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Need Advice - Raising Prices & Retargeting [First Cut Pro]
firstcutpro - google docs for video production (collaborative video review for video pros and their clients)<p>We built our product initially for video editors to help them easily collect, manage, and disseminate feedback for their rough cuts on video. The primary value props were to save a ton of time (ultimately $$) and to lessen the back and forth communication which caused frustration and stress.<p>Let's face it - pricing is a BTCH.
We ultimately went with pricing tiers that were similar to product management/collaborative tools in other industries such as pivotal tracker, basecamp, invisionapp,etc...<p>Two of our main takeaways
1. Pricing seemed to be fine, but the plans were confusing and we ended up re-explaining ourselves every time we got on a demo.
2. Everyone tells us we are too cheap for their operation although individuals would use it in a heartbeat - for the company as a whole to even consider rolling it out, it would have to make a financial impact for the decision makers to even take notice.<p>What we are considering now (after a month long roadtrip out to LA talking to potential customers, industry experts, etc...)<p>INCREASE prices but simplify the plan structures.
Instead of limits on # of projects, # of "credits" and # of collaborators, we are considering making the only limitation the # of active projects. (Think active projects = folders in gdocs and our credits as indiv. documents)
We'd move towards $/user/month
It's cleaner and simpler to explain but we’re worried it might price us out of the SMB market.<p>What are the potential pitfalls that could arise by changing price, retargeting, and entering the enterprise world not knowing too much about it? (beyond the long sales cycles)<p>Oh yeah! We think our ideal clients are large ad agencies that produce high budget ($1mill+) commercials and large production shops that pump out spots, episodes, and trailers.
That makes it sound to me like the light was not stopped, merely the light's energy was stored. Which is quite a different thing?
What makes you think they're not supporting their constituents?
Dreamhost's policy is that your storage space is unlimited only for files related to the sites you're hosting with them. Not to mention, availability of Dreamhost's shared plans is, well, a nightmare. Don't get me wrong, it's still a bargain, but you get what you pay for.
What you're talking about is operant conditioning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning )
Very common. You should charge more.
> Saying, "This is not useful to have collected anywhere" is saying "we prefer to continue to field these questions on an individual basis."

Or, alternatively, as is expressly the case of the article ehre, it is saying that it is better to address why questions are frequently asked so that they won't be, rather than simply collecting the questions and answers.

> Obviously any writer of a FAQ has tried to incorporate that information elsewhere.

Actually, the dominant case I've seen of FAQ use, the issuing party uses them instead of correcting the problems in the preferred source documents that lead to the questions being asked.

Where that's not the case, you have a known-issue list for the primary information source from which items are removed as issues are resolved, rather than a FAQ.
Lawyers say 'perfect storm' of BYOD and Big Data engulfing legal departments
On the flip side, I made my first reservation through opentable a few weeks ago, and I was surprised when they DIDN'T ask for any cc info. Granted I was new to the experience, but the first thing that crossed my mind was I could not show up and it wouldn't be a big deal.

Feel like if they market this move a little better, they could convince their loyal customers that this will allow them a better chance at getting reservations.
Congrats guys! Well deserved :)
I much prefer LibreOffice. OpenOffice fell behind during the hiatus when a majority of their development team quit to form LibreOffice. LibreOffice has a big headstart on OO and a more active development team. Plus, they can pull features and bug fixes from OpenOffice while the OpenOffice team can't pull from LibreOffice due to licensing.
BYOD as in Bring Your Own Device.
But it is more work to make a 32 bit system. They are probably all 64 bit locked into 32 bit compatibility mode.
And an attitude of comparing the public to drunken fools doesn't?
>That's objectively false - Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook (among others) have all been at pains to distance themselves from NSA data collection precisely because they understand how bad the NSA's behavior is for their business.

For one, I wasn't speaking of those kind of business interests. Those companies are complicit in doing it, not those that benefit most from it. It's finance, infrastructure, industry, oil, millitary, etc.

