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Lessons in Reputation Management from Conan O’Brien
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I also want to point out that he states in the very first sentences that he does not agree with this position.
I think giving a brief explanation is useful. Maybe "Sorry! We can't generate images that large!" or something. That explains what's going on without going too deep on the max dimensions and whatnot.
I'm working on an app at the moment and despite my intention of releasing early, I find myself adding additional features for the initial release.

Here's my logic; tell me if I'm out of line:

1) As a user of my own product, I have a pretty good idea of what the first set of features users are going to ask for. I could release a simpler version, but since I know some additional features are important, I feel like I might as well implement them prior to the launch.

2) You tend to get a big spike in traffic right after launch. The better the site, the better that initial feedback is going to be and the more people who will convert. Why waste that large influx of traffic? Counterpoint: the people that make up that large spike of traffic are largely tech-geeks, who are not my target audience anyway so it doesn't matter.
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A very good read for any struggling entrepreneurs. Obviously, no entrepreneurs would walk away with a $45M severance package and call it a failure. However, when entrepreneurs do fail, either due to our own inexperience or outside factors, the first thing we need to repair is our reputation. Again, my own painful experience with recovery is not that different from falling off a bike. In the process of getting back on track, your attitude and your outlook are the most important. It is natural that you want to get even. Think positive. Whatever you do, do not get into other people’s way and do not wish for other people’s fall. You are now at your most vulnerable and deflated stage of your life. You don’t have any money. You don’t have any friends. Your reputation is in complete ruin. As a result, you can’t afford to be negative and you can’t afford to be surrounded with negative people. Not having the ability to be constructive doesn't give you the license to do destructive. Whatever you do, stay away from bad Juju. Now is the time to levitate yourself. Now is the time to fill your head with positive thoughts ... "if you work really hard, amazing thing will happen." I love this guy.
You are not talking about the same people as the GP though.

The people who do 9-5 coding are clearly not often the same ones as those who have contributed to the Linux kernel.

What I have found is that, of the people I work with, there are some who are great at what they do. As they gain experience the style of greatness often changes, but the magnitude does not.

(I have even worked with people who become more risk seeking as they progress - they know it can't be done but they don't care as they are confident they can hack around it in time. Cooks especially, but some programmers too.)
From the article:"When you lower the barrier for people to prototype, and for people to become part of the manufacturing and design process, you go from tens or hundreds of people to tens of thousands of people who can take part" A way to further decentralize manufacturing and encourage cheap prototyping would be to embrace 3d printer technology advances and reductions in cost.
I've tried rotating, but I find the text harder to read because there is no cleartype.

I've got all the keyboard shortcuts for code folding memorized, and I do all my navigation via the keyboard in Visual Studio, so vertical space isn't as big of a concern for me.
I think they completely glossed over the point that he is just breaking his promise. It takes no effort to post a bill online and wait 5 days to sign it. That's what he said he would do, and he doesn't do it.
Completely disagree. The biggest risks for almost any piece of software done as an entrepreneurial project:

1) The developer never ships it
2) When they finally do, no one cares

Shipping early even with flaws and bugs solves #1, and if #2 is a problem, you find out a lot faster and can move on to the next thing. The truth is that early adopters expect bugs and flaws, which is why they're early adopters. Most people are surprisingly forgiving of new software [1], provided the developer engages and regularly addresses their concerns with bug fixes, new features, etc.

1. Obviously, this depends on what market you're in. Developers of avionics, for example, probably shouldn't follow this advice.
I think it's good to see these kinds of prodigy contributing to high-profiled open source projects.

I've seen one or two of this kinds at Microsoft as interns. Boy they're really geeky. They have the technical chop. They will argue you to death how pointer works to the lowest-level of your hardware.

With. Exact. Details. And. Unmatched. Precisions.

At the end of the day, some of these people would write some crazy stuffs that a simple solution might work. Why is that? because they were already in "expert" mode in such a young age.

I rarely see "Uncle Bob", "Joel Spolsky", "Paul Graham", "Brian Kernighan", "Michael Feathers", "GoFs", "Martin Fowler" kinds from this group of people. In fact... I know none.

I don't mean to discredit this group. They're smart. But sometime I wonder if they would listen to advises...
I find it odd that there is so much enthusiasm for this idea in the comments on Sivers' blog because to me it seems a bit outdated.

And I agree w/ coffee and sabat that sure, anyone can purchase and setup a bunch of niche sites w/ individual domain names, but gaining trust (both from SEs and from consumers) is the key factor and isn't easy. Google and other search engines won't index these sites well off the bat based on the domains and tailored but not_that_meaningful content. Maybe in the past that was true but certainly the SE ranking logic is smarter than that now.

