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"the strongest leaders were best characterised by dominance"

I think this too can be viewed as the strongest leaders are best characterized by being able to maintain control / manage a situation toward a required direction; It's of course easier to do this if you want to be domineering, so that would create a statistic that shows more 'strongest leaders' as those who are domineering, merely because it's the easier way to do something - but takes much less and skill and nuanced behaviour and understanding.
Insightful article and really well written.

I guess the closest you can come is:
- having people around you who have similar standards
- a culture of constantly questioning everything
- a business unit that understands the importance of overcoming tech debt
Lean startup and MVP movements only function if you have someone in control with a clear vision and understanding of what will / needs to be created, and who can defend what the MVP features need to be. If you don't understand the metrics and why they exist then you'll have no idea why your product didn't take off - and that seems too risky to spend your time, energy, money on - if you don't the strong understanding of what must be missing.

An MVP in this sense really is just a real product with a minimal set of features. :)
And/or the jerks eventually settle down in their 40s.
So is the way of politics.

But arguably now that most of the people who usually vote dems for other reasons take SOPA/PIPA seriously, the only dem candidates that will stand a chance will be people taking their money outside MPAA/RIAA
> The American Congress, on the balance, seems to be more about staying in Congress (or affiliates i.e. Lobbying) than about jobs for Americans.

Of course it is. A congress critter who isn't in office is no longer (or never was) a congress critter.

And no, different voting schemes won't change that.
"Click Help then all the windowing system is gone south."

That's a fairly faithful emulation, actually...
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5. Beaten by their own other product

... I guess.
Do you (all three people above this comment) know why the right hand is used, and what the left hand is used for?

> [...] eating the traditional way, with her right hand
Or if you're not western - washing your hands every time you use the restroom.

It's all about perspective.
What law books should an entrepreneur read?
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wonderful thing about encrypted information, with the right key it can be decrypted to say whatever you want. So if government has decided that you have plans for the al Qaeda attack on your laptop... well, you do.

Now all that you have to do is prove that you either don't know or have forgotten the key that decrypts your random bits into a plan they will accept. How hard do you think it will be to convince an aggressive prosecutor/judge that you are innocent when you have no evidence (can't prove a negative) and the government has reasonable suspicion?
I think it's a good term, given that the opposite is passive. Why is it a bad thing by definition?
I know what she meant, just like I know what my mom means when she points to her computer tower and calls it a CPU or calls her browser a search engine. I was just trying to make the point that her vocabulary didn't reflect a person who was particularly competent at programming. I later realized that she likely only learned enough HTML and CSS to customize a WordPress page, which just means that I assumed wrong about what the "Learning Code" portion of the program name implied.
> I'd rather that we, as a nation, consult with experts (for example, social scientists and really good educators), come up with a ten year plan, and execute on that plan consistently.

Good for you, but what's actually likely to happen?

I note that the department of education can do those things today, or 20 years ago, but didn't. What makes you think that this time will be different?
Here in the UK. You get looks if you go to an Indian restaurant and eat flatbread (Naan) with a knife and fork.
It's not really arguable - HTML is not programming, it's markup.

But the point is not to make someone employable as a "hot-shot startup whizz"; just to teach them some basics so they can communicate with devs as equals.
And anyway, it would be worrying if just taking a few coding lessons would qualify someone to be employable as a programmer at all :)
Cool, thanks. I've recently aligned my goals at the same depth as the ones you stated - and it takes a lot of the pressure off, and enough pressure to direct my behaviour toward working towards those goals.
There's some interesting answers to this question on security.stackexchange http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6758/can-webcams... . Short answer is that it looks to be possible with some webcams but not others, depending on the design.
Looks like the open beta is out for developers: https://developer.v.me/

Full service launch due in early 2012.
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Can you imagine an openly gay man being elected President of the United States of America? That's the difference.
Is the phone call usually that important that you can't wait. Oh and when eating with your hands it's usually with you right hand. Your not meant to use your left as that's for other things (when you go to the restroom).
Definitely don't be the "Um" guy. To wit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLmguqPI1EssJ48_VdAtl9nA&#....

Just recognize the reason why you are saying "Um" all the time, since there is properly a good reason for it. "Um"s are awkward, replacing them with a few seconds of silence isn't - oftentimes, it actually helps keep the audience focused.
Their interpretation (and I got this directly from HR/Legal) was that any app, for any kind of 'smartphone', even if it was on your own time on all your own gear. They claimed that Google was in the business of 'smartphone applications' and so anything you wrote belonged to them. Even in California. I asked them if I wrote a kitchen timer application for the iPhone would they claim ownership, they answered in the affirmative.