Second, it's not like a CEO goes and asks his senator about it. It's an emergent consensus, developing from lobbies, campaign financing, policy meetings with the "giant of industry", think tank meetings, policy advisors etc, about what's best for the continuation of the status quo, keeping the people quiet, squashing dissidents and labour demands, the improvement of the country's diplomatic might (which acts as a multiplier for business interests inside the country), etc.
I'm running Minecraft servers on a KS-8G (seems to be discontinued now - basically 3.2Ghz i3, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD)

* Their management interface is garbage, especially compared to sites like Linode. Pay your bills, restart the server, cpu graphs, set up rDNS and that's about it.

* Customer support response times tend to be ~1day or more.

* The network has been down for a period of over an hour twice this year.

However, for the value for money in terms of hardware, I don't mind overlooking the above, especially considering it's just a game server.

For anything more important, you might want to consider other providers, though I'm sure customer support is better on the higher end packages which come with phone support and so on.
Up next ... they're going to ban chrome and any app with a webview because you can access Android content! I am of course being facetious, but it sucks.
How to Sell a Lie
How is the framework having unit tests ( and please, don't say TDD, when you mean unit tests) say anything about how testable code written using the framework is?
I've had super spotty luck with DO, and the support hasn't been great. Sometimes it's worth paying a little more for reliability and good support.

Also, my Linodes seem to have much more consistent CPU performance. With DO it's been very hit or miss at that 1/2GB size. They may be cramming too many VMs on their hosts.
A FAQ is a set of bug reports for the staff responsible for documentation. Who writes it is less important than understanding its role.
Heroku | Releases and Rollbacks
Link-bait title from an obvious splog network about a company looking for any kind of PR.

From whom is that quote originating? Where is Apple's rejection letter? Which section of App Store guidelines they specifically violated?

Edit: the link was changed from a TNW piece to an admittedly better story at tech.co
Does it matter? You can only get 200 reps (from upvotes) per day. And the 50 bonus is nothing in front of all the upvotes
U.S. charges five in biggest credit card hacking case
Does Citizen Sleuthing Lead to Smears?
Uh, E = mc^2 is not the full equation. That is, in fact, a special case for an object with no momentum in a given frame.

The actual equation is E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + (pc)^2, where the p is momentum. And, unsurprisingly, the old "p=mv" isn't the whole story, either. The (magnitude of the) momentum of a photon is given by h/λ where h is Planck's constant and λ, of course, is the wavelength.

As such, at no point is it necessary for light to have mass and it is believed that, in fact, photons are entirely and truly massless. Relativistic mass--which some take to mean photons actually gain mass--is a confusing and misleading concept that doesn't really have a whole lot to do with actual mass and doesn't really help explain anything.

"Effective mass"--which is more related to stopping photons, but not really related to the Einstein equation you gave--also doesn't really mean the photon gains mass but it does mean that interactions within the crystal give effects similar to if the photon had mass.
1) Raj is Sri Lankan, not Indian.
2) Kerviel is French, grew up and was educated in France, and worked for a French bank. He isn't a racial minority.
3) Jett was a minority sure and Milken, Boesky, etc. were not minorities. Not exactly a pattern there.
The donation page for Replicant is here

https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1...

Replicant webpage

http://replicant.us/

Download page

http://replicant.us/download/
Sure, I can see the value in making service configuration more standard. E.G. after getting over the learning curve I've found working with systemd more pleasant than SysVinit.

I disagree that this is currently really more of a problem on Debian/Ubuntu that it is on Red Hat. E.G. If I want to manage BIND via puppet on Red Hat, I'm going to have to care about /etc/sysconfig/named.
>irc

Which channel/network?
Great read. Article covers psychology and thought experiments to give credence to the key thoughts:

1) Use words like "because"

2) Tell a story

3) Point to pictures or graphs
Stallman's definition of 'free software' isn't authoritative, lots of people have other definitions, and Stallman is quite explicit on trying to change definitions to suit him.
Treehouse itself was quoted in the post about Apple not allowing Android content.
Blinds definitely help. I've heard that if you have horizontal mini blinds you want to turn them up so it reflects the sun back and not down where the sunlight streams in.

