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Honestly I don't try to persuade people. I want them to know what they're getting into and be willing to take that risk with us. I feel like if you lure someone away from a steady job with pie-in-the-sky logic, you're setting yourself up to lose a friend. When I got my co-founder in on things, we talked very seriously about the realistic chance of success, how much stress it would be, and well, how much we'd learn along the way and that we might even have a little fun. Expectation management seems to be important.
and you think that difference will exceed $18k a year for 30 years?
The Manning one is on the way, and the community that exists, developers included, is fantastic.
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Is gaining this person vital to completing the project? If not do it on your own, until you are far enough to be able to invite the person at the later stage.

If yes, you are going to need to pony up the cash, have enough to be able to provide for both of you to survive on ramen noodles for 6 months.
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I think you're overlooking the interest payments, which are gone forever as well. If you have a 300k mortgage at 6%, you are paying 18k year (1500 month) in interest alone. Yes, there are tax advantages but I think this is negated by property taxes, PMI insurance, etc. Your mortgage payments aren't buying equity in your house.
Try to get him to go part-time, even just a few hours a week, so that he can see why your start-up is so great.
It's not fun. Don't do it.
Translations are definitely a poorly served area. But, I'm not sure I grok how this would fit into our workflow...and, of course, it appears to have no translators and only test projects. I guess it's just launched?

I think I'll give it a try for Webmin, and see how well it copes (if it'll cope at all, given our somewhat complex, and quite large, language files).
No, I just say that getting paid for amount of time motivates developers to write complex and bloated code in complex and bloated languages. There was nothing about "writing from scratch" or libraries available.

Example: client wants new feature -- if my language and my platform let me do it in one line of code it's bad for me if I get paid for time, thus people choose languages and platforms where even trivial things can be written with some bloat.
I think your example is more realistic if the numbers are more like 3000/mo to buy and 1500/mo to rent. If rental prices were as close to mortgage rates as 2000/1500, then not only would buying be obvious, it would not even be a much larger financial commitment. The extreme case is when rent equals mortgage.
Here's an argument from an older, successful corporate guy, which I found very compelling:

Throughout my life I have taken many opportunities, and not all of them went well. But the only ones I truly regret are the ones which I didn't take.
That's an old Ben Franklin quote.
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True. However stock market returns have averaged about 10-12% a year going all the back to 1830. Furthermore, they've beaten real estate, bonds, gold and every other asset class over any given 15-year period. Even people who bought the day before the great crash in 1929, came out ahead of those who put the same money into real estate... as long as they didn't panic and sell at the bottom as most people did.

Of course we can't expect every decade to be like the 90's, but I think it is a reasonable expectation that the 200-year trend will continue barring a kurzweillian singularity or other freakish phenomena.
Hmmm...

I wouldn't say I'm rich, but my accountant is creative when it comes to tax, and rightly so.

I completely agree on the handbags thing, Ferraris are a different matter - if you have a means of moving that cost from being a taxable depreciating asset to a tax writeoff then go for the latter. I know an entrepeneur who leases high end sports cars through his companies as a means of reducing tax liability. YMMV though (pun intended, sorry)
DON'T!

To be sucessful at a startup, the cofounders really have to believe in it. If you explain your project to someone, and they don't buy it, and you sell hard and convince them, sooner or later they are going to have second thoughts. And that's going to doom you.
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Lots of conferences and demoing in the next few weeks -- DEMO, TC50 (and YC demo days just past)

Looking on the DEMO website (www.demo.com), a lot of pitches are terrible, but some are great. Anyone have any favorite examples of great 5-10 minute pitches (from anywhere, including the masters like Steve Jobs, etc.)
It means that Joel's writing, while good writing, carries no more weight than any other tech blogger (of which there are many).
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"... Assume that the programmer is good but isn't that brave enough to take the risks and has a good day job ..."

Are you a born salesman? Do you have great persuasion skills and killer smile that can motivate others to do what you want? Are you capable of identifying the targets motivation and swaying them over? If you did you wouldn't be asking this question.

Find another.

A programmer is not by default an ideal Startup Founder. Finding someone who is technical and who compliments your skillset is important. Someone who can build stuff. But if someone has to be convinced and not brave enough to leave what they are doing. When things get tough guess who will leave? Are they motivated enough to stick out the marathon? I've often thought to myself, "what is the best measure of a potential co-founder?". Is it a combination of raw ability, skill & determination? Could the "X" factor be a fierce desire to do something for themselves? Build something (product) and profiting from it?

