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Having done significant amounts of remote work with teams in India, I will say that the amount of planning required to efficiently use remote developers who have varying skill sets is beyond most startups. If you have got star programmers who are self-organizing and working on completely independent pieces then that's great, but if you are dealing with a complex app and everyone has their fingers in the pie its like (not the best analogy coming up, but give me some credit for the effort) trying to bake a cake with everyone mixing a portion of the ingredients in different cities then flying to the same city and pouring it all together and expecting to create an award winning cake on the first try.

Its a significant management challenge, and as a startup if you can avoid adding yet another significant management challenge by requiring your dev team to be local to the rest of the operation then you should.
Thanks... I hate supporting groups like this, but it seems like a necessary evil. I love your mafia analogy!
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Wouldn't js click handlers work just as well?

You follow a canonical link to the resource, get a real page back, with real links, but js click handlers to enable AJAX-goosed speed for those with javascript enabled? And given that they imply a fallback for those times when javascript fails, aren't they actually better?

And GMail is a bit different than Twitter. It handles inward-facing data; content that no-one particularly wants crawled and wouldn't benefit much from caching.
Not only is it the lack of control, it's also the fuzzy feeling managers get from seeing you at your desk. Many managers don't understand that you're not necessarily working when you're staring at your screen and vice versa. Being able to walk by and see someone sitting at their desk gives gives them the (possibly false) impression that work is being done. If every moment not spent doing actual work was spent away from my desk, my employer would view me as lazy. As is, a large portion of my time is spent not doing visible work but because I'm at my desk, it's not a problem.
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Battery life is not an issue with my iPad. When using it for only reading (i.e. not streaming video), it can easily go for a week without charging. Even with video, on a full charge, it can easily play 8 hours without recharging.
I'm interested, but...not really enough information on the site right now for a detailed critique. Is this going to be like the bastard love-child of Etsy and Groupon? How's it going to work?
If this turns out to be a real FDA approved implant, the potential to improve the lives of paralyzed people is staggering.
A strangely overblown story. The different sources put the crossover point at most weeks apart. One of them had to cross first, it's just random that one of them crossed before the Q4/Q1 transition rather than all crossing within the same calendar quarter.

It's not helped by engadget showing the yearly sales table (in which time period Symbian sold double Android) in an article about Q4 performance (in which Android either very slightly over- or undersold Symbian).
No. Those sites tend to be mass produced (like 1000's) type things.

The idea behind Craftly is to be a place that allows someone who, say, makes stocking caps by hand. They want to sell them, but don't want to invest a ton of time w/o committed buyers, and don't want to spend a day setting up a "store".

We plan to allow sellers to set tiers for their item. So for example, if 1-3 people want that hat, they pay $10. if 4-6, then the price drops to $9, 7-10 $8 and if more than 10 the price drops to $7.

Everyone who gets in on the deal gets the final price. So if your the 1st or the 15th, you'd get the $7 price in that example.

Does that help clarify?
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37signals' office seems to say, "You're in, you're out." Fried has, on multiple occasions, suggested that offices are the downfall of work. You're more productive in your natural environment. Their office seems to reflect that: You come in to work, quickly and efficiently, and then you leave and head home to get your real work done.

In contrast, Zappos' office seems to say, "You're already home."

[edit] It's also worth pointing out that these companies are employing very different people. Zappos has a huge focus on customer service, and their "people friendly" office reflects that. The engineers and designers at 37signals, however, very well may appreciate the minimalism and simplicity of their environment.
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Have you considered to offer relocating for 2-3 months work onsite, and then transition to work remotely?
I like the Zappos approach - in theory.

However (and maybe I'm a control freak) the imposed clutter of the Zappos office would drive me nuts! No place to think and concentrate because of a constant barrage of visual noise.

Similarly, in theory I also like my roommate.

But some of the mess he imposes on my life drives me mad.
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I have been a fan for years - never used the mobile version but they are a great little company and their other products rock.

LiveCode is an offshoot of the HyperCard codebase and will run on everything from a toaster to your car. The apps seem pretty slick in the demos. Android support in in testing.

http://www.runrev.com/products/mobile-deployment/overview/
See my reply to vyrotek below.

