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Ok. I stand corrected :) I have never seen a sponsored listing. I still think maps as a product is not dependent on ads like search or youtube is.
Exactly. Honestly, for me a bit part of it is just having this inherent dislike of mess and clutter. It bothers me, and in that respect, cleaning it up does help me think better.
I would guess that he is. Being a member of Mensa isn't really a big deal.
OK, I guess I should salute for doing the ultimate in defensive programming.

But I come from a system software background and definitely expect that age=0 means age=0. If '0' is allowed for age, then I expect Apple to handle that case according to the rules of normal arithmetic.
This article is more like how NOT to create an search engine using PHP and MySQL.
I've had very good results with iOS 6 so far (and I've been running it for far longer than 2 days). Even the maps app isn't "buggy", just missing a lot of data. However, since map data is on the back end it can be updated without having to update iOS. Since the early betas I've seen several large changes to map areas around me.

I hate to be critical but anyone who ever says "X is buggy"[1] without at least some examples loses credibility to me. It's a meaningless complaint.

[1] = except for /actual/ X. Someone who says "X is buggy" in the context of X11 is usually right. :-)
> And it clobbers so many things in the core namespace when 'use'd.

Yes the ...it indexes all the executables in your path... is different to the approach used by Perl's Shell.pm and I think Python sh.

These simply catch any undefined function calls and attempts to execute them in the shell (found in your $PATH).

use 5.016;
use warnings;
use Shell;
say cat("~/.vimrc"); # runs /bin/cat
say incorrect_spelled_command(); # ERROR can't find in $PATH

However nothing is clobbered here:

sub cat { "This is my cat()!" }

use Shell;
say cat('~/.vimrc'); # => "This is my cat()!"

The best approach is to not use the lookup dispatch and instead tell it what executable you want to wrap...

use Shell qw(cat);

Now incorrect_spelled_execute is never passed to Shell.pm and in fact will give a compilation error (Undefined subroutine). And any cat() subroutine will be overwritten but it does give redefined warning.
It was not my intention to claim whether high-frequency trading is "good" or "bad". To be honest I don't think I have enough information to judge that. I just replied to your specific arguments which I considered wrong.

That said, I agree that rejecting algorithmic trading just because it's new, different, and scary doesn't seem like the best approach. Computers have disrupted most industries, and the financial industry is just one of them.
Lying is good.

You cannot live without lying. We all lie, everytime we open our mouths to say something. Whatever we say it's always biased, subjective, emotional (to varying degrees, ofc) - we, as humans, are simply incapable of comunicating the "truth", at least beyond very formal systems.

The only thing for us to decide is how much to lie on any given topic. Or what story to tell - it's really the same thing worded differently.

We do not value the truth. We value narrative, stories. Don't do yourself a disservice and don't make your story sound pathetic and uninteresting for the sake of the "truth".

In my country not too long ago there was a public debate about some very famous journalist (after his death) who used to (as his biographer insisted) put factually incorrect sentences and paragraphs in his reportages. He lied! There is evidence of this, and much of it. But there's a catch here: fragments of his works were lies, yet read as a whole they conveyed the truth in a stunning, poetic way which many hoped to copy but failed. The debate I mentioned was something along the lines: do those lies invalidate the truth he told? I'm very, very strongly convinced that that's not the case. Through his lies he almost touched the truth.

I'm talking about Ryszard Kapuścinski biography, if anyone is interested, BTW.
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Were you there for the Motorola ROKR? What about the idiotic $200 iPod speaker attachment? The original Apple TV?

Apple fucks up a lot. They're just great at making people forget within 6 months.
It's true to say that my version of the story is probably not accurate in any sense. My main point is that Apple has pulled the rug away from it's users. YouTube is a great point, too. I upgraded iOS and all of a sudden it was gone. No "oh, by the way you totally gotta download this app manually now if you want it".

If Google is making crazy demands, then they need to be outed. The company that does no evil shouldn't mind disclosing the parameters of their licensing. I can accept Apple's version of Maps with an explanation. As a paying user of their ecosystem, I deserve an answer as to why I have been given something inferior. Telling me to keep quiet, or wait for some milestone isn't good enough.
We don't know about what the negotiations were like between Apple and Google.

Given that the Youtube app was also pulled, there's probably some political maneuverings going on. Google pretty much pulled the rug out from under Apple's feet (whether this was Google taking their ball and going home, or Apple's hubris we don't know). If Apple doesn't provide a coherent story in the next few weeks/months, this may actually have a bottom-line impact on the iPhone 5 and iOS6.
An assessment of the morality of hypocrisy, as with lying, cannot ignore the motivation of the hypocrite (or liar). It's one thing if a fat person shares diet secrets with you. That is along the lines of someone who is a great coach but can't play. I wouldn't throw the label of hypocite at that person.

