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No, I think you misunderstand me.

The purpose of a 50/50 split is effectively to convey the following point: "We could argue about this and come up with some percentage split, but actually, the most important thing isn't for the percentage to be accurate, but for it to make both of us feel like we've been treated fairly and equally." It sets the tone for the rest of the "adventure". "We're in this together, whatever happens!" is the core message.

This is important when the relationship between the founders is, in a way, irrational, based on unconditional friendship, and that relationship is being transferred into the business context.

The purpose of an unequal split is to fairly (!) represent the different contributions to the business. "I'm bringing in all those things, and you're bringing in these things, and so I deserve 70% of the business and you deserve 30%." It also sets the tone for the future. "We'll each get the part we deserve" is the core message.

In the equal split context, it's unlikely that either founder will walk out unexpectedly, so long as they both entered into this with their eyes opened. With the unequal split, I believe it's a lot more likely - if it ends up not being in the self-interest of one of the founders.

Having the larger share doesn't mean that you won't walk out, either. I was in a 70/30 split in my first startup, and I had the smaller share... and my cofounder effectively walked out of the business! I was shocked, because I thought that we were in it together, but it made sense from my cofounder's point of view because the business wasn't making enough money to be worth his time, so it was not in his self-interest to continue it.
In my experience, kids that age can sense when you're working on the computer. They'll happily play by themselves when you're doing things like cleaning, cooking etc., but the moment you turn on the computer they'll be on you and won't let you "dissappear" into the machine. At least, that's my experience.
The phone company doesn't have the ability to bash down my door and point guns in my face, and I can switch providers if I don't like them.
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I have several female friends who work from home and watch their children.

I'm not sure any of them would recommend their lifestyle, but they make it work. The key seems to be about 3-4 hours of at-home childcare assistance per day.

As any parent knows, there are long stretches during a day when kids are easy, punctuated by little 20-minute intervals of pure agony. Having someone on hand to help with those little moments seems to be the key.

This can a grandparent, neighbor, or nanny. Like I said, we have a few close friends who are currently making this work (out of necessity, not choice).
Then surely your boss can do it just fine by himself, without you.
The best course of action would be to sync your imap folders to a local server (OfflineImap with dovecot is an amazing combo). I'm using Google Apps like that, and it's blazingly fast. It does eat a lot of disk space locally aswell, but that's something I can afford for now.
Children are a mystery, wouldn't suit them to be all the same though I guess.

Good luck in whichever path you choose to take, I don't think people who don't have children understand how difficult it really is juggling work and children
Yes, planned like that it's doable. As long as you realize you can't work while taking care of the kid. (You can do house chores etc, but not work on the computer.)
i don't think its about them being deadlier. i mean, just look at the toyota "runaway" car issue.

all it takes is 1 car out of millions to cast doubt on the whole concept, or one person to do something stupid and blame it on the car to cause a PR firestorm.
They could just easily run a whole bunch of supernodes themselves in the cloud, and turn off the supernode functionality for client ip addressses. I don't see why they make it out to be a big dealbreaker.
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I think a phone conversation could be ok. One thing to note, I believe the only incorporation option you have for investors outside of the US (assuming you live in the US) is an S-Corp. I guess my main point was to make sure you're on the same page as the potential investor before talking numbers.
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like the concept a lot.
On the rare occasion that I scrape a site for a project I'm usually less worried about the legal issues than I am worried that the site will recognize my script hitting them repeatedly and block my IP. Does anyone know how prevalent this practice is? I've heard that Google blocks scripts scraping their search results, but I haven't experienced it myself.

(I know it's easy to spoof the user agent, but that seems underhanded/nefarious.)
This seems to come up quite often and my answer is always the same: Make sure they notice you.

I went years being un-noticed except during emergencies until I learned to make sure all my accomplishments were known. This is easily done by simply informing your manager of your progress often. The thing is, managers actually -like- being informed on a weekly (or even daily!) basis! So now you're not only getting credit for how hard you work, but also getting kudos for doing such a good job with 'communication' as well.

Blow your own horn a bit. It's not as taboo as you think, and your boss will actually appreciate it. (Enthusiasm is another side-effect, too. You will appear to have it, even if you don't.)
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I hate hate hate this kind of politicking and conspiring to team up during meetings. Not to mention the fact that he presented an entirely dishonest slide deck.

