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"Successful" also only means "funding goal met" not "product shipped" or "project complete".

Kickstarter says that accountability is enforced by the community of backers, but Kickstarter really needs to be part of that process.
I don't think selling is broken provided purchasing is easy. Like how iTunes does it.

iTunes couldn't be more painless - search, click, password. It's true that the death of scarcity makes it hard to compete with hundreds of other sources offering it for free, but many people, myself included, find it worth the $15 AUD to get it legally without having to dick around with seeders, shitting ID3 tags, album artwork, and deleting original files after an iTunes import.

What Alphabasic is doing is fantastic. I love Bandcamp. I wish everyone used it. It has lossless files, and all the music is streamable.

Convenience is a big deal, it's why iTunes, and hotel room service, is popular and profitable.
Yes. Good point. It's indeed quite expensive to do the graphic generation on the server.

We use a caching from Amazon CloudFront. They have a great feature 'custom origin'. We just put our heroku server URL as an origin for CloudFront and configured HTTP headers properly. After that we were able to significantly reduce the load on a server.

We also blogged about it: http://blog.elastic.io/post/22773181715
I don't think he meant doing it was an easy task, but rather that a large majority of the time when you take your car you go on a route you've already taken in the past, and if the car can self train its routes when in manual mode then you only need to drive it once / the first few times to go to work/groceries/school/...
I know this isn't your main question, but you should really check out Instapaper.com for saving articles to read later.
It's worth noting that this album, (and thus, the page we're talking about) was released in 2008.
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Amen Bro. Amen.
Obviously there's no obligation. It was just a smug move to decline to share the price.
The problem I've always had with Cal Newport's advice is that it generally boils down to "if you're having problems in school, first get extremely organized and then it's a piece of cake!" Organization is something that is built up with a ton of practice and patience, and requires substantial motivation to set in place. For someone who's having trouble finding the motivation to keep going, that kind of advice is like saying "if you're so fat, just eat less and exercise more!"

If I had the capacity to actively pay attention at all times in every class and put in 1 hour of studying every day without fail, I'd have a 4.0 too. This is not a remarkable fact to me.
>"1. Your social games argument is really weak. People may play some social games with random people, but they mostly like, comment, have common friends, appear in photos together, go to weddings with real friends."

Go to any message board for a popular Facebook game; it will be filled with people saying "add me!". This is one of Facebook's dirty little secrets. These games have warped the network. They already had to reign the games in by cutting off viral channels. 1 BB registered users? I've seen people with 20 active accounts trying to "game" the games.

Again, this doesn't make FB worthless, just worth less.
"The most valuable service kickstarter provides is in gauging real-world interest in your product."

I don't think it even does that as a product can fail to garner interest due to lack of adequate marketing. I think most projects fail because they can never reach their intended audience.
This is exactly why I feel happy to see how Zuck executed FB IPO. They got money in the bank for a long time, Zuck probably still have the biggest shares/voting right, Wall Street got punked before they can toy Zuck around and spit him for fun.
Tip #1: don't have kids. They are awesome, but complete side-projects themselves and take up more time than a full-time job. :-)

Tip #2: do something and blog about it. What worked, what didn't work, what tangents were useful? Post your updates back to whatever community you are working in. The responses are fantastic encouragement and will drive your productivity up.
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Wow, this made an even bigger difference than I would have expected. Nicely done!
"We're public now, so could you please click on an ad or two while you're there"
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http://oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/young.html

Gives an interesting alternative to business as a zero sum game. Bob Young, founder of Red Hat:

"The challenge is to focus on market size, not just market share. When consumer demand for bottled water grows, Evian benefits, even though many of those consumers start with a bottle other than Evian. Red Hat, like Evian, benefits when other Linux suppliers do a great job building a taste for the product. The more Linux users there are overall, the more potential customers Red Hat has for our flavor.

The power of brands translate very effectively into the technology business. We have evidence of this in the Venture Capital investors who have recently invested in several Open Source software companies. The one common denominator between all of the investments to date have been that the companies or their products have great name recognition, and are recognized as being quality products. In other words, they have successfully established a brand."
TL;DR 44% of Kickstarters are successful. WHAT! That's amazingly high.
Just for fun I went through a small sample of US companies who changed from technologist-led to MBA-led; this trade is garbage. Sometimes facts make inconvenient clever quips.
If you are starting a new Kickstarter campaign http://www.kicktraq.com/ may be a useful research tool. They're fairly new so their data doesn't go back too far but what's there is a good resource.
As long as there is a private room I can work in then it's all good. I don't mind picking up my laptop and looking for a new place to think, but privacy is key.
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Make sure you reverse the polarity of the neutron stream, otherwise it won't work.
Facebook and marketing, not a perfect match
Communication overhead is a bitch.