But it's quite another thing if someone tries to convince you to behave one way while s/he secretly behaves differently- and it is to his/her personal benefit and (perhaps) to your detriment to do so.

For example, if somebody makes a 'moral' claim that all feezos should be in the public domain in order to convince others to donate their efforts, but that person makes a best-in-class feezo based on all the others' work and doesn't release it into the public domain, that person is a hypocrite with bad motivation. I don't like those people. I don't excuse those people. Any public good that comes of it is likely accidental, although I am sure they will try to convince you otherwise.

So I agree with sbov with the following addition: I don't care about the hypocrite's arguments of persuasion. I won't throw out a good idea just because it comes from a hypocrite. But I won't believe it's a good idea just because the hypocrite says so even if the hypocrite is an expert in the area being discussed. I will seek other ways to validate his claim. And yes, I know, we should always do this, so I can state this a different way: I won't use the hypocrite to validate a claim.
I don't and won't. If the other person doesn't have the hustle to at least come up with a little money, there is a good chance the project is doomed.
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Motivation to workout. I'm not obese or anything, and I realize the importance of exercise but I still can't seem to find the time to do it more than once a week.
This looks pretty interesting.

A small thing: For cancelled DELETE requests like shown in the video, it would be better to return 403 Forbidden [1] instead of 400 Bad Request [2]:

10.4.1 400 Bad Request
The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax.

Vs.

10.4.4 403 Forbidden
The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10...

[2] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10...
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In my experience, this is rarely worthwhile as 99% of startups don't even get funded, and without an anti-dilution guarantee (which requires an irrevocable modification to the by-laws of the company, and is STILL not a guarantee), you're unlikely to see anything from the venture.

What I would suggest is convertible equity. Take the stock, but get in writing that if the stock isn't worth X by date Y, you have the right (but not the duty) to convert it to debt, payable upon presentation, with a 1.5% per month interest rate if not paid immediately.

You're still unlikely to see a dime, but at least you can sell the debt to a collection company if things get bad.
What about having an IQ in the top 2% isn't a big deal?
Sadly I think Steve (Blank) means (2) since he says "eventual customers".

I don't think so. Steve is pretty clear in his books and videos and what-not that the goal is to A. understand customer problems and pain-point, and B. find out if the product you are proposing to build (based on those pain points) has a viable market or not.

So no, he isn't saying "ask customers what they want" in the "a faster horse" sense. He's advocating for talking to customers, engaging with them, finding out what their needs are, demonstrating your proposed product to them, and determining if there is a market for "thing I propose to build" before spending a tremendous amount of time and money developing, advertising, and promoting "thing I propose to build."

Or at least that's what I've always gotten from his materials, and it seems like a pretty clear message to me.
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What about all those articles that talk about projects that failed to deliver and backers that never got their money back?
I upvote for your interesting perspective, but want to downvote for your conclusion. :D
You're saying that the stock market has no effects on society?
if you and i know that google tried for three years and then realised humans were needed, why would you think the people over at apple do not?
We made it open source so anyone can run it anywhere. We and others have deployed it to EC2, Heroku, Joyent, Azure, Koding, and I'm sure some others.
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What do you think would constitute a project that's worthwhile? Maybe half cash, half equity?
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There are still human market makers on the NYSE and some argue that their presence in that market makes it more stable.
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It's not _having_ a big brain that matters, it's what one does with it.
You can, it's open source. The environment just needs to support Node and Mongo.
The fact that having a high IQ is not an accurate measurement of the impact you will have on the world. There are plenty of people with high IQ's who don't contribute anything meaningful and many more people with "normal" IQ's who are changing the world.
Because it's a metric that doesn't wholly reflect what you have done or will be capable of doing in the future.
Persistence. Last month I finally got in contact with the owner of a very short domain name that I'm trying to acquire. Unfortunately he also happens to be hedge fund billionaire and thus very difficult to reach. After being blocked by his P.A. via email and when I flew from London to NYC, socially engineered my way past security and into his office, I finally got in contact with him, i.e. actual two-way dialogue, by brute forcing his email address. It's a ridiculous story that I'll write a blog post about but not now, I don't want to scupper my chances of getting the domain name.

