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.

those and also; Hanselminutes, RadioLab

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.

You could argue that's smart as long as you don't use Facebook to log in to anything else. He can say whatever he wants and now one can be sure it's him.

>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.

Higher quality is the same as higher production. That higher quality reduces the need for all sorts of people in QA roles.

Also, not all scientists are blue-sky researchers. Many do lab work, diagnose disease or provide services to patients. Others perform field tests or public outreach. Or they teach. Augmenting these people does replace people as fewer scientists are needed to perform a service once performed by many.

While true in some regards, it's not the whole story.

The author of the article gives the example of a type of eye surgery only possible through augmentation of the surgeon.

Without augmentation, the surgery isn't possible.

It illustrates that for at least some things "higher quality" isn't the same as "higher production".

Unless instead of calling this "higher quality" it's better termed something else. "Previously unavailable products/results/quality?"

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.

Aren't both of those "send the speech to the server" systems?

> 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.

can you give the top 3 use cases and how it solves the problem?

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