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tl;dr: When hiring a programmer, choose substance over style

One peril of cloud computing: an S3 outage is currently affecting Heroku, and Realized is unavailable at the moment.

"Inbound Marketing, Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs" by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah takes you step by step through exactly what its title says.

Having Basecamp walk the plank in the 'trailer' is engaging. But isn't Google Apps the real competition?

Because of its searchable Knowledge Base for customer self-help, we also chose to use Tender (the SaaS platform used by New Relic).

Grocery stores figured this out years ago with self-checkout. Scanning each item can be tedious (looking up produce codes, etc.), and yet many customers prefer to scan their own items.

I do not mind at self-checkout when an employee helps to put everything into bags, though.

A priceless quote: "Never in the history of man has a software developer said "I'm stuck doing Ruby for my day job but I'm really hoping to find a job in .NET or Java.""

From a broader perspective, I expect that the Rails versioning nomenclature will conform to SemVer (http://semver.org/). Yesterday, wycats tweeted that he believes strongly in SemVer, in regards to Bundler.

SkyMarshall said Those will all teach you what not to do, which is just as, if not more important in investing and trading than what to do.

Anyone can notice the successful investment decisions after the fact: buying Apple Inc on March 6, 2009 at $83.50 or selling BP on January 19, 2010 at $62.30. No stock or mutual fund can beat the market, each year, over twenty years. Neither can you.

What you can do is not beat yourself. Within the nuts and bolts of a portfolio, some trades may cost you dearly in terms of capital gains tax. Lopsided distribution of your investments in too few asset classes will also wreck havoc. Avoid these mistakes and you can greatly improve your rate of return.

<another_shameless_plug> I run the investment website http://blog.realized-app.com and companion web app for getting these decisions right. </another_shameless_plug>

If users were the customers ... really gets to the core of the problem that Facebook has evolved itself into.

Instead, users are the product. Advertisers are the customers.

Too bad the original article failed to clearly make this point.

No doubt about the fact that ( more employees == more inefficiency ) for the corporation. But the benefit to the 20 members of the community that have gone from zero income to working is enormous.

We have a situation of 'haves' and 'have nots'. A corporation of 100 employees has every reason to prefer that those employees work at 120% (50 hrs/wk).

Our society would benefit if instead the corporation hired 20 additional employees, and everyone worked at 100%.