And I did consult an attorney on that and his comments were that you could probably litigate it and win, although you would wouldn't be working there any more. So if you really wanted to write an app, just quit and write it, so much simpler legally, and you could keep all the profits rather than run the risk of losing all the profit and ownership to Google.
It’s a great time to be a programmer in the UK
Congress doesn't really care about "jobs", it's just a platitude they use as an excuse to push through the bills they want...you wouldn't vote against jobs, would you?
> For some background, I’ve done a tremendous amount of public speaking.

This is why he doesn't need practice. Normal people will.
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Hmm. That version sounds worse to me. Doesn't it just take the 2-bracket plan, and add a federal mandate that poor people all have to give the federal government an interest-free loan every year?
I recommend Winston's "How to Speak" video: (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9F536001A3C605FC) FWIW, he's an AI prof who wrote a book on Lisp.

Also, I do like to say my speech out loud multiple times, when I'm alone. It engages verbal forms of thinking, and helps me get at the root of an idea. I sometimes have a "breakthrough" moment where I seize upon an idea that wasn't at the center of the subject, and reconceive everything so it is.

But that's not quite "memorizing"; depending on what I sense in the room, I'll reduce the time on some parts, or expand on others.

Also, it's important for me to feel it's my job to present the audience with something interesting to them. To somehow transfer representations in my mind to theirs. I wish to do a good job for them, and that outweighs other considerations.

That said, as an audience member, it's important not to get too impressed by delivery; maybe good hygiene to think more highly of a plain talk, and less of a charismatic one.
Table manners and rules regarding the use of knives were introduced to prevent violence. In western civilization, it went from having your personal pointy knife at dinner to using the hosts knife that has a rounded tip and is typically bland.

In China (and maybe other parts of Asia) knives during dinner became completely taboo.

(Source: Steven Pinkers "Better Angels of our Nature", very interesting book, also here: http://itotd.com/articles/555/tableware-taboos/)

I'd say from the standpoint of practicality and hygiene, knives and forks win hands down.

Eating with your hands is appropriate if you don't trust your fellow diners eating with potential weapons.
I eat with a knife and fork because that raises less eyebrows when I'm in the US. When I'm in India, I use hands because anything else would raise eyebrows.

That said, it's very liberating to eat with your hands. If you are concerned with hygiene (as you should be), wash your hands well before and after you eat. Remember, you know where your hands have been. You have no idea in whose mouths those forks have been, and how well they've been washed and handled afterwards.

There's nothing inherently unhygienic about using hands. Those who don't wash their hands well don't care about hygiene, so there's no particular reason for them to be using cutlery. Those who do, are better off using hands as long as there's a good way to wash them available. Just rinsing with water is not good enough.
Also, I fear that groups of women programming might not get the same experience as if they were also programming with men. I'm skeptical of the value of gender-biased environments helping defeat perceived gender biases found in a particular activity. It seems it would only further promote gender biases.

The program fails if most of the women, upon exiting the program, start programming with men and say "This isn't like Ladies Learning Code!" and either quit programming altogether or simply join other groups of women to program.
Kind of a first-world problem.

A lot is made of a company 'culture', and frequently perks are pointed out. Well, sorry, culture is what is left when the chips are down, the perks are gone, and its time to work your way out of the hole.

At Google, as the article said, when perks dried up folks left. Those folks were never part of their culture, they were what's known as freeloaders.

So why not be a freeloader? I don't know, I just feel kind of sticky when I find myself in that position. I would much rather be part of a small company, doing whatever it takes to be successful because its MY company.
None. An entrepreneur should hire a lawyer for legal matters and focus on building a company.
We don't have abundant solar power because of financing, not science
Pretty cool idea, but i'm not so sure about the $0.99 pricing, seems pretty undervalued/cheap.
The big problem here is choosing the good films based only on the concepts.

Otherwise I really hope someone can do this. You could possibly set the price point higher though?

I'm not even sure that heavy advertising would be needed for the individual films, so long as you managed to attract a user base who expected high quality films they wanted to watch on the home page.
I'd be happy to see the parties compete on this issue of how to make Hollywood and friends no longer a threat to free speech and the net.

Democrats could push for European-style subsidy of production. Republicans could push for letting the market work - advertising, product placement, etc are all that's needed. Both programs can agree on eliminating copyright for entertainment works.
One might think asking people what value they would get would be a good idea - making sure there is in fact some audience that would pay. There are a lot of really cool things I'd like to have, but that doesn't mean I'd pay for all of them.

