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This video would be pretty uninteresting had they used artificial jelly beans. I think everyone is aware that it’s trivial to convert a simple animation to a jelly bean animation. That’s not the point. Art works by different rules. (Hey, and if you like to be a cynic about it you can also say that viral videos work by different rules. OK Go owes their fame to never taking shortcuts when creating their music videos†.)

(I think that placing the singer directly on the jelly beans allowed them to do certain tricks that would be harder to accomplish otherwise: pay attention to the lighting or the costume changes. It’s not clear to me whether using a green screen would really have saved time.)

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† One example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
"They were going to publish all this information on their website, but they’re apparently under attack". What's that about?
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According to the same book, Wozniak specifically insisted at some point that he would prefer to be treated as an engineer and not be involved with high-level management.

One could also say it would be interesting how things might have turned out if Wozniak was more ambitious.
It works too. The atrium is a very common chance meeting place, and that's nearly 100% due to the coffee, conf. rooms, and bathrooms being centrally situated.
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I hope the guys who write the original article don't follow this guy's advice. I love people who don't give a shit what other people think, and don't have to watch what they say or do 24/7 in fear. That's freedom.
There's a plug for the 'jelly belly' brand at the end of the video where they show their logo, I'm pretty sure that means they would have either gotten them for free or they sponsored the video.
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Trying to aim a standard at an amorphous, undefined future goal doesn't seem very likely to succeed.
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If the CEO never had to meet people from outside the company, I'm sure his office would be less spacious.
My dislike of swearing in the tech community has little to do with challenging norms or offending people. Although it's certainly crass, if you want to have such a personality you are welcome to.

The problem with it is that it dilutes meaning and hinders communication. Let's take the article being discussed. What exactly is shit work? Is it unnecessary work? Is it unpleasant work? Perhaps it's work for which you are poorly compensated? Who knows! Sure, you can read the article to find out.

It turns out in this case it meant unnecessary work. The author decided it might have more impact to call it shit work, however. Why? Not because he doesn't care about offending people. Rather the opposite. He knows the word carries extra baggage with it. He knows it invokes ideas of "dirty" "bad" "offensive" among others. So he uses it for impact. He's not alone in doing this.

Which brings me to the second problem with it. Not only is it not a very clear way of communicating, but when everybody does it, you end up with entire communities continually making hyperbolic statements. Everyone wants to stand out and be heard, so everybody is now yelling. A product is not just poorly implemented, or rough around the edges, it's either the best or it's complete shit. This is not effective communication as far as I am concerned.
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You, and the other respondents, are probably right. Sometimes I'm too quick on the draw.
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In case people are assuming I'm American, I'll clarify. I'm not American, at all. My father is from Glasgow and I was born in Australia (Australians are known for their liberal swearing, it's the culture, apparently)—what other culture aside from Scots and Australians swear more and are less likely to be offended by it? ;)

With flaws/weaknesses I agree that they should be 'embraced' so that they can be improved upon and if needed, removed, and not to use flaws/weaknesses as excuses which may be for poor behaviour/actions/whatever.

It seems a common idea so far here and in most places is that 'not swearing' is inherently a religious side-effect. I have friends who are not religious and maintain their concepts of good, clean speech, of valuing what they say.
The site is (barely) working now; maybe it just couldn't handle all the fanboys.
I've been using a Kobo since just after release, which has slower page turns than a Kindle. It's annoying for maybe the first hour, then it feels perfectly natural as I hit the "next" button as I'm reaching the bottom line so the screen refresh is occurring as my eyes scan back up to the top of the page.
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Wow thanks for the insight! I think I need to work on my marketing skills at this point.

Do you have organic search traffic coming to your site? (no) Do people know about your app? (no) Have you validated the market for your application? (not really)

As for monetizing I plan to eventually allow subscribers to choose bounding box sizes or access to the raw (and large) screen shot. My competition in the market charges lots for this service but I have no idea what a fair price would be. I was thinking monthly subscription based on usage: 1gb $9.99, 5gb $19.99 and unlimited plan for heavy hitters. Is that a fair price, I have no idea.

