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But if you had formed a single entity for all your side projects, then it wouldn't have happened a second time (you wouldn't have to have formed 2 entities for projects that never got off the ground -- just one).

I think it's reasonable to start a single llc for your side projects, and to spin them off as needed. And is what I have done (and spun off 2 LLCs from the original).

The problem if you don't is that everything will get muddled in your personal finances and that's not a good thing. (I have no idea about the logistics if you want funding down the line, however)
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As a customer, I don't except a refund, but I do expect to keep my access until the last day.

Example : If a payment go through on the 1st of the month and I cancel 5 days later, I would expect to still have 25 days of service after that.
Here's a public server for trying it out: http://openspora.com/

Running stock Diaspora code, but it's got a LOT of problems (which is to be expected from pre-alpha software I suppose.)
I have been putting this off for sometime. I met Chandra when they were conceptualizing the product and he was interested in hiring me for it. He had a grand vision, but I found him completely out of depth. He kept harping about building an OS for the next generation of devices, being the next Microsoft etc. etc., and seemed drunk on his own kool aid. He threw TC's and MA's name freely. Looking at this makes me squeamish now. Good that I turned it down.

But, I still respect him for kind of pulling it off. Conceptualizing a device and taking it to the market is tough and kudos to them for it. I know, since I tried and failed in doing the same thing. But this kill any chances they had for an acquisition or buyout, completely. Nobody's going to even touch them anymore. I guess that's what MA's trying to do.

Sad to see how it turned out.
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Except when my girl uses it to try and get a discount on some health session things locally and no coupon ever materialises and the money is seemingly impossible to get a refund on.

You cannot imagine the bad press she's telling all of her friends. There's not much I can imagine being more powerful than one of the key people in a little social group starting with "You wouldn't believe how bad this company is, I think it's just a scam.".

Anecdotal it clearly is, but once you have the opportunity to sell the same time and energy that is put into copy should be put into customer service. Especially when your company can be affected by third parties not pulling their weight.
WTF why on earth did you limit usernames to between 6 and 12 characters???

My first impressions were super favorable, but when you prevented me from using either obie or obiefernandez (my preferred usernames) for no good reason it totally killed my enthusiasm. Stopped me dead in my tracks. :(
I simply can't understand the upside to being as deceitful as Chandra is accused of being. If the product was going to be a big hit, wouldn't everyone profit handsomely? And if it was bound to be a failure in the market anyway, why make a friend into an enemy?
> The problem if you don't is that everything will get muddled in your personal finances and that's not a good thing.

Good point, I'm not salaried so my finances, accounting, and taxes are already fairly complicated so that creating a new entity for a casual project doesn't make such a difference. Expenses for new projects are usually just a single line item in my budget. For someone getting most of their income from salary, it might make their taxes easier to have an LLC that shows a loss the first few years and passes that through.

What was the spinning off process like, if you don't mind elaborating? You start building in your personal LLC, and then if the project takes off you spin it off? Then you've got personal assets separately from your various LLC assets? Has it made enough of a difference to be worth the paperwork? (Also, a California LLC costs minimum $800 year, even if you lost money, so I assume you're not in CA)
However, if a customer is adamant about getting a refund, just do it and move on.
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...and a lawyer.
I am more interested in the server-side sandbox. There are a few like codepad, SPOJ but not many that with source available.
I agree wholeheartedly about how fun the experience is to suck at something as easy as typing. Also, I suppose normal typing tutors would work but I think that Dvorak ones would concentrate more on reprogramming muscle memory to fit Dvorak so I would prefer one of those if I could manage it. MAN this is difficult! Haha!
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i'm porting the protocol to couchdb http://github.com/maxogden/couchappspora
Am I the only one that dislikes the business model of the bloomberg terminal?
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My thoughts exactly. I actually wasted a few minutes reading the story thinking there must be more nuance.

The mention of "maneuvering erratically" and taking off without headlights seems to further advance the simplest explanation... but everyone loves a good conspiracy theory.
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Have link HTML printed out as per normal, attach JS that routes every clicked link through your servers. E.g.

This is a twitter <a href="http://bit.ly/blah"
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I think it speaks to the support network available for entrepreneurs in NYC. Charlie O'Donnell of First Round kicked it off, from what I recall, with this post advising Diaspora on how to make it through the immediate chaos and get to building. Many people spoke up via blog posts and tweets to suggest simply getting to work as quickly as possible and to not set the vision too high yet.

http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2010/5/13/what-diaspo...

I saw them shortly after at MongoNYC where they were getting a lot of attention. In spite of that, they just focused on learning what they needed and hearing the talks about people's experiences.

This is exactly the kind of focus that's needed to get the job done, so not only should it not be surprising, it should be expected. In spite of that, I'm stoked to see it.
There is no argument against having a policy for receiving, reviewing and patching security reports. It is that simple.

"hundreds of other bits of (unsafe, untested) social networking code floating around the interwebs" is not a benchmark that this project should aspire to.
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64-bit hardware is perfectly capable of running a 32-bit OS, though. There's really no obvious reason that Amazon would be trying to phase out 32-bit guests.
Come to think of it, the survivors are probably stuck on an island, lost in time. Someday they will be saved, and will return to society. This will seem like a cherished moment, but they will soon come to realize that they truly belong back on the island. When they return, it will come to light that they were really dead all along. We will all proceed to watch the next soapy primetime drama.
Do you have more details on this? I looked around for a while and ended up installing cygwin...
not before january 2011.
Doesn't Groupon have a no-questions-asked refund policy?
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Conversely, some times I have zero interest in reading a companies blog, or what awards they won from PC Magazine back in 1999. You make it sound like a lot of these websites even have more to offer? Sometimes a product is just a product. A download link and a screenshot.
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I think a lot of the people saying that customers have no expectations of pro-rating have got the usual $20 per month SaaS pricing stuck in their head.

Not all apps cost that. If the app is $299 a month, and a customer cancels one day after being rebilled, I think you'd find they appreciate the option to have a pro-rated refund!
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The parent stated they ate the same amount of calories.
Be sure you check into the minimum tax... CA has about an $800 minimum tax on S-Corps and may have one for LLCs too.
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Woot would be another example of a startup with great copy. I buy something like 0.5-1% of all Woots that I see - but I keep checking them because at least 20% of the descriptions make me "lol".
I think that since the community funded this project that the code should have a more liberal license so that the community can do what they want with it.

The project also depends on MongoDB, which is also AGPL licensed, which raises the question of if paid hosting of a diaspora instance is 'commercial' and if it requires a MongoDB license from 10gen, I would think that it does.

They should BSD/MIT license their own code, and build more storage options outside of MongoDB. I am surprised that donors didn't insist on a license as part of the kickstart funding.
I realize this is a bit off topic but how do you feel about disclosure right there in the blog post? Something like "if you follow that link, I'll get some money"? I wrestle with this every time I link to something in a blog post. I've mostly settled on the affiliate link disclosure followed by an affiliate free one.
Not holding my breath, but:

The Japanese solution works very very well. the 100 yen coin (their system's $1 equivalent) is smaller than a US quarter and much lighter than a british pound coin. The 500 yen coin is about as big as a Susan B. Dollar coin, yet is still quite light. I often have as much as 2000 yen in coins in my pocket at a time, and it doesn't feel particularly heavy. Paying a transaction under 1000 yen is generally quick and pleasant.

Contrast with US $1 dollar bills, that are for some reason almost always falling apart, crumpled rags, and with the Quarter being the largest coin in common circulation, paying for something under $10 inevitably means fishing out a mix of disintegrating bills and small change.
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You either work with uneducated simpletons, or closet nazis and crypto-fascists. There is just no way anybody with a modicum of culture would hear "final solution" and not cringe, much less use the phrase passively in everyday non-historic conversation.
what excites me is the standalone version (or perhaps "standalone mode" if that's right). It comes with an nginx core, so those who just want to launch quickly without any extra work can just do with that and then worry about scalability after gaining traction :)

Thanks to Phusion
I very much agree that's the practical pool of possible coin values.

Seems to me if one wanted to simplify the system, a good solution would be (1, 5, 10, 50). This would really make the math simple.

But I don't think people would give up quarters happily; nor do I think fifty cent pieces would go over well; and I think it's high time to lose pennies. So if I was the evil overlord in charge, I think I'd just drop to (5, 25). Cash transactions would round to the nearest nickel instead of penny. Getting back four nickels instead of two dimes would be gotten used to quickly, I think.
I am doing the same, but in Hong Kong its called a Limited Liability (Ltd) company.

My main reason is for subscribers that have recurring subscriptions through Paypal and where there is no way to transfer payments from "Joe Citizen" to "Joe's Company Ltd" if it takes off in the future.

Also, if you want to apply for a merchant account then you must be a Ltd company. Its about US$1000 to get a basic LTD company registered in HK.
I agree with your criticism from a quick look.

That being said, I have no skills to bother taking a look under the hood. Could be they've done some impressive stuff underneath, and it will manifest over time?
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It's called greed.

Rather than sharing a piece of what might have been a very big pie, the FG guy got want he wanted: the full pie, he just ended up shrinking that pie down to nothing.
The name reminds me of the holocaust. It doesn't help that the color theme of the app evokes Schindler's List.

You can bet for most non-US people that 'diaspora' reminds them of some sort of persecution their people have faced. It is also a word that is used in a lot of languages, I have friends who are Russian, Ukranian, Serbian, Lebanese, Armenian, Jordanian etc. who all refer to themselves being in the 'diaspora' (ie. persecuted people who left their homeland and are now living in the west)
OpenID login? Everyone seems to forget about this.
Perhaps coins aren't used much on Craigslist, but:

1. Vending machines

2. Giving change to folks on the street

Also, plenty of people, for whatever reason, pay cash at stores; coins are needed there, of course.

And finally: for better or worse, cash is anonymous. Until a dependable replacement that is also anonymous comes along, people won't switch from cash.
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I would recommend spending some time reading "Inc. and Grow Rich!" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OXCERE/). This book will help you decide whether incorporating is right in your situation; and, if it is, what type of corporation best fits your goals for the future. Incorporating has more benefits than just liability; see if any of these benefits are of interest to you.
The PR firm helping FusionGarage on the side actually come out the worse looking party in all of this. I've taken the time to find their name from the filings just to shame them:

they're called McGrath|Power (http://www.mcgrathpower.com/)

Rather than saying what seems obvious "dude, you're going to create a shit storm of bad PR you'll never recover from if you divorce Arrington from the deal. We can't take your money cos we can't make this succeed" (pretty obvious to me), they just took the guys money anyway. So for me they deserve their own bad PR.
It does... but she seems unable to gain access to her account. She's getting email updates, but can't login. Password reminder emails aren't coming through so she can't reset. It just says her email isn't recognised even though she made a purchase. She's only got the one email so it's not like she's confused about which email she used.

She's emailed Groupon a few times and tried to contact the supplier of the classes she purchased... no response from either. So she's now just venting at anyone who will listen, which is me a lot of the time but more effectively her friends.
> not many that with source available.

Do you know of any that do come with source? I'd love to have a look.

http://codepad.org/about has a useful 'Paranoia' section: it was the starting point for me to build my own code-judging service. I couldn't find anything else at the time.

edit: codepad cites geordi: http://www.xs4all.nl/~weegen/eelis/geordi/

That's non-standard C++ so it might not be immediately useful, but I managed to find some nice info in the source on which system calls to consider dangerous.
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...or, what grellas said above (excellent comment, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1696483):

"These parties had all sorts of back and forth in what was a very fluid relationship and it seems that Mr. Arrington, for his part, was pushing for maximum advantage on terms without wanting to tie himself down to a premature deal"
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The money quote:

"The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data," Mr. Schmidt said. "Failing that, there are other ways to get that information." He declined to be specific.

What is google gonna do if they're not authorized to access the users' private social graph? Any sniffing/MIM/deep-inspection trick they might pull off would be illegal and unauthorized. Are they gonna bury the consent form in some google ToS/EULA that people will need to click through to read their emails?

Seems like an empty threat to me.
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If you also introduce imaginary time (as in some models of the big bang), then you can find funny definitions for what it means to possess a certain amount of money for a certain amount of time shortly after the big bang.

Perhaps something for interdisciplinary theoretical economist-physicists.
Not holding grudges and not worrying about things that I can not change often seem like mental garbage collection techniques to me.
Bill Gates had nothing to do with the popularization of the home computer.

Anyone heard of Microsoft BASIC? How about Applesoft?

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> In ancient Jewish and Christian writings, "faith" is typically used to mean "acting on something you know to be true", especially in the face of difficult circumstances.

You're talking about ancient religious writings. Religious people have a marked tendency of incorrectly conflating faith and reason. Clearly, whatever they meant by "faith," it had a strong mystical (i.e. otherworldy, not based in this reality) slant.

The exact same point goes for Kant. You call his "reason" the following: "reason that also includes elements of willpower and morality" (which does hint at Nazi ideology). I call Kant's "reason" the following: a flawed, mistaken, weakoned account of reason, plus some mystical aspects to compensate.
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What good has she done for society? Isn't that the metric we're using here? Not whether she has done well for herself.
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There are many other projects releasing genome as public domain:

- http://www.arabidopsis.org/ - ftp://ftp.arabidopsis.org/home/tair/Genes/ Arabidopsis thaliana , a well-known plant in the botanical community.

- NCBI/NIH ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/ where you have the genome of some well-known bacterias or the famous Drosophila fly

and if you want more readable interface to the Genome, you have websites like http://www.uniprot.org/ to navigate in various genomes.
If for every dollar you spend, you have to be aware of its history ("Oh, sorry, I can't buy cigarettes now, I only have two research-grant-dollars and three from my non-smoking mom, neither of which may be used for tobacco"), then the money ceases to be money (in the meaning of uniform tokens of value) and you're back at some later stage of bartering economy.
Correlation is not causation.

Sure, people who are wealthier and live in more stable societies tend to vote Democrat; but that doesn't mean that electing Democrat representatives causes the societies to be wealthier and more stable.

Working hard and being wealthy are also correlated, but that doesn't imply that you can cause people to work hard by giving them lots of money.

(Lest anyone accuse me of political bias here: If I was in the US, I would be voting Democrat, just like the author.)
I strongly believe the analytic/synthetic dichotomy is a false one. There is no such thing as a concept that comes pre-formed in the mind, without any reference to reality.

Kant used the analytic/synthetic dichotomy as part of his attempt to "destroy" reason. No, this isn't the same as a religionist's call to faith, but it has the same implications.

I am familiar with the categorical imperative, but it's not directly related to the discussion at hand. Yes, Kant is also very famous for that, and I also disagree with that (as does most everyone, probably even yourself :-) ).
pretty classy post by a pretty key ex-employee. i wish all were like this.
For a quote out of context, by "that information" he could have easily meant "the real-world social connections between people", which Google could probably infer from Gmail.

Such articles are meaningless.
Also consider that McGrath is a PR company that charges clients a lot of money to get coverage on blogs like Techcrunch. They have dug their own grave.

I can imagine that any client of McGrath's is on a TC blacklist now, and their current and potential clients are having second thoughts about working with them.

I read all the McGrath emails, they knew that what they were doing was bad and 'messy', but justified it because the project would have been worth $x (the amount was redacted).

People talk about FusionGarage being unethical because they do not understand the culture of the valley (where you do business based on your reputation), but it was a valley PR firm that pushed FusionGarage into doing what they did, thinking that their mad PR skills could fool bloggers and the media into accepting the FG version of events despite the fact that the entire project from day zero had been covered in blogs.
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Joel, didn't you answer this yourself a long time ago? Pointers and recursion. (Though I'd add concurrency if you intend to be programming much longer.)
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