I'd like to see one for driving a car or flying a helicopter.