The other area of trust would need to come from consumers. I know personally, if I was into brazilian funk, stumbled onto a machine-generated site like Sivers describes and find an album that I'm interested in buying, I would just look up that album at Amazon (or CDBaby) because I trust them. And that cycles back to the first point in that since places like CDBaby and Amazon have the authority, the index of brazilian funk results in the SEs are going to include these sites. So setting up these niche sites might make sense for sites w/ authority already, but if they already have authority why bother?
Hey guys, just got emailed this from AT&T:

http://www.mobilitywelcome.com/files/7584_ATTinsrt_R.pdf

Posting for two reasons. First, it shows the general nonsense and BS of class action lawsuits. Second, you can get a free phone card if you're an AT&T user or lower the cost to cancel your plan from $175/flat to $175 - $5/month you were a member.

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o By checking here, I choose to receive an AT&T Prepaid Long Distance Card with up to 200 minutes; OR

o By checking here, I choose to be subject to a prorated ETF provision instead of the flat-rate ETF provision that is currently in my contract. I understand that I will be provided with other benefits subject to the terms of the Plan of Allocation if, at the time that benefit becomes effective, I am no longer an AT&T Mobility subscriber with a flat-rate ETF provision.

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From the link in this comment:

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If the Settlement is approved, a settlement fund of $16,000,000 in cash and $2,000,000 in non-cash benefits will be created.

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Most of that will go to lawyers' fees - you can get a bit if you canceled your contract, or get a phone card, but mostly it's a lawyer play. Anyways, I always found I learned when I went over legal documents, so hopefully someone finds this valuable. If you're going to cancel an AT&T plan in the near future, this could save you a decent chunk of change for the 15 minutes of your life too.
But I can ignore the Bose advert and choose to look at any other manufacturer of audio equipment. The Chinese government claims the right to make that choice for the people. Very effective mind control.
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I also did some rough estimations based on 2B in aid, which the data actually corroborates which is amusing. Anyway, It comes out to about 28% of GDP, and would be the equivalent to giving every man, woman, and child a one lump payment of 12k.

No conclusions drawn. But there is always the problem of dropping that much liquidity in to any economy, no matter developing or rebuilding or both.
Is there one single repository that links each law to cases that have referenced or interpreted it?
As opposed to engineering school? Do you think the problems real software architects are ought solve are inferior to those whose real architects solve (if they really do it any better than the software ones)?

If you answer no to the last one you should read the Chaos Report.
Cuil was also hyped a lot before its initial release. I think if it had stealth-released, done some research and refined, they might have done better.

Or at least realized the concept was something the market simply didn't want (alternatively: hasn't wanted yet).
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are they dropping liquidity in or food, water and medical supplies?
Because it matters 'what' it is :/ Just like freedom of speech has several caveats to it. You can't say anything you like, there are exceptions.
I am embarrassed to say that I almost immediately lost interest in that article when I realized it was "Amazon the rain forest" and not "Amazon the internet buy-n-large".
Yeah but what gives the Chinese government the right to control the internet connections in the country?

Even if it happens to be the case that all of the infrastructure was built with government funds - those funds were taxed away from citizens.

But that's a moot point - the Chinese government is not shy about declaring that they are trying to be a moral police. Their intent is pretty explicitly to control what information people are allowed to see.

Now, suppose a private company like AOL decided to filter their customers' internet connections - is that censorship? Absolutely not. Because you can switch to a different provider. If you're a Chinese citizen you can't switch governments (or avoid being arrested for disallowed speech.) Only the government has a monopoly on the use of force.
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I had to read your comment a few times because while you seem to be arguing that Easy can dilute a game's experience and ruin it for a player, your analogy appears to make the exact opposite point.

You describe a frustrating experience in which you had to work very hard to experience the content, and as a result you didn't care much for it, and posit another experience in which the content is far more accessible and the experience is shared with a wide audience, and assume you'd enjoy this better. I'm with you that far.

And then - if I'm reading correctly - you suggest that the frustrating experience is Easy Mode, and the accessible one is Hard Mode? This is where you lose me.

If I'm trying to play a game I've heard good things about, my experience can certainly be soured by a high level of frustration. And I'd probably like a game more if I can share the experience with other people who like it. To me, these are both arguments in favor of Easy Mode.
I think this is pretty typical of developers scratching their own itch, but I would launch now:

1) You may not be scratching the itch you think you are. Users may love your software or they may hate it, but both might occur for reasons you never even thought about, because your users are different from you and may use it completely differently.