If the fire is not there, a programmer might make a good employee. But Co-founder?
That's administered by another agency, not the VA. The barrier for that is much less -- not that that's not a fun thing to do anyways.

For what it's worth I really enjoyed my bitter time in the military, it influences every single aspect of my life. Once you cross over you'll the world in a different light. A lot of the vets here on YC apparently don't share what I feel. Like a poker game it's all about the cards you're dealt with and trying to make the best of it.
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"... Woz didn't want to leave HP at one point. ..."

Woz also probably wanted to build stuff for himself that HP refused to take up. So creating Apple was a logical step. I think the real convincing was via the "Reality Distortion Field" ~ http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
Invites are not spam by themselves, but they're abused by many apps in a way that makes them spam. And you're very wrong if you think the silent majority enjoyed the FB spam fest a while back.

Abusing invites with more "viral channels" will only get the app into a lower invite threshold. FWIW I think a free TV is a pretty good incentive and will have people choosing the friends most likely to use the app. I do agree on promoting more the contest and the free tv thing, people tend to not read anything without flashy colors and big fonts.
This 'cloudbursting' is what a lot of people, ourselves included, are doing. Basically we run 2 servers for one of our projects and these serve up content, provide 'my account' services and a sales function. We use AWS for the heavy lifting and we run up to 100 instances at a time for processing. We decided not to go 100% AWS because whilst we trust them to a degree, there have been some outages and having a hybrid approach means its easier to communicate with our customers and to provide some kind of buffer if there is a problem with AWS. The bottom line for us is that we are able to do stuff now that would have been prohibitively expensive before.
How about a game that people actually understand? Like football (the REAL football)!

Anyways, I'll refrain from commenting on this thing, because I am really not a sports fan.
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Sometimes its what you're working on that matters. If its something worthwhile like kiva.com or world vision, I would go for it even if I got to take a pay cut. You got to persuade using the intangibles.
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Yeah. That is what I wanted to know. What do people who don't have the Reality Distortion Field do to persuade people?

The programmers I know are pretty good but they also have PHB (pointy haired bosses) and also hate some things of working in a big corporate.
The mods were a little harsh on you (-1), because I agree it was a little too simplistic.
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Reading the comments, it's amazing remarkably low the reading comprehension and application rate appears to be.

Mere correlation does not imply causation

But what people read and what they choose to understand will forever be far divided.
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We already have feeds, might not be the best but at least it's more accurate than "RSS".
I think it is worth the effort to convince him if you are convinced that he will bring the startup forward. Convincing someone is not something to be done in 5 minutes. Ask him the question: what would be the worst case scenario you could face taking the risk? Show him what he might win - I am not talking about money, but experience, fun, responsibility, reputation, stories for his grand-children. Give him some articles of Paul Graham to read, e.g. "Why not to start a startup".
Why do people who are arguably familiar with these things insist on using "RSS"? RSS is but one format, atom is growing rapidly and it is I believe already used by most Google services including Blogger. "Feeds" is the correct term and while not perfect surely better than some unpronounceable acronym.
I'm sorry, but messing with A Link To The Past is like painting eyebrows on the Mona Lisa or colorizing Citizen Kane.

Of course, my dogs' names are Link and Zora (there was a Zelda, but don't ask) so maybe I'm a purist.
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>colorizing Citizen Kane.

More like Citizen Kane 2. It isn't intended to replace the original.
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"As far as dating and relationships go, women should be careful with this guy."

This guy must be living in Fantasyland. Since when are women interested in Aspies? We aren't exactly the type who often has his hair cut or likes to go to a restaurant.
Actually it is the same. As you point out, the formula for converting all of the forms of wealth into the same units is subjective. In order to determine the richest person in the world this is just as important as defining the right way to measure the smartest person.

And both equally pointless.
Shit, just pick up any book on Asperger from Amazon.
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True, but Liberals have always had loose sexual morals, they tend to think if you have a desire or a whim you should satisfy it at once, therefore a causation doesn't sound very unlikely.
This looks promising. I planned to buy iPhone, but Android may be a better choice after all.
and viewing houses as just another investment is amazingly persistent and is the attitude that got us into our present problem in the first place.
a mortgage is building equity in a physical asset, stocks are gambling to try to get 10% returns in paper money.
To most people, "it's just words" ...

