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I recently read this book. I found it very good. However, sometimes his explanations are long winded, which is why this reference is great.

Behavioral Economics is a fascinating field. It combines Psychology with Economics and can more accurately predict human behavior because it includes the Human factor.

Here's a sentence from another related book (Nudge) I'm currently reading on the difference between Economics and Behavioral Economics.

To qualify as Econs, people are not required to make perfect forecasts (that would require omniscience), but they are required to make unbiased forecasts. That is, the forecast can be wrong, but they can't be systematically wrong in a predictable direction.

In this book they use the term Econ to mean what a typical Economist thinks of an average person.

This is an emerging field of Social Science that has seen tremendous growth. As someone whose interested in both Psychology and Economics this is exciting to see.
Which editor we use doesn't matter, pick an editor an know it _well_

Btw, emacs has an excellent mode for editing python and I couldn't live without its auto-indent feature
He makes the mistake of assuming quality and success are directly related. Miley Cyrus may have been popular before 10,000 hours, but that doesn't mean she was good at whatever it was she succeeded at, which I don't even know. Same with The Bee Gees.

Not that I buy the 10k hours thing anyway, but just wanted to point out that skill and success are not the same thing. There are a million musicians more skilled than Britney Spears or 'N Sync, there are very, very few who've been more successful.
Browser developers should make it easier for us to send bug reports :-)

It would be nice to have a button on my toolbar which just bundles up everything I'm looking at, attaches it to a bug report with all of the browser details filled in, and lets me type a little text. If you want my bug reports, you need to make it easier to give it to you than to swear about it.
Great summary.

And I have often wished for a wallet that could prevent me from buying candy.
It is in fact sitism, since this is a word I just invented, and therefore dictate the meaning of.

I mean, I totally agree that on average, a user of reddit is less intelligent than a user of HN, and a user of Digg is less intelligent than a user of Reddit. But that's just a function of traffic - the more traffic you have, the more the average sinks. The earliest example on the web is probably when AOL users got unleashed on usenet.

The only thing is, while the average intelligence goes down, the maximum intelligence goes up. Reddit's top 10 smartest people are probably smarter than HN's.

Just because you're a user of Reddit, doesn't mean you're not a sitist. Black people are racist towards black people too.
Textmate and Espresso and all other visual editors don't compare to Vim/Emacs.

Sure Textmate may have some keybindings, but you can't use Textmate while ssh'd to a remote server.
There is a paid Komodo IDE - I believe the free version is only a basic text editor.

I use Komodo for Python, but find it hit and miss. Still looking for something better.
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These guidelines have little to do with it, though the editors probably do. The main thing that distinguishes Reddit, Digg, and HN is pure volume.

If HN had the same traffic Digg did, you better believe that the average intelligence would go down, and you'd need a heck of a lot more editors to keep the content on target.
Here you go:
http://news.google.com/news?q=hacker&ie=utf-8&oe=UTF...

Looks about 50/50
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From your blog:

"Users will have to download them, or use Flickr or Facebook to store these photos. This decision was made because I’m poor and don’t have the money for the massive bandwidth for server side photo hosting."

Don't apologize for this, it's the right option.

- Leverage the tools people already use and are used to.

- Save the users some work. The way photos are shared today is through sites like flickr, allowing the output to uploaded directly saves the user the step of doing it themselves.

- Uploading to popular services serves to increase awareness of your app. Including a plea to get people to "spread the word about where they generated the image" can help this too.

- Not making it easy to send the output directly to popular services potentially creates a walled-garden effect, and may make your tool more a single-shot gee-wiz-isn't-this-neat visit, rather than something that encourages people to come back because it's so easy to do what they would have anyway.

- By allowing people to save the images to their local drive and send to other services, you communicate that you are not trying to lock them in. This is one of the worst sins, if not the worst, you can commit in this post-web-2.0 world of integrated and aggregated services and user generated content. I hate sites that try to drive traffic back to themselves for no obvious user benefit (evite, and "greeting card" sites come to mind).
Ever read "State of Fear" It's a largely fictional novel but the story is based around the premise that politicians and the media derive their power and influence from fear.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=uUwGgbf95woC&...
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Yeah, but Joel, that's because you're a whiny emo girl... ;-)
I wonder how these people spend so much for school, especially for low-payoff degrees like photography.

