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1.) AWS staff doing something is the very definition of not mainstream when it comes to stuff like Twitter, their customers are developers

2.) AWS have always been awesome at responding to customer feedback in my experience

3.) But you're right, except change "is going" to "has gone". A friend of mine who works in SEO and social media (the good kind) says "In 2009 companies needed to have social media accounts, in 2010 they needed to put out content on them, in 2011 they needed to respond to customers through them" and he's right. The mentality of customers of Twitter/Facebook has, for the most part, moved from "holy hell, a company ACTUALLY SAW MY TWEET?" to "I tweeted about my problem an hour ago, where the fuck is my answer?".
I have problems performing a "correct" wiggle, especially on my trackpad. Corners would be more reliable.
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The green line represents the number of tweets that were marked as being anxious and the blue lines represents tweets marked as calm.

You can see that after the tsunami hit there was a general spike in the overall traffic, but a much larger spike for tweets where the user described being anxious.

We also analyzed the tweets for emotions flagging each to either be "happy" or "sad". Don't have the data able to be displayed in any consumable format at the moment though.

These are some logs for the day (totals)

Calm Anxious Happy Sad
2011-03-08 2034 8730 77032 94119
2011-03-09 1349 5129 47708 59406
2011-03-10 1614 6020 51623 72214
2011-03-11 4126 20427 87763 126688
2011-03-12 3251 13009 104434 136389

We had 96 adjectives we used to filter for anxiety and 3242 adjectives we used for emotions (happy/sad).
Wait, we actually move money in the US nowadays?

I figured the big banks just had stacks of gold and cash in a central vault and moved it around cells every quarter.

Why shouldn't a fiat currency be bits?
This smells like another round of search engine wars, only with niche searches and complex UIs.

How many search engines for the same task will a significant userbase ultimately tolerate? Of course most of the current players will have to exit at some point. And I bet the winners will mainly win on UI because in this case it's complex and the prices seem pretty close.

Following deals, date range and wide area search are very nice touches but then if I want to search the traditional way, helps to remember a bunch of other search engines and figure out noticeably different UIs more suited for the task, like Hipmunk.

And is it really surprising the Adioso userbase remains small with a novel therefore hard to explain value proposition and an unfinished landing page which might not explain it? Also the UI needs bugfixing and polish. Otherwise a few more marketing attempts that clearly communicate the novel searching concept and that it allows you to find the lowest price should lead to slightly higher numbers.
Recommended reading: Organizing functional code for parallel execution or, foldl and foldr considered slightly harmful (2009) by Guy L. Steele, Jr.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1596551
Except people know what a Mac is b/c it has boatloads of marketing behind it. Linux lacks that push.
Well, drag and drop isn't any more discoverable than c/c/p. For example, when I first started to use a Mac I had to Google to figure out how to import ebooks into my iPhone. It turns out that you have to drag-and-drop into iTunes. Just like c/c/p, once someone tells you that this is the way we are going to play the game it all makes sense.

The grab-something-and-move-it interface is OK for "normal" users. I would suspect that most techies might be far more inclined to figure out how to avoid miles of drag-and-drop action by using the keyboard.

There's another element to this. Our systems have, at a minimum, two 24 inch monitors and most have three 24 inch monitors. Drag-and-drop gets pretty old once you start to have to cruise around so much real-estate.

Beyond that c/c/p, per your own data point, has been around since the early 70's. That makes it a convention that's been around for possibly over 40 years. I think people get it.

This, of course, extends to operating almost any software. If someone is using it with any regularity it'd be crazy to mouse all over the menu system to get things done. The keyboard is far more efficient. This is particularly the case when macros can be programmed and invoked.

In general terms, I agree: For grandma, drag and drop is great and she is not likely to learn any keyboard shortcut at all. For anyone who is not a casual or lightweight computer user there's a whole other layer to the UI --via the keyboard-- that makes for better driving.

Dragondrop is a great tool. I was sincere when I said that Apple should buy it and integrate it into the OS. Not for me and those like me, but for the benefit of others for whom the grab-and-do-something interface is the only option.
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Hey Motobabble-

Disclaimer: I used to manage ad sales & operations at CarDomain.com, the largest social network in the automotive space.

I browsed your site but didn't create an account, create my own car page, or upload any pics.

