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Submit it either way :)
It would be nice if it could remember my changes (company name, address). Perhaps save them and provide or short URL or update URL in real time (/#field=value&field2=value2) so it's bookmarkable. Being able to add custom fields to the top would be good too (client number for instance).
There's no such thing as an "incomplete path name", those have to be directories.
Talk to a lawyer.

In some states, corporate officers can be personally liable for the unpaid wages of an employee. From my casual Googling, I’m not sure if California is such a state, but you should know how much leverage you have, even if you ultimately decide you don’t want to apply it.

Also note that if the company goes through bankruptcy, unpaid wages are fairly high up in the chain of priority for creditors.
You'll find investors with the 'smart money' are very well-informed in comparison to the general population, as they must be by necessity.
Okay, here is a source that argues that while the hemp conspiracy might be overblown, the racist underpinnings of prohibition are still in place.

http://cannazine.co.uk/hemp/hemp-products/debunking-the-hemp...

I'd like someone to point out how this isn't true.
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Looks good. The writing is bad though. Sorry. Why are there links to hardware/software on top of the page? Get a dedicated domain for this product, don't make it one of 100 services that you offer (or nobody will want it). Also, make sure to get a tour and stuff apart from the video.

In short: this needs a lot of work to stand out in a crowd of 100s of online project management tools.
From what I hear, commercial real estate is actually fairly easy to get into if you have the capital required--a lot for a person, but small compared to many other lines of business. One sufficiently intelligent person can certainly do it (I know one).

But I think it suffers a different kind of barrier to entry. It's an unsexy line of business, and for people who want to own property it has to compete with mindshare for the far more familiar field of residential property management. So you don't see the average Joe thinking he can buy an office building and make it profitable--what does Joe know about office buildings, compared to houses and apartments?
there are also two great books, the agile rails book, and the rails way. They will get you started, and may be 90% of what you need. The docs are good for the rest.

One thing though, we're comparing apples and oranges; the docs for a web framework vs the docs for a standard library. Are the django docs similar to the standard lib docs?

I'm not trying to dis python, I really like python and use it whenever I need to do mathy stuff with numpy and scipy. Most other things I do in ruby.
As we know, this is a good reason to be on Team HTML 5 (with all it's tradeoffs). I admire Rob's incredible amount of patience though and hope it pays off.
If you do choose to target your site at America I'd recommend you work on your English. Honestly though, why don't you target the citizens of your home country? You're going to have more trouble fighting the culture barriers in the US anyway (assuming your product isn't highly technical).
"whereupon you become a creditor, lining up with all the rest of the creditors who aren't going to get paid either"

I was under the impression that employees owed wages are paid before other creditors, which means OP would have a better chance of getting something.
This is a great idea, but wow, there's going to be a lot of big files stored and how much could one possibly charge for this is uncertain. I have a small studio. If I was faced with paying let's say a reasonable $120/yr fee for this service, I am pretty sure I would just lay out $120 for a backup drive instead. So for the sole songwriter with technical abilities (needed to use electronic music production software like DAWs) it's questionable. Now for the collaborative job, yeah, I can see that working. It's a big hassle to keep tracks synchronized with what other people are doing, so if done right there could be a demand for this. The cost of getting it done right might be prohibitory though. The first thing that will happen is the FL guy wants compatibility with the Cubase guy wants compatibility with the ProTools guy, which is a bigger problem.

Looking at the actual pricing plans, $228/yr for the medium 20G plan. 20G doesn't go far in my studio, so this wouldn't work very well as a long term backup/version control system, it would only be useful for collaboration of a few projects at a time and then I'd have to dump projects.

The $1068/yr plan is just too much for me to pay for 100G storage. I can rent a dedicated server with 2TB storage for less than that. Also even 100G doesn't hold my projects from the last six months.

I think it's the cost of providing bandwidth and storage for this stuff, it's a serious challenge to the viability of this startup. What you have sounds cool and I bet it works really well, but the file size issue and the cost, man oh man.
Can you elaborate on why you prefer tmux? Myself, I use byobu, a set of user-friendly wrapper scripts around screen.
Not only do they make it into the store without problem, the initial investment, and thus risk in dollar terms, is significantly lower too. So I bet it does have a large effect.
I understand where you're coming from, but it also sounds like you share some common misperceptions about FB Connect.

For one, before you login with FB Connect, it tells you exactly what the application is requesting your permission to do.

If the application wants permission to post to your wall, FB tells you upfront that it is requesting that. So you don't have to believe my words- when you click to login you'll see that the only information requested is just your basic profile information. Nothing else.

