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Fixed! It's amazing that no matter how carefully I check for mistakes like that I never seem to be able to catch them all.

... in accordance with the prophecy (cue evil laugh). ;)

Wow, that's kinda cool! What's funny is that by simply coining the term "luck surface area" I've actually managed to increase my luck surface area. ;)

That's a really interesting question. What I've found is that when I'm obsessed with a project it tends to almost always be on my mind, so that when I sit down to work on it I generally have a very good idea of what I want to accomplish and how to go about it (or at least how to get started on it). And when I know I'm only going to have a limited amount of time to make progress then I really try to do as much mental prep as possible so that when I do sit down I can really do some damage. That said, there are times when I end up getting sucked into reading HN and accomplish very little. ;(

By the way, one quick trick I use to avoid wasting too much time on HN is to use the Instapaper bookmarklet to print out the articles in a condensed format to read later when I'm away from the computer.

Actually, I have been through it, which I linked to at the beginning of the second paragraph. But I suppose I should have been more explicit about it. Anyway, here's a link to the TechCrunch write-up: http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/11/preezo-enters-online-office...

Peter, you beat me to it! Thanks so much for the recommendation. ;)

Give TechZing (http://www.techzinglive.com) a try. It's a mix of discussions and interviews with founders, investors and coders (Derek Sivers, Gabriel Weinberg, etc). Disclaimer: I'm a co-host. ;)

We would absolutely guarantee him complete anonymity. Our goal isn't to out him. It's just to give his fans an opportunity to hear him express his views.

You're probably right, but I figured it's worth a shot.

A few months back we decided to take a risk and do an "X-Files" episode (as opposed to our normal fare of tech and startups) and interviewed Richard Dolan, an historian in the field of UFOs and national security. It turned out to be one of our most popular shows to date and we covered this very topic in some detail. It's definitely worth a listen if you're interested in this kind of stuff: http://techzinglive.com/?p=248

Yeah, we would love to take advantage of a service like that.

Thanks so much for the positive feedback. ;) Justin has done a lot of work to get the audio quality where it is, so it's nice to hear that his effort is paying off.

While transcripts are something we'd love to have for the show, unfortunately we don't yet have the funds for that. Maybe some day ... ;)

Based on my experience building HFT systems and communicating with others doing HFT, the results of this study sound about right. HFT traders are essentially just market makers, meaning that they generally place orders on both sides of the market in an attempt to profit from short-term mean reversion.

Now that was funny. LOL

We did a podcast interview with Chris McCann of StartupDigest just a couple weeks ago. Lots of interesting topics were covered. It's well worth a listen.

http://techzinglive.com/?p=243

Hey, this is Jason from TechZing. Thanks so much for the mention! I never really thought of myself as a character, but you're probably right. ;)

By the way, for anyone interested in checking out the TechZing podcast, we not only discuss tech, startups and other HN-like topics, we'll even on occasion take a risk and venture into the unknown. For example, we recently interviewed a historian of UFOs and the national security state which, to our surprise, turned out to be one of our most popular shows of all time.

This week we're interviewing David Fogel, who evolved a world-class checkers playing algorithm named Blondie24, and I anticipate that to be an especially interesting show.

Anyway, you should listen to us here: http://techzinglive.com because if you like HN then you'll probably like our show.

That's funny. It's actually more like a one-sided flame war. "PHP sucks and Python is awesome!" ;)

Check out TechZing (www.techzinglive.com). It covers the same kind of topics discussed on HN - bootstrapping, NoSQL, HTML5, iPhone dev, machine learning, etc. Plus, I co-host it! ;)

Wow, this is very similar to the game idea I describe in Techzing 40 – AppIgnite Revealed: http://techzinglive.com/?p=194.

Hi, Jason here. I co-host TechZing with Justin Vincent. You're right, his name is Pete. It was just a typo. I really don't want to point any fingers, but it was Justin's fault. Come on! ;) I'm sort of imagining that said with my best Gob impression (Arrested Development).

I just spent about five hours this weekend experimenting with Titanium Mobile and for someone like me knows Javascript, but not Objective-C or Cocoa, it looks awesome. After spending some time trying to get kick started using Objective-C, Cocoa, Interface Builder and XCode, I would guess that Titanium might reduce the time it would take me to build a substantial iPhone app by maybe 5-10X.

What's really interesting is that no one here seems to be interested in asking whether Vivek Kundra is indeed unqualified for the position. That's what's really important. I mean the CIO of the United States should be a total tech badass, right? After reading Dvorak's post on Kundra, listening to the No Agenda podcast where they played clip after clip of Kundra speaking like a moron and after reading Om Malik's response and Kundra's Wikipedia entry, it seems like Dvorak may actually have a point.

Episode #5 is on iTunes, but there may be a problem with the auto updating. If you manually update in iTunes it will download. We'll definitely look into the iTunes auto update issue, but it may just be that it takes a little while for iTunes to fully register an uploaded episode.

Thanks so much for the positive feedback! We're still just experimenting and trying to figure out the format, but the HN community really is our target audience, so any suggestions about people we should interview or topics we should cover would be very welcome.

It's JavaScript object literal syntax.