It's really more along the lines of Kickstart than Groupon in that you put a "listing" out to the public that has an end date, and people commit to buying during that time.
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Your office ≠ your product

Not sure this is true. I think it has to do with culture. I'm sure a lot of the adjectives one would use to describe 37signals's office could also be used to describe the company and/or their products.
A simulation of what?

It can actually answer Jeopardy questions. As good or better than the best Jeopardy player on the planet. (We will see.) Another task, previously only conquered by evolution, now conquered by algorithms written by humans. Watson doesn’t pretend to be good at Jeopardy, it just is.
I found David Brin's novel Kiln People to be an fun enough read and an interesting take on thoughts related to human consciousness copying. He uses an entirely different technical mechanism to get the copying, thus allowing a different angle in the thinking.
I totally agree with this approach. It's what we use, and it's really quick to get started with.
Fantastic read! I disagree with the point that Mario 64 was not fun though. The novelty of the 3D platformer experience combined with the open world concept made that game something truly amazing.

I've always dreamed of working with experts of such caliber in a startup. It seems luck (being in the right place at the right time) is important as is a prepared mind (jumping at the right opportunity from the sea that life presents you with).

I have three great book suggestions for people interested in the history behind video games:

1) Masters of Doom
2) Game Over
3) Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution
To this day I still pull out Apostol's Calculus textbooks. If you're looking to learn calculus really well, or just brush up, these are the ones. http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Vol-One-Variable-Introduction...
Office design should reflect what the employees in the office are trying to accomplish. As a developer, all of that crazy stuff in Zappos' office would be a huge distraction to me. I haven't checked, but I'd be a little surprised if developers' cubes/offices were as over-the-top at Zappos as those for their customer service reps.
This floors me. But you are absolutely SPOT ON. I really had to laugh when I read this b/c I feel like this is an ongoing joke in the dev and greater IT community. Sigh... so true.
Thanks - that looks like a really interesting report.
I love this tool. I discovered it just this past weekend. I tried gliffy, dia, smartdraw, and a few others but finally settled on LucidChart. I used it to make this diagram: http://ktype.net/wiki/_media/ktype-system.png for my project http://ktype.net - I'm pretty happy with how little time it took me to get it all done.
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You have very little to show - this looks more like an attempt to get signups, honestly. If you have any real questions, you might want to add those. (For instance, "what (not) to do when offering your own pseudo-money" might be a good topic.) The business model seems odd to me, too, but I hope you have thought about that already...
We have seen a negligible (and debatable) conversion rate increase using Trust Guard. However, it's much cheaper than any of the alternatives- so cheap that we opt to have it despite concrete evidence of it's success.

I agree with you in that all of these certs are a sham, but I would argue that for many customers of standard e-commerce (especially online retail) operations they are another thing going in your favor in attempts to appear as a professional outfit.

I'd never put any credence in a seal, but there are many customers that may. It's not worth a $1000/year to us, but it is worth ~$125/year.

Hope this helps!
Is this really any different? They're just instating the VP instead, who I imagine is probably not much better.

This might make sense if they're planning to hold another election shortly thereafter. That way, at least the figurehead is out of office, and there's the potential for a peaceful transition for a replacement. Given the level of corruption though, is that even a possibility?
From consultancy payments from US defense suppliers?
Reminds me of this Brad Paisley video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Yg9wjctRw&feature=relat...
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Well, you'd need to include the rest of the body in that size estimate for the brain, since it needs that in order to function properly :)
I assume by "if I can script it" you mean strategy? Every single computer game can be scripted, and most have - including poker, complex MMOs, complex RTS games, etc.

I doubt you'd find many people that'd agree that having a program play the game for you isn't cheating, no matter how boring you might find the game.
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> 1 million page views on weekdays

That's impressive. Congrats.

So why is it still PR6 ? I guess the 136 Errors and 6 warning(s) from the HTML Validator give a big penalty.
Presumably your browser caches the app so that you don't have to re-download it on subsequent visits.
Intuit's GoPayment[1] service is a real merchant account and they take unincorporated sole proprietors. The basic service is free (it's positioned as a competitor to Square) and there's even "an app for that" on iPhone and Android. Their user interface leaves a little to be desired, but it is functional and there's a place for recurring payments to be handled (as long as you have authorization from the cardholder, of course).