Regarding FB having a profile, I don't quite understand this. For one, FB doesn't know what you're doing on my site. All it knows is that you signed into my site. But Facebook can't really "do" anything with that info. It can't post on your wall that you logged into my site, it doesn't have access to any of your activity on my site, etc.

Thanks for the good wishes. I don't think you're that much of an outlier, but I think a lot of that has to do with how poor of a job Facebook has done explaining Facebook Connect.

I'm expecting that over time, people will increasingly understand how it works and be less suspicious. Maybe.
I just have to wonder if had Rob
released a minimum viable product - without the polish and all the types of interactions and months of hard work
and submitted it to the App Store - would it have been rejected sooner.

With our apps, even though they are fairly standard, we know the biggest risk is rejection by Apple. We hedge that risk somewhat by submitting a MVP (setting the release date in the future so it won't go live accidentally if approved).
If you want to find something worth building, get busy living.
Well,
I am glad to fin you here. :)
There are many challenges that guys on this website are NOT aware of!

For example.. if I want to charge my users, it's very hard to do that, because PayPal is NOT available for Egyptians.
Also it's NOT easy to setup an international merchant account, to accept payments on the internet.

There are very critical challenges, which makes it much harder to make any success... not to mention that it's impossible indeed to get funding opportunity in Egypt, as you know... we don't have this culture here yet..
> $2/$3 a month sounds much better to me, especially for services for which users aren't very expensive.

How do you know if they are expensive or not?
Yes: A post where every sentence is an observation of a fact, but the implicit generalization of those facts is false.

I.e., a successive series of observations of white swans, written with a strong narrative, to strongly imply that all swans are white.
Don't use your race to explain why it's troublesome to move to America. I'm a caucasian from Canada and it is very difficult for even me to move there. While race does have a little bit to do with it, shitty American politics are even worse.
Older founders are more likely to tell you to shove your advice. Hence insecure investors choose an audience they can control more easily.
Outside of tech-startup-land I think that is most entrepreneurs definition of success. Then you start adding goals to success like "not have to get a job and can take a vacation every once in a while"
That's an unsourced article that has been flagged as unsourced for a long time, for something that ought to be easily sourced. The fact remains that young people from Arab countries travel to the United States a lot, and some immigrate each year.

P.S. A test case to try out would be to try to travel to all the countries that are said to be on that list with a United States passport that has a visa stamp in it from Israel. That can be problematic too.
I just don't get it. Awesome app. Why would they reject it? What would the actual reason for rejection be?
I can sum up your odds of pulling down a 10MM A round by saying "you are not going to get a 10MM A round".
I agree with the comments, HTML 5 is really the key to bypass all these restrictions.

What is the best HTML 5 framework so far? I saw sencha's, webkit and a couple of others here and there.

Any recommendations?
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Email me, and we'll figure out a good time for you to come buy and visit; I'll buy you coffee. We're super easy to get to.
Maybe he should sell it in source form as a "build it yourself" product. I'd definitely pay for it.
thanks! this looks very interesting and worth looking into
With regards to the insecure password, the password itself is supposed to be simple, something you can easily tell someone that will stick in their head. Under options you can also enter the last 4 digits of the recipients phone number for added security. But it's not necessarily meant as a way to keep people out, if thats what you want to do you can always set a much longer password.
Awesome - love it.
You don't need to go to the US to start the company. It's just a paperwork exercise so you've got a company in a convenient form to sell or raise investment later.

What's staying in the US got to do with building a website? If you build a business that makes money, then it doesn't really matter where your arse is in the world.

How is any of this fundamentally different to the Tim Ferris-style of running your business from a beach somewhere? If you have a web-based business your physical location only matters if you need millions of dollars to run it - and if that's the kind of business the OP is planning, then he needs to rethink his basic model and come up with something more appropriate to his situation.
Nook is rootable because it uses Android, which lets it read RSS feeds and such via Trook.

And ePub is a big deal if you plan to get books anywhere but the B&N/Amazon bookstores.

Color touchscreen is also nice.
Just untick everything except Europe.
"When did reading books become a purely utilitarian thing?"

When the answer to the question "How do I learn to do X?" is "Read this book."

Nice sentiment, wrong place. "Read this book even though it won't help you learn X" translates directly to "Don't read this book." in this context.
New website for managing startup betas as well as sourcing beta testers.
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Most people know what's fair, somewhere deep down. You know it, and they know it.

Go to them confidently, tell them "You didn't pay me. I know your company's having problems, but that doesn't get you out of your debt to me, we both know this. How can we make this right without destroying our friendship and the company?"

If they don't give you anything to work with (you should accept either money or a solid explanation of why they can't pay you now, and a concrete, explainable timeline showing exactly when they'll be able to), then either they're clearly disrespecting you and their social contract, or they actually are completely bankrupt and have no hope of getting out of it, and in either case, it's perfectly within reason to start them down the bankruptcy path.
That format comes from smalltalk. Ruby inherits lots of their ideology from smalltalk so it's no surprise to see them adopt their class browser either. However, I'm not sure if class browsers can be considered "documentation".
"it also sounds like you share some common misperceptions about FB Connect."

I suspect it's not just a "common" but overwhelming misperception. In fact, before reading what you wrote here, I didn't know that's how it worked.

I am an intermittent/casual facebook user, and use it only for real personal connections. As a result, I never log into any website or iphone app that offers facebook login, for exactly the concerns listed above. The rules also seem to change over time, so just to be certain, I won't use it.
I posted this in the last thread about this - it's a different way of looking at the issue:
http://www.taxgirl.com/new-rules-about-forms-1099-are-causin...
Standardized written dialects in Europe were often established by written literature, generally a translation of the Bible. That's why standard German, for instance, is so heavily influenced by Luther's Saxon dialect--Luther wrote the most influential early German Bible, which was then used in schools.
Why Jay Adelson was fired (exited)
I heard through a VC friend of mine that deals with paperwork only , that Jay and the other execs did not live up to their earnout goals. But most of all because he wouldn't listen (he ran companies before).They gave Kevin 2 choices,that would result in him giving up his small share of ownership (between 20-24 percent) (also Trademark license?) . This is not really surprising , but its nice to have a close ear to confirm these things.
How about Chopin's Mazurkas? For me, many of them have tear-inducingly beautiful melodies.
Can you speak to why the applicant age distribution is so skewed?

I'd wager that older founders have more anchoring commitments, so while you can draw on a large (geographical) pool of young founders, you can only draw from the few older founders that happen to live near YC itself.

Of course, you have a lot more data, and probably a lot more insight into this question.
Interpreted code

> No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and builtin interpreter(s)...An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise.

> Briefs are eventually compiled into binary .plist files for delivery to the iPhone. But authoring uses a simple language called bs. BS is a simple language written specifically for creating briefs. Its syntax is very similar to CSS (helpful for those experienced web designers).
You've inspired me to triple the space given out for paid plans.
I don't have a Facebook account (and I refuse to get one), so in the unlikely event that people like me are the sole target group of your application/website, yes - requiring FB connect will kill your startup =)

But like I said, it's unlikely.
Why would they give him 1/4th the salary? Could he sign away his right to demand the full salary, or would any such agreement be unenforceable if he decided to come after them later?

I'd support the legal system allowing him to sign an agreement accepting a lower amount and making that final, but I wonder if it works like the minimum wage, where workers can't sign away their right to be paid at least the minimum wage.
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I noticed there are a few versions, including for Java and C. Any reason why the ML version is better (not against ML; just don't know it well enough (at all actually)).
So your argument is that:

a) it's fine for them to lie about square feet, because they will magically stop lying.

b) it is a good use of your resources to have to re-measure every room to be sure it matches the floorplans, and it's economically superior to force everybody to remeasure everything than to just tell RE agents that they can't lie.

Did I miss anything there?
Another thing about being CTO: are any other employees that have been shafted mad at him? In most companies that have the title, CTO is a leadership position.
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They didn't reject it yet.
Apple's logic is that it runs interpreted code which will allow people to run stuff bypassing the App store.
And you're assuming that the guy who just lied to you about the total square foot didn't lie about any of the dimensions?

Come the fuck on, man. I know you're stupid but give me a break. You need to be able to trust both, or you can't trust either.

If you can't trust either, then you need to hire somebody to go re-measure 100 places because some libertarian wingnut thought it was a good idea to let RE agents lie about measurements.
Well, since no English speakers use an ideographic language for English and we're all spelling... sort of... phonetically, there is clearly no reason to prefer a college-educated journalism major to write or edit for the NYT, we can just grab any ol' dirt farmer, right?

There's more to "literacy" than having muscle memory for writing an enormous swathe of characters of dubious usefulness, something most languages manage to do entirely without.
I would advise you follow the wage claim route with the state since you were an employee. If you were a contractor you'd have to sue in small claims court, you'd undoubtedly win a judgement, and then it would be up to you to enforce the judgement by getting a lien on the company's property or such. With the wage claim you'll still probably not get anything, but it might prevent him from running more scams in the future unless he settles up.

I strongly advise you emotionally disconnect from them. It sounds like you like them and don't want to cause troubles for them, and they like it that way. You may find they are not the nice sweet people you thought they were as soon as you require them to pay you the money that they owe you. They are not doing you a favor paying your wages, that is money you earned. They are not your friends, they are thieves who stole your hard earned money from you. Don't allow the fact that they did this while smiling and patting you on the back to distract you from your goal - to get paid what you are rightfully and legally owed.
Briefs are compiled into binary .plist files on the Mac not on the iPhone.
The film's endorsed by Brokep himself:
http://twitter.com/brokep/status/22381871767
Stop wasting your time and doing fb connect. Just do the traditional method and test your idea fast and easy. FB connect will slow down your development and make it complicated.

FB has changed so much this year alone, you'll have to change each time they add something new.
Even with the risk of arbitrary rejection, it seems like the odds of payoff from your hard work are better with an iPhone app than a website written in any HTML dialect.
Ask HN: Should someone recreate TechTV?
I kind of miss it. What do you think?
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Yes and they are "run" on the iPhone.

This makes me wonder if the real reason there is not Balsamiq for iPad is because of the threat of rejection for "running" and "editing" Balsamiq markup models. I understand that Balsamiq is an Adobe AIR/Flash product, and it would have required a major port to CoreGraphics/Cocoa (since the CS5 compiler was banned because it leveled the mobile platform playing field by allowing near write-once, run any device).
change "tastiness" to "tasty"
It runs on most popular Unix-ish systems.
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For better or worse, I'm convinced that this is the reason that PHP took off the way it did. The documentation was clear, concise, easy to access (perhaps the first example of user friendly URLs I can remember), and effective; That each function had user-submitted (moderated) comments was the icing on the cake.

Being able to look at a function, have clear documentation WITH EXAMPLES was brilliant -- being able to see some of the common questions and resolutions from users was exemplary.

I know that the python docs are largely considered aces, but I have yet to see a language reference as good as the PHP documents. I hate the language, but it was the first language I could actually learn from its own documentation.
One of the big things is that it preserves split screen arrangements upon detachment. I SSH into a server and basically use Screen/tmux as my IDE, and losing my split screen setup when I detach is very annoying.
arm: The rules also seem to change over time...

This is one of my main concerns, onwardly. While I acknowledge that I as the user must give permission for the application to access different kinds of information, FB also changes their privacy terminology/definitions and user agreements too often for me to feel safe about it. While I'm confident FB themselves won't sell users' data to third parties because it's not worth it to them from a risk/reward standpoint, I can't be sure about smaller websites who'd be capable of getting away with it if sneaky enough.

One last thing: I think it's important to note that I honestly wouldn't even look at what information is being requested. I would just hit the back button if FB Connect were required. If others are the same, that's a big barrier to have. But I think I've seen sites immediately jump to the permission request stage, which would eliminate that barrier. If the user is reading the request where they otherwise wouldn't, your overall stats will be much improved. (Maybe you're already doing that. If so, just ignore me and my ramblings. But I haven't seen all that often.)
The problem with allowing admins to manage updates is that any new version which breaks an internal app in the slightest way would be a reason to avoid updating.

This is what has given IE6 its long life in the corporate world. While this is a pragmatic decision, it can hurt badly in the long run as we all know.
Two choices? What two choices? Which did he take? Can you clarify what your saying?
Personally I appreciate the client-server design and the memory savings it lends when connecting multiple terminals to the same tmux session:

http://www.linuxized.com/2010/05/switching-from-gnu-screen-t...

Plus the more liberal BSD license but that's more of an ideological issue.
The django docs are rather good and similar in many ways to python docs: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/
Is there something specific about PMS-ey women that makes them better testers than, say, people who are just plain having a bad day?
Of course. We are constrained by how much we think we know. But if we simply question everything relentlessly, its not necessary to be naive.
The first time a visitor shows up on the site, maybe have a box hanging over the middle (light-box style - darken the content of the page), explaining you can just edit in place, no accounts, etc.

It feels...weird to be able to do all that without logging in, especially for this kind of data/form.
You're really underselling Wozniak here.

The guy was absolutely brilliant.

To say Jobs found "some Woz's to work with him" devalues his contributions to Apple's success.
In my opinion, excellence in the arts* is among the highest goals toward which humanity can strive. In music, a composer (and performer) can deliver to the listener great beauty and wonder. Through music, a window into the very fabric of the universe can be opened. Music is one of those things that makes us distinct from animals; to encounter, to appreciate and to experience music is to more intimately apprehend what it means to be human.

* By "the arts", I mean to include: acting/drama, poetry, music, visual arts, literary arts, dance, and so on.