I like to think of offices like a node process. Ideally you should have a tight event loop (your core team) who are physically located in the same location. That could consist of just founders, or founders + a few key employees.

Then, if you develop the right APIs, you can effectively run the rest of your team asynchronously.

But, from past experience in three completely virtual companies, not having people in the same timezone / a drivable distance is the company equivalent of blocking i/o.

Regarding your specific sitch... I'd say early on you want to be together 24/7. If you're past initial prototype / first customers and you're comfortable moving at the same pace, you can probably parcel it out a bit more.
From Apple's website: "Before being named CEO in August 2011, Tim was Apple's Chief Operating Officer and was responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations..."

How does being responsible for all of the company's worldwide sales make Tim Cook not a sales guy?
Seconded. I'm the same way. There were times where I'd mentally shut down and couldn't even browse the internet because I couldn't think straight. Working on my own projects was a joke while working at that particular company.
Where are you getting your food from? The whole concept of these self-contained cities surrounded by miles and miles of empty land is absurd.
Umm, he was SELLING. Nothing about his release was donation-relevant.
Interesting conclusion[0]. Mine was that people created the dog as we know it, and it's manifold breeds, by domesticating the wolf.

[0] Standard sarcasm on internet disclaimer.
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I'm surprised only 56% of projects fail to get funding. I expected it to be much higher.

EDIT: Reading all other comments after posting this... It seems other people are equally as surprised as me. I wonder if this is related to the sort've pre-sale / reward economy that kickstarter has created.
Google wouldn't even consider selling that data unless they were losing money, and they'd probably consider a good many things before they'd resort to selling it even in that case.

Right now, Google has that data and nobody else on planet earth does. That's strategic. A couple million dollars isn't worth changing the game.

There are companies that sell browser data, it's anonymized, and it's much smaller than what Google or Facebook presumably has.
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"Seems insane they don't offer pricing that covers my use case..... I'm not a student so I couldn't buy the $75 student version."

They do offer pricing for your use case. You simply locate a student and have them buy it for you.

They understand people are going to do this. They just don't want Boeing to get that pricing they really don't care if you do. But they aren't going to say that.
"We learn more from success than from failure..."

This might very well be true, however, if failed tactics/strategies are obscured it is possible that said tactics/strategies will continue to be employed.

Furthermore, even if we do learn more from success than failure, both are necessary lessons for individual success.
How do you create a dog? Breeding is different than creating.
My own list would include a few different choices:

The Art of the Start

The Innovator's Dilemma

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Positioning

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

The Lean Startup

Blue Ocean Strategy

Business Model Generation

The Fountainhead

Atlas Shrugged

among others...
Both Facebook and Instagram have network effects that making cloning less effective (not to mention they're both free).

Utility apps sold via the App Store are indeed much more easily (and profitably) cloned.
[from a my recent post - Go Pavlov Yourself]

This is my new technique to jumpstart the creating and coding during a long arduous day. There is a sound, a bell, provided by an iPhone app. I am using this bell to condition myself. Since we are humans and humans are evolutionarily based, we can be conditioned just like the dog in Pavlov's lab. We have willpower and self-control, but many times that innate power cannot be wielded to avoid distractions. Therefore, let's use conditioning to reduce the conscious decision and provide a signal that the mind can follow without significant effort. Ding!

Ding. I sit down, close out all browser tabs. Open sublime, a blank Chrome page, iterm2 and the requirements doc. Deep breath and go!

Now, practice ten times.
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And a great way to see if your site is getting faster or not is Blitz: http://blitz.io/
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Balsamiq looks like lots of work to me, and it can not be easily copied. I may be wrong there but that's my impression.
I agree with your first paragraph but not with the Django example. User.objects.get(id=1) failing is exceptional because you are asking for an object with a specific and unique property. Otherwise, you would be using User.objects.filter(age>20) (which doesn't throw an exception).
That sounds like an interesting project.
Create a spider that crawls funding sites (more and more each day it seems) and collects statistics and timelines.

