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I agree with the majority of this but would like to add that founding your own startup and keeping it ultra lightweight can gain you these same freedoms on a higher income.

Don't take on investors: make a product that earns money. Don't hire full or part time employees: find intelligent automated solutions to tricky problems or bring on contractors as necessary. Having control over what you make and when you make it means (for me, at least) more sleep, more money and less wasted time making someone else's dream a reality.
But what I do rather than giving up is just sink into my own world, and if that's not destructive, I don't know what is.
I just feel depressed, and then end up feeling that I should be stronger and I'm weak because I'm depressed, which just makes me even more miserable.
1. The gamification aspect of sports is everywhere. Fantasy, March Madness, etc. SC uses that gamification to give risk averse people a way to play the same way gamblers do without the risk. People can make picks, invite their friends to pick and join their network. They earn achievements, real rewards (like tickets)from winning challenges, and status by being right on their picks that they share publicly. Sports are polarizing. There are always people on each side offering analysis and casting their picks. Competition among friends and the desire to be right will drive people to pick smarter and leave better analysis based on more info (ref: people study up before march madness pools each year).

2. This is where the game drives the real utility of SC. As people cast their picks, users are able to see in real-time where the public thinks the smart money is (this has nothing to do with the betting agent). There isn't a site out there that tells people how many people bet on each side. That's where SC comes in. People that are actually betting (not on SC) can use this data in a variety of ways. They can bet with or against the crowd or follow users who have a public track record of accurate picks and use them as their basis for wagering.

3. The social side of SC allows people to follow users who make great picks or give good advice. See weekly standings for friends, and overall. Checkin at games you are attending, share pics, videos, smack talk.

4. Stats - You can currently track who beats the spread more than others, but with SC you add the ability to know how accurate the crowd or specific users are over time to make more informed picks. Sort by game to see odds, crowd picks, expert picks, analysis, etc.

5. Monetizing it. Tapping the data to provide insight for Fantasy sports users or other gaming platforms, premium memberships giving you more insight into a broader array of data, content partnerships (where people can cast their votes on more than just lines sponsored by leagues, marketers, etc... ie Which jerseys should Maryland wear for next weeks game) are all ways we will monetize.
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Who pays for their Google ranking? People might pay SEO companies to help them rank better, but I am skeptical that they are paying Google for it.
This part seemed especially troubling:

"But PopCap’s founders worried about the company’s reputation after hearing rumors of the company’s rescinding share awards and fierce internal competition, said two people with first-hand knowledge of the situation. Instead, PopCap agreed to a rival offer from Electronic Arts, worth $750 million in cash and stock and the potential of an additional $550 million if certain earnings goals were met."

You agree to be acquired for less money by EA because of the culture of Zynga? EA. Arguably the worst-regarded place for game developers to work.
> [Amphetamine] allows you to stay up three or four days perfectly lucid

Nope. No known stimulants negate the need for sleep, nor do amphetamines significantly “increase your clock speed” (certainly not by the amount necessary to counteract sleep deprivation even before the end of your second day).

By the end of day three, you'll suffer from increasingly severe effects of sleep deprivation including but not limited to: cognitive dysfunction, paranoia, and hallucinations (probably auditory at first), plus of course the compulsive behaviour induced by most stimulants.
Did we not see another report recently that employees at square are also worked to death? So is it even worse at Zynga or is it because its going public?
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For now, but I am particularly thinking of the oil industry trying to prevent alternative energy from becoming popular (I am thinking in particular of electric cars).
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I sat next to an off-duty pilot one time. He said the pilots really would only care during the final part of landing.

He turned on his cell phone and showed that it wouldn't pick up a signal anyway.
It's also important to consider the opposite perspective, when you're working on design touches that usually should be subtle. Some very common examples are lighting effects like gradients, drop shadows and cut-outs.

These effects need to have quite a gentle contrast between the darker and the lighter colours, and if you start throwing around 25%+ differences in grey level your results could become overpowering for viewers with decent screens.

