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It is a good article, but I'd say a more precise word for Canadian banks is that they're skeptical, rather than Conservative. I think skepticism helps to define Canadians. We were skeptical enough to not join the Americans in leaving the monarchy. The difference between skepticism and conservatism is being open to the possibility of change. Here's where I think regulation did come into play. While the Canadian banks were and are skeptical, I think they had had enough proof by the mid 1990s that the American style of banking was the future, that they were willing to change. It's the rationale for the merger requests to the Liberals in the 1990s. They wanted to be big enough to play with the big boys down south. That meant playing the same style of game. I think we dodged a bullet.

I'm be no means a Liberal fan boy, and for the life of me, I can't understand why Paul Martin didn't let the mergers to happen. No doubt his social circle of friends would have been coaxing him to do just that (can you tell I'm a bit cynical when it comes to politicians?). But read some of the accounts of the merger situation, from more than 10 years ago, like this one: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:FlhuiCh6d7sJ:www.thecana... For those trying to downplay the role the government had, the proof is in some library archives. Just read it. Here's a juicy tidbit:

Banking and government sources both say Martin did his utmost to be diplomatic. He did not want to appear to have made up his mind, given that the federal competition bureau would not deliver its report on the mergers for almost two weeks, but he also wanted to prepare the banker for bad news. Like everything else arising from this year’s ill-fated bank mergers, however, this meeting between two of the most powerful figures in Canadian finance went off the rails fairly fast. For weeks, Cleghorn’s fuse had been growing shorter as his frustration mounted over Canadians’ inability to understand the bankers’ point of view. In response to Martin’s evasiveness, something apparently snapped. Cleghorn asked straight out whether the Royal’s merger with the Bank of Montreal, and the Toronto Dominion Bank’s copycat arrangement with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, were going to be allowed to proceed. "No," Martin said simply. Cleghorn, according to both banking and federal government sources, said something along the lines of "No, but . . . ?" or "Unless what?" Martin repeated his first answer. "No."

This was when the usually composed banker lost it, according to government officials. Watching a year’s work sacrificed to what the bankers see as political expediency and parochialism was apparently too much to swallow. His face grew red and he pounded the table, while giving the minister an earful.

For once in his life, Martin remained ice-cool. As Cleghorn gave vent to his complaints, all the finance minister said was: "John, you’re not listening to me." Sources close to Martin say he repeated this phrase several times before Cleghorn calmed down.
i was talking more about technology.

As far as those 2 choices, yeah CitySourced has a good idea, but most towns already have a line you can call to report potholes etc.

LocalBacon I thought was stupid. It might have worked if it was the only option out there, but it's not. Why would a user go to their crappy site and pay money, if they can apply on Monster for free. Same goes for advertisers, they'll still have to post on Monster/Dice and deal with all that crap anyways, How many people using the LocalBacon who don't know about Monster?

Also localbacon is a very bad name, I read the TC post on it yesterday, yet when you mentioned it just now, I didn't think about the company, I thought it was a service that would deliver bacon to your door. So they have 0 name stickiness.
"why does a service like RedBeacon not exist yet?" -> they do, servicemagic.com and more.. but the market isnt yet saturated and rb is trying to take some of it with a different pricing model
I think these were lacking in one way or another whereas RedBeacon had a more thought out product. You have to realize that Jason and Mike have to protect the TC50 name.

From a judgment perspective, the market cap proposition of CitySource is not there. As in, if you funded this and this were actually highly successful they would only be able to net a few million a year. Additionally, getting cash from cities is going to be extremely difficult in this budget cutting environment.

LocalBacon was much riskier. They didn't really have a solid distribution model.
They addressed servicemagic specifically during the presentation: it's catered to a very specific niche while RedBeacon is more broad.
I'd rather struggle with difficulty of concept than difficulty in finding information.
> Yes, I still use an old J2ME phone.

