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The old Louis Pasteur quote that sums it up is "Chance favors the prepared."

A lot of what happens to us in life is a matter of chance (called luck if it's in our favor). But if you aren't ready to take advantage of it, it will come to nothing.
Indeed, and that might result in better relations with the other members of the group, in turn resulting in more productivity, leading to greater accomplishments and benefits later on. It's been thousands of years since short-term greed was the ideal way to do things, basically since humans organized into real civilizations, but it's hard to get people not to be greedy, so we just design our economy around it instead (i.e. capitalism).
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Similarly I've long noticed a connection between brevity and stature. In speech, writing and behavior. With sales by the way it's always important to get your ass out of dodge after getting agreement from the customer, lest they change their mind.
Using this logic, pretty much everything is due to luck. finish your PHD? You were lucky that you were accepted and that you had a good enough education to get into the program.

"It seems to me that you can never know if your success was due to your own hard work or some lucky breaks"

You may have a point. But, I'm really tried of people attributing all success to luck (and using this as an excuse as to why they aren't succeeding). It also discounts all of the hard work that someone does put into something successful.

If I sit here and do absolutely nothing, I won't ever have a successful startup. This is why I know it's not mostly due to luck. Luck implies that it happens to you with no intervention..like winning the lotto.
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I really liked Drunkard's Walk. That said, I personally prefer the interpretation of probability as addressing uncertainty rather than randomness.
Sorry for saying so, but this seems like a weird axe to grind. I think your initial comment got downvoted because it seemed sort of like a backhanded criticism; but now it seems sort of like you just wanted to show that you'd read Google's TOS. I am still not sure what Google's TOS has to do with EveryMe's TOS.

Either way, "opt-in" or "opt-out" is in this case a technical distinction. EveryMe's sharing of data isn't opt-anything. They don't do it. Period. Doesn't that constitute a difference?
I think you nailed it with both of your first two points. This article is crap, and getting anything live online seems to be difficult.

I can't navigate ESPN's apps/online offerings.

Some content requires a certain cable/satellite providers. Other content requires a certain ISP.

I recently dropped my TV (DirecTV) and switched to a local ISP, and I seemingly can't get anything from ESPN with this combination.

But if I switch to Comcast internet, I seemingly will be able to get much more.

The best experience I've had so far was TNT's NBA website.
I really wish I could agree with you, but in my experience, ActiveRecord is just way easier to deal with than Mongoid.
The notion of luck doesn't imply that we don't have free will, but rather that we don't have complete control over our lives and environment, which I assume is something everyone believes regardless of their view on free will.
Anything that cannot boot from USB, SD card, or some externally connected media, should be approached with caution.

If you can boot from external media, then generally you can dual boot. Someone may have to show you how to prepare media for booting, but it's quite easy once you have been shown. Today's PC's all seem to have good support for booting from external media. Are we going to see this removed in ARM devices?

You do not have to shop for devices that have an "open" bootloader. You have to shop for devices that can boot from external media. (For today's PC's, that's quite easy.) If you have a device that can boot from external media, we can show how to do the rest.
The team's initial work on topic:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/celiu/motionmag/motionmag.html
It says "all attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees throughout the conference and at all conference events, whether officially sponsored by PyCon or not."

I think that an unofficial meet up for beer would count as a conference event, despite not being officially sponsored by PyCon.

There is no need to split hairs here. Unacceptable behavior does not suddenly become acceptable as soon as you walk out the door of the convention center. These informal meetups at a bar afterwards are still part of the sphere of events related to the conference.

And heck, even if it was somewhere completely unrelated to the conference, we should probably try to do something; for instance, if someone has been harassing me at other conferences, and I know they are likely to show up to another one, I may ask the organizers to forbid them based on their past behavior, even if it never happened at that particular conference.

This isn't to say that event organizers need to "police" anything. No one is asking them to do that. No one is asking them to keep an eye on every talk, and immediately expel someone who makes an off color comment. What's being requested is that a policy is put in place to define unacceptable behavior and its consequences, so when something truly unacceptable does happen, you know what to do about it, instead of just shrugging and saying "that sucks, but I can't really do anything."
Why not do a simple thing - when the user starts scrolling down, switch to a mini-version of the header.
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It also seems to be the flakiest feature
You seem to be consistently confusing Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers.
A corner may be more likely to expand at least one square, but a middle click is more likely to have an immediately actionable open square. This is somewhat related though to the type of play one uses.

I started out as a flagging user (the usual right-click to mark known mines), and then I always started in the lower right corner. Then (after a few years break) I started playing non-flagging (that is no right click allowed) and I find that a middle click is much more likely to give an "easy" opening.