Of course, in such cases, you also won't completely break your design for viewers with poorly configured screens or imperfect vision if the contrast isn't as strong to them, so you can afford to be more subtle than when choosing, say, foreground/background colours for body text.
I'm similar too, except that my father drilled a work ethic in me. I also grew up in a very rural area. So, my father would give me projects that HAD to get done. Some examples:
"If you don't split this firewood, we won't be able to heat the house in the Wintertime."
"If you don't clean these ditches, now in the Fall, then the Spring snowmelt will wash-out our driveway."
"If you don't carry buckets of water to the house this morning, we won't have any to use the rest of the day."

Because of these tasks, I developed a "can-do" attitude. I learnt that if I can figure out how the most efficient way to split firewood, than I can also discover the most efficient way to be fit / be attractive / get high-paying jobs / etc. It just takes cleverness and determination to get out of a bad situation.
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> Remember that EM fields are subject to inverse-square law.

Not inside a metal tube, they're not.

This is not to say that I'm a "believer" one way or the other, but you should also think about it in comparison to the signals that the navigation equipment is trying to receive with its omnidirectional antenna. I.e., a strong CB radio 26,000 miles away. It wouldn't take any power at all to interfere with it, if the interfering signal were on the magic frequencies (which are continually changing due to doppler effects).
As a As a current student in Abstract Algebra, this was really refreshingly simple to look at . Thanks fro a greatly simplified teaser to show other people!
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Every job is going to suck if you're an engineer for hire. There is no mythical good place to work, and if there were, someone like these guys would be working overtime to make it suck for you. If you're an engineer you need to be working on selling your own products and services and working within the framework of being a business owner. Once you accept a permanent salaried position, no more negotiation is possible and you will have to weigh each new set of terms dictated to you with the cost of quitting. Setting up a business allows you to renegotiate with clients and you will never have to take the career hit of quitting a salaried position again.
Agreed! I took a few math major classes as a freshman, but my professors never took the time to give this aerial view. Now the value in these generalizations makes perfect sense.
"There are very little fonts in Google web fonts currently that are worth using." Amen!

I like this multiples of 6 thing, too. Most attempts to get a baseline grid going (like on Blueprint, for example) just look wrong.
Not surprising to any of us who live here and have been hearing the stories for quite some time. While hard work is essential and data driven decision making critical; when it crosses the line into abusiveness without offering any of the benefits of a steve jobs, it's over the line. What happens when investment bankers run amok. there's a reason profits are flattening....
Now this was interesting:

While such a culture is not uncommon in the game industry, it can create problems. Employees at Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard have filed lawsuits against their employers, with claims of hostile work conditions and withheld compensation. In 2006, Electronic Arts settled two class-action lawsuits by game artists and programmers for about $15 million each
Thanks kls for the great advice. I will definitely consider what you mentioned. My only concern is the sales force required to reach out to large bar-chains or liquor labels to secure a deal. I'm going to think about the best approach. Thanks for the suggestion.
I will personally be surprised if Wikileaks launches a new submission system tomorrow. According to a recent Wikileaks press release:

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What about the clause "These donations are voluntary, and no goods, services, or other considerations are provided to the donors."?
Different people are different distances and difficulties away from their ideal life, but the only way you're really stuck is if you give up. "this year's going to decide my future" is not true. Well, aside from the tautology that every year, every moment decides your future. The noose is a mirage, just as much as the resume/admissions game is. Play the game or don't - but don't let it bind you.
Disclaimer: I used to work at Palantir. However, I never used the Government product, and never as much as saw a demo of the Government product. I'll talk mostly about the Government product, but much of this goes for the Finance product too.

Seems like there's a bit of a misunderstanding of what Palantir does. Palantir Government does not do data mining natively. The best explanation of this is from Palantir themselves: http://blog.palantir.com/2007/12/04/what-do-we-do/. There's impressive algorithms under the hood of Palantir Government, but the insight and analysis is provided by government analysts.