Most of the world uses J2ME phones, and while Android and company are nicer, you can still do some good things with it. And there are plenty of very nice, "J2ME phones" from the likes of Nokia.
You guys might be a little more charitable. You're starting to sound like the trolls in TechCrunch comment threads.
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Alcohol is a major part of the social fabric in America. Business deals, hacker meetups, weddings, reunions, all have alcohol at them. Hell, the writers of the constitution consumed a ton of alcohol to celebrate when they finished. Alcohol serves a useful social function and it's been that way in this country since inception. Yes people are moronic and abuse alcohol, but that's hardly the case with the Github crew. The only reason why anyone would think that 'alcohol = failure' is some stupid notion about booze formed in college where abuse is actually rampant.
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"Don't only Caucasians have blue eyes?" No.

More than you ever wanted to know about eyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color

Also, this is neat:
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There seems to be a segment of the programming society that's just content with spewing whinage about not being able to get what they want, instead of using what they find and improving it to fit their needs.

I am no Python programmer, but i have looked at twisted and found it trivial to grok. I saw how they have wrapped the Unix system calls and put a layer of abstraction over it .. I didn't like it, and went back to using Common Lisp's iolib. I must have missed an opportunity to blog there :-(
Personally I generally advise our developers to avoid using GPL-ed software, even as part of web services, as much as possible - only exception being Linux, which we use as a OS, but we are moving to BSD steadily.

Surprisingly (or perhaps not so surprisingly) there are excellent non-GPL open source alternatives today. And my subjective impression is that recent open source projects that use GPL are less popular than BSD/MIT/Apache based alternatives. That may be confirmation bias, of course.

So in that sense, I agree that GPL is declining ... frankly, I am happy with that development, because I don't consider GPL to be a license so much as a political philosophy, a philosophy I strongly disagree with. Which is why we choose not to use GPL software to the maximum extent possible (much as Stallman would choose not to use the software we create, which is perfectly fine with me!).
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IBM has elaborate incentive systems that encourage employees to patent every idea that comes into their heads, and few checks to weed out the bad ones. The plan, I suppose, is that it's hard to identify the important patents in advance, and it's worth it to spend millions a year on useless paperwork if every now and then it makes you 100x that.

Taking one of IBM's patents as revealing of their overall strategy is like watching a guy scratch his toe and concluding that he probably wants to amputate his leg. There's just no way to connect your observation to any evidence for (or against) the conclusion.
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What self-respecting programmer doesn't idle in the freenode channels of the software packages he or she is learning? You immerse yourself in the community and ask intelligent questions; if anything, just to see what the community is like before you commit your project to depend on something written by either douchebags or morons.

I did just that with the twisted community and I found them a good bunch.
0. Understanding relationships between people and making everything about that. Facebook friends are people you know. Of your three., number 1 is most interesting mostly because it is part of 0. By concentrating effort in one place, they solved the chicken-egg problem in a better or, at least, a unique and hard to replicate way.
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Time will tell I suppose. You may be right but Facebook's size and appeal outside of the normal social networking site market might make it different.
It seems that it's not so much what they do with their free time, but that they "take" it at all.

I've seen people going completely crazy because they didn't get a response from developers within an hour or so. On Sunday. At 0400h (am).
PG, I think it is a good business model with a huge opportunity and they are going to do good. I am just saying it was not something I was expecting to come out as a winner of TC50.

Congratulations to RedBeacon team and TC50.
Completely agree.

What I would give for 5 minutes of questions from PG about our startup! Maybe that's something he could auction off for charity? Bidding on office hours!
The complaints weren't about the private lives of others per se. The alcohol related activities are at GitHub sponsored events where the team mingles with customers. Customer development is part of business. Frequent posts to their business blog about said alcohol related activities makes it part of their public-facing image. GitHub made what might have been 'extracurricular' or 'private' activities into business activities.

The public image of a company is significant, and acts that some wouldn't notice can rub others the wrong way. Seems like the GitHub people don't care if a few of their customers move to other services that don't talk up their parties where they drink a lot. To each their own.
I wish this was working already! Just today I was looking for a good mechanic to replace a transmission in San Francisco. I tried RedBeacon but SF won't be ready until October 1. If this works it would be really useful.
Which is a good idea anyway, since those places have less social pressure to drink.