Keep fans running even if you're not in the room. It'll keep the air moving. Make sure it's rotating in the right direction (switch down for summer, up for winter)

Turn off incandescent lights.

Check your AC unit, I recently found mine needed to be recharged. The AC should be 20 degrees below ambient temp.

Any sort of insulation improvements. In a house I lived in during college I found that the 3M Window seals helped immensely, and closing the fireplace flue.

Get rid of that Pentium 4 box sitting next to you :)
To be honest I would never trust my credit card number to linode again.
The idea of never free()ing and then taking advantage of that with a dumb allocator to get better performance is pretty clever. I wish I could do that with my compiler; sadly I can't let it leak since I invoke it from unit/functional tests so the test runner would run out of memory and explode :( For DMD tests do you just eat the cost of a process setup and compiler startup for every test run?
Yes. There is resistance from the "I've been here for XXX years crowd" but they can be co-opted into helping write the checklists. Especially if the existence of the checklist allows them to pawn off the grunt work to juniors.
I checked on my OVH server, and using the method here (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10510/how-to-detect-...) seems to imply that it's non-ECC RAM as the total width and data width are both 64 bits.
Here's another (same comp, MCMC models took top 2) http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/12/19/a-bayesian-approach-to-obs...
>yesterday, only free thinkers believed they couldn't trust third-party companies with their privacy

fixed that for you
What's the list of stuff they could read? Thanks
The question I keep asking everybody is: "Where do I host my Postgres if I want to have the option to grow disk without paying for higher VM tier?". Specifically assuming I'm managing Postgres myself, not going through Heroku etc. So far only AWS seems to give you that option.
Another interesting platform for working with probabilistic programming is Bher/Church:

http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church

and Oleg's and Ken Shan's fantastic OCaml library Hansei:

http://okmij.org/ftp/kakuritu/index.html

Pedantic nit: probablistic vs probabilistic....
Are there any plans at all for a dead-tree version, for us old timers? I love what little I've read of this book, but reading on screens just doesn't work for me.
What guideline is being broken? If there isn't a good reason (and I really struggle to think what it might be), this is just anti-competitive censorship.

Edit: On the other hand, this seems so ridiculous that I need to question if it's accurate. Can Treehouse provide some proof that Apple said they can't have Android courses available in their app?
Is there a way to get the 2.99 euro price from the US? How about from Canada?
They are on the level of a Pentium 4, but running at 1.6GHz. Thats bad news for a Pentium 4, and the Atoms...
Check

I just created a list of conferences to never attend too.

I live in the real world.
Heads-up: you got competition from the YC-backed hackerrank

https://www.hackerrank.com/
Until they demonstrate otherwise by passing laws insulating themselves and all other representatives from lobbyist influences, I'm going to proceed under the assumption that we, the people, elect representatives that win a popularity contest and can be only trusted to make decisions on behalf of the lobbyists that are most likely to help them get re-elected in the next election.

That argument really is only valid if we have a functional democracy, which has slowly been dismantled by gerrymandering and lobbying.
Great questions.

>Do you think there may be selection effects in this type of donation model?

In short, no, because we leave patients posted until they are fully funded. More detail here: http://b.qr.ae/109DseY

>Do my dollars, etc actually go directly to specific individuals?

100% of your donation goes to the Medical Partner for the purpose of covering the cost of care for that specific person. In Watsi's case, however, sending money to the hospital is actually more efficient than sending money to the patient directly, because that's where the funds will ultimately end up. We talk more about operations in our FAQ: https://watsi.org/faq and in this blog post: http://bit.ly/Ynug55

>Do you believe that creating these individual-to-individual dependencies is a net positive improvement for society?