2) Don't launch. Seriously, a big launch event with PR and hype is overrated. Put it out there, get feedback, iterate based on that feedback, and do marketing and PR later. Here's a much better post on the subject:

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/03/dont-launch.htm...
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But is it down for everyone? Or just me?
(Sorry, someone had to do it)
True, Gowanus isn't super close to manhattan, but I find that a lot of young developers live in Brooklyn to begin with, so not having to commute into the city is a win. If you're living in upper manhattan it might not be a great commute option, but what young person wants to live in upper manhattan? Brooklyn is way cooler ;)

Greenpoint I find is even more isolated than Gowanus, simply by the fact that the only viable transportation is the G. Gowanus has the 2,3,4,5,D,M,N,R,B,Q,G and LIRR all convenient to it. The hipsters can take a 10-15 minute G ride down, while everyone else in the city or out on Long Island can still have easy options to get there. It's beginning to develop in Gowanus over the past year, with new coffee shops, artist studios, big music venues, and plenty of vacant commercial buildings being renovated.
As an engineer, I won't take your argument of "thousands" of functions in a custom module. Also, yes, Drupal is far more complex than any other CMS because it's not a CMS. It's more like a framework you use to build your own mini-CMS. You can customize it to your needs a lot more than WP.
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Cloud computing 
cloud computing is it going to take over yes or no in 10 years time any answer please.
Disney has a reason to protect their copyrights. China has a reason to censor their Internet use. Can't you see the obvious parallels?

This is not even Godwin.
Neither Apple nor Google will ever comment about this on the record.

They both did, in response to an FCC inquiry. Your theory depends on both companies not just lying but lying to the government and lying to the government in a very peculiar way that doesn't actually give either of them any kind of advantage over telling the truth.
Good. Just about the worst conceivable response to Scientology: arm the cult with stories about criminal stunts to help them delegitimize criticism.
Yes. And you can just call it version 0.1 instead of 1.0, if you are cautious.
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Which seems like a pretty good argument politically for transparency: Nobody looks through shit online so there's little risk of being stung, and by forcing a high level of transparency you put government IT in a position where they have to operate at an industry acceptable level of competence... which is pretty low to begin with.

Then you get to brag on the campaign stump for doing all this awesome stuff you should have been doing anyway and have voters love you for it.
I find that inhabitants of first world countries lack a certain degree of perspective. There are laws to societal development, not unlike the laws of physics. Some things must happen in a certain order; skipping steps results in catastrophes. It's easy to argue unequivocally against censorship if you've lived in the U.S. your entire life. If this is your stance, I challenge you to visit India and see the massive scale of poverty, lack of basic infrastructure and education first hand. I mean, it's really not like here over there. You have got to see it to understand. It won't be so easy to trivialize these issues after that.
Why is your opinion about a court's finding relevant? (Seriously, asking).
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.htm...
http://wiki.lessig.org/index.php/Against_perpetual_copyright

I'd recommend reading Lessig's stuff, if you'd want to find out more. I've listened to his lectures and read his stuff, but not well enough to give an argument here on his behalf.
Explain This, crowdsourcing journalistic questioning and answering
Will http://explainthis.org prove to be a useful way to crowdsource journalistic questioning and answering?
Primary source:

http://www.latexsearch.com/LatexTool/
I should note for other "Rate my site" people.

This is singularly the most common issue I face with new sites. If its brand new explain what it does a bit somewhere near the top of the page. (Even a "What is birdpie?" link on the top of the page works for me)
I'm consistently surprised that people are still arguing against progress in favor of jobs protectionism. It's never worked. All we accomplished through the 80s was propping up our unhealthy Steel and Auto industries and compounding the pain.

If we aren't ready for the design-centric, automated-manufacturing future, then not only will the linesmen be out of jobs but the designers, engineers and roboticists that we didn't train and lay the ground work for, will be out of jobs.
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This is a classic problem of international aid.

In a nutshell, any indicators of progress revert completely when the aid stops flowing in with no lasting infrastructure/education/anything actually getting developed.

In short, the countries don't make any lasting progress, but are temporarily propped up and become entirely dependent on the aid.

Look at Africa for numerous examples of this phenomenon.

Of course, that's only a long term issue, in the short term you should absolutely send in as much food, shelter and medicine as possible.
I think most people commenting so far perhaps didn't read the article entirely. I find the headline a little misleading - it does not advocate shipping buggy software, but simply a minimal feature set to get the idea out there, start seeing what features people use, what features people want, etc. Sounds pretty familiar to me.
Again: just because the Internet makes a tort insanely easy to commit does not make it any less of a tort.

