coreyrecvlohe

Currently working with two monitors and but I definitely need a third one. At any point in time, I have at least four different browsers open, two or three adobe apps, a few text editors, communications windows, terminals and so on.

I feel I am more productive, because it's all about viewing space. If I have to alt-tab, or exposé between windows back and forth, that's a time waste.

If you're going for maximum productivity, I don't think you can really achieve it on a laptop, unless you're in and out of the office on a daily basis. I'd say if you're looking to get the most work done, use multiple monitors.

I was truly not prepared for the seismic ups and downs of start-up life. On one day everything can be working for you -- big customers rolling in, order volume increasing, traffic building; but on other days (or sometimes rows of days) you see nothing, and question your strategies, or make minor adjustments to fix what you perceive to be deficient in your execution. Facing the markets, especially in the beginning, is gut wrenching, but you build up a tolerance, and move forward. You eventually learn to roll with the punches, to borrow the analogy.

Somewhat agree with the VC in-crowd idea; I mean you have to have some sort of network setup, or know someone at least that has access to available capital. The easiest thing is to move to the Valley, but there are opportunities elsewhere. I decided to stay in my home area of Tampa to take advantage of connections here, and it has gone well. But I’d say if you didn’t have any channels open at all, you have to consider moving where the action is.

Simply put, a short sale is borrowing a stock from an institution, and selling it on the market with an obligation to cover the sale (return the value of the stock back to the borrowed party).

Now if the price of the stock goes up after you sold it, depending on how wide the margin becomes, you can stay in the contract, but guarantee more cash to the provider so that they are confident you will be able to cover it the future.

If the stock goes down, you can close the contract and return the value of the sale back to the institution, and effectively pocket the retained cash value of the purchase from when you first sold the stock short; turning a profit from a decline in price.

Often times there are companies out there that are running on fumes, overvalued, or are partaking in fraud; short selling is a useful tool that can help the markets discover new information about possibly shaky institutions.

gitorious.org is another good one.

Well I use HyperVM which runs on Xen to boot up virtual environments for testing and deployment. At the moment I only have CentOS images setup, but when I find some time I'll add a few more linux variants.

Though, I have to say, I'm trying to move to something else. HyperVM is so botched at the moment, it's just useless to add features to. The guy that ran the project apparently is no longer with us, so the source has been released to the public, and currently nobody is maintaing the project.

It is honest. The NSA must abide by Federal Guidelines and procedures. We do not attest to maintain an exact copy of all the details the NSA puts in place regarding their internal security structure, but we do abide by Federal Guidelines concerning data storage, and have taken all operational and technical measures required to meet our privacy obligations (PUBLIC LAW 104-191).

I kind of did actually

We support 128-bit and 256-bit encryption. We have no access to the keys. In the event that any of our customers lost their encryption phrase, we would not be able to restore the data.

edit: Well we also take operational and technical security precautions to validate our data integrity on a real-time basis. Our facilities are monitored on hardware and network levels 24/7/365. And we meet Federal HIPAA guidelines for privacy and security.

Link: http://www.xzbackup.com

I think it should be mentioned that even in the last 3 or 4 years some really awesome software has been made and hasn't been sufficiently introduced into the education market.

The time sounds about right for something innovative to change the game; it's just a question of having the will to do it. We'll try a few things, see what works, and iterate.

Though I'm not ready to call facebook a fad, or undercut it's significance, I will go out on a limb here and say the way the website works was pretty novel for a while, but it's lacking in innovation.

The ability to check your friends status? Ok, pretty cool. Connect with old HS and college friends? Ok, that's sort of cool too. But more and more I find myself withdrawing from actually participating in the micro of the site, and using it more as a macro tool for my own identity. I don't have a facebook now because I actually use it, or gain much from it, rather I simply have it because, well, everyone else does. And it comes up on Google when people search my name.

In other words it's a part of my general online identity, along with my personal website, twitter, posterous, etc. I'm not saying I use these tools like a lot of others might, but I'm also trying to drive home the point that it's just another of many identity tools that I have at my disposal.

Now I'm not sure about Facebook taking over my complete identity, as in being my de facto online presence, because I have huge issues with the way facebook is going about retaining its control over the data generated from their users.

I think if facebook wants to stay relevant they'll have to keep entering new domains on the web, and certainly they have plans for location-based services, and other stuff down the road.

For the time being now though, the entertainment of watching status updates on my phone, or browsing peoples wall streams just doesn't seem economic to me in terms of building something people would use on the order of a Google search engine. Sure some people may be spending a lot of time on there, but to me it looks more like an illusory fixation with comparing oneself to others than something that I can get real use out of.

