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The big question is, "do you want to sell right now or hold out for FU money or have a lifestyle business?"

Unless the answer is "We want to sell right now" then this exercise is a distraction...and a potential source of stress if you have 50:50 equity split.

If you want to sell now, then what is your ideal outcome when the value to the purchaser: is your IP? your staff? elimination of competition? And more importantly, what is your partner's ideal outcome in each of these scenarios?

Keep in mind that if your suitor's goal is to eliminate competition, just floating the idea of purchase can create enough chaos to cause a divorce. My best advice is to discuss what your company is worth to each of you first.

As far as value goes, you're producing revenue of $100,000 per full-time employee. That doesn't leave much cash for a new owner so a valuation based on current revenue would not be favorable to you. From a revenue standpoint, you're basically a small business.

If the compeitor sees the potential value is in the IP, the real question becomes, how much would it cost them to deliver competing functionality? That number may be a lot less than you would want to sell for.

If the motivation is to bring you and/or your partner onboard, then you're back to do you really want to sell + do you really want to go work for those people? So the price is relative to the value you place on the company.

Sorry there's no numbers. My best advice is to determine quickly if both of you even want to sell and get back to building your business until there's actually an offer to consider. Good luck.
I understand you use the rsync approach since its similar to how you actually deploy, which is completely understandable, but I just wanted to note that John and I struggled with the shared folder performance issue + Vagrant for months, and we did a LOT (months) of real world tests with various solutions (John at one point even integrated background automated rsync directly into Vagrant), we found that NFS is really the only satisfying solution (for us, at least).

NFS allows us to edit code locally on our host, and have it "instantly" be ready on the guest. After just half an hour of working, the various inodes are cached on the guest and file system access over NFS is mostly native-speed since it only needs to grab changed pieces.

The end result: We completely ripped out background rsync despite John working weeks on it, and we put in built-in support for NFS, which has been going strong since around July now and is happily at work at many places that use Vagrant :)
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Thanks for letting me know. I am not intending to troll.

I do realize that the position I'm arguing from risks being un-PC, especially with certain HN demographics, and if it's reacted to in a way that doesn't account for the subtle specifics of what I'm saying. But sometimes it's important to stick up for what you believe in, and say what you think is true and right, even if it's not popular with everyone. On the whole, it seems that what I'm saying is resonating with some of the readers here, which is good. I'd hate to live in a society where much or even all of sexuality becomes considered evil or a crime, and in a society where we're unable to make subtle distinctions, and we go after non-violent "crimes" more than massively violent non-crimes (war, invasions, government-ordered bombing or missile strikes, etc., for example).
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Just to clarify for those who may not click through and read the links posted by the newly created "iopuy" account:

> Her Geek Feminism affiliations - http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Heroes_Women_in_FOSS

A web page created by Kirrily Robert (a.k.a skud) who was liveblogging a talk by Pia Waugh entitled "Heroes: Women in FOSS" at OSCON 2008. On that page in a list entitled "We gots hackers: a list of women" Noirin Plunkett's name appears along with ten other women.

> Her involvement in the org.apache.women group - http://markmail.org/message/dwdadluiapbg5qrs

In which, amongst other things she asks if the charter for the group "could replace every instance of 'women' with a word that includes both genders - 'people', 'newbies', 'interested proto-participants', anything that's not discriminatory." and concludes with:

"""

If we can make the ASF a more open, comfortable, easy-to-work-in
environment, everyone wins. I understand that it's very easy for a group
of women to focus on helping other women - it's easier to put ourselves
in the shoes of those who are similar to us. And I'm certainly not
saying we should insist on fixing everything at once. However, I do
think we should start the way we mean to go on, and that, to me,
requires a much more inclusive charter.

"""

> A blog entry about her divorce that pretty much blames it all on her husbands health. - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cm9PvCv...

And also links to a blog by her ex-husband wherein he says "How Noirin lasted so long, i’ll never understand. She’s amazing."

