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Both Github profiles and college degrees can be gamed. Many people cheat in exams, copy assignments, and send doubles along to aptitude tests. They clone the base code for their Github projects from somewhere else, only dressing it up with infrastructural differences like they would a college programming assignment.

Those who didn't put in the time for either a degree or Github history will often lie on their CV about them. An interviewer will often not check up when employing someone so they'll have something against the new hire later on if they want to get rid of them quickly.

Developers who don't do college but genuinely can code projects don't apply for jobs anyway, they apply for funds then employ people.
From the sounds of it, if you're in a group conversation, anybody can join. Is there a notification? For example, in face-to-face work conversations, there are "quiet" conversations (e.g., I heard xyz, is it true?) that are done in public, but where participants can see other people approaching and choose to change the topic or continue. Is there a comparable capability in sqwiggle?
If I were a bigger ass, I'd just write "umad bro" and walk away. That would be about at your level, seeing as you pretty much just said "I'm mad because people thought Bitcoin had a brighter future."

Not sure if you're mad at those of us that made a ton of money from holding and selling. Or are mad at those of us that wanted to trade with them. Or are you just mad at the silly people claiming Bitcoins would rule the world? Either way, you seem very mad over something that is worthy of no anger... unless you feel personally spurned by not having bought/sold as others?
The problem is that bitcoin is now dominated, at least it seems to me, by speculative investment. And that's not what currency is about. People value currency not because it appreciates but because it is stable. Runaway inflation and deflation are both bad for monetary systems, but here we have people imagining that deflation is fan-fucking-tastic for bitcoin.

And that's telling, because it indicates that bitcoin isn't a medium of exchange, it's an investment denominated in dollars. People are talking about the "price" of bitcoin more than anything these days, but that's not why people choose a medium of exchange. Bitcoins shouldn't be exciting, they should be boring, and dependable. As boring and dependable as a dollar bill.
This is about permanent residence. The government couldn't give a damn what a permanent resident thinks -- they pay taxes, but cannot vote at any level. So I don't really see your point about foreign interests.

Also, not all green card holders are on a path to citizenship, and I'm sure a lot of H1-B holders would be just fine with permanent residence that is not on a path to citizenship.
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There's an awful-lot of absolutism here for such a short comment.

Funny the number of parents I know who have done exactly what you're claiming impossible.
Uhm. Bitcoin is still worth 150% what it was worth one year ago.

Thats like saying the lottery winner didnt win because he had to pay taxes for it.
No one is forcing him or you to use any of these things. It's just another Google Reader lament.
I strongly agree. I'm grateful for people who post articles like this.

I do wonder (gently) if there's something like cargo-cult avoidance though? "These people didn't do this thing, and they failed, so we have to do it."
Which money do you believe didn't go to Facebook?
There may be exceptions, but almost every single international student I've encountered pay state, federal, and social security/medicare taxes. Nobody has been tax-exempt.
There really was no need for the hardware upgrade. The volume won't be coming back anytime soon.
Analog? You mean planes and hotel rooms are non-quantized?

Sorry, had to say that :) It's fun for me how analog/digital have become synonyms for material/virtual.
The link in the article has BTC at $65 right now and http://realtimebitcoin.info has it at $124.90. How is that possible?

Edit-

It looks like http://realtimebitcoin.info is using mtgox for their data, which explains the discrepancy.
Great feedback, thanks! Our stream is actually more geared towards media. We found out that, during a conversation, it was always necessary to share links, code, images, etc. Using a separate app for greatly interrupted the flow so we felt the stream was a very valuable addition. Thanks again.. Very open to any other thoughts you have!
No one day, week, month or year determines the essential qualities of something.

Fiat currencies have also faced unpredictable discontinuities of value: bank holidays, confiscations, hyperinflation. After decades, some of these were partially ameliorated in well-run countries... but still flare up as risks in times of crisis.

What you call a 'flight to abstraction' I call an interest in the enduring essence of this new thing. Yes, the froth that's in today's headlines is a speculative bubble. So what? Everything grabbing headlines is a speculative bubble of attention. And, there are a lots of speculative financial bubbles. Sometime they precede real, but slower, explosions of value. That's the interesting topic, and calling a 'bubble' has no probative value on that longer-term question.

Pick any particular day in 2014. I'll bet you $100 that the value of 1BTC in USD on that day will be higher than today's pre-freeze MtGox traded price ($124)... which is itself almost double the value on some currently-operating exchanges. If we're on, just let me know your chosen date in 2014.
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I'm sorry you inverted my point. My point was that RSS was created by the community (and Dave Winer :-) and FeedBurner was created by two guys as I recall, its not impossible to make such systems so they will survive. Hence the whining about Google's action is misplaced.

