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"The people that are changing the world don't do it by writing code."

Like hell they don't.
The author cites this quote:

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

but doesn't realize that the "One" it is referencing is government, not the "disruptive" citizens Mr. Carr is attacking. The point of the quote is that where the government fails to find criminals (criminal activity), it (the government) will create criminals by declaring "so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

If he doesn't understand that basic premise of the book, my guess would be that Mr. Carr hasn't in fact read the book at all but is simply pulling quotes off of the internet for which he really has no context.
device orientation api might've been easier
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Flomio was doing other NFC stuff before this, and considering the mentions of the SDK on the kickstarter page, I think that's their real play. I think they'd be perfectly happy in a world where this product isn't necessary. In the meantime, this is necessary to drag Apple devices into the small but growing ecosystem (and the utility of the NFC ecosystem is largely driven by a network effect, so this bootstrapping is important).
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Your peripherals don't have a chip select input?

(Failing that, there are a variety of I2C/SPI to UART chips around. Here's one: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9981 with SparkFun's usual 1495% markup :)
I don't think that Apple is protecting the iPod touch but they are definitely are protecting iPhone margins. ThiPod touch is selling less year over year.

Apple's growth is starting to decrease. They're no longer getting 100% year over year growth for iOS devices. Even Gruber assumed the 3GS would be available in poorer countries but it hasn't.

Apple is going to have to eventually find growth beyond the iPhone and iPad unless they're willing to lose subsidies for the iPhone or take less margins for the iPad to increase growth.
Prolog and Haskell (and Excel! More similar than you think!) have large logic engines inside them, so in a sense they learn away form "programming languages" and toward "input languages for a system"
Visa and Mastercard have been trying to muscle out the Interac consortium so that they can charge higher fees, but with mercifully little success so far.
I almost allowed this access to my facebook account until I saw that the app name was misspelled "elpehantvsdonkey." It doesn't look trustworthy enough to use with an obvious misspelling like that.
Free markets at work! ;)
So I'm not an American nor do I live in America, but you can't possibly be serious? Am I misreading, or are you actually saying that the US is heading toward every non 'entrepreneur' essentially quitting their jobs and getting the benefit?
Mathematicians who code mathematics get a lot of disrespect...
Health, lack of energy and cognitive decline, all good points.

Yet, it doesn't have to be that way in your forties.

Both candidates running for the Presidency, and both Vice President candidates are older than 40 (Paul Ryan barely so) and have tonnes of energy. The right takeaway might be that you need to actively focus on your health as you grow older. Sounds like good advice for anyone, programmer or not.

(downvoted? wtf? )
I've heard that the owner of the current bridge wants to build another one right next to it himself, but that Canada has blocked him. Is that a factor in his opposition to the Canadian funded bridge?
Which Christensen one? There's several.
Even more than that, if this is a success it could even increase the likelihood that Apple adds native NFC capabilities to their devices, by demonstrating that it's useful (and to whom and for what).

Like a couple others have said in this thread, I think this is more about bootstrapping an ecosystem driven by network effects -- the more people adopt it and the sooner, the more useful it becomes and the more likely it is to actually go mainstream.

Flomio isn't just selling this device; look at the higher reward levels -- they're also selling an SDK and cloud analytics infrastructure -- I think they'd be perfectly happy if nobody needed this because it was built in.
In 2001 I got a beta of the .NET Compact Framework on an HP PDA, linked through Bluetooth to an Ericsson GPRS-equipped handset.

In 2001, I was surfing the Web with a real browser and writing applications in a Java-like language using an IDE with powerful refactoring and debugging features.

In 2001, I had in my hands, and Microsoft had in their product line, all the basic ingredients of Android.

Between then and now, Microsoft failed to restructure Windows Mobile around .NET. Failed to make anything out of their purchase of Danger. Launched the Kin. And now may be too late with Windows 8, although Windows 8, the application technologies it contains, and the UX formerly known as Metro make it a worthy competitor. Imagine if it had 11 years of evolution and app development behind it.
So, this is the first I've heard of this. Are there any interesting economic details as to why the Canadians are willing to pay for the whole thing?

Growing up in Hamilton, having family in Windsor, and frequently visiting the Detroit area, it was clear that the U.S. bound truck traffic heading over the Ambassador produced totally insane backups. (Similar backups regularly exist for the Blue Water Bridge a little further north in Sarnia.)
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Note: 2005.
Does your country really head towards a "permanent vacation"?

In Germany, we have a great social system, with (basically) free university, healthcare for everyone (until a couple years ago it was unheard of that a person didn't have health-care), a good public transport-system (I know, USA is bigger, hard to compare), pretty good unemployment benefits (which are being cut down by the liberal party more and more), a very good protection of workers and still we're one of the top economies in the world.