It's not just the people under 21 (well, 16 here) you can be excluding on an alcohol party. There are also people that don't drink or drink very little.

(To be fair, I only got weird looks and remarks once for not drinking alcohol and that was at a student bar where drinking seemed to be the norm. Normally it isn't too big a deal, but I can imagine some people - especially younger ones - feeling uncomfortable being the only one not drinking alcohol. Even more so when a group just gets a pitcher of beer.)
Trollim ("lets coders battle for programming superiority") sounds like fun if they can figure out how to make it into a game rather than some dumb HR thing.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/tc50-trollim-lets-coder...

Edit: but why did they decide to call participants "trolls"?
iPhone OS 2.x did not support Exchange. So I think you can make a reasonable case that before June 19th 2009 very few of these encryption-required companies were buying iPhones since they simply didn't support Exchange.

This is factually incorrect. I've been using the Exchange integration on the iPhone since fall 2008.

Granted, as this article shows, Apple has been reporting false information to Exchange, but the Exchange support has been there.
>Yes people are moronic and abuse alcohol, but that's hardly the case with the Github crew.

How do you know?

>The only reason why anyone would think that 'alcohol = lazy' is some stupid notion about booze formed in college where abuse is actually rampant.

Eh, I don't drink, and whereas all my friends did in college, I wouldn't have said that lazy was a typical outcome of their drinking. That's not to say their drinking didn't have pretty major downsides on a number of occasions, but they all studied their asses off and were diligent when shit needed to get done.

I do think that people tend to associate people that talk up their drinking habits with thoughtless, reckless, or stupid behavior. Whether that's a fair or unfair stereotype is for each person to decide on the basis of their own experience. Apparently some of GitHub's clients have that stereotype.

Public image management is part of developing any business. GitHub uses alcohol to loosen customers and potential customers up, which may bring in new clients and maintain current clients. But that strategy will also lose them certain clients, and it's doubtful that writing a blog post about how "it's totally unfair to judge us for posting on our business's blog about how much fun we have drinking with customers" is going to convince otherwise skeptical clients.

If the complaining customer is correct that GitHub still suffers from "frequent outages, slow queues, occasional inability to push/pull, frequent breakage after code pushes, etc", then the onus remains on GitHub to demonstrate that they work their asses off. Proof is in the pudding.

At the end of the day, GitHub folks can do whatever they like, and people are free to disagree with that and switch services if they like. But there may be better public image strategies out there, perhaps ones that are more discreet at the very least.
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I hated that, made making common libraries a PITA.

Sure there were workarounds but it was definitely a gotcha if you knew TCL prior to Vignette and were suddenly faced with Vignette messing with you.
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I doubt most people ever really notice if someone isn't drinking, even at an event where the majority of people are. Or maybe I'm just not very observant.

I usually do drink at these kinds of events, but when I don't I've never felt pressured to (at least not since college). Maybe it's different for people who sometimes drink vs. never drink.
If that's the reality of it, then damn, we averted that one... but by the skin of our teeth.

Whew. Last chance to buy stock, while the economy is still 'on sale'!
This reminds me of the Perl Catalyst approach, which states that everything important already exists in CPAN, so the web framework just needs to provide a little glue to stick it together.

In other words, there's massive reuse of CPAN components with Catalyst, as the framework itself doesn't provide much for free.

The sinatra "hello world" is insanely compact, and really says something... Here is one point where Catalyst is different, to put it politely.

On a side note, I got so frustrated with Catalyst that I now use Django.
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TC50 is supposed to be for the best 50 companies TC gets. Shouldn't the winner of the event be something substantial? I mean compare it to Mint...they aren't even on the same level.

