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You're completely missing the point. Or rather, the context. RMS/the FSF never tried to pervert the meaning of "free" to only mean "libre". It's just that in the context of their work, it makes little sense to use the other meaning of free (as in beer) - they acknowledge it exists, but it's rather irrelevant to them.

When you hear RMS using the word "free", it will mean "libre". So if RMS says something is "unfree", then it's glaringly obvious what he means, and in no way "etymological warfare".

You could just as well complain about the English language being ambiguous. It's quite unfortunate that free (as in Freedom) and free (as in beer) mean completely different things depending on the context, yet use the same word, but there's little we can do about that.
It's interesting that you think that, since it is quite clear that it is the other way round. The article has data both implying that the US is bad at startups (23rd in the developed world), and suggesting that a lack of medical coverage (as evidenced by a spike at 65 when Medicare kicks in) is a key factor.

A sensible argument against the article might be to suggest reasons why this is the case, or doesn't matter (US startups do better despite fewer being started, 65 is the retirement age so natural to start a business then).

But instead you make up some rationalisation about national character and a desire to "make it big". The only place I see national character fitting in is that despite the extremely adverse circumstances to forming a startup in the US, its still quite good at them because "making it big" is part of the national psyche in a way it isn't in say, France, who don't even have a work for entrepreneur ;)

The US genuinely embrace entrepreneurs and small businesses as a good thing, a valid lifestyle choice and even an aspirational one, and the surrounding business culture reflects that: for example, in the UK it can be very frustrating as a hobbyist in things like electronics since businesses don't want to know, whereas I get the impression that companies in the US are more open to dealing with individuals who may or may not represent small businesses.
First, don't confuse me with someone defending Klout. I'm not.

> Twitter gives them access to my public timeline. That's fine.

> There's an argument that Klout is possibly violating Twitter's Terms of Service, too

See, if Twitter gives them permission to do something, and they do it, then they have permission to do it. It's sleazy in how they do it, but, as you say: whatever.

Here is the unfortunate thing. Twitter is allowing them to do this. Klout has permission. And, by using Twitter, you are in a sense giving Klout permission as well, through that nefarious ToS.

You want to use Twitter? A part of using Twitter is allowing them to provide your information to Klout. There is nothing to say you have to use Twitter. There are other options out there.

A lot of this seems to be entitlement-driven. You want something for free, but you dislike the terms. You are allowed to disagree with those terms, but don't misplace the blame here.

You gave Twitter certain permissions. Twitter then uses those permissions and does with it what it will, which results in allow Klout to do what it will (and don't for a minute think that Twitter's public ToS is the only ToS). You've given your permission. It strikes me as wrong to attack Klout, who has Twitter's permission, and by extension, yours.

Complain if you will, but understand that Twitter is at the centre of this. If you complain about Klout and leave Twitter blameless, you're being dishonest.

If you can't agree to the ToS, don't use the service.
Yes, These features are there in Firefox can Chrome. You clearly haven't used these browsers. I will suggest you to google for firebug, and developer tools in Chrome.
Yes, disagree. Yelp reviews, Google search results, and a million distributed reviewers provide a far more robust evaluation system for quality, safety, and accessibility than a centralized, single-point-of-failure government system.

Quality: Zagat's star ratings are superior to anything a .gov agency has produced.

Safety: Chicago Crime Maps is superior to anything the Chicago PD has produced. Among other things, a mild tweak can accomodate self reports rather than just things that the police got around to filing (police officers have a number of incentives to understate crime).

Accessibility: Google Maps ftw. Will tell you if accessible by car, train, foot, bike.

Government agencies can't go out of business (no downside) and have zero incentive to do an amazing job (no upside). It is no surprise that this produces DMV/TSA style mediocrity.
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If you can't charge more then you need to spend less time doing the work. Is there a way you can automate your process more?
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And Siri doesn't work with Scottish accents — what's your point?

(Mine is that most people do have a Facebook account, or can get one, and you have to have a cutoff on customers' demands somewhere. For example, it probably doesn't make business sense to support non-Facebook users before translating the whole thing into Chinese, Hindi and Russian, at least.)
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There's an inverse snobbery in effect here to an extent.
If you've made it / made a name for yourself you can call yourself a programmer.