My usual opening consists of several middle clicks spread out until I get an opening (or failure).

For every serious minesweeper I recommend the Minesweeper Clone: http://www.minesweeper.info/downloads/MinesweeperClone.html

(On one sad night I got 79 seconds on expert..)

Added: The cost (in seconds) of clicking corners until an opening is too high compared to the risk of getting a coin toss in a corner. Prudence isn't fast enough :)
Except people can Hedge. Some times it's better to double down when things are going your way, but plenty of people who thought they where already successful wish they had taken some money off the table.

Ignoring the role luck's roles leads to lot's of stupid decisions like this. 99.9% of the time going 90 on an interstate is fine, that does not mean it's a wise decision.
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You mean Salomon Brothers?
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If only the worlds combined military budgets could be directed towards a global space (/science) program. Less investment in death and more in the future of human kind.
Yup - while I am a GIANT AirPlay nerd, the interactions between the second screen and the main display is the big feature of this. Unless this handles "I am watching YouTube on my iPad and want it bigger" better than AirPlay (which is doubtful, as the Apple Halo is much tighter than MSFTs), AirPlay still wins that scenario, and this wins the gaming/movies/second screen world.
A quick parable: You sense a random opportunity, work your ass off, and turn it into a great success.

False narrative #1: This success is solely due to your hard work!

False narrative #2: This success is solely due to luck!

I haven't read ML's books (yet) but I think this speech leans too heavily on narrative #2.
hi, i'm resubmitting this old but still valid article as i just got an email from a linkbuilding firm which promised me 90$ for a link from a stupid old site of mine to one of their big company, big brand name webproperties. it's 2012 and SEO hasn't advanced a bit. SEO is still rotten to the bone, and it's not getting any better.

i will soon start a kickstarter project to change this, in the meantime please read the article (if you like).
I hope your product design class covered error propagation, because one 1% 20 ohm resistor would still be cheaper and more precise than 4 5% 5 ohm resistors.
Well, what I need is expressive and flexible querying over document data that doesn't have a rigid schema. There are several document stores that provide filtering and retrieval matching that, but they all have various limitations when it comes to aggregation.
Nah, no shorting, although when the FB stock was announced and shares made available I was wishing I had the money free for shorting those.
Total government spending in the US doubled from 1998 to 2011.

While the US economy only increased by 1/3, and population only increased by roughly 15%.

Why would you need twice the government spending for 15% more people? We had 270 million people in 1998, and now have 312x million.

Total government expenditures (local + state + federal) in the US came to over $7 trillion in 2011 (counting the deficit spending). Out of an economy that is close to $16 trillion. Under absolutely no scenario is that austerity, it's the greatest spending binge in world history.

To put it another way, our government system spends more than the combined economies of Germany + France + Britain are worth.

If that's austerity, then the 1990s were hyper austerity by comparison. Somehow we managed to have a government that was more functional then than the one we have now.
The argument isn't that success is due entirely to luck. It's that you'll never know how much of that success is due to luck. It may be a lot or it may be a little.
"The harder I work, the luckier I get" - Samuel Goldwyn
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Say what? The word goldman doesn't appear anywhere in the speech.
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He's telling the students that they, being Ivy League graduates, will have many opportunities to exploit their positions, and is telling them to be aware of this and exercise some humility by remembering that luck has largely brought them where they are.
It's TechCrunch, what did you expect? They're not exactly the pinnacle of journalism...
Great, many thanks!
Yaaaaawn.

I've heard the claim MS was going to take over the living room at least 5 times before. It's never even come close to happening yet. Is there really anything meaty here that should make us think it will now?
atleast from the way it is written; i guess sexism, racism, eliticism, trolls, may be some narcissism as well
Get a regular antenna, most Olympics should be on NBC, and NBC (and NBC HD) are freely available over the air.

Also, and this I'm not sure if works for all cable providers - worked for me for 2 of them - if you only get internet, but put in the splitter and plug in the cable into the TV, you'll get the free over-the-air channels too, without having to worry about the antenna placement.
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This sounds like really good advice, because executing is so important, because there's a whole slew of other things that fledgling startups worry about that they really don't have to, and because sorting out equity can be hard and awkward, and therefore it's tempting to put it off.

Nevertheless, this is terrible advice. Disputes over equity are often company-killers.

You are doing anyone who listens to you a real disservice.
Can you quote the portion of the article where it says he sat next to the wife of a Goldman employee?
"parody detector is broken"

No it's not.

