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I like your interviews, but don't usually have time to watch the whole length. I really like the short video snippets.

You should be careful not to make transparency push too hard into vanity or navel-gazing. Multiple comment threads about your site are a real turn off, just like I don't give a fuck about Jason Calacanis or whether bloggers should pay attention to TED.
I'd be one of those.

I used vi/vim for about fifteen years before playing around with org-mode (and magit and a few other tools). After that, I felt like I'd been missing out on a lot of useful stuff.

That was about a year ago. I'm still fluent in vi (which I use sometimes), but I can get far more done far more quickly in emacs.

And I track it in org-mode. :) (which also has a view of my current google and exchange calendars and automatically saves all edits in a git repo and pushes it off my box for synchronization/backup/history).
You can pry the hardware buttons and the trackball out of my cold, dead hands. I love them.

When you hit the home button, the previous application keeps running, which means it keeps eating memory, keeps using processor cycles, and keeps eating battery.

It's a lot more complicated than this. There is a battery monitor application, and background apps don't use much power. (Keeping wifi on and scanning is my biggest power sink. It makes Locale more accurate, though.)

Background apps are quite nice. With K-9 mail and my home IMAP server, I get true push email. Whenever I order something from Amazon or forget my password or something, the little trackball lights up instantly. It's really cool, and it doesn't need any special support. If I had an iPhone, I could never get this functionality.

Anyway, apps are what make Android great, and it's strange that he didn't talk about any of them. If you want nice effect when scrolling through your Twitter feed, get an iPhone. If you want advanced software, get Android.
I'm hoping someone does an android app similar to mobile-org real soon.

In the meantime, I ssh from my phone to a box that has an up-to-date copy of my .org files.
Google now collects enough information that it and along with other similar companies need to be regulated to separate information much like healthcare and financial companies are required.
What arguments are being presented? I quoted the article. You sighed. It's unclear what you think is being argued by claiming nonsense like that Apple is acting like Stalin.
Before there was ICQ, AIM, YIM, and AOL instant messenger, there was talk, zephyr and other distributed instant message systems that worked just fine over the internet.

After, there's XMPP.
Here is a pic of the transaction client side. The RTT is about 50ms. This is an intitial, non keep alive, request.

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/4632455/

Notice that after the connection and the http request, in 1RTT you basically receive 10 segments at flight time (right after each other)
This means the server is not waiting for you to ack. You see the acks in this picture (but note the times as they are sent but dont arrive till rtt at the server)

With out altering slow start the server would wait to receive and ACK before sending more segments.

There are 2 factors at play here...
1. slow start
2. window size
Does not matter what the window size advertised, as slow start normally start at 2 segments. So in this case the client window is something huge. The advertised 5880 is the server receive window which also grows.
IMHO a better model is to actually offer something of value to your paying members, rather than than trying to create artificial scarcity. For example, paid membership gives you live access to influence the interview, by selecting / voting on some of the questions which will be asked (slashdot style?)
Nope. Here's the anecdote, cut'n'pasted since I can't direct-link to it:

> During the conference I was staying with my sister in Syracuse. I
brought the paper home and said to her, "I can't understand these things
that Lee and Yang are saying. It's all so complicated."

> "No," she' said, "what you mean is not that you can't understand it,
but that you didn't invent it. You didn't figure it out your own way, from
hearing the clue. What you should do is imagine you're a student again, and
take this paper upstairs, read every line of it, and check the equations.
Then you'll understand it very easily."

> I took her advice, and checked through the whole thing, and found it to
be very obvious and simple. I had been afraid to read it, thinking it was
too difficult.
You can have a sophisticated stock option plan with an S corp.

My classic case was when I had a founder come back to me after exiting his prior company $3B richer than he started and then used tens of millions of his own money to found and fund one of the most elaborate S corps I have ever dealt with. He wanted the S status to be able to pass the early-stage losses through as set-offs against other income.

There were about 100 employees, many of whom were not U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens and virtually all of them got stock options.

However, since the options do not technically constitute a "second class of stock" (an S corp killer if they do) and since the plan and the stock option agreements conditioned the exercise of the options on the company's first having abandoned its S status (another S corp killer is to have a foreign national as a shareholder), the plan and the whole incentive scheme worked.

This was a more complex setup than usual but not $6K worth of complexity. What it primarily required was a good working knowledge of S corps and of equity incentive plans and how to properly mix the two to achieve the client's aims.
I don't know that they're likely to, I get the impression that that is more for show when things get too hot, too obvious. In this case it happened in conjunction with events like the FDA advising us to throw out any PRC made toothpaste. And his appeal was denied because "he was a 'great danger' to the country and its reputation" (http://english.sina.com/china/p/2010/0210/303963.html).

