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Nobody has yet commented on Arrington's thread of discussion regarding the non-minority status of Asians:

And by minorities CNN meant blacks and hispanics, because Asians, who have disproportionate success in Silicon Valley, don’t count.

When people claim that there's a double-standard between whites and minorities, it's generally overlooked that there is in fact a triple-standard. The fact that Asians have become successful despite huge historical disadvantages should make us wonder if the approach we're taking to racism is constructive at all.

And it strikes me that the unspoken attitude that Arrington refers to is, itself, highly racist. Consider this article, "How the Asians became White" [1]

Ultimately, the only way to solve any of our problems, including our racial ones, is to tell the truth. We should celebrate the fact that Asians have succeeded. We should do things to make sure that all people, regardless of their race, have a chance to succeed. But in our fight for this success, we should be scrupulously honest about what's really going on.

[1] http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/asian.htm
Of course they do, and I agree (that things should work). But if fragmentation becomes the norm, app producers (or the market) will find a solution.

I just think the price point of cheap and super-cheap Android tablets will make minor incompatabilities (such as only one hardware button on the Nook Color, or apps that only work after Android 2.3, et cetera) acceptable for the masses. This is true for nearly every commercial good sold - no reason it shouldn't apply to tablet computers, too.
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800 days working without knowing whether or not there was actually a way to make any money?

Lets _not_ talk about whether or not this will work. Lets talk about how this is absolutely not, under any circumstances, a productive way to spend one's time.

187 people bought the previous version of this font. Do some sales projections, estimate market size, review the competition (such as the Ubuntu monospace fonts), talk to the existing customers about the features they actually _use_ everyday (hebrew characters? really?), and even I can conclude that the market isn't going to be viable for the given business plan.

I'm going to call Eric Ries, and ask him nicely if he can send you a copy of his book. Cause' you my friend, are doing it _wrong_ .
The author claims that you can hire devs with either ten or 3-5 years of experience "in a particular area." I've never been to Bulgaria, but I know it's hard to find folks with ten years of iOS/Android development experience in California, so this is pretty impressive. Must be a magical country.
My thoughts exactly. Companies might choose as this CLO someone with considerable PR experience. Lawyers, almost by definition alone, lack this experience.
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This is a deal breaker. There's no reason that Google couldn't have used a hash of the URL.
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> Does Apple really think it will have a monopoly in the years ahead?

Huh? What does that have to do with this at all?
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Just a prediction here, so take it for what it's worth, but my hunch is that the profession of writing is going to fragment into more and more subsets in the coming years. At the low end of the totem pole -- what we'll call "low-value" writing -- will be the sorts of articles that software can eventually automate. Things like news updates, information dumps, how-to pieces, lists, summaries, and so forth. Much of what traditional journalism would call "news" stories, and what magazine journalism would call "informational" pieces, fall into this bucket. In these sorts of articles, substance is more important than style. These pieces are all about the facts, or summations of the facts. Or, in the case of content farms, they're about relaying and recombining information in endless mixes, using provocative headlines. You don't need a Pulitzer-caliber author to crank these out. Hell, pretty soon you won't even need a human to crank them out. It's no surprise that this type of writing doesn't pay well, because frankly, it's the fast food of journalism. It's cheap, it's disposable to the consumer, and so it pays cheaply.

On the other hand, higher-value writing will be that which isn't easily automated, and for which style is every bit as important as substance. Fiction (good fiction, at least), features, human-interest stories, editorials (especially those relying on expertise), and so forth. This will be the kind of writing that either pays crap, or pays big, depending on the writer's skill level -- and his or her ability to build a market or following for it. There will always be a need for this kind of writing, and until such time as software AI becomes genuinely creative, it'll be very hard to automate the highest-quality, most interesting, and most innovative stuff.

Low-value writing will, if anything, see its value decline even further. It is the equivalent of the man on the assembly line who can be replaced by a tireless, hyper-efficient machine. High-value writing will not, on average, find itself paying more handsomely than it used to. It will still be a high-variance profession. But it will be what remains for professional writers in the age of content farms, automated news, social networking, and so forth.

Essentially, the way to earn a decent living in the future will be: 1) be damned good, 2) build and maintain a following, 3) differentiate yourself, and 4) produce at high volume.
This is one of those classic forks in the road.

