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Author here. No monetization in mind. We just want to have people using it. If it turns out that nobody else is hosting the server part, but people still want to stream, we might run our own servers for a small monthly fee.
Like many of my generation (born 81), I owe my beginning to the Commodore (64). While other kids were getting Nintendos and Sega Master Systems, my family was relatively broke at the time, but my Uncle (a programmer) donated his Commodore 64 to us when I was 4.

I would one day like to purchase and resurrect the brand as a non-profit organization and new type of computer system. One can dream. :)

Also, for those who don't already know, a trivial XOR patent may have contributed to the death of the Commodore Amiga:

http://xcssa.org/pipermail/xcssa/2005-February/002587.html
There is nothing fortunate about it. It took hardwork and over 3 years in the making.
Have you tried Mapquest? It's had voice nav all this time.
What happens when you get sick and need to take 10 days off? Family emergencies? A company with a "team" can give you that margin of safety. A One Man Band is great, but is not sustainable for long, because life happens. Startups are built to scale so that founders can step back and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Do you have an API? I'm working on a tool that might fit in well to part of your app's workflow.
I am not a part of the Semantria team, instead I'm a Zapier cofounder (we offer some simple piping or glue that makes it easy to move data between APIs without code). Happy to put you in touch with the Semantria guys, they are very knowledgable.
I was interested in the "Git for everyone". I made a quick example as a quick project awhile ago. I have the domain http://www.rubberdocky.com. I have not done anything on it in awhile but I think it could be neat. That builds off collaboration on things like Google docs and makes it more social/nice looking.
I've spent a few hours reading the NYT article, various news articles, and his blog. He does seem to be a pathological liar, and usually just spins it by commenting about how he's a prankster - at a certain point, you can only get away with the "prankster" claim before you start to lose credibility.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/business/john-mcafee-plays... seems to be one of the more balanced write ups, and gives McAfee a lot of the benefit of the doubt, but his neighbor, Allnatt, gives a pretty damning indictment of McAfee's behavior - for seeming no reason other than to clear the record.
Tvs option still exists. The "safe search" option will have a check mark beside it if on. The problem is that if you turn it off... If you explicitly ask Google to not filter your searches on the basis of explicitly sexual content, and then search for "blowjob", it thinks you want funny pictures in the "thick bordered meme" template.

So, you have the option, Google just doesn't care so much if you exercise it.
I'm not referring to levels, but to rates of change. When the min wage was recently raised in American Samoa, large employers (e.g. Chicken of the Sea) immediately made plans to shutter their facilities and replace humans with machines.

Why not automate 'em a few years earlier, and get a jump on both deploying new tech and moving people into something better?

Because it would be more efficient to invest in automating other processes?

Suppose you have two processes - one process (call it A) costs a human $12/hour, another (B) costs a human $6/hour. You only have enough money to invest in automating one. It's obviously more efficient to automate A.

If the minimum wage is raised to $12/hour, then the market signal to automate A preferably to B is lost.
I hope that you have plans to at least grow to where there's someone else that can cover for you while you take a vacation.
That wouldn't work well for manufacturing projects where the prototype is done and they need a certain threshold amount to start building.
"As far as we know, the project is still continuing so he has no obligation to fulfill the refunds."

While I agree with that completely, there's two different sorts of deliverables promised as rewards - the actual project output, which as you point out may only be delayed and not cancelled, but also the "trinkets". If he's really run out of money without having already paid for the tshirts and usb keys (and if it were me, probably also the "special packaging" promised for some rewards), then I think he's done something _very_ foolish.
you won't someday be promoted to manager of the cleaning staff

Actually, that's exactly what will happen. You'll do the job. Then you'll learn how to do it well. Then your job will be to teach others to do it well. Then you'll become an assistant manager, making sure people have the training and equipment to do it well, and handling problems that others don't have the experience for. Then you'll become a manager because you know how to handle people and make that part of the business succeed. Then you'll become a higher level manager because you know how to make a team of workers successful.

That's not a far-fetched scenario. That's exactly what happens in many organizations. It's not the only way into leadership, but it is a well-trodden path.
Email me: brennan@planscope.io

I have a few customers testing out my soon-to-be public API. Would be more than happy to have you work with it.
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Consider the halfway house of paying freelancers to pick up bits of work for you.

For example: I suck at the whole CSS/HTML/JS merry-go-round. Ironic that I mostly work on web apps and that these days that is basically where the app lives. But still.