It could even search for references to individual projects on the popular search engines, to gather data on what sources for attention have what kinds of impact on which kinds of projects, etc.
The "most of the times" means that someone succeeds...
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"I think is harder to learn from failed projects if you're starting a kickstarter campaign because it's hard to quantify all the things that went wrong."

[edit] This is the statement I was responding to.

I agree with this statement [edit] to a degree. I would also say that it is also hard to quantify all the things that went right. I think that once people see a successful project/individual/company/etc. they interpret that success to trivial actions (that may or may not have contributed to the success.)

This also identifies another underlying problem; how is success defined?

Edited: for clarity & context.
I tend to agree that Java's checked exceptions are annoying (hello SQLException). However, when I used C# I was annoyed that the VS intellisense and the C# generated documentation didn't tell me what exceptions might actually be thrown! In practice this meant just not handling anything at all.
Now compare this with an UBS trading room:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikaelv/29636880/
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"Chief Operating Officer" goes far beyond sales. Creation of the Apple supply-management strategies is one example of a domain that was far beyond sales.
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The net result is code which breaks in spectacular fashion when the first unexpected condition is met.

Which is generally what you want to have happen. Failing fast is a good thing. If your code does anything other than "stop executing" after encountering an exceptional situation, it should be very something carefully considered and well-thought-out. With checked exceptions, the "I'm in a hurry to get this working" version of the code often ends up looking a lot like:

try {...}
catch(ExceptionType ex){ //TODO figure out what to do here }
... keep going ...

The danger is what happens in that "... keep going ..." section - the code is working under faulty assumptions and that can lead to a lot of non-obvious but horrific bugs. In the unchecked "I'm in a hurry" version, the program simply crashes at that point.

So I think the C# design choice leads to the least pain under bad conditions. I'd rather have a fragile application than one just robust enough to write bad data to my database.

That said, it's not perfect. Any sufficiently lazy/stupid programmer can write the equivalent of "On Error Resume Next" in any language.
Um, you did make it really fast? Your site is pretty slow to me.
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> it doesn’t help to remind people that 56% of Kickstarter projects fail to meet their funding goal.

Is it just me, or is that actually an amazingly high percentage? If you'd asked me to guess, I would have expected it to be hovering between 5% to 10%.
I hadn't thought about it in that way before, and I appreciate the differing thought process!
"I've been told that any meeting of significance is now always populated by project management and global-supply management," he says. "When I was there, engineering decided what we wanted, and it was the job of product management and supply management to go get it. It shows a shift in priority."

As an engineer, I understand why you are scared that "global-supply management" is getting involved. But you forget that the volumes that Apple works at have changed in the last 10 years, to the point where new products need to be manufactured at launch, in quantity that no one else in the industry has ever heard off. Good old days where you could manufacture 1 million iPhones in the first quarter and be happy, those days are over.

So pay a bit of respect to global-supply management. Manufacturing is actually as respectable as engineering. Just different concepts, but both optimize under heavy constraints to achieve near-impossible goals (at least at Apple).
Trying to make money as a third party distributor is just wrong. I really hope that's what babarock meant. You're absolutely right that the there's nothing wrong to ask for money for the effort that went into making the music from each person that enjoys it.
It's a mixed bag, on the each project page you clearly see "FUNDING SUCCESSFUL". On the search page you see "and the thousands of other successful projects!"

I believe this to be a mistake.

http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/successful
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixr2/once-upon-a-paper
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This really needs to parse the calculator results as well. That would be so useful.
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I don't even know what it's called - the interface for accessing your Google Apps, you know, the one accessible only from that toggle button on the bottom bar, which is only visible when you click the home button (which I don't think is enabled by default), or new tab button (which I think is the default behavior).

What a terrible UI design! I think they can definitely do a better job at making it more accessible, instead of hiding them under a not-so-obvious toggle button at the bottom of the screen that's designed to mimic the swipe gestures on a touchscreen. Sometimes I forget that I even have some Chrome Apps installed. Is that what they call them? Or is it Google Apps? Extensions? SMH...

And how do you go about buying/installing new apps? Oh, whats that button on the bottom right corner? Isn't this suppose to be the portion of the screen where no one looks because they expect to find stuff like copyright/privacy policy crap? SMH ... again.

