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PayPal can be gamed in many different ways, but the credit card is the buyer's shield that even PayPal can't defend against. :(

"Do people wake up in the morning and say to themselves, 'Holy crap, how am I going to save and share videos today?'"

I don't think they do, which is why this particular idea and implementation aren't going to gain any traction over what exists today. It's just not a strong enough pain point to be solved by an iPhone app.

You said you failed to connect with people on an emotional level, but I would contend that you failed to solve a problem perceived by the customer.

Only when you solve a customer's problem will you get that emotional connection. It's not something you need to work at, it's something you either succeed at doing, or fail. I would say that your application just didn't solve anything someone was looking for.

Your questions led you down the wrong path. Your very first questions should have been:

1) What is the pain point that X have? 2) How can I solve that with an iPhone app?

Where X is anybody you thought you were solving a problem for.

I wrote an ebook on that very topic to help answer those particular fears and concerns for first-time or new buyers.

While I support Noah's right to say what he wants to say in the US, I do believe that his attention-grabbing tactics are in extreme poor taste and future conferences should take heed that this is what they might be signing up for by getting him as a speaker. Noah seems to be an otherwise smart guy and an excellent businessman. I'm sad that he seems somewhat obtuse to this behavior as inappropriate.

Come back again! Fresh data = new results every time!

Your information is only stored for one hour, so each time you return, we'll run fresh analytics on your Facebook data.

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It seems to me that coding standards have existed for the non-10x developer to stay in line with a hard-and-fast set of clunky rules to keep them from coloring too far outside the lines.

The older I get, the less I enjoy coding standards outside of the three he points out. I just wish they'd work for everyone.

I'll answer your other question as it seems to have been ignored:

I don't think anyone is actively ignoring these other great languages. It has more to do with inertia. Once a company invests X in their software (where X can be 100K to 100M), they're reluctant to throw that away when it works. We as engineers may like the hot new thing, but the company having paid for the hot old thing isn't just going to throw it out because you don't like it anymore. :)

This is why we had the Y2K problem from a massive investment in COBOL. We'll have other issues from a massive investment in Java over the next few decades as well. It is what it is. Learn Java. Learn Play. Learn Ruby, Python, PHP, C#, whatever you want to learn. You'll be learning all your career. The more languages you know, the better a developer you will be. Embrace it now, forever will it dominate your destiny.

- Geeky

- Friendly

- Approachable

- Very open to talking about software-y stuff

I look forward to seeing you again at MicroConf 2012, Patrick.

Amazon generates 130% more business per subscriber just by losing a mere $11/subscriber. Those are numbers that anyone could salivate at.

My friend, who is a serial entrepreneur/CTO/founder, was on his first big company back in the late 90s. He was brought in by a friend/consulting partner and was very jazzed to be working on an exciting predictive analytics application to detect churn in mobile subscribers.

So much so, that he lived the company. He ate poorly, didn't exercise, was grossly overweight, drank excessively and worked obsessively. His gallbladder couldn't take it and nearly burst. It was so swollen by the time he went to the doctor, they were scared it would go any minute.

He had emergency surgery and could have easily died. That was as big as wakeup call as they get. He got the message loud and clear, lost weight, started exercising, ate better. Got much healthier and recovered shortly thereafter.

Living for the startup is stupid. As byrne said, "Dead entrepreneurs make no products".

Yowza.

What they should have done is to exclude these extremely common words and then rank what was left, like Google, Facebook, Steve Jobs. Those would have been far more valuable, but much noisier data.

I am still dismayed at how few programmers can solve this given 30 min (15 for the correct solution, plus 15 for optimizations across instructions and code brevity). It filters out the weak for sure.

- Old work associates

- School friends

- Family and close friends

If I have a deadbeat cousin who also happens to be the black sheep of the family, they may penalize me unfairly for his behavior. Or if I used to be in school with someone who is now doing poorly financially, I get whacked. Now consider that this person might have been my close friend in 6th grade, but we grew in different directions. Where is the relevance here? Where's the logic in that?

Pulling this info from social graphs as augmentation is a whole lot different than simply creating a full profile from your graph in the absence of real financial data.

Lagging or not, how I paid my credit cards over the past 5 years is going to tell you a lot about how I treat money. Not so much about what I'm tweeting tomorrow.