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In that case, if it indeed works like that, sounds like a nice place to work.

I would go even a step further, if all work is result driven, why having work hours anyways? Why not just agree on what has to be done in some future time period, and forget about hours completely?

That way, employees will feel more relaxed, and accomplish more.

I'm sure I can do more in 20 "high hours" than in 40 "forced hours", but if you don't let me work only 20 "high hours" a week, and assign me 20 more "forced hours", it would inevitable lead back to 40 "forced hours" with much more work and less done.

That's why I never bid based on hourly rate, but based on some agreed amount of work, when doing contracts.
The EPC formally only binds the states, right? To the extent it binds the federal government is the extent it has been read into the due process clause.....
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Ok Mac OS X Lion is not System 9. And no, Lion isn't backwards compatible to System 9 and there hasn't been hell to pay.
I can totally understand his point about iTunes content. I bought an iPad for my wife at first, with teaching purposes in mind (she teaches Japanese language). After a while, I recognized how great it is for consuming media. Nowadays we rent / stream all kinds of video content on it, often beamed to the big screen. It's even great for your homebrew video server, using the rock solid airvideo app. Once you've used it like an interactive remote for your big screen, it becomes clear how much better this is compared to other streaming solutions with clunky interfaces.
The author seems to ignore non-US markets, where Android tablets do sell quite nicely. The same markets that don't have access to Hulu or Netflix. I get daily flyers in my mailbox that are trying to convince me to buy yet another Android tablet (from manufacturers that I've never heard of). And those tablets are fine for browsing, email, games, youtube and playing movies from home NAS.

Regarding ms office: myself and most of everone I know around me (regular people with regular jobs) have no need for it. In fact, many have already switched to open office (at home and at work). So I don't see how Microsoft is a big threat because of perceived productivity gains from office being available on surface tablets. Make no mistake, the threat is real, but not for the reason author states.
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Not entirely. It isn't clear that the US government can start killing Americans when they take weekend trips to Toronto without violating the Due Process clause.
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iTerm2 running tmux. That's where I run vim and irssi.

As for GUI stuff.

* Alfred - Alfred will make you 100 times more productive moving around your system.

* Spotlight - Even if you don't use Alfred, spotlight will make you more productive

* AppZapper - Uninstalls apps and removes all the little things that get left behind when dragging apps to the trash.

* Automator - A lot of people don't ever learn automator, but I think it's the best thing ever. It comes with OS X and it's awesome. I write little tasks all the time for example, I have an automator task that zips my project directory with a timestamp in the name and moves it to dropbox every day at 4:55pm for backup.

* Billings - If you do contract work Billings is amazing

* Github.app - Amazing tool

* Growl - Amazing nofitications

* LittleSnapper - Fantastic tool for keeping track of screenshots of designs and such

* Mou - Great little markdown editor

* Propane - Fantastic campfire client

* Skala Preview - Allows you to connect to photoshop and see your iOS psd's realtime on your iOS device

* Textmate - Amazing text editor

* Transmit - Best ftp client hands down

* Wakeup Time - Turns your Macbook into an alarm clock
I use my iPad less frequently than the author of this article. I use a combination of my Macbook Air 11" and my Nexus S. It works fine for me.

The only things I ever use my iPad for are games and air travel. I rarely check my email on my computer anymore, so good is the experience on my Phone.

The problem I have with this article is that I suspect that the author would feel the same if he had an iPad, but he wouldn't have written this article.
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yes. it is good. although not religiously...

often its a great strategy for fixing a bug and making sure it never rears its ugly head again... sometimes making the test is too difficult - to the point where test driven development is ruled out, even from the beginning (e.g. real-time interactive game type things) :)
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It seems like this article could be written for tablets in general.

I own a Xoom, and bought it for two things: reading PDF files, because my it's far superior to my e-reader, and web browsing when it's inconvenient to hold my laptop (read: bed). Because, let's be honest, doing serious browsing on your phone isn't ideal. That's it. And for those purposes it's brilliant.

I'm not sure how owning an iPad would change anything. I own a desktop with a dual monitor setup for serious work. It's got a comfy desk and comfy chair, and I like it. For work on the go, I've got my Macbook Air, which fits just as easily as a tablet in any bag I carry.

