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Generally I agree with you here, though I once read that the majority (perhaps the vast majority?) of the best-funded projects in Kickstarter history presented themselves as product pre-sales. They showed tangible goods, linked those goods to donation levels, and in all but name only, gave the impression that users were trading "donations" for the goods they saw in the pictures.

Perhaps this says something about Kickstarter and its userbase, or about the way Kickstarter describes itself to its users. I am a big fan of Kickstarter, and I've funded about ten projects on the site. I realize that not everything I fund is going to ship me something, and I'm fine with that.

But I suspect I am not a typical user. Indeed, I suspect that the typical user funds a single project, which he or she believes will directly result in the shipment of a physical product. In fact, I would be very curious to know what the user stats tell us on this matter. If Kickstarter says it's X (a donation site), but a preponderance of its users believe it's Y (a pre-sales site), then it's got an interesting dilemma on its hands. A site that believes itself to be X will not be a good enough Y for people who think it's Y, and vice versa. Maybe Kickstarter doesn't want the Y people sticking around, or it thinks that a preponderance of Y people indicates that the site is still in its infancy and has yet to mature. Fine. But if that's the case, and the Y pipeline eventually dries up, is X actually a viable business model? To date, it seems that Y users have been keeping X afloat.

If I build a ski run, and the majority of my users show up to snowboard on it, do I still call it a ski run? Do I chase the snowboarders off? Do I try to reason with the snowboarders, and convince them to trade their snowboards for skis? Do I advertise for more skiers, hoping that their numbers will eventually outweigh those of the snowboarders? Or do I embrace snowboarding? There isn't a right answer, and obviously my analogy is a little silly, but hopefully you see what I'm getting at.
Sad to see this learning. Given, that the posting is absolut unspecific, I can only wonder, what I would have been doing in such a situation:

> What hurt me was a comment “You have to make clear to your
> peers that you can fight and get to their bosses,
> otherwise you are irrelevant”

> What I learned today it that you have to get dirty all the
> way to succeed and to be seen. Lesson number one: “Get
> messy when it gets messy”

Why is it, that this turn of thinking happend, I keep asking myself.

If someone (my teamleader, boss, a coworker) would have said the first quote, I would have been hurt, too. But, would I learn, to play dirty, just to "be successful"? Is playing dirty really the only way?

Would I be able to look myself in the eye? I don't think so. I believe, my reaction would be, to jump. I would so look for another job, a place, where a human being is treated like one. Where I would be more, than a commodity.

So no, my learning would be different. I would never become such a kind of human being.

But that is just my humble opinion, as everybody is different.
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One wonders what a company like 37 Signals would be classified as.

Are they one business model? Cause they certainly have several different successful products, although i'd claim that they have a single methodology that's applied all of them (hosted web apps that don't require humans to scale up).

Likewise Microsoft... OS manufacturer? Office Suite product company? Video game manufacturer? Web-based something or other?
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Scientists still publish Elsevier because of the so called "impact factor" of some of these journals. As a young researcher currently looking for tenure-track positions in academia I can tell you that it is still extremely important to publish in some of these journals (ex Cell). Unfortunately there are still very few (or none) open access journals that have the same perceived impact. I try to publish in PLoS journals or other open access journals as much as I can but given the chance to publish in higher impact journals I have to take it or risk not having a job in the future. Once you have the job you need to secure funding and so there is always pressure to publish in the "best" possible journal. The ridiculous thing about this situation is that would be fairly easy to create a new open access and highly prestigious journal in any field if everyone would switch to publishing in these new journals at the same time. You would probably just need to convince some of the leaders in the field to do it. This was how PLoS was born in fact. Unfortunately for the PhD students and postdocs it is hard to do anything about it.
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With hardware a lot of costs are up front. I have some knowledge of PCB manufacture.

So, you need to design the PCB. You need to get artwork made. You need some prototypes. Then you need to decide whether you'll re-design, or include a mod. Re-design is expensive, that is balanced by having a bit of wire soldered between two points and a track cut by a low paid operative in some random factory.

You now have some PCBs. You need production aids. You may need stencils for screen printing solder paste. The design can be generated from the PCB gerber files. But again, there are artwork costs for this. You need a pick and place machine program. If there are many conventional components you'll want a cropping machine plate made. (A steel plate which the PCB sits on with small holes for conventional components; you then put this on the cropping machine which pins the components down while a blade slides and crops the component leads).