Can you honestly say that these guys will still be in business a year from now? Shouldn't that be a requirement for the winner of the "best tech conference"?
That's a bad sign!
I'm not sure where you got the impression that we don't care, I wouldn't have written the post otherwise.
I've done commercial IT training in the past and came across this learning styles stuff during a training-the-trainer seminar. I have found that it seems that most of the benefits accrue from repetition and re-enforcement, rather than anything to do with learning styles. In order to try to take advantage of different learning styles, you will end up explaining the same topic in different way and presenting the same information in different styles - spoken, written, diagrammatically, through interpretive dance, etc... Even if 'learning styles' are bunk - which seems quite possible/likely, the repetition and re-enforcement are pretty much essential anyway.
Yeah....this reminds me of his comments before the crash...
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In many years of Tcl point 1 has never been a problem - TDBC is new but Oratcl and Sybtcl have been around for a long time and are rock solid.

2 no comment, 3 may be true now but Phillip Greenspun managed to build his business around it, 4, can you provide an example?

5 only in the sense that they don't blog much.
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I suppose it really depends on how you define what the "American style of banking" is and what the causes of the economic collapse were. For instance, if Canada had allowed for the mergers, would they be in an even stronger position today (given that it wasn't so much size that has prevented them from failing)? After all the failures of the banks in the US weren't so much the result of mergers as they were of mispriced portfolio assets - driven in large part by the combination of ratings agencies, loosening requirements at Fannie and Freddie (of which Canada doesn't have an equivalent), etc.. Clearly regulations were different and I don't think though that it's fair to blame this on any given style of banking or even deregulation for that matter.

You may find this article interesting as well: http://causesofthecrisis.blogspot.com/2009/09/three-myths-ab...
I've heard that Google is hiring again. So, maybe it's actually true this time.
People notice, but only to a small degree. When I was out in SF back in July I didn't intend to drink much at the meetup. I think I had 4 drinks total, all were bought by someone else for me. If I had declined the drinks, or gotten something non-alcoholic instead, I doubt anyone would have made a fuss about it.

Well.. and PJ did shove like $15 in the jukebox and demand I pick songs, and gave us money for the taxi ride home which also paid for a nice pizza back at the hotel.
These are companies who are launching at the event. Things change after the first user, even business plans. Right now all one can do is take a hard look at the individuals, and see if they have what it takes to make it.

And frankly, this is business, not a spectator sport.
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I can sure imagine customers that would be offended if they were invited to a dinner without drinks. Haven't businesses endorsed the relationship-lubricating capability of alcohol from the day one?
Thx, that's a very interesting perspective, and gives me much food for thought :)
There will always be people that don't like what we do, no matter what we do. Drink? Someone will hate us for it. Act like professional business executives, someone will think we take ourselves too seriously. I think the trick is to find the right balance for our target market, and I think the guys are doing quite well at that. I don't think any of us expect to pick up big businesses for Firewall Install at meetups, we're going to get those customers by way of developers that are already using git, and from the talks we give about git and GitHub at places like Yahoo. If all people see is us drinking every other Thursday, they're missing a lot.

Customers complaining about performance certainly have a valid point. But if they believe that these issues are caused by a lack of dedication or just general "goofing off", I think they're mistaken. Frankly, Tom's been working his ass off since April with the Rackspace move. At the same time, Chris has focused nearly all of his time into keeping the site up as is and doing everything he can to maintain or improve performance with the hardware we have. There's simply hardware bottlenecks blocking our way at the moment. I'm sure everyone knows my feelings about GFS by now.

Proof certainly is in the pudding, and I think everyone is going to love the pudding we'll be serving up from Rackspace. I know it's hard to be patient and wait for the move to happen... trust me I really do. I'm the one on the front line every day with unhappy customers who have to deal with the latency and job queue backups. I don't think there's anyone that wants the move to happen more than me.
I'm really shocked that more people didn't get into the multi-platform toy. American Girl is a multiplatform toy concept and it's enormous. That prototype was hideous, and they need to work out some of the cross platform elements to it but if I were a kid and I saw that? Yeah. Plus, anything that has multiplatform revenue capabilities like that is a smart play right now. 90% of the companies at TC50 were talking about subscription models I didn't think users would be willing to pay and anybody who thinks they're going to make dough off ad revenue alone is nuts. The market is oversaturated and there isn't going to be a roll up.
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It's not really a sign at all; they always say that the economy is either improving or stable.
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