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In my opinion, if you're looking only at legal requirements, the Valley is an awful place to start a company as an European entrepreneur. I explored a few years ago the opportunity to start a business there and it didn't take me long to realize that legal fees would eat up all my capital before I had even a chance to start writing a line of code. Moving your business there once it gains a bit of traction (and funding) is probably a better idea if that's what you want to achieve.

Now, legal issues are tricky everywhere. But one thing you need to think about is how labor intensive will your business be ? Some countries like France or Spain make it almost impossible to fire people whereas countries like Ireland or Switzerland offer much more flexibility.

But chances are high that you won't start by hiring a lot, right? Then, what you need to focus on is: how easy is it to grow a business and what would happen if you fail. You want to be able to add shareholder easily, while keeping administrative duties under control and you don't want to get into too much trouble if you need to file for bankruptcy. I heard Germany and the UK might be good choice if that's what you're looking for (not very sure though, please check ;)

Finally, if your startup will not be labor intensive, nor capital intensive at first, my advice is: don't overthink legal aspects. Go where you have the best networking opportunities while being able to hire great people at best cost. And that might just be exactly where you're living now...

Oh, one last thing. Europe has everything you'll ever need in terms of talents and capital. So I don't agree when you say that you're "less lucky to have been born in Europe". But that's another story ;)
You should definitely build something around this.
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This has bothered me for years. Everything just looks so chunky and inelegant. The difference really hits home if you compare Rhythmbox and iTunes (OS X version, not Windows) side by side. Rhythmbox just appears to be wasting so much space.

Arguing that it makes the interface cleaner might seem correct in theory, but in practice it really doesn't seem to hold true. Especially when you compare to OS X, which has an extremely clean interface without any over padding of elements.
You are forgetting that pharmaceutics business earns vast, vast, vast sums of money.
yeah, this same loophole can be used to determine who's definition of: "use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense" etc

...

in other words, if we allow people to arbitrarily decide what a word means in a license then the license means nothing..
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Meh. I'll bravely endure the downvotes and say that it isn't a noob illusion. It's reality. It is the arc that almost every site follows when the users start thinking "people here are interested in non-specific stuff as well!"

Reddit started as a HN. It became a general site. The programming subreddit has become a grunty joke. Slashdot started as a differently managed HN. It has become a joke. Digg....okay, forget about Digg.

HN is becoming Reddit. As short as 6 months ago I could say that every day I visited HN I learned something new and interesting in this industry. I can't remember a single thing new or interesting over the past two weeks, and increasingly it is becoming a place for people to avoid work.
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I guess I plead guilty. I love that Visa commercial, "your brother's shot... priceless". Now you know.

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Of course, like the site says, a chain is as strong as its weakest link, so saving passwords in chrome/firefox or using the same one for all of them, or being victim to a phishing attack are all still just as vulnerable as they were before
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Yes. But what about this page? It is a course outline. So none of the information is in depth. Are you pointing out what a groovy course this would be if we could attend it? Are you pointing out the awesomeness of this course? Scribbling a little bit of what motivated you to post this link would be most enlightening. To me it seems like a post-grad course that maybe 1% of computer science or linguistic grads could pursue. It gives no background information and is written in a kind of "you'd have to already know this" to understand this kind of way.
What do you think a different lawyer would say/do? Mr Engelfriet is perhaps the most respected Dutch lawyer on intellectual property and other digital rights, it is not just somebody.
So, this is not an algorithm:

1. Parse HTTP Headers into map of header -> value
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3. If it does, and it's value is X load record X
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create a "Set-Cookie" header in the response

Is this a sexy algorithm? Not at all, but is it still an algorithm? Yes. An algorithm is just a set of things that make up a process.
What does "web enabled" mean?

SQL Server CE 4.0, you deploy the DLL with your app, that's it, no configuration, no setup required.

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I love hacks!

SEO is making domain names less and less important and type in traffic becoming a thing of the past. Currently trends show that people will more than often use a search engine even if they frequent your site.

I run a business and we promote on television, radio, newspapers you name it. We get 80% more hits from people typing in our obscure business name into Google than we do typ-ins.

Hacks may have people wondering where the hell to put the dot! BUT it also adds to the uniqueness and a point of difference worth talking about from the get go.

My advice - if you are selling something FUN and for a young audience then run with the hack and implement a tonne of social media strategies.

As you said though, it's a customer service product aimed at SME's - so the less educating you need to do the better. Offer 10 times wholesale for the dot com, and register every single possible extension to protect your brand!

My 222 cents :)
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Love it. I just wrote a script last week to loop through 100,000 objects and adjust the policy, no longer needed :)
Agreed, this thought has some value but people need to realise that it doesn't mean that studying something then applying for another field puts them on an equal standing to those who studied in that specific field.
You can patent software. I used to examine and grant software patents on behalf of the UKPO (now UKIPO) Comptroller (sic).