Thank you agian
Kevin Rose should have read Steve Jobs' biography by now. You're supposed to romanticize the product with the user!

Instead this is how oink acts when you first meet-

1. Prompt user for location access
2. Prompt user for push notification access
3. Prompt user with 'builder' description
4. Prompt user with social account username/password requests
5. Prompt user with Join button (permanently affix to bottom left of screen)
6. Prompt user with arbitrarily ranked pizza on out of the box uitableviews

Maybe the pig app could ease into these prompts and start out with a few on-topic questions and flashy UIs. Perhaps a list of telling foods to rank with my fingers followed by a list of spices to sort? Maybe touch/label the part of the food I liked most? It could then add a random oink developer as my friend automatically. After I browse around for a bit it might ask if I want to see random famous person x's most/least favorite food in city y, or switch to my current location (enter prompt 1) because...
As a Teaching Assistant for a first year computer science course, I have actually been using the example of writing an essay and keeping within a page limit by randomly cutting vowels out of words and thinking up ways to abbreviate words which aren't meant to be abbreviated.

Everyone quickly agrees that it would be ludicrous to do that. By stressing over and over, "try to write code which anyone could understand at a glance", I think they're getting it. Glad to see some like-minded thoughts!
1) "stop-motion" has nothing to do with slowing things down, 2) it may well be "technically" time-lapse video (but not "of course"), 3) you seemed to have missed the point of both stop-motion and time-lapse video, and 4) you are an idiot.
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Ted is still trolling away and being hilarious on his site, http://teddziuba.com
Related: http://madebymany.com/blog/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy. This writer brings up an excellent question: for whatever reason Apple seems to think having skeuomorphic interfaces is a good idea.... so why isn't this reflected in the hardware itself? Why is the macbook/ipad not designed to look like a notepad or briefcase?
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Where does it say on harvard.edu that they wont kill students and harvest their organs?

Edit: Oh sorry forgot that people in the land of the free don't have a human rights act preventing Google reading their email (not sure about harvesting organs)
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Haha, you are correct. Looks like I might have walked off the cliff without knowing it.
If you just look at the number of hours, it's "just" a full time job for a year:

8 hours a day * 200 working days = 1600 hours

With 30 people working just a week (5 days), we're already at 1200 hours.

Maybe they got their hours wrong? Or it's not that impressive (I'm a grumpy old man).
I was really hoping they'd deliver on the original fixed-lens "3K for $3k" version, but that was obviously too good to be true.

Now you can build a usable RED rig for $15k instead of $25k.
> Which is a shame because I think it's pretty clear the OP is actually asking about Google employees reading your email

Unless you run your own smtp and pop/imap mail servers, there is no way to be sure no one will read your emails. Even then, your servers could get hacked or maybe your contacts use a hosted solution (and most people do) that could get hacked, there is again no guaranty. The only work around is to fully encrypt your emails, even then someone could steal your private keys, or you could be using an unpatched encryption software etc.

It's a matter of trust and time saving. Do you trust google, yahoo employees etc to not spy on you more than you trust your ability and your contacts ability not to get your mail servers hacked? How much of your time and money are you ready to waste maintaining such a server?
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We will end up with a whole bunch of pyramid schemes advertised on lamp posts that use this as a way of separating idiots from their money
So... when can we mere mortals join Yuri Milner et al. in investing in YC companies?
I did a little searching and found that Panavision rents its Genesis line of digital cameras for $4,000 per day. Granted "no one pays book rate," and that price includes accessories, and the two cameras may not be equivalent. Nevertheless, why hasn't Panavision been disrupted a long time ago? Are their cameras really that good?
Oh, I see. I guess I've only backed products or software or things where there was a deliverable... even a book once!
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Holy shit, I remember that video. Man, I'm a nerd.
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Words become less powerful over time, it was't that long ago "hell" and "damn" were considered to be highly offensive, inevitably the swear words of our time will become the the emphasis words of the future.