I don't want anybody in the tech community to die at the hand of character assassination, Florian, Noirin, you or me.
And here I thought from the title he was trying to make a super soaker that could shoot the sun. That would have been so much more awesome.
In what way is writing a blog post that was then posted by Stephen Sclafani (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ssclafani) coming to the "the court of HN opinion"?
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I was hoping that it was possible to separate the issue of the assailant's responsibility

I don't think that flies, because the point of her post was to identify a sexual assailant. She said she was the victim of an assault by another person, an issue of injustice which is a social and cultural question, and you said "Yes, but everyone is responsible for their own personal safety." This isn't about personal safety, it's about social justice, and yes, those are two very different things. So why are you trying to change the subject? The reasonable conclusion is that you're trying to weaken her claim to justice, which implies that you think we focus too much on justice, using social resources to protect women and they need to look out for themselves more.
sounds like a lot of people are interested in this but can't be there to bid. perhaps pg could setup a second lunch for online bidders, do a reverse auction and donate all the bids.
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Is that supposed to be some kind of ironic joke?

Not that I feel the victim is to blame in this case, but it is foolish to decide the victim must ALWAYS be utterly blameless. Japan was the victim of the detonation of the first atomic bomb. Were they utterly and completely blameless?
You really need more line spacing on your blog. The text is quite hard to read.
Wait... whut? She has strong opinions about gender, etc. so we shouldn't believe her?

Occam's Razor, man! Use it! Why in the world would she blame this dude out of the blue? What does she possibly have to gain? Several commentators have mentioned the possibility of false allegations, along with anecdotes. But pay close attention to those incidents: in all of them, there was some prior relationship between the women making the false allegation and the guy. If this was the case here, there would be a dozen witnesses who could punch a hole in her claims. She has named names in her post; a person making such a false allegation would never do that, because then her story can be cross-checked.

But once again, I am shocked that you'd think that being a feminist or having strong opinions somehow makes her story less credible.
Why? How would that even work?
haXe, Vala, ATS are all about as noteworthy as the other young languages listed.

Also possibly worth indicating: Objective C, while quite old, has suddenly become a major player since the rise of the iPhone App Store.
You had me at "I'm skeptical of people...". We really need more people to be more skeptical IMO.
I understand. And in all of my comments, I've never argued from the position that this was definitely not a paper crime. It may or may not be, depending on what actually happened. Only two people know for sure. And a judge, etc. But I was arguing from the position of whether this should be a crime. And whether this should be made public, and names named, at this point in the game. And my take on both of these points was no and no. Or at least "very probably not" and "definitely no," respectively.

I don't want to live in a society where we care more about whether something is literally legal or illegal, and not more about whether something is right or wrong, and in making subtle judgements and comparisons about how right or how wrong something is, in the grand scheme of things. Ultimately, it should not matter whether something is technically legal or illegal because we can change the laws, and, laws are being changed all the time, and laws are getting bought by special interests all the time. They are literally just words on paper. What should matter is the purpose and intent of laws -- why do we have them? Why should we have them? When do they work well and when are they broken or could use improvement. I think all of these issues are at play in this particular case. And this is way more interesting to me, both as a geek and as a citizen, than whether what happened is literally a crime or not. That's for cops and DA's and judges to decide. But we can, in theory, ultimately decide what those laws should be.

thanks for sparring with me on this!
I don't have the power to downvote, and so I have not downvoted you. But I would if I could, especially the comment I'm replying to, but also its parent.

In an ideal world, votes down mean "this comment contributes negatively to the conversation, and on an ideal HN I wouldn't have seen it". Actually, I can't find any specific HN guideline on how to vote, so YMMV, but I think that's the enlightened 2010 rule. So people who downvote you don't necessarily disagree.

No one thinks its okay to demand of other people "hey, if you can't articulate why you agree with einarvollset, don't upvote him". Why would you have this asymmetry of expectations?

With that in mind, the parent of my comment is clearly a bad comment, it explicitly violates the HN guidelines, which say "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading" and also which specifically proscribe calling names. This complaining-about-downvotes comment is a poor one, and ought to be downvoted.

Its parent, that seems more subjective. My take on the matter follows. Your comment appears to _me_ to be reactionary in the most trivial way. It's full of ad hominem, and besides that it's clearly wrong. Legion goes to great lengths to observe that the BLAME lies with the perpetrator, and that his/her problem is with an unrelated claim, namely a claim that people are ought not be responsible for their own safety. You appear to be arguing against a straw man (making your comment less valuable), using rude language (making your comment less valuable), later in the day than other commenters who made more-articulate variations on your comment (making your comment less valuable). In short, it appears to me that your comment detracts from the conversation, and has no redeeming value, and as such should be lovingly downvoted. YMMV, that's why they're votes.
Calling something 'science' actually fell out of vogue just a few short years ago. I believe 'organic' is the new way. I just heard what I was told was 'organic music' yesterday.