Palantir provides software, services, and support. The services are mostly data integration, training, and some custom software built on top of the Palantir Government product. Palantir isn't providing analysis for money, they're providing a product that enables analysts to analyze.
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I haven't read the book that some others have been recommending, but it looks good (I respect a lot of the people who gave it favorable reviews on its website). Aside from that, I'd say you should do some research on others who've successfully followed this path. They exist -- they're just less likely to show up in tech news, which is heavily influenced by investors (who only care about big wins) and bloggers (who only care about big news).

Take a look at the early blog posts from Balsamiq's Peldi, anything by Patrick Mackenzie, the Wufoo guys, Gary Vaynerchuck, or anything from the 37Signals guys. This talk by DHH never fails to motivate me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
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Steve Jobs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
So the question then is -- did you really often not try because you didn't care, or specifically because you were secretly (even to yourself) afraid of making a mistake and thus disproving everyone's beliefs about you being smart (being afraid of letting people down, or not living up to the expectations of others)?

This is exactly what happened to me. I often was thought of as smart, (though still to this day I don't know why), but nonetheless it affected me and led me to avoid certain challenges. To think that it was all a result of a belief in a "fixed/unchangeable intelligence/personality/self", as opposed to the opposite, is both incredibly enlightening and exciting and very frustrating that I allowed myself to form the mindset in the first place.
Ah, indeed, I was wrong - B&N purchased the brand and customer list - the merger was something that was rumored, but never happened.
http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-New-Psychology-Success-ebook/d... does a really good job exploring this.
Apple needs to stop trying to build it's own separate social graph for each features (Game Center, Find My Friends, Ping, maybe even Facetime) and give Zuckerberg whatever it takes to integrate with Facebook for friend discovery like everyone else is (i.e. Foursquare, Instagram).

I wish I could see what kinds of games my friends are playing, but the mental stress of thinking through who I know has an iPhone, and manually searching for them just makes it not worthwhile.
Unless you are going a long way, it may well be faster to drive. For me: 1 hour drive to the airport, 1+ hours at the airport for check-in, security, etc, 1 hour at destination to retrieve baggage, get a rental car, and get out of the airport... plus the time of the flight. If I can drive in under 6 hours, I'll seriously consider doing that rather than deal with all the hassle of air travel.
Here I was thinking frissoning to music was completely common. Except I never really stopped to wonder whether there was a word for that.
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There is the Blackberry Playbook that is exactly the same device for the same price but a lot nicer in UX.
Lenovo also has the Idea Pad A1 that is slightly more in ($229) price but same form factor.

Both of these devices will get you the full Tablet experience minus the lag and general unfinished feeling of the Fire. Plus both have the Kindle app so reading amazon content is not a problem. So there is no real market for the Fire from what I can see. sure the Silk browser seems cool but Laggy execution will kill any perceived advantages.

For about $100 more you can also get the ASUS Transformer (my current Tablet). I have literally stopped using my laptop except at work once I got this. The attached Dock makes it a perfect device for my usecases.
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Thanks a lot for you feedback, I will be posting more, so keep in tune :)
I'm still not entirely sure what iCloud actually is. It syncs ~/Library/Preferences? And it lets you redownload music? And I can remotely wipe my laptop I guess?

But, what is the actual service here? I switched in on in System Preferences and it didn't really tell me anything, nor did I notice anything changing.

I do only have one Mac and zero iPhones though, so maybe it would be more obvious if I had more devices?
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When you put it that way, it sounds much better. But what happens if you don't play the game?
If I can convert it to a drafting table I'm sold.
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This is cool! So Google is Wolfram Alpha for everything in the world?
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"Look at Apple vs a place like Zynga..."

Bad example. The folks I know at Apple are ridiculously overworked. I've got a cousin who works on FileMaker that's been putting in 12+ hour days and weekends for the last year. I've got a friend who works on iMessage for the iPhone, and his roommates never see him at home unless they specifically arrange a social event with him.