I've always held the opinion that being offended by swearing is a sign of weakness. If a single syllable can make you angry or uncomfortable(when used in a context not specifically designed to insult you) then the problem is yours alone. Given that a negative feeling towards swearing is a purely conditioned response your energies would be better spent on learning to not be offended than attempt to censor everyone else.

I also find offence at swearing to be somewhat culturally specific. It seems to be much more of a concern in America than it is in other english speaking countries as it appears to be a much more conservative society generally.

Concern over swearing is a rather old fashioned ideal. In these modern times where we are no longer obligated to follow the crazy arbitrary rules of conduct required religion and tradition and are only required to conduct ourselves within the rule of law there is no need to bother with outdated social conventions. Every person has to make their own decisions about their personal conduct so it should not be assumed that everyone shares your own "calibration" of acceptable speech so only the intent of the speaker should be of concern not the particular words used.

So get over it, in 30 years "fuck" and "shit" will be the "hell" and "damn" of their time so why worry about it? Language changes over time, it always has and will so look forward not back.
A trick you can do is A/B pricing schemes to see which gets you more purchases.

You can even do this before your product is ready. Make two pages with different prices, A/B test them and track conversions on the "Buy" button. Since your product isn't ready yet, just show a "Thanks for your interest, but we aren't done yet!" page. Collect email addresses too.

This gives you an idea how many people will buy at what price-point, and help provide more email signups. The caveat is that it requires some level of traffic coming to your site first
Did you mean to ask why is this a relevant comment? Because aaronsw mentions highlighting samples in the linked story.

Why would you not want to highlight something in a sample? There is no reason why text in the sample would be less useful. A quick example that comes to mind is the foreword/introduction of a book that references a book for higher level treatment of the subject matter or another book for that is better suited for newcomers to a field.
When someone gets up and says to the effect "we are going to make a bunch of apps, 2-3 per year, this is the first one, we'll see if it gets traction" (paraphrasing what I remember from the oink announcement from web 2.0 this year), I am immediately disinterested.

I'll be kind and say that I'm unclear on the message here.
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This exactly. On the outside Apple's devices are sleek and futuristic and often boldly unconventional. For some reason they seem to lose their nerve when it comes to software.
In some sense the Genesis and its ilk were already disrupted by the Red One, although I question how price-sensitive this market is. Does Peter Jackson care about the difference between $4K per day and $400 per day?
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I think it just gives people the confidence to play around with it. And that's what really matters. As longs as people are willing to play with it and aren't scared away, the design is pretty darn good.
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The all in one list doesn't include the countries that had lots of car companies, such as the US. US only list (which was the biggest) has over 1800, from 1896 to 1930.

The US wikipedia entry claims that very few car companies were started after 1930. I know a couple from the 60s that didn't make the list which were literally a couple of guys in a garage. No, they weren't casting their own engine blocks but neither does Lotus for some of their models.

> But I can't figure out how to tell how many of them meet my original criteria of manufacturing outside of "freestanding factories".

Most made very few cars so it's unlikely that they had significant factories.

> I don't think that was a huge part of the economy.

There were two separate claims. The first was that small scale manufacturing was a significant part of manufacturing. I haven't addressed that.

The second was that lots of car companies had almost nothing in the way of "factory". That's the claim that I've supported.
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I'm pretty sure the whole point of RED is to disrupt companies like Panavision. I suspect people still use their cameras because that's what they were trained on, and there is significant brand loyalty in the business.

The Genesis is a digital camera that pretends to be a film camera, just like Avid is a NLE that pretends to be a film cutter.

