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I disagree.

Stop focusing on building your brand and start focusing on distributing your product. You need to accept the fact that for whatever reason, people choose to label you as a foreigner because you cook ethnic food, so you lose branding credibility. Therefore, you need to outsource your branding. You can leverage your distribution channels to increase distribution and build your brand simultaneously. Your distribution channels are a) your restaurant, and b) a catering business. Why not sell your food to other catering companies? There is no reason for it to be exclusive to your own. When more catering companies sell your food, you control more distribution channels and move more product. Your product is your food, and that is what differentiates you.

Reduce the cost of preparing your food [1] and outsource distribution. Allow catering businesses to serve your food. Tell them you will give them a discount if they call it "<Your Last Name> Food." [2] From the sounds of it, customers love your food (demand is high) and few people know how to cook it (supply is low). So price can be high. Just show catering companies how much they can charge for your food, and they will jump at the opportunity to buy your food at seems like a large discount. Not only will they distribute your food, but they will build your brand because a positive brand for your food increases their sales.

[1] Start by reducing cost of labor (chefs, sous chefs, dishwashers, waitstaff) and inventory (make more efficient shopping trips).

[2] The name of your food is your only branding decision. Choose a good one.
I'm fascinated by the theory that somebody's reporting on a topic is automatically suspect because they have developed a strong opinion on the topic.

If you've got issues with what he wrote, I'd be interested to see what specifically you feel he got wrong. But regardless, I think he deserves credit for digging into Groupon financials, and for calling out the lack of substance well before most people did. Jealous or not, the collapse of the daily deals space and Groupon's sickly stock price suggest that he was broadly correct at a time when most financial journalists were hyping Groupon and its stock.
the bomb didn't change the outcome of the war. this is a historical established fact:

http://www.sho.com/sho/oliver-stones-untold-history-of-the-u...

the japanese tried several times after the russians invased to surrender (before the drop)
Programming these days isn't really like what you describe, unless perhaps you are an indie game dev. Most software development nowadays requires extensive collaboration with other programmers, interacting with a lot of non-programming people and building on top of existing systems, rather than creating something from scratch.
I did VFX for a feature-in-theaters-everywhere, and while my director was fantastic, the financial realities of it all were not great.
This kind of copyright infringement is not a crime, at least not in the US, and in this hypothetical situation it wouldn't be more than a ToS violation. Comparing this to stealing is specious.

If you want to demonstrate that non-colluding third-party beneficiaries can be sued for the breach of contract of a second party, be my guest, though (I honestly don't know).
I'm not sold on this rallying cry, and I say that as both an artist and former volunteer staffer of DeviantArt. There will always be paces for systems brainiacs and for aesthetic wizards. The two broad categories are not mutually exclusive, and in my opinion actually overlap in a lot of ways.

I have worked in high tech for 15 years, and have consistently found some of the most technically adept, logical thinkers to also be closet creatives (usually in music, but also in visual and performance arts). These people synthesize the left/right brain output into something better than just leaning one way or the other.
One of the crazy/distressing things was how much the world seemed to admire fascism until even the 1940s. There were fascist admirers in the US Government, large parts of the US, etc., throughout the 1930s.
To call Objective-C a shitty language is, oh I don't know, really really ignorant. It's one of the nicer languages in my opinion.
If this thing decodes the vodeo stream and gets the code the run from the iOS device when connected, might we see a future iOS update that enables full HD, or would the video decoder hardware be the limiting factor here?

Also, for jailbreakers: find that code, and improve it.

Finally: I find it a pity that Panic reports this now. It would have been funny if it were published exactly one month later (or is the clock in their CMS off by a month?)
I had a similar situation while working at a hostel.

A couple walked into my hostel and they were both just beaming these beautiful smiles. They were the kind of people who are just so happy to be on vacation it makes me happy to tell them all of the crazy shit they can enjoy in the city. I stood up and beamed a smile back to them asking them if they were there to check in or if they needed a reservation. They looked at each other, then me, and started to sign.

I panic'd... My mother was friends with a guy who lived in a retirement home because a grenade had taken his eyes in world war two and I often spent time with him and became acquainted with the blind and the nuance of interacting such that we could both make sure we were completely understood, but there have been very few interactions in my life with deaf people and so at this moment in the hostel I was simply unprepared.

The couple saw my panic and laughed and the guy signed using his finger a as a pencil and his other palm as a notebook.

No shit! Write it down. I got us some paper and everything was smooth from there. I got them a room, a deal, and told them where the best place to catch some romance in the city was.