My relationship with GoPayment: The co-op I help run uses them as an alternative to Square because GoPayment actually accepts EINs for incorporated entities. I'm just a satisfied customer.

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Perhaps they meant 360TB, 4TB per machine?
What makes you think Twitter will:

a) peak at around 200M users
b) only manage to monetize $0.50 per user annually?

FB makes $4 per user. You think Twitter won't be able to manage atleast $2? They've barely capitalized on the analytics they perform thus far.
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Getting paid up front is key for dealing with micro-businesses, so that's good. But I have a hard time believing that "crafty" and "high volume" mesh on any level.

Crafty businesses are homespun, bespoke businesses that rely on charm and a personal touch. Group buying single-handedly destroys that. Crafters are also very protective of their personal brands and would be very averse to doing anything that might lead to angry/disappointed customers.

So, I don't see this taking off. Have you talked to any crafters about this? Can you allay these types of concerns? And what types of handmade products lend themselves to being made in short timelines and high volumes?
This would be great for use inside our company, but only if it's on the Yammer model where everything is company-private. Don't want staff to have to go through hundreds of external groups, just want them to see ours.

If Convore is like IRC, what we need is a private IRC server. Is there any service like that? (Campfire ain't it)
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How much power does it take to create a glass of milk and a tuna sandwich? To be sure, this Watson is unwieldy, but the gap might be closer than you think.

Also, Ken Jennings is 37, and you can bet he spent 20 years being trained by experts in human learning. So the question I have to ask is, could one train a human child to do this in the same time that Watson has been around? I suspect it's not possible, at least not with consistent results. It looks like Watson is only 5-10 years old, depending on your reckoning.
I'm not defending the valuations of Twitter and Facebook (since I think they're too high), but I don't think it's useful to just look at their revenues for the previous year and extrapolate a multiple and call it ridiculous.

Both of those companies haven't had to focus on revenues. Their strategies were to get users first and then worry about money. To me the real test will be what is Facebook's revenue the first year they go public. If they haven't shown any significant growth, then I'd be worried.
I appreciate the effort to put together the list but the site looks very spammy to me.

All the book links are affiliate links to Amazon. There are two adsense blocks one of which is right under the title (and is quite annoying). Most comments about the books don't explain why the book is good, and don't give much more information than what I can find in Amazon reviews.

EDIT: I wrote "site" but I actually meant "post", sorry about the confusion.
he trawled through hundreds of profiles, twitter feeds, IRC conversations, and basically cyberstalked the hell out of every friend of every person he thought might be a "leader" of Anonymous...This is the stuff pedophiles and con-men do to get closer to their victims might do.

That's also what private investigators and intelligence agents might do. By your logic, all private investigators using the same methods are pedophiles.

If I were deliberately smearing AB, I'd try to concoct a reason to mention him as you do in posts also mentioning "pedophile" and "schizophrenic" as often as possible, only I'd use logic that wasn't such an indiscriminate stretch.

That said, yes, I agree he's an unsavory character. His actions were also likely to get him in trouble. He was totally out of his depth and should've been fired.
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It can simulate an intelligence answering Jeopardy questions.
Won't Watson have a significant advantage on the final Jeopardy question where time is not nearly as much of a factor? If it can just keep pace for most of the game and then bet it all on that last question, it should be no contest.
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> Another task, previously only conquered by evolution

I'm pretty sure that Jeopardy performance as such has not been strongly selected for among the ancestors of present day H. sapiens.

(And the related things that may have been -- effective language use, good memory, etc. -- are not so obviously "conquered by algorithms written by humans" however well Watson does.)
Recurly. Chargify's prices are a little steep when you're only charging a few dollars per month.
A web app was compromised through SQL injection, then lateral movement was used to get to the mailserver (which may or may not have been on the same box).

If their aim was the highest level of security, then such lateral movement should not have been possible.
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I wouldn't want to work in Zappos's office. It just doesn't look appealing to me at all. On the other hand, the 37s offices feel cool. The Zappos offices are Office Space-like cubicles covered in random crap. The 37s offices send a very different message; if you're going to work in an office (hopefully, not all the time), I'd much rather be in that environment.