I wonder to what degree a service like KickStarter can be used to determine if people will in fact pay for a product like one of these?
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I'm struggling to find an example. Could you provide some?
Afraid doesn't necessarily denote the emotion of fear, I think in this context we can safely say it's merely the anticipation of something which is disliked. Like, "I'm afraid if I order from Sloppy Joe's Pizzeria, I'll find another hair in my pizza."
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if he just described the current state of Hollywood (except for the "straight to stream for 0.99$" part). Hollywood is a business after all. And they clearly have some silly algorithms at work picking potential blockbusters. I've heard rumors that even part of the scripting is algorithmic these days (component based).

Of course "we" could improve on the algorithms, but such a thing is not a startup idea in my opinion. A startup idea would be a specific way to improve upon the algorithms.
Adherence to border media screening forms is from pre-implementation of this "trade agreement."
Not really. I can enforce my own standards, but it doesn't mean everyone will enforce them on their own. This is relevant when sharing food, for instance.
> Well, defenders of the current SS and Medicare system keep insisting that they're not really taxes, they're "contributions" for "insurance" that everybody pays into for the purpose of receiving benefits later.

Note that the benefits payouts are incredibly progressive. Folks who don't put much money into SS get a much better return on their money than folks who "contribute" the max each year.
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Depending on the severity of your "ums", this is a facet "normal people" may need not perfect (or even need to work on).

This article is the minimum strategy, the 80% of a good presentation. Ums are a detractor but not as much a one as poor product knowledge or mechanical storytelling.
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Kristalnacht, 'Der Ewige Jew', Triumph of the Will, the death camps and concentration camps, these were all concerted campaigns against the 'undesirables' of Germany in order to promote racial purity.

You have given examples of parallels to these things but there is no commonality of purpose behind them.

'Der Ewige Jude' was not a campaign to create a 'common enemy' or hoodwink the German people as I assume you believe Islamophobia is (I can only assume you believe Islamophobia can be explained by media promotion rather than an emergent feeling among the populace in response to 9/11). It was done with the express purpose of dehumanizing Jews so the populace would be complacent with the gas chambers.

So please, show me a commonality of purpose behind all these parallels you have shown. All you have are disparate events to which you have identified a certain aspect which is similar to what Nazi Germany did.
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I don't disagree with the idea of "division of labor" and specialization and all that, but I think it's short-sighted to say an entrepreneur should not read at least a little about business law. As an entrepreneur, I think it's valuable to have at least enough of an understanding to know what questions to ask, and to be able to have an informed conversation with your legal counsel.

There's quite a continuum between studying as much as a lawyer-in-training, and going and taking a "Business Law 101" course, or just reading the textbook from a "Business Law 101" course. I think most entrepreneurs would be well served by at least reading over such a textbook or taking such a class.
>How many border protection agents look into your /etc/fstab and know fdisk, mount and cryptsetup?

They don't need to. Microsoft and other companies have been providing software on bootable CDs and USB keys to do quick 'security' audits of PCs for years to various police forces. I'd be extremely surprised if detecting encrypted/hidden partitions wasn't a common feature.
I think that very few directors would want to forego the possibility of their film appearing in theaters. Films are designed for theaters and to those who make films, the home-theater experience, which increasingly consists of a laptop on a bed, is a paltry imitation.
Let me say this a different way: having any media on your machine whatsoever is now "funny business". If you have movies ripped to your laptop for your kids to watch, as I do, then you can legally be held under suspicion of piracy, and your property can accordingly be confiscated. The burden is on you to satisfy whatever requirements the government may have for the media.
On the flip side, making it a partisan issue implies a solid opposition, making such laws harder to pass without anyone noticing. We're stuck with this ugly system at the moment, may as well take what we can get from it.
I think this idea has a lot of strong elements to it. However, the issue that sticks out the most to me is the pricing model. $.99 per viewing? That would make making a profit incredibly difficult. It just isn't realistic.

Instead, I think a price closer to renting a movie on demand would work better with a bargain price for each view after that. Perhaps $2.99 or $3.99 for the first view and $.99 for each view after that. And then maybe when the viewer gets up to a certain view count, each view after that is free. This way, you can gain a profit with less viewers while also instilling loyalty in repeat viewers who are most likely to spread the word.
Its a good idea because it brings in a level of transparency. But I'm not sure if it'll make a big dent on Hollywood.

Why do some movies do well and others don't? There are a lot of reasons. But if we were to simplify, there are 2 things that matter more than the rest.

1. The buzz factor.

Reason why studios pay $20 million to a well known celebrity is because they know it will generate the buzz and create expectations.

2. The story and the experience.

Once the movie is released, and the first wave of viewers go and watch it, then it all depends on how good their experience was - for the buzz to sustain.