So I get help. I know some good people; I pay them to fill in my gaps.
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Can anyone recommend any sensible texts on this? Ideally something that covers minimum wages/unemployment, places the discussion in an international context, and least shows an awareness of the idea of a spectrum between fully employed and a hypothetical fully automated society? (By sensible I probably mean something coming from more of a first principles/psychology/game theory angle than something that ends up (trying to advance/relying on the assumptions of) some political/economic ideology)
That's good, I guess? The other day I google-imaged "planar spring" and got, among other things, a picture of a topless woman. I have not attempted to replicate this result.
300k per year to raise a family in the star cities-- a conservative estimate. That includes a mortgage (you don't want to be renting once you have kids), enough cleaning that you can both focus on your careers, nannies, vacations, and various educational assistance (possibly prep schools, possibly buying internships) needs to overcome the fact that your kids face a huge disadvantage in college admissions on account of where they live. (It might be a good idea, if you can't afford prep schools whose guidance counselors were hired because they know top-college admissions officers personally, to have your kids go out to Montana for two years to overcome this geographic adversity.)

For a $1 million house, you're looking at a $4300 per month mortgage. You shouldn't be spending more than 30% of after-tax money on housing, so that means you should be making $14,000 per month post-tax, which puts you right around $300k.
As mapping professionals have observed, it isn't as simple as just having more and better data sources. Putting together a solid mapping solution from many disparate data sources can be harder than gathering more data yourself (i.e. there's a reason all those Google Street View cars are out there).

See the frequently referenced: http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=399

It's also worth noting that Apple's local POI search has been a particular pain point. Thinking it will be easy to match or outdo Google here (when Google Maps often pops up the right POI as a suggestion when I've typed as few as three characters) is foolhardy.
Did not know that -- thanks! I suspect Amazon would fight the chargeback and if I had to guess, I think they'd win.
But what I'm saying is that it is more likely that someone else wins that race.

The only thing Flickr has going for it is their existing community who have largely abandoned it. They're not going acquire a "new" community better than their smaller competitors.

Case in point. It took them years to release mobile apps. Then a year to release a major update. That's millenniums on the Internet.

If you think Yahoo! can change that, well, you haven't worked there :).
Many startup founders are overworked — I usually put in maybe 3-4 hours a week into Planscope (when I'm not actively working on any major new features.)

I'm not opposed to delegation at all, I don't want to be glued to a screen — I just haven't put all the necessary pieces in place yet. 90% of support requests can be handled via cut and paste by a virtual assistant, and having someone on-call for server issues is easy enough.
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I was also curious, so I did some digging and found this article:

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/U-S-rare-earth-mine-re...
Love it! Code comments need more adjectives and Culture Club lyrics.
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Nice explanation, thank you. I was indeed wondering if having something like a statefull procedure (if I can call it this way, this is a fairly new concept to me) wouldn't make the code more complex; I didn't actually notice that the state is already there, it was just moved to another place.
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I'm 100% with you on this.

_BUT_… It's clear from this same situation playing out every week or so, that at least some project owners and certainly Kickstarter themselves are not doing nearly enough to make that clear up front. There are clearly _many_ people who, in spite of words like "Pledge" and "project" and "funding" and "reward", still have expectations that the transaction is a sale - and they then post using language like " I 'paid' for my 'order' and my 'product' hasnt arrived!"

I love the idea of "crowdfunding", but I think it needs to be much better understood as closer to a "donation" or "speculative investment" than a "sale".
http://primerlabs.com/developmentcontinues
I've had Bump for a few months, but don't use it much. Primarily because it's a pain to get it to actually connect to anything.

I could never get it to bump with my desktop (it's easier to just transfer the files through a network share).
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It does take more than one; it's a public process that usually takes about a week to complete, in which anyone can chime in and lobby for the article or, for that matter, fix the problems with the article.

It seems likely to me that a lot of people who are up in arms about "deletionism" really do think individual admins randomly zorch articles for no reason. That's not generally how it works.
Where do you think the data providers get their data from ?

They have cars as well. And they've had them for DECADES before Google. And it's not like Google is driving around continuously updating their data. For example Street View in many parts of my city is over 3 years old and still missing many newer suburbs.

So no. Google does not have a brute force approach. They have just had longer to perfect their algorithms.
This might leave ghosting of the original signal and would probably highlight any fluctuations inherent to "the main" that the phase cancellation would miss. I think this would probably be one of the cleaner and easier ways to proceed though.
I can, for Austin. I lived in the Bay Area for 10 years and ran a tech company there. I chose to locate my current startup (now 6 people; 4 Austin/2 remote) in Austin.