Sure, follow your passions and all that, but don't spend $140,000 for a photography BA. If you love photography, go out and take photos. (Said as an avid photographer.)

My girlfriend recently graduated with a CS degree from a state university with only $10,000 in student loans, all already paid off.

It can be done.
This a solid no-nonsense list that applies well whatever your startup about is about, be it in biotech or software. "#10. The life plan has to come before the business plan." was recently discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411693
How does someone living "frugally" on Ramen rack-up 140,000 in loan debt? Thats $35,000 per year!
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Technorati has their Cosmos API, but that only returns results when both linker and linkee are in Technorati. For some of the topics I'm creating memetrackers for, this isn't always the case.

Are there any other services like that out there?

What would rolling my own look like?
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Even if you couldn't narrow it down to an exact person, it seems like you could get good accuracy on socioeconomic status, cultural background, political slant, etc. Once you had that data it might be valuable from a marketing standpoint. It might not be useful for sites where there is a very specific user group, but for sites with incidental user generated content--even if it isn't anonymous per se, you could get a more accurate picture of your audience.
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You mean like Google?

Use the syntax "link:http://www.someurl.com/"
I'm tempted to add an API to my web app, and create cool little things such as an AIR app, Facebook app, widgets for iGoogle, et al. even though there's been little demand for an API. I'm wondering if creating all these things would extend the reach of my site, or should I not bother.
That appears to return no results for URLs that are returning results using the Technorati api. I think that feature is meant more for base-level domains rather than specific URLs.
Eclipse, and I mostly hack in Python and Javascript. Why, why you say?

I guess just three main reasons:

1) I am a very visual person, and like to see the project hierarchy. I like to click the file I want, instead of just using my keyboard. I know this flies in the face of the purist Emacs and Vim users, but I'm only about half hacker, and I like my clickey click.

2) I like the tabs at the top (as opposed to buffers that you can't see). I like to see the group of files I'm currently working with.

3) I like the Aptana plug-in, which does nice mark-up of HTML, Javascript, etc. It makes Eclipse a fairly nice web coding editor. I also like Pydev. So Eclipse supports all my favorite languages.

I do wish Eclipse were faster and stripped of many of its components. Also, I do use the command line for things like SVN and running commands in the terminal like "python manage.py runserver." But I like Eclipse as an editor.

Maybe it's just because Eclipse is what I'm used to. I suspect that is the root of all preference.
There was a demo app on IRIX that let you deform and drag something similar. I vaguely remember thinking you'd get more cloth-like interaction if the density of the points was higher. Also, the ability to stretch is not something people consider standard for "cloth".

I wonder if there is an uncanny valley for cloth physics.
I think there's a pretty big leap of logic going on here. The article quotes unnamed "experts" as saying "half of all drugs" are ineffective because of genetic factors, but then offers details only on very tightly focused cancer drugs.
Thanks for the feedback. You are right about many of these things. From the technical side, I also think that the decision to make it a completely self-contained application will make it easier when I decide to package it up into an AIR application.
>The industry pundits can be strange, unpredictable people.

Do you think a word 'corrupt' could also be used?
Well, the guidelines sum up some of the culture, and you're right that it wouldn't be possible to transmit that if too many people showed up at once. However, it is a real thing. There aren't many editors here, and the idea is to keep the volume down by only posting things that interest a limited segment of the population.
Almost every single sentence is exactly incorrect. Whoever reads this doesn't know much about the app ecosystem, or they'd mention MySpace over Facebook.

And neither are significant drivers of traffic to destination websites. Building an app for indirect monetization is a recipe for failure. Flip through top apps on every platform and you'll see why. Apps can be a great business as standalones, but they suck as advertisements.
A 2004 forum post reported the tuition alone at Brooks Institute around $20K/year. So 35K/year means only $15K/year in non-tuition living expenses. And Santa Barbara is not an especially cheap area in which to live.

