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I might have problems understanding your post. Please help me correct my reading comprehension failure here:

1) 'Seems like a bad business decision' sounds like you think that's a decision to make in the first place. Basing your company on operating systems/database systems/tooling that you got from bittorrent might be a 'business decision' in the same way, if I understand you correctly?

2) "They are choosing between complying, not complying and not using."

How are there three choices? It's either complying or not using. Everything else is not a business, it's a shady/illegal way to make money off other people's work. Again: This isn't a (real, legitimate) choice in the first place, so I don't see why this comes up at all.
An awful lot of performance involves skills that are NOT addressed by music theory -- basically everything that distinguishes a mechanical MIDI performance of some piece from an real performance by a professional is not part of foundational music theory.

There's also a great deal of ground that music theory formalizes that long-time musicians will grasp intuitively (but be less able to discuss, of course).

Just some complementary points.
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> If this keeps up two years from now virtually everyone will be on IE9/10, Chrome or Firefox.

And Opera.
> For some reason, all of the ways to spawn a subprocess
> in Python have tried to map almost directly to the
> underlying C API

I think both are good and necessary. One of the strengthes of python is that if you have a copy of Stevens you can usually work out how to do something in Python. And this is awesome. I've written things on top of unix that in times past would have been written in C. However, that mechanism is usually not very "pythonic".

In the early days python had a principle that there should be one way to do things. You don't hear this so much any more: we're long past that now, with some things different between 2.6 and 2.7 (arg handling), and with multiple broken libraries in the stdlib. When you're working on your own computer and your own time with root access you can always hand-roll outcmes. But it's common to have to deal with a spread of python's and cater to the most obsolete version. Yet I suspect some people still aspire to the one-way-to-do-it, and pretend it's true.

I think we should dump the principle.

A good example of why compromise is not the right outcome is the curses library - it's not quite Stevens, but it's not friendly either. It's hard to do good work with the curses library. We'd be better off if there was (1) a close curses mapping to the C ncurses mechanisms and (2) a nice-to-use abstraction layer that hid far more away from you.
While I would prefer commitment and involvement, if he'd done as you say on his own (hey, I feel I should at least give you half of my salary), at least I would've thought he's not committed, but fair. At this point, I don't want or need half of his salary.

About taking a vacation, I feel he wouldn't step up (or he'd do a bad job), so it'd would be basically abandon the business to its own luck (or best case scenario, waste time in limbo). Not sure I want to do that unless it's a last resort option.
Some options I can think of:

1. Stop working that much. Maybe he will notice. If he does, it would be a good way of starting the discussion.

2. Make him feel guilty. (Though this would be a bit mean)

3. Be open to him about how you feel and that you don't enjoy working anymore. Don't demand anything, just tell him how you feel.

If either of these approaches would work I can't say. You have to see for yourself if they fit your situation.
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I've experienced some aspects of this before and I know it can be difficult. The longer it goes on, the more set into the current deal you are and its very difficult to change.

One way it could be made easier is if there was an independent reference point. E.g. can you afford to hire an employee? (1) This employee could pick up some of the work and it would presumably have to be paid for 50/50 and (2) If you are still putting in many more hours than your co-founder then you can log those additional hours and you should at least get paid a similar amount that you are paying to the third employee.
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Well his idea in the way of "let's do this!", but he's had it for years. Don't we agree that ideas are a dime a dozen if not executed?

As of contacts, well they got in play after 6 months of part time work, and while they got the thing rolling, as of now maybe only 1-2% of our current customers are people he knows. Yes, it would have been a lot more difficult to get it rolling, but I'm not sure this "one time good deed" is enough to get 50% of it, while I've been working on it full time for years after that.
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Cool. I'll second that for tptacek. (and sadly kragen got fed up of HN)
Man, do you have any contact info?
OK - you recognise that it was an error not to change the equity split at the point when your level of commitment to the project abruptly changed and exceeded your partners.