Here's my perspective: http://www.erica.biz/2012/austin-vs-silicon-valley/
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One could view the outsourcing of jobs overseas as upgrading processes as well, if you view the process as a black box where orders go in and product goes out.
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I wrote this Erlang-in-Javascript API 5 years ago using coroutines: http://beatniksoftware.com/erjs/. I'm not holding my breath for pervasive `yield` support.
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That's listed in the FAQ [1], but not the Terms of Service [2]. Also, the project guidelines shown to people starting a new project don't mention reward fulfillment [3].

That question in the FAQ is new. It wasn't present when this project was funded [4].

Does any of this make a difference? Legally?

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics#IsA...

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use

[3] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/guidelines?utf8=%E2%9C%9...

[4] http://web.archive.org/web/20110522104147/http://www.kicksta...
Again. Google Street View cars are NOT going around continuously updating data. It is their existing data providers that are doing this for them. I know this for a fact. And sorry but Google doesn't own any POI data either. They license it from third party providers. For example in Australia it ALL comes from Yellow Pages.

If you do a POI search e.g. Sydney restaurants in Google Maps you can scroll down to see the attribution e.g. "Business listings distributed by Yellow Pages". Likewise for most other countries.

But hey I will grant you that Google Maps has a better autocomplete.
That's because the lever doesn't contain the shitty working conditions, danger, pressure, back-to-back shifts, forced overtime, and the knowledge that even that pitiful machine can be snatched away from you at the whim of bastards, and society will blame it on you.
I can't seem to do this on my mac? Can anyone help?
I think using a rolloff at 50 or eq-ing out 50hz would leave a huge valley in the eq histogram. It might make it be obvious the track was manipulated.
This is true. When my co-founder and I looked on LinkedIn for developers in Austin with Python and Erlang experience, there were only 6 total people--and one of them was my co-founder! Fortunately, we managed to hire one of the other 5.

Anecdotally, I've heard that many startups here in Austin are funding relocation packages for developers who are tired of living in a tiny town in the Midwest or tired of paying $4,000+ in rent in SF. There's a lot of talent moving here, and since the cost of living is sane, it's easier to attract people who want to own their own property and/or raise kids.
Your answer doesn't preclude it, but the features you list of iOS6 Maps are standard fair in Android and I presume would be present in a Google Maps for iOS. (That's of course not to say that the iOS6 maps isn't an improvement. I think the nav UI is quite pretty.)
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It's also a false claim since CodeHero just posted an update saying that the project is continuing. Dustin was essentially lying through his teeth, because he had no evidence. He just wanted to incite a mob.
figured it out; it must be done on either google chrome or firefox
I'd personally love for JetBrains to do a C# variant of IDEA (+ R#) for us OSX/*nix folk. I have serious doubts such a beast would be commercially viable, though.

(Maybe R# for MonoDevelop? One can dream...)
Part of the lesson here might be "don't delay the release of the originally promised project because your scope has become 'awesomer' than you originally planned. You can scope creep forever.

TL;DR: Don't Duke Nukem your backers.
Good point, but that also assumes the cost to automate A and B is the same
I read an article that said that he had an agreement with Mercedes Benz Financial that structured rolling 6 month leases to ease the trade in process.
I wonder how many developers will do that block of code that opens web links in Chrome if its available on your phone.
The actual "complaining" may be attributed to a few people (non-iOS or not), but from its reliability alone, Apple's iOS6 Maps is certainly not my first choice when I need directions to a new location that I have little familiarity with. An early usage of iOS6 Maps led me to the wrong address (a confusion of North/South streets) and it's not like I live in a particularly exotic region (South Bay/Los Angeles). I'll give it another chance when iOS7 Maps is out.
What are you trying to achieve with the blog?
If your consumer law is anything like Australia's, this requirement is false. All you need is proof of purchase: the receipt.

Dick Smith used to pull this all the time in Aust before they got pulled up over it. I always told them "sorry, not available" and they just moved on.
I lived in Pleasant Hill and commuted on BART for 2 years. I ended up really hating it after a while.

Later, I moved to Austin, where house prices are reasonable even if you want to live close to downtown, and you don't have to worry about long commutes just to save money. I have no regrets over gaining so much of my time back, and Austin has a thriving tech community.
A Kickstarter project can fail without lawsuits if the project creator doesn't offer rewards that are dependent on the project succeeding.