Your site looks great: very nice photo browser, look/feel. Some hopefully constructive criticism:

a) having to login to read comments posted on a vehicle is a major barrier to users spending time on your site, and is going to limit the SEO value of your content => why not just show what people have to say, and provide more engaging content to the folks who happen to find your site via search? By showing this I think you'll increase both your SEO and likelihood of converting browsers => registered members.

b) what's the value of membership? what's your "club?" CarDomain, while it doesn't have the glossy look/feel of your site, has a very large membership (850k members/cars profiled last i checked), and vibrant sub-communities of conversation around trucks, donks/boxs/bubbles, tuners, etc etc -- what's your community, your niche? who are you catering to? where's your beachhead? You may want to consider catering to a specific community to help increase your traction, and expand outward once you're rolling...

c) are you going to police your content? browsed and noticed a couple fake-y looking profiles, e.g. http://motobabble.com/bearx/2012-a4 which is listed as an Audi (i <3 audis btw) & it's actually stock/OEM photos of a VW... if you're building a community they'll appreciate accuracy & authenticity. The blog staff @ CarDomain invests a lot of time doing this, and their community really appreciates it... nice to know if you ask someone about how their Bugatti Veyron handles that they actually know.

As @dif points out
i) one reason CarDomain & others remain so strong is the amazing amount of content and membership they already have. How can you quickly build a community? Hmmm, if only you could... be the car-talk/car-photo-share app on Facebook... integrate with some existing auto sites to make photos "easier"... many, many angles to pursue.

ii) foster / cultivate specific communities: truck folks like trucks, Chevy/Ford truck folks like similar, and Scion folks will like to converse with Scion folks, etc etc... not that they won't talk to each other, but birds of a feather def'ly flock together. Perhaps this ties to the 'beachhead' point above.

And actually, reach out to CarDomain/Streetfire -- they're great folks. They'll be difficult to steal traffic from too because they're amazingly good at building fostering their own community, but I'd be surprised if they weren't pretty cool frien-e-mies to talk to.

Good luck-
--JeffC
>if we had a two sided market ("an exchange") to meet in, we'd find each other, agree on a public, easily discoverable price, and that's it

Every trade is a two-sided market. An exchange differs from OTC only in that it is more centralised. The NASDAQ is no more an exchange than the currency markets (both are de-centralised, quote-driven markets).

>by virtue of its size and position

Market makers on traditional exchanges have information from volume that smaller players don't. In fact, the centralisation means the cumulative frequency distribution of market power trails off faster on traditional exchanges versus OTC markets (this is why mom and pop can stick guns to the banks in pink sheets but less so on the NYSE).

>stronghold that banks have on currency trading

You don't have to go through a bank. You can list your currency trade on a currency bulletin board. But they will still have market makers who amass advantage by volume. Most currency hedgers, except the very largest, go through a bank because they get good spreads. FX market making is very competitive (a border between you and your competitor doesn't help) and can always be dis-intermediated. Stock exchanges get a lot of volume from regulatory fiat. If you really want a centralised FX exchange note that currency brokerages internally crosses their orders - you can draw a box around those brokerages and call them exchanges if you'd like.

FX market making fails to make indecent profits save for the effects of insider information, usually from central banks. If there is a "stronghold" we were all playing our cards rather stupidly.

>exchanges have appeared for everything, from bandwidth to energy to pork bellies

Requiring everything be on a quote-driven exchange doesn't make sense - it is stupid to subject to an illiquid market (esoteric derivatives) and stupid to subject to a market that's already nearly perfectly liquid (currencies).

As an aside, I would guide anyone looking at Wall Street to note that the centre of gravity of influence has long since shifted away from the banks and towards proprietary market makers, e.g. GETCO, Knight, and hedge funds, e.g. Bridgewater, SAC. For the time being the new citadels of power are sufficiently de-centralised to be highly competitive with each other and, as a cohort, the banks.
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Oh, it's not hard to find which model is certified. It's hard to actually find it selling in a store!

Also, I don't want to buy a ThinkPad if I have to buy it with Windows then wipe that.

So my choices are laptops that come with FreeDOS or Linux and that are actually certified for Linux. Because, rumor has it, even some laptops that do come with Linux don't have proper Linux support for all their components -- they are built with the assumption of a Windows install.