To beat Hollywood, you have to become better than them at telling good stories well, and creating buzz that lasts to make money out of it.

You absolutely have to become good at monetizing the buzz. Only selling the movies for 99 cents is a bad monetization plan. You will never be able to fund a movie like Avatar. And if you can't do that, you'll never be able to take on Hollywood.

If I were to develop a plan to beat Hollywood, it would center around creating buzz. How to use the new media to generate buzz.

Maybe create a new incentivized market... a whacky idea like: the first hundred thousand people who watch a movie can share in its profits.
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You still haven't explained why Google should pay US taxes on Google Ireland's profits. Those profits were made using Ireland's infrastructure and were taxed there.
Why not just browse successful kickstarter film projects and do this with stuff that people have already made? Wouldn't that be faster way to see whether it can work?
From Wikipedia:

Aggression, in its broadest sense, is behavior, or a disposition towards behavior, that is forceful, hostile or attacking. It may occur either in retaliation or without provocation. In narrower definitions that are commonly used in psychology and other social and behavioral sciences, aggression involves an intention to cause harm, even if only as a means to an end. It has alternatively been defined as acts intended to increase relative social dominance.

Not exactly an endearing definition. Dictionary.com has even less flattering definitions.

Passive (or passiveness) isn't the the antonym of aggression. Here's a few that I found: agreeableness, friendliness, friendship, gentleness, kindness, niceness. I would much rather be attributed those qualities.
I'm Indian, been in the Bay Area for about 12-13 years. In an Indian restaurant I eat with hands, except for rice for which I use forks.

Anyway, my most interesting story is when I went to an Ethiopian restaurant in Saratoga (not 100% sure but I think it was http://www.zenirestaurant.com/) with a friend and we ordered a bunch of stuff. It was presented in a large plate, with injera bread at the botton and everything on top, and no cutlery. When we asked, we were told to eat with hands, which we were only more than happy to do.
[reminds me that I haven't been there in a while, should go again sometime. :)]
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Good advice - especially like the talking to 2 people. Some other things that work for me (you'll have to take my experience as given);

- Make sure you know what you're talking about. Perhaps an obvious point but the confidence you have in the subject will carry you through more than anything. If it's your field of expertise, hopefully no problem but if you're in a position of giving a talk about something you're not an expert in, it's worth investing time and researching the topic well beforehand, preparing for questions you might be asked. At the same time, if you don't know the answer to a question, be honest "I don't know but I'll get back to you when I do."

- Talk to yourself beforehand. Run through the talk a couple of times in private, preferably standing not sitting but mumbling is good enough - no need for full volume. Helps to get a clear idea of what you're going to say and what the main points are. It also helps avoid those moments where you suddenly run out of words - your arguments are always on the tip of your tongue.

- Less is more. Few people can concentrate on listening to someone for more than 45 minutes and the more complex the topic, the harder it will be to follow. Boil it down to the main things you're going to say and focus on those. Also time it roughly while you're talking to yourself - this is the best way to identify the places where you're rambling or spending too much time on something that isn't really important to your focus.
Ethiopian cuisine, which is wonderful, is the cuisine through which I learned to eat with my hands (picking up the food with pieces of Ethiopian flatbread, injera, which is made from the flour of the teff grain). I have eaten in Indian restaurants in my town, and have eaten home-cooked meals here in my state in the homes of Indian friends, but always we were provided with utensils to eat Western style. I'd love to try eating south Asian food with my hands, just as I routinely eat east Asian food with chopsticks. Maybe this is something that should be mentioned in online ratings of Indian restaurants--how friendly they are to hands-on eating.
Probably a bit late for most readers here, but I highly recommend taking advantage of whatever opportunities for public speaking and performance your high school offers -- whether that's just walking on stage as an extra in a school theater production, or joining the debate club. Even a little can go a long way in relieving anxiety for the rest of your life.
Are they planning on making Vintage mode better? I just tried it, and there's a lot of unexpected behavior. It jumps into insert mode for commands that shouldn't and so on.
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This would never work. If anyone is going to "kill hollywood" they need to address the massive costs associated with producing a movie not the money raising. If movie production could be taken down from $100m to $500k then that would be the game changer, but even that ignores huge barriers and reasons Hollywood exists.

To "kill" Hollywood people need to address the costs, not the money raising. Crowd sourcing $1m is close to impossible, crowd sourcing $1m on a regular basis is even harder and crowd sourcing $10m+ on a regular basis? never going to happen. Even if it was achieved once or twice, as soon as a movie doesn't meet expectations the idea will fall apart, if costs are reduced to much lower levels, losing a crowd sourced $500k because the movie sucked is much more palatable than $10m.