</end of rant>
There is a decent amount of literature of academic research on VC and start-ups. Much better than this fluff.
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Well, it is true that it is more of a blue collar job than many others, even if you are in management or doing engineering work on the line. I had a friend who worked at a paper products factory in rural Pennsylvania as an IE as his first job out of school, and he didn't care for it. The kind of area where everyone young just wants to leave, and you are coming in as a 21 year old. Not fun. And I particularly remember he had to buy a 4WD Jeep because the plant was always open but they didn't do a good job plowing roads.
I agree more with Tip #2 then with #1, but both hold water. I have a 2 year old and I'm more motivated now then ever when it comes to building my side projects. However, I have ONE son and yes, he is a full-time job. Tip #2 is really important...build and blog, build again and blog, keep building and keep blogging.
The title is a bit misleading and I'm not entirely sure what the "1 hour" actually refers to. The author suggests studying 10 minutes at a time, preferable twice a day most days of the week (so that's 1-2 hour a week). He also suggests going to every office hour (so that's at least another hour per week). That's in addition to treating class like you are studying (2-4 hours per week).

In reality, this is "how to get a 4.0 without cramming".
No, that one was bred. I know the breeder.

Sounds like you don't think highly of God, though. That's a shame - He's a great painter. You should visit an art gallery, many collections have some of his work (usually labelled Unknown Artist).
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That's not innovation, that's incremental optimization.
Isn't 'crowd-patronage' essentially letting the market decide?

It wouldn't require that many fans either -- assuming each fan brought 30 bucks worth of merch and donations, you are looking at a middleclass wage at 2K fans. No matter how obscure your genre is, it ought to be possible to get 2k fans.
I don't doubt you, but I'd love to see your small sample. The quip feels right to me, but I'm biased and would like some facts.
>"After looking at some videos about Native Instruments audio gear on YouTube, I started getting a lot of Native Instruments ads pretty quickly."

So, you sought out the product first, then received ads? I think that's the point. What does this accomplish from a brand awareness point of view? You have already made it clear you're interested.
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I figured any piece of advice comes with an unspoken disclaimer: "those not willing to make changes in their life need not apply".
I agree with the C# designers' reason that checked exceptions are not a good idea, but I don't agree with yours. In other words, your argument is different than theirs, and I don't agree with it. (Although I still agree with your conclusion.)

The crux of the problem is this: the severity and recoverability of an error is known only by the caller of the function, not the function itself.

I agree with that statement, but not that it is the crux of the problem with checked exceptions. That statement is an argument for general error reporting - it need not even be exceptions. Simply, the function that encountered the error does not know what to do about it, so it must report it on up the stack. We could just as easily accomplish that with error return values - I'm not saying we should, just that I think your argument is too generic to support your conclusion.

Checked exceptions attempt to foist this information into the function itself, where it is unknowable and generally inaccurate.

And that I actually disagree with. Checked exceptions require that the calling function acknowledge that an error has occurred, it does not require the calling function to handle the error. The calling function could easily catch the exception and rethrow it, or just add the exception to its own throws clause.

The C# designers' argument is that what I described is generally what people want to do, so why not just make it the default? That default is unchecked exceptions.
I'd watch out for the Jevons paradox though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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Ok. Say I have a client that does not want to pay me. I live in France, the client is in Japan. Contract signed under the Japanese law. Let's supposed we had chosen you for arbitration. I win the arbitration but the client refuses to comply. What happens ?
Today's driving scenarios will be served by a small pocket of tomorrow's automated power, granted.

If we have self driving cars, fast switching and routing, we may find ourselves in possession of a packet switched human transportation network. I think we'd need a lot of cars in that world. They might become commoditized like the PC was, but still a profitable business.
I think Facebook will decline for a much simpler reason: whim.

Facebook was cool when I was in college and it was only for college students. Now my dentist wants me to "like" him on Facebook and get entered in some kind of drawing.

Lame.

"I wonder if there's a social network that's only for cool people like me," thinks the user.
> I reckon every few function calls you make could potentially trigger an exception.

One Java module I had the misfortune of writing theoretically had to deal with checked exceptions on the majority of its calls, and the only possible response to virtually all of them was to crash, because in that context, it could only have meant someone had either ripped the DRAM off the board, or placed the board in a particle accelerator.
If what you want is cross browser consistency of sparse arrays (that is, if you _really_ want to use them), then you should probably use ES5-shim or something instead.

Jeremy Ashkenas can support or not support whichever parts of built-in array behaviour he wants, given that:

a) It's his library
b) It doesn't try and copy the standard ES5 API anyway
The article doesn't mention any of this research, but DNA evidence seems to suggest that dogs were first domesticated in China 11,000 to 16,000 years ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08dogs.html

http://www.archaeology.org/1009/dogs/