joedev

Good job!

btw: I love how their Revenue counter is poised to go up to a trillion dollars.

"The question is whether or not MS has a responsibility as an underwriter to disclose that information to an audience broader than its own clients"

That is an interesting question and will be a good suit to watch. If the finding is that there was a responsibility to broadly disseminate such information, it will also be interesting to see what the impact is to the financial advisory industry.

Here's the facts: the information upon which analysts reduced their estimates was publicly available. There was no secret, insider information. It was based on FB filings with the SEC. Failing to research a stock before investing is just dumb to the point where plaintiff's really should, by natural consequence, lose.

If losses are always recoverable via lawsuit or government bailout, all we do is perpetuate such gambling.

Taking no responsibility for oneself and having a deep-rooted need to find someone to blame is becoming the great American way. Depressing.

"It can't possibly be my fault that I way overpaid for FB stock. It must be someone else's fault." - The grand American way! Gotta love it.

If you don't remember what mobile phones were like before the iPhone, you must have either a short memory or a revisionist memory.

"These resentful programmers also hate that the new kids seem to be skipping all of their favorite indoctrinations"

Reminds me of the old ditty:

"Flowers are red young man Green leaves are green There's no need to see flowers any other way Than they way they always have been seen"

"We are slouching toward a glorified form of vocational training."

What's wrong with vocational training? Maybe the issue is that the market is demanding vocational skills yet schools are trying to find, or trying to artificially create, a market for liberal-arts skills.

95% of non-conformists are sheep. Just look around you. All dressed the same, all act the same, all with the same too-cool-to-be-conforming attitude.

It would really take a special kind of defiance to say "no thank you" to what the non-conformists clique expects their own to be.

The setting of the lead photo looks not much different than the sweatshops from days of yore.

I won't work with 'brogrammers' not because of gender issues, but because their general attitude and ego is just plain sucky to be around all day.

This article points out the issues I have with the "software craftsmanship" movement. By definition, crafting is building by hand. When we treat software development as a "craft", we attribute too much benefit to hand-building software and lend little effort to finding ways to be more productive and efficient at software development.

As long as software is considered a craft, it will always be an expensive, laborious, and frustrating process for clients and customers. That may be great for software developers' egos and pocketbooks, but does little to improve the image of software development projects among the general public.

Amazon Prime is not about books or Kindles, but everything else you would ever want to buy in all areas of your personal and professional life. That is why Bezos dangles all of these carrots in order to get you to become a Prime member. Bezos clearly knows that he is doing.

The real title should be: "How many Atlassian PR people have called you to pitch you a story on their company? You guessed it - more than zero."

"having upper class parents is probably a very high return as well"

True, which is why the studies account for factors such as family education and family income in order to attempt to isolate the impact of the one factor being measured: the subject's education level.

"Your earning potential is essentially given to you at birth"

Interestingly the data shows otherwise. Factors such as parents' education, where one lives, age, race, family structure, IQ are measured and factored in. Two stats techniques are commonly applied. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) is more traditional while Instrument Variables (IV) is a newer approach which attempts to account for statistical errors such as omitted and unknown variables in order to more strongly determine causality.

If you like stats check out this review of the literature: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/card/papers/return-to-school... which concludes that studies "Taken as a whole, however, the findings from the recent IV literature are remarkably consistent with Griliches' (1977) assessment of a much earlier set of studies, and point to a causal effect of education that is as big or bigger than the OLS estimated return, at least for people whose schooling choices are affected by the supply-side innovations that have been studied so far."

There are real economic reasons why governments invest in their citizens' schooling. It's not just because it sounds like a nice idea. The increased income potential of someone going to school pays off for a government higher earnings which is a primary indicator of an economy's health.

If you read the study you'll find it does take into account opportunity costs.

"On average, a four-year degree is the equivalent of an investment that returns 15.2% a year." - http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/30/a-college-degree-r...

Stay in school kids.

Like it!

I give him 2 months.

Some of the best story-tellers and happiest people I know take few pictures and have little twitter or Facebook presence.

In order to truly experience something at the level where you can recount it for the rest of your life, you have to be in the moment - not worried about documenting the moment.

Ryan,

How did you convince your VCs that it's okay to work 4 day work weeks when the Valley famously continues to call for startups to work non-stop night and day?

I've found an easy answer to age discrimination. For the past seven+ years I have worked from home. Many of my clients and coworkers have little idea of my relatively advanced age.

The money quote: "In an effort to bring more suckers in, they just passed a law that makes it legal to pimp these startups to people who don't know anything. You will be able to take their investment by swiping a credit card. Probably using a $4 billion valuation Square dongle for an iPhone. ... It just doesn't matter if the businesses are any good, not to satisfy the bubble. As long as more suckers are coming in."

" It’s just something I do for money, nothing more or less." Amen to that. To be able to close the door behind you and not think or worry about work at all is a pleasure in itself. To be completely, utterly, un-encumbered by work for most of the day and all of the weekend is a joy.

Love Stripe!

Couldn't agree more. I left an otherwise good job just for this reason: I was hired as a programmer, built a 15+ year career as a programmer, and while I love programming, I hate late-night systems support. Most companies do not staff this way so it was easy to find other jobs where programmers are not expected to be at the company's beck-and-call 24/7.

SMS helps prove the point that email is broken. When my wife sends me a text message, does she care about the protocol? No, she just wants to remind me to pick up appetizers, wine, and beer for tonight's party. Does she want to be limited to 140 bytes? No. She can send a long message and has no idea about the protocol limit. Nice SMS clients take care of splitting it up and packaging it all back together into one seamless text message.

The SMS improvement is not an improvement to the protocol, but to the tools and is a great example of what people mean when they say email can be improved.

If my mother in law wants to send a gigantic PowerPoint deck of "Our Grand Canyon Vacation.ppt", why should she sign up for a separate service to do so?

There is opportunity to improve the tools which have been and always will be known as email.

For better or worse, email has been and always will be an application. When people say email, they almost always mean their email client and not the protocol. Sorry, that's just the fact. You can use energy trying to change that, but it seems like as much a waste of time as attempts to get the US to change to metric.

"you can build clients to do all the features you are asking for". I agree and that is exactly what people mean when they say email can be smarter - they mean email _clients_ can be smarter.

"Email is a distributed, asynchronous messaging protocol." What a complete disconnect from the users of email.

To 99.99% of people who use email, Paul is correct: "Email is not a messaging protocol. It's a todo list. Or rather, my inbox is a todo list, and email is the way things get onto it." When people say "email", they almost always mean their email client.

Failure to account for the common usage of the word and demand that people use the word email only to mean the protocol is short sighted, results only in the angst found in this article, and solves nothing. Life is too short to be so angst-filled over the use of one word.