Genesis filmography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(camera)#Filmography

RED filmography: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0203252/
Yep, but when you get hundreds of emails a day, you end up folders inside folders. Not being able to trim excess is a total pain. Not to mention the pain of having limited mailbox sizes, so you have to ring the infrastructure vendor to archive your mail. And then put in requests to get older archives so you can search for stuff.
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Personally, I don't use "fuck" on my company website, but I use it merrily on facebook and my personal blog. Looks like Zach used "shit" (OMG) on his personal blog, and Scott gets his knickers in a twist.

Can't help but notice that Scott works for Microsoft and Zach works for GitHub.

I don't think its a coincidence.
Yeah, I guess I would need much more traffic to even test the smallest a/b test. Currently I only get about 20 hits per day on the homepage. Seems like I should have started marketing first.
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I seriously doubt google would persist any parts of passwords in plain text.
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This is correct. In fact, the book said this was what finally got Woz to quit HP and go full time at Apple: One of his friends told him he could start a company without going into management, which he hadn't realized. Jobs had convinced all these friends and family to lobby him, but none of it worked until he was told he could stay an engineer.
> That number is small comfort. Petroleum is fungible.

Oil is fungible because of US govt policy.

The US govt could decide that oil doesn't leave the Western Hemisphere. A lot of folks would be upset by such a policy but they lack the means to change it.
Well, he did say it's only 50% done. If it mostly works on Windows, porting it to mac shouldn't be hard...
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Ah, cool. If I'm reading that right, you can raise $10,000 or up to 10% of the investors annual income (whichever is less) as long as you're raising less than $1M (or $2M with audited financial statements, whatever that means).

That will open up a lot more people as potential funders.
Another $12.7 billion failure coming out of our 401k plans.
I did same, and was left here thinking "Where the frak have I been - when was HTML5 on hiatus from being current?"
Last I checked, you could not use cluster compute instances within VPC. Nor could you use the Elastic Load Balancer. Just be aware of what is supported and what isn't.
Google made a related statement last year when they fired an employee for unauthorized access to private data including emails.

"We carefully control the number of employees who have access to our systems, and we regularly upgrade our security controls–for example, we are significantly increasing the amount of time we spend auditing our logs to ensure those controls are effective. That said, a limited number of people will always need to access these systems if we are to operate them properly ..."

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fire...
Exactly. I'm sure the New Zealand taxpayer will cover the difference.

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As a domain expert and non-engineer myself, I've found it incredibly hard to get taken seriously by investors. Recruiting a credible technical co-founder has been tough, too. I agree that there is no well beaten path to capital for some like myself to follow. On the bright side I figured out how to just make my own money, and that's probably a healthier path to follow anyway.
so we are shooting a $500M movie, $star$ is costing us $250M of that and the advertising budget is another $300M

Can we see if we can get a deal on the camera rental?
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Thought this was really funny. Makes fun of the buzzwords we like to use and the "trendy" startup atmosphere.
Not really. Stop-motion music videos have been done quite a bit, especially 10 years ago and more. There was a time before CGI when artists shot "videos" on film and computers weren't capable of the things they are today.

Consider the Peter Gabriel videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=F0FBi5Rv1ho

both of which feature various types of stop-motion animation as well as other effects.

Also consider the works of Bruce Bickford whom Frank Zappa hired to work on several videos. This guy is a genius/savant, I don't know which. Zappa saw the genius and funded some incredible work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6UgzNJfpfA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2fyvfX_gLo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO4PlvIE6bk

You also might want to check out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

and their other videos, which aren't stop-motion but are incredible videos made without CGI.

There's tons more out there to find if you look.
Prime has certainly changed my buying habits. My wife and I tend to buy a lot of small items that we wouldn't have otherwise bought. Things like a bottle of vitamins or bag of artificial sweetener. And I'll have it in 2 days which has worked well for us.
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That's what I get for posting when tired... gotta get some sleep.
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