BTW, I'll take that bet on Google+ if we can agree on a future date :-) I think Google is in to Google+ for the long haul, killing it will take a long long time.
I think you're mistaking my emotion here. I'm not angry at all.

I'm actually a fair deal uglier than what you think: I'm openly gloating. I have been gawking at this whole process unabashedly. I'm going "I am so right!"

I'd feel bad about it, but the whole thing is just so... _hilarious_.
We've actually had many conversations surrounding this exact thing. Currently users can join any open conversation but we have plans to add some very simple privacy options so that some conversations won't be intruded on.
Is there a list of distinct URLs of Bitcoin charts, for next time the rate goes crazy?
Here's a publication from the Department of Labor concerning the legality of unpaid internships in the United States: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf
I got the feeling there were in college or fresh out of college when they started this. Probably they were just doing what they had an interest in and thought they knew something about.
I’m not a celebrity, why would I need a stylist?
I second this and don't think this is an elegant solution. This is kind of a leaky abstraction - you are pretending to have many rows on the screen but you are unable to hide the fact that you don't because you are breaking the in-page search. You will never be able to fix this in all, maybe not even in most cases - your search box looks nothing like my Opera search box. But it does not stop with in-page search - you are probably breaking select all, printing, scroll bars and what about zooming? And what if I change my keyboard shortcut for in-page search or use the menu to invoke it?

All that aside in my opinion the mistake is to allow the user to have »hundreds of thousands of rows« on the screen - real or virtual - in the first place. What a waste of time to scroll through that. I would just offer filters that almost immediately update the set of matching rows and display the first few and maybe highlight the match in each row. When the user scrolls to the bottom you can load more rows either automatically or by pressing a button.

The user will understand what is going on, is encouraged to filter instead of randomly scrolling through thousands of rows and everything from in-page search to printing works just as expected. And last but not least it is probably much simpler than your solution. (And the user is still able to scroll through all rows and in almost all cases they will stop way before the page size becomes a problem for the browser besides you are using an old phone, but whoever attempts to scroll through thousands of rows on a phone probably deserves the result.)
I'm curious as to whether you've purchased anything with Bitcoin? Or transferred money to someone in a different country using Bitcoin?

The first time I sent Bitcoin directly from my wallet, to someone else's I was amazed at how quickly, and easily it was done - and blown away by the fact that it had been done in a decentralized manner.

I think all Bitcoin users (as opposed to speculators) are highly annoyed by the volatility, but keep in mind, by and large, none of the transactional users of BitCoin care whether the nominal value of a Bitcoin is $1, $100, or $10,000. All we want is for it to be stable so we don't have to keep sweeping our local currency in/out of Bitcoin as we use it.

I'm really curious as to where you are coming from, both personally and professionaly, when you utter single word sentences like, "You lost."
If this thing = making sure users want what you're making, that particular cargo cult would find to their delight that planes were starting to land.
Don't forget to look at the bid/ask instead of just the last traded price. Big spreads lately might make it look like there's an arbitrage opportunity when there really isn't.
Out of curiosity, what did you do wrong originally that was against Amazon's terms?
Which money do you believe didn't go to Facebook? Looking at the Crunchbase investments, only the $120m Elevation Partners money appears to be secondary-market purchases. Facebook itself says that they took the $1.5 billion:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases-test/facebook-raises...

Regarding point ii, what expenses do you see as under each category? I'm not denying the difference; I'm just not clear what you think is being done differently with the money.
In the last 50 years, at what point has the US dollar swung so wildly that you couldn't safely use it to denominate the cost of a $99 (2013 dollar) good or service?

Because for BTC those points included "all of today and yesterday".

You can see how your reasoning is broken with your 2014 comparison, when you say "pick a day in 2014 and BTC will probably be higher". You don't seem to grasp that upswings are just as disruptive to a currency as downswings.
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It's the latest in a string of moves that show a clear shift at Google away from supporting the open web. Thank god for Mozilla.
What I specially hate about Google+ is the fact that Google can't stop spamming me to join it.

Now even Google Play comments need to be part of Google+.

You know what, Google? Fuck you. No. Fuck you twice. I won't join that fucking horrid place. I don't even have Facebook, why would I join a crappy social network?
On developers, but I getting my BS in CS right now so that wont happen again!
Sadly I have no photos. :( He was an overly-endowed, seemingly happy, albino rat. I can't think of him without feeling sorry for his over-endowment, but I also wouldn't include that in a mascot image ;) Frequently, he would sit on my shoulder, with his tail hanging down while I worked, which seems a rather appropriate image for your sqwiggle. So maybe a happy, albino rat would be an appropriate mascot. :-)
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Great game! However, I would suggest changing the behaviour of the moons.