The writer's reaction and feelings toward the interaction mirrored my own quite well. I can believe it, but if it is a fiction, at least it is an accurate one.
Yes. Drawing is muscle memory/dexterity. Drawing/painting is a physically trainable skill.

Creativity however, is something innate (or at least a by-product of the nature/nurture of the person) and can be expressed compulsively regardless of the technical acumen of the pencil-wielder.
Good philosophy, refreshing idea. I'd like to think I would do similar if I had a blog. Just be careful of people exploiting your generosity as per my previous fictional post.
Or, instead of focusing on "becoming an engineer" or "becoming an artist," you could realize that both require immense time investments and are equally deserving of respect. Instead of disregarding artistry, try developing your own artistic talent and learn to respect the craft so complementary to our own.
This is a great and very necessary law.

Do you want fotage of your 3 year old playing in an inflated pool in your back yard to end up on pedo.net because you didn't put a cammo net over your back yard?

Parrot drones are super fun, but it isn't hard to play with them responsibly.
You live in a Western country. The Holocaust was perpetrated by a Western people, people very similar to you. It was systematic and calculated, not a result of wild raping and pillaging. It was not the result of famine. That's why we focus on it more heavily.

Here is archival footage from Night and Fog of people very similar to you calmly waiting to board trains as if they were going on vacation. Look at what they're wearing. All are wearing nice clothing, their bags are packed with a week's worth of clothes. You can see them then being crammed into the cattle cars. Most of these people were gassed immediately upon arrival.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PH8Da7lxpk&t=4m56s

Is there anything else like that in history? Genuine question.
Yep. It's about time they shed some some of this Geocities era junk.
The Holodomor is one such tragedy that there are no movies about, despite it being a pretty large scale and horrific event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
What about resizing the browser window? Is that usable by most end users?
That is funny, but we haven't had that problem.
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Createjs?

Or just write your own.
What would be an example in the western world of a genocide (not war) where more (or comparable numbers of) people died?

The part about "in the western world" is pretty significant, as people identify more with people that they perceive to be more like themselves. That's probably a big part of the reason why we don't hear as often about the large 20th century genocides in China & Africa for example.
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I like how the banner ad fixed to the bottom of this blocks the captions on the best new UI ideas...
Not what I expected, and a really good read. Hope it's true.
This makes about as much sense as asking "Did the Boston Herald rip off the New York Times?". That's for the concept. Or else, it's about similarity in typography, which is an even worse cause of complaint.
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Interesting: they are shutting down the Blackberry app. Either the app was terrible and never used, or they see Blackberry as a dying platform.
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Just read the book and do what it prescribes. This got me from stickmen to decent shaded realistic drawings. No portraits yet, but I believe I just need to put the time to practice.
I am not going to highlight what is going on with the bonuses in SAP right now, but it seems like management made a pretty big mistake while handling this issue. I do not expect employee engagement in 2013 to be the same as the last year.
Awesome. I also just discovered in gvim/macvim: double-click on a paren/bracket/brace and it will select the block enclosed by it.
Zopfli sounds like a pharmaceutical drug.
That's interesting. I would say that somewhere between 50% to 75% of my time when creating a software product is devoted to documenting requirements, analyzing the problem, studying candidate solutions, working out such things as state diagrams with, yes, paper and pencil and, in general, thinking and planning.

I haven't measured it but I'd venture to say that actual time typing code is probably somewhere in the order of 15% to 30% of a project, if that high. In fact, I really doubt that initial code entry goes much past 20% of my time.

Then there's testing, debugging and source control/management. If the project requires media a substantial amount of time might also be devoted to the creation and management of image, video and sound assets.

One interesting thing is that as the years went by and I became more experienced I quickly spent less and less time debugging. My code is largely bug-free due to the fact that I devote a lot of time and effort to initial planning before I even think about firing-up a text editor at all.

So, yes, your claim that 99% of the work in creating a software product happens in the editor is something that can only be true for an absolute rank newbie. I don't know many experienced programmers that, for a non-trivial project, just launch into an editor and spend 99% of their time there.

