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Look for free ways to scale before you pay for them.

Aim to get to the point where it takes you the same amount of time to deal with 1 customer or 100. What would that process look like?

Maybe something like...The client hires you, you assess the requirements, send details to the translator and then all future project messages go straight to the translator (or a virtual assistant), you fix unusual/unique issues and issue the invoice. Rinse & repeat.

If you're entering into lengthy e-mail discussions try to find recurring topics/issues across all of your clients. Can you refine the requirements gathering process at the beginning of a project to save you time at the end?

Anticipate the standard number of hours needed for support and add a percentage onto your prices for "support issues". You can happily say this price also includes x amount of after-care.

If your client chooses not to have this added on up front you can say that unplanned support hours cost $xx. Knowing that your time is a premium ensures they are clear and concise with you from the start. Fixed price jobs are prone to requirements creep.

You're paying in so much time by reading long client e-mails, replying to them and then forwarding important info onto your translators. Maybe by discussing with a client on a recorded Skype call instead of e-mail you cut time needed down to 1/3.

Analyse your working day. Any repetitive task can be automated/outsourced made quicker or eliminated completely.

What types of task take up your day?

How long does it take to get your computer ready in the morning? Add programs to start-up, get frequently used websites saved to permanent tabs. Is filing paperwork/accounts simple? Any task over 10mins needs to be considered.

I know it sounds wrong but you've got to work yourself out of the business as a critical cog. You (i.e your time) are the bottleneck stopping you making more money.

Maybe having a virtual assistant for a few hours per day would be a low cost way of helping with communication back log. They could take info out of mails and forward to the translator working on it in a template. Or they could read mails and highlight the critical info for you consider.

It sounds as though your business is at a turning point where your job role needs to change to progress, move away from day to day work and more towards finding new clients and streamlining.

Your overall job is to remove obstacles for yourself and those that you employ.

Best of luck!!
"It's time that people realize that things like these won't do shit, to put it bluntly."

That's simply false. They raise public awareness and support of any given issue. People say that the petitions to legalize marijuana have done nothing, but if that's true then why has public support for legalization gone from 36% to 50% in just five years? It's not magic, it's because every time there is a petition that the white house ignores it generates dozens or hundreds of news articles, which all push people's opinions in favor of reform.
I don't use my feelings regarding the manner as a measure of reasonableness. I've really tried to understand Stallman's arguments, but I really can't come to agree that proprietary software is, in and of itself, unethical.
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I've discovered a near fool-proof way to deal with clients that suddenly come up with demands like this.

I quote them a price 33% higher.

Never once despite the most insistent argument that it just had to be done the new way has this ever failed(1). "Oh, you mean is costs more?! Never mind then...", is the usually response. Once, I had a client go with someone else who promised what they asked. I heard later that it was quite a disaster.

(1) I've had a guy tell me that using a certain technology was a matter of national security and then change his mind to save $1500.
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I'm happy with the reduction in Experts Exchange content in my search (I won't get into that at the moment, just to say that I usually find better quality content on other sites).

Unfortunately, I still run into a myriad of copy/paste sites, which when compared against Exerpts Exchange, are far worse, and Google's UI has made it less simple to ban the sites. I've had to manually block "unifiedpeople.ru", "mvp.itcommunity.ru", "boardreader.com" and "efreedom.com" in order to clean up search results related to topics I'm regularly seeking answers. They generally copy/paste from a variety of forums (and maybe even legally so), but they present a less up-to-date version than the site they're copying and often the code highlighting and other formatting is completely stripped rendering a very difficult to read result. Yet they often rank higher than that from which they copied.

The sites are marginally useful and were a problem before and after Panda. Google, being in a very powerful position, does have a lot of control over things like this, however, they also are going to be the most targetted. I've found, in some cases, their closest competitor (the one that used to be very blue) occasionally provides cleaner results, especially if the query involves their own products--a circumstance that was not always the case.
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You have some broken links on the job page, OTOH the crying raccoon is kind of cute.

http://www.wooga.com/jobs/offers/javascript-frontend-develop...
You need to invite 5 friends on your wall to see that.
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It pains me that in 2011 I still have to explain you can't justify discrimination (of any type) with statistics.
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I think his overall point is that all GCs are susceptible to specially designed adversaries. And it seems like you designed this program to be an adversary. So it's interesting, but it doesn't mean the GC is bad, unless you can provide evidence that the memory behavior of this program is typical of real applications. (You argue that, but an argument is not evidence.)

Or, in the other direction, you could experiment with how other GCs behave with this program, and explain what, if any of the differences are. If the differences are huge, and you can explain them, then perhaps that's something to report.
Like Louis CK said in a stand-up routine- "I'm not saying white people are better, but being white is clearly better." i.e., you're not likely to ever have an opportunity denied to you in life due to your skin color, or gender.
Don't forget Yahoo! And I actually think there's plenty of other precedent for whimsical company-naming, even before the internet.
I'm logged in, but the buttons to sign and share the petition are still grayed out.
If this seems unfounded to you, it's because you are unfamiliar with Biden's record.

http://news.cnet.com/2010-1071-946732.html?tag=mncol;txt

http://www.politechbot.com/docs/congress.p2p.letter.081002.p...

http://news.cnet.com/Senators-aim-to-restrict-Net,-satellite...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9920665-7.html?tag=mncol;t...