But you're right in part because they feel like they have to keep up appearances and they will upon occasion reach up high, something that hasn't been true in Russia for who knows how long. (Then again, we don't know if Zheng Xiaoyu's real crime was losing a political battle.)

In this case I used the PRC as the counterexample because it was what the parent commentator used. Another good one would be the place that inspired 1984, where ever greater violations of civil liberties, due process and the rule of law as well as privacy are taking place without noticeable push back.

I don't know what would be happening in the U.K. if some school there tried to pull off this sort of nearly literal "1984" (not quite, since the video monitors in Oceania were explicitly there to spy on you, you just didn't know when someone would be paying attention) ... but I wouldn't be sanguine.
> Conversely, this is also why many people are poor in the first place: [...]

The rest of your post seems to say the opposite. You tell how people can get out of poverty. Not why they are poor in the first place.
Yeah, but how would they know? They would have to admit to the spying.
If the software had worked, it would have mattered if the hardware safety was removed. I'm not saying to design without hardware safety mechanisms, of course, but it's nice to know that you'll never need them.
I've requested this, too. I even switched to Yahoo! for a few hours because they let me blacklist expertsexchange.com (since changed to redirect to experts-exchange.com). I don't see the option on Yahoo!'s page anymore.
America seems a strange place. I can't remember seeing so much fuss over any retailer in Germany.

Also people love to hate Wal-Mart. In Germany Lidl isn't exactly liked, but Aldi, Plus and several others can't complain about their image. (Especially Aldi reached near iconic status during the nineties. They should just open more stores in the UK --- so that I do not have to go so far for them. Tesco doesn't match them.)
The interesting thing is that traditionally such distinctions have been religious, not scientific. That is, it was religion that eventually persuaded western civilization that all humans deserve to be treated equally, not some sort of logical or ethical argument.

If true, that leads me to think that we'll need some sort of version 2.0 of some of the major religions that deal with varying levels of sentience. This will probably happen after contact and not before, so it should be a very traumatic event for everybody concerned.
Some valid points, but much of the article seems very iPhone-biased.

I agree that a search button is totally unnecessary, and I never use it, but I've had a use for the menu button on every screen. Keep in mind that most iPhone apps have a button bar on the bottom with items. This is just smart screen management. The back button has a few software design quirks that give it inconsistent result, but again most apps use it well.

The author then assumes the higher resolution is just to show off a big number. There's a reason 300dpi is the minimum for print...the eye can detect lower resolutions (and usually higher) [1].

I find it interesting that he dismissed some Android features that "most people won't care about", citing the "average user", and then goes on to dismiss multitasking, saying:

"Everybody except most 'tech pundits' knows that the iPhone's Mach kernel supports full preemptive multitasking and also knows that at any given moment there are somewhere on the order of twenty daemons and other processes running on a stock (non-jailbroken) iPhone."

I don't know if that's a typo or a joke, but I don't think the "average user" cares, I think they just want to listen to Pandora while checking email.

I'm not going to pick apart everything I disagree with the author about, and I'm probably as much of an Android lover as he is an iPhone lover, but I do think this article presents a fairly biased view of the two devices, even though the author claims to not be judging them "purely on what [he] was already accustomed to."

[1] http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/printer-ppi/ and other sites found on Google.
You are right. Poverty is too good a proxy for lazy, overweight, and uncultured. (And probably rightly so --- people who are curious and hard-working have a good chance of getting out of poverty.)
Really? Nobody's done a full forensic recovery of some of the kid's hard-drives? Since it's a pretty good bet that at least one picture of a naked minor was captured, the child porn cops should be all over the entire IT infrastructure of that school and all of the employees involved.
OK. I thought of another anecdote. The one where he gets his Nobel Price.
A good idea if the state ever hands you a laptop you must use. Then again, this was really in the students' faces, thanks to Apple wiring the camera and its LED together.
The one hardware button he thinks is worth having is the one that seems to me least useful (well, except search). "Home" would be a perfectly good option to have in the menu, or a function of holding down the "Back" button. "Back", on the other hand, is something I could hardly live without, and "Menu" is at least understandable.
I agree on both points here.

If I'm ever feeling de-motivated I listen to a Mixergy interview and the story alone can make me focus on whatever it is I'm doing and see things in a broader context.
Aaron: let's be real for a moment. You're a bit of a troll and you're certainly obsessed with me to an unhealthy level. I'm flattered, but it is getting old.

