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"Or rather, they’re building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware." - Simon from Bookmarklet

hehe http://maknakehidupann6.blogspot.com/2012... - Rizky Arif

ouch - Sanjeev Singh

Like - Yusuf Cwo Mcs

"Those who suggest that startups should only hire A players are grade inflators. They're calling B players A players. The actual A players are too rare for this to be a practical hiring plan." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

I would only hire @ players! - ⓞnor

Wow, Twitter really is taking over the world. - Andrew C (✓) from Android

"The Pentonium in Dubai will become the world's tallest residential tower" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"All public areas will be crystallized by Swarovski," huh. Pretty sure Dubai's skyscrapers are a prestige thing, not driven by economics. The city doesn't look like a dense packed downtown; it looks like medium-rise sprawl with the occasional mega-skyscraper poking out. The emirate of Dubai itself only has a land area around 1500 mi^2. - ⓞnor

I propose FriendFeed for B2B communications and small internal teams. #uberforpizza - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Dislike! You know that if things don't go well in the first six months, they'll try some weird pivot and next thing you know you've got a taxicab with anchovies. - Larry Hosken

I don't think it supports my device yet. - Morton Fox

I tried it on my Galaxy Tab, whose stock browser is pretty weak. Firefox has a better designed UI, but the rendering is a bit chunky, and (more importantly) it was prone to sluggishness and occasional crashes so I eventually uninstalled it. Maybe in another rev? - ⓞnor from Android

Wow. Anyone read anything by her? - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

"Teenager Alice Bonham's life feels crazy after she meets Jack. With his fondness for pink Chuck Taylors and New Wave, he's unlike anyone she knows. Then she meets his brother, Peter. Even though he can't stand the sight of her, she's drawn to him. Falling for two guys isn't even the worst of her problems. Jack and Peter are vampires, and Alice finds herself caught between love and her own blood..." http://www.goodreads.com/book... - ⓞnor

This is a pretty good summary of why HFT could be destabilizing. The problem isn't with low-latency trade execution -- the problem is that there is a particular business model built on low-latency trade execution, and that model interacts poorly with tail risks. Humans are as usual doing poorly estimating or even understanding tail risks. We need a system where firms making bad decisions can be restarted (with the old bums liquidated) without the restart hurting other innocent people. But we don't have such a system today. "A best bid today isn't a bid to own shares at a price, or even a traditional dealer or market maker's attempt to provide liquidity. As much as 50% of the time it's just a firm trying to scalp a few basis points as quickly as possible. When that scalper's bid is executed, it then becomes an unexploded competitive liquidity demand, with the timer set, as Kirilenko found, at about two minutes, or even less." - Daniel Dulitz

It doesn't make sense to me. What's a "scalper" supposed to be? Describe "unexploded competitive liquidity demand"? Their unexplained use of connotative terminology seems highly suspect. - ⓞnor

ⓞnor, there are multiple paragraphs on the definition and connotation of the term "scalper" in the linked article of which this is an excerpt. I do think it's worth reading, and significantly clearer. - Ruchira S. Datta

"[Adapting Paul Auster's] City of Glass was presumably a labor of love for Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik [...]. I mean, why else would they adapt a 1980s postmodern noir mystery into comic-book form? I can't think of any other American comics project remotely like this. [...] Very seldom does a cartoonist try his or her hand at a contemporary novel. Whatever possessed Karasik and Mazzucchelli to do this? And then nobody ever did it again." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

I just found Indy Magazine's spring 2004 issue online - they spotlighted City of Glass with four articles: http://www.indyworld.com/indy... . - the Mazzucchelli interview includes two pages of his original stab at an adaptation, without Karasik, which is pretty interesting as an artifact. - Andrew C (✓)

First, we paid $3,215 out of pocket (including the birth and Violet's stay in the hospital, but not including any follow-up visits). - Tudor Bosman

Technically, even individuals can negotiate somewhat. Not that anyone should have to do that. - ⓞnor from Android

But I only learned about this from Thomas Hawk first because of reverse chronological posting. ;-) Had I been reading in the order posted, Kevin Fox would have been my "news source." - michael silverton

No, we weren't talking about ewing2001. There was a spammer (username suatuigamala) leaving commentspam in the post. It's an unfortunate artifact that Micah's calling-out now points to an innocent commenter after the spam was removed. :-) - Kevin Fox

Summary: Americans are too stupid to understand the Gini co-efficient, so put up with inequality that generates violent protests in other countries. - Piaw Na

I would rather live in a place that's so nice it doesn't have mass uprisings.... - Andrew C (✓)

Ugh. That sounds like a pain. Do you use AppBrain? - Anika

I worded my previous post badly. I've never paid for an android app, only downloaded free ones. But under 1.5, 1.6, and 2.1, the Market app had always - till maybe a month ago or less - always kept a full list of all apps I'd downloaded in it under the "downloads" button, which was recently renamed "my apps". - Andrew C (✓) from iPod

"ten years from now [in 2008], the phrase information economy will sound silly." - Simon from Bookmarklet