Don't take my word for it:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/when-understanding-...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/93302/spendin...
Do you have a food cart? I live in Portland which is supposedly the food cart capital of the world, so I may have a bit of a skewed perspective, but around here, every company like yours operates primarily as a food cart. The income isn't as good as catering events, but if you set up in a good area, you will get a shit ton of exposure, and any good food cart in Portland usually has catering gigs booked months in advance. Not sure how well that model would work in the Bay area, but I know when I was there last week I was craving some good food cart food, and didn't see many of them. It might be a relatively untapped market down there, though you make need to drop a few thousand dollars for a good cart, which you might not have handy in the short term.
>How did they even manage in just 12 years

42500 sites/12 years/365 days would be an average of 9.7 sites created per day. Hrm.
> Do you want fotage of your 3 year old playing in an inflated pool in your back yard to end up on pedo.net because you didn't put a cammo net over your back yard?

Where does one acquire such an extreme level of paranoia? I mean, seriously...
So is any startup.
What about Yahoo! Answers? Asking for a friend.
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IIRC, the armenian genocide involved between 0.6 an 1.8 million deaths, was committed in europe wiping out about 20% of a whole ethnic group. Which also happen to be white skinned christians, so not even very far removed from the western person stereotype.

Hitler famously reasoned that in 50 years nobody would care about the jews, as at that time, already few remembered the armen genocide.
Who at Yahoo decided that a 12px font size was readable? Maybe start by firing that person?

http://hn.explodie.org/writings/stop-using-small-font-size.h...

http://contrastrebellion.com/
I am not an expert of Holocaust scholarship. But the Holocaust is unprecedented in many ways.

Germany was a normal Western state—the Weimar Republic was in many ways at the forefront of liberalism and governance. It is unprecedented that by legal and popular politics, Germans created the political and lethal machinery to victimize so many other Germans.

The Holocaust was a civil war where innocents were murdered or forced into slavery.

Hitler was a fool. Germans were among the best educated in the world, but Hitler personally was without precedent Europe's worst governor. Nevermind the betrayal of his own people; his economy relied unsustainably on slavery, his theories were bunk, his cowardice was monumental... He benefited from the long-term gains of the Weimar Republic's governance while simultaneously killing or exiling Germany's greatest asset, its intellectuals.

The Holocaust was a vehicle of this, Hitler's personal madness, unlike any other genocide.

Collaboration, most of all, defines the Holocaust. Hitler found collaborators throughout the whole world, from Japan to Moscow. The Soviet Union, itself the most victimized by the war, was for five years allied with Germany. There were Poles who eagerly betrayed their neighbors. Hungarian fascists were condemning civilians to death not months before the end of the war. The French collaborated in the Holocaust. It is unprecedented that anti-Semitism was so pervasive as to infect all of Europe.

The Holocaust showed that Western civilization, not just Hitler's Germany, was eager to execute unprecedented crimes against humanity.

These are but a few ways the Holocaust is distinct from other genocides, from the experience of American slavery, from even North Korean concentration camps and Soviet gulags. It is not about numbers. It is about what our civilization turned out to be capable of.
I'm not talking about design or features. I constantly think of ways to make what the user sees better. I was talking more about refactoring.
Except that nowadays creativity develops best when you are proficient in programming!
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I don't have a food cart. I did something similar where we had a booth before at a food area in SF called Off The Grid where there were a bunch of other food carts, booths, and trailers but it was base on those that get accepted and we only got business once a week. During the rest of the week we did festivals and events to gain business on the other days. It wasn't very much and unstable at best. We pivoted to catering as it was more sustainable as a business and one that we could grow much larger. And over the last year we did move revenue than we did when we were doing the booth and festivals combined.

I've visited Portland recently and saw one of the food truck areas in downtown near 10th. It was nice.
I'm pretty sure your example is illegal under current laws. Photographing someone from afar doesn't require a drone. Replace "drone" with "telephoto lens" and you'll still draw the ire of law enforcement if you go around taking pictures of children in their back yards.

More importantly, "think of the children" is a common justification for bad laws. Human minds tend to give too much weight to low-probability stories. Nobody freaks out about the thousands of children who die every year from car accidents, but if a technology has the potential to take pictures of children surreptitiously they call for bans.

Drones are just like cars: people are going to be harmed by them, but the benefits are almost certainly greater than the costs. And that's before you consider how many applications for drones that we haven't yet thought of.
Well done. I happened to visit kernel.org earlier this week for the first time in many years and I was surprised at the dated appearance.
The most obvious reason would be advertisement.
I would like to call out Marco for evaluating this app not based on the content (which he said in his blog post as being the most important) and not on actual use, but only on brief images, screenshots, and feature descriptions that have no bearing on the actual "newmagazines" that might use this platform. If you want to criticise it at least find something actual to critique.