(With my Mac I run a business and organize my entire personal and professional life, with Google all of the worlds information is literally at my finger tips, with Facebook I just found out that Stacey's new dog took a leak on the carpet and that Steve thinks avatar was a great movie; there's a big difference there.)

CNN is also deleting submitted stories about the wikileaks video from their website. http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/bmr9w/reddit_i_sub... | http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-429272 | http://i.imgur.com/QE5w5.png

I'll just say I agree with some of the points mentioned in the article, but here are some my additions:

Always have segmented goals. For instance, I have a few for the next 6 months (learn a couple new programming languages, hit the gym 5 days a week, get a faster time on my 5000 meter run), and always focus on them; they will change, some times you'll pick up a new 6 month goal, or it may extend to another segment, but always have a short time span where you are improving yourself and your skills in some way, always.

Then have focus on the 2 to 5 year goal span, where you are slowly acquiring a larger set of skills sets that work in tandem to meet a more complex goal set. For instance, getting a side project profitable and running. Doing this could include a series of 6 months goals that work together to reach that 2 year goal (getting more unix admin experience, finishing your nth business/marketing book, creating a network of partner and commercial relationships).

Then you always have a set of goals that you want to reach 10 or 20 years from now, that are a solid mix of personal and professional ambitions that you know are attainable if you plan ahead.

Everything takes time, and the worst thing you can do is wasting it by not focusing on what needs to be done now in order to move to the next stage in life.

Not to mention doing all of this while maintaining a good spirit, sane mind, physical fitness, and personal fulfillment.

It's all possible, but you have to keep your eye on the prize, watch out for pitfalls, and don't let minor setbacks derail your ultimate ambitions. It's all incremental. You can't do everything at once, otherwise you set yourself up for failure. You must work slowly, realizing those progressions, and building on them until you're living the dream.

This is a really good idea. It just so happens that I'm in the market for a motion designer or animator for a TV commercial I want to run.

I didn't know exactly where to search for any talented designers, and eLance, along with some of the job boards, really don't give you much material to review. But I like this setup at first glance, and the quality so far seems to be pretty good.

I might actually find who I'm looking for through this service.

That's real patriotic of him. By the way, wage arbitrage is old hat, if he was really hip to the scene he would have done that years ago.

Care to backup your claim that the bill will cost 2 to 5 times more? I can read xlsx format.

Also never mind the fact the bill covers 30 million more people, ends insurance caps on care, lowers per capita costs, and rids the hideous practice of denying care because of preexisting conditions.

The only set back in this bill is that we never got a Public Option, but we will get it, if it takes another 3 or 10 years, we will get insurance coverage that finally covers every single citizen in the United States.

I'm not a professional trader, like yourself, but from what I've gathered over the last several years of HFT coming up in the news is that it is in fact a low-barrier to entry field. All you need is a decent quant, application designer, and some co-located machines as close as you can get them (and other easily acquired amenities.) So I could make a reasonable bet you could open a HFT firm with a couple hundred thousand, plus the talent. (And I've confirmed this with a few hedge fund guys, and they pretty much agreed.)

And I do completely understand the argument for liquidity: more transactions = more accurate price discovery. But I think problem here is that this entire field is black box, meaning property trading algorithms and trading patterns can and are used within the system. This can allow a trading AI to go out into the market place, look for pattens, and to create and cancel millions of orders within the fraction of a second.

I'm sure you know about the former Goldman Sachs programmer who was charged with theft by the FBI. It was totaled at around 32 megabytes of software code. Not very much. But Goldman insisted that if this code got out into the market it would be detrimental to their business and violate their trades secrets confidentiality clause. Not to mention Goldman's largest profit center in their business is their proprietary trading desk, which is heavily into HFT.

My contention is that if we are really interested in a utility that uniformly benefits the market, then let's have an open source platform that provides that, so we can verify that any of these firms aren't "front-running" their trades.

Thats my opinion. I think a lot of the debate over HFT is just filler, it doesn't matter. The guys who are hip to the scene are already making a killing on it now, and it may last a few more years before we begin to regulate.

You want Enterprise support for Feedburner? LOL. As far as I know they don't offer that, and I wouldn't have expected it. You're talking about Google giving support for one of their products which isn't actually covered by their Enterprise policy, even though you might have had a product that was covered, the issue you were having was for a product that wasn't.

Their Enterprise Policy explicitly states which are services covered and which are not.

This has amazing potential. It would be interesting if someday you could ask Google if something were legal or not, and it could give you an exactly correct answer, with an interpretation on par with or better than a professional lawyer.

Google needs to do this with the entire United States Tax code, Federal Statutes, and work with States and Counties to get their legal texts online and into their index.