In your current situation I assume you are now drawing a salary as a full time employee of the business. Any income split between you and your partner would be on the profits - so you should get your salary plus 50% of any profit after expenses (including your salary). Provided your salary remains at a commensurate level then your respective incomes should reflect the realities of your current situation. No harm in your partner receiving a small salary for his administrative tasks - just make sure it reflects the level of work and (perhaps) industry norms.
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As other had said, you only way is honesty. The hard one.

If you have so much to get out of your chest, you should may ask the help of a mediator.

But in the end, there shouldn't be something you didn't tell him. Be clear about what you expected and how much you were disappointed. And also be clear about your point of view about him going full time.

If you can't find a mediator, the best way of telling him is by writing a list of facts. Try your best not to use judgment value. Just facts, then what you want and what you don't want.

If I understand correctly, your ideal situation would be for him to quit the startup for free. But let him explain his point of view. After a long discussion you might find a solution.
The first option I tried (not by choice), when I was for 1-2 months doing only the essentials to keep in running. This was like 8 months ago when we had another big dispute (told around the end of the main story), and he didn't say a word.
I've had numerous issues on my university's network with the DHCP lease. They have a stupid VPN setup, so that may have helped fuck it up.
Please, please realise most of us are not going to be able to use Object in ES5 till IE8 dies.
No 4G signal? Then what should I do with this Samsung Galaxy Nexus?
Well that "equity split" was when I decided to go part time, at that point, we effectively had done the same work (almost nothing).

And no, I don't get any salary as a full time employee, all profits are divided, so we effectively get the same amount of money every month.
What was his justification to demand you to work more? He must have something, right?
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Agreed. Do yourself a favour and consider the mobile platforms as a blank canvas to explore rather than a castrated desktop experience.

(In response to the comment above/below: don't castrate the desktop just to satisfy mobile either! Letting a hundred flowers blossom, or something...)
Come on guys, why the downvotes? It's might not be the brightest comment on HN, but what's offensive or bad about it? Just discuss!

(upvoted to counter stupid downvotes, even though i don't agree with you)
All good - we are all here to share knowledge :-)
I know huge number of people who connect their xbox 360s and playstation 3s to their HDTV. Do you think people buy different TVs for their consoles?
Comet has issued a response to the lawsuit:

“Comet has sought and received legal advice from leading counsel to support its view that the production of recovery discs did not infringe Microsoft’s intellectual property.

“Comet firmly believes that it acted in the very best interests of its customers. It believes its customers had been adversely affected by the decision to stop supplying recovery discs with each new Microsoft Operating System based computer. Accordingly Comet is satisfied that it has a good defence to the claim and will defend its position vigorously.”

I have updated the article to reflect this.
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What if the whole thing would have gone busted and you guys lost money, would you still change the equity to 25/75?
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If they were only giving the CDs to purchasers of laptops that came with Windows preinstalled but without Windows install/recovery CDs, then morally I don't see the problem.

Legally... I hope they checked with their lawyers.
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Thank you very much for such a thorough reply. The latest version I found of ARC is from 2009, but since I didn't know it existed at all, I am quite happy. The posts are still [dead] to me, unfortunately.
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Oh man I used to go that fair when I was young with my dad, buying the latest upgrades for my computer so i can play the latest games. There was a lot of pirating as you say. I haven't really been for 10 years, since everything's online now and i'm not really into hardware anymore. Memories.
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Why copyright / piracy?

I understand that Hollywood and other IP owners spend more, have better lawyers and lobbyists, but really, I no longer believe the idea that across the Western world, legislators are all coming round to the idea that they must somehow protect the status quo of music / film production.

This is feeling more and more like an excuse.

And if it is an excuse, then finding the underlying concern / reasons that drive these laws is important

What do you think is driving legislators fears?

Is it a need to somehow get this internet thing under "our" control.

Is it a form of parochialism - we dont want this foreign sites coming into our country (be that sex.ru or facebook)
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Compare this to Nokia, which once made a E61 version without WiFi and VoIP support in order to sell it to carriers in the US.

Android looked after the carriers by allowing them and the manufacturers to install (almost) what they want on the device, including applications that you can't uninstall without jailbreaking the device.