But also: seems like Brooks Institute has been accused of exaggerating the post-graduation earnings its graduates can accept. See...

http://ddunleavy.typepad.com/the_big_picture/2005/07/investi...
I feel the same as 'cgrenade' and 'pshc'. As I was reading the Roger Ebert quote I began to wonder if Ebert could relate to what video games can be to those who grew up on Super Mario World and Zelda. Two I use because it seems Mr. Miyamoto understood early that games are meant to be fun. Something that books and movies do not relate as well to. Games can offer the competitive fun found in sports, or artificial worlds similar to those we played in as children. Games haven't all been failing to be art, sometimes they've simply been succeeding as fun.

And still, the industry hasn't failed to be "emotionally dense", which must mean 'invoking emotion'. I remember playing MGS:2 SoL and being quite affected during the scene where Emma dies, even with, what i recall, poor voice acting. I also remember feeling all kinds of emotions when playing Earthbound. I remember empathizing with Ness when he was homesick. And looking back with a strange sense of accomplishment when I stopped for coffee a third of the way through. In short, games are different, and when they're meant to have some emotional impact, it happens differently than in film or literature. And unless you're used to the medium and attaching yourself to a character you might overlook what a game really is.

(I can try an' be pretentious too. I'm not annoyed by the subject of the article, just the author, and Ebert.
But the following has been at the heart of several games. Really, has the author never heard of Fable? It at least tried.
"Mistakes you make, early on, haunt you through some game mechanic later."..."It's not going to coddle: awesome job!" )
That article wasn't Ebert's bleak assessment of the next 100 years. It was his review of the new Jim Carrey movie "Yes Man."
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Textmate is absolutely essential for Ruby on Rails / Ruby development. What I realize now is that it's a scriptable text editor that integrates super well with everything you want to do with Rails. Basically anything you'd like to do with Rails, someone's written a bundle for it.

This is particularly useful for testing using RSpec/Cucumber or your favorite testing libs.
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On my machine I use Komodo Edit; when I'm editing a file server-side I usually use nano. ducks
Neat. This seems to be a typing tutor-ish app designed for people who already know how to type.
I like the 10,000 hours concept as a motivating factor. It shows that practice pays off. Even the most gifted people still need to put in those hours to get to that high level of achievement. So rather than see it as "I need to put in X hours this year to succeed", I see it as an exaltation of hard work.
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It's not written in the 3rd person! That would be more like "Joel thinks that the savings blah blah".
I really like Norm Brodsky's Inc column and find it consistently insightful. I thought this one was very good and blogged about it when it came out http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2008/10/26/norm-brodskys-guidel... In particular his definition of successful resonated with me:

"By successful, I mean a business that lives off its own cash flow, provides a good living for its owners and employees, and generates the profit it needs to keep growing."
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Vim, TextMate, and XCode.

XCode for Objective-C/Cocoa, I've tried using TextMate but XCode is just so damn easy to use for Cocoa projects.

Vim for lightweight stuff, like piping diffs into it for color or quick edits on servers.

TextMate for web development with Python/HTML/CSS/JS.

During college, I read PragProg and thought I should just stick to Vim for EVERYTHING, including command line key bindings. That changed real quick after doing work outside of classes.
As I'm only half a hacker and hate learning arbitrary stuff, I use nano.

I think the next leap forward with text-editors is when we get some sort of interface with our eyes, or more importantly, our brain and the computer. There was an link on HN a few weeks or so ago showing they could distinguish letters from brain patterns. Surely this will make learning those vim/emacs commands obsolete. I will just bide my time.
In time's like this, just apply a little dab of pg/yc:

Make something people want.
I read the article with interest, but it didn't really answer one of my burning questions - how does an established engineer cross over to renewable energy? I've worked in the dark side of oil and gas as an EE for the last 7 years, basically designing and commissioning power systems for onshore and offshore facilities.