I think Marco just had a knee jerk reaction, and he is entitled to his own opinions, but I would think he would give users of and publishers on this platform a chance before slamming it.
Oh, interesting. I actually moved from LA to the Bay Area and started this business here.
Why so hostile? I just thought it was a weird concept to consider something true to be corny. I'd literally never seen it used to describe anything that wasn't fiction.
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>I've never thought of coding as involving much creativity

Truly?

Programming requires a whole lot of creativity (sometimes enough to sap it from your other creative endeavors). Not necessarily in the part where you write the if, else, for and while stuff, but the part before that - when you're figuring out what you actually want to DO.

I've spent hours simply thinking about the best algorithm to use for a task. Sitting there with a notebook, sketching different possibilities over a simple example, thinking about its algorithmic complexity and whether there's a way to do it better. Considering what data structures I need to implement it, and the trade-offs between those choices. Whether I might just need to start over altogether (and I have; on some of the more challenging algorithm assignments, I've gone through 4 iterations of implementation before I hit one I was happy with).

You might call that engineering. But, the act of actually COMING UP with new algorithms and implementations that might solve the problem? That's creativity. And the harder the problem, the more it takes to solve.

Maybe it's just that I'm still a student, doing some projects on my own and doing a lot of homework assignments. I don't know what kind of coding you're doing, but if you can do it mechanically, without requiring any creativity whatsoever, then it doesn't sound like a very good use of your time.
The purpose of "do no evil" clauses, as I see them, is to weed out users who take such clauses seriously. People like the Debian project, or IBM.

If the serious grumps are willing to play along and ask for an exception, then you may as well throw them a bone. In receiving such a request you've already extracted amusement from them.
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> I've never thought of coding as involving much creativity.

I do. In both writing (drawing/sculpting/whatev) and coding you have something based in reality, that you transpose into you mind and then create another reality with.

In writing you may have something you have experienced, in drawing you might have an object in front of you, in coding you have a non-computer-based system/algorithm that you need to support. The better you are at imagining how to best support the real life system, the better a programmer you are. That said, I consider programmers more like craftsmen; but as in all crafts, some artistry usually slips in.
"Are you discounting the multitudes that study fashion design and graphic design? The ones that pile on at RISD and New School? Julliard? At this point I feel you should specify what you consider an artistic pursuit"

RISD is a very small school. Only 2,282 students total. According to [1], they had 835 admissions, with a 34% acceptance rate. If my math is right, that makes for 2,455 applicants.

Julliard is even smaller (800 students), though much more selective. According to [2], they had 2,138 applicants (of which they admitted 162 -- an 8% acceptance rate).

So that's 4,420 total applicants to RISD and Julliard combined.

According to [3], there were 3.3 million high school graduates in 2008. That would make for 0.13% (or about 1 out of 1000) high school graduates "pile on" Julliard and RISD. While 999 out of 1000 don't apply to either school (and the overwhelming majority of those probably not to any kind of art career path at all).

"No, actually beyond basic high school math many people never touch math again. Not even calculus."

Ok. But how much math did they take by the time they make it through high school math? Maybe 9, 10, or even 12 years of math. Which is probably an order of magnitude more than they have years of art.

"You talk about the ones on their way to becoming engineers and such. That's like complaining that people at chef school take more cooking classes than astrophysics classes. You talk about engineers, programmers, and scientists like everyone's just lining up at the door to become one."

Well, let's take a look at the 10 most popular majors in 2008.[4]

Biology, Business administration and management, Communications, Computer science, Criminal justice, Elementary education, Marketing, Nursing, Psychology, Political science.

Of those, I'd say Nursing and the more sciencey fields like Biology, Computer science, Psychology, and maybe some Political science need math. The others not so much. Of course, out of these, Computer science is the most math-heavy.

Incidentally, according to this[5], Stanford's most popular major now is Computer Science.

So, that's a fair bit of math there. Not as much as you'd need to major in engineering, applied math, or mathematics itself, of course. But perhaps more than what's taught in most high schools.

Now, compare that to how many of these majors need art. I would say none of them do. And none of them are any kind of art major. So, yes, I think math has a very strong lead over art as far as the most popular majors go.

[1] - http://www.theu.com/admissions_ratings/rhode_island_school_o...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juilliard_School#Admittance

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_admissions_in_the_Unit...

[4] - http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/10/27/cb.what.major....

[5] - http://mashable.com/2012/07/01/stanford-top-major-computer-s...
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