See from my above comment:

"Or maybe it was this which they saw as factually incorrect: "Luck may have put Michael Lewis at Goldman Sachs, but luck didn't determine his level of success."
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I wish the 360 had a sleep mode. I don't want to leave my console running all day, but I hate how long it takes to get it booted up and Netflix launched. OTOH, I don't mind leaving my Apple TV on all the time and time-to-video is probably under a minute.

My other big gripe is a strange HDCP issue (at least I think it's HDCP) that came with the latest Dashboard update. About 85% of the time, I'll launch a Netflix video and my screen will go blank. Prior to the latest update, I could work around it by turning my 2007 LG TV off and back on (at which point the Xbox would tell me that the secure HDCP link was restored).
That's the attraction to phonegap, but what happens when your "nail" changes? Your client might ask for a small feature that the API doesn't support, which renders your entire solution useless, or cumbersome.

One of the points in the article is that the second you want something phonegap doesn't provide, you're stuck back-peddling, or over-engineering your fix. We've already come across such a situation with one of our upcoming projects that requires camera overlays.

Ultimately, it's important to compare options, whether they be frameworks, native, or toolchains. They're all avenues that need to stand their ground against other avenues.
Coupons (and loyalty, promotions, advertising, marketing, etc) is a _very_ large business. Groupon is the first company to crack local advertising in a really big new way and had been rewarded handsomely (even if it's current stock price is well off its high). Now that Groupon is getting its business in order and expanding into several other very large adjacent markets, it should remain a compelling business.

Not only does your comment reveal a lack of understanding of finance but business, in general.
In what way are they unreliable?

I've been having trouble with my existing UK dedicated server provider of late and am looking to move. I could get a lot more bang for my buck with OVH/kimsufi, but wouldn't want to move if they were more unreliable than what I have now.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. - Jonathan Swift
What wpietri said - conference and other event organizers need to not balk at taking action, investigation, etc. This is a problem, and not a world I want my wife or two daughters to be part of, that simple.
Your example of the realtor and the bank is not wealth creation, but money transfer.

Money transfer - assuming it isn't charity - is wealth creation, you are always getting something in return in exchange for that money. That something is increased wealth.

The only wealth created in this instance is the wealth you add to the pie when you use that loan to complete your house.

First, that $100K did not exist before I asked for it. It literally was created. Second, these aren't two unrelated events. I bought money after all.

if you piss that money away or burn it, all you have done is give money to someone else. The world is not richer as a result.

Actually, the bartender would be richer in this case. I bought money, that action alone increased my wealth the same way buying a car increases my wealth. I have something now that I didn't have before. What I do with that money is really irrelevant, in the same way that how fast I drive the car is irrelevant.

If I physically burned the money, sure. But the same is true if I physically burn my house down. Of course this too adds to the economy.

Again, conflating wealth to some sort of "good" is a near impossibility, since it devolves into opinions of value and worth.

My wealth is now decreased? Hello? I have a house that I didn't have before! It takes some strange reasoning to assume my wealth is decreased because I'm paying interest on a loan.
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Dumping more and more mass into a black hole until it holds a whole universe is, apparently, not enough. But, hey, isn't it lucky that there is now also an unobservable dark matter and energy and just enough of it to make the 'gravity only' sums come out right? Hmmmm.

Does this really sound more plausible to you than that widely separated bodies in vacuum, large and small, can hold charge?

I hope you are kidding.
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We used Leftronic at Cloudkick and I think their product idea is pretty cool. I hope they do well.
Only programmers advise throwing code at something that is easily performed by humans. In this case, the humans are 1) more readily available than engineers, 2) cheaper and 3) more flexible.
This is a side project of mine which I've been failing to finish for several months.

Feedback, comments, pull requests and bug reports keenly welcomed!
Are privacy policies any more binding than terms of service? I rarely look at either as a consumer, and for most of my projects, i'm reluctant to even include them. My last ToS was "dont do anything you know you shouldnt do". I imagine popular sites/services might be under more scrutiny, but I still struggle with justifying even having policies or terms at all if they arent enforcable. Maybe its just a PR thing. Or plausible deniability for civil lawsuits and stuff.
This reminds me of a topic the guys from the TechZing podcast talk about pretty frequently, increasing your luck surface area. Jason Roberts has a short post about it on his blog that sums it up pretty well (http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...). This concept has resonated with me and for the past couple of months, I've started to do things with the hopes of increasing my luck surface area.
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NASA has a fully functional copy of Hubble "sitting around" at Goddard Space Flight Center as well. If something goes wrong in space, fabrication of replacement components and the training of the astronauts that will fix it does not occur in space. It is invaluable to have an exact duplicate on the ground for this reason.

