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I suppose applicants with faces judged as competent and dominant (and looking like Zuckerberg, etc) tend to come out on top after video pitches in startup incubator applications.


Commenting on the popularity of languages:

In TIOBE index of programming language popularity (based on web searches), Ruby is ranked 18th, down from 11th in April 2014. It fluctuates, but the trend is downward - 14th in November 2014, 13th in November 2013 and 11th in January 2013. Javascript is still rising.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

It is supported by overall job trends (vs those for ycombinator-backed startups and github popularity)

http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2015/...

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Ruby%2C+Rails%2C+javascrip...


In TIOBE index of programming language popularity (based on web searches), Ruby is ranked 18th, down from 11th

The TIOBE method is rather meaningless below rank 10 (and probably above, too). The delta between spot 10 and spot 20 in their ladder is a mere 1.1 points (of 100).

Do you really believe Delphi and ABAP are more popular than Ruby, as their table claims?

It is supported by overall job trends

Huh? In both of your linked charts Ruby is trending upwards.


Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if ABAP were to rival Ruby in popularity (by employment metrics) considering how widely adopted SAP is within the fortune 500.

I don't disagree with the rest of your points, just pointing out that the enterprise world is much larger than most developers would anticipate.


By the same token, there's probably a fair amount of legacy Delphi code. It was especially popular for 4GL outside the US.


Well, what else have we got? I'm not a big fan of TIOBE, but SO's recent surveys have also confirmed dropping Ruby popularity. I did say 'might be'. I'm being a bit cagey because it's hard to tell, we all live in cliques.

So to me it's all a bit risky, a bit of a punt, and so I'm asking, what am I not seeing, where's the market they're betting on?


An article published last year in J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry proposed that chronic emotional stress may cause Parkinson's disease:

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/85/8/878.long


Actually, life expectancy of world class aerobic athletes (unlike power (anaerobic) ones) is a little higher than average according to studies in US, Spain, Germany, Poland... Could be a little lower than life expectancy of those involved in moderate aerobic activities though, I guess.


Relatively weak MFs could kill as an indirect result of the injury: http://mentalfloss.com/article/18405/mri-magnet-madness http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=544233

The effect depends on field signal characteristics (frequency, amplitude, wave shape), duration of exposure, genetics and metabolism. Some bacteria can be negatively affected even by 10 mT. In clinical trials people were "safely" exposed to up to 3 T.


Besides, Comprehensive health records as well as yearly physicals are meaningless for healthy people.

I also found that people don't trust paid services either, when it comes to their health (at least when provided by companies other than their health provider)

I like the idea behind Zenobase. Aurametrix explored relationships between many different sources of data that could be related to health. It is not public now, but would be happy to share the insights.



Thanks!


I agree, but think it is even more niche. They hope that wearables will transform the "quantified self" from a niche to a mainstream, but as this iWatch parody says: http://mashable.com/2014/05/30/apple-iwatch-parody/?utm_cid=... "we take privacy seriously and will livestream <all your bodily functions and> your location to <not only> NSA.


Yes, digital is powerful.

Another example: In March, two students at the Technion in Israel created a swarm of bots that caused a phony traffic jam on Waze/Google Maps.

Another reference: "What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over" http://web.mit.edu/sts/Graeff.pdf


No doubt, biotech will be "eaten" by software. But the crowded market of biotech software has many viable open source alternatives. Besides, many tools have been developed or are being developed by established companies.

Yet, I don't see much evidence of growth. Looks like 'play money' for investors.


You could have said all these things about Dropbox.

"The crowded market of backup software has many viable open source alternatives. Besides, many tools have been developed or are being developed by established companies."


True, but Dropbox started from winning geeky hearts - and there are far more geeks than gainfully employed biologists.

I am open to sharing ideas offline - and rich experiences on why the ones that tried have not succeeded so far.

Good comment anyway.


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