I think it comes down to this: the style of the 37s offices (like many other designed offices) is more like what I see when I think of the "future". And I'd much rather be living and working in the future than cubes covered in random crap.
It's not all content consumption, either. My wife's studying for an MBA at the moment and as well as using GoodReader extensively for the course material (in PDF), also finds it really easy to create mind maps while working.
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The Zappos pictures make me think of someone getting called in "we need to talk about your flair".
Far more annoying, to me, is comments on articles complaining that they're behind a paywall (especially when it's actually a registration wall). So, while I understand that it may be frustrating to some people, please don't post comments complaining that an article is behind a paywall.
What a reflction of the attitudes of each company towards their customers. Zappos is all about coming down to the level of their users and having fun with them. 37Signals has finally built their ivory tower, and they want customers to think of their product as a door into that tower.

If they were political parties, Zappos would be the FDR Democrats and 37Signals would be the Libertarians.
An interesting animation about this topic by John Weldon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc
We shouldn't draw some arbitrary border around Egypt's corruption. Our governments directly benefited from it; we're all implicit in it. Western support of regimes like this /has/ to end.
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International remote work is a whole different ball game and #1 I admire anyone who can power though it, #2 Ultimately believe it is only beneficial when given very specific conditions. I had one team that was based in Eastern Europe / Russia and they could write code like demons, but explaining business requirements nearly put everyone over the edge. Communication was a serious barrier, not to mention the time schedules. I love the tech talent there but wow, could totally understand not wanting to jump into that kettle.

I like your analogy about the cake and definitely respect your thought process there. The way I have gotten around this is that I (or another team member) always played the role of gate keeper / "integrator" to make sure the merging of branches went as smoothly as possible. Now we also had the benefit of full test suites to run, user stories to compare against, etc. but it seemed to work. The drawback is that as the "integrator" my actual development time would be cut in order to keep timelines met. However the plus was that I could question the dev's intentions maybe make some extra adjustment / cleaner code and ultimately produce a more maintainable code base. I also was never caught off guard about garbage coming in - ha.

Does anyone else use this sort of "integrator" role and seen these challenges / benefits?
> I am a theist because I believe that [we] derive ultimate meaning and hope from believing in something that is bigger than [us].

Wait a minute, you admit that you believe in something because it feels good? It sounds like you want to believe in God, but actually don't really. I'd like to test that, so please forgive the following troll.

God doesn't exist, and those who believe it does are wrong (yes, my belief is that strong).

Now, is your belief so strong that you feel the urge to respond something like "no you're wrong, God does exist"? I don't ask for evidence (the internet has plenty), just a yes or a no, followed by your estimated probability that God exists if you wish.
So that we have a successful business. This is a tool for business productivity. It helps companies be more productive and they have no problem paying for it. In fact, they all say we should charge more. :)
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Oh, it wasn't a complaint so much as an expression of genuine surprise that these wonderful books aren't more widely known.
The 70 billion dollar figure was based on pure speculation.

FWIW, US gov is estimating closer to 2 billion
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I am intrigued by Watson. NLP is definitely something that has failed to live up to its billing so far. I will be very interested to see what kinds of questions Watson is good at and which he tends to miss, to see if there are any patterns there.

Going forward, the other real questions will be: is Watson overfitted to the problem of solving Jeopardy questions, and how practical is the technology? The former is a real risk to the general applicability of Watson's technologies, the latter is a question of who can afford it. The article mentioned on commodity hardware, Watson takes about 2 hours per clue. They only achieve reasonable response times by using about 3000 cores. That limits the potential audience.

Either way, I'm very interested to see what happens next week. I watched the demo videos on YouTube and it was quite cool.
Did Arnold Schwarzenegger's face flash through anyone else's mind while reading this?
I highly doubt that IBM will dismantle the machine when they're done (yes, I know that's what they did with Deep Blue, but this is different). I'd bet that far more than two games will be played with Watson, over the next few years.

Also, as pointed out in that thread, this is no different than a regular Jeopardy game. One game consists of dozens and dozens of questions. If Watson answers them all correctly and the humans get zero points, that is indeed statistically significant.

If the score is close, then repetition in games will be necessary. The problem with the assumption in that thread is that one Jeopardy game is vastly different than the next. In reality, you could string together a bunch of games and call it one game. Or take one game and split it up into 50 "games". The point is, inside one game, there are enough different questions to definitely count as statistically significant.