Then you build your prototypes. You need someone to buy components; to put these onto the pick and place machine (Which means stripping that machine down from the last job); to load the programs and set the reflow oven and align the screen print stencil.

You can new see that it's just as easy to produce ten as it is to produce one. (I'd recommend people building prototypes to build a batch of, say, 3 rather than just 1 or 2. That gives you an early alpha; a beta, and a neat and tidy beta to create documents and production drawings from.)

Hopefully I've shown how many of the costs are up front. The costs of components and actually building stuff is relatively cheap.
LinkGrammar looks very interesting and useful. But I believe that its scope is somewhat smaller than NLTK. Aside from sentence parsing, NLTK also gives you a bunch of tools for document tokenization, statistical analysis, classification, and some easily accesible corpora to try it all out on. I'd almost call it a natural language prototyping environment; it's a huge time-saver to those dabbling in the field or who need to quickly experiment with different techniques.
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the parent comment refers to them being horrible before SOPA
For reference, here is the full comment by Hughes, including his follow up noting the blog post was personal, not representing the official position of OSMF.

Tom Hughes said...

As the person who (in my role as an OpenStreetMap system administrator) first discovered this `incident' let me start by saying that I consider this post to be grossly irresponsible and wholly inappropriate.
The board of OSMF are making mountains out of tiny pimples here. It seems that they want this to be some sort of organised corporate malfeasance on the part of Google which is why they have tried to link it to the recent Mocality incident where there was indeed clear evidence of such behaviour.

The reality in this case is that there is no evidence that this is any different to the numerous other incidents we get all the time where users either accidentally or deliberately make bogus edits. The only difference in this case is that there happen to be two accounts (though we do not know if that is two people) and the user or users involved happen to (presumably) work for Google.

That is the sum total of what we know, and on the back of that, and without approaching Google at all, two leading board members have decided to reveal personal information about two of our users.

It seems to me that this is just an attempt to get some cheap publicity by trying to like the project to the Mocality incident, and I cannot support such behaviour.

Tom Hughes said...

I am told that this posting was in fact made in a personal capacity and as such any suggestion on my part that it represents an official position of the OSMF board is incorrect and should be disregarded.
the parent comment refers to them being horrible before SOPA. I was wondering what exactly was horrible. It was all plain and easy for me.
Lets assume they received a custom CMS with the website, some custom frontend-plugins, development of flash entities, interfaces to in-house IT-systems, a tracking suite, hosting, QA, send some photographers around the world to get high quality pictures, consulting....Still i cant figure out HOW this can cost $18M (and i am a technical consultant in digital agency, working exclusively for enterprise customers).
You might want to look at http://www.edutopia.org/textbook-publishing-controversy for a good summary of what's wrong with that particular industry.
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FWIW, it appears the project also provides an Android application: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tunesviewer/files/Android/

I tried it on my HTC Desire (Cyanogedmod 7.1.0) and the search function in the app turned up the Harvard statistics class immediately.

I hope those accounts below who lamented that they were on their Android tablets see this link.
I've been using Zurb Foundation for a recent contracting gig, and am pretty happy with it. Can anyone who is more into these things compare it, in a thoughtful way, to Twitter Bootstrap?
Kick Starter appears to need to manage people's expectations of projects a bit better? People are not buying product, they're "investing" to help someone create a product. The return on a successful investment is a cheap version of that product, or some stickers, or a warm fuzzy feeling of helping someone.
They are sold at a very high price and then bought back for change. Then minor changes are made to the text so they can release a new edition. Once this happens you can't even sell them back at all. Then all new books must be bought with no real value being added. All this at the expense of students who have very little money as it is.
I was under the illusion that investment laws are stricter than consumer laws. If I, as a backer on kickstarter, am an investor and not a customer (or donor or whatever), then investment laws apply. Does anyone know what, under such laws, is legally required by a kickstarter project?
If you've never been involved in the building of a website for a large company then this might come as a surprise.
Getting agreement for so many things would have taken many people months of time. "Lean Startup" where things don't work on day 1 is not an option. Include focus groups, armies of usability testing, all sorts of integration misery and this doesn't seem a crazy big number. They don't get 4 developers who'll work for 2 years for 12 hours a day for no money.
I think he didn't mean "cost and performance" but rather "cost per performance".
I slightly corrected the title as Sony bought part of the EMI Group, not the other way around.

