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I'm not sure where Tobiasen gets the idea that the Austrian School is a "major school of economics." This may have been true in the 1930s, but today, at least in the academic world, it's treated (justly or not) as a fringe theory (just look through the index of any standard economics textbook for even a single mention of the names "Mises," "Hayek," "Rothbard," or "Menger"). Furthermore, the only Nobel laureate who hails from the Austrian School (as far as I am aware) is Friedrich Hayek--an impressive figure, no doubt, but still just one man.

While Tobiasen's criticisms of macroeconomic models are valid for the Keynesians, I don't think they hold very well for the Austrians. Tobiasen points out the failure of mathematically complex economic models to develop into accurate macroeconomic forecasts. Austrian models, however, are intentionally devoid of mathematics. Mises, Rothbard, and other Austrian economists spent almost as much of their time on the philosophy of economics as they did on their study of economics itself and one of the fundamental philosophical tenants of the Austrian School that they developed is that human action is too complicated to model in a mathematically precise way; a priori logical deduction is the only way to reason about economics in a meaningful way. Furthermore, the Austrian School does not make the same assumption that the Keynesians do that "people act as rational beings." The only assumption that the Austrians make is that humans act to achieve desired goals--the Austrians do not posit that humans necessarily act in a rational manner.
BTW, the actual policy, as far as I can tell from a couple years experimenting "in the field", is that women's policy for giving out their phone numbers is: they give them to men who ask.

I know, it seems too hard to be true. I had to work up my courage for months to ask for a phone number upon meeting a woman, even after I decided that I would try it since I had nothing to lose. The first time I tried it, the woman gave me her number. The second time I tried it, that one gave me her number, too. And on and on and on. I've only been turned down a few times. And I'm a nervous, skinny, nerdy guy.
"In order to put them in volume production, you need a well-defined market and a distribution strategy. The problem is that most of our commercial partners - even the giants - do not do a lot of business in the underdeveloped parts of the world. This is not a shortage of technology. It's a shortage of courage, vision, awareness: a lot of human things."

Social and business processes are a technology in need of inventing too. The creativity behind Grameen Bank, Kiva, DonorsChoose, etc is just as important as the tech behind his Slingshot and motor.

I love Kamen but right now he sounds like a whiny engineer wondering why the world isn't beating a path to his door. The job isn't over once the technology exists.
Are you trying to say that child labor is a good thing?

The point I was trying to make, albeit not too successfully was that it's a difficult situation, and there aren't a whole lot of great options for people in those situations.
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Pure coincidence. I often look for definitions as a way of remembering certain keywords in text (sort of like taking mental notes).

The submission on reddit now has over 1200 upvotes which is crazy: it isn't that funny. Not to flog a dead horse, but the quality of that site really has gone down over the last two years or so.
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Not uncorrelated. Consider the many guys who are into girls that wear glasses. It's not because the glasses make them look better per se, but because the stereotype (which has some truth embedded in it, but probably not all that much) correlates wearing glasses with being smart.
Rest in peace, Frank McCourt.

I missed Angela's Ashes, but Teacher Man looks like it would be worth the read. What a great reminder of what a good teacher is capable of.
I pedal really hard followed by bouts of not pedaling at all.

Before the time when I biked to work and took either the bus or VTA light rail I did manage to read most of two of the intel architecture books plus some other books on my ebook reader whereas before I never would have done so.
I saw food inc. the other day. one interesting point made in the documentary was that income levels effect obesity. people with less income are not able to by the most nutritious food and settle for foods "rich" in hydrogenated corn syrup. foods made with hydrogenated corn syrup are often less expensive because corn has been subsidized, is cheap, and can be stored for a verrrry long time.
Here's a 10x better question: Why did Southerners get so much fatter since 1970?

This
is new. And there are lots of reasons to think it's not an epidemic of pleny: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=2121...
Also, these beautiful young women with boyfriends give out their phone numbers. And they switch boyfriends quite frequently.
If you have to use such an unrelated association in order to elicit a good feeling from me, I'm going to mistrust your approach at a minimum, if not also your product.

In other words, if you don't find the idea of your product itself sexy enough, why should I? Then again, I'm not the typical consumer; maybe I just don't fit your demographic. Either way: Next!
It was Ch12 in Practical Common Lisp.

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I'm astounded at how recession-proof Apple has made itself seem. I was hoping they'd survive without too many bruises, but it seems as if the recession is boosting their sales, if anything.
How about passing out parachutes and jumping off at your stop?