I don't know know whether it was the recently departed dmr or ken, but one of them answered 'programmer' when asked what he put as a profession on his landing/visa/immigration card.
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You say you cannot increase costs because of competition? Are you sure about this? I understand its scary to price yourself above competitors, but that doesn't mean you can't do it.

For example, the software I sell is more expensive than all of the competing products. However, I know that as we have similar fixed costs, I only need to sell around 1/3 the volume that they do in order to make a similar profit. People don't always go for the cheapest option- indeed most people avoid it.

Until you've tried raising your price you really don't know what you can get away with (and I think you may be surprised, especially if you're getting people coming to you via personal recommmendations). Companies like Apple have made enormous amounts of money selling products which are more expensive than the competition.

This doesn't address your scaling concern though. Are there parts of the process that are automatable? For example- could clients preprepare their app in a certain way that makes it easy to extract and translate all the data.
Raise your rates. It is simple. If you provide a higher quality service then you will continue to do well. As you said you are turning away potential clients at this point. That means you have very little to lose by raising your rates a bit. You are already losing business, might as well turn a better profit while you do it.
Nothing new, The stumbleupon browser plugin has been doing this for years now :)
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Don't assume that you cannot charge more than the competition. If your service is better / faster / higher quality / more personal and so on, customers will be willing to pay a premium. Perhaps not all of them, but some.

You can always quote a higher initial price, and if the potential customer makes it clear that it is more than he's willing to pay, you give him a "new customer discount". Then, once he knows how great your service is, he might become a return customer and then pay the full price.
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The problem I have with Patrick's essay ("you are not a programmer") is that it addresses a situation that hardly any developer ever finds himself in. If I go to interview for an engineer position, it matters exactly not one bit that I try to pass myself off as a solutions architect or a business problem solver, except for possibly some awkward glances back and forth. All they want to know is how long I've been coding Blub, which frameworks I use and why did I quit my last job? If all is well I will start on Monday with checking out the SVN repo and start getting to know the code. Should I start trying to analyze the company's business processes that would be an awkward conversation indeed with the department manager.

I think that is the reality most developers find themselves in. I doubt it's been any different for Patrick until the consultancy spinoffs he can now pull on account of his personal brand.

So I kind of agree with Jacques here, with the exception that I don't call myself a programmer in conversation with people outside the field, since it sounds a bit like "punch card operator". That doesn't change the fact that I really am a programmer first and foremost.
I would think IT departments would be more concerned with the cost of regression testing applications with a new piece of infrastructure. Same as with IE6. I've not come across an IT organization that wouldn't love to upgrade to the latest piece of kit, IF their customers were willing to pay the cost - remembering that much of the cost will be in terms of repaying technical debt incurred by short-sighted decisions to skip best practises (coding to standards, producing documentation, refactoring, ...)
They launched this a year ago. What has changed?
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We get to the nub of the matter. There is not a single disruptive startup that did not break dozens of laws, either in spirit or in fact. It is impossible for them not to as laws are written by incumbents and are not written in the public interest.

Napster and Youtube broke copyright laws. So did Google. Apple's Jobs was a phone phreak. Gates was disciplined by the Ad Board for selling software on campus. And Facebook's creator famously "breach[ed] security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy by creating the website, www.facemash.com".

Good entrepreneurs don't give a damn about "the rules", or about those whose primary purpose in life is obeying rules or making up new ones. Indeed, good entrepreneurs have a healthy disrespect for the law. But unlike the common criminal, they break the law to create rather than to destroy.

Your assumption is that the legal system is on the side of the average Joe and is protecting their interests against "for profit companies". It is much more accurate to say that a law is like a stationary cannon, which is captured by those with the deepest pockets and aimed at those who would pose market threats to those deep pockets.

Real estate developers who already own property support restrictive zoning laws to keep rents high. Life insurers are the biggest lobbyists for the death tax. Large restaurant chains support food safety inspection regimes that result in reams of paperwork, as they can amortize this cost across more employees.

