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Wish he could have been bothered to describe how he thinks things should be done differently.

Are they in your bedroom?

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Is there currently much motivation for a given researcher to keep the data online somewhere after the paper is out? Who would handle the hosting?

Have you had any luck emailing the author of the paper?

Straying a bit from the original topic: For amazon price tracking I've used this and it's pretty good: http://camelcamelcamel.com/ (They apparently cover some other retailers too.)

Patches welcome.

Also, keep in mind that Apple themselves adopt existing open source projects for their own use. There's no reason a similar relationship couldn't exist here. And the hobbyist crowd they're currently targeting are unlikely to give a shit.

Does Your Site Have Annoyance Issues?

Immediately closed the tab when I got a popup asking for an email address.

Yeah, I do that with my laptop. It does everything, and I can use it for hours without discomfort.

I've never really understood tablets.

I'm of the opinion that if I was going to carry around something too big to fit in a pocket, I might as well just make that thing a laptop.

For everyone's complaints about Microsoft back in the day, at least they didn't also control the hardware.

This is a solution in search of a problem

- Get an alarm clock that plays cds

- Burn/insert cd

- All set! Plus you aren't wasting power by leaving your computer on all night

PS: I recommend Massive Attack - Future Proof. The slow start is pretty much perfect.

If that's the case, what are they for?

Yeah, apparently they're going to have it for imap, but I'm hoping they include gtalk in there too.

It'd be nice they allowed secondary passwords for eg google talk. I don't much care for having to hand out my full credentials just to use things like bitlbee/meebo.

Looks like it's currently broken. The article says "You can activate it by hitting the ‘two-step verification’ link on this page[1].", but it's definitely not there.

However, if you go into "Authorizing applications & sites" it has a warning box which says "An application-specific password can only be created when you are signed up for 2-step verification.", with no mention of where or how that can be done.

It'd be nice if this feature allowed me to have secondary passwords for eg google talk. I don't much care for having to hand out my full credentials just to use things like bitlbee/meebo.

[1] https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount

virgin mobile has an android phone and a $25/mo plan, but still not prepaid :(

It doesn't communicate growth -- there is nothing to compare against. If you were going to do that, you'd simply provide a something like YOY% change in revenue.

A run rate is just inflating/fabricating PAST revenue by speculating on the FUTURE. Refer to my helpful chart:

  |  / <- SHOW THIS NUMBER TO INVESTORS, PRETEND IT WILL GO ON FOREVER
  | /
  |/   <- HIDE THIS NUMBER, TOO LOW
  +---

Using that math, I've already 'earned' many millions in my lifetime, even though I've only been out of college for a couple years.

And that number gets even more exaggerated if I choose to base the calculation off a month where I got a bonus.

My point stands; it's fabricated revenue.

Mashable's own article says the $800M is a "run rate" number. It's really Enron-style accounting:

"Run rate is a tricky number, though. It’s a projection of what the company would make if you extrapolate from its most recent revenue numbers. Depending on the time frame used, the calculated annual run rate can vary significantly."

If my income keeps growing at this rate, I'll be a trillionaire in no time!

You may want to roll some of that into a single account, keeping track of that isn't going to get any easier...

It hurts your ability to rebalance efficiently, and makes things more complicated than is necessary.

Additionally, if you're at a fund company with different share classes based on balance, you also get higher expenses by dividing things up too much. Eg Vanguard's Admiral shares reward you with a lower expense ratio for having more money in a given fund, since it lowers their own overhead.

If you find stock trading interesting, you could also allocate a portion of your money as "play money", then leave the rest in funds.

Also, you'd probably want to go with a more broad-based index than DJIA or S&P500. Many fund companies have a "total stock market" funds where they attempt to literally buy a piece of every US stock, weighted by market cap, so you'd effectively be owning "the US stock market", rather than just large companies. There are also total international funds which do the same thing for all non-US stocks.

Also also, you should include bonds if you aren't already. Like with stocks, there are total bond market index funds for this.

In fact, if you just picked an allocation across "total stock", "total international" and "total bond" you'd pretty much be set. This is what Vanguard does for their target retirement funds: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/vanguard/TargetRetire...

Nitpick: Lots of things can happen to otherwise healthy people.

That would make me shop elsewhere.

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You should look at something more along the lines of rdiff-backup (or whatever's fashionable these days) for that.

Using git would be pretty pointless, unless you're going to be frequently branching and merging against your mp3s or something.

"Measured in constant dollars, America’s manufacturing output today is more than double what it was in the early 1970s."

What's a 'constant dollar'? Is that nominal or inflation-adjusted? Over that timespan the two could mean very different things.

Not sure who it'd help. Are you that afraid of talking to your friends directly?

I keep some cash for small purchases and tend to use it for local/small retailers/restaurants. I know how much it costs the store when I use plastic.

I also like that my 'balance' visibly goes down when I use cash.

However, I also don't spend often enough that I need to go to an ATM more than perhaps once or twice a month.

Nitpick: Even opera is free (not Free) these days.