If you make it cross platform, you make it easier to be a lingua franca of sharing between loosely connected people. Dropbox is handy for sharing project files between consultants and clients, for example.

OTOH, if you make it platform-specific, you can make it a better experience for people who use it to synchronize their own files or between closely connected people such as colleagues on a team that have a single standard OS.

The whole thing seems analogous to Apple’s strategy for integrating hardware and software. It sacrifices “interoperability” for just being better. I suspect a lot of the same arguments apply here.
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Some of them work well, but some of them clash or have poor contrast.
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The problem is visibility and the appearance of security. A significant number of users won't search beyond the app store and just assume that such apps do not exist if they can't find it on the App store. They are conditioned to do that from their iOS experience, so indeed this is a new bigger hurdle for the non-sandboxed apps and for some(not all) it could mean going out of business inspite of having a good product right now. Also, some people will be conditioned to thinking(rightly or wrongly) App Store = safe, Web programs = unsafe.

> if your customers like the App Store,

Of course they will like it, it's front and center and easy to operate. How is that the dev's fault?

>This is pure Darwinism.

This is nothing like Darwinism. Perhaps it would be, if you assume that the sunlight, forest cover, predators and water supply were able to be controlled by a company.

If you include advanced features in your app and thus are pushed out to an external distribution but your competitor releases with only limited features, who is going to make more money? And forget about a Lite version linking to the Pro one, that's prohibited too. The only "evolution" that will happen is that this will lead many small and mid developers to cut out features and operate only within a sandbox so as to get traction.
That's far from a fail; if anything, it's a good sign that the stuff that doesn't work on touch devices is extra fluff, rather than the core interaction of the page.
I can't tell if this was overlooked or a joke on the arc90 page:

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It goes to an actual employee page on click...
The real question: does it matter who "breaks" a story first? Will the folks who got the story first get to the top of the "fresh" pile even though their story may be a day older? Or does the most recent content always win?
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color me unimpressed that they're now able to sort their livecrawl with a 'date' flag. And this seems to simply be a case of firing that filter automatically for 35% of their searches.
I constantly search for results within the past year to find information that's actually recent and current instead of "how to do x, circa 200X"
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Has anyone else noticed Google making a lot of autocorrection mistakes recently? I don't mind the traditional "did you mean" links, but I've been getting redirected to pages for different queries, with a "did you mean [what you actually typed]" link.

It's especially a problem with programming because a lot of words that are "wrong" are actually acronyms or strange library names.
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I'm actually a little conflicted about this. For instance:

If I search for [olympics], I probably want information about next summer’s upcoming Olympics, not the 1900 Summer Olympics

I'm guessing that Google has the data to back that up, but it seems presumptuous. In any case, when you search for "olympics" it returns results about the Olympics as an institution, not any particular year. As it should be. In fact, the first specific year mentioned is 2016. Maybe Google turned the dial a little too far.

As for the "occupy oakland" and "nbc lockout" searches... isn't that's what News search is for?
It is. And "Documents and Data" is just a wrapper term to mean "App Store apps have APIs to sync data with iCloud", whether it's a Mac or iOS app. It doesn't mean "Just iWork documents".

I think the reason for confusion is just... so few apps support it yet. Not even iWork on the Mac supports it yet, I don't think.
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Android does have sandboxing and its much better in than iOS. Each app runs in its own VM instance and requests for permissions. Additionally each app can also call other apps via intents. This allows for great sandboxing and reutilization.
This should be good. Many queries get clogged up with the long tail of pages from 2003 that are often useless to answer the question at hand.

I hope Google will let us turn it off easily ("-fresh" keyword? advanced search?) if we truly want older pages.

I also hope this won't lead to content farms auto-republishing their pages every six hours with the latest timestamp included to look "fresh". Or rather, I know it will lead to that, and I hope Google is prepared for it.
It's not, except that you need to do it. Most people don't do it every time they save.

I figured I'd get hammered for that suggestion, but the whole idea of version control is centred on the following two benefits:

1. Backup of files (every saved version)

2. Merging/branching/comparing etc. of various versions.

For a single developer with a pre-MVP development, point two is really irrelevant. (I'm sure there are cases where it wouldn't be, but I'm generalizing). I would argue that point one is better served by Dropbox (or something similar) than a full fledged VCS, simply because you're saving code and running/testing much more quickly than you are committing in these early stages.