At this point you don't have that many choices and if you also want a particular hardware configuration (say, i5) the choice narrows down a lot.
Would love some labels on those bubbles. Would be nice to know what each of those things are.
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> When you're implementing a linked list or a binary search tree for the first time...

You're about 30 levels above an actual beginner. You have to think even lower capability, like this:

> When you're trying to print "Hello World" you have to know all this hard stuff like how to type "python" into PowerShell, or even just install Python on Windows and fix it's broken PATH settings.

That's where you need to be thinking if you're thinking about what a beginner struggles with.
It's a sad day, the day a hacker refuses to look at something because they'd "have a very hard time getting others to do the same". By that same token we should avoid looking at the likes of Haskell, Erlang, Rust, etc. You are absolutely right that Git has come out on top, but Darcs definitely merits a look at least.

For what it's worth, I was in the Monotone [1] camp against Darcs back in the day... :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software)
Why do I keep reading about this? I don't see how any command line argument parsing library is relevant other than argparse. Do you have some concrete complaint about argparse? I am seriously wondering what I am missing, it seems so simple to me yet this seems to be a burning perennial complaint.
I see no reason why not. Try it and let us know :-)
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It doesn't seem to mean much of anything consistent, though, because it is used as a sort of generic positive adjective and used to promote even things of dubious quality.
Multi-billion $ industry ripe for disruption. I have (will and continue too) take much shit with my current and past firm(s) (leaving out current employment as I must take a "this is my own opinion etc." stance), on posting to corp Yammer or Chatter pages: Please do not spam 4,000 candidates cross-state with "Django" somewhere in a profile via mass-mailing. It hurts the brand, angers candidates I work with (sometimes for a few years, or who are already working on a project), etc." All pushed through mass Chatter or Yammer, hence visible to higher ups, going "who is this Recruiter with some smattering of negativity?". /stirs the pot.

Perhaps I'm missing something with what this accomplishes (trying to understand as a Tech Recruiter (not for long however)). Majority of spams of course = a cruddy Boolean string (or worse, 1-2 key words), selecting a few hundred people and template spamming messages. Without reviewing notes or even resumes.

I imagine this is local :)

It is effective "throw crap at wall" until 2 candidates fit for a hire.

Blah!
I never said we shouldn’t try to make a system accessible from the keyboard, or that drag-and-drop as typically implemented is the best solution here. I merely said that c/c/p is at once too difficult/brittle and too limited.

Personally, I wish we used some kind of mashup/spinoff/extension of DragThing, Quicksilver, drag-and-drop for this sort of thing: flexible, letting us do more with the stuff in it than just paste it back, accessible from both keyboard and mouse ideally from anywhere on the screen, persistent and non-destructive. It’s a non-trivial problem, because we need something that scales from novices up through experts. But there’s a very large design space here, and most of it has been ignored for 30 years because the existing non-ideal conventions have ossified.

It’s exciting to see even tiny new ideas, like the utility being discussed in this conversation.

To follow your thought here: with all that tremendous quantity of monitor space available, we really should be devoting some chunk of it to showing what’s on the clipboard, or at least that there’s something there.
The windows-7 version of the drag+shake gesture (for moving windows) is very poorly detected. I assume this has a better detection algorithm.
For a team that will be using the tool everyday for years the learning curve isn't that important. Any new hire has a lot to learn when joining any team and scm is just a small part. Even if a team uses git and a new hire is a git master she will still have to learn that specific team's infrastructure and process that goes with it, so there's still a learning curve. Unless it's a very early startup it will take most people a month or two to get really ramped up in a new team and that is plenty of time to learn an scm.

Maybe for open source projects it makes sense to stick with the most popular tool but for private teams if you can see an advantage to another tool and it looks like it will be around for a while then there is no reason not to use it.
Have you got your Solidoodle? How's it? I'm thinking of getting one myself :)
"Another" could imply that Darcs is new, but it's not. According to Wikipedia, the first release was in 2003.

We tried using Darcs at work in 2006, but the early exponential merge issues made it impossible to use. (One time, we let Darcs try to merge "some changes" over the weekend, but it never completed.) Unfortunately we chose Subversion instead.
I recently wrote my bachelor thesis about functional reactive programming. In the course of it I implemented a very simple scene with Yampa and an OpenGL binding for Haskell. The reason I chose Haskell was mainly because I never had a functional programming course in university and decided that I want to give it a try. (The code is at https://github.com/Joe-Z/yampa-programming if you are interested).