(I started to wonder what this meant. Obviously sound waves are not composed of organic OR non-organic molecules besides perhaps air, so perhaps we should fall back to the commercial definition. Did they grow the wood for their violins without pesticides, and use sustainability grown trees for their sheet music? Or do they include DRM that prevents them from being played on stereos powered with anything other than solar?)
This and we can manufacture only one reader and have it work on iPhones, iPads and pretty much every Android device.
I'd recommend reading through some of the comments on http://www.metafilter.com/85667/Hi-Whatcha-reading for some perspectives on how men and women experience the world very differently in many cases. While the general tenor of discussion gets a bit strident and I don't agree with a good deal of what's being said, it's very relevant to several comments in this thread. It seems to me always worth trying to understand how the world looks through other people's eyes.
OK... I'll just note that that's not a specific criticism of CatB.
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I don't know....

But since H2 is not the fuel (it is the working fluid, the sun is the fuel) and as long as the loss is kept within reason, it seems like this could generate enough energy to do some electrolysis and refill any lost H2.
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> "If the USA Today reader claimed his life is better because he reads USA Today, I would judge him just as irrational."

I understand and appreciate your point. However, it is common for someone in that situation to describe their rationale as "recent scientific studies" or words to that effect.

One might even observe that the person claiming a scientific rationale for their behavior is typically further removed from the evidence they cite than a person relying on a religious text (which they have often read directly). Many people are predisposed to accept the claim of a scientific basis unquestioningly (a point brought out by the original article) and to dismiss claims based on religious texts as unthinking dogma. Yet we are ready to accept the intellectual validity of "Catcher in the Rye" changed my life.

I don't see any reason to believe that a person claiming to rely on science has more claim to acting for the sake of self improvement than a person relying on religious teachings. Both care deeply about their lives.
Hm, that's a good point. For some reason I assumed it would trace through unconditional branches, but the post I linked to does indeed say "I terminate the trace after any branch instruction", not "any conditional branch instruction". That seems like quite a missed opportunity; I wonder why the code has that restriction.
Now, what is the point in trying to generate any kind of "meaning" from those documents if each document consists of completely meaningless gibberish?

A lot of data with a small amount of noise can be much more informative than a small amount of "perfect" data.

If 1-5% of your examples are noise, you can still extract meaning, and find patterns.

Also, that's not meaningless gibberish, there is still signal in those examples.
Thanks, yes I was genuinely seeking inspiration for my home in the future.
Thanks for the links, will be sure to check them out.

EDIT : Posted reply above to shrughes.
" I don't want anybody in the tech community to die at the hand of character assassination, Florian, Noirin, you or me. "

Absolutely right, that's why it is so important we have ALL that facts before arriving at a conclusion.
Nuns seem pretty safe.
Where are the http://www.gridspy.co.nz/ guys, this is right up their alley...
I seriously doubt that this is true. SQL databases are extremely easy to adjust. Hell you can add columns on your live database in the middle of the day if you want. Removing data is harder but normally you don't have to delete columns just to launch your new code.

Another thing to remember is that most SQL systems are mature and there is pretty much always very good tools available to do any kind of changes you may need to do.
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> I don't want to listen to somebody who got rich/successful by teaching other people how to get rich/successful

I heard someone describe this as 'incestuous'. Web hosting review sites that make money from links to the hosts come to mind. But yes, I also get a red flag whenever seeing someone making money by telling others how to do so.
Wow, nice try.
Nit-pick: with Django, you're buying into an HTTP request/response interface and a system for mapping URLs to callables which obey that interface. Everything else is optional.

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I commented this earlier, but I think it's worth commenting again: Alcohol use doesn't increase the risk that of committing a sexual offense in people who aren't likely to offend while sober. It does, however, increase the likelihood of someone committing a sexual offense if they would also commit a sexual offense sober. (Greenfield 1998) So if someone sexually assaults someone while drunk, they are likely to do it sober. They didn't lose control; they just had a lower threshold for a behavior they would already do.
Well, I'm sorry if it appeared that it looks like I'm trying to tarnish/dilute the word 'hack'. But yes, I was looking for inspiration from people who have'hacked' (if I may be permitted to use it) together electrical/electronic appliances at home, and in process, extracting the maximum out of everything that they have lying around.
How often is someone drunk? 30% is absolutely huge conditionally.
I read somewhere that there was a period in the 18th century when Venetians started wearing Carnival masks year round (ie, not just during Carnival). I can't find my original source, but Wikipedia offers something along similar lines:

"It tends to be the main type of mask worn during the Carnival. It was used also on many other occasions as a device for hiding the wearer's identity and social status. It would permit the wearer to act more freely in cases where he or she wanted to interact with other members of the society outside the bounds of identity and everyday convention."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Venice#Bauta)
You may want to take off the "pew pew".

I guarantee this phrase improve sales. Rave culture likes silly.
Is it just me, or was there not a lot of "Apache stuff" going on at the Apache con?
The worst is being compelled by an employer to endure such presentations. If you ever find yourself in this position, you have strong evidence that you have failed in your career.
That's why I added the final clause of item 4, "and using the law to make it so is unethical." I don't blame you if you didn't make it that far with the botched formatting. It's also worth noting that I'm commenting on how I believe things should be, not how they are. "Might makes right" currently has hackers ~= Microsoft, but Microsoft+lawyers+lobbyists >> hackers.
Because have you ever tried to file a bug report with MS?

That's not really fair, there are some great teams in MS. My impression is that the difficulty of communicating with anyone useful correlates pretty well with how enterprisey the product is.
I am sorry that you feel that way however I never questioned any of her account. When did I ever say anything about being a feminist gives less credence to her story?

I am shocked that you would take such a forward stand on such a small amount of information from a single source. WE HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN HIM A CHANCE TO RESPOND! Please, I beg you, wait for all information before jumping to a conclusion, that is all I ask.
I am 25 years old, and I have had sex with 50 people.

Dunno, why, but I find that really, really amusing. Because, you know, men are filthy animals, right?
Sorry, but who exactly should be allowed to talk about morality then? Politicians? Scientists are just as much part of the public as anybody else. They don’t get an extra vote, they still have to convince everybody else.
The existence of great tools for relational databases is a compelling argument for using them. As I said in the article, starting off using a single, monolithic relational store is a successful approach employed by many, successful companies. I would suggest, though, that the rest of your comment indicates a lack of experience with relational databases at large-scale. One metric provided by Twitter in a presentation was that an ALTER TABLE command took 2 weeks to run on a previously centralized relational database. Perhaps someone from Twitter can add some color to that anecdote.

tl;dr - Scale breaks your assumptions.
I am 25 years old, and I have had sex with 50 people.

As an exercise for the men reading this, instead of imagining yourself in that situation, imagine that it's your wife or your girlfriend. Better yet, imagine it's your daughter.
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Is there anyone out there with any advice, tips, or stories of how they turned their suffering into potential?

A deep psychological scar has plagued my relationships and my dreams for long enough. I know I am worthy of love and of wealth but no matter how hard I try to heal my wounds, I always feel broken. I am only 20, I just want to feel whole so I can win my dream girl and make a difference in the world.

Thanks. All help is greatly appreciated.
Does managing to keep your mum outta your room for a month counts? It's a big deal, I tell you. Especially if you are a messy teens.
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On the other hand, if I had a good proposition for a startup and team, you'd pay me to fly there and talk about it for a few minutes, and then potentially give me money to work on it!

Also, in terms of startups, I have a suspicion that the most interesting knowledge in pg's head has to do with the aggregate data from YC: trends, what works, what doesn't, what makes money, that sort of thing. That's what I'd focus on in terms of startups.
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I accidentally upvoted you. It goes without saying that the disgusting crap you wrote there should be downvoted.

(Edit: And now I don’t get why I’m being downvoted. What’s in any way amusing about having sex with 50 people? Sex is fun and sex is normal, why shouldn’t everyone have as much as he or she wants to? She never said that men are filthy animals if they have a lot of sex. She never said that she ever assaulted anyone – that’s what she criticizes, not sex. Sex is not the same as assault. I thought that was obvious.)
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I don't see how this is being upvoted. She said that she has had sex with 50 people, not that she has sexually assaulted 50 people. She never says anything bad about sexuality in general, only the unwillingly forced kind. There is no amusing irony or hypocrisy here unless your sense of morality doesn't differentiate between the two acts, which I thought we got over as a society quite a long time ago.
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