Stated good intentions mean nothing. Every system of laws will face gaming attempts from day one, not just from "evil for profit startups" but also from corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, and lobbyists.

This needs to be factored into your analysis, as you too easily accept the narrative of "data privacy law" rather than "a law passed to advance the career of so-and-so politician and NGO, funded by lobbyist X, covered sympathetically by journalist Y, and sold to us as a data privacy law".
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>And then, finally, three months since that first meeting, I can start with the programming.

In my world (iOS), if it takes you three months to even start moving, you'll miss the market opportunities far too often. 3 months ago, iOS5 storyboarding and multitasking weren't even a concern and most developers were split between Xcode 3.x and 4.0!
Hmm. I thought Riak also had master-master replication.
Huh -- that looks like a (new) bug to me. We should reuse the external declaration.
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My favorite example of the "workcation" is Andyet's month-long stay in a castle, partly because it's not pretending to be much more than an awesome idea: http://andyet.net/blog/2011/mar/3/devcastle/
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Outsource the writing, then spend time doing the quality checking rather than the hard yards. That should allow you to scale 2-3x faster & take on more work.

The downside is trying to find good contractors who can translate to a standard that you set.

Good luck!
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Nice idea, I like it. It kinda "democratizes" the cheat-sheet generation industry (as much as such an industry exists).

One thing that you should fix is the PDF download. When downloading a cheatsheet the filename looks like someGibberish.pdf.part and Windows doesn't know what to do with it. Should be: HumanReadableCheatsheetTitle.pdf instead.
Given how close to ground zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki people actually survived just by virtue of being slightly more shielded than people around them: Yes, it'd probably at least increase your odds.

And it's not like the Indy movies aren't full of situations where his odds of survival would've been ludicrously low.
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Also consider "small scale automation". Maybe you can't automate a process or even part of a process and maintain the level of quality you're looking for, but take a look at the individual tools you're using and whether or not you're using them efficiently when performing specific steps. Is switching back and forth between apps too slow? Are there keyboard shortcuts you should become familiar with? Are there plug-ins/extensions that can automate something simple (in the .Net space, something that might help an app translation process is a refactoring macro that will "extract selected string to resource file".

And as others have said... if you're product is better, raise your price. Just be ready to explain WHY you're better to your customers. :)
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I think you have an 'easy' choice here.

1. Like other people have said, increase your price and fewer people remain. It is polite self selection

2. Outsource the actual job. make your job relating with the customer and pay people to do the translation (per job). your work will be to review what they have done and interact with the customer.

3. Focus on the one that had higher money/time ratio. So if it is the highly technical jobs or the phone apps, you chose.

Congratulations, you have a good problem :).

PS: NEVER reduce your quality.
Thats what I was thinking... rather than translating from scratch perhaps put it out to Mechanical Turk or another automated translator, than refine manually using your expertise?
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That's exactly what I am doing. Translation agencies nearly always operate by employing freelance translators. All of my translators are freelance (though have all gone through my trainings and we enjoy a very close relationship during the work day via Skype). My job is business (and everything that goes with it), project management, development (xib customization), QA and proof reader. I'm "doing" too much, but like I said, can't afford the time / money at the moment to get someone else on board.
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I just think the debate about identifying oneself "as", like pointed by other comments, is specific to a cultural context. In India specifically "programming" is as much about sector of work like "Information Technology" as it would be individuals profession. So most of the time "programmer" or "software engineer" inter-changeably explains the where one works for someone outside the profession. In case the person shows further interest, one could go further into what exactly is the span of work. So unlike Patrick's essay tries to convey, "programmer" per se is not a restrictive definition.
The counter argument is, of course, that you don't have time not to.

Many programmers who begin TDD have the same concern as you. Many of them find that over time they're more productive over the long haul with TDD. It takes a little while to arrive at that realization.
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You could try outsourcing to Language Students at a local University. They are probably cheaper than other local translators (don't take the piss) and could become employees as you scale.
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Nobody is disagreeing with you. That's not what downvotes are for here. You were downvoted for tone.