Tablets are a niche product. Thanks to the Apple marketing machine, some people started thinking, "Why do I need laptop? I'll just get an iPad". And those people are niche; if you can replace all of your computing with an iPad, then you may as well be using just a phone. If you've got a desktop, laptop, tablet and phone (like me), you're a tech geek, and the tablet is a toy.

>"The Google Music app is ugly, barren of any useful features"

It has the one feature I need: it plays music.
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"Ideas are a dime a dozen."

After working in an incubator for about 3 months and learning all about the ideas several companies were founded on, I have to disagree with this. I would say I had to hold back laughter for half of them, and not because the idea initially struck me as poor, but because of many, many details within the idea that were not thought through completely, or a company that was put together to solve the wrong problem, or had a better competitor already in the market that they weren't aware of. And these were companies that had made it into an incubator. Supposedly the cream of the crop.

Ideas are valuable and it's difficult to get them right in their entirety. You can't build a company on just any old idea, you have to build it on the whole idea and its extension into the market. A holistic idea.

And those, well, those are hard.
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I dunno, i use my galaxy tab every day. Typing this from it now, in fact. I wasn't even sure what I'd use it for when I first got it but I've really come to love it. It's become a solid part of my daily routine, completely replacing my laptop for any task that involves mostly reading, foremost my browsing/news habit during breakfast :-)

I really was skeptical about the role of tablet computing at first, but I have to admit, I'm pretty much sold on it now.
I think I will - it sounds fun!
Actually, thinking about it now I realize that the killer feature for all of the people that I know with iPads (who actually use them) is AppleTV.
the color banding is a bit much, but very nice. shame its just static - I can't help but wonder what the advantage is over a well compressed photo - is it smaller? does the "photo-realism" hold up at large scales? (i.e. is it vector?)
If you play with the .stage background you can swap in your own iPhone app screenshots.
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There's a great quote about not refining your tastes as it narrows your world but instead continuing to explore the availability of the world around you. It was either Feynman or Ryan Dahl. =p

That being said, I love me my loose tea leaves, but it's just a different product then bagged tea, one hasn't ruined the other.
Fortunately other nuclear fuels exists, such as Thorium. They are also less dangerous and more plentiful, therefore we should invest in them. You shouldn't equate nuclear technology with the kind of fission reactors that were developed during the cold war with the twin goal of generating energy and supplying material for nuclear bombs.
They also put demos of Android 4.0 ICS and Ubuntu 12.04

http://www.youtube.com/user/gooseberryboard/videos
I thought if I had a tablet I would prefer to read articles and tweets in it instead of the cellphone.
What Apple did was remove all of the barriers that got in the way of a good tablet experience for individual consumers. In essence, they made the iPad an application platform instead of a general purpose computer.

They combined that with their amazing manufacturing and engineering prowess and created a real winner.

From my perspective, the iPad is a dumbed down device. I only have access to the underlying operating system via API, don't have an ability to directly access shared corporate resources that are interesting to me, and cannot run arbitrary software without alot of hassle.

Dumbed-down devices are fine -- i own and love my iPad. But they're fine until you need to do something that the vendor doesn't want you to do, and Apple is a vendor who likes to define a single "one true path" to do many things.
After replacing the camera operators, they will need to replace the actors with robots too, because those darn humans aren't repeatable enough.
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I stand by my argument that Zune entered into the market just as that market died.

Well I wish I had a small piece of the billions Apple made from that dead market.

Your point about the credibility is another part of the whole package.

What package?
hehe, like the last 10 years. But Android is also Linux and we may will see Web OS as desktop OS this or next year.
It's not just an 'old world' vs. 'new world' thing either. I'm Canadian, and this is the first time I've heard of someone boiling water for tea in a microwave. I guess it's something the Loyalists took with them :)
I would wager it makes far less of a difference than you imagine. The problem here is survivorship bias. We naturally hear far more about consumer startups because we are their target audience (in a general sense). Therefore, we hear about consumer startups that fail more often than about enterprise startups. It then seems that enterprise startups are less likely to fail.

If that were true, the fact that VC money is focuses far more on consumer startups would be ridiculous. Surely if enterprise startups succeed more often VC firms would make investments where they could benefit from this fact, likely by structuring deals around taking a percentage of profits since big exits are rare but long spans of profitability would not be. There would be no point in playing the consumer startup lottery as you would be greatly overpaying for risk.
The original article ("Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?") does not contradict what the grandparent writes.

Let X = claim to be Nigerian, and Y = earn money using a "419" scam.

