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How does a graphic designer reach early-stage startups for branding projects?
I'm a graphic designer looking to reach early-stage startups to offer my brand identity creation services.

I have used Twitter and LinkedIn to get my name out there, and the activity so far is really encouraging, but I haven't found anyone ready or willing to sign me up yet, so I'm looking for other avenues as well.

I have been trained in "old-school" marketing techniques as far as self-promotion, but the marketing landscape is changing and I don't want to come off as pushy or spamming; I DO want to be noticed, and by the right people at the right stage.

The startup scene is so different from the way "small business" has traditionally worked. It is very exciting, and a little new to me but I think it's really the best "new frontier" for graphic guys like me to make any significant impact in our profession/industry going forward.

My challenge is understanding the startup culture so I feel comfortable presenting my services and talents to startups, and they feel comfortable using them.

I live in Phoenix but really want very much to work with startups nationwide and globally, and not limit myself to any one region.

Eventually I want to build a brick-and-mortar design/branding/marketing firm with real employees supporting me, but that will take clients and funding.

I have seen similar comments to the effect that AngelList and f6s are good places to submit interest, do you think those will work?

What works best? How can I best put my best foot forward? I'm excited about the possibilities, but feel like just having a website and hoping folks will come by, is not making enough of a marketing effort.
"Even better" in the sense that there is actually a STEM field that has a slightly majority of women as majors, as compared to the rest that are below a 1:1 ratio. So it helps even out the ratio for STEM fields as a whole a little bit -- but obviously not enough.
Didn't restore most stuff for me (especially SMSs and calls) last time I tried it on my N4.
If you are actually wondering "Why the Japanese Don't Litter" let me save you the trouble of reading this article, which basically can be summed up as "Because they don't."
Contract terms, like laws, might be outdated or imbalanced, like when they're based on fears from an age with far less of our modern credit/reputation/identity-monitoring, or when circumstances have changed significantly since their negotiation (or in the case of residential leases, rote templatization).

Thus there's the idea of "efficient breach" - where the right thing to do might be to break the terms and compensate the counterparties, leaving everyone better off:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_breach

There are many tiny breaches of leases and other contracts that leave society better off: looking the other way if a small pet or temporary houseguest arrives, or there's an occasional bit of "medicine smoking" on the premises, or some unapproved property improvements. It's tough to work up moral outrage if there's no evidence of actual harm, just technical violations. Compare malum prohibitum vs. malum in se:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malum_prohibitum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malum_in_se
Excellent blog! Reminded me of Silicon valey series :)))

For me, It is encouraging to see that people in the same insane positions of starting their own company are facing similar problems with me and I am Not the only crazy person around! Starting your own company and fighting the unknown lonely steps of success is undeniably hard,scary and depressing but with some weird manner also extremely rewarding! The high risk always comes with the high satisfaction.

people like me and many others, need to hear it get encouragement and an indirect form of support so useful and valuable to keep you going! I found great pleasure watching silicon valey series for this exact reason; and listening to real people having similar issues is even better x
One plausible theory I've heard is that the early 1980s and the 1990s were a "boom" period for CS, particularly with the dot-com boom in the 1990s. CS saw huge spikes of enrollment during that period, and apparently a larger proportion of women lined up to get a CS degree during the booms.
Both. Swift should be your focus, but you need to know enough Obj-C to translate doc (hopefully a short-term problem) and you need to interop with Obj-C. Swift will be the more productive language, but will have a bigger learning curve (it is a bigger language, more concepts). Obj-C is not that hard to learn these days, a lot of the annoyances are taken care of for you (ARC, synthesize, etc.)

Good luck and have fun!
The dungeon situation is worse than that. I actually was very unhappy with Windwaker at the time because it was too easy. I loved the sword fights against the knights towards the end, but there were only a handful of those. So I already was upset about that. However, than I read that Miyamoto had said that the two dungeons had already been completed, but they were too hard and the game got too long and he wanted everyone to finish the game. I can not overstate how I upset I was when I read that.
Japan's very low number of public trash cans isn't just because of this "tradition and culture of courtesy and bringing trash home". It is also a direct result of a Sarin gas terrorism attack that hit the Tokyo subway system in 1995, whereupon some of the weaponry was deposited in a public trash can. Afterwards, the number of public trash cans was dramatically reduced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_...

Source: Friend who grew up in Tokyo and was 10 years old when the attacks happened. He was using one of the attacked subway lines regularly.
US Presidents during The "Upward" Ramps:

John F. Kennedy - January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963
Lyndon Johnson - November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969
Jimmy Carter - January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981
Bill Clinton - January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001
I just ran the Conformance test under Firefox (30.0) and Chrome (35.0).

Firefox crashed completely. Chrome popped up a "Rats! WebGL hit a snag".

So in a sense, iOS has reached feature parity :-)
Medallion and hack license appear to be one way unsalted hash
To me, the things I tried weren’t insane; they seemed like the obvious things to try.

These are obvious things to try, from the POV of environments like Scala. That's the wrong context from which to evaluate this language. Swift is a more modern language for iOS and is most usefully evaluated in that context. (Though it is also important to also know what Swift is not in language terms.)
Thanks for being open.

The fact that someone has the hash of your password is still cause for concern though.
Plenty of pools do, this isn't the issue
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially if you can't be bothered to look.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_o...

Please think of what it would mean for your argument to be true before clicking through to the above link.
Useful tip, if you add "?torrent" to the end of the url for something stored in S3, you get a torrent. I think this only works for files < 5GB though.
You don't need root to backup restore either of those -- but both are system apps, that's why their data isn't in an adb backup.
You can probably make a post on meta stack about it
In Java we would call it "Mappable". A Mappable interface would have one method: map(). It hasn't been all that useful until recently due to lack of closures, but perhaps it would make sense in Java 8?

"Functor" is a terrible name that only a mathematician could like.
To me, "not littering" is different from "cleaning up for others". I need an article to explain why the Japanese clean up for others.
http://projecteuler.co wayback machine.
Especially if it is a Euler champion that has the hash :/
Curious what you found difficult? Maybe memory management and synthesize? The dynamic nature of Obj-C?

Coming from a C/C++ background myself (and Java) I found it pretty straight-forward to learn. It wasn't free, but not too bad either. And I'd argue they've fixed most of the annoying things these days (synthesize was my biggest annoyance, never could understand why that couldn't be automated as it is now).
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A contract is an agreement between two private individuals. If one of those individuals believes that the terms of the contract are antiquated and thus cannot honestly provide an assurance of honoring them, that person is ethically bound not to execute the contract. All the Latin in the world doesn't get you around that.

While some cities will probably revise occupancy and hospitality regulations to accommodate things like Airbnb, the tension between renters and landlords w/r/t/ sublettors is quite old and quite well explored by the courts (check out your local tenants union for chapter-and-verse citations). The lease provisions that forbid Airbnb will stand up in court.
Git's submodules and git-subtree are definitely clumsy to work with, but you can always use sparse checkout if you want to work on a small part of a large project.

Ticket handling/wiki aren't really version control features. Decoupling those features from your VCS allows you to select the one that works best for your situation.

Mercurial is easier to learn for the most frequent use cases, and its interface make a lot more sense. No argument there. But like I said earlier, once you do learn it, its no more difficult to use, follows the same paradigms, but really allows for the edge cases to shine.
If you're looking for your Project Euler fix while the site is down you can checkout http://www.problemotd.com/ Tons of short programming and logic puzzles on there.
"So-called 51 per centers, for instance, have the ability to spend the same coins twice, reject competing miners' transactions, or extort higher fees from people with large holdings."

Woah, can someone please explain why this is?
Then it isn't so much of a win. I guess adsorption chillers might work with it though.
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> doesn't actually make sense from an objective standpoint.

but it does from a swift standpoint ;)
I'm not sure that means much. Sometimes the effects of previous policies are inherited. And more importantly, the president of the US, contrary to popular opinion, doesn't control everything in the universe.
Its because the result of buying from a terrible baker is I might get food poisoning. On the other hand, a terrible taxi driver could very easily get me killed.

The regulations in place don't do a huge amount to fix either of those problems, but having something in place makes people feel better.
Does your belief that "mathematics is non-strict" go as far as saying that the type of natural numbers:

data Natural = Zero | Successor Natural

must include this member as well:

omega :: Natural
omega = Successor omega

bool1 = (omega == Zero) -- returns False
bool2 = (omega == Successor Zero) -- returns False
bool3 = (omega == omega) -- whoops, infinite loop

The moral is that some parts of mathematics may be lazy, but mathematical induction has gotta be strict. Since many functional programs rely on induction for proofs of termination, correctness and resource usage, that means they should be strict as well.
the mori library (port of clojure's immutable data structures) seems to be doing quite nicely: https://github.com/swannodette/mori
I find Airbnb tremendously valuable as well (Airbnb is probably hooking me up in London early next week, after I finish spending this week in a Scottish house I also rented through an online service). And I'm sort of addicted to Uber as well.

That doesn't make either of those services any less fraught. They can be incredibly valuable to me and a net negative for the communities they operate in. Not everything that makes me happy is good for society.
Leaving The American Nightmare of Affluenza Behind
I think when you start picking apart a lot of electronic designs you see that there are a lot of bad EEs out there too.

Software engineering and EE are different in a lot of ways though. It's a lot harder to modify a EE design after it's shipped. You're also often designing around a particular manufacturing process. I think that makes you focus on getting things working correctly before it gets out the door.

Software engineering has a long way to go, but I can also see the EE world does too. A lot of the EE design tools suck, lack standards, and often don't (or aren't) integrate well with revision control. The design process therefore, tends to be a bit messy during development.

The fundamentals of EE work do seem to been clearer than software engineering though. I think this is partly due to EE having developed a mature set of design patterns, but also because it relies on a standard set of components which are really based on physical properties and as such strict and concrete in their definition as opposed to most concepts in software engineering.
I don't believe democracy is about decentralizing power, so much as decentralizing the means of potentially taking and exploiting power. Or maybe only in practice, versus theory.

That seems to be one of the fundamental paradoxes in the anarchistic ideal of Bitcoin - that implicitly, collective action to centralize and exploit the system is a perfectly legitimate act within its framework, if you can get away with it.
> I am not going to read Techcrunch article about [mental health].

Then:

> Mental health is a subject that doesn't get attention in any facet of American culture.

???
What if Quality Journalism Isn't?
This script drops you into a coffescript REPL with the json loaded into memory under the variable j.

I find it nice to be able to loop the data, define new subsets, filter it with functions, etc.

It was a 10 minute slap-job to get it together, so it does barf on particularly large datasets. The obvious reason is that it serialises the JSON into an argument for a child process. Shouldn't be too hard to resolve if anyone feels like it.

https://github.com/davidbanham/dotfiles/commit/0ea950373604e...
What's surprising is how smoothly airbnb has invaded cities. There are relatively very little complaints or damage done, even as neighborhoods are being transformed.
Why do people clean their room and not throw trash on the floor? The same reason.
Conversely, check out Yoyogi park on the Monday after a hanami weekend. The ground is covered in garbage, broken bottles, cans, etc. Or check out the square at Shinbashi station after the salarymen finish their impromptu outdoor happy hour. All flat surfaces are littered with convenience store wrappers, empty beer cans and cigarette butts.
This isn't a "factory" robot. Maybe a toy for some hardware startup to waste VC funds on but not something you'd want in a proper factory.
The culture of conformity is at work even during times of disobedience. ;)

edit: Kind of like "cut days!"
Grid losses aren't that bad:

EIA estimates that national electricity transmission and distribution losses average about 6% of the electricity that is transmitted and distributed in the United States each year.

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=105&t=3

Compare that to more than 50% thermal loss at the point of generation.
Buy _Modernist Cuisine At Home_, or, if you don't want to subsidize Myrvhold, _Ideas In Food_ and _Maximum Flavor_ (from the same authors). These books are full of applications of modernist cooking that are useful in home kitchens.

Here's an easy example: you can turn any cheese --- any cheese --- into a cheese with the texture and melting properties of American cheese; you heat it, add a little liquid and a little sodium citrate, in a ratio you can find in the books or online. The cheese melts and the citrate instantly emulsifies it, so even a veiny blue or a mature cheddar melts smooth. Pour into a cool metal pan, slice and wrap.

You're not going to make a lot of "airs" and foams and freeze-dried powders and powdered oils (though: the maltodextrin olive oil powder trick is pretty cool to play with), but there's a lot of nuts-and-bolts stuff to modernist cooking that you'll use a lot once you know them.
Overall, it seems from my (possibly limited) view of Japanese culture that they tend to put a lot of emphasis on cohesion, respect of authority and laws, not deviating from what's good for the group as a whole.

Which has its downsides, surely, but in this case is a good thing.
Did not get that apple was finally unleashing webGL on mobile Safari, that's awesome! Thanks for the investigating on the beta and helping in making it better. I can't wait to be able to have Three.js working on iOS.

Though, I feel disappointed that the promises of "web app" were not really held so far (just look how you can't even open an external link in the browser from a webapp now), in favor of native apps, and hope that webGL in the browser isn't gonna be just another bittersweet thing.

I guess we can simply wait to see how the tickets you linked to will go to have a good sense about that.
Deploying to EC2 is an option [1]. In general, we want to make it easy for people to deploy to the public cloud and will release tools to aid this.

[1] http://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/2014/04/23/verb-your-own...
I got a chance to see and play with one of these not too long ago. Cool technology, not really ready for prime time.
heat water? Most people do make use of water heaters for showers and laundry.
What happened to the west wing.....

that aside, its hard to compare years with such a service, as hard core fans come onboard to imdb, this will impact results of new shows. As he says in the link, its hard to compare to shows on years ago.
I actually disagree with this point. There are always topics that could stand to be exposed or revisited. I wish the media would keep certain topics continually in the public awareness, rather than covering them dot a while and moving on to the next shiny or scary thing (and thereby playing into the hands of those who would rather some issues be forgotten). Stuff like the progress of healthcare.gov, preliminary study results that turn out to be premature, ongoing issues like human trafficking, etc.
How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Just one, bit the lightbulb has to want to change.
If this looks familiar, it's cuz it was posted a few months ago and then I pulled it because I was having a stressful weekend and ...I have decided it is not so bad and decided to repost it, in case anyone was wondering where it had gone.
Two responses: first, they're not pointless from the perspective of taste, because they impact how and when the components of the dish will engage your taste buds and nose; second, texture is a huge element of how you experience and enjoy food, which is why you don't take the best pizza in your city and stick it in a blender before consuming it.

You can do encapsulations and "caviars" and stuff in ways that are pointless, and a lot of coattail-following stunt cooks do that. But when Achatz or Dufresne decide to do something, there's usually a very well-thought-out reason for it.
And that, right there, is an profound summary of why a strong, common culture is so important for a social unit: it's the only proven way to escape the prisoner's dilemma of society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOK6mE7sdvs
America is actually quite tidy compared to much of the world I've visited, where the notion of binning rubbish is completely absent and children, animals, and adults are exposed to litter and refuse and pollution as a constant and inescapable fact of life.

Hard to take this seriously.
I think the "Four Turnings" model of Strauss and Howe might be accurate. Their hypothesis is that American society (actually, Anglo-American) experiences crises about every 80-90 years (Armada, Glorious Revolution, American Revolution, Civil War, World War II). The First Turning is the post-crisis high (for the past 500 years, we've emerged successfully from each, although that's not guaranteed to continue. The Second is the peak, the Third Turning is a cynical, chaotic unraveling period, and the Fourth is the crisis. (For the past 100 years, most of the world has been on the Anglo-American cycle.)

In the recent First Turning (1945-65) we saw broad-based improvements for all social classes, and progress on civil rights. In the Second (1965-85) Turning, technological progress continued but the working class was thrown under the bus, while the middle class continued to do well. The Third Turning (1985-2007) saw the middle class get hit as well, but the upper-middle-class did OK. In the first half of the Fourth Turning (2008-) the upper-middle class ("the 9 percent") is getting smashed and, later on, it will start to affect the upper class.

It seems to be a pattern whereby the rot travels up the social ladder. The disintegration is finally recognized as a problem only when it starts taking out the elite (as it did, last, in 1929). It's not clear what our "crisis" looks like or even whether we're in one, but I think that will be more clear in a few years.

In this light, none of this news surprises me.
What discipline did the word "map" come from? ;) Is "map" even descriptive? In a programming concept, the first time I heard it I thought it was referring to the data structure of the same name, which is pretty different.
I think they may a decent set of sales, but that's more about cutting out the programmer from the process (it's a fairly basic packing robot by the looks of things and if your factory is laid out well enough to fit it in, you will probably have a more specialised robot doing that work anyway. This seems too generic too be effective.

I think the biggest open market here is turning things that are not factories into factory-forms. For example my house is a new build and it was stuffed up (forgot to put in insulation). Now as the CEO of the building company I would rather have put QR codes on all my planks of wood etc, have them photo graphed in place then put the plaster on top, thus being able to record the processes, add analytical to something that is "in the field".

The major benefits will not come from replacing humans with robots but with replacing lack of control with control.
I think that it's a correct position now, but probably temporary in some sense. We didn't start with a cash system, and we may not end up with one, but for this moment in time it's a useful way to measure value/wealth.

Ideally one would think "it's all about happiness" would be the goal, not a measure of asset worth, but rather contentedness perhaps? It doesn't take much thinking to imagine why we can't function in that way, however.
Google in Images "Japanese school children clean their classrooms" and you'll find dozens of photos, not just of putting things away, but literally scrubbing the classroom floors. Even one photo of the guys cleaning the urinals. Maybe a prank shot. But may as well not be.

The Japanese see cleanliness and orderliness as a primary virtue and leaving a place that they have used clean is taught and reinforced by peer behavior at a young enough age as to become second nature. The fans at Toulouse probably didn't even think about it.
A reasonable, if a bit outdated list.

In an updated list, I would add the Eigen matrix library [1]. Eigen is a delight to work with, which is hard to say of many numerical codes. It simple to install (header only), has Matlab like functionality that is incredibly expressive, supports sparse matrices and solvers without external dependencies (although you can call out to MKL, SuperLU, etc if you have them installed), is vectorized (AVX support recently added), efficient through the intelligent use of template meta programming... I could go on for hours. Check it out!

[1] http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/