"getting ahead of a story"

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Micah Wright Comes Clean, Ranger Story A
Hoax (This Is Apparently A Big Story In
The Blogosphere, But To Be Honest, I
Haven't Even Heard Of This Clown)

Micah Wright Comes Clean, Ranger Story A
Hoax (This Is Apparently A Big Story In
The Blogosphere, But To Be Honest, I
Haven't Even Heard Of This Clown) 05/03/2004 03:57 AM
Comic Book Resources has the full scoop

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"REMEMBER WHEN MOQTADA AL-SADR was going
to lead a popular uprising across Iraq?
(That was April's we're-losing story).
Well, he didn't, and here's the story of
how we won. I wonder how much attention
it'll get..."

"REMEMBER WHEN MOQTADA AL-SADR was going
to lead a popular uprising across Iraq?
(That was April's we're-losing story).
Well, he didn't, and here's the story of
how we won. I wonder how much attention
it'll get..." 06/24/2004 11:11 AM

The Raw Story | A rational voice »
Exclusive: Print document of Republican
Schiavo talking points leaked to Raw
Story

The Raw Story | A rational voice »
Exclusive: Print document of Republican
Schiavo talking points leaked to Raw
Story 03/24/2005 05:02 PM
that clumsy Republican talking points memo .. proper perspective .. Raw Story

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The Story Behind The Story Of The Google
IPO?

The Story Behind The Story Of The Google
IPO? 07/26/2004 12:14 PM
This morning, it seems like the big Wall Street tech story is the official release from Google about what they think they'll raise from their IPO. Looking over all the different coverage, it appears that many (especially in the financial press) seem to be getting the story a little mixed up. The basic facts seem to be that approximately 24.6 million shares will be put on the market with a range of $108 to $135 per share. As noted in the story, some seem to think that breaking $100 may prove to be a psychological barrier for many retail investors, even if the actual price per share is meaningless. Still, if the price is a psychological barrier, rather than a calculated decision, the investor probably shouldn't be buying anyway. A minimum bid from anyone must be for five shares, so anyone who wants in is spending over $500. The range is higher than expected, and could lead to a valuation pushing $40 billion. One analyst makes the bizarre statement that: "The question is not what the company is worth, but instead what people will pay for it," which misses the fairly simple, but important, point that the price people are willing to pay for the stock is what the company is worth. Meanwhile, many news articles are claiming that Google will raise $3.3 billion in the offering, which is not true at all (or at least, extremely unlikely). The details show that Google is likely to bring in about $1.66 billion (and possibly as high as $1.9 billion at the top of the range). That's because only 14.1 million of the 24.6 million shares are actually being sold by the company. The other 10.5 million are being sold by insiders. Now, that's a curious point that no one seems to be focusing on. While insiders do sometimes sell during an IPO, it generally doesn't look too good. While there are plenty of reasons (liquidity, liquidity, liquidity) that people might want to sell, usually insiders get locked up for a bit. It does happen, but in this case, an awful lot of that $3.3 billion (or whatever the amount actually is) isn't going to the company, but to others. The initial IPO filing tried to spin all this insider selling as a good thing, but that's pretty questionable. If people really believe in the stock, why are so many selling it at the very first chance they get? Doesn't inspire the most confidence in the world.

What's Ahead for C++?

What's Ahead for C++? 08/17/2004 01:14 PM
These days, Microsoft's C# gets the lion's share of the attention (and ink). But Microsoft is continuing to work on Visual C++.

Don't Get Ahead of Yourself

Don't Get Ahead of Yourself 03/14/2005 06:07 PM

Here are two things that cut so many good ideas off at the knees. These two factors are the two biggest things that stop good ideas from getting implemented and make programmers pause when they should forge ahead.

1. The Urge to Generalize
Say you come up with an idea for a little transaction management system — a tracking app that follows a sales transaction from inception to closure. It works well for your company, but — you think — if I unleash this on the world, then it has to be able to handle other things, right?