I'm a bit leery of using the following for picking up passengers though ( but if not, perhaps a special suit with pants open at the derriere might help jettison excess cargo
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I'm trying to say that depending on where you draw the line, you can make all sorts of moral judgments that may not turn out to be true when drawing a line in a different place.

Take the invasion of France in WWII. The Allies killed over 14 thousand French civilians in bombing in preparation for the invasion. Would you say that's a good thing? It's obviously an awful thing, no matter how you slice it.

But looking at the longer picture, sometimes good things come out of bad things. This was the case for the invasion of France, and I believe this is also the case for child labor and sweatshops in third world countries.

That doesn't make bad things into good things, that just means that context is important.
You'll need a few features

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* Tally feature to check guests in, correlate to web list after event.

.. A4 Pages of guests to cross out via pen 0-200 guests

.. Barcode scanner db 200+ guests (-idea- maybe an iPhone app with db sync?)

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* Generate tickets and ticket address labels

.. Customers can print out their own voucher perhaps?
Netbooks happened when they did when the hardware prices came down far enough to make them not a complete joke. They are a brain-dead obvious evolution of the laptop platform, just one more step on the almost-equally-braindead-obvious evolution to some form of ubiquitous computing, with our cellphones leading that charge.

So yeah, I don't credit them with the netbook idea. That credit goes to the hardware people who drove down LCD and computer prices.
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This is not necessarily a good thing. Apple has largely $1000+ computers. Them taking 91% (and having single-digit overall market share) means that consumers increasingly prefer small portable cheap low-power computers (netbooks and similar), while the high-end market disappears.

As an analogy, it would be like Cray boasting 20 years ago that they owned 90% of the $10,000+ computer market.

Apple needs to innovate on the low end, or die.

On the other hand, it seems like computing for the masses will converge onto mobile devices, and Apple currently has the strongest offering in that market.
What a tremendous story of a true "hacker".
joel mentioned it in the SO podcast, i used to read reddit, but it seems so bad lately.
I think it's because when people come into the community with a different attitude, they often get heavily downmodded, ignored, flagged, etc. Anti-social behavior is so actively discouraged that people either leave or shape up. Listen to the first few minutes of this podcast for the outsider's view: http://techzinglive.com/?p=70
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Just because there are two schools of thought that disagree it doesn't mean that nobody knows.

Regarding the great depression, in the wikipedia article you link to, it says that the Austrian explanation is expansion of money supply not "fall of money supply".

By the way Austrian economics is not mainstream. Mainstream economics is Keynesian.

What governments are doing is following the Keynesian recommendations. The Austrian school points out the flaws of the the recommendations. They predict the failures of these measures and are ignored or ridiculed (Peter Schiff for instance). The Austrian predictions then come true. Then what do governments do? Follow the Keynesian recommendations again.
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But ranked by number of cup-holders there have been major improvements.

Anyway US car makers have realized the real secret to engineering success - movie tie-ins.
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/22/2010-transformers-special...
I don't agree with the gaming part. Pc/console grade games are not going run that well in a tablet.

Even my new Macbook doesn't run World of Warcraft well enough for me to care playing it. MMO:s are usually very high cpu/memory intensive games.

There could be some simpler games, similar to iPhone ones but I don't think a tablet is going to be a major gaming platform anytime soon.
There is a reason why mathematics students have the highest virginity rate of any major.
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Google Voice used machines and while it is nowhere near perfect it works surprisingly well. You only need a few parts of most voice mails to get the point of them.

Google Voice is an excellent service and I am happy to be a user.
What problems? If there any, they are so minor the advantages by far outweigh these. I have been using it since probably version one and categorically without any hassle. (Even in the pre-WAMP days I never had any serious problems with it).

For me it has been the Golden Bridge allowing me to develop locally on a Windows machine and to deploy in the real world on LAMP!
Like I already explained: you have to treat all further email to the current address as spam after you unsubscribe.

You completely ignore what I wrote and repeat OP's point without making an argument.
Excuse notes are a great example of why you need verification. Anyone can write one for themselves, and give it to you without proof it really came from a parent. That's a classic man in the middle attack.

What you really need is some kind of certificate for each parent, allowing you to verify the note really came from the parent. That's why self-signed certificates really aren't worth much -- anyone could have created them.
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You are forgetting the risk nature of potential suitors.

If the suitors are all risk averse, that is if they perceive that the pain caused by rejection is greater than the pleasure of success, none of them will approach her. On the other hand, if the suitors are risk seeking (or even risk neutral) where pain <= success then there will be those who approach her.

