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It is, because it's a direct conflict of interest between the one implementing the "ugly solution" and the ones who are later going to need to read it, debug it, refactor it, etc. Who are, in fact, most likely to be colleagues, in this context.
Yes, subseting or superseting aren't allowed, making the patents grant completely useless.
#1 is very true. This is beyond usual thinking and logic, but what's deep inside your subconscious plays a major role in your current state. I've ignored examining it for quite a while and BOOM! - I was unproductive, procrastinating, not able to concentrate, and what not. You'll be quite amazed by the fact that how irrelevant a thing could be lying in your subconscious. I suggest examining your life in great details and find out what's going wrong. And then immediately fix it!
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That's what it looks like to me. The bumping style. How information is added to the stream and commented on. Replace picture uploaded with normal profile picture or attachment? what do you think.
Hang on...

You read that his retirement left him with 94% of his old income... then you did some loose maths to inflate the two amounts to today's money... then you wrote a conclusion to your comment saying that he took a hit of 95%. Errr, what?

Thanks for giving a rough idea of what his money was in modern terms, but your "long story short" was actually a longer version of what he had already said, and somehow less accurate.
Well aren't you lovely. A starved for attention (supposedly) smart (MIT) girl? Overweight pathetic "Cosmo" reading male? Please make up your mind.

Or..I'm an Econ major taking my FIRST course in computer science with ZERO background experience in this space at all. I'm looking for advice and guidance as a humble beginner.

If you were looking for literature and daily publications on Austrian Economics or other heterodox schools of economic thought, I would have a list to give you.. I'm just looking for the equivalent in programming.
So you're basically against the jury system in general - not just for patent disputes, right?
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How did you go about finding these 500K+ web apps? What kind of clients are they? What kind of apps do you do for them? If you dont mind me asking
The 30/30 would still be a problem though (from experience). There needs to be one visionary who has the final say. Help prevent fights and wasted time.
Here's a tip I heard from a friend (assume 2 co-founders, can be extended to n without loss of generality):

Have both founder sit down and write a list of things they think the other founder brings to the table. Assign an equity value beside each point (with the remaining equity belonging to you). Spend some time doing this, encourage them to take it seriously.

After both of you have completed this, sit down and run through the entire list. Have an open and honest debate about each point.

Once adequate consensus is reached, add up the total % of equity assigned. Hopefully, this number will exceed 100%, if it does not (ie: both co-founders believe they make an outsized contribution), it's probably a good sign you need to go back and restart this process again. Multiply your personal equity stake by the total % equity to get your share.

It seems like a good idea because it avoids making the argument self-serving and talking about your own contributions. Instead, it's about getting the partnership off on a foot of mutual respect & understanding.

Disclaimer: I've never tried this myself, results may vary.
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To what end? Why would he do that? To die marginally wealthier than he is now?
Economics is like gravity. It doesn't care if you believe in them. Either way you're headed for a fall.
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What makes you think your (wow) programmers are slow? Are they inexperienced, like yourself? They may be poorly guided or have no clear definition of goals. Or a lot of other things.

But by all means, get a hold of a compiler and a text editor. You don't need no literature. Yet.
Python's a good language, but it's a soft-typed interpreted language. Which means it will let you get away with certain things.

It is also has some differences in syntax from a lot of other languages that might give you some trouble when you switch. C/C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Javascript and many other languages share a lot of common syntax. Python's still really similar, but it deviates in some key ways.

It also tends to have really hard core adherents who will swear by it above and over anything else, which is why there is something of a debate. It really doesn't matter that much what language you start with.

One of the keys to being a good programmer is knowing your toolbox. And that includes knowing multiple languages. The best programmers don't have one favorite language. Rather they have a toolbox of a half a dozen or more, and they pick the best language for the task at hand.
Allow the existing founders to discuss and decide what the new potential co-founder is worth and what they are willing to pay (in percentage/equity) to get him/her onboard.
I agree, I think it might have worked for our case though because my initial cofounder was more business focussed and I was the technical one. He stood behind my technical/product decisions.
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The unreliable narrator is its own observation for the reader.

I can see him trapped in his pretensions, and it seems to me that it's clear to him too, but that he's unwilling to acknowledge it, and wallows in a form of cynical self-pity as a self-defense mechanism.
Is there a benefit to learning multiple languages? Or would you recommend trying to truly "master" one of the starting (Java or Python) and then branching out after completely comfortable in one? Should I learn them in a specific order?

I just picked up Code Complete at the lib today but will start with "Write Great Code" as you suggested. Thanks!
So, as an example, with a business guy & technical co-founder, the business guy believes the technical co-founder should deserve 80% of the company, the technical guy believes the business guy should deserve 40% of the company.

80% + 40% = 120%. Thus, the business guy ends up with 40%/120% = 33.3% and the technical guy ends up with 80%/120% = 66.6% of the company.

Both walk away happy that they got more than they felt like they deserved.
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I think doing odd things that push the boundaries of a language is a great way to become a great programmer, but isn't something to try when you are just learning your first language. That's someone you do once you understand where those boundaries are.
The contribution of the grandparent was putting some kind of real dollars on the income extremes.
my buddy has a thinkpad x61 flip-around tablet, and it looks as usable as my thinkpad x60s non-tablet as a laptop, and it also looks like a reasonable tablet. (now, I'm not a tablet guy, so I can't evaluate how good a tablet is; the form factor is simply Not For Me. but my buddy likes it. he runs windows on the thing.)

Me, I carry a (non tablet) thinkpad x60s running Linux. it gets maybe 4 or 5 hours on the extended battery, and I carry one extended battery and two (half the charge) regular batteries. (I'm a big guy and the thinkpad x series is small, so the extra weight doesn't really bother me. It's still lighter than my girl's giant T series laptop w/ extended battery. That thing is heavy.) Also, the thing is cheap enough that I don't get too bothered at the idea of it getting destroyed.
by the way. I realize there are a couple of macs $3000 and higher that have more cores. For that I'd just upgrade my board to dual cpu version and the computer would cost me $1200 and still be faster than the fastest mac on the market. In fact I could just hackintosh it and have a mac faster than what apple sells, and some do that. But I prefer windows 7.
I've been using joker.com since the first .com crash, and they've been a reliable, no-nonsense host the entire time. it's about $12 a year per .com or .net, but as I'm not a domainer, the extra few bucks doesn't matter much. what I like is that they don't try to spend a lot of effort up selling you. I can go on their website and do something and be reasonably assured I won't be incurring extra charges.
> I'm the coder and he's the talent

I love this treatment for the role of your non-techical co-founder. Doesn't come across as false modesty either.
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I would be really interested to know what happened to him
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(lol, yes she is an adult!)

to your main point: Well that's kind the issue isn't it? Yes Violet is 'focused on the topic of sex' she's a leading author in the field (30+ books on Amazon), appears on Oprah show about the topic, lectures at universities, etc.

But if you are right, isn't that too far if a domain authority removes someone's domain because the line of work and academic research they are in? Like I said, the site itself was hardly adult, even if Violet's own life, work and research is against their laws (somehow, perhaps).
That link doesn't work (for me). HN is stripping out the single quote. Here it is with the quote encoded:

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fd0n/35%20Founders%27%20Pie%2...
Not sure what is the nature of your startup. But if you are building;

1. Web-based App
Decide on the programming language, the more popular languages are Java, PHP, Python, Rails, etc. Start by going through their Getting Started guide and make the 'Hello World' app. Once you are familiar with the programming language, seek out the related framework. Most of these web-based application already have a few established framework to help you speed up the development work.

2. iPhone App/Android App
Start going through the iOS SDK 4 docs or start by going through the Android SDK Dev Guide. I am still going through these myself. Can't provide more details here. Maybe the more experienced folks can chip in a bit.

These will get you started on the programming part. But working in a startup, you probably need to work as a team. So you will need to know a bit of the tools used in a team environment; version control tools like SVN or CVS, testing tools like junit, grinder, hudson, etc. The number of tools really depends on how your startup operate. The real way to get an idea what you will need is to Contribute To An Open Source Project; help to code, test, etc. Nothing beat experience gain from there.. Wish someone told me that when I was started out, then I won't have unlearn all my mistakes.
Sheesh, there's one in every thread...

Thanks for starting this topic, ladydude. I've been looking for the same sort of advice/extracurricular materials, myself.

This one's on my wishlist. As in, I wish I had the time/cognitive tenacity to read it: http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxe...
Not necessarily. What worked for me will probably (definitely) not work for you. Especially since you don't mention:

a) any short- or long-term goals of yours
b) any preference on language, or what language(s) your project is using
c) any preference on teaching style, or even habits

If you did, I might be able to relate, or even suggest something. But any advice basically boils down to getting a basic development environment going, and learn by trial and error.
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It seems like every business owner should be aware of this sort of thing... aware so that he or she can recognize and fire the employees who play these destructive games to get ahead.

As a business owner, though, I think the rules for playing power games are quite different; First, I care about how well the company does more than how "powerful" you think I am. I mean, if I don't let you finish what you are trying to say, why the hell am I still employing you?

besides, you know I can fire you. I have the metaphorical 'big stick' in the situation; there is no reason to lord my status over you.
Save the websites for after you graduate -- right now, take advantage of the resources available to you as an MIT student. See if you can get some real-life experience with a UROP. Ask your CS professors (or even TAs) questions during their office hours. Go to some SIPB events.
Yes, but again, why do we assume Salvatore is just pulling this stuff out of his ass?
Happy joker user here as well. Don't have anything bad to say about them, except that their UI could use a little work.
Ali was a big talker, but was never serious or expected to be taken seriously with his words. He was comical and witty, he pandered for the crowd, he did it as entertainment on its own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-5_8af3TiY

I don't really consider his type of banter to be the same type of shit talking I refer to in the post. Gotta love him though, the "greatest of all time", based solely by his own words.
Good comment. In the same vein, not everyone handles being bullied the same way. A related article (http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/07/very_off_topic_why_...) where the author remains angry even after a long time has passed and how he plans to help his kids deal with such bullying (similar to lionhearted's comment)
What do you mean by "how slow my programmers were?"

Three possibilities:

-- Possibly good or bad programmers, but slow as you imply

-- Good programmers, taking their time to build the system properly by writing unit tests and functional tests

-- Possibly good or bad programmers, but hindered by legacy code and/or a lack of tests for previous code
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Yes, that could well be. My friend said the US did invest it, so they know about it. Personally I would rather have a system like Brazil has today as a place to at least start from rather than the horrible way votes are done in the US today.
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That's all well and good Francisco, but could you pause a moment and explain to me just how RIAA and ACTA fit into all of this? Or for that matter the immortal copyright of Mickey Mouse?
since when tech guy gets more than business guy?

(to all the downvoters: I'm genuinely interested)
Don't forget the divorce - his ex-wife probably got the property, the savings, etc, leaving him destitute.
Communication was poor and they (two grad students) could only commit a few hours per week...more than anything it ignited an interest to learn that of which I knew nothing about.
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I think that you'd see better the difference in c++ template instantiation error reports
I've been considering this... now, I've been pouring all my personal resources into my company for five years now, so this is something of a special case.

The thing is, other people want to get involved, people who have skills worth more than I can pay in cash. I know that I have more dedication than they do. If we are where we are now a year from now, I'll still be plugging away at it. No other rational person would feel the same way.

So, my thought is that every year or so, we simulate another round of funding. We dilute all current stock by the amount of money we'd need to pay everyone market rate, and distribute the new shares based on the difference between a person's market value and the cash they actually got paid.

This would be pretty similar to the effect we'd get if we did everything in cash, and got a new round of funding every year to pay salaries.

What I like about it is that if you worked for me three years ago but then lost interest, your equity stake would slowly shrink as I kept pouring in another $80K/year worth of unpaid labour into the thing.

Of course my case is a special case. most of the time the idea is that if one founder loses interest, the company goes under and that's that.
As the man once said, it's no more moral to earn your living from cleverness by hoodwinking people than from strength by strong-arming people. Francisco's speech excoriates the latter; but it has little to say about the former.

In fact, it has contempt for what it describes as fools, and seems to equate monetizable value creation with moral righteousness; as such, it works well as a justification for selfishness for those well placed in the nexus of supply and demand, whether by luck or skill.

Of course, relatively little value creation is monetizable, and that creation which is is generally not rewarded in full according to its value. because of transaction costs. Much as we'd all like to be independent short-term contractors selling our valuable output to the highest bidder at every moment, we can't - the ancillary costs are too high, most of the time. So, most of us undersell our skills for a longer term contract, and the surplus is collected in proportion by those who own the most capital.

It's my personal suspicion that Ayn Rand is held in such high regard largely because of the guilt it assuages in people who would otherwise be uncomfortable feeling "greedy". It doesn't seem to work that way for me though, as it seems to be transparently flattering to the reader, with flimsy, threadbare arguments. That's all besides the tedious writing.
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Thought I'd post this here. Another day in our struggle of working on an increasingly hostile ecosystem for Twitter app developers. We were also IP blocked without notice twice in the 2 weeks beforehand. I had to send a support request to get us unblocked each time. We receive no notice and do nothing wrong, so are unblocked once our request is received. We have all kinds of protection on our end to stop agressive API activity being performed through our app, but that doesn't seem to help. Twitter provide us with no information about what we can do to stop being blocked.

It's frustrating.
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My objection to the claim that we are in a perfect simulation of reality is that that's not falsifiable.

Falsifiability is a really really interesting concept. It's not particularly popular among mystics because it sort of invalidates the whole religion thing.
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I guess Twitter and Quora are the next Facebook/Google.
Do something you enjoy. Personally I learnt to program because I wanted to know how computer graphics worked, that led to games and eventually a career. Some things I think are fun to play with:

* Logo / turtle graphics (Python has this built in IIRC)

* Fractals, random generation (Mandelbrot blows my mind)

* Learning how games were made (E.g. http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/)

* Old style graphics engines (SDL, Allegro etc)

* JavaScript / HTML (E.g. a recent experiment: http://www.dpod.com/Canvas/02/)

* Exploring new languages (Scheme, Python, Assembly... recently Clojure)

As you can see some of this is new, some old, some useful, some just interesting. Explore, enjoy, learn programming as a side effect!
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When Ayn Rand grew up, Corporate Welfare was something that the socialists did. If you read the first half of Atlas Shrugged, you see some train companies that hold their standing not by providing a good product but by lobbying for subsidies and rules in their favour. Needless to say, these are the bad guys.
This discussion is very much about Google, and how they're trying to look like the good guy.

But the fact is, they screwed Sun over and forked mobile Java without giving them a cent (and not respecting their license in the process).
That was borderline incoherent. Terribly written.

Looked for a better account of his talk but couldn't find one.
This was really hard to read, but I can't wait for the video to be released. Unfortunately for this conference (Business of Software) that tends to be a year later when they start selling tickets for next year's conference.
Knowing absolutely nothing about this, let me just throw a random idea out there:

Split the work up so that you are just providing the service to partners in local communities. You can manage the tech centrally, and anything else that can benefit from centralization (national ad network, AP-style content, etc), but farm out the actual micro-sites to local partners.

Of course you probably want to run a couple of them yourself so you understand the market and the pain points. And you'll probably have to bootstrap pretty hard to get critical mass.

But at some point it seems like you could be providing services to established local organizations (like newspapers), and potentially become profitable while charging those organizations an order of magnitude less than what it would take to cook up their own site from scratch.

The key would really be understanding what all these local community organizations have in common.
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to me its almost a "we can do it"-style recession solving, network connecting update. (job-wise)
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If you are concerned about that, why not donate one of those book scanner thingies to the thrift store. Then they can set the prices accordingly, and become uninteresting to the book scanners.
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I don't. Craigslist took over a fat market and slashed several zeroes off the end of it. In no way does it make sense for newspapers to have preempted craigslist.
What makes traditional barcode scanners so much more efficient than smartphone cameras? Any chance to catch up on speed?
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