FlorianOver

I once though about fickstarter.com (fick being the german word for fuck)...

http://99percentinvisible.org/ http://freakonomics.com/

Both a great in different ways.

I really admire Andy Wingo for all his great work. Thank you and the guile team for the the outstanding results!

Well there was this guy from my hometown who shared his facebook password to strangers on parties. You never knew what would appear on his facebook account after weekends.

Augmenting people is the same as replacing them. The person now has a greater output which means you need less of them.

Attention, i think this is a fallacy in multiple aspects. Maybe they don't produce more, just higher quality? On the other hand you have jobs where more is never enough, e.g. Scientists.

It depends on the tts plugin you use. We have build and tested several tts plugins. I can recommend Microsoft Bing Voice and the new Google Speech API. Both are very rarely wrong.

By analyzing the past returns of current S&P500 companies, the author is allowing for survivorship bias;

Thought so myself. Interesting to see what the result were with data from the beginning of the period.

Because managing databases in Python should be as simple as reading and writing JSON files.

Not the best sales pitch. :D

Used in production without a hassle for 2 years. For our setup and scenario it was a very fitting and good solution. Easy Setup and easy usage. Recommended.

Berlin is a special case. You can stay weeks in cologne without seeing one police woman/man.