You pointed out some minor stuff we could do better, we're doing better. Now go back to your basement and hit F9 on Chatroulette.
just curious, is there a compiled list of compelling single founder startups which are profitable or made an exit recently? the only thing that comes to mind right now is aaron patzer (mint.com)
In all honesty, while I value your interviews tremendously, I would not pay for them if the transcripts were readily available.

Is video advertising not worthwhile for the amount of traffic you get? That would be fairly painless for all parties involved and definitely fine to most users, as we have to deal with it on YouTube and almost all news outlets.
I don't know what would be happening in the U.K. if some school there tried to pull off this sort of nearly literal "1984"

With all the video surveillance and things like ASBO laws in the UK, would a story like this even be considered news?
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a zero tolerance (zero thought) policy against "defacement", including putting "stickers" on the laptops. They wouldn't say really why you had to remove the tape, just that their policy said so.

The plausibly deniable "oil or butter" on the lens suggested by bootload in this topic sounds better to me, only problem there is that you wouldn't know it was enough.

Maybe just rigorous do the tape while it's at home and you have to use it (for classes where it's required).
That's the one reason I disagree with. If people aren't looking at your old stuff it's because they have to put more effort into finding it.

If he offered it for a limited time he'd get a lot more views, but how much of that is just because of the link in the article that now shows up on the front page?

Moving to non-free may give you a temporary boost; organizing the archives would structurally improve page views on old content.
Guys, draw a big circle around point #2 here and remember it: Demand Media understands the user psychology of CPC ads better than any Valley startup you've ever heard of. They want their content to suck because if it satisfies the users' needs then the users will not click the ads. If, on the other hand, it introduces the topic and leaves the user feeling "Where do I go next?", then the only options from a Demand Media page are either a) other worthless articles or b) CPC ads. And people choose door #2 quite frequently.

This kind of frustrates me to the extent that I compete with Demand Media (limited, but real), because there is absolutely no circumstance under which a Demand Media article is a better result for the user than a page on my site if we're in competition, but Demand Media has the economics of it nailed such that they can produce content for some genres at scales I can't possibly keep up without duplicating their core strategy (automated keyword selection -> cheap freelancer -> post without substantial quality control), pushing my related content out of the SERPs and then charging me for the clicks I would otherwise be getting for free.
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It wouldn't be good for YouTube or other video sharing sites. There are two (well, two that don't require Flash) competing video codecs now-- it's expense that keeps them from both being utilized. Like the article says storage is the mitigating factor to adoption by the video sharing companies.
Was I the only one expecting more of a comparison between Android and iPhone SDKs?

The article could be better described as a tech-savvy user opinion rather than a developer opinion.
Companies should support their employees personal ventures (for good reason)
The Bloom Box, "local-energy", and Google's future in the power business
Well, if he's allowing you to download the videos as well what's to stop you from uploading them to YouTube?

I agree with you though, he should definitely limit access to maintain control, especially for the sake of his bandwidth expenses.
+1.
I'm doing a startup with a friend (I'm engineering, he's business). And I know a bunch of smart, capable people through my 10 years of doing startups in Silicon Valley.

I think finding smart, capable people is the easiest thing to do. Harder than that is finding people who want to do a startup (as many of my peers, now with 10 years experience, get comfortable paychecks). Harder than THAT is finding people who want to try to do a startup that's not funded. Harder than THAT, is finding all of the aforementioned stuff and someone who's has the burning desire to work in the space/industry that you think could use a new solution.

The thing I've realized is that when it's your idea, you see the potential of what could be. When you approach others, they only see what can go wrong with your idea. And, admittedly, you're trying to get them to buy into a vision that you've thought about endlessly while they've only had the pitch you gave them over lunch.

It's tough. Paul Graham's article about entrepreneurs as animals is right on.

http://paulgraham.com/boss.html
Well tape especially something not as adhesive such as electrical tape can be easily removed without defacing the computer, even half a post it note would work as intended.
Why is this being down voted? The privacy concerns are valid but are the symptom of a different problem, which is controlling machine/network access.

Previously I've worked in banking tech and this procedure was always followed (with data scrubbing), but it was also low risk since we were already on a secure network in a secure building.