Sorry if it makes less sense now but the article is a worthy read.

In a nutshell, you won't be able to watch the video for free until 2038 in the USA
I'm far, far from being a "front end" coder. So I can't comment on if this produces good HTML. If however it allows me to get something up quickly without having to become a "front-end" coder, then it's going to be very useful for me.
Apple is using the iPad as a platform to leap into publishing, eager to also collect the 30% Apple tax in this industry. Smart move, but it will be a sad day when schools/pupils will have to pay 30% of the price to the device manufacturer just to get an education.
How can you copyright that? If it is, it should be under creative commons.
One more thing I found helps me a great deal > focusing your mind on something other than programming during a day. I found that I have no trouble coding for days in a row, but after a week or so, I go numb... I cant programm shit. That is why I started running and boxing. If you are the same, find something, some hobby that doesn't involve computers.
Very true. What if it was a screenshot of a secret CATalog? Or a scan of some secret Company Anonymous Transfer or whatever.
So I hope they never took a look at the "cat.jpg" file because you just cannot tell what's inside.
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I also do that for a living... and they got stolen or their management team sucks badly. With 18M you can build 18 of that site.
For some minutes I thought 18M was 18k(which would be too low)... then I got it, and got even more surprised.
The only explanation I can think of is that they didn't had a IT department and had to Hire and buy every single person/thing they needed including hosting their own site on their own servers and buying their own Backbone :D
I simply love it for quickly prototyping and get it up and running.
Very nice. This does make life easier for those who have limited front-end experience (aka me). Here some others that I find useful:

http://960.gs/

http://sass-lang.com/

http://www.blueprintcss.org/
I been thinking about technical publishing recently, and I don't think the rumoured tools from Apple go far enough. Let's start by assuming that publishing houses are essentially dead. Printing is on the way out, and distribution is handled by other online retailers (Amazon, Apple, etc.) Most technical books don't really need editors. Layout could still be an issue, I don't really think it will be -- read-on for why.

My argument:

- e-book readers are a dead-end. Tablets are going to replace them. The only thing e-book readers have going for them is e-ink. Tablet screens are going to be awesome. The 10" Transformer Prime is going to be HD soon. Rumours are the iPad 3 is going to be 2048x1024. They'll be good enough.

- e-book formats are essentially stripped down HTML, designed for the low-powered CPUs found in e-book readers. Tablets web browsers will be on par with PC browsers soon.

This means there will be no boundaries to formatting content as HTML and reading it on a tablet. We already have many tools for creating collections of HTML documents. They're often called blog engines. Non-technical will do just fine using blogging tools, just like they currently do. More technical people will use pandoc/asciidoc/whatever, just like they currently do.

Then you have to ask:

- Why release a book as a monolith? Releasing a chapter at a time greatly lowers the author's risk. They can start generating revenue straight away, and find out what the market is really interested in.

And then you have ask:

- Why even write a book? Why not just produce material, using whatever media is appropriate, and create a community (and revenue stream) around this, rather than working towards a some arbitrarily sized collection of words?

So that's where I think technical publishing is going. Smaller units of work, shorter cycle time, and more responsive to the market place. And not really a world that needs books, and book creation tools, per se.
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I think this is the first time I see YouTube embeds used this way. The article contains several of them -- non-functional and displaying a "removed due to third party copyright claim" message -- all to drive the article's point.
4 developers for 2 years doesn't cost $18million...
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In the USA (and most other jurisdictions, really) as soon as you write it down, you have the copyright on it. You also have some control over "derivative works" including any copies of the "performance" of the speech. In music, for example, you would need to pay royalties to the songwriter for publicly playing a recording of their song, no matter who actually sang the song.
Yes, we'd all like to live in the best of all worlds. But in any real-life scenario, there is a trade-off.

Brute forcing all possible combinations and finding the best one (for your specific goal, or taking into account all externalities as well) would be great. But it is impossible for two reasons:

1) incomplete, or even purposefully incorrect information

2) time constraints/compexity. For a non-linear system with more than a few variables, it is just not feasible to enumerate everything.

You end up with heuristics. The challenge is that remains is finding good heuristics. If the decision is given more time, you can probably come up with better heuristics and even sort-of brute force through the "best" options (which is what humans do when they reason).
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Well, the article actually explains how it was copyrighted. Basically the King estate sued CBS and the court determined they had a claim.