The article says that while it may appear foolish to do X if you want Y,
an economic argument shows that doing X in fact leads to more Y.

The scientific or analytical part of the article is solely the part about
X leading to more Y.

The author then conjectures that Nigerians must continue claiming to be
Nigerian because they have somehow come to realize that it is good
for business.

The grandparent's conjecture is that Nigerians continue claiming to be
Nigerian simply because they still expect the money to be deposited into a
Nigerian account, they still speak with a Nigerian accent, etc.

Both are reasonable conjectures, and analytical part of the article
is consistent with either one.
I don't think the issues for Android tablets are easily fixed and go deeper than this article. There are two major problems I see:

1. Tablets, for now, are perceived as a third device which means that it's mostly for people who can afford it. Since Apple absolutely dominates high-end purchases it is far more likely that the iPad will be successful. It's a big problem for Android in that the app ecosystem for iPad will continue to mature while Android remains stagnant.

2. Price. The iPad doesn't have the high-priced subsidies like the iPhone. It also seems as if the Apple is willing to sacrifice on margins with the iPad to make it difficult for Android tablets to have lower price points. When they do, there is a visible lack of build quality.

I don't think MS is much of a concern at this point since it is vaporware and much of the Surface press conference had more to do with legacy support of the PC than anything else.
I completely agree. For the most part, people do accept the bilateral influence between culture and language. However, the debate generally focuses on the relationship between language and thought/cognition/mind (with culture mistakenly lumped in there) where bilateral influence doesn't make as much sense, at least intuitively. Consequently, the language-culture and language-thought relationships should be analysed separately, although not in isolation of course.
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That sound really interesting. Maybe I should try that to as currently I'm spending too many nights in front of the computer... Would be interesting to hear how that turns out for you. Good luck for now!
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wow really good. I was expecting a hacked together version but it actually looks like a photo. The biggest downside is the cross-browser compatibility. At the end of the day I don't really see an advantage over a .png with a transparent screen section.
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Tangentially related. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2012/05/lawsuit-seen...
I can sympathize. In my organization we've shipped a lot more code since we stopped writing unit tests. Writing unit tests would just impede our ability to ship LOC.
This article is remarkably astute. Not necessarily for the details, but just for its statistical instead of individual view into the startup ecosystem.

In this highly complex system of companies and customers and ideas, nothing is constant, and very little is predictable. You can't look at individual points and see the trend, or be able to predict anything from that point. You have to look at the ecosystem statistically, and that's effectively what this article is talking about.

Everyone should understand statistics. Not Stat-10 intro-to-statistics, but the beauty of statistical understanding in the real world, as it applies to you. This article is a great example. If you think systematically, you'll understand your market better, your company better, your employees better, and yourself better, and you won't fall into the fallacies this article points out.

Because that's what they are. Fallacies. Falsehoods. If you believe you fully control your destiny and your outcome, you are necessarily at least partially incorrect.

Even if you consider yourself and your own success and what you believe leads to it, you are still part of a complex system you don't fully understand. However, you can get a much better grasp of it if you don't use yourself as a single-point anecdote. Spot on.
Plus, I bet you're much more productive during the day after starting it with side project work.
"This is far and away the most common substantive argument levied against Android tablets: the tablet-friendly app selection sucks. And make no mistake, it does."

Bleh. I have had zero issue finding tablet apps on Android. Within the last half year, anyway -- it did use to be a problem when Honeycomb had just come out, but around the time devs started updating their apps for ICS/Holo, the selection started growing greatly. At this point, I think maybe three of the apps I use don't have tablet UIs, and only one is any worse for wear over it (Steam).
I don't think that works though and here's why.

Suppose I live on $2k/month with one kid, and I choose to live somewhere rural where this can actually work. So I bring in approx $24k after business expenses, and in the end I end up getting a little more back from taxes than I pay via the EIC. Suppose I like this life.

Suppose I could go to work for BigCo Inc and make $130k/year. You wouldn't say my business is losing $100k/year. That would be silly.
Non-American here, I always use a microwave if I'm just making one cup.
> Public speaking is a learned skill.

Yes, absolutely. I used to be an utterly wretched public speaker. In the past several years, after a number of public speaking opportunities, I've improved to the point of being not terribly bad at it. My long-term goal is to become quite good at it.
Why not? I've left companies when things went sour. I know lots of people who have.
This change has been a long time coming. Originally, we asked for write permissions because it wasn't possible to upgrade from a read token to a write token at a later date, and we needed a small subset of write operations (primarily follow/unfollow, but we've also experimented with updating Twitter lists).