I think that if you want a company in Silicon Valley with decent work/life balance, it'd probably be Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, or one of the other last-generation giants. Google depends on your team; there're parts of Infrastructure, Apps, etc. that work reasonable hours with little deadline pressure, but people on the money teams (Search, Ads, Android, Doodles) are often there at all hours because they set very ambitious and complex goals for themselves. Facebook has a reputation for long hours and weekend hackathons. Yahoo is apparently very variable: some folks are putting in 12-14 hour days and still not getting all their work done, while others work for like 2-3 hours and spend the rest of the day on Facebook. Apple I already mentioned.
I disagree. Motivation is big factor for performance. A demotivated work force will only do exactly what it is being told, and show initiative. So any company - even when acting in self interest - will treat employees well.

No place is just ice cream all day long, there's some dog food too sometimes, sometimes there's stress.

I've been doing software in various positions (some big companies, some startups) for over 20 years, and for the most part I love it... I love my current job. Nobody asks for overtime.
Ugh. Silly VC propaganda is now making the front page?

Honestly this is a great attitude to instill in your employees, they will kill themselves for the company and when they burn out you can hire some more. You really can get a lot done when you can convince people to sacrifice their lives. Just make sure you and your technical advisers get enough sleep and downtime to think clearly and stay motivated and sharp.

If you are a developer then hopefully you've read enough about your profession to know how real work gets done.

Maybe you are too naive to know that there are people who are more than happy to sell you a dream so you'll work yourself stupid, selling a chunk of your life for a lottery ticket (but hey, some of them do pay off).

That naiveté won't last long in this business, so don't worry, you'll learn one way or another.
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Yes, it isn't useful if you only have one device. It is mostly a sync service. So it transparently synchronizes:
- iWork documents
- Contacts
- Calendar
- Music
- Photos (the most recent 1000, I believe)
- A few other things (don't recall everything)

A few things worth mentioning:
- Other app data can be synchronized if those apps make use of the newer Lion/iOS 5 APIs. I don't know if anyone does that yet.
- Music is “synced” by re-downloading from the iTunes Store. You can sync non-iTMS music using iTunes Match, which will upload any music it fails to match with an equivalent song in the iTunes Store. This means you do not use iCloud storage space for songs that are on iTMS.

These things are synced between iPhones, iPads, and Macs, with some support for the Apple TV (specifically, Photo Stream is also on the Apple TV).

In addition, yes, you do have find my mac and find my iPhone as part of it, and there are web apps for your calendar and contacts.
Have you ever seen and used phones prior 2007?
My suggestion would be that since you are a single founder, the best would be to finish the very minimum viable product that can attract your potential investors. if you think a graphic design is required, then do it. You can outsource logo design cheaply to Asia. Logo design would be something that is more on creative side, imagination doesn't require education, so everyone is a genius if they can pour their imagination into black on white, vs if you are thinking of outsourcing technology development.

as for large server, have you look into AWS? Amazon Web Services is an excellent server solution, Yelp is using AWS. I read somewhere that one of the things that Facebook regrets is that they invest on their own data center vs doing a cloud like in AWS.
I see your point, guan, and in Instagram's case the funding may be justified. But there will inevitably be far more of these sites failing than massively succeeding which means far more investors getting burned. Then the Startuplamd loses its luster, the bubble bursts, and we're all screwed even if we're worth funding.

I wonder how different things would be if more people rejected funding and ran shoestring budgets longer. I'd say the pressure to have to be good and pay the bills will result in few projects but much far more successful ones in the long run.
I think you haven't worked at enough places.
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You can already do this fairly easily—find your current location in the maps app, tap on it, and “share location”. Sharing via message is one option.

Find My Friends is more of a passive thing. e.g., there are people coming to my party, let's ask them to let me access their location so I know when I need to start panicking (not the best example, I know :p).
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Sure, and since you may have done too, you may remember that there was no such fuss about a phone looking like another, which is the point of my comment.

I also don't see how the "slide to unlock" stuff can be patented and sued on, there are (not only from Apple of course) sooo much stupid trivial patents, it's just sickening.

Hopefully someday the sue each other into "check mate", make no money and the world/countries see that the whole patent system has to be reworked from the ground.
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