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Yes. You're right about that

I love those tasks, and they area big part of my job. I guess everyone has their own definition of boiler room.

I think your points are fair. However, I see lots of practical coursework at even purely liberal arts school. Architecture, accounting, chemistry, etc. all have direct and practical learnings.

Why not just try to inject a little tech and software thinking into the economics, marketing, sales-oriented, and management classes taught both undergraduate and graduate.

And why not teach code, as a way of learning to learn, in middle and high schools?

I'm a big believer in self-study and self-training. Meetups, books, on-line study - I've personally done it all.

With that said, schooling at all levels, even when liber arts and fundamental, prepares people for the world they will work in. At the most basic level, writing and math prepare students for the workforce.

I'm simply arguing that we swap out a lot of industrial and unnecessary coursework (i.e. Latin) for technical thinking, examples, and coursework.

Jorge this is a fair point. However, over time I have to believe that the shift to post-industrial will create more jobs. You're right that this doesn't absorb anything close to 10% in the short or medium term.

Also, I wasn't arguing in my post that this was a solution to 10%; just that in my world and sector there's lots of jobs despite this big unemployment number. And we need more technical literacy (not just programming skills as some commenters have misinterpreted) throughout our education system.

For example, every business class I took as recently as 2003 involved products in boxes and shipping.

Unlikely to be cost-plus pricing. It's about what the market will bear

In New York and the northeast in general, they usually brew, cool, refrigerate and then ice the coffee.

My wife made that point. Yes you need to choose your meals and drinks carefully...you can really blow your budget eating out

Thats a fair point...but it was small struggles that were compromises for cheap rent and a good location

yes thx

Dan was not a charter member. But I think you're right about "lull period." Yes I understand the whole 80/20 usage scenario.

My point is just that it's price discrimination that doesn't work. Soda at a supermarket vs. restaurant works because of location. This is just a bluff on the gym's part.

OK fair enough. Maybe a swipe that triggers payment for that month. Crunch is month to month. So they don't necessary have a contract. I just want to avoid the whole hassle.

I moved to hostgator, does that redeem me?

The valuing is tricky, but the M&A groups do it every day.

Thats a fair analysis. I bet its less than $50M. Also there's a lot of wasted value by not allowing for autonomy. Look at MSFT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?scp=2...

Yes that's what I meant. There is too much top down at all the major tech companies.

No one tells a pad manager at DE Shaw what to do. He either thrives or blows himself up and is fired.

Agreed...the system doesn't fully work. This is why people have to leave, create value, and then sell their companies back i.e. Vark

I still need paper for on the go. I print very little, but certain times I need to print papers for meetings to take notes on etc

Thats great to hear, I'm an EIR in the Dogpatch NY Office. If anyone in the Hacker News community has questions feel free to ping me.

Yes I'm not that technical. I find for the casual user that Synaptic and and command line installs can have issues. Also often dependencies are missing which requires me to fish around for whats missing.

I think Jolicloud offers significant app installation improvements for users only experienced with Mac/Windows.

From my experience installing apps on Ubuntu sometimes and more frequently has challenges I have not experienced in windows/mac. I could see my parents using Jolicloud - I think they'd struggle on traditional Ubuntu, even though I'm a big Ubuntu fan.

I think this plays into the theme that there is a lot of room for people to be more concise in all forms of communication - especially email.

I find that people consistently use 10 words to say what can be said in 3.

Pulling data from Graffitigeo, FourSquare, and Brightkite. You can now determine which places are hot where and when. For example, using the drop downs on the right you can find “The most popular places in New York, over all time, at 9 PM, on friday.”

With any of these social platforms there is a small percentage of creators and a large population of consumers. For example, look at Youtube. The same can happen for twitter...a lot of people may just consume the tweets of celebrities or other feeds. Low tweeting is not a big issue. The consumption traffic continues to grow

I'd point you to two posts, the first is about a role I call "Everything But Code" http://jonsteinberg.com/post/67043520/everything-but-code

The second is an extension of the idea, which I call Hackable Business Development. http://jonsteinberg.com/post/170568831/hackable-business-dev...

You can also handle a lot of the product management and the interfacing and deals that can be built upon your API and those of prospective partners

The only strong case I see is if you have a small child in the house. We have a 6 month old...and having a landline seemed like a small price for additional security and connectivity if I need immediate access - dont want to boot skype or pray for an AT&T cell signal as I run around my apartment in a crisis

Would love to pull you guys into socialgreat.com - when/where's the api?

The product is extraordinary. I also think its awesome how in the face of them rolling out search on the platform, you upped the value game significantly.