The community is telling you that you're being offensive and that it would appreciate it if you either changed your tone to be more civil, or left.

Try a quick experiment: rewrite this exact post with a calm, positive tone and repost it side by side with the original. I wouldn't be surprised to find it float to the top of the discussion.
Interesting stuff, but given the sheer brainmass that SciPy has attracted its going to be hard to draw users away from that crowd. I think the only appeal of this project, at least for the time being, is labs that are already entrenched in Ruby.
>> There's a lack of people wanting to scale businesses.

Isn't this the role of experienced managers: join the business at a point it has shown possibility to scale(and big profits) and make the scaling happen ?

And if you've got a successful and growing business you could manage to hire a good manager to do this ? or there's a lack of people who are fit for this task ?
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I dont know if its just me, but i found the results difficult to read and understand. Too much metadata in there that i dont need to know about. Just sum it up with the actual results that we need to say would make it easier to digest the information being given.

No doubt its useful information but when presented like this the effect is diluted.
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I agree that more should go to the author but following an author friend on Twitter going through the editing of his third novel, I've been amazed by how much editing and fact checking is done by the publisher (or rather the editor on behalf of the publisher).

They've pulled him up on everything from one character removing the wrong persons trousers (seriously), to commentary about when things were overwrought to picking him up on mentioning a TV show that hadn't screened at the time. And that's just a selection of the bits he mentioned, I'm fairly certain there's a shed load more that were less remarkable and amusing.

Writing may be a solo pursuit but getting a book in a finished form and getting it to market takes more effort from more people than is apparent to most of us I think and that's all got to be paid for by someone.

Obviously an author could contract directly with a copy editor but there are issues with that, from having to provide the money up front to the fact that once you the author are paying them they're less likely to give you honest feedback for fear they won't get work in the future.

The current publishing model is, like most businesses, flabby, but we need to be careful not to assume that there's no value there.
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Google has an android app so you can read the books on your phone. But its not available in the UK.
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outsource it.

http://mygengo.com should sort you out.

you still take on clients, you just won't be the one doing all the translation yourself. your role will be more of a project manager / QA role. should be easier to scale.
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Not mentioning even there is no security problem involved, we are talking mobile browsers here, if that doesn't actually make more traffic? Of course, instant search suggestion also does exactly that, so there is no big deal here.
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Excellent post all in all, but the part I consider the most important is:

Job security, job satisfaction, good pay. Pick any two.

I've been keenly aware of that for a while now. For someone like me, someone who chooses the first two, it stings a lot until you come to terms with it and make it your conscious choice. It all has to do with one's priorities and no combination is bad in itself. You just need to be aware of these things or it might be a source of unhappiness for you.
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Yes, me too, I'm a programmer. That's how I think of myself, regardless of what infinitely varied tasks I may do. And me too, that's what I blurt out when people ask me what I do.

In more formal contexts, like resumes and job apps, I call myself a software developer, because that's a more encompassing description of what I do. Software development is not just programming, even if that's the most obvious and the most fun part.

My employers call me whatever they want to call me. That's been technical staff member, programmer, software engineer, etc.

I never voluntarily call myself a software engineer. I've never worked under the supervision of a PE who was legally responsible for my work, and I've never been on a track working toward my PE. Very few software developers work in that environment.

I don't mind the informalization of the term software engineer, but I don't use it because I've never, ever worked in an environment where programming or software development was practiced as an engineering discipline using national or international standards of practice or product. Software development where I've been, and where most people are, is much more an individual art than a community science. So I don't want to give the impression that what I'm doing is in any way a legal, formal engineering practice.
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And it can't be done with the keyboard. I used to use 'l' to like and 'S' to share. Both shortcuts are gone.
Charge more. You seem to be stuck with the idea that if you charge more you will lose clients. Do you have any evidence that this is true? Have you talked to existing clients and said "I'm pretty busy, but if you pay X I can fit you in this week?" What did they say to that? Did you try putting out a new ad with higher rates? Do you get lower feedback? Or the same feedback.