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Thanks for all the help! Btw, I can't believe I have a typo in my title! Is there any way to edit after the edit time period has ran out? It makes me look like an idiot, lol.

Anyway...

It seems like outsourcing or at least have things created are really far more important than looking for a technical co-founder at this stage.

I think if given the real chance, I could convince someone to come on board. However, I haven't had the chance to pitch anything because it's hard enough to find someone even willing to take on a pitch. Everyone is doing their own thing or is too busy, unfortunately.

Currently, I have a landing page. I will probably post it here for some advice. I've put up Google Ads and Facebook Ads and hopefully can push it myself as well. That could help me find a technical co-founder, but who knows. I really think my idea is good enough to jump on now. The timing is just right IMO... and the sooner, the better.

I am learning Javascript now, because I'm thinking I could perhaps code the front-end. However, it's just a long process to learn code, especially while I have a full-time job. I'm tempted to quit to learn to code and develop it myself, but I'm not sure.

Ultimately though, I wanted to see what thoughts were behind paying for an MVP... and you guys have been positive about the idea, so it's good to know I'm not crazy if I go that route.

Lastly... is the mockup really the hardest part? I'm glad to hear that because I did spend a ton of time on it (and need to spend a bit more time refining it down to MVP).

Ultimately, I'm not creating a new technology here. Just packing a bunch of common technologies into one business. Hopefully that fact alone means outsourcing an MVP won't be an incredibly struggle. Or if I decide to create it myself, it won't be too overwhelmingly difficult.

We will see. I appreciate all the feedback and welcome any other comments.
One of the commenters on that article says: "The idea that anyone should ever need to show ID to use a social network is so fucked up that I find it astonishing that it is a point of discussion." Not really. I recall, in 199x, that a BBS required me to physically mail a copy of my driver's license, along with my payment, before they would give me access. It wasn't an "adult" BBS. I think that the requirement was that I was at least 18, just so that they wouldn't get into trouble over anything that might happen with regard to age minimums. Rather than the exception, the idea of showing ID, to use a social network, used to be considered a normal part of doing business.
Jobs is dead and Android lives on!
Older-Kindle users may be pissed off, but most of them have enough invested in the platform that hey aren't going anywhere. And the cheaper Kindle Basic (which should support the new format) is at least an olive branch on this front.

For Amazon, the more important thing to do is to address users of the reading apps, since those are the users who can more easily switch to an alternative (even if only for new purchases). And they're doing that.
This is the same as the old saying about teaching someone to fish versus given them a fish.

To steal is to make it your own, to so thoroughly understand it that you can move it forward as if it was always yours. To copy is to simply have it for today without having the understanding it takes to have had the idea in the first place, and so you can't go forward.
I'll agree that a PhD in the humanities is unlikely to be a good career move - but that is unrelated to whether or not it is in the public interest to fund them.

A career in fundamental scientific research is also a poor career move - my brother is in it himself. It's grossly underpaid, funding is hard fought and won, and job security isn't great either.

But it would be hard to argue against funding it publicly.

By so easily dismissing the worthwhileness of its pursuit, and by claiming that it is unworthy of governmental funding, you are dismissing the humanities.

But again, unsurprising given the company we're in. To a large contingent of us tech nerds, the humanities would always be a "if we have some spare time and money" subject, never given any importance until all technical subjects (or in this case, funding need) have been exhausted.

The odd thing is, I know a lot of people in other technical fields - physics and chemistry, for example, and yet none of them exhibit the same tendencies. It seems that dismissiveness for the arts is somewhat unique to engineers and CS.
In the US Commercial zoning regulations relate to far more than simple land scarcity. Public infrastructure, pollution, competition, and bribes all play roles in how zoning happens in the US.
Gotta agree with the Notifications bar looking out of place on the iPad. It looks like something that was forced in.
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The buyout depends on the method in which you make your money. If you make money on advertising you have to make sure your users are as engaged as they have been since your launch (this often doesn't happen if it is a short game or you don't add features etc).

If you make money on app purchases then you need to be careful that you continue to have as many users buying it.

If it is in-app purchases then you need to make sure that features are promoting users to purchase.