Once you get to a certain point, by all means a proper VCS is the way to go.
At what point is the app most useful, i.e when does it become meaningful for the user?

It doesn't HAVE to be in days does it?

Look at Dropbox, their free tier lasts for however long it takes you to fill up 2.2Gb, 'cause once you get to that level a) you know it works well b) you're using it regularly so upgrading is barely an issue because you've already seen the worth.

If it's a photo app you could say 50 images, they have a certain level of investment into the app so it becomes useful.

If it's a game, when does it become addictive? level 3? 50,000 points? 40 in-game hours?

I think users find 'use' in apps at different rates. By cutting them off after x days - you essentially lose them. Let them carry on under a certain threshold until it becomes meaningful to them, they'll upgrade to a paid plan.

Let them mature to the point where they are most likely to upgrade.
> What about married founders.

Wife and I are on our second co-founded startup. First one raised $80M. Second is self-funded.

Lots of marriages didn't survive through the bubble, and I understand why. Without having my wife see the same insane things I was seeing, I have no idea how I'd properly communicate it.
Any reason why I would use this instead of http://www.dropmocks.com? Dropmocks seems to upload significantly faster for me as well.
You're basing this information off what? Just your wild preconceived notions?
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"And this is all before I’ve even got to the disastrous incompatibilities between the Kindle device, the Kindle for Mac app, the Kindle for iOS app, the Kindle Online Reader (read.amazon.com), and the kindle.amazon.com social network — all of which are full of gruesome interface annoyances of their own."

I just bought a Kindle, and besides my first attempt at buying one resulted in returning it to Best Buy because of a damaged screen, I love it. I had been reading Kindle books in my iPad and also loved the app experience. Mostly, the ability to highlight and annotate at will, and have an online repository of that to refer to, were the little details that sold me.

But what are the incompatibilities that he refers to?

However, on the $79 kindle, the details are definitely flubbed. The page turning/return/home screen keys make no logical sense. I apparently ordered one of those "Special Offers" by total accident...I must have pressed a confirm button when I meant to press whatever the hell stands for the "Cancel" button.

At $40 (for an interior design class), that's almost half the Kindle retail price. Not a bad monetization plan, I guess.
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It really can get ridiculous. A reporter once attributed to one of my Japanese friends a sentence she couldn't even understand because of the vocabulary and complex grammatical structure. When that sort of thing happens, I suspect that the writer literally wrote the story before doing the reporting and then made minor modifications afterward.
> Or (and this is incredibly aggravating) when you select a word in the Kindle, depending on how common a word it is, the option that comes up highlighted by default is either “full definition” or “start highlight”. Since e-ink’s refresh rate is so slow, you typically don’t see what’s actually come up until you’ve pressed the button for the second time. So I often “double click” on words to highlight them, but some percentage of the time this kicks me over into the dictionary and I have to hit back twice to get out.

I'm on my third Kindle. The latest one, sans keyboard, is the first to have this problem. It's so annoying. Literally sometimes I'll be in the middle of a great passage and try to highlight it and then I'm brought to the dictionary page for a word like "the".

Is there anyone on here who is on the Kindle team and knows when a fix for this will come out?

*Also, as a general commentary, I think the Kindle is a revolutionary device. Moreso than the iPad. I think Bezos knows full well what he is doing and would prefer to keep it under the radar how absolutely amazing and big this thing is going to be. It shocks me that Apple hasn't come out with an eInk reader yet. It's an order of magnitude better for reading than an iPad.
There's some chatter about the Pro line going away too.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/19195/apple_kills_the_mac_pro...

As with all Apple rumors, take it with a bucket of salt, they might announce a new line tomorrow for all you know.
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I usually send people the Github markdown one as my main version: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresume. Then there is the PDF: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresumepdf. I don't really use the HTML but here it is: http://mwhite.info/resume/resume.html. Looks better than I remembered.
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Yeah, a large, heavy book fell on my Kindle, breaking the screen. I took that as an excuse to get an iPad, and while I have loved owning one of those, I just bought a replacement Kindle, because the reading experience is just plain better.
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To me the Kindle has two killer features: the screen (because I can read it like paper for hours) and its weight (can hold it for hours like a paperback book). Those two things made it a 'wow' device. The 3G access made it effortless.