There is a lot to be said regarding their perceived probability of success, and the distribution of perceptions. If unattractive and uneventful suitors are all risk seeking, chances are that they will approach Carol and be promptly rejected.
The trouble is, many people appear to believe that your argument that there are things which one generally shouldn't do with dynamic languages has the corollary that one should not be able to do them, i.e., that these features should not be available in the first place. The nuance of "Most of the time you shouldn't do this, but sometimes it's necessary or even the correct approach" tends to get lost; only the first clause gets parsed, and we have yet another round of stupid arguments in which one side says "Dynamic languages are bad because you can change the way core objects function", and the other says "Dynamic languages are good because you can change the way core objects function".

There is a possible explanation for this: language fundamentalism is an easy position to hold, while subtlety is demanding. Dogma merely requires one to follow its commands, rather than using one's judgement to negotiate between conflicting demands. I hope that this isn't, in fact, the reason that these arguments perpetuate, but I fear that it is.
If you go to the attendee or order list we do have an option to print a list. Its formatted nicely to print on any size sheet and will allow you to cross people off at check-in. We also export attendees and orders to CSV so you can pull it into Excel and format it to your specifications.

The other features we are hesitating on because we aren't convinced that people really need them. Doing less, but doing it significantly better is what we are aiming at. We realize that we will not be getting the really large events to move to us, but they are not our target market. We are aiming for the smaller events that don't have professional planners that take care of everything.

That said, we have a list of features that we think we need to add. We plan to add most of them before we exit beta. Features on our list include a public attendee list, ability to ask for custom information per attendee, and uploading of custom background images for events.
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Seriously, where's the study? This is a nice example of game theory but let's not call it truth without some backing research, and all the anecdotal evidence in the world sounds nice but we are not exactly a representative group are we?
You have a point about the Quantity label. I will see about including that in my planned revamp of the ticket type lightbox.
Great post. I will say, while I rarely do things in a "magic" way just for the sake of it, I often do it to understand how something works, which, admittedly, may be just as bad. A good example is using generators in python; While writing a program I happened to be reading about generators, so I decided to incorporate them into my code, thinking that doing so would help me understand them better. It worked fine and I understood it at the time, but now if I were to go back and muck with that code, I'd probably have to brush-up on generators just to make changes that didn't break the whole thing.

So I guess my point is, another valid reason, beyond "doing it just because you can", is "doing it so you can learn". However, the end result seems about the same to me.
They're a luxury good and a status symbol-- the people that were willing to pay a premium for one pre-recession by and large can still afford to. It's a triumph of their marketing direction (backed up by products of quality, so I hear).
Taking into account my trips to Walmart, I don't think that's an accurate statement.
One minor nit to pick with your otherwise excellent post. It's "philosophical tenets" not "philosophical tenants", tenet and tenant do come from the same root tenere -- to hold. But tenet is an axiom that the holder believes to be true and a tenant is one who holds the property of another.

Philosophical tenants often have trouble paying the rent; but philosophical tenets are like zucchini, everyone wants to share them with you.
Lists are the most ingenious data structures possible; Nature uses them exclusively -- or what do you think DNA or our brain ore molecules are consisting of?

(You don't have 'arrays' or 'hashes' in Nature, and why would you need them?
Read on:)

The only difficulty with lists is interconnection with other list elements; Nature uses this heavily, and our brain would not be possible without these inter-connections.

So -- lists as used in our current computer systems may be slow, but they are still the best data structure ever created.
Those guys will do anything for publicity.

The limit on the number of people on a plane is the evacuation time, you can't fit many more people on without fitting more doors. Expect a statement later about how the bureaucrats wouldn't allow it.
If no one wants to miss class, you don't have to worry about this.
No, excuse notes are not that important.
I guess you'd also want to do a White Label version of your engine so that small-medium Bed&Breakfasts and Hotels could use you as their guestlist provider.
I'm surprised that they only spend one sentence on the site's technical problems. In late 2003 and early 2004, just about all my friends and I were on Friendster, and speaking just for us, the crippling slowness was by far our biggest problem with the site. Even in the middle of the night, there were times that each page would take a minute or two to load. We were in college at the time, so when Facebook came to our schools, it replaced Friendster almost immediately.
I really like the user interface and simplicity. You're right, there are sites out there with too many unnecessary features. I liked your approach to only keep what's absolutely needed and present those features in a lovely way. The creative and clean placement of Edit links on the event page especially captured my attention.