I have to abstract the simple "Transaction Name" field away to be able to handle "Buyers" and "Sellers" in case someone wants to use it for third party brokerage, right? And what exactly constitutes a transaction? I need to have an object oriented "Attributes" sub-system to be able to handle any information they want to store, right? Etc. Etc.

Pretty quickly, you've decided that it's just too much work to do all this stuff you just made up and imposed on yourself, so forget it.

I think programmers equate "The software doesn't handle that" with "I can't make it do that because I suck." We never want to say no or have to admit that our software wasn't designed to do everything. If our image editing program can't also balance our checkbook, then we have somehow failed and it's not worth releasing.

(In terms of content management, I've talked about the The Urge to Generalize here. For some reason, I discussed it in positive terms...)

2. The Fear of Expansion
So you get past the first hurdle with your little transaction management system, and you're coding happily away. But then your mind starts to look down the road....

You think, well, I should put something in here so the user can indicate that an invoice was sent for payment. I mean, people don't want to do double-entry, right? But then why can't this system just generate the invoice....and track receipt of the payment...and display aggregate customer sales figures...etc.

Before you know it you (1) have mentally evolved your simple app into an accounting system, and (2) scared the crap out of yourself because there are apps like Peachtree and Quickbooks that do this better, and (3) thrown in the towel.

Why do we look at every app as always getting bigger? I appreciate ambition, but the problem with this is at the end of every development road is a bigger app that you're going to run into and encroach at some point. Why can't we stop three-quarters of the way down this road and just be happy with that? Do one thing and do it well. (Josh Clark has been very good at this, judging from the comments on this entry.)

These two things have killed millions of good ideas before they even got out of the starting gate. As programmers, we think too much, sometimes. Your app (1) doesn't need to handle every possible scenario, (2) encompass every aspect of functionaity, and (3) continue evolving into a successfully bigger and bigger app.

If this little essay makes sense to you, read this one from Joel Spolsky. Same concept from a little different angle:

These are the people I call Architecture Astronauts. It's very hard to get them to write code or design programs, because they won't stop thinking about Architecture. They're astronauts because they are above the oxygen level, I don't know how they're breathing. They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don't contribute to the bottom line.

The Functionality Astronauts are just as dangeous as the Architecture Astronauts.

Moving ahead with the best of the old

Moving ahead with the best of the old 04/11/2005 06:17 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 11 2005 9:39AM GMT

802.11n Slapfest Ahead.

802.11n Slapfest Ahead. 08/17/2004 08:40 PM
Unstrung: 802.11n Slapfest Ahead. After reading overviews of both proposals it's hard to see much technical difference between them. There's an argument about whether support for 40 MHz channels should be "mandatory", but that seems like a policy decision that can be left for later. 802.11's encrustation of backwards-compatibility hacks is getting pretty amusing.

Faster XML ahead?

Faster XML ahead? 03/23/2005 07:46 AM
The W3C is closer to tackling sluggish XML performance, but not everyone agrees with the group's approach.

Comair changes ahead

Comair changes ahead 12/29/2004 09:47 AM
USA Today Dec 29 2004 1:53PM GMT

Looking Ahead, Looking Small

Looking Ahead, Looking Small 05/15/2004 11:37 AM

I'm at the Foresight Institute's annual Senior Associates gathering. It's off the record, so no blogging will result.

Ahead of the Game

Ahead of the Game 08/31/2004 09:05 PM
Consumer Goods Technology Sep 1 2004 1:45AM GMT

Playboy gets go-ahead to sue AOL

Playboy gets go-ahead to sue AOL 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
Playboy gets the right to sue AOL unit Netscape in a breach of copyright case over the term "playmate".

Run from Sun ahead of Q2 - analyst

Run from Sun ahead of Q2 - analyst 01/03/2005 05:38 PM
Down on investor optimism

Broadband changes ahead

Broadband changes ahead 07/18/2004 12:52 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Fri Jul 16, 07:52 am GMT

The Fool's Look Ahead

The Fool's Look Ahead 09/17/2004 10:40 AM
The Motley Fool's Rick Munarriz takes a look at the business week that approaches.