The problem, in my opinion, of so much of functional programming research is that the presented applications are most often developed only for the sake of one or two research papers and then stopped pursuing. This leads to various papers, scattered across the internet, which all hold some precious information, but are incredibly hard to put together and make real world things out of them (I remember, when I just recently had to search through 7 years of Yampa mailing list, to maybe find some information on a problem I had).

Which is why I decided to add some Yampa “Hello world”-like programs to the aforementioned repository, so lone wanderers through the field of FRP are not so lost after all.

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In case you are not aware (it isn't clear from your post), darcs is among the oldest of the DVCS, making an appearance in 2003 - it predates git, hg, bzr (bazaar v2) and fossil. It came along after arch and baz (bazaar v1), and more or less together with monotone (which was a source of inspiration for git).

For a long time, darcs didn't have much of a developer community, possibly due to the choice of implementation language (Haskell). It also had a corner case that could cause a merge to take several days to complete (I suppose they solved it by now; it was rare, but if you hit it, you couldn't really keep using darcs).
Japan is a unique market for movies. No good dubbing studios, a flaky box office, and weird taste in movies. Since you live there, and seem to have a good handle on English, I suggest you just pirate the movies and watch them in English. Japan is the exception to all my comments.
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Liked the video pitch. Nice how the discussions with investors crystalized your thinking. Great post.
When the money is credited to your account, then you may act on it immediately - take it out in a bank, take it out in an ATM, pay for services with this money by a debitcard, transfer it so someone else, etc.

However, taking out 100.000 in cash might require advance notice, as it's a rather rare case and many smaller branches (say, 2-teller branch in a mall) by default wouldn't actually have that much cash in place, so they need to request extra cash to be shipped to them.

Also, any such cash transaction will be instantly reported to the government/police, as required by 'money laundering' laws; and identity verification when opening an account is a bit stricter than in USA - generally, account holders tend to be real even in fraud cases; identity theft/document forgery is very hard and rare.

There are fraud/money laundering cases where the recipient/account holder is a homeless guy that had earlier been washed&dressed in a suit&instructed by mafia to open an account. Internal security do get notice of such attempts immediately and verify the transactions. I have seen cases where "transfers €100k to your account, withdraw it as cash 5 minutes later" ends up in arresting the guy right there in the branch while asking to make the withdrawal.

In any case, ACH/wire transfers that take a day or less and cost no more a few cents are easily possible; but the banks aren't motivated to do this. In EU, the government forced us by law to offer better conditions for customers; otherwise the fees&float were good income (free rent) as long as everybody else is using the same ACH. A central ACH that has a lot of technical delays and high fees essentially allows a price-fixing cartel without technically/legally being a price-fixing cartel.
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Not to mention how relatively easy Macs and iThings are to use. This is subjective, but I think Apple's better than anyone at making computers that "non computer people" can figure out.
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Accounting and sales is now done with software. And not only "done with software", but with increasing amounts of domain and business knowledge embedded in the software.

That's what "software is eating the world" means. It isn't just that every business needs software in some vague sense, it's that every thing the business does has software in its foundation. Accounting, sales, billing, analysis, development, logistics, pretty much everything except high-level executive vision.
sounds like a cool thing to tackle. We'll definitely look at it!
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> I haven't been in a movie theater in 5 years - it just doesn't appeal to me at all.

Luxury theatres are appearing. My small hometown (population something like 90,000) has one - big comfy seats, nice screens, good sound, lack of idiot customers, to-the-seat food and drink service.

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We just mean that there's more tweeting going on in non-English speaking countries when it's night-time here.
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> and I spend about $1000/year on broadway shows and fucking hate it the majority of the time.

Why go if you hate it so much?
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There are lots of real problems actually. I think this is a better explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
Darcs is good for personal use, but I moved away primarily because of the exponential merge problem. I think darcs2 takes care of it in most of the cases but NOT always. That is a big question mark for production repository. Darcs is easy to get started with though - to anybody interested I recommend this link - http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/darcs.html .

On the other hand if you want to move from darcs to git , use the following -
https://github.com/purcell/darcs-to-git