This is poison for any organization, and keep in mind that it can (and does) happen in even the smallest of startups. As a leader you need to be vigilant and stamp it out, if you want your company to be healthy.

Edit: And the way you stamp it out is to simply not promote the people who practice it, and promote those who don't. Once it has risen to the higher ranks I agree it is difficult to remove (although it can be done when, for example, Steve Jobs returns to Apple and cleans house).
It took me a couple years to get to the point where I could buy a plaid shirt, and I figured that as soon as I did it would stop being "cool".
100% concur.

My kids seem to have developed a sixth sense for when I'm deep in thought on a particularly hard problem, and will usually pick THAT EXACT MOMENT to gang up on my wife. In unison, all 3 will have temper tantrums, causing my wife to call down to me (I work in the basement) for backup.

I suspect this is related to the ability for an infant to know the difference between your REAL cellphone and your old cellphone with the SIM removed. Seriously. I've never met a baby who was happy playing with an old cellphone, but give them a working cellphone and they're totally happy.
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The actual link for installing the new chrome frame installer as a user (not admin) is:
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> Things that need to be really seriously realtime, such as aeroplane pilot assistance AI, and medical equipment firmware, I think these cannot use stuff like GC because there is no room for the slightest deviation in performance.

Nope - real time systems have room for deviation. They "just" have different bounds. Specifically, hard real time "merely" requires guarantees that operations complete before their deadline.

For example, real-time systems can have caches even though they introduce varibility in execution time.

Of course, the closer one is to the edge, the less room for error or mis-allocation, aka "time fragmentation".
I hacked on Pidgin a while back and people talked about the Skype plugin a bit. From my understanding, the issue is that the Skype code is very obfuscated and reverse engineering the protocol would be very difficult - apparently, no one with the ability and time to do that has stepped up thus far.
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That is not me in that video.

I wouldn't be caught dead in a store like that.
The existence of the phenomenon of translation proves that all natural languages have the same expressive power. You can translate a text from any language to any other language without losing its meaning, and the translation won't be 10x the size of the original. Typically there will be a close to 1-1 correspondence between the sentences and paragraphs in the original and the translation. None of which is true for programming languages, since programming languages actually do differ in significant ways.
It's exactly this sort of thing that's a big part of the big company atherosclerosis. Here, we are getting an account of how Google suffers from it.
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"We bet everything on Apple and iOS"

Case closed.
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When I browse HN, I frequently go off to explore a topic and then later return to continue browsing. If the aggregate time I spend exceeds a half-hour or so, I get a "link expired" message when I try to access the next page. I would prefer a longer session time.
Nah, Microsoft wasn't like that. I've always joked that if you wanted to do corporate espionage, you should either ride one of the local commute lines (the 245) or just sit around pretending to drink coffee at the Redmond Town Center Borders.

I certainly used to regularly chat about bug burndown rates, joke about ship dates, and play that old game of "how many release candidates" with other managers. And I overheard more new feature discussions in public from folks on other teams than I can possibly imagine.

But, it was part of the culture. Love it or hate it, most members of the dev organization who are successful long-term at MSFT talk about their work all the time, everywhere they go. I've overheard heated arguments in public about Windows servicing patching strategies, and been in ones about such nits as whether the VS solution explorer should be on the left or the right in the default profile.
IMHO if you have even the smallest doubt I would remove the child from the daycare and either move them to another, or bring them home.

With my first son we ignored some of the doubt, thinking we were being overprotective first-time parents. Once we made the decision to move him to a new daycare, the changes in my son were immediate. He was socializing with kids, and learning much more rapidly than before, and in general much of the behavioural problems we were having disappeared.
I'm not convinced ... I still think Skype would have been the missing piece of the puzzle for google voice, that would have taken it from where it is now (nice-to-have) to a must-have/must-use like youtube is today.

But that's just me.
The thing you're not addressing is that there is a wide range of conditions and activities which all fall under the title of "driving". Would I trust a driverless car with current technology to navigate a busy parking lot? Not a chance. Would I trust it with the 40 mile commute I had, 38 miles of which were 6 lane highway? Probably. Would I trust it to make that same commute at times of low traffic when I'm likely tired myself? Absolutely. Not all driving needs a human's full attention, and the situations where a human doesn't need to pay full attention can be handled better by a computer which is immune to many of the distractions and weaknesses of the human mind. It's all situational and difficult to figure out, but the proper response is to keep plugging away at the parts of the problem you can gain some traction on and take what you can get.

