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Because that would defeat the purpose. For a site like etsy feedback is very important and if a buyer or seller is untrustworthy you need to know.

I don't know anything about how they run their operation but my guess is that this was a big initiative and most people didn't see this reaction coming because so much information on the site is public already.

Most of their team that I've met over the years (my wife used to be a pretty big seller on that site) have shops and actively sell or have sold things so you could see what they bought already through the feedback system.

Most of that is government stimulus which cannot last forever. The banks are definitely not liquid. They are basically insolvent. You can tell this because they don't mark their assets to market.

Wait and see. We're not even close to out of the woods yet.

I'm not sure if it's baby boomers or rather just the people who are part of the establishment. The establishment rallied pretty hard to get TARP pushed through despite massive public resistance. And now all we have gotten for it is low interests (again) and a junk bond bubble waiting to explode in our faces.

This is a pretty good idea. It connects devs who want to sell apps with people looking to buy more apps. I am always looking for a cool game or app. Congrats!

Thank you for explaining this. I had a few misconceptions about these transactions.

I agree there is a trend but I think it has more to do with the idea that you will be making something new not that you will need to work a million hours to do it. I've never needed to work a lot of hours to get my projects done and I always avoid companies where people seem to work too many hours.

Well you don't have to be dishonest but I would just suggest saying that I'm making X but won't leave my current job for less than Y. I typically would say something like "I'm not really needing to move. I like my current employer and they like me."

4-5 years ago would have been a mix of books about 19th century American philosophy, a book or two on foreign policy, common lisp, and a few books on SQL tuning on different RDMSs.

I think salary history is usually the strongest card you have. If I make X at my current job you will need to make me a comparable offer or you don't get me. It takes awhile to get there but if you make sure you get yearly raises it won't take long. I would usually quit without a yearly raise or a very good explanation.

The market is in your favor as a programmer. If you have even the hint of a clue it's even better. I remember 4-5 years ago being on a phone screen and was asked what if any books I was reading and when I listed them he said "The job is yours' if you want it." I didn't but it was enlightening. I walked into my bosses office the next day and said I want a 20k raise and got it.

Wouldn't it have to? You can't take out a loan for a VC venture for less than 5% considering the extreme risk involved in a poorly run fund. I'd imagine debt financing would be cost prohibitive even if you found a bank crazy enough to loan you the money.

I always think this is funny. Most people didn't see the housing crisis coming before it was terribly obvious to everyone. Crying bubble doesn't make you look like you're any good at predicting anything. The only danger of a bubble has to do with debt.

Most startups are funded by savings and while that savings can be wiped out no one is hurt after that hit. Businesses fail all the time and only when massive amounts debt is involved is anyone else (outside the people directly involved) affected.

A bubble would start to scare me if people started taking out massive loans to startup companies that had no hope to make money. I sometimes wonder about the quality of the companies that are able to raise money now but I'm not worried about them taking it. The investors will learn from their mistakes and hopefully we won't have as many daily deal sites for me to deal with. In the meantime I'm using Yipit to help me who also raised a decent amount of money I guess. Oh well.

Considering he's a fairly active user on stackoverflow it seems like kind of a silly thing to do.

I assumed that it meant that you were making taxes related to adwords easy which confused me. I'm not trying to be obtuse or anything but the connection didn't jump out at me even though I really enjoy TurboTax.

I actually having been hoping someone would make a product like yours' too so good luck!

How does TurboTax come into play here? I don't see the analogy really.

There is a group of a people who will get worked up if they think you would say anything neutral or positive about Microsoft products. I'm not sure why but a sizeable number of people believe that you must be getting bribes from Microsoft to use their software.

I read a paper on the subject of transactional memory years ago that was presented at OOPSLA in 2007 (I think). It was pitching the idea that there is an analogy between transactional memory and garbage collection. It made the topic more understandable for me and might be helpful:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/djg/papers/analogy_oopsla...

I think this is an interesting explanation. The software product my company makes depends on a multi-threaded program which to date has had only one bug related to the fact it is a multi-threaded application. That bug was very serious mind you but it's the only one we've found (so far).

I don't claim to understand much about that world but I bet the VCs were happy with a 5X return for a company that has been around for 6 years. The bulk of the money was only recently invested too.

Neat the example I posted is fixed. In fact me talking about the search in another thread shows up fairly high on the first page.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

Only downside is that the explainextended.com article shows up below stackoverflow.com which is too bad because that article would teach you far more than the stackoverflow question would.

Sad thing is that I can always assume that my audience hasn't heard it before. Kids these days. They don't read anymore!

I think being the sole provider for my family for the last ten years I've just assumed I needed to make more money year after year. I can't really ask my wife to go out and get a job to make up the slack so I get out there and try to be the best programmer I can be. If a company sounded cool but wasn't willing to pay me what I need to provide for my family I just move on. Given the lack of tech talent there isn't much excuse for not making that much if you're a programmer.

I always laugh when I read people say that great developers (not saying I'm a great developer) don't care about money. Often times that's written by people who don't have children to provide for. I have no choice but to care what I make and therefore it's an important factor for me when choosing a job.

I always get big laughs when I tell people about this. It's great first week on the job joke material.

I wonder if the category you are really looking for is building something that people want and like. Seems like if you have something that people really like that making money from it will come with time.

He's so frustrating to me as a libertarian. He sometimes says things I agree with so I want to believe he's not a complete lunatic but then he wears those glasses and starts writing on a chalkboard...

He did a show on one of my favorite books (The Road to Serfdom) and got people buying it which I think is a good thing.

I've only seen his show from clips on the Daily Show though. I have no interest in wasting my life watching his show.

Going to make a wild guess and say push a focus on vacation rental homes. It's a huge market and the big player is a big slow dinosaur if there ever was one.

This is a pretty interesting idea and I like the idea of the site itself. What percentage of tutors get work at the rates they have posted and how many hours do they get on average? I'm curious to know if anyone is doing anything besides getting beer money (so to speak) with the site right now.

OK well there is obviously a lot of investment in tech right now. The key question is how is it being funded?

If it's being funded by savings then fine when you lose your savings but that's all.

If it's being funded by debt then that's really bad as banks start taking a hit and they're already basically insolvent.

I'm not terribly concerned about it but it's possible some investors will get burnt out again on the sector but they'll come back when new opportunities arise.

I'm using it and like it a lot here are my reasons:

- I like C# as a language. It's easy to work with and the compiler catches a lot of things that would be runtime errors in php or python.

- I like Visual Studio a lot. I'm far more productive in that environment than anything else I've tried in other languages.

- For what I'm doing the cost of Windows is far less than the lost productivity working in another environment would give me.

- SQL Server 2008 is just awesome.

- Using LINQ to SQL has saved me a ton of time.