Every time I see Americans complain about their alleged "welfare-state" I'm just reminded of your crippling student-debt, people dying because they can't afford basic health-care, people getting fired because their boss threw a hissy-fit, people working two or three jobs so they can pay rent and I can't help but wonder how you people can even think of heading towards a health-care state.
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I wish my bank/brokerage/etc all had the equivalent of "valet key" logins where I could set-up and manage accounts for others which only had a subset of my own rights. For example, I'd like to hire an assistant to reconcile/aggregate/classify my financial records, but I'd either have to take a lot of time to gather everything up or expose the ability for this person to steal from me. My brokerage account includes the right to buy/sell securities, but I only want my bookkeeper to be able to view my transaction history.

One problem I see is that access to one's financial records sometimes is used as a proxy for identity, much like the presumption that, if you can read an email sent to a particular address, you must "own" that email address. Didn't PayPal once (or even still does?) debit N cents from one's bank account and then ask what amount was charged as a way of verifying new users?
Every time you said you you meant you not us. I can't give up, I'm driven, I drive. I code and I'm good. Kiss my grits and sit on it.
Maybe you are an old programmer with bad memory. ;-)
https://github.com/metamx/druid
It's akin to http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeroOneInfinityRule. If you started out thinking it was just a switch, you should be very reluctant to add a third state without rethinking what you really need to express, or you end up with my favorite from TheDailyWTF:

enum Bool {
True,
False,
FileNotFound
};

This would have been much safer as separate AUTHENTICATE_CERT (which checks the CA sig and expiry and revocation) and VERIFY_CERT_COMMON_NAME options, both of which default to true.
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Hey guys, I just want to clear up some confusion that we didn't see coming - The infographic was meant to represent the developers using GroupTalent back in July. I think folks got a little confused when we started drawing comparisons to the industry as a whole.

Sorry about that! We've removed the misleading parts to avoid any further confusion. Thanks!
Facebook’s final Instagram purchase price: $715 million in cash and stock
Sorry can't help. I come up with my own. Perhaps seek a designer to help. Someone else mentioned 99designs but in my single experience, it was very poor even with constant feedback. And many used seemingly generic designs that look like they pull them from templates somewhere else and merely made modifications.
It seems like you're trying to apply a Business to Business (B2B) mentality to a business to consumer relationship. Is there a reason for that? Is that your background? The problem is, business to consumer is low margin, high volume. You need to find a way to make that work.

It sounds like you want to do a LawPivot, for general consumer application. You want to build a MARKET, which is the hardest thing imo to do in the startup world. Too many variables, and even with millions of dollars and a great founding team, you can fail (Airtime didn't fail, but for what they were hyped up as, I think it did). If you want to really do this, start with a small sector.

Btw, LawPivot would not work over tweets - it would ruin their professional presence (at least currently). Maybe you want to make a 411 tweet-bot of sorts? Where you tweet a question, and you answer it?

I feel as though you're hitting several different things at once, try to hit one thing, HARD.

Also, automate business to consumer, IN THE LONG TERM. Short term, anything goes. Mechanical Turk, you and a friend doing google searches after reading tweets, anything. Get paid, then automate. This is covered in "The Lean Startup", required reading.

That was just my stream of consciousness, thanks for reading!
yes I think that would be a much bigger advantage over their competitors
The part where I said common sense is meant to be used, it implies context.

I can create an infinitely scalable server and you can come in and drop a sledge hammer on it...does that mean I shouldn't use the word.
Changing the behavior overnight will undoubtedly break servers and scripts.

It will only break servers and scripts that currently operate under a false sense of security. The maintainer should file a CVE, push the fixed version and let the distros sort out the rest. And he should do it ASAP.
See, that's a pithy little saying that tries to be pointedly opinionated about Facebook's view of its users and I used to say the same thing... but it's not fully accurate. I chose my words carefully. Each of FB's users are supplying the data and page views that FB resells to advertisers.

The problem is that the market is flooded with suppliers so we have very little individual leverage, but we do have the choice to leave the market. Done en masse, it could well change the dynamics of the equation.

Still, my point is that supplier is the accurate term. Unless of course you mean to say that FB is in the business of human trafficking.. then, well... um..
A fun project might be to use a dominant color-finding algorithm on each frame of a movie in order to create a color time series (then do it on a corpus of movies). Then you could attempt to create a "Shazam for movies" that could be used to identify movies just by pointing your iPhone at a wall (in a dark room). That would hopefully use the changing brightness of the movies to read a time series and allow you to match it up. Easier said than done of course :)
How's the healthcare situation in Greece, Spain, Italy, etc. compare with Germany's? Didn't austerity measures help with that?
Discover started sending unsolicited marketing messages to your mobile phone!?
The already have something like that in the Bay area. I was up near Genentech a few months back and they had a huge trailer setup in the parking lot. It was a portable dentist office setup for employees to use.