There are cases like the busy parking lot where human control will likely be necessary well into the future, there are cases which can be addressed today, and there are cases which were addressed successfully over 20 years ago. Look up Ernst Dickmanns - he was an early pioneer in this field, and had an autonomous vehicle driving on European highways in traffic in the 80's. It's really easy to say that this is an impossible problem to tackle, but the person who says something can't be done should make damn sure he's not getting in the way of the person doing it.

I did my M.S. on this topic, so although I would not claim to be an expert in the field at Google's level, I do believe strongly in the technology and have given it more than cursory thought. The larger problems are more societal than technological, and as such I really hope that Google makes this happen because they have the societal clout to get people on board with the idea that a computer can, for most of the miles you drive, do a better job of getting you from A to B than you can.
I think that while the concept is interesting, and there are a few competitors that exist already such as groupon that give discounts through large purchase, I wonder if the companies will notice. To me, it feels like many people sending a lot of noise to the seller asking for really unrealistic demands, and sets an expectation with the user that the site will be able to somehow ' get that deal '. While there is value with a name up on a social platform spurring others to get interested, really, I doubt until I see some actual results, that companies will take much notice and provide discounts. Good idea though!
3 other people already answered with the right answer, but I think it's worth expanding on it.

Some governments actually try to restrict the usage of loan words and try to keep the language 'pure'. I think this is death for a language, and I'm glad English adopts new words so readily.

Someone recently told me that they thought that almost all the really interesting creative works were in English these days because English is so expressive, where many other languages have only 1 word for a thing. The language he used as a reference was Spanish, which he is fluent in. The word he used as an example was 'garbage'. He said in Spanish he had only ever used 1 word for it, but in English we have 'trash', 'junk', 'refuse', 'waste', etc, etc.

I don't know if that's really why, but it's an interesting thought.
I should note that author added some unneccessary cons to static types.

He said that metaprogramming is hard. The area of metaprogramming is partially covered by higher-order functions. The coverage is big, in my opinion, I haven't missed metaprogramming in Haskell for ten years, at least (I missed it for first two weeks with Haskell).

He also said that there's no mechanism to compensate for the absence of duck typing. In Haskell, at least, there are type classes which allow you to make your types as duck as you would wish, maybe slightly less. I think that some Scala mechanisms provide that power.
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I think it depends a lot on what it is that you want your company to be and how many people you're talking about. Also, there is a difference between wanting equity for control or equity for getting a share of the profits.

With 2 people: I think either you have a 50/50 split or you might as well have 99/1 or even 100/0. Anything more than 50/50 means one person has effectively total control. Thus, why pretend it's anything other than a dictatorship in that instance? If you both want control, you need 50/50.

If it is about making money, then in place of an equity stake, you can have a revenue sharing agreement that would provide a % of revenue or profits or even a % of whatever the company would get bought out for. The amount each person gets in that instance could vary a lot more based on contribution or whatever "fairness factors" made the most sense to both parties.

The point is, control and profit sharing are two separate issues that often get lumped into the equity discussion when they don't have to.

With 3+ people, I think the same rules tend to apply. I think for sake of simplicity it makes the most sense for smaller (non-VC backed companies) to split equity evenly among the founders or have a single person who has 100% control. Then, do revenue/profit sharing amongst everyone as is deemed "fair".

If you are VC backed, well that's a different ballgame all together.
In business, innovation without a sustainable business model is called "research." If the intersection of Apple's policies, publisher's policies, and customer behaviour is barren of opportunities to make money, it's up to businesses to find a business model that keeps everyone happy or move to another market.

Or to put it more kindly, Apple is an 800 pound Gorilla and the publishers are lumbering Elephants. Where do the ebook distributors plan to pitch their tent?
Read the article. They invested too heavily in iOS, so now they are going out of business, because they don't have the funds to switch.
Google's policies are a bit all over the place. Google translate will stop you, but some other services don't.
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My wife and I have a four month old daughter, and we both run successful businesses from home.

I take care of the baby in the morning while my wife works, and we switch in the afternoon. This schedule ensures we each get 4-6 hours of focused time to work each day without taking Lela to daycare.

It's not always easy, but we're very productive, and still feel like good parents.

I recently wrote a post with the details here: http://personalmba.com/building-a-business-that-supports-you...
I think that autonomously driven cars will have a lot of cameras and a black box like airplanes do, so that all the data before the accident will be available and if somebody else is guilty of accident - videos will be published by car manufacturer.
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I'm specifically saying middle ground between Apple and Google's styles, though. Traditional software publishing is obsolete and we don't really need to worry about how that worked.

As for thinking about puppies, my point is that the 'human factor' in Apple's review process seems to count for too much. It should be cut and dry: it is legal, does what it claims and does nothing behind your back, and has no trojans.
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It would be impossible to upvote this enough. Work-at-home dad here with 3 kids (1.5, 3, 6--only one of which regularly attends school). My wife's time is 110% occupied with them. If you're going to pull this off, you need:

a) dedicated child care
b) dedicated work space that you can hide from the kids
c) cooperation from your wife to enforce #2, as the kids don't like staying away

Good luck.
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"Over Half off huh? Why not! Anythings possible."

Should be Anything's.

Like the idea but strikes me it will be hard for a lot of companies to give custom deals without rewriting their backend. And even if you do give custom deals - how do you align the deal asker's twitter account to their account on your site (assuming not everyone has super zeitgeisty social logins)?
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"AssetHat"? Really?

This is either rather infantile joke or a case of "Honi soit qui mal y pense".
Wesley Chan sounds like someone who needs to be fired immediately, if not sooner.
I'm definitely the one in the second video. Cool idea! I think a lot of people could use this service.
Also, it'd be great to see latest deals that were accepted by companies in a ticker scroll or something. Otherwise, it feels like a shot in the dark.
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You've mixed up deflation and inflation.
Of course they could, but then it wouldn't be p2p anymore, right?
I don't think that strong typing is bad, but I would like to point out that from his point of view, arguments FOR strong typing are based on the premise that "everyone is stupid."

Orthogonally, you don't have assume that everyone is stupid for it to be a good idea to design things as though everyone is stupid, because the fractional slice of attention and working memory that the user can easily spare is effectively a moron. This argument applies easy to issues of usability, but for programming, it may equate to driving a car with blinders on. I don't really know.
Huh, really? It was pretty snappy on mine (2.4GHz i5 MBP, Ubuntu Linux).
Great answers again. Sorry you didn't get more exposure from this HN post, sounds like you've got a good idea where you're going and how to get there, and it's an interesting area you're working on. I'll look forward to hearing more when you're ready to show something in public. Feel free to tweet me @user24 if you update on HN or elsewhere. Cheers.
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YouTube comments are inane. TechCrunch has shown that photo-attached Facebook comments significantly increase the quality of comments. TVDinnr shows YouTube videos with Facebook comments for more interesting discussions.

There are a few known issues that I have to finish, listed at the bottom. Nevertheless, it is functional and fun to use.

I created this as an experiment in Facebook comments and one-page JS webapps.

I know that many of you don't use Facebook, and neither did I, but the Facebook comment system has a lot of intelligence in its social sorting algorithm and it is very viral.

The whole app code is one index.html. I minified and compress the css/js into one file on deploy. All data and functionality come from js apis.

It scales infinitely because I can host the file on S3 and point the DNS at it.

Working on this made me realize that the world needs a front-end-based javascript web framework.

There are a number of backend js frameworks including ones that bridge to ajax on frontend, but none focus on making purely JS apps (with JS, GWT uses java) on one page using hashes and/or history. jQuery does a lot of stuff, but webapps need a little glue.

We need a full client-side JS app framework, with an URL Router, Templates, Controllers, Models, and plugins. It should be able to wrap json api interfaces easily, and it should handle all the page changes that need to happen when it's all just js changes.

TODO:
* Needs real, accurate logo; using a placeholder for now
* Orange share button broken
* Video duration not shown; descriptions not shown
* No category browse feature
* No About page, FAQ, Press, etc
* Search should have instant suggestions
* Design could be prettier

* The Facebook status message is generic not video specific because facebook's server side crawler does not execute js. I might make a small server side component using Go on GAE later to fix this.
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That works in theory. But have YOU read all the fine print when opening an account with your bank? I haven't either -- everything we do is based on some common sense and trust. If we had to verify everything we did with everyone we did it, our way of life would end.
Yammer also uses Scala for many of its backend services.