I believe systems like Watsi are the future of healthcare. There are roughly 200 countries in the world, and approximately 40 have functioning healthcare systems. In each of those 40 systems, healthcare is paid for by individuals, for individuals (either through taxation or insurance premiums). We're universalizing those same dynamics in a more transparent and accessible way.
Fundamentals of Content Marketing
Microsoft to Add Oracle’s Java as a Service on Azure Cloud, Windows Server
I fail to see how that would happen, but each to his own :)
> as hackers we have to stand up to this anti-science nonsense

As hackers we have to question everything instead of being true believers (in science or anything else).
tab separated values
As a freelancer I too have found it both helpful and interesting from a data perspective to track my time in a detailed way. I've been using Excel for years, plus an independent (from Excel) calendaring system to block off target periods for specific projects.

From the usefulness perspective, tracking my time allows me to a) objectively see where I'm slacking off or rockin' it. Perception can be skewed without the objective tracking; b) view my effectiveness, but only because of how I use my tracking system. If I'm not being effective, I don't enter time for that period. But inspired by OP, I'm going to add an effectiveness metric to my tracking system, and possibly include what my distractors are; c) have a built-in reporting system to my clients, if I need to track hours vs. job for invoicing; d) gain a better sense of how much any given job will take me in advance. This sense has improved dramatically by reviewing my time tracking-data longitudinally.

Thanks for sharing, OP. And thanks to the rest of you who posted your own systems and links to other ones.
A thing that absorbs light is not a "blind spot". It's black.

Are you on the good stuff or something? It's black. Just because someone muttered "quantum" does not make this magic. It's black. What is so complicated about this concept? It literally can not get much more normal than this.
The design team is always looking for more contributors: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design
Are you running vanilla Minecraft or a FTB-like modpack? How many users can you comfortably support?
>These criticisms of technological solutions always miss the obvious: both approaches complement each other.

In a small way, yes, but in the long run, politics trumps technology.

You could achieve privacy from the government if you solved the political issues.

But the reverse is not true: if you had the perfect technological solution, they could make using the solution illegal -- including doing away with plausible deniability, even if the technological scheme provides it.

Or, if the government goes totally south, they could fuck you in other ways, making the technological solution totally irrelevant. E.g they could put you in a concentration camp. Where's your tech now?

>Beating people with wrenches is a far more extreme action, it is easier to trust governments not to do something that is more extreme.

Only if you leave in a western democracy (and are not a dissident, activist, or of any concern to the law).

In any other country , trusting the government not to do the extreme is not really that obvious. Heck, even in Western Europe, there have been 3 active millitary dictatorships during the last 40 years (and this is not even counting Eastern European countries, stasi and such).
One of the reasons we relaxed the strict methods that were adopted in the '70s was that we realized genetic material moved around all the time, Nature, in moens's delightful formulation, is a script-kiddie to end all script-kiddies.
You haven't been paying attention: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020477460457662... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-01/ex-galleon-trader-z... http://www.advancedtrading.com/regulations/the-9-most-notori....
Here's an hour long video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ZI7z7qnHU
As hackers we have to apply heuristics as to what to seriously question or we'll go bonkers, not to mention be seriously unproductive.
Right, I am not and never was a geneticist.

The point I am trying to make is that we assume too much. I would say that this statement, "Nature is much more a script-kiddie than us" is just such an assumption. How much of transgenic communication is accidental and how much is necessary with the design (sorry, probably political phrasing here...) parameters. I would assert that we just don't know yet.