Great job and best of luck with this!
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So many of these interviews just seem like fluff surrounding a plug for a new startup / vc fund / product / whatever.
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Butter and fried food do not make people fat. Sugar and starch make people fat.

Southern food is loaded with sugar. Sweet tea is revolting to anyone with a healthy pallet.
This makes sense if all future emails from the sender are marked as spam, but the email I am using to unsubscribe should not be marked as spam.

The button should be "unsubscribe and mark all future emails as spam."
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I thought it interesting that even without such a certificate, the teacher still had a pretty good idea of which notes were fake and which were legitimate. Kind of like websites - you just kinda know when they fake..
Instead of sending notes, an easier way to weed-out most fakes would be to require a phone call. Sure, it can be faked but it's a lot more difficult do (especially if they have met the teacher).
here's the direct link to the sourcecode for the DropManager class extracted from our work on this feature.

http://gist.github.com/153019

from the docs...
The DropManager class provides a pleasant API for observing HTML5 drag-n-drop events, cleaning up the data that they return, and triggering the appropriate callbacks. With the drag and drop API so far, there are generally three types of data we're interested in: HTML, URLs, and plain text. On drop, your callback will receive a pre-processed drop object with corresponding 'url', 'html' and 'text' properties.
Consuming more calories than you're burning is how you get fat. There are plenty of ways to do it.
The pairwise interactions over time aren't all that relevant. 20 years later, you have the field of all single women in their 30s/40s, not just the ones who snubbed you two decades earlier.
Yeah, when someone cracks a joke at a party and then someone says it again right after following a laugh, it doesn't always go so well.
I don't think the author tried to get any real work done with Audacity. It's really not up to par with either Sound Forge or Wavelab.

I really had a terrible time last time I checked out Audacity.

I understand it's free of charge and you can definitely get some work done with it (if you aren't in a hurry).

The thing is I just don't think open source is competitive in that kind of market.

First of all: very limited export and import. I like my audio editor to be a hub where I can switch from one format to the other.

UI : I really don't like the UI I'm sorry to say I find it very ugly. I also have the feeling it takes a significant higher number of operations to trim, zoom, detrim, cancel, copy, etc. Maybe with time I could cope with it if I didn't have the choice. Ah, wait, I have a choice. :) In Wavelab you have a virtual rack in which you can plug in the VST FX, and tweak it in real time. It's really well done and the visual feedback is very helpful.

Effects : it's just not delivered with decent effects (where is the multi-band compression?) and good VST effects (such as the Waves Diamond Bundle) are expensive (> 3000 €). If you spend for 3000 € of FX, I guess you can spend another 400 € for an audio editor.

But the real show stopper was that Audacity doesn't support the audio output I need, that is ASIO. I need ASIO output to get the sub 40 ms output latency. I don't think it supports WASAPI either which would be a work around.

For home usage, Sound Forge Audio Studio is only 35 € and in my opinion much better than Audacity. You can burn you recording directly from the software, in Audacity you have to export to wav and then burn the track (unless it changed).

Hope this sheds some light.
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why can't Google "unsubscribe" without labeling the thing as spam. Why can't it block the mail for that one specific user? Being labeled as spam is a BIG deal for companies.

You aren't just labeling it as spam for yourself, you are labeling it as spam for the world. When enough people complain the company will automatically get black listed from that email service Do you think a big company like Amazon shouldn't be able to deliver order confirmations, just because a bunch of people labeled it as spam when they tried to unsubscribe.

Granted that's probably not a big deal for Amazon, since they have connections, but what about all those small startups? Think of a disadvantage they'd get, compared to big boys with name recognition and connections.

It's like that certified email scam. Big companies jump on board, because they can pay the fee. If that ever catches on, you have an additional barrier to entry for the small fish.
This depends on the List-Unsubscribe header: http://www.list-unsubscribe.com/

which can be set to an email address or link. If you're adding remove links to your outgoing emails, you might as well put it in the header as well. Hotmail/live mail will only show the link for trusted emails IIRC.

As Gmail has no "feedback loop" that sends spam reports back to the sender, this is better for me (as an email sender) than nothing. People regularly report email as spam that they signed up for and that they just don't care to receive anymore (they even report transactional email as spam, such as an ordery summary/order shipped email).
Ouroborus or reddit is the hated party here?
Yes, I agree it's worth clarifying the labels on the buttons. Detailed info what unsubscribe involves might be useful as well.

I'm just brainstorming about the implementation concerns behind this feature.
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