The cognitive dissonance here is between the casual ease (and apparent innocuousness) of file sharing vs. the actual reality of unauthorized distribution.

It doesn't seem like it should be possible for some poor soul to wind up incurring 60k of damages just for clicking a button to trade "free" music. But it is. Just about every government in western civilization has considered this issue, and from what I can see, the verdict has been unanimous. "Easy for a lower-middle class mom to wind up in hock to the RIAA for five figures? Not the RIAA's problem. Don't trade copyrighted music."
Seismic Hot Zone: Does the Haiti quake foreshadow more Caribbean disasters?
Not true. There are bloggers out there trying to dig stuff up, and if Cuil suddenly became good, you can bet they'd love to report that story and you would've heard about it. You might've even heard about it from me, because for many months I would type stuff into Cuil just to see what I'd get.

But you never heard anything because they never did anything worth talking about (relative to the other players in the field of course...)
I'm surprised Cuba isn't mentioned. Cuba had several hundred doctors on the ground in Port au Prince while the rest of the developed world was still trying to locate Haiti on a map: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1229192...

If you counted in-kind donations, rather than just currency (which is actually less effective in this case), I'm guessing Cuba would beat every other country on that list.
Categorizing is the wrong way to go, because different people categorize different ways. Assuming you have enough users, it seems to make more sense to go with some kind of bayesian recommendation system, i.e. "People who liked this product also liked..." That way you conform to the implicit categories people already hold, rather than force-mapping a blob of messy, overlapping categories into arbitrary, artificial divisions.
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I live in a 3rd World country also with massive poverty (Brazil) and I don't know what you're talking about.

The only "law to societal development" that I know is that citizens should be free to do whatever doesn't harm other people. And opinions don't count as "harm".

I think China would be a much better place to live if their political institutions where more like the ones in your country. India is an example for China to follow.
> based on that I am assuming that the US system is a bit more lenient about what is classed as indecent

It's basically up to however draconian a judge, jury or prosecutor wants it to be. If a girl baking cookies in a short skirt is 'indecent' to someone in that list, then you might just get successfully prosecuted for it. It's really insane.

[EDIT] The system was supposedly designed with its original intent being to protect victims (child abusers, and to a lesser extent child porn consumers in a bid to choke off demand for child porn). Now it's basically become a vehicle whose aim is to punish you if your get off on something that they don't like, or do something that they don't like (where 'they' is someone in that list above). If a judge has a stick up his ass about teens being 'immoral' then he may just throw the book at teens that are brought to his court for 'sexting' just to satisfy his urge to punish someone for it.
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Needs more input to be useful, IMHO. Crowdsourcing doesn't work with a small sample size.
This site is more about startups than hacks.
Hmm that is insane. It is a subjective thing - but here it is considered expert testimony. Therefore it is up to an expert to grade the images and present the findings to the court (of course the jury can judge the images for themselves).

I know it is similar in some parts of the US - but I guess not everywhere :(
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imagine going to an official's office and seeing these bills scattered around ... :)
Pretty much the entire industry, as well as the academic system, is based on the premise that the vast majority of code can and should be written by programmers who will be borrowing heavily against great (in the sense of being large even more than in the sense of being high quality or thoughtfully designed) black box systems in the form of languages, compilers, libraries, operating systems, databases, and other applications that are written by a small fraction and are mostly built to make sure that the rest can't screw things up too badly. Leveraging Ruby on Rails to throw together a barely functional website/app is just one of the more blatant examples of the pattern that pervades the pipeline that now produces most of the software in the world.

There seems to be a large demand for software, and the system is good at producing a lot of software.
"Google is of course free to provide Google Voice on the iPhone as a web application through Apple’s Safari browser..." -- http://www.apple.com/hotnews/apple-answers-fcc-questions/
My apologies. Fixed.
Agree. Nothing is worse than an architect who's a closet manager.
Polished != Has-every-feature-you'll-ever-want

You can come up with a small, polished product with a few well-designed features to start off with (v1.0), which will impress the investors and early users. That'll get your cashflow going, and you can add more features along the way.
It's probably because I'm on a linux machine, I get this page:

http://print.coupons.com/CouponWeb/NoSupport.aspx?pid=13306&...
Not to be nitpicky, but I do think there is a substantial difference between trading and sharing. I realize you're just paraphrasing rather than speaking legally.
I wonder what these people were threatened with if they didn't take the plea bargain. 25 years to life for a hate crime against a religious organization?

(One year in prison for running a script to DoS a website? An entire year of your life, gone forever!?)