I assume it shows up once or twice a month.
The problem with programming is the bulk of programming work is not about thinking anymore. Its stitching software with API's, searching for solutions, developing a database of solution patterns that can be applied to most commonly occurring problems and so on. Very little aspect of that is actually experience that you could accumulate.

Put in plane words vast body of available information, cheap price in accessing them, lost cost of making and recovering from mistakes, and ease with which you can do things in software makes pace of discovery more important than innovation itself.

There you see why I don't want to be a programmer at 50. Programming is become more of a commodity skill, and will go down that way over time. The bargain points are going to price and pace of development. Both of them suit a young man's life, not a 50 year old person. Whose priorities are going to drastically different than the guy at 25.
Uber has strong support from NYC consumers. They positioned this battle - rightly or wrongly - as "Uber vs. unjust cronyism" and all my friends in NYC avidly support that image of Uber in the not-totally-accurate fight. Admittedly a limited sample set, but those people are BIGGER supporters of Uber now and use the black car service more.

As for Uber having problems rolling out the taxi service in Feb 2013... the consumer demand is there. Give drivers a way to make more money and the rational ones will join. Economics is a powerful force.
What's the outrage for ? Facebook has never said they would never change the rules of the game. You benefit from their platform, they own it. If you are not happy with it, you should not put all your eggs in one place and have backup plans (twitter, google plus, and others) to reach your audience so that competition works properly.

Facebook is a company, it's not a democracy asking their users what they should do. They can destroy their business if the want to, and your responsibility as a customer is go and look somewhere else to signify that their new rules do not work for you anymore.
Where did you write this to? I'd like to close my account as well.
Canada's not only paying for Michigan's $550 Million share, but also financing them and collecting back via tolls.
The bridge will connect directly into motorways (the current bridge dumps you downtown)
check out http://www.economist.com/node/21563756
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Ah, I suppose this is on the front page then because some people feel like this is what they're doing. I don't really think so but I do see the train of thought.
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I was at your talk @ Rocketspace. Thanks for sharing your stuff! For more cool D3 stuff from (the guy who wrote d3) check out his site: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/
Interestingly, I can see arguments from both sides about whether or not the Windows 8/WinRT moves are risking everything or whether they're just further digging in trying to defend Windows/Office. The changes are big and bold, and a lot of the prerelease Windows 8 criticism has been centered around "they're going to drive all their old users into the hands of Apple/Linux." But at the same time, they're still Windows/Office: a big part of their push is a tablet (and a phone) that can actually use real Office apps. It's adapting what they have to the new market that Apple discovered.
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Typo at https://grouptalent.com/learn/employers/
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It sounds like he gave up to me. We do need people who manage money though so maybe he's happy.
Not just programming, in any profession age is problem. Even in those that involve valuing experience. I mean you just get a limited window, beyond which you are always treated as a liability.

The whole problem is young people make great work horses. And generally its very difficult to beat endless brute force energy with pockets of experience. That's a losing game you have to play.
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Do you not read the part about him having over 400k comments? Don't you think that is a bit outside the regular scope?
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Thanks for pointing that out. We switched over to Middleman from Wordpress and we're slowly building it out custom as we go. We get in a little work here and there in our spare time, but I think you've pointed out that we've got a ways to go before it works well all around.

Thanks for the heads up!
I agree that for designers in some parts of the world 99designs is very profitable but IMO the time the client wastes on filtering hundreds of bad logos would be better invested in working with a designer and improving upon a concept following a more rigorous and interactive process. In this case less is more.
I really like the Blue Snowball ($50-80) USB microphones for a lot of purposes. Not as portable as an H1, but really convenient.

(I love my H4ns, though -- I use them for everything. For conferences I usually have cameras with shotguns on L, board audio on R, and a zoom doing the same thing near the board. I still use a Sony HDV with 3 big chips and uncompressed HDMI out to an Atomos Ninja, though, and HDV tapes for backup. Picking the best audio track and getting it all in sync is a pain, though.)
Exactly. "Cognitive decline"? The studies I've seen in the past ten years say it ain't necessarily so; you're talking about Joe 6-Pack, not people who use their brains for a living. We only get smarter and more nimble.
I see no US locations, are you actively operating in the states?
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It looks like healthcare systems in Greece are now collapsing: http://www.naturalnews.com/036257_Greece_economic_collapse_h...