Please note that I was attempting to avoid partisanship by naming Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) as well.
It wasn't filmed because they're in a quiet period due to their S-1 filing.
The #1 discussion on google for filtering websites was basically "How do I stop experts-exchange from appearing in my results?"

However this is what the antitrust hearings were about, its scary how trafficers of information control perception of the world.
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I don't see how commenting on NeXT's attempts to circumvent the GPL was criticizing Apple at all. NeXT's goal was to wrap GCC with a proprietary wrapper thereby appropriating the FSF's work and denying users the freedom to modify and adapt it for their own purposes.

Copyright laws are reality. Free software is pragmatically protected by copyright. Misappropriation of copyrighted works is considered "theft"/"stealing" by the groups with which Apple chooses to associate and for which Apple forces restrictive DRM on end users.
I agree those are valid deficiencies. Some highlighting and code formatting for views would be good.

Maybe a plugin interface for other syntax parsers, since, for example we use a python view server instead of a JS one.

I am still wondering what NoSQL databases have a better admin UI. I feel that Futon is pretty good and was a factor in picking CouchDB over others.
telepathy man. they don't need light receptors. they can read minds and see into the future.
He might have meant it's easier for him, which still might not be ok with me.
Are you referencing Joel Spolsky's article on software astronauts?

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
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I too, seem to stand out a little to some people; some even call me a visible minority.

Even though I speak better english and command a larger vocabulary than most. English is my first of four languages.

I also dress well, drive well, dine well, know my music, have friends from many countries.

I once heard a saying you have to be twice as * to be * enough. Fill that in for any group.
Passed? Hardly. They've just moved to new audiences and platforms. Such as the Easter Egg in the Ookla/Speedtest.net smartphone apps.

Still, programs that are now mainstream, critical and trusted shouldn't have Easter Eggs in them. It would be unprofessional of me to put Easter Eggs into the telephony code I work with. Things that absolutely must work should be boring and without surprises.
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iPad is quite good for content creation, excluding text. It's good for finger-painted art,for example.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/7866...
> Some Windows machines would be hacked within minutes of connecting them to the internet - in my mind that's simply negligence on the part of the developers - them being liable for creating an insecure product would force them to develop a properly secure solution - in other words to actually engineer it properly.

If software developers were actually engineers, or at least some of them were and were required to sign off, they would actually have authority to influence decisions that had huge impact on this situation - deprioritizing of security, bad project management, etc, not originating from the development side of the organization.
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They better not. I only use a MacBook Pro because I need to sometimes be mobile. My Mac Pro is a few years older and still faster. They need to continue to offer the line of macs that offer performance over form factor.
I think the days of building a content site that relies on search is over... everyday millions of new pages are populating the web, and Google is becoming stricter in their algorithm. If you're building a site, you need to make sure it's

a) something engaging that people will want to visit over and over

b) something that can be marketed in ways that doesn't rely on search such as word of mouth, social media sharing (preferably built into the product like FourSquare)

c) uses a channel to make sure one-time visitors convert to regular visitors. Such as daily newsletters/emails.
Thanks for writing this article. I really enjoyed it. When I was growing up, I was terrible with cash management. My parents continuously subsidized my various entrepreneurial endeavors (building and selling skateboard ramps, selling people's stuff on eBay, manual labor...). So, I grew up really excited about the upside potential of entrepreneurship, but learned little about what it takes to manage the extraordinarily limited resources that you have when you are building businesses in the real world.

Now I help invest in and build companies and work on projects of my own. Learning the trade offs between pricing/volume, technology/cost, etc., is so valuable and I'm only starting to understand them deeply now. I think I'll do something like this when I have kids, whenever that may be....
Why did they work on the Courier in the first place? Couldn't Bill have asked if it supports e-mail before the project had hundreds of people assigned to it?
I've met many programmers that feel differently (as well as engineers in others disciplines ME, ChemE etc) but it is nice that you are another person who has been able to experience zero racism in the work place.

"Racism is just not a thing in the high-tech industry." I beg to differ. Saying racism is "just not a thing" in any sense isn't really realistic. Are there people using the n-word all the time? No. Are there people with bias they might not even understand or be aware of? Yes. . Also there is a huge difference between the world of strictly programming (doing it for other people's businesses) and the world of tech entrepreneuring. Those are two different worlds,they overlap a great deal but they are still different worlds. You encounter different issues and different sets of people you must interact with in different ways.

That said I don't think NewMe is necessary and agree Black start ups should apply to traditional programs. I think some sort of formalized mentoring network would be useful but aside from that I don't really see the point...it's also not an accelerator that invests money in it's startups from what I understand, so I don't really get the point. I still applaud Benton and the others involved for trying to do something.
Well, I can see that happening. Even within "Indian" groups, people tend to group themselves with people from same state/language. People from some states are known for almost hostile exclusion of people from other states, including neighbouring ones. I speak this from experience as an Indian living in the US.