"Typically, a speech broadcast to a large audience on radio and television (and considered instrumental in historic political changes and ranked as the most important speech in 20th century American history) would seem to be a prime candidate for the public domain ..... the judge determined that the speech was a performance distributed to the news media and not the public, making it a “limited” as opposed to a “general” publication. That meant the speech, like other “performances” on CBS, was not in the public domain. That meant the King estate had the right to claim copyright"

This is relatively readable: http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/19989079.MAN.pdf
There are a lot of good books that took time that are in the $40 range. Education is a niche market with a captive audience. That is why they are expensive.
I'm always looking for clever ways to determine that information :)

Have you seen underthesite.com?
I think it's the complete marketing package. The website is just the result of a complete new marketing strategy.

But still.. that's some serious money thrown away.
This is ludicrous. The fact that Google only has one revenue stream is one of their greatest weaknesses, and they know it, which is why they're aggressively expanding into everything under the sun. And as long as we're cherry-picking examples, why not Microsoft or Apple or GE?

Ultimately, using Google or any other Fortune 500 company as a model for how you should do business as a fledgling startup is probably not a good idea.

My startup-land rebuttal for this claim would be 37signals: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1123-theres-more-than-one-way...
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As the links above are probably intended for someone who hasn't yet come across a CSS framework, I'll post the following comment.

Using Blueprint CSS (and probably 960.gs too) feels like going back to table-based layouts. You set up columns, and extra wrapper divs. I don't know if it's a help or a hindrance.
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And that's if they don't keep extending the copyright term.
Ok, maybe it's more to do with stuff like their CEO gunning down elephant's - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...
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20 devs/DBA/IT for 2 years would cost you something like 4M, 8M at max(Super Salaries for everybody) !

The costly part is the "Management" which creates the bureaucracy so other people can hang out in the project controlling excel tables while those 20 bastards work their asses off.
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I can still see the alcatel ad in germany
One weak point I see in bootstrap is that you'll get somewhat of a default look, similar to default/common blog themes. It would be great if there were some kind of "bootstrap mixin" that quickly changes a few of the colors and other CSS options to create a slightly different experience. Nothing really major, which is why I'd be reluctant calling it a theme (i.e. more like "Bootstrap Hot Dog Stand" than "Bootstrap Themeforest").
"I Have A Dream" is nothing compared to the Riverside speech, and its anniversary.

https://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/21/dr_martin_luther_king...
I'm kind of surprised congress didn't try to retroactively copyright the Declaration of Independence and Gettysburg Address and force textbook publishers to pay royalties.
Dr. King was not a public official and was not giving testimony. His speech is no more a candidate for the public domain than the Beach Boys' Fourth of July, 1980 rendition of Barbara Ann on the National Mall is.
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So it really started with Martin Luther King's descendants disgracing his heritage.
How is that remotely strategic? That's not a strategic perspective, that's s brain dead perspective. Blacking out Wikipedia right now does not change the behaviour of congress. The masses will look into SOPA angrily, find out that congress has already killed it, and then forget about it.

7 months from now during s major news event it will be attached onto some other bill and all public will toward opposition will be dissipated. Will Wikipedia repeat their blackout? It will be far less effective.

"following through" is not strategic. Congress is only concerned with manipulating the masses, they have no fear of a bunch of nerds who prematurely ejaculate when attempting to exert power.
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that's quite bad for the company reputation, but I still don't see any argumentation for they were horrible before SOPA
From what I can tell it looks like a fairly decent deal.

The site is snappy, visually impressive and with a well thought out user experience, tasteful upsell and in general clear communication.

At least it launched and managed to avoid all the pitfalls of corporate politics leading to bad architectural choices leading to a very expensive and poor implementation, which is a much more difficult challenge by itself than most people realize.

It's important to remember that:

* very few great developers/designers will work for Four Seasons on the cheap.

* it'll mostly have been well paid consultants earning $100/hr and up

* it is very likely that the project has had multiple iterations to reach it's current state, all hidden behind a single big release.
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Those were works made by the government, so they're automatically in the public domain. I don't see why you're against Mr. King having the copyright on the speech he wrote and gave?
Most of NLTK runs fine in PyPy, too, resulting in significant performance enhancements.
Unsurprisingly, my public library has a copy. For twenty bucks you can donate a copy to yours.
Are PaaS providers like Heroku appearing as "Amazon" in the web host column? Would be interesting to see this broken down further if that's the case.