The net effect might not be that big -- moving money from one place to another, mostly. But the impact feels big if you're a moved-from business or a moved-to business. - Bruce Lewis

How about DVI? Also, if you're using your laptop with an external monitor, an external adapter isn't too much of a hassle. - Tudor Bosman

I use my VGA port all the time. I wouldn't want a laptop without one. - Gabe

I'm surprised by how well the fault tolerance comic is doing. - Tudor Bosman

:) - Paul Buchheit

Originally at http://hbr.org/2010..., but mostly taken down in order to sell subscriptions :( - Paul Buchheit

ⓞnor that is what makes it inspiring. - Jason McGowan

As usual, Danny Sullivan has amazing data - Nelson Minar

Every time I open the Echofon app it runs my “saved searches”, even if I don't go into that tab, so I imagine I'm causing lots of automated searches. - Amit Patel

I learned that the hard way during a crowded house party at night in the US. I saw a light switch just outside the restroom. I ended up turning the hallway lights on and shutting myself in a dark restroom. - Simon

If it's hard to find a light switch in a dark room, the usual solution is to put a little neon lamp inside the switch so it glows when it's off. I believe it's called a "pilot light". - Gabe

Apparently it's an art piece, not something on a menu. Too bad! - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"Physical Pizza Networking Theory is meant to address the ontology of the social as material in art. Using mise en abyme to illuminate a relationship between the layers of material and our experience, and meta symbolic experience of pizza as a hearth, as meeting point, as cultural convergence, as party, as sculpture, as gift, as collage, as pie, and individuals as ingredients within... more... - ⓞnor

Yes, it's quite the description. - Andrew C (✓)

wdyt? - ⓞnor from Android

I never got what made them unique, besides the not-very-useful result preview images. - Andrew C (✓)

"Or as Pizarro told me on the phone, “The idea is not that people are or are not utilitarian; it’s that they will cite being utilitarian when it behooves them. People are aren’t using these principles and then applying them. They arrive at a judgement and seek a principle.” So we’ll tell a child on one day, as Pizarro’s parents told him, that ends should never justify means, then explain the next day that while it was horrible to bomb Hiroshima, it was morally acceptable because it shortened the war. We act — and then cite whichever moral system fits best, the relative or the absolute. Pizarro says this isn’t necessarily bad. It’s just different. It means we draw not so much on consistent moral principles as on a moral toolbox. And if these studies show we’re not entirely consistent, they also show we’re at least determined — really determined, perhaps, given the gyrations we go through to try to justify our actions — with behaving morally. We may choose from a toolbox — but the tools are clean." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Sometimes (a vague, distorted approximation of a messy consensus version of) moral codes become law, and then they become a little more meaningful. - ⓞnor

"Just as the MPAA is preparing to offer movies to customers at home while they're still in theaters by limiting playback to DRM-protected digital outputs only, the HDCP protocol they rely on may have been cracked wide open. All devices that support HDCP, like Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and displays with HDMI inputs, have their own set of keys to encrypt and decrypt protected data and if keys for a particular device are compromised, they can be revoked by content released in the future which will then refuse to play. Now, posts have been floating around on Twitter about a supposed "master key" which renders that protection unusable since it allows anyone to create their own source and sink keys." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Yeah, what Egnor said. - Tudor Bosman

It's a great explanation as to what's wrong with the way mathematics is taught in school (at least in schools in the United States). Please try to suspend judgment while reading, and -- I'm trying to say this without sounding like a jerk -- if you don't get what the big deal is, or if you're confused by the article, then you're likely a victim of the exact problem described therein. - Tudor Bosman

Tudor: A huge percentage of US adults are the equivalent of illiterate for mathematical reasoning (innumerate?). Word problems are out of reach of most. When I get back I'll cite some sources. No advice from me on how to address, though. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

Wow, that article about kids accidentally left to die in cars is scary and powerful all at the same time. - Clare Dibble

Sorry to bump this (especially since it's such a horrifying story), but this just won a 2010 Pulitzer http://www.pulitzer.org/citatio.... I guess the fact I not only remember reading it 18 months ago (!!) but where it came from shows the impact the story has. - Nick Lothian

I'm pretty sure it has to do with midi-chlorian counts. - Micah from YouFeed

It's an oxygen reservoir. I always thought that was a bit obvious. Air comes in and stays in the bag with a one way valve until you breathe it. - Otto

Lack of pretension? - ⓞnor

Because if you're going to throw away money on bad Chinese food, you might as well throw away as little money as possible. - Piaw Na

@nor - well, no, PF Changs isn't really more pretentious than I can stand - I figure it's the Cheesecake Factory of Chinese food. Maybe it's as simple as what Piaw said. - Andrew C (✓)

Ha, this page reliably crashes my Android browser... - ⓞnor from Android

ext*2*? - ⓞnor

Even as a geek, I love the idea that many cafes are reclaiming their spaces to be areas where -- gasp -- people actually interact in person, vs. trying to become cubicle farms filled with freeloaders. I wish they'd go even further, arranging their space to facilitate and encourage interaction and conversation. - Adam Lasnik

I hope she has given some nice tips to those baristas who used to serve her :p - Adam Lasnik