For a startup with sensitive live data though, I can see why it's best to keep prod data out of test environments and therefore lower the chances of laptops being left unlocked or print outs lost that contain sensitive data. It's clearly a cheaper and better solution to keeping everyone in a secure building and limiting their remote access.
I actually think he will see less traffic, as the desire of someone to link to information behind a paywall will be a lot less.
The purpose of this suggestion is to guarantee people who are unwilling to pay instant access to the best, easiest way to get to the interviews, while giving the patrons time-delayed access to an inferior way to get to the interviews. I don't see that working out very well.
Single person profitability sounds great. But I guess it really depends on why you started a company in the first place.

Did you start a company primarily because you didn't want to work for anyone else and really didn't care to work with anyone else?

Or did you start a company because you wanted to work on an idea that would change the landscape of the industry you're entering? Did you do it because you wanted to build something 10s of thousands (if not 100s or millions) of people would use? Did you do it to grow a real company that would have real impact and be worth a decent amount of money?

I think that if you want to do the latter, 9 times out of 10, you need to have more than 1 person. I'd rather be Mark Zuckerberg pre-profitability than random person doing random thing but profitable. That's just me.

If you want to be single-person profitable, you can always just do your own consultancy.
And perhaps trying to convince him to take single founders seriously, or at least to engage with and respond to these counter-arguments so we can understand his position better.
that's kind of a dick move. while MixergyFreeInterviews.com might not violate the letter of what Andrew's trying to do, it certainly violates the spirit.
In an ideal world, people would buy their food directly from the people who grew or caught it, or grow and catch it themselves.

We already had that world, and life was nasty, brutish and short.
If I hear "praDuce" one more time, pronounced with a Boston accent, I'm gonna have a seizure
A section cut from a Post-It note, then.
25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
First reason under "Why I want to Charge" is "I want to earn money".
UDSD? I can tell you that if they had the technical knowledge to implement something like this, they certainly would have.
Twitter Perceptions of Google Buzz Over Time
The idea that reducing language barriers will reduce conflict is questionable. There is a huge amount of conflict between the left and the right in the US where there is no language barrier, and the actual differences are far less significant than between the US and the middle east.
I obviously wouldn't actually register that domain...
I was just making a point. Somebody else would do it.
Seems no-risk to me. Put up an order form, play with pricing and DVD contents, etc.

DVDs are easy to make and you can take orders before shipping. If you only get 10 orders, burn 'em, mail 'em, and shut down the service as a failure.
I got yelled at for taking a picture of "The House That Waffle Built" in the Philippines -- standing on a sidewalk 200 feet away. I've also gotten yelled out for trying to take a picture of a shark fin in China Town in SF. Is there some cultural faux pas that I'm missing? Or am I just unlucky.
this is a great point. providing a premium membership that allows your members to ask the interviewers direct and interesting questions. guessing your price point for that could be fairly high.
I just went to great length explaining what my claims are based on. Do you have anything to say other than an exclamation of incredulity? I already explained that an anecdotal comparison of Google hits wouldn’t be very meaningful.

I just asked four non-engineer, non-technical, non-mathemetician friends the following fill-in-the-blank question: ‘The radius of a circle is the distance from the center to the edge. If there are two circles, there are correspondingly two ______.’ Three said radiuses. One said radii, however they pronounced it ‘ray-di-eye’. I asked a similar question with corpus and all four said corpuses.

There is also probably at least some effect due to age here. I'm in my late twenties and my social circle is as well. If you're twenty years older than me, where your language is is twenty years behind mine.

And sorry, data was a stupid example, it doesn't really have anything to do with what I was talking about. Data is already the plural form and I banged it out because nobody really uses datum as the singular. But data seems like a mass noun since the way it’s typically used you don’t really have a single ‘data’. We use a counter, as in piece of data in the same way we say grain of rice.
As a visitor in China for a couple of weeks, I also appreciated Walmart.

Low prices and no haggling.
I don't know how you intend to test for cultural fit, but I am open to listening to ideas there.

My general feeling is that immigrants should be tolerant, hard working and individualist. The second generation should be integrated into mainstream America, rather than clustered into a ghetto.

These are, IMO, the shared values of the US. A skill/work based system should weed out the lazy. There are basically 2 behaviors I'd like to prevent:

1.) Racism. If someone has a problem with their daughter marrying a black guy, they should stay home. We have enough racists, we don't need to import more.

I'd measure this by intermarriage and cohabitation rates. I.e., if X Americans and X immigrants don't marry people of non-X descent very often, that suggests X's are racist. I'd give people from country X a big penalty on the point system.

2.) Strong family/social obligations. Basically, forcing people (particularly one's children) via social pressure to conform to your own preferences. No clue how to measure this.