What's next? A look ahead to 2004

What's next? A look ahead to 2004 12/28/2003 05:27 AM
Boston Globe Dec 28 2003 4:08AM ET

Trouble ahead

Trouble ahead 07/30/2004 01:53 AM
USA Today Jul 30 2004 6:02AM GMT

Dark Age Ahead

Dark Age Ahead 05/03/2004 04:06 AM
Alright, so it's a descent into schilling, but there can be no more exciting news to greet a sunny Monday morning than that of a new book by Jane Jacobs. Not content with blowing out the back of my intellectual...

GM crops set to get go ahead

GM crops set to get go ahead 03/08/2004 11:23 PM
The UK government is about to approve the commercial growing of one variety of GM maize.

Google's IPO goes ahead

Google's IPO goes ahead 08/18/2004 08:24 PM
Melbourne Age Aug 19 2004 0:56AM GMT

Ahead Nero 6

Ahead Nero 6 11/06/2003 01:55 AM
vnunet.com Nov 6 2003 0:55AM ET

Danger ahead?

Danger ahead? 07/06/2004 08:41 AM
CNET Asia Jul 6 2004 1:10PM GMT

Big changes ahead for Flash

Big changes ahead for Flash 04/07/2005 03:45 PM
Macromedia promises significant changes to Flash interface and video capabilities, and talks about tech for cell phone carriers.

"comes through with the story behind the
story"

"comes through with the story behind the
story" 07/27/2004 04:11 AM

"story"

"story" 05/26/2004 09:00 AM

SFP: The Story So Far

SFP: The Story So Far 04/08/2005 05:13 AM
In March 2005, programmer-essayist Paul Graham gave a talk to the Harvard Computer Society on How to Start a Startup…

The story of Ohh!

The story of Ohh! 05/02/2004 08:23 AM
The story of Ohh! For men it is quick, easy and essential for reproduction. For women, it is slow, difficult and purely for pleasure. Yet despite such differences, it brings the sexes together and is the basis of the monogamy that distinguishes us from other animals. In his new book, Jonathan Margolis examines the phenomenon of the orgasm

Story

Story 05/07/2004 06:18 AM
USA Today May 7 2004 10:26AM GMT

Just because they did it in Toy Story
doesn't mean you can

Just because they did it in Toy Story
doesn't mean you can 01/06/2004 02:05 AM
7-year-old gets stuck in stuffed animal game machine .. A kid for a quarter .. crawled into

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"has the story"

"has the story" 03/22/2005 06:47 PM

DRM: the story so far

DRM: the story so far 06/20/2004 02:23 PM
Cory Doctorow gives a talk at Microsoft Research about why DRM systems don't work and are bad for society, business and artists -- and what Microsoft should do about it.

"this story"

"this story" 02/10/2004 09:18 AM

Preparing for the Year Ahead

Preparing for the Year Ahead 12/29/2004 12:06 PM
TheStreet.com Dec 29 2004 2:57PM GMT

Labour looks ahead to third term

Labour looks ahead to third term 07/22/2004 08:02 PM
Labour's National Policy Forum is to meet to discuss the key areas likely to make up the party's pitch for a third term in office.

UK go-ahead to more waste burning

UK go-ahead to more waste burning 05/06/2004 10:01 AM
Incinerating waste is unlikely to harm health or the environment and more incinerators can be built, the UK government says.

Sage: more acquisitions ahead

Sage: more acquisitions ahead 05/13/2004 06:34 AM
Must buy to maintain growth

Shark Tank: Go ahead -- help yourself

Shark Tank: Go ahead -- help yourself 07/21/2004 11:12 PM
This non-IT pilot fish is trying to open an electronic purchase order. Ordinarily, that just requires typing in an account code -- but the system won't accept it.

Broadband leaps ahead of AOL

Broadband leaps ahead of AOL 05/13/2004 03:20 PM
For the first time, broadband customers surpass the number of people who subscribe to America Online, a sign of the growing influence of high-speed Net services.
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