By the way, my phone is certainly not a brick without a network. I have all my music, videos, ebooks and lots of apps on it. I use it all the time in airplane mode when flying.
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Sorry to say it, but if you buy an extended warranty on anything you're wasting your money. The whole 'extended warranty' business is how retailers make their money, but are a complete scam. Hardly anything goes wrong these days, and the price of the extended warranty is far far higher than the risk of it going wrong.
The problem^ is that the biggest predictor of knee pain/problems is previous knee pain/problems. So you could run for years (or even decades if I recall the research) with no problems but once it occurs it can be hard to recover from or avoid in the future. As someone with plenty of metal in my legs and interior surface damage to my knee joint, I'm acutely aware of my need to find non-running exercise.

^ as I understood the paper I read last year, which I now can't find but it might have been mentioned in the NYT
It sounds like you have a grasp of the big picture and are finding it difficult fit into corporate life. One option is to build your own pyramid, er, company.
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The way I see it the buyer/destroyer should be sued.

A sale was agreed upon. The goods were delivered. The money wasn't.

Buyer simply did not hold up his end of the bargain and should be taken to court.

In my simple view, PayPal does not even enter the picture. Or is there more to it than that?
This is already happening. Making a copy of a website is quite easy. Sure there are plenty of copycats of facebook out there, yet none is a threat. It happens a lot with games, apps etc too. Entertainment Content producers are not worried that someone will take their work and reuse it for their benefit, rather that they just don't pay for it. The real problem is not piracy (let's face it, even if SOPA passes, there are tons of ways to circumvent it). They need to realize that a) the actual value of their content has dropped due to technical advances and commoditization b) there is no better legal alternative to piracy in many cases (esp. if you live outside the US/UK).

People want to pay for content; there is just no easy way. Heck, I believe that even if they invented a "virtual ticket" that allowed you to watch a movie no matter which way you obtained it, people would buy.

p.s. speaking of piracy, here's a pirated copy of the parent post: http://instablogg.com/Du-dhKh
It now appears that the seller did get the violin authenticated.

From a brief search, it looks like eBay had to pay large sums multiple times for selling counterfeit goods. $2500 violin, as sad as it is, is small fries. It seems that it's cheaper to operate under the assumption that if there's a suspicion an item is counterfeit, then that's more likely than not. Even if they messed up and lose a lawsuit from a seller, they'll pay a small fraction of what they'd pay a manufacturer.
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For a second I was intrigued and tried to find that FileEx class that I obviously missed to notice before.

It doesn't seem to be part of the framework though? Homegrown and _you_ expand it to something that is equivalent to the second code snippet?
I don't think the sale has completed yet, I wonder if this will make the new buyers think that £2 might be a bit much after all..
I refuse out of principle to click on links with headlines that are so obviously trying to trick me into going to a site.

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Better version of this headline:

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The statement "Google makes money off other peoples violation of the gpl" means "(Google makes money) [because of / from] (other peoples /violation/ (of the gpl))", not "(Google makes money) [because of / from] (other /people/ (who violate the gpl))", which is a fundamentally different moral question (one that rapidly argues for your local supermarket to stop selling food to people whose morals they disagree with, which honestly is something I find scary).
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Well I bloody hate it when you go round to fix your uncle's PC and then ask for the recovery CD and there isn't one because MS didn't want him to have one. Go Comet!
It's great that you & your wife have a happy relationship, and it's also not a problem if she's more likely to be the heart/compass/sunshine and you the mighty intellect that forgets to breathe, on balance. Though be careful, I suppose, to not assume you'll always be in these categories, or want to be in them, or not be obliged to operate outside of them.

But the main thing to watch out for is projecting that out onto "women" as a whole. It's perhaps obvious that some women are not naturally warm, or good at female-stereotypical skills, and may even be far more socially-inept-egghead than you are. And hence not exactly happy to hear "no, stay a woman (in spite of the well-known earnings gap) because we so value your feminine skills" or anything remotