I don't think he's doing that. At least not planning to.
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The question is: how and by how much?
(could you please post links to best 2-3 studies)
There is already an artificial language out there: Esperanto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto . From what I remember from language students, it's pretty much a failure.
Also, do you have any concrete ideas/point of action to do that? Do they work?
Yeah, he'd loose the "shine" but how many people have his experience and ability to deliver? (not to mention skillset).
What happened to failure is part of learning?
Could you do a bookmarklet or somekind of integration with Twitter? (in page scores/metrics)
Still can't order in certain countries
And is it me or why didn't they put the links to buy?
CA: just under 200ms
Asia: even +300ms
didn't check Southern hemisphere
- cheap prices for lots of power
- everything "just works" (only contacted for questions)
- quick, friendly & to the point support service
- great uptime
- they are eco
- 14 days money back (for root servers)
- bigger latency for US/Asia/...
- you do your own backups
- they bill only after the end of month. had problems when card expiredThe title (posted on HN) is a bit misleading from the content (although it's very good). The real value would be the "lessons learned" part. Any idea when it will be posted?
The content seems legit, but your comment is the funniest I read this week.
But even here, unless life threatening situations, people will postpone action. (eg. drugs instead of surgery, disinfectant, ...)
With education I beg to differ: although it may look like a safe heaven, pursuing education for the sole purpose of temporary financial stability is probably not that smart. Reasons:
- practical experience is more valuable and if not truly committed to the PhD, don't really see the value
- state funding for schools & research will drop (later, true, but it will).
- if everybody (or the majority) will go to school, who's going to do the work to come out of the crises.If there was on thing I learned with this crises is that services are the first to go down. Why? Because they're expensive and not a must have.
On the other hand real products like food, houses, vehicles, medicine... are the ones that will never go down (must have). But they have low margins and are not so attractive during growth periods.
So while the trends exposed here are probably true, the fundamentals will surely change with such large disruptions as the ones predicted here. And then the service providers will not have who to sell to anymore. Auto-balance
Note: I'm not an economist. I read however "Economy in one lesson"
That's the main point for me
Now for the answers:
1. my bad. I was doing some optimizations on the web server (via http://gtmetrix.com ). Now it should work
2. true! received same feedback yesterday. will change.
3. just thought it would look better. but that doesn't mean better experience. will change them (for bigger images just click them)
4. originally KeenSkim was built for RSS feeds. After starting the alpha testing we pivoted to the webpage bookmarklet. It works so well that we didn't improve the RSS part. To be fixed in the next weeks (opml support)
5. Not yet but great idea! we'll do that
7. It's not social (not built with this intention in mind, but could be). Social auth and simpler login are in the top 3 priorities after stabilizing the summarization algorithm
8. will look on that
9. the cookies are for the site, not the bookmarklet (cross-domain calls). It's mainly for login (standard Django). Does it bother you in any specific way?
10. mainly a freemium approach. the exact business model is not clear (we'll test it after we get an idea about usage, costs, growth, ...). Do you have anything in mind?
About the results: there are pages on which it work good, on some pages great and on some really bad. The problem on this article is that it has several story-lines and KeenSkim doesn't work well on that (interviews, lists, tutorials won't be properly summarized)
EDIT: There is still space for improving the service. That's priority no. 1
Where there other news that you read?
Thanks again!
Problem: too much good info to read(it's not the format but the tools for consuming it).
Solution: built an automatic summarizer: https://www.keenskim.com (works for webpages also). No more "read it later", but right now.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Pharmaceutical+drugs+made+fro...
Plastic is easily replaceable with cleaner and healthier materials (glass, wood, ...) Not everywhere, but on the basic necessities for sure. Also, we don't need to use new storage materials every time, but reuse more quality ones.
In some cultures (eg. ex-communist countries) there is a natural "distance" (approachability) between employees and management. I did not see this in Western Europe (at least at such level)
EDIT: thanks for the tip about edw519 ( https://twitter.com/#!/edw519 ). New feed to read!
The one thing to add (related to 1 and 3) is:
*do not focus completely on the technology. learn what's around it also*.
The main lesson for me is that software is the business where you learn about & improve other businesses. The value is that you get to understand better the world (business) around you. That way you can avoid building "innovative products" that no one needs.
What we see is less complex titles released every year both on PC and console. The reason is probably because development cost is increasing super-linearly (exponentially) both as money and time. See Battlefield, CoD, Assassin's Creed, NFS... I can't imagine how much they spend on all those details (gameplay & visual)
It's easier, faster and cheaper to move towards we/mobile where the market is hot (many new people, not only fans) and the gameplay involves simple actions.
RSS feed: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/TheGameStartup/upl...
UPDATE: I don't know why, but whenever I see other people in my situation, sharing their experience, it a great motivation boost!
Because of that there were problems with the drivers and snowballed to other areas.
Thing is the "read it later" approach doesn't really solves your main problem (getting the facts fast).
The workflow is:
listens for news-highlighting requests
gets each and every webpage/feed
detects the main content
processes the content and pinpoints the relevant sentences from each news article
creates a new enhanced webpage/feed containing the color-highlighted relevant bits
sends the results to your browser (webpages) or gives them to your RSS Reader
Being an "physically-outsider" to the US/SV environment, I must say that Ohours was and still is a great tool for getting my startup closer to the States. Although I read a lot of news, actually talking to someone every now-and-then makes me more energized and gets me closer to understanding the environment.
I think it was Molly I told that lately (after December 2011) I saw a decrease in people using the video-chat option in Ohours.
So if you'd like to speak/share/learn/meet truly new people/stuff, schedule some hours and you'll surely find some interesting people.
PS: Molly, truly great talk! talk to you soon..
I'm taking it as a "beware sign" for knowing what's ahead; i.e. to consider the big-picture around whatever you are building (it's very easy to get sucked into some "interesting direction" and get side-tracked; us geeks tend to do that).
To answer your question: yes, if I would be an investor, I'd also want to see the prototype/MVP, because:
- less risk taken
- 1 picture == 1000 words => demo == millions words
- you show you can execute what you wish (not getting side-tracked)
from founder point of view because:
- early adopters will help you shape your product (I just pivoted this month)
Having already started a company, I can say this is true and wish this list I'd had it before. BUT, the majority of these "commandments" I already knew.
The important point missing here is that until you do it on your own (solo or with partners), you won't get that art & science part right: you'll just think it's luck.
(prior expertise in your field + management/leading experience certainly helps)
Could you also put the timezone (both GMT and other name) besides the city name? (as subscript & subscript, one over the orther) [ex: San Francisco (PDT/GMT-x)]
If I would have continued (and be accepted) I would have lost another 3-12 months until signing the contract. After that I'd be caught in at least 2 waves of unexpected monitoring and re-verification (which ultimately means not receiving the money in time from the state, all while I'd still have to pay my taxes, employees and suppliers according to the contract)
The best parts are the solution(s) and interpretation of the slow-periods: it's probably a sign you need to take a step back, see the whole picture and adjust accordingly to your goals. Reinvent and build!
Also, you might want to couple with a friend that has complementary skills, i.e. the ones you are not strong at (the whole point against the single-founder). If not, at least keep a constant connection to other founders.
Good luck!