Kudos.
No. On the web, innovation is happening so quickly few users can keep up. And the tons of little companies making incremental improvements don't seem to be hurting the shops working on big ideas either: http://www.anybots.com/
Thanks, didn't know it was Ben.
I'd never do that. It's basically putting your career at a higher priority than your life. Or confusing the two. Confucius was dead wrong: anything you must do per definitonem cannot be enjoyable, exactly because you must do it, therefore it always carries a hint of a fear and threat. At high school I hated the novels that were mandatory to read even though I was reading a lot of very similar novels for fun. But the mandatory novels carried a hint of threat and fear: if you don't read them you'll get bad grades, not get into a uni, end up flipping burgers, etc. And this threat and fear spoiled them. And this is what spoils _every_ job, no matter how fun it might otherwise be. Once someone tells you you gotta receive two blowjobs every day or get fired, you'll hate getting blowjobs, I'm sure of that.

Therefore, accept that your job sucks, simply because it's job. Simply enjoy your hours after work. And enjoyment usually doesn't mean socializing with people who have nothing interesting about them except that they are in the same industry as you.
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You have to turn on the charm, find out what the guys fears or objections are and remove/counter them. Emphasise the positives.

DONT offer equity to someone who isn't brave enough to take the risks. I've told prospective hires (and current hires) that providing equity at this stage would cause them more problems than it solves, but then again I'm not looking to cash in my chips in the next 6 months.
My impression when trying to explain Twitter to non-geeks was that "follow" is not really that great a choice of word. It sounds rather weird actually, like a cult. That's in Germany, though, might be because I am not a native speaker.
I think you're missing the beauty of hacks like this. I don't find the idea of playing the games all that interesting...but damned if I'm not blown away by how awesome the guys who built them are.
Why are most nerds either Liberal or Libertarian and almost never Conservative? I think the main reason is that they only look at Conservative politicians (who suck, but that's what you can expect from a democracy) and not intellectuals: John Kekes, Thomas Sowell, Michael Oakeshott etc.

Scott touched on an important thing about this serene confidence stuff, but in historical scales, that's not how it works. It's always been Progressives who were so damned sure that their ways are illuminated by the Light of Reason and everybody else is a superstitious dumbass. And it was the Conservatives like Montaigne or Pascal who were full of doubt. Of course, when democracy became inevitable Conservatives had to learn to fake confidence and they usually did it with this faux Christian-Fundie-Nationalist crap because the average voter sadly needs some sort of a simple message, they aren't reading any books or something. But that's only a recent development, not older than a hundred years, approximately. On a historical scale, this self-righteous approach is mostly Progressive. Therefore, don't support a Liberal. Not even he doesn't seem to be as full of shit as Comte or Rousseau were. Not even if the recent post-Goldwater decades Conservatives became more full of shit (the religious type of shit) than Liberals. It might be a good idea in the short run but only makes things worse in the long.
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Or maybe, just maybe, when you get a significant amount of politicians and political staffers into a single city there tends to be some sex going on.

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This is article is based on a new book "Closing the innovation Gap" http://www.theinnovationgap.com/ .

As far as I can see she is saying that VCs are too focused on short term returns and are being too timid, causing the downturn in innovation.

This argument seems similar to the PG vs DHH debate.
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I suspect "my post it note" implies only one, which is hard to notice and hardly cheating, more of a kind of safety blanket. (you don't have to stress about forgetting what to say, which makes you less nervous and less likely to forget it in the first place)

A lot of people seem to write a stack of index cards with what they want to say, remember the first half of their talk, get stuck, and fidget around frantically trying to get back on track.

Glad to hear it went well for everyone!
I can't find any further details on this claim. It wouldn't surprise me if it was true but benchmarks really do depend on the details. I want more info.

Skipping over the use of "Hello World!" in benchmarks is anyone actually surprised by this? Frameworks aren't a silver bullet. I don't think they were ever meant to be, especially when it comes to performance. There is nothing stopping you from going in to the framework code and optimising it or even taking functionality over to C++ if that's what you want.
Saying you've had several "exceedingly beautiful" girlfriends is just pointless among programmers on the Internet.

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I smell a positive response to the article :p

The problem is that there have been lots of articles like this floating around, during the past year for example, and every time the central theme is "We're So Special".

It's getting old.
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