But I have no first-hand accounts of that and know no-one living in these countries, but it looks like you're right (at least about Greece): http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57453670/austerity-bri... (they now can at least afford to pay their hospital workers)
I feel like the Rand stuff was shoe-horned in to make the title fit. It's a shame, because there are a lot of good points about Uber's New York plans in there.

What you're talking about doesn't quite apply here- the laws are outdated, yes- the NYC taxi commission themselves agreed with that. But they were bound by contracts until February 2013 that meant they were unable to change the rules. Uber/Travis pushed ahead with their plans anyway, assuming that the powers that be would buckle.

That's stupid. And they're using being "disruptive" as an excuse for ignoring legal realities- and because they slap the label "disruptive" on it, plenty of people back them up. If I was an investor I would be pretty damn annoyed at what must be a lot of wasted cash on this endeavor, when anyone that bothered to investigate would have realised that failure was inevitable.

If you read further, it discusses how Uber basically screwed over yellow cab drivers by urging them to break existing rules, then ambushed them to try and retrieve the iPhones they gave out once they'd given up on the service. Make no mistake- Uber will have an extremely difficult time re-launching their UberTAXI product in NYC now that they've alienated cab drivers.
Nice. Only suggestion would be intertial rotation. I keep flinging it thinking it will keep spinning.
>>realize that a 50 year old programmer probably graduated from a university prior to 1985

Let me tell you the technology fancy in 1985, their very nature, direction and paradigm is so drastically different than now, unless the 50 year old person spends a lot of time adapting he is going to be wiped out in the competition.

When I'm 50 I don't want to be spending two weekends straight learning Ruby on Rails.

And there you see start contrast with other professions. How much has law changed in the past 30 years?
I don't see why Apple has to reduce the margins on the iPad or the iPhone when they can't keep up with demand. They sold 5 million iPhone 5s the first weekend and they could have sold a lot more if they could have made more.

The growth trajectory of the iPad is unprecedented--100 million in 2.5 years.

Apple is smart about not getting into the situation of having to reduce margins on products--they use economies of scale to reduce costs.
Your post causes me to reflect on how good I've had it. I've been programming for 33 years. I've been on call 24/7 occasionally, but I can only recall a few days of that here and there. I've worked a 60+ hour work week maybe 2-3 times, but I doubt 3. I did do a 30 hour weekend awhile back, while with a startup. It was fun. I do recall one pitiless death march, and still have some bad thoughts about that episode, but overall, I never worked in places that operated as you describe, nor would I.
I've tried to find something else I like more than programming, but haven't yet. And now I'm doing iOS development, leveraging Pulse and CouchDb, and doing some client-side data binding in the browser with knockout.js. There has never been a better time to be a programmer, IMO, with all the leverage the internet and open source gives us, so why stop now?
I feel like I should be paying you guys for helping us out so much. =)

Thanks for finding that, fix being deployed right now!
I don't think photography workflows are really that difficult (even if you shoot raw D-SLR or DMF, it's not THAT huge). Video is where most workflows break down -- you might need 20TB SAN just for your working set, and there's not really any good way to archive ProRes 4:2:2 footage very well. Mostly I see people with numerous 1-2TB hard drives, many of which are infrequently accessed and may go bad.
Wasn't a joke, just a miscommunication internally. =)

Thanks for calling it out early.
Apologies- I deleted my post by mistake. I've reposted it, but now your reply is lost.

In my experience Uber has a middle-to-none brand recognition for most people in New York. The only people I know that use it are techies.

Uber launched their product too early because they are scared of competition- it's as simple as that. By Feb 2013, Hailo and GetTaxi will be in the city and they both have far more experience with yellow cabs than Uber- and haven't already annoyed a large group of them.
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Well, I have read Atlas Shrugged. Twice, actually (even the 40 page speech at the end!) and I think Ayn Rand's philosophy is crap. I think there are good parts of the book: taking pride in your work is great and I like how her characters get such exhilaration from a job well done, but the rest of her message (the part people usually seem to talk and think about) of hating government and regulation and living lives receiving help from no one are a bunch of nonsense.

One great example of this: Alan Greenspan, who had previously been a huge Randian, admitted that his hands off regulatory policy had been a mistake. His belief that banks' self-interest would keep them from destroying themselves was wrong.[1]

Now I know I've probably opened a can of worms talking about the mortgage crisis, there seem to be as many different opinions on what caused all that as there are people, but my narrow point here is that a man who was given the power to bring Rand's philosophy of deregulation to life regretted doing so and in fact had his worldview changed.

[1]: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122476545437862295.html
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$120 / hour based on some rates I saw on website, now should I charge at 15 minute or hour long intervals.. :)
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