Anyway, you probably know all that - the point is, you have to realistically forecast your revenue projections for the next few years. IF you think you can make the same amount then it is not a big deal to buy out for 2x his share of revenue (so $17K). If it looks like projections for next year will be $10,000 you need to seriously consider the offer. Good luck
I'm confused. Why would existing users be pissed? Their existing Kindles aren't going to stop working, new books will still be available for them, they just won't have some of the shiny new features, some of which may be of questionable value on their e-ink readers anyway.
Look up the Lori Drew Myspace bullying case, exceeding TOU was most of the prosecution's strategy, and it almost worked.
The last time I used it, SLIME integration for Clojure was very slick. It was a while back so there were a fair number of moving parts to align, but I'd guess that has gotten better.

It is worth doing, especially if you've never used another integrated Lisp environment, but I wouldn't recommend laying it on top of learning Clojure. I'd say learn Clojure first, then try out emacs and the emacs integration.
You do forget or skip over 12 long years of massive spending and borrowing in order to try and get the economy going. Spending and borrowing that, by any objective measure, achieved very little in economic terms.

When excessive debt is the problem, no amount of spending can cure it. The debt must be paid down or written off, most likely a combination of both.

Sadly your type of thinking is pervasive because it sounds so compelling. But while nobody in their right mind runs up a credit card thinking that this will somehow make them richer, there persists a widespread belief that borrowing and spending somehow makes a country better off. It doesn't, and it won't.

If anything positive is to come out of all of this, it might be the final discrediting of borrow and spend programs created in the name of Keynes. It will hopefully be the death of the widespread belief that you can borrow or tax your way to prosperity. Perhaps someone will come up with a kindergarten rhyme to teach children not to believe in free lunches.
Great idea. Hope you share how it turns out. Now I'd like to do something similar in Atlanta...
The first thing I do when I log into Google Reader is mark all "shared items" as read, without reading any of them. I don't want my RSS reader to be social. I don't want my unread count to reflect sources that I didn't opt into. The sooner I can disable all social aspects of Google Reader, the sooner I stop looking for an alternative.
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That he was unstoppable, was not for our benefit. Steve Jobs couldn't help himself. He had to go on and climb the next mountain.
Agreed. Although it would be a brave person who thought they could get a better advertising campaign together than Jobs.
Higher status, but often paid less.
The direct beneficiaries are American homeowners, who get higher prices for overvalued assets and financial institutions holding housing as collateral. The losers are lower-income Americans (often also recent immigrants) for whom the cost of housing remains out of reach.
Licenses and zoning permits are routinely structured to limit the number of certain kinds of businesses. The ostensible intent isn't to limit competition or protect incumbents, but that's obviously part of the ultimate impact.
It's also important in concatenative languages- the choice of argument order can easily make the difference between elegant function composition which "flows" and a twisty maze of "stack noise".
The idea that a surgeon can 'give up', then a nurse be bribed to convince the surgeon to 'keep going', is more terrifying than the surgery.
When most browsers support CSP, maybe. Most don't today.
I was referring to residence, being able to live and work legally. Although I don't have any sources, I've heard of a few people who have become citizens. I don't believe it's impossible, just very difficult. Permanent residence on the other hand isn't rare at all.
Thanks for the suggestion =)

I've donated on similar cause-funding platforms like kickstarter.com before, but I decided to make my own website because I wanted to get some hands-on experience in building my own site, marketing my site, and understanding my user feedback and analytics--things that I'm interested in doing professionally in the web industry. So the project is a challenge for myself to validate and improve on my marketing/copy skills, and also a kind of social experiment because I'm generally curious how the whole thing will turn out =)!
The script would be for huge amounts of images that may change, if they are provided from a third party. Most thumbnail scripts implement caching, so effectively they are only doing the work once too.
I think Siri is the "command line for the masses". Or at least the start of one.
You might be right in abstract but in the real world technical decisions are often made by choosing the lesser of several evils.

Pure text is not good enough for many kinds of books - you need to at least support images (for cookbooks, children books, travel guides etc.), monospaced, bold, italic fonts (for programming books), vector graphics (for illustrations in technical books that will good at every dpi) etc.

There's no strictly ebook format that gives you that so you can either spend engineering resources trying to define and implement a new, non-trivial ebook format from scratch, with non-insignificant possibility of getting something wrong.

Or you can re-use the most wide spread document format in existence. A format that gives you everything you might ever want, has evolved over more than a decade, is tried and tested and works and is implemented on every platform imaginable and has open-source implementation that everyone can re-use.