The problem isn't backers treating Kickstarter as pre-order for the product being developed by the project, its project creators doing that by setting rewards that depend on project success.
Really? I know to expect this from you, but you're really going to make this absolute statement: "The only people complaining about Google Maps seem to be non-iOS users." and stand by it? Besides, somehow I have no doubt that you're a fan of native apps and would happily espouse how important they are.
yeah "inspired" haha :)
Really? Jeez the doublethink in this thread is strong. Why is the alternative to "keep what works until you can't", "ditch it with months on the license to push an inferior, downgraded experience"?

Why couldn't they have spent that time getting data partnerships that apparently is going to solve all of their problems?
You probably didn't see the update, but Primer Labs announced that development is still continuing: http://primerlabs.com/developmentcontinues

So backers should be patient and not threaten lawsuits because the project is taking too long.
Such a letdown to find out it was fiction. The site was really misleading. I was wondering why all the characters seemed to be so stereotypical of the person at some points though
He's a good guy, but some of his practices resulted in people getting very angry at him. He definitely believes in what he's trying to do and is very good getting other people to believe as well. People coded for him for weeks and sometimes months, under the assumption that some type of funding was going to come through. When it didn't, they were less than pleased. But I'm hesitant to comment any further because I may not have the full story on anything, having never been directly involved.

Like I said, he sometimes let his gift of gab get ahead of him, promising things that were not possible with the resources he had at his disposal. He's one of the most persuasive people I know, and had an easy time talking people into things.

Here's a previous venture of his, which also resulted in a lot of bad blood, although he seems to have resolved it to some degree: http://blog.sinthetik.com/?tag=tacticalcorsets
Yup.

The day I got a bunch of Netflix traffic sent to servers I was running thanks to ELB and caching resolvers not honoring TTL values was great fun.

(That was also the day we learnt that our 500 page was actually really expensive to render, which added to the excitement...)
Of course, all of this is superseded by NFC. Bump is really only relevant on platforms without NFC. I'm looking at you, iOS.
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related discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4825537
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It's not an absolute statement. I said SEEM to be.

Because the fact is that the mobile site IS about 80% as good as the native app. Especially given the native app has poor caching and no offline capability.
Oh, that's a good point. Didn't consider that.
> you can save $20,000+ a year on taxes here

I can't believe this hasn't attracted a lot more people already, you can do quite a lot with $20k extra every year!

One other question - how is the transportation situation in Austin? Can you drive everywhere? As someone who grew up in the Midwest, I don't really like having to use public transportation. Is there parking everywhere you go in (downtown) Austin?

The religiosity in Austin is unfortunate, but from what friends in Dallas and Houston have told me, this is not so much the case in those cities (partly due to more out-of-state people).

The weather in the summer (and winter) can be quite unbearable in the Midwest as well, but I've dealt with that since childhood by just staying inside (as I am happy to do pretty much all year round, actually). If you buy a house, it's quite easy to ensure you have double-paned windows and good insulation, and energy costs are relatively low, so you can keep the temperature at a comfortable 70-80 F year round.

And it's amazing how you can buy houses in the Midwest that would be considered palatial in SF for a fraction of the cost of renting an apartment!
> one of the most popular mobile apps of all time

I have literally never heard of the thing, let alone see somebody using it.
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What are some design/marketing guidelines to keep in mind when planning a mobile game app that hinges on in-app purchases?
Im curious, If I can steal the file from the person next to me at the starbucks, If I hit the space bar at the same time?
Brilliant! I would love to see other schools adopt to it too, may be you should open source it so that other schools can benefit from your code.
It'll work for music and art and literature; that was the point originally, right? But I agree with you that it seems like a dubious replacement for venture funding.
No, you put in the time to find a good programmer who will work for a reasonable price. Typically that means finding someone who graduated fairly recently and is looking for additional work, or someone that doesn't have a lengthy track record/portfolio. It's not easy (I've probably talked to a hundred some odd programmers in the last year, and maybe three would fit the bill), but you can find the right people if you put in the work.

It's no different than finding a good salesman, or a good PR person, or a good anything. You can find great talent at a reasonable price if you're willing to dig. Rockstars don't always come at rockstar prices, because a lot of the time they don't even know they're a rockstar.
The policy must've changed then. My new article was deleted within minutes after creation by one person.
There is a lot of room between a 1-man show and Intel/Tesla. People really think it's all or nothing and there is so much room in between.

It doesn't mean it's a lifestyle business either, you can have a business earning over $10 million revenue p/year in this in between and with no funding. Is that really just a lifestyle business?
Wonder if this code has survived into this version: http://ll1.ai.mit.edu/marshall.html

Added: no: https://github.com/akavel/sherman
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