As regards to lunch, many Indians are very selective about eating habits (for religious reasons). That prevents them from eating in meat-'contaminated' areas.

None of this excuses them from socialising however.. But, socialising with people you already know is easier than making new connections. Which is just lazy, IMO.
Does it save a bunch? Like, can I play for an hour without repeats?

And does it use cache manifest to store the questions, or localStorage?

(I've been working on both lately at work, so I'm curious how yours works!)
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There is a reason they are fast. They didn't use to have durability. Think about that -- it is a database product that until the last version didn't have durability and its writes were not acknowledged with a response. If you store you data in memory and write it to disk sometimes, you can write very fast.
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ICBM's use inertial and (in the case of Trident) star mappers.

The reason they don't use GPS is that you would (hopefully) only start throwing ICBMs around if you are in "nucular combat toe to toe with the Rooskies" - and the way you know you are in a proper war is that all your GPS satellites have just been destroyed by the other side.
You are arguing against a straw man. Cheez wasn't advocating taking all power from the government, just "most".

Applying the principle of charity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity ) to cheez's remarks, one would assume that preventing violence is not one of the powers he advocated taking from the government.
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Yeah, some people are genuinely racist, but the fact is that most aren't. What most people incorrectly call "racism" is actually culture fit issues.

When someone's culture is sufficiently different from yours, it becomes enough of an unknown to engender fear. And fear due to the unknown leads to paranoid thought, usually at the subconscious level.

For example, if you get a job candidate whose demeanor screams "from the hood", you'll definitely pass him/her over. The last thing you want is for them to start a fight over "respect", or bring some "friends" over to rob the place (deliberate hyperbole, yes, but this is how the subconscious works). Similarly, anyone who has had much contact with Indian culture will know that fraud and corruption are tolerated far more readily than they are in the West. This means that you need to be on your guard lest the person of that culture starts behaving as if in that culture. I've seen it happen enough times in my own experiences, so this is not just idle speculation. This is also why second gen people have a much easier time of it.

You may argue that you shouldn't "sell out" on your culture just to get ahead ("acting white", for example). I would argue that in remaining "true to your roots", you hobble yourself by deliberately refusing to make it easier for the majority to accept you.

I've lived on both sides of this issue. I've seen actually racist people, but far more often I've seen people who are afraid of the cultural divide, and move to protect themselves accordingly. I've also seen people change their own culture to better match the one of the majority, and they made FAR better lives for themselves than those who refused to do so.

Do racism and sexism exist? Of course they do. And in the rare cases where you DO encounter the real thing, it is your duty as a civilized person to put a stop to it. But when it's merely a culture issue, raising a stink about it will do nothing more than stir up resentment.
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Wait... matlab allows "AB" to be inferred as "A*B"? How is that not a disaster? Parsing a token that doesn't even exist in the lexer stream? Even C++ wouldn't try that.
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To a certain degree, what you're saying is even true among people in the US from different regions here.

Put someone with a deep southern mountain accent and someone with a Brooklyn accent on the phone and they'll feel at odd with each other. Surveyed afterward, they will both probably feel the other is stupid and didn't understand them on simple things.

I myself remember my first experience with someone at a call center, who I can only assume wasn't in the US. I was calling Network Solutions in high school about a domain registration. The person on the phone I recall as having an Indian accent, which I didn't mind so much, but I did feel at odd with them when I needed to spell my first name (David) out to them using the NATO phonetic alphabet. It just struck me as so incredibly odd at the time that someone would potentially mishear or misspell the name David. However, I quickly realized that it was simply a cultural difference. I myself would probably get a common Indian name like "Sita" wrong. Was that Seeta? Seta? Seata? Site? Its only 4 letters, but I could screw it up for sure. I've since been more understanding of people at support lines.

Just as people often say that racism is ignorance, I do have to feel that this wasn't me being against anyone from India (as I actually knew very few people who maintained much Indian culture, language or accent where I lived at the time), but being ignorant and impatient with what was normal for them vs what was normal for me. Thankfully I learned.
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Some factors to consider:

* Top private schools generally have smaller undergraduate enrollments than many state schools.
* Top private schools have, in the past at least, used aid in interesting ways. For example, they have given aid to students who don't really need it to secure their enrollment. This can get them a top student for, say $10,000. Where as admitting a less well off student would run them $40-50k/year.
* State schools generally end up giving their best deals to residents.
* State schools have been dependent on tax revenues which have been ideological assault for the last few decades. Tax revenues have also been hurt by a bad economy. Meanwhile private endowments, which often have large investments in the private sector have been holding up, or even improving.
And that hype turned me off. I have an allergic reaction to it. Especially when they were caught acknowledging they didn't have default durability for their writes. Then suddenly they removed their benchmarks from their site and made some comment about how data will be lost anyway, so it is not a big deal.
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