HTML5 is the lesser of any other evil you can come up with as a new format for ebooks. Amazon made the right decision.
Economics could (and should) be much more of an engineering science than it is. The math and theories are rather beautiful, but do not have much to do with the real non-linear chaotic world in which we live. For some reason, no one expects that economic theory be predictive in the same sense that we expect of theories in the physical sciences.

It seems to me that a bit of data and a little bit of modeling would have greatly improved the opinion piece this document describes.

As for Economics, it is really time to rethink the field. I rather liked Eric D. Beinhocker's book, The Origin of Wealth (http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Wealth-Evolution-Complexity-Eco...). See also his Wikipedia bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Beinhocker.
So... what's going to happen when lamernews runs out of RAM?
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Q: Will I have to provide two versions of my titles going forward?
A: No. The upcoming updates to our Kindle Publishing Tools will take care of this for you. KindleGen 2 will convert your content so that it works on all Kindle devices and apps.

This would seem to imply that their tools will "cross-compile" to the older mobi format.
No argument from me there. But this is where I think the burden is also on society, not solely on the individual to reinvent themselves to find a niche. The purpose of society is to manage scarce resources. No one has a "right" to more resources than the next guy, simply because he has a particular skill. It is society that sets up the environment for these vasts imbalances of distribution, where an 'arbitrary' skill can reward you with vast amounts of wealth. Thus it is the burden of society to create mechanisms to balance this distribution.

Capitalism is preferable because it can manage resources better than any central planning can (at least pre-strong AI), but since imbalance is inherent in capitalism its also imperative to provide opportunities to mitigate imbalances within the system, in the form of education, skill training, etc.
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Well, the devices, future and present, want to do a lot of things that traditional typesetting can’t do. Having known page and type sizes is an assumption of print, but goes out the window when one wants to put a piece of content on different devices.

But I absolutely agree that the book is a valuable, time-tested format. We’ve learned a lot about readability. Conflating the goals of books and web pages would be a loss. NB, we still have radio.
Some context that may be helpful for nerds whose heads are exploding at the idea that Google "stole" iOS (which is based on FreeBSD, which is inspired by Danger, &c &c): Schmidt was on Apple's board, apparently never disclosed his intent for Google to go head-to-head with Apple on an extremely similar product, and was surely privy to many confidential details about Apple's product plans.
Didn't I read recently that treasury or someone similar basically admitted that Social Security isn't asset backed? That it's a case of funds-in, funds-out?

I know the republican guy got hounded for his 'ponzi scheme' comment but there is an element of truth in that hyperbole. Without new workers contributing SS payments, the recipients wouldn't have anything coming in. So it's not a ponzi scheme as such, but it's certainly not an investment fund either.
I wish those that down voted what I said could dispute and write something, and show some intellectual engagement. Pity.
Can you cite some statistics or research or data to support your claims? Otherwise they are just claims, not facts.
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So, I'd like to not criticize anything at all, and just say that this is a neat idea, it's presented beautifully, you've written it in a way which got me to actually stop and read it (and visit it a second time), and I dig your sense of design, which seems to do a great job of balancing humanism with engineering.
Don't forget that if you have a sufficiently low income, you can suspend payment on your student loans for a year at a time up to three years with no penalty. I think it is called "forebearance".

Unfortunately, now I am making a salary and next year I will have to start paying my loans again :\
Why does it not really count if you're actually paying back the social security trust fund? They can borrow from it, surely it also counts as debt. Just because you say it's going from department a to b doesn't mean there aren't real implications for that money being owed or not.
same problem here. Had to keep pressing the buttons again and again.
You think that until you start missing important official correspondences, or find your credit rating is fucked up because your health insurance kicked some part of a doctor visit back to you and you never saw the bill.

We are far more dependent on the USPS than most nerds realize.
It concerns iWork, I'm nearly certain.
Heh this is pretty funny actually. The third site I tried, randomly, ended up being vulnerable:

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I think that's great for Australia but isn't the central question what would happen without US public debt? Australian public debt isn't a pillar of the world economy.
The Economist makes a great point in noting the over-simplification of macro-economic policies and the danger of populism, fears that seems justified when you read people saying that "society can afford a hell of a lot if managed correctly": what does exactly means "afford"? Must the society write a check to anyone who needs it? is the objective of the protest to create spaces where people can work and get themselves out of the whole or is to get the government to bail everyone out? Are western citizens entitled to more and more benefits that will definitively be paid by our sons or grandsons, or are we entitled to clean governments and smart politics?
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Gingrich passed a rescission bill that retroactively cut money from the 1994 budget.
> And if Jobs cured his cancer they would be saying how much of a smart man he was to try this alternative cure.

