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Reminds me of Michael Crichton's "Prey". Let's hope they can't apply these rules to something living.

I think the original poster is referring to the fact that people may search for those questions, possibly (or questions that relate).

I do! Oh wait, and then I woke up.

True. The real question is what is the cost of not opening the platform vs. opening the platform, considering their humble beginnings and cult following that powers a lot of their revenue.

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Apple is positioned in a way that if people leave the platform because they've been squelched by Apple, they can easily loosen their policy. The lack of a real competitor who offers the hardware/software integration (leading to the awesome user experience) is why they may still have some time to milk the platform for profit without risk of a mass exodus.

I'll bite: were you on the show?

Because Fiat currency is a representation of a promise that is paid for with human life, rather than a precious resource. Our debt is a guarantee that american tax payers have to pay OR the government will need to declare bankruptcy of sorts.

Why is this linking through Reddit? Link directly to the source: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Striving for money and happiness are both selfish. Striving for the happiness of others because your own cup runneth over is true success. Providing people with jobs is a form of charity just like going to the backwoods of Africa and building schools is charity.

Funny thing though. Some people that aren't as aware have nothing but praise about this plugin. I once built a web app that displayed customer phone numbers. The client using the app called me one day to thank me for integrating skype into the app. I had to convince him I was a good developer even though I didn't put Skype into his app.

I inherit 42 in one month from the 11th :)

Agreed. Here's a solid video on the topic where Peter Schiff explains why college tuition is so high: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIcfMMVcYZg

I bought this book off of B&N.com while I was in India (well, I'm still here). I can't wait to get home and read it. Although I haven't created anything from the ground-up yet, books and messages like this are empowering.

I agree. I think people need to try harder to improve their situation. But that's easy for me to say because I'm employed. Maybe one creative (okay, not that creative) solution is for people who are employed to try harder to help those who are not so fortunate. If we have the training to keep income coming in and food on the table, certainly we have the ability to train others.

Although this will not generally directly benefit the trainer financially, it can help the overall situation of a community which benefits the trainer in the long-run. Plus there are the non-monetary benefits of helping someone less fortunate.

tl;dr - There is an author/domain expert in Intercessory Prayer claiming there is scientific evidence backing up the benefit of praying or thinking positively on behalf of something/someone. This article proves the evidence is flawed based on scientific process and concludes the evidence that isn't flawed points to a non-correlation between intercessory prayer and how it can help. He does say that religion and science don't have to mix.

There are short-term solutions to problems and long-term solutions. The short-term solution may be to fight back in certain scenarios. But long-term, strengthening the family as a unit in society is the only cure for these type of societal problems. Good parents can raise good kids. I'm not saying that if a kid is bad or a bully, that means the parents are necessarily bad, but the correlation between good parents and good kids is undeniable. Society should put more effort into defining what good parenting is (not through law, but rather through custom) than helping kids learn how to fight back. Both may be necessary efforts, but one will have further-reaching impact.

These schools definitely exist in the US. Our news focusses on the sensational, yes, but not all Americans have the same amount of respect for 'Jose and Jesus' as they do for 'Christopher and Ryan'. It's unfortunate, but many schools in Compton, California or the ghettos of New York, or the slums of New Orleans struggle with very real gang threats targeted at middle and high schoolers. I always find it interesting trying to decipher which murder trials hit the news here and which never see media coverage. I don't know where the bias comes from exactly, but it exists.

He wrote his own presentation software. I'd like to get my hands on a copy.

I just installed all three. Real-estate problem solved for me

Agreed. Investment is the machine that moves the economy. Consumption is the natural by-product of people investing in their power to produce more value. When you produce value in the world, the world pays you for it and you are able to by what you want (miracle of exchange and currency).

I think you may have been down-voted because you forgot to mention that the investment you refer to is not investing in a 401k or S&P 500 fund. You refer to business spending on capital goods, new technology, entrepreneurship, and productivity. Retail demand grows with wealth. The worry shouldn't be on a future where we don't demand, as demand will always find new products to make scarce. We should rather worry that wealth will be redefined as having things, which will reduce a person's focus from producing to consuming. If we are all worried about consuming more and focus our effort and energy there, we'll stop focusing on producing and will then turn to financing our consumer goods (spending tomorrow's capital today).

The Overton Window Concept is a potential anchoring case for this law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

We're chopping and the branches with these laws. The root problem is our inability to recognize and respond to new risks associated with new technology. Behavior can either be changed through force (law) or persuasion (education). I'm glad this guy wrote this blog post and persuaded me to once again be more careful with these tools.

Also, with your wedding suggestion, will you offer print solutions (do you already)? Being able to make a book out of selected prints would be fantastic, but could be tricky because of different photo quality levels.

I go over every 6 months and spend 3 weeks with my developers. It's less than ideal but it has worked for us so far (I think we recognize that productivity won't be optimal because of the distance, but we're careful with hiring to get good people).

To compensate for the lack of face time, we use GoToMeeting nightly to meet with whole teams or team members and to clarify questions. Each team there has a team lead who we want to involve in this measurement process, although we're still debating how best to do this (hence my post).

That leads me to define productivity -> we want our developers improving over time, getting more complex tasks done in less time as they progress. We're concerned that we're experiencing a plateau in productivity, but we're not sure (also leading me to post here).

I'm okay with my new 2 year contract because I have unlimited data still. I wonder if Verizon can offer unlimited data.

Um, really ignorant question here, but what book on reasoning can I read to be able to see through arguments and debates like you just did? I want to learn about empirical and normative questions, etc.

People comment about tangents in articles all of the time on here :) I have to agree though. It looks good. Sexy even. Producing financials seems bold, but the app appears capable of doing alot of bold things like calendaring and mail. Once they get imap enabled, that tool will be powerful.

I have an iPhone 4, and I've had a bumper on it since I bought it. I also put an invisishield on the front and back (basically, my whole phone is protected). I have not had any reception issues, and my phone has worked perfectly. Surely there are others out there in similar situations. I wonder why the negativity clouds the internet sometimes.