The UK practice had substantially changed since I left (after Macrossan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotel_v_Telco_and_Macrossan%2...), the UK Patents Act has harmonising terms such that various sections are interpreted to match EPC articles. In the EU software patents were ruled out "as such" and traditionally the loophole was that as long as a "technical effect" (beyond that expected from mere computerisation) was demonstrated in the application of a patent then the software patent was allowed.

Generally the EPC and UKIPO treatments have differed as software patents were actually ruled out "per se" in UK Patents Act 1977 S1(1)(d) referencing 1(2)(c) and UK has been stricter in interpreting this (see Macrossan).

UK law also states that [pure] business methods and mathematical algorithms are unpatentable (again Section 1; see examiners manual - http://www.ipo.gov.uk/practice-sec-001.pdf) amongst other things.

However historical quirks meant that compression algos were allowed in certain areas (imaging) that wouldn't be allowed unless they were couched in the right way (that's my interpretation, I couldn't understand why they were granted).

The Macrossan tests are spelt out clearly in the above Patent Examiner's manual link as is the UK practice (but this can be amended by court decisions).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Euro... and the corresponding UK page appear to be thorough treatments for those that wish to read more.
Generally speaking, an "algorithm" can be implemented in many different ways. A "piece of software" is a specific implementation. In patent terminology, a specific implementation is an embodiment of an invention.

Implementations can vary in trivial ways (eg. different variable names), substantial ways (eg. different languages), in representation choices (eg. a graph as a list of arcs; as a matrix of connections; as pointers/references from data structure to data structure; using "pointers" that are indices into an array etc); in execution choices (recursive; iterative; immutable; mutable); in a million details that are non-significant for the algorithm. Ask two people to implement Dijkstra's algorithm; they're unlikely to produce identical code. (Although, when marking at uni, assignments were often strikingly similar - not always due to cheating, since one of them was almost identical to code I'd written, and no one had seen it. There are often only a few obvious ways to approach a problem and convention dictates the other decisions. But I digress.)
I didn't address that point because that point is irrelevant. I am not interested in the well being of a particular pharmaceutical firm. I am interested in the well being of the whole field. And I suspect, so are you.

It looks like you think that for pharmaceutical to thrive, it needs corporation to be "encouraged" to invest lots of money. You also seem to think that patents are a major provider of that encouragement. If so, the introduction of the patent system should have accelerated innovation.

Empirical evidence shows that it didn't.

I see only 2 explanations: either patents are not an effective encouragement (compared to already existing ones), or their disadvantages nullifies the additional encouragement.
Yea, good point. Most of the little mom and pop hotels know, due to dealing with them on a daily basis, but at even midsized hotels you rarely interact with the encoder directly -- only when it breaks. The messaging needs work, for sure.
Yes, perhaps it's up to a judge to decide what "good"/"evil" means, however that still means there's 1 person who gets to decide whether or not you can use the software, ergo, not open source.
> If one person can arbitrarily decide whether or not you can use a piece of software, it's not Open Source.

It might be, but it's not free software.
This doesn't work before the UKPO (aka UKIPO) as any software application can be implemented in hardware. It might meet the letter of the law as drafted but avoids the intention.
Does this even use any HTML5 features, or did it just need a buzzword?
In addition to the excessive padding, what bothers me, is that the typeface choices in Linux are so oversized and ugly.

And the way Linux renders Segoe UI is ghastly compared to the Windows rendering.

If you want a smaller font size, you're out of luck since the padding seems to be assuming that you're going to have those big 5/20 vision fonts, so your buttons have a tiny bit of text in the middle, and acres of space round them.
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How come the skype protocol havent been reverse engineerd and 3rd party clients been implemented years ago?

Most things popular like this already are, and also the official client suck balls, so extra motivation there.
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try it, it has a sandbox where you can try detect / train / recognize API calls.

(full disclosure, I'm a co-founder @ face)
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>Any patented invention can be used for research pupose!

This is a grey area under the EPC - research is allowed but commercial use is not.

Consider: If the invention is a measuring device used in a particular area of research then that doesn't mean you can rip off the invention and claim it is for research purposes.

Generally I'd say if you built the invention just so you can use it then that's commercial.
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So even though MongoDB doesn't have single node durability, and you _really_ ought to run it in replicated mode, it actually manages to have a robust recovery tool.
Throw in the Yahoo! exclamation point and you're golden! I don't think I've ever seen that font used except at Yahoo! (at least, that's what it reminds me of).
Andrew Tridgell's talk on patent defense could be useful for him to read: http://news.swpat.org/2010/03/transcript-tridgell-patents/
Without any info about your requirements, MySQL is most likely the best choice for now.