Interestingly, the total 2010 US Space budget was $64.6B. The entire rest of the world combined spent only $22.5B. NASA's 2010 budget was $18.7B. Many programs that people think are NASA projects are actually defense projects. For example, the GPS system is not included in NASA's budget, it's spearheaded by the Air Force Space Command, and comes out of the Defense budget.

Chances are the main satellites that these are duplicates for have been decommissioned, so these are no longer needed. I would guess they are actually two distinct but similar designs, and not two copies of the same design. I would assume NASA already determined that the risk of these satellites failing and NASA being incapable of fixing them is outweighed by the desire to have higher powered telescopes in space.

My mother has worked in the thermal blanket lab at Goddard for years. Several years ago, she got one of the engineers working on the James Webb Space Telescope to take her and I on a tour of the clean room where they are fabricating one of the core components, the micro-shutter array. The micro-shutter array is an array of 65,536 shutters on an area about the size of a postage stamp. We got to go into the clean room and see the entire process. It is very similar to the process used to fabricate semiconductors, and I think they were operating at about the 60nm level. The idea of the micro-shutter array is that each shutter can be independently operated to shut out interfering light sources, so that the telescope can look much further back in space and time for deep fields. These should be spectacular. Instead of imaging the entire shutter area as the Hubble does, JWST will be able to close all but one micro-shutter which should allow very long exposure times, and the ability to see extremely distant objects. More on the array at http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/microshutters.html.

Edit: Also, the Hubble is huge. It is a cylinder with a diameter of perhaps 15ft and a height of roughly 40ft. Pictures really don't do it justice, I had no appreciation for the size until I saw it. I know my mother did some of the thermal blanket fabrication (think the tin-foil looking stuff on the outside of spacecraft) for Servicing Mission 4.
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I always loved Instapaper, but the single focus killed it for me. Pocket, which looks just as pretty (if not more so - the colors do add a lot), can also handle other types of media.

I would end up with about 10 videos on Pinboard, a handful of presentations, and a dozen articles by the end of a week. Pocket can handle all those. Instapaper meant I needed other services to fully capture all the media I wanted to deal with.

Easy choice.
As far as I can recall, hitting a bomb on the first click is possible. But, if the source code proves my memory wrong, it certainly wouldn't be the first time.
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That is a great idea that makes you smack yourself on the head and say "Why didn't I think of that?". Or more like, "Why didn't I think of that 10 years ago?". I think I'll have to port it to my favorite scripting language.
Your own links show NASA at a fairly flat budget level, not in austerity with cuts.

I neither trust nor agree with Krugman's definition of austerity, nor do I see how to square his definition with budgets like [1] that show growth almost across the board.

As for NASA's inefficiency, an efficient department would not be able to purchase private space services from SpaceX for a fraction of what they can do themselves. (As for the argument that SpaceX can and did just build on NASA's work... so can NASA. They ought to be able to do even better than a third party building on their stuff, no?)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budg...
> Sure there is. You just need code tracing and full test coverage. You can't do it from the source alone, sure, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

The analog would be driving to New York from Bangalore. Sure it can be done if I arrange a car; have money for the fuel, food and stay; have all the papers etc etc. But that doesn't mean it is in any way comparable to flying to New York while watching a movie and sipping wine.

Renaming a method in the public interface is always a pain - your test coverage and code tracing can numb down it a bit, but it's going to be there. Some of it is because public interfaces are a constant for all practical intent and purpose; most of it is because of the case I listed above.
>" The point is not to get into a lawsuit, but to avoid one."

I agree with this. But equity is a sticky thing, and at the stage we're talking, no contract will be so air-tight as to avoid disputes.

In my experience, sometimes it doesn't matter what you've written and signed. In those cases what matters is the spirit of the contract (written, verbal or implied), intent and good faith. Call me an optimist, but if you're working with honourable people (as in the article), disputes can be managed objectively, even if you violently disagree about things. I believe our system is efficient in that matter.
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Let me rephrase. Dynamic languages aren't conductive to a subset of re-factoring - the cases which involve renaming identifiers or changing types throughout the project.
Some international banks such as HSBC, Citi etc. have provisions where you can have multiple accounts in different countries and can transfer money to/from easily and cheaply (or even free ). The catch is that they might expect you to maintain large balances. Not sure if this works for you but just FYI.
I want to upvote +1 but ycombinator does not allow this, because I have negative karma. :(

So if you look at the above points, please add +1 from me. Also someone fix my karma - I stand to all my statements.
Looks like NBC is going to stream it all: http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/