Earlier this year, Twitter made it possible to request either kind of token when making the initial OAuth request. We tried to implement read-by-default, upgrade-to-write against this but it turned out not to quite work - a user could upgrade to a write token when we prompted to them, but then if they attempted to sign in to the site in the future Twitter would prompt them to downgrade to a read-only token.

So in the end, we implemented it using a method we could have all along - by setting up two different Twitter OAuth applications (called "Lanyrd (read-only)" and "Lanyrd (full-access)") and doing our initial signin auth against the read-only one, then asking for read-write permission against the full-access one when the user first attempts a write-requiring action.

I'm very glad we've solved this now. It was only a small vocal group that complained about us asking for too many permissions, but they absolutely had a point.
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Things have certainly improved in Australia. When I first applied for a merchant account for a startup over 10 years ago the guys at ANZ sent out a sales person to our office who bought along a range of EFTPOS (debit card) terminals to demo.

When we clarified that we required online payments, he chuckled and said 'oh, no way we do that, it is far too dangerous'.

He then proposed a compromise solution where we collect credit card numbers and then punch them manually into the terminal to process payments.

We ended up incorporating in the USA.
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How in your opinion does this explain religion? The mechanism by which people get into religion is very very different from the stuff the original article is talking about.
> iPad fills the video player role

It is less about video player and more about content source.
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Right. It's not clear though that Prof. Wulf was pushing the BOV to make deep spending cuts.
It has. I would really like to enlighten you somehow, but I don't know how to do it in short, so I can only redirect you to reading about Warsaw reconstruction history, look for names/keywords like Bierut, Gomułka, who they were and what they did for/to Warsaw. You can take also a look at the link from my other comment.
Sure, if you're in a transaction-oriented business where it's simple enough to keep the business in your head, you don't need employees.

As things grow, the problem with contractors is that their stake is limited to their contract. Good employees have the best interest of the company in mind.
Since you asked...

We're a YC company (Winter 2011) that helps people get more out of conferences and professional events, by finding the right events to attend, meeting the right people at the event and catching up on slides, notes and video afterwards.

If you sign in to Lanyrd with Twitter we'll suggest events to you based on the people you follow - including events your contacts are speaking at, attending or just tracking through our site. Give us your email address and we'll send you a semi-frequent email with new events your contacts are interested in.

You can also browse the site without signing in at all, or subscribe to our RSS and iCal feeds. Here are some of our lists of upcoming events:

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Finally, we have mobile apps designed to help you keep up to date with the schedule, speakers and attendees while you're at an event. We recently updated our iPhone app http://lanyrd.com/iphone/ and we're currently working on a new version of our Mobile Web / Android app http://lanyrd.com/mobile/ - both iPhone and Mobile Web apps use offline storage so you can still see the schedule etc even if you're travelling abroad or are on dodgy conference wifi.
I revoked address book access, deleted the conversations individually (I couldn't find a feature to delete them all), revoked access from Google Accounts, and removed the app from my phone.
Why? My iPhone and MacBook (per iTunes) can stream to my Apple TV. Besides that, I can access all media on my MacBook or iTunes Match directly from the Apple TV.

We barely use our iPad. My SO sometimes takes the iPad with her when travelling, because it is lighter than her MacBook. Other than that, I charge it once per month to keep the electrons flowing.

MBP + smartphone satisfy all our computing needs.
I did the exact same while working full time and am trying to do the same as a freelancer now.

What I've found is that no matter how early I wake up I have about eight hours in me and then I lose the ability to focus. I have a feeling exercise and a better diet might help.

Don't get me wrong though, having an ultra productive 4 hours before 10am is awesome, and clocking off at 14:00 to read, play with my arduino or do other things is pretty good too. For me at least though it hasn't magically added any extra hard-focus time to the day.
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Apple is making about a 50% margin on iPads. They're not sacrificing margin for market share based on price, I'm pretty sure Apple is pretty opposed to this sort of strategy. The advantage they have for pricing is in their manufacturing and supply chain management. They're actually able to produce better quality hardware for cheaper then their competitors in the Android space (and for that matter the Windows 8 space as well).

http://www.techspot.com/news/47738-apples-profit-margin-slig...
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Just about sums it up.