Also, the same as with programming languages, at some point it doesn't really matter.
I tried it and I failed. I guess it has to do with switching costs. My mind can't be in 'builder' and 'seller' mode at once and every time I need to switch it takes time. One of the most valuable things of having a hustler is that he shields you from distractions. That is, if he is a good one!
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IBM makes its money from hardware sales and consulting. You need new hardware to run Linux. You need armies of consultants to post your "legacy" code. IBM is perfectly happy to save money on its software bill!
But what happens when you have to use somebody else's computer? How are you going to log into your super secure email using a stolen cellphone to warn the president about the terrorists, if you have to run back home, log into firefox then get the password?

While that scenario might not be realistic, for this type of thing, you have to plan for worst case scenario of needed to access you services now, without extra tools. Memorizing the password will always be the best, and if you are in situation where you accounts need passwords so difficult you cannot remember them, then you likely will also need to connect to those services at a moments notice. Start with a simpler password and work your way up in length and complexity over time, your memory can get longer with practice!
> Having said that, I must ask. Do the "unchecked" writes,
> configurable fsyncs and multi-node writes exist in the
> currently stable version of MongoDB or are these features
> still in alpha or beta?

They're all available in stable! This might be a documentation fail. It is on the wiki, but suggestions are welcome if you looked at page X and didn't see it.
How did you come up with an idea like this (for instance, did you work in an hotel before) ?
It is an algorithm, you could have patented it if it wasn't prior art. The more trivial your algorithm, the more the chances it's prior art.
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We really, really want people to know they should run on multiple servers. Do you have any suggestions on making it clearer? Where did you look for information about running it in production (so I can add stuff about multiple servers to that page)?
Ah the bug in the software makes the difference. Clever, I didn't see that first.
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I don't see much point in encuraging the development of new pharamaceuticals.

Not that I don't like being healthy, but the new pharamaceuticals are just stuff that makes you not die, rather than cure the disease and it is developed only because the patent on the old stuff is on the verge on running out.

A better way would be by removing all the nonessential regulation that makes such medicine so bloody expensive in the first place.
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Response (awaiting moderation, I think it's the links?):

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> haha, that’s funny. i regularly use non-CouchDB databases and I get along great with
> all the people from other databases at conferences.

Oh, I tend to bite people when I find out they use another database . Maybe I should stop that?

> even if i did feel like we were competing, i wouldn’t care. this post really is about
> reliability issues i don’t think your users are fully aware of and i honestly hope that
> you fix.

You must be thrilled to learn that single server durability is coming. I look forward to a followup post extolling MongoDB’s virtues this fall.

> I responded earlier to the complexity of actually keeping something available that
> depends on [multiple servers]. so i won’t cover it again.

Yes, it is a difficult, but not unsolvable, problem. Mongo’s made a bunch of tradeoffs in the awesome vs. easy to program area. For instance, remember last year when CouchDB was saying MongoDB sucked because of its lack of concurrency? That it was too complicated to do concurrency in C++ and that Erlang was the way? Well, now Mongo has concurrency, so on to the next “must have” thing.

>You make it sounds like this is all just a matter of bugs, it’s not, and i find blaming
> it on users who don’t use JIRA or get on IRC a little distasteful.

People discuss everything from bugs to architecture to lunch on our various forums. I was trying to say, possibly badly, that we have a lot of ways for people with questions, problems, and suggestions to reach out.

Eliminating the methods I outlined, I’m not sure how people with suggestions could reach the developers, other than telepathy.

Also, the user you cite is far from typical. It sucks that some people don’t like Mongo, but there’s are a lot more out there from those who do: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/07/03/mongodb-at-etsy-part-..., http://blog.eventbrite.com/guest-post-why-you-should-track-p..., http://blog.wordnik.com/what-has-technology-done-for-words-l..., http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/mongodb-a-light-in-the-d... and so on.
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I would love to find out about this. Any more Michigan hackers out there? We seem to be a small group.
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The last thing free software needs is yet another dogmatic argument. Being cute in your licensing damages the perception of free software because you're essentially broadcasting the fact that you don't care how the rest of the world works.
Founders, managers, and executives will say "sure this is obvious".

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Well, yes and no. The position the US found itself in after WW2 was that all its rivals (Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan) had been devastated, and all its factories were fully intact and geared up for mass production. Not such a big leap from tanks to construction machinery, jeeps to cars, bombers to airliners. The Marshall plan was about kickstarting export markets, not altruism.

So on the one hand, you are right, war is a destroyer of wealth. But on the other hand, the US benefitted enormously from it. The net effect was to concentrate wealth that would have existed in territories of its rivals to it.