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by vitovito 12y ago
I don't know about online ones, but there are "Papers We Love" meetups that are like book clubs for papers outside of your field.
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by vitovito 12y ago
I have no idea, as I've never been a Canadian with a Canadian company who has to get on Amazon MTurk after next week. But this is part of your core competency as an entrepreneur. You're supposed to be able to figure this stuff ou
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by vitovito 12y ago
Except if you're a foreign entity. Quoting from the domestic instructions probably won't help the original poster. "IF the applicant... Is a foreign person needing an EIN to comply with IRS withholding regulations THEN... Co
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by vitovito 12y ago
You only need a social security number if you're doing it as a personal account. If your startup is doing it, it should be a business payments account, which take an EIN, an employer identification number, which the IRS will issue to a
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by vitovito 12y ago
http://decksetapp.com/ does this from Markdown. If you don't need actual PPT/PDF/etc. slide generation, and don't mind writing HTML, S5 was one of the original standards to do this; there are plenty of o
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by vitovito 12y ago
Is this for something other than captioning? Because Camtasia has captioning support, and supports providing transcripts, or using speech recognition to help you create and edit it. http://blogs.techsmith.com/tips-how-tos&
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by vitovito 12y ago
One alternative solution: if you have a keyboard with media keys, the "pause" key should pause and play media player irrespective of the application that has focus. Same for the rewind/fast-forward keys. Another alternative:
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by vitovito 12y ago
I think designers are interested in doing good, meaningful design work, and some subset of designers are interested in/can afford to do unpaid volunteer design work, which could include open source projects if the project was pitched w
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by vitovito 12y ago
It's not about the cost, it's about the tradeoffs. That number is necessarily going to be different for every startup because every founder is going to value design differently, and make different compromises with regards to exec
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by vitovito 12y ago
Do you mean "e-ink" and "e-paper" like in the Kindle? Or do you mean printable circuits? E-ink and e-paper isn't really ink or paper. It's a display, that requires power (at least temporarily) and electronics
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by vitovito 12y ago
I would suggest that believing "designers want to show off" is probably a bad assumption to be making. You can't make assumptions about what motivates people to contribute to open source projects. I'd also be clearer ab
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by vitovito 12y ago
What would you be hashing, on a text file? What the text "looks like," e.g. particular density and repeated patterns of alphanumerics? Or would you be hashing the content, the language, the words used, the meaning of the words? S
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by vitovito 12y ago
A more tactful question might be, "How is it different from existing implementations?" And then don't ask "Am I missing something?" Best practices for engineering is always to see what else is out there, so to assu
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by vitovito 12y ago
Open source project maintainers might also consider a lighter-weight implementation, a CONTRIBUTING file, per Brad Fitzpatrick's CONTRIBUTING project: http://contributing.appspot.com
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by vitovito 12y ago
This reads like an academic version of my essay, "How to get designers (or anyone) to work on your open source project," which is pretty exciting. If you're a project leader that wants new people, whether devs or designers or
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by vitovito 12y ago
If you're willing to throw out the remainder of the sheet, and worker time/skill is a concern, you could also print the same card multiple times in multiple positions, to guard against accidentally ruining a card, at the expense o
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by vitovito 12y ago
Hi! I've worked on software that printed nametags for conferences as one-offs, and would dispute that perforated sheets "are just too cumbersome to work with in a production environment" if you haven't actually used the
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by vitovito 12y ago
Interesting. Fourteen years after the original Joel Test[1], is this a more current version of it? Related, I write about what's necessary to onboard any sort of new person to a project (specifically open source, but it would apply to
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by vitovito 12y ago
Came here to write this. I've kept lists of project ideas for years, but the last few years breaks them down into "could have market validation" and "would just be for fun." There's a dozen new ones so far thi
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by vitovito 12y ago
- User research - Market research - Testable business goals - Testable success metrics - User testing plan - User feedback collection plan
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by vitovito 12y ago
Interesting. I'd be interested in knowing exactly how that equity structure was set up for an LLC. My lawyer was very convincing that, specifically with regards to reincorporating as a C corp later to take on investment, that there wa
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by vitovito 12y ago
As with most startups, it failed. The group dissolved inside of a year, due to internal and interpersonal pressures, rather than equity or contractual ones, before we got anywhere near a launch or incorporation paperwork.
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by vitovito 12y ago
There are some assumptions in here we have to take apart. First, if you're not a corporation, there isn't "really" equity. LLCs have ownership, but it's not stock like it is in a C corp, it's just whatever you
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by vitovito 12y ago
Everything old is new again. Cardboard stereoscopes were very popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Here's a patent for one from 1902, for example: http://books.google.com/books?id=2jN9AAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA849&o
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by vitovito 12y ago
Sites with their own advertising units, like Woot and Slickdeals, generally price it as a function of their audience demographics, unique visitors, and total views over the length of your ad campaign. Sometimes they'll have a standard
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by vitovito 12y ago
This is the purpose of marketing, and advertising in particular: informing your (unaware) market that you exist. Lots of marketing and advertising 101 texts out there. Find places where your target market congregates, and find ways to targ
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by vitovito 12y ago
The short answer is, practice. Literally, interview more. Apply to jobs you'd never accept an offer from to get the practice. The long answer needs more information. Why do you think you suck at technical interviews? How do you kno
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by vitovito 12y ago
The simple answer is, have them sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement). That protects your idea. But, again, if you can't afford to enforce it, then there's not a lot of point in doing the paperwork. And, many developers (and de
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by vitovito 12y ago
The simple answer is, it's in the contract. Your contract with your developer, which you both negotiate and sign, says that you pay for them to develop your app, and perhaps would have a non-compete clause to prevent them from self-pu
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by vitovito 12y ago
Hi! Designer and researcher, here. When Steve Blank/Eric Ries say you should "validate" your idea, this is not what they mean. This is not validating an idea. This is having a solution and looking for a problem. To actually v

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