None of those things seem very clever and have been pretty easily duplicated in the Nook. The software itself (and this applies to Kindle and Nook) is rather ugly and it feels slow to react. Both need Apple to come in and make them work.
Thank you for an extremely illuminating and well thought out post. This information right here should absolutely be a much bigger part of the wider societal discussion on race than it is.
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What are the limits of dropmocks? It doesn't tell me any where on the site.
It is incredibly important to have an understanding spouse or partner. I'd argue that your spouse or partner can often be critical to your overall success. I think they have to feel part of the team. My wife shares in the rewards of success and believes in me and my teams, so she is very supportive. This is particularly important when we are struggling or going through a hard time. I can't imagine being in a relationship with a person who wasn't 110% on board with me in a startup.
"A common, and funny, question I get from journalists is:* "when will you automate me out out of a job?"* I find the question humorous because built into the question is the assumption that if our software can write the perfect story on a particular topic, then no one else should attempt to write about it. That's just not going to happen."

It only takes one misguided and uninformed manager to fire good writers, thinking that they can be replaced with an army of computers, only to find that the product is now crap. Damage will have been done.

The example I'm thinking of? Square-Enix firing their developers and outsourcing core development to China. The Result? Crappy games. (In a humorous twist, they've since then been asking the very developers they fired to come back and work for them)
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Fabrizio, have you thought about pitching this to Apple? Seriously. I personally don't get it, but it seems like the type of thing that Jobs would appreciate (if he liked it) and say it was worth the money. Ask Apple if they'd buy it for XCode, so all Apple devs could have it.
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I came from a very similar environment to the US 10 years ago becuase of non existing start up scene, inability to brainstorm/exchange tech/business ideas and do tech socializing in my country of origin (people tend to deal with different kind of issues there). Everybody around me wanted to become a really good code monkey focusing on a specific platform ending up doing some contracting work for big West European businesses as an ultimate goal.
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I don't know if that's true. There are a lot of professionals in the visual arts who need monstrous, component-driven, customizable workhorse computers to do what they do, and that won't change any time soon because their job depends on working on or near the cutting edge of what hardware can output.

Apple has served that market (or at least the front-end focused part of it) pretty well in graphic design and video for a long time, but even if that market becomes too small or too complicated for Apple, those people will still need their machines and their systems, and their business will be big enough for someone.
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Thank you for the reply. I appreciate your advice.
I really disagree, enough that I actually wrote a response on my blog: http://swombat.com/2011/11/3/jerk-entrepreneurs

I don't think there's a conflict between being a founder and being a good person who treats their partner properly.
Since the financial barrier for immigrating from Asia is much greater than immigrating from Latin America, a greater portion of the Asian population in the United States will inevitably be skilled or educated. A person who can barely afford food isn't going to think about buying a plane ticket when they can eat a few more meals. On the other hand, a person who can barely afford food may consider walking in the Sonoran Desert because it doesn't require a significant amount of money.

There's a lot of selection bias when it comes to the Asian population. Yes, Asians were discriminated against many years ago. However, educated and skilled immigrants skew the averages.

Just to clarify, this doesn't say anything positive or negative about Asians, Latin Americans, or anyone for that matter. It just implies that it's easier to travel from Latin America than it is from Asia. Calling Asians a "success story" or using Asians as a "model" for other minorities is at best idealistic and at worst destructive.
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This stuff is great. The rewards/prizes for the best model are so minimal compared to what it usually costs to build a great model via a consulting contract or hiring a high quality miner.

Similar to Mechanical Turk, we've managed to create a completely different value structure for some amazing work by smart folks... mostly by making it a competition. Great exposure for winners, sure, but these prizes are pretty minimal.

http://www.kaggle.com/c/GiveMeSomeCredit, for example, has a total basket of US$5K (only US$3K for first place) for a model predicting credit scores (in this case, likelihood to default or have financial distress). Folks I talk to who do this type of work professionally tend to charge far more than that to create these models.

For the company sharing this data, of course, big win: They get a cheap, potentially fantastic new model, and the creator gets some good exposure and some cash. But if these take off, they can really change the economics of how this work is created.