Right now the moons are such a big threat that the best way to win is to simply devote all resources to avoiding them, and hope the enemy collides with them before you do (as all the top bots in the ladder clearly demonstrate). This not a very fun strategy and makes for quite boring matches.

One way to avoid this problem is to make the moons harmless. They still pull you in and push you around, but when you collide with them nothing happens. Thus they would no longer be the biggest threat on the field, but rather a nonfatal annoyance. The biggest threat on the field would instead be your enemy, and to increase your chances of winning you have no choice but to actively try to kill him.

The moons will still have to be dealt with accordingly by the ships if they want to be effective, but a majority of the resources will now go towards battling enemy ships. Much more fun to code and to watch.
Mt. Gox emergency maintenance despite "market cool down" halt
That site is pulling data from Mt.Gox, the largest exchange. Mt.Gox suspended trading a few hours ago, and has been showing a "last price" of $124.90 since. On other exchanges (where trading is not suspended), the price is currently hovering at $60-$65.

Mt.Gox reopens at 02:00 UTC. (This comment was written at approx 22:25 UTC, so when this comment is about 3.5 hours old. When that happens, I predict, all hell will break loose.
I've been approached by so many people with the next "big idea" in the past and after a few bad experiences early in my career, almost always say no.

A friend of mine once had this great idea and I decided we should turn it into a business. I worked on it for a few months and when we are about to release it, he told me he just didn't have the time to work on it anymore and moved onto a new venture.

The problem is that he had no skin in the game. He had put no money or time into the business and so moving on was very easy.

Another problem is that a good friend is not necessarily a good business partner. Most people don't have what it takes to see a business all the way through.
This is from the article and not you, but Chrome has never had RSS auto discovery. It has always been via extension.
It's also called value-based pricing [1]. You're correct in your edit, hotels/airline tickets where you're auctioning off a limited value is one thing, selling a inexhaustible commodity at different rates without any reasonable factor like location (water in a desert = more valuable) just feels dishonest.

Amazon and Travelocity rightfully caught a lot of flack when they were caught trying this (perhaps pricing A/B test?) years ago.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-based_pricing
Yes, well, people are terrible, terrible, at thinking for themselves. And when they do think for themselves, they are even more terrible at acknowledging that their thoughts don't shape reality.

That's glib. There is a very, very difficult balancing act between trusting your innermost convictions and learning to doubt said convictions frequently, as an exercise which reinforces the good bits and dispels the nonsense within them. Failure is the most valuable when you fail at something you personally believe in, because you're forced to confront yourself in the failing. Failure because you followed some BS system for doing or creating a thing without using your own thought processes along the way might teach you to stop being such an idiot, but usually it takes many failures of that sort before the message seeps in.
"and inflation reduces the amounts of those debts."

Only if inflation is at a higher rate than than the interest on the debt. Which is rarely the case. Bank loans are constructed so that the bank makes money and that couldn't happen if they loaned money at a lower rate than inflation allowed.

If you want to escape inflation, you put your money in a savings account and hope that the interest rate is properly matched to the inflation rate (they're commonly indexed to inflation.) This is less feasible for poorer people who don't have enough money to take out bank accounts and who necessarily have a higher percentage of their money in cash.
Spare me. Name 3 companies that do more for the web than Google.
>I'm really curious as to where you are coming from, both personally and professional, when you utter single word sentences like, "You lost."

Oh I'm really just not a nice person.

I actually appreciate the use of Bitcoin for the Silk Road. Sure, we need changes to our financial system.

>All we want is for it to be stable so we don't have to keep sweeping our local currency in/out of Bitcoin as we use it.

It's unfortunate that this will never happen.

Bitcoin is _fundamentally flawed_.
Honestly: Google isn't that bad. This article mentions a few things, and specifically mentions Google. But really many other companies and websites are doing similar things.

I've been railing against anything other than pure HTML, CSS, and perhaps Javascript for years. I've obviously lost that argument a long time ago. But it's not Google who killed that model of the web. If anything Google is helping by helping to kill Flash.

Sites have been blocking based on browser type for years. They've even used sneaky tricks to avoid users changing the agentid string. (https://groups.google.com/group/alt.sysadmin.recovery/msg/7e...) - that website (the Argos website) worked perfectly well in Opera.
I too watched the bubble mania in disbelief. But this wasn't the first time. In 2011 there was also an agressive bubble up to $30, with plenty of media attention. 6 months later the price was down to $3.

The bitcoin fanatics should have "lost" back then. But instead bitcoin kept on chugging and expanded its user base.