In any case, to use, "Nature is the bigger ignorant hacker, we can be ignorant hackers too if it lines our pockets" is a terrible argument IMO.
But "Treehouse" is a company. Usually a human at a company sends an email. Who in Treehouse sent that update? Because then we can ask him/her what section of App Store guidelines they were supposedly violating.
They sell books. Maybe they don't want this kind of tldr audience.
the price is actually in pounds, not in euro.
(still cheap however)
Oh Apple... I lost the faith in the Apple's benevolent power when it was revealed during the conspiracy case that Apple bullied Random House[1] into a contract by blocking their iOS apps from the App Store. This move against a teaching app just disillusions more of us developers

[1]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/how-apple-led-an-...
Actually I think they removed the bandwidth cap earlier this week. So 100 mbit unmetered for 2.99 €/month. Crazy.
Dropbox killer app  - 20gb free
The important thing is that whatever information was encoded in the light was retained instantly. The only other way to do this is expensive photonics kit to convert light to electricity, then back to light. We're basically developing tools to achieve with light what we now do with electricity.

Also, light gets absorbed and retransmitted all the time in real life. The particular photons involved aren't really important in the typical notion of light.

Edit: to clarify, light in a medium is absorbed and reemitted, which is why light in atmosphere is slower than light in a vacuum. Between atoms it's just as fast, but there's latency in colliding, collapsing and reemitting.
He was also worth nearly $2 billion before his conviction.

Also, Indians aren't exactly underrepresented minorities on Wall Street. There are tons of them in the industry. Also the guy who prosecuted Raj Rajaratanam was Indian...
You have a bug in your registration code I believe. As it said both of my emails were already taken.
When you do get a chance to work on the API, I have an idea to tie donations to wristband activity monitors - so a sponsor such as a parent, etc. could donate into a holding fund, and then the fund gets released to your patients a bit at a time as the wristband wearer walks/runs.

People have a great need for a sense of purpose in their lives, and tying their activity to the well being of another seems like a win-win.

So, if you could keep that use case in mind while designing your API...
Can you provide an example?

Every time someone says that I've noticed either:
A) They missed the public notification.
B) Their security expectations aren't in line with a VPS environment where everything is controlled through a WAN control mechanism. [e.g. $200k worth of bitcoins stolen...why on earth aren't you using a colo box with your own dedicated hardware that you can be certain is as secure as you can possibly make it. That is something you can do with $2k and at most $200/month.]
Crowdsourced Finnish copyright bill headed to parliament
yea that's why I threw the '' around quit. I don't think there was a misinterpretation at all. He did quit. He just wasn't specific to say that he was only quitting the so called cat projects and I'm just interested in how that's going. Did the study hall pay off and such.
WebGL is now a real option, or at least by this time next year.
Ubuntu has said that the entire $32 million would be spent on the hardware, not the software.
I have the exact same feelings/experience about Linode. I really liked their service but I cannot trust a company that doesn't promptly inform it's users that their credit card info has been compromised.
While the security breach is a big problem, it seems like storing $228,000 worth of bitcoins on a server that can be attacked from the internet is a bad idea.
Something being legal does not make it any less immoral.
Google the names. Several of those people went to jail. E.g. http://www.myquitamlawsuit.com/index.aspx?id=news_insider_tr....
Hmm, that's all nice, but what about securing my data against snooping? I'm wondering specifically how I would prevent people from snooping data while in transit (MITM) and prevent someone with physical access to the hard drive from reading my bits? To simplify the question, assume I just want to store and retrieve plain files. Bonus points if I can also safely share them in some way (i.e. share one file without also giving up security on the rest).
Yes, there are plans. There is currently a PDF version, floating somewhere in the Github repo. This version is out-of-date, and is only a draft. A more physical book may be coming mid-fall though.
From what I've read in the past,
It's intermediated (sort of?) like Kiva. Everyone an end-user sees is already promised funding by Watsi. The "pick a person" is sort of a feel-good, and perhaps a way for Watsi to refine their process for choosing "fundable" candidates.

To me, the photos are problematic: They increase funding, no doubt, but for all the wrong reasons. Donors shouldn't care about patient photos, except as part of some general evidence to reassure users that Watsi is not running or becoming the victim of a scam.