However ever since I was a graduate, I've always wanted to be in the renewables field. Over the years I've fired off a number of applications to wind and solar companies, but they typically want someone with experience... which appears to be a catch-22 for me (ironically, people have this same problem trying to get into the oil and gas industry).

So I'm thinking of doing a masters at the local renewable energy research centre, which is conveniently located around the corner from where I live. My personal interest is in decentralised power networks, supplied by a mix of renewables and base load fossil fuels, and how they interact with the wider grid. I'm also very interested in the environmental economics / energy policy side of things, and over the past year have been doing part-time work for the environmental economics group (at the company where I work). I've almost finished an economics graduate diploma as well (1 year to go!).

And lastly, I'm going on a 6 month volunteer posting to SE Asia next Feb with Engineers without Borders, ostensibly to develop water purification systems for some rural villages (basically a solar powered RO filter as far as I can tell from the literature they've sent through).

I suppose I'm not doing all this just to break into renewable energy (though it'd be a nice payoff), since I'm ultimately just following my interests around. However my question still stands: how do I get a foot in the door? Am I on the right track? and does the industry need someone with my hodge-podge of skills?
If you've ever been to Google, you'll know that Palantir is a much smaller version of what they've had as a visualization for years. Props to them for putting it together so quickly, but it's certainly not a new visualization type. I'm also not 100% convinced it's real-time data.
I predict that this will benefit you more, through reflection and conscious living, than your son (through a historical record later in life), but it will consequently greatly benefit him, because you are more tuned in to his development and can pick up on patterns and developments better. Good luck!
Sort of like a little bike with training wheels and streamers coming out the ends of the handlebars compared to something like this:

http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/mountain_hardtail/9_ser...

Emacs is open source, but so scriptable that I don't think I've ever talked with anyone who's ever delved into the C code. Textmate, on the other hand, is not open source, and so you depend entirely on the author to provide you with timely updates and features. It may be scriptable to some degree, but if you want to do something more with it, you simply can't.
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I'm not talking about pure language choice. When you write php, you probably have to put up with apache. Maybe you also put up with using a database. It's those things that can limit your scalability.
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One of the things that struck me was that "People are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from an experience in order to project a certain image to others...People, particularly those with a high need for uniqueness, may sacrifice personal utility in order to gain reputational utility."

That alone explains so much ...
It enrages me a little that schools don't provide much of an education about finances, or generally on the basics of keeping a life (nutrition as another example). Maybe it is too much of a conspiracy theory, but I wonder if the reason is that schools exist for the benefits of the corporations that are looking for employees, rather than for the benefits of the pupils (a ka "learning for life" is bullshit, it is really "learning to be a good worker drone").
I use gedit with a lot of plugins for all of my programming. I mainly programm in Python. Only exception is when I play around with lisp, then I use Able. Other interesting editors for linux that I know are Scribes (very well planed and writen, with a unique concept, but only one developer, so development is slow) and Komodo-Edit.
It's my personal feeling that most people can tell the difference between "calculated humanity" and real humanity. Most businesses and startups go for calculated humanity because real humanity is something they either don't believe in as an aspect of business, or are afraid to show because omgz what if somebody says something the readers don't like?

Real humanity means being vulnerable and talking about negative stuff, and risking people not liking you. But the people who don't dislike you will like you more. It means being genuine, not just "authentic."

When I left my parents as a teen, I partially supported myself with a Mac news/opinion site. Everybody told me that there was no room for another one, blah blah, but I decided to write like a real (& funny) human being instead of pretending to be a professional journalist like the rest. I earned $600-1000 a month in ad impressions, so it clearly worked.

Same thing worked for my current web site & information products I've created. I'm totally famous in the niche, and I'm not the best or brightest with the actual programming aspect. But my oldest tutorial from 2005 still gets about 15,000 views a month.

When it comes to my new SaaS that I just launched, it's the same thing. The blog is "real humanity" and I answer support requests myself.
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