The same will happen this time. The speculators will move on but the group of people with a genuine interest in using bitcoin will have grown.
The author is reaching here. Us nerds need to remember the web isn't just for us, at least not for B2C businesses. Google isn't doing this to squash competing technologies and take over the web... on purpose. What's going on is that only nerds like us give a damn about RSS. Everyone else wants to just point and click around and have stuff work. Google+ and some pointing and clicking around = a lot of happy normal people. Seriously, meta tags? Again, who's gonna do that except me and everyone else in this thread? Techie folks like us tend to really overestimate our importance and how many of us there are. There's a lot but we're nothing compared non-technical folks.

Google isn't for us. It's for your parents. But that's alright because there's a whole world wide web out there without Google and Google really can't do much to actually kill any technology. RSS exists guys, there's just no Google Reader anymore. The cool thing is that if you actually care about this stuff then you're probably in a position to know how to build it. Google caters to those who don't know or care to build stuff. Why would you blame a company for catering to its customers?
Best advise I can give here is to do what Steve Blank, Martel, and many other advisers/founders/etc say - If you can get a check for the product. Then you've sold it. Then there is demand. Until that money is in your hand, you just have an idea.
Fees are under 1%. Mtgox's highest fee is 0.55% and bitstamp's highest is 0.5%
While I'm not qualified to say, I certainly would predict so.

Many price-monitoring tools pull data from MtGox. For anyone using those tools, the price has been stable at $125 for the last few hours and will stay that way until the exchange reopens at whatever the price is then (currently around $65).

When that jump happens, I can only imagine a vast quantity of BTC will be sold and the price will crash.
Keep in mind while reading this the takedowns of YouTube videos that just happened to have music playing in the background incidentally to the subject (Baby doing something cute, Mom grabs cellphone while radio is playing a song in the background in her otherwise real life, and begins taking a video of the kid).
They are less abstract. My 8 year old's iTunes balance has a $ in front of it. She understands it.
I wouldn't bet against a lot of money (google) shutting down something they have seemed to bet a lot on. I believe Google shutting down Google Reader already means that 'RSS has gone somewhere' or will on July 1..

[edit] I also think Google backing off the shutdown would show a lot of users that it does listen and is willing to continue running a sub-par unit instead of shutting it down.
Can you describe the mechanisms in the bitcoin system which will drive down the investment-based and speculation-based trading and drive up the currency-based trading?

It seems to me that the exact opposite trend is more likely. The use of bitcoin as a currency will become increasingly swamped by speculative investments and the swings in value will only get larger and larger, not smaller.
I'm not saying any of that stuff, I'm just asking about your first sentence, which is like every instance where someone makes the bald assertion that it happens, but I've never heard of it happening. So far I'm thinking it's just a myth.
I'd bet you didn't read TFA:
But the 6-foot-5 Winklevii were unfazed by the latest tumult. Indeed, the brothers said they used the low prices to buy more
Google, has no obligation to support Reader. What they did to the RSS market was shady, indeed, but it is well within their rights and they did not do anything that would infringe on the rights of developers or users the way Apple does. Nobody has a right to make a profitable RSS service, and nobody can tell them they have to support RSS in place of their social network of choice

Apple on the otherhand enforces a single marketplace on their operating system today. Microsoft has mostly learned from their past mistakes and people watch their every move and jump on them if any technology they use can be used to subvert freedom of developers or users down the line.

I don't have any dog in this race, but I don't understand why Apple continues to get a free pass to implement market control mascaraing in the name of clean interfaces with comforting whitespace and unified design, especially when it is used regularly to usurp users' and developers' rights.

This article is nothing but platitudes and entitlement. Somehow people got in their minds that they have a right to Google Search and can demand features and support from them.. I have no idea how this idea came about, but it seems that the gist of it is that we've come to expect everything for free from Google and that's just how it should always be.
The internet was built by a deceloper community collective... spread around the world in different universities... linux was built by another collective... and bittorrent... and apache....
have we forgotten that open distibuted systems are the most durable ones??
NOTE: This doesn't mean you'll be a success. You may have found a market, but you need to do more customer development in order to really figure out if the market is large enough to sustain.
I guess I don't think you understand how it works. Not everyone "lost". I can sell now at $64 and still have made a profit. A very, very, very small one compared to $266 a few days ago. There are plenty of people holding BTC that expected a "course correction" and every, single, time Mt.Gox hits lag and downtime, the price plummets. An artificial suspension on trading, at the exchange that does the huge bulk percent of trades... caused a huge slump in price?! Color me shocked. You totally saw the future on that one. I hope you're enjoying your delusional laughter.
seems like it shoulda really taken off for independent artists.
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