brosephius

a startup fired you for showing initiative and doing more with less? messed up.

    we’re a tech co - meatheads are nowhere to be found

so programmers can't be athletic? I'm sure that's not what he meant, but that's how it comes across. also, the idea of group pushups as a "team building" activity - seriously? that just sounds awkward and weird. not to mention that pushups are not remotely sufficient as exercise if that's all you're doing.

you want to help your employees stay in shape? commit to making sure they have time to get some exercise, however way they enjoy doing so.

the hardware itself, not much. I don't like the magnetic latch on the 13" plastic macbook, it makes it annoying to open with one hand and occasionally when I'm closing it if my hand slips it slams down. I would also love bigger arrow keys.

one thing I still don't like in OS X is how you can't navigate menus via keyboard like you can in windows. I know there's some keyboard shortcut to focus on the first menu, but I prefer the alt+_ shortcuts in windows.

if I want to meet up with someone, wouldn't I just give them an exact location? if the nearest landmark is 5 miles away I don't see how that would be useful.

which is a pretty progressive decision by music companies. it's like they're accepting that people will pirate music no matter what drm scheme or lawsuit wave they throw out there, so they're trying to find a way to live profitably with it.

would be awesome if there were an android client :) but seriously, I think I need to see more details on how this works. can I choose to download just one song at a time? can I create a playlist of my cloud'ed music, play it, and delete it?

currently with itunes you have to manually select which artists/albums you want to sync if you don't want to sync everything. this would be laborious to manage with multiple devices, especially if you've got 100gb of music on your macbook, and a 32gb iphone and a 16gb ipad. I'd much rather be able to selectively stream my music.

why do you say years? wouldn't all the earliest employees be partially vested right now, and vesting more each month? and as long as the share price stays bubbly through the end of the lockup period they can cash out at/close to the top.

I guess I can see some value to the complete beginner, but I don't see the point of conferences dedicated to the topic (aside from the usual networking, vendor schwag, and food and travel paid for by your employer, of course)

I skimmed a bunch of passages in this, but I honestly don't get the whole "software craftsmanship" movement. all I see is common sense ideas dressed up with vapid motivational speakerisms. what am I missing here? am I just lucky because I've never worked in a dysfunctional software sweatshop?

I don't get it. this app seems to be more about making a statement than innovating. I don't agree with the premise that stripping down an app necessarily makes it better. when I use microsoft word, the many features of the app don't cause me to flail my arms in desperation. I'm really trying hard to not use the word "hipster" in my thoughts about this, but I guess I just did. I guess the focus mode is neat, though.

programmers at high frequency trading firms can make well into the six figures and still spend most of the day coding. firms like these usually don't have much in the way of management tiers. though I wouldn't expect a programmer to make money like that unless they were closely involved in developing the trading strategies themselves.

I would say only 1) and 2) would actually make you "rich". the others would just pay very well (though for many that's rich enough, I guess)

what 3rd party? banks usually are the third party in these sorts of transactions.

that's where it opened. the $45 price is where stock was bought before it started trading publicly; once the stock opened on the nyse it first changed hands at $83.

you mean the underwriters of the IPO are not subject to a lockup period? that seems unusual, but I'd believe it I guess.

except that's not how shorting stock works. it's not a person-to-person deal.

there was higher demand for the shares than anticipated?

there's a lockup period, nobody is selling their pre-IPO shares now.

>there were market makers and other outlets offering CFD's and derivatives at just above the list price

do you have an references for that? were these offerings available to small retail investors?

and assuming you can find shares to short, and are willing to pay the borrow cost.

brains and markets are both complex adaptive systems. they aren't similar in high-level function, but they are with respect to low level dynamics.

>What's going to stop us from building a human body, including the brain, once we have the manufacturing technology to do so?

it's that we don't know what "manufacturing technology" we need, because we don't have a deep enough understanding of how the brain works. I think the parent's point was that attempts to engineer complex systems fail because these attempts can't reproduce the emergent behavior that arises from many layers of interactions from individual agents. a plane is complex, but it's not a complex system.

edit: I actually disagree a bit with myself - you can make a case that planes have elements of complex systems, but it's not at the same scale as a brain, in my opinion.

whenever I hear about robots or software agents "inventing" or "evolving" some aspect of human intelligence, I'm always skeptical because it sounds like they were programmed such that this outcome is almost pre-ordained. for example, evolutionary "art" that "draws" the mona lisa - I saw an example of this, but the actual mona lisa was essentially the objective function of an optimization, so why wouldn't it draw it after enough steps? granted this article doesn't say much about implementation, but it sounds like they were programmed with the interpretation of words being associated with locations as a given.

I admit I'm a novice in this particular domain so I can't speak too intelligently about it, but am I missing something?

nice idea, but what's the incentive for me to submit a summary?

according to ebay, my 2-year-old macbook is worth half the original purchase price. not quite free for me :(

an IPO is just a way to raise money (oversimplified, but still true), and unprofitable companies raise money from VCs all the time, so is this really all that different?

fyi, http://tasskr.com works for me, but when I initially went to www.tasskr.com, it didn't

assuming, of course, that the people you interact with all have smartphones with the color app running. as far as I know "passive" social networking or "let's interact with strangers" apps never gain traction, because most people don't find that idea compelling. outside of the handful of places with some density of early adopters and technohipsters (SF/NY basically), I just don't see anyone using this over the much more familiar model facebook provides.

5% for a currency pair is huge, especially between currencies of two developed countries. daily moves are usually tiny.

n00b question here, but I installed it with npm and I'm trying to run the chat sample, but node says it can't find ../lib/nowServerLib.js

I'm still trying to figure out node so pardon my ignorance, but am I supposed to run this from a specific location? anyway, the project looks pretty cool, looking forward to playing with it.