Not really. "Spontaneous remission is rare but it happens, lucky man!" would be the far more likely response.
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The IMF regime was utter madness and disaster for Brasil. It resulted in a freefall of the Brasillian gdp. GDP growth only happened after Brasil removed and loosened IMF restrictions in the mid 00's.

I do not know much about Mexico.
It's so the carrier doesn't waste hours every day scanning every letter for a service that only 0.05% of them need.

The charge for a return receipt is also higher and the USPS takes advantage of this just like all kinds of businesses have higher margins from certain products.

The many savvy people who take advantage of the lower rate for parcel delivery confirmation are like people who bring their own soda to work because it's cheaper then the vending machine.

TLDR: angry mob on the street probably wrong about finer details of world again.
I don't really want to argue about the semantics of OSI and what is or isn't an application layer protocol. I'll just point you to Google's own diagram of where SPDY fits in which is in the "SPDY design and features" section of the whitepaper here: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper.

Here's the text from that section:

"SPDY adds a session layer atop of SSL that allows for multiple concurrent, interleaved streams over a single TCP connection.

"The usual HTTP GET and POST message formats remain the same; however, SPDY specifies a new framing format for encoding and transmitting the data over the wire."
> so stop pretending it's some government bureaucracy thing

Yep, USPS is not a normal government agency. Also "The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters."*

If people point to USPS as example of government waste they do so out of ignorance.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
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Note that the landing with $10 requires that one has to be from developed world.

And there is also a pretty similar procedure to get green card in USA, the EB5 route.
It's been awhile since I played with it, but I believe there's a legitimate reason for breaking the <script. Possibly one of the older browsers had a broken parser that would interpret that as the beginning of a new script tag?
anyone else's confidence shaken by the .DS_Store checkins?
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I seriously wouldn't worry about HTML validation. Not sure what prompted him to even check. It's a waste of your time. One of the biggest things I've learned from startups is that you shouldn't take every suggestion and spend time on it or assume your product sucks.

In that spirit, here's a suggestion: if you have some examples of things you've done to put in each box, I think that would help. I might be contacting you!

Good luck!
Thanks... I really did mean that as a question, I should have been clearer.
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That is not a good measure of debt. Government debt is only meaningful as a fraction of GDP (large countries have more debt than small ones, e.g.). So in this case you want this graph:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=2TG
which is (Gross Federal Debt)/(Gross GDP), and was clearly decreasing.

The distinction between gross and public-held debt is also not very useful. The difference between them is government debt held by parts of the government, which is money that the government owes to itself. Public-held debt was decreasing even more:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=2TI
Related: The Love Affair Between Steve Jobs and Pablo Picasso

http://gizmodo.com/5727913/the-love-affair-between-steve-job...
Jobs: "I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want."

This is a dangerously broken and, for Jobs, hypocritical idea. Where would Apple and the rest of us be today if Audio Highway or Diamond "owned" the idea of an MP3 player? If Microsoft "owned" the idea of a tablet computer? If Ericsson "owned" the idea of a touchscreen smartphone?

This, of course, is what is broken about software patents today. We're handing out ownership stakes in pure ideas within a system intended to protect realized, specific implementations.
Reading what he has to say about people such as Bill Gates or Mick Jagger in a negative manner kind of puts a damper on my views of Steve Jobs. Yeah - he is speaking the truth; but the purpose for the book he stated was for his children to see who he was - but saying stuff like that in a public fashion is burning bridges (though i'm not sure if this phrase could be stated of a person after they have already passed away).
I don't think this invalidates the point. The elderly can still vote.
This is such BS. Steve Jobs highly anticipated Biography didn't get "leaked" to "specific news outlets".

It was released early to build hype.

Seriously people...the language can get ridiculous.
He had to have the Whipple because of where his tumor was located (the head, not the tail, of his pancreas).