As Woody Allen said, 90% of life is just showing up.
HFT works to quickly create momentum in pricing (Note: there are alternative theories that this is not the case to be sure) which changes a large quantity of stock prices for the day. And when the market is having a down day other stocks that have nothing to do with the stocks being traded are changed as well. So if the market is down someone's investment in Patrick's BCC will have a large chance of dropping as well.

As far as macro economic conditions same thing. A report comes out that Fedex has shipped less packages or ADP reports that there are less people using their payroll service (bellwethers). So stocks start to drop and the market goes down because people anticipate it will effect earnings of all companies. Even though it has nothing to do with what is going on specifically with BCC or with a company whose business it is is to create the washers that are used in pumps in sewer systems.
I think the key point and problem of the article is that this definition of "startup" includes all new businesses -- not just tech-oriented ones. Without knowing the breakdown of what kinds of businesses are being created, it's pretty hard to reason accurately about causes.
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HFT, brokerage houses, and wall street in general is about providing the service of being a middle man and profiting from standing in the middle of a transaction. Traders via automated machines or human beings facilitate a transaction between a buyer and a seller. That's the business. It's not about providing capital or whatever else people think it is, it's about being basically a sales agent.

Before computers, Wall St. was still largely about trading and standing between people who have money and people are willing to trade ownership for money. That's it.

The problem is that HFT is about profiting on even the smallest trades, but cranking up the volume to 11. It's kind of like what Wal-Mart did to retail, they make less money per item, but they literally make it up in volume.

Algorithmic trading can be slow or fast, but it plays off the fact that machines can compute the data and make a decision faster than humans can, especially on a digital marketplace.

It is unfair to human traders, sure. But, you have a digital trading platform, so at some point it's impossible to stop algorithmic trading.

If you want a market where the purpose is to create capital for businesses without dealing with machine trading, you need to start a new market that is not run by machines and is only operated by human, person to person trades.
The functional additions are very welcome and long overdue. The article also mentions virtual method extensions, which also look useful/necessary wrt binary compatibility.
They were actively going after adult entertainment companies (paid video etc), at least initially. They felt that's where the money was.
Apple probably knows they are making a big sacrifice in the shorterm for a (hopefully) longterm benefit. The problem is the two major all-in-one map providers, Google and Microsoft, are building their own mobile ecosystems and directly competing with Apple. Apple is/was at risk of anti-competitive behavior from both; in fact, that may be exactly what happened.
I had a room mate who could reproduce the flying car noise with his mouth.

Always assumed the noise came from a person, recorded and looped.
I agree. If the guy's story is correct, it doesn't seem that Appcelerator should have even noticed their usage of the framework at all.

Unless it was for a huge client that's gotten hundreds of thousands of downloads(which I don't think is the case), it seems like there's something else going on here.
The author actually agrees with you to a certain extent: "Well, it is a big deal. And in spite of how effortless these accomplishments may appear, people work harder than you likely realize to make these things happen." He or she isn't denying that there's an element of self-discipline and pain in achieving your goals, actually the opposite.

I think the author is asking us to take a step back and really consider why we have these aspirations. Is it only for status? If so, we're already at a disadvantage because there are people out there who enjoy the grind for that goal more than us.

For me, the trick is finding the goal that has the highest ROI and the least grind/friction. There is always going to be a certain amount of pain and discomfort in pursuing any goal, but it doesn't hurt to try to minimize it.
I think the answer to this has been no, females won't go into engineering more no matter how you culturally delegate personality attributes. Consider the sales of the toys and the admissions rates into engineering programs DESPITE the fact that more women are being admitted to university than men [1], and yet still engineering programs are 80-20 male-female[2], despite the gender neutrality motions taking place and the fact that it's no longer the 50s with openly sexist TV commercials and advertisements.

[1]: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/article/11542-...
[2]: http://theblueandwhite.ca/article/2011/03/09/19/47/52/someth...
Heh, part of the goal of 'simplfying' is so that you can reason about things. Most people don't really conceptualize what it means to have 100 billion dollars of 'cash on hand'.

We can make the numbers more accurate. Hell if Tim Cook hired me and gave me the budget for it we could knock this out in a couple of years. I'm sure there are at least half a dozen folks out there who could. The simple point remains though which is that you can solve this problem with money, and you can make the solution time arbitrarily short by scaling the money.
> Moreover, one of the things I've seen mapping experts say today is that integrating a variety of data providers can make the maps problem harder instead of easier.

A man with one watch always knows what time it is. A man with two watches never does.
I propose #Mapplegate
Yeah, what does skeuomorphic mean here, its interface is made to imitate a real world drive belt? I hope it would be, if it's supposed to be an engineering toy.
I know it's controversial - the debate I mentioned in my edit was really heated in my country :)

To clarify: I don't think that lying for the sake of lying is any good, of course. It's just that we are incapable of not lying, so we can as well do it well and to achieve something good :)
> I personally don't care that my trade happens in a second or a minute because I'm a long-term investor

The difference between a second and a minute could cost even the small investor many $thousands in the long term. I prefer milliseconds. If you're a buyer at $30 and a second is allowed, you're likely paying $30.30 or more due to front-running. Immediately after you buy it will be $30 again, so you lost 1+% in the delay.
Not a bug at all. It's doing exactly what it should be doing. It's an oversight on an engineering department, if anything.
Yeah, this looks pretty neglected by Google. Interesting comparison. I couldn't help noticing that the GMaps link loads instantly while this (much more useful) OSM link took nearly 20 seconds to fully load.
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Sounds like the only real problem stated is... maps. Every other service is working fine. I have personally tested the system; iMessage, and even Maps (in NYC). It all works great (even maps [in NYC]). So other than Maps this seems like hyperbole of BS.
God I hate clickbait.

Thanks for the warning though
Intelligence alone doesn't make you special. I myself have a pretty high IQ, but for the first 20 years of my life, I squandered the time and resources that were at my disposal and now I'm 30 years old, still in college, and in a position that is way below my potential.

There are people of average intelligence who have created billion dollar companies because they worked hard, and there are geniuses who never contribute anything to the world. Hard working, intelligent people should be celebrated, not intelligence alone.

EDIT: Just to make sure I'm not being misunderstood. Being a member of Mensa isn't a bad thing, it's just not that big of a deal.
Well said, though none of this is a problem FOR ME as long as they do the hardware right AND provide room for others to do the software right,
I'm of the opinion that many things Apple does stifle competition. This is enhanced by the "Apple can do no wrong" bandwagon.
You overlook a couple of things, first is that Streetview has already been 'done' so there are a number of things which are more straight forward (do you recall how quickly Microsoft duplicated it relative to Google's effort?) and the second is that yes doing it in a year would be extreme.

That said, if you had been unemployed for over a year and I said, I've got a really simple job for you that will last at least a year, you drive this car up and down every street in the town at the legal limit. I'll pay you $400/week with benefits. Probably pretty appealing to you.
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There has been a lot of talk about entrepreneurs ignoring Enterprise start-ups. I think the main reason for this, is a lot of us don't work in the enterprise, therefore don't know the pain points.

That being said, how would an entrepreneur get into the enterprise without working for one, or with little or no experience with it?

What Ideas are out there for startups in the enterprise? (pg?)
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As I remember, they want IQ above 130, which isn't such a big deal if you are into math, logical puzzles etc. I did one IQ test myself and scored 135, while around 75% of questions were kind of small puzzles I used to solve on math competitions in basic and secondary grammar school. (Then there were also some tough questions towards the end of the test).

One of my university classmate scored "above 150", and that I would call a big deal - he has quite a sharp mind.
Wrong question. Why is Mensa no big deal? Because the demographic is high-IQ non-achievers. They like to get together and chat; that's all you know about Mensa members.
A shell limits the liability to $thousands instead of potentially $millions.
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We've passed a few great milestones recently; such as hitting over 500k downloads of our gem and 100k users, we've continued to bring more notifiers in-house. https://github.com/airbrake/

We are half way through a overhaul of the UI and will be speeding up the web-app and greatly improving the notification system.

Thanks to all of our awesome users http://blog.airbrake.io/category/awesome-airbrakers/ . For people who don't have an exception tracking, I recommend reading up on StickerMules story. http://blog.airbrake.io/awesome-airbrakers/sticker-mule/ after installing Airbrake and fixing bugs they increased their conversion by nearly 3%.

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The used car market is also terribly inefficient.
They probably saw the 'amazing ios6 maps' blog and were like 'damn, time to put some money in'
Please explain what you mean by "HFT works to quickly create momentum in pricing."

What is bad/wrong/unlawful/unethical about:
>"And when the market is having a down day other stocks that have nothing to do with the stocks being traded are changed as well. So if the market is down someone's investment in Patrick's BCC will have a large chance of dropping as well."

And just to check: do you think it would NOT be bad/wrong/unlawful/unethical if one substituted "up day" for "down day" in your sentence?

It seems like you take issue with that fact that stock price changes have become more correlated. Is it bad/wrong/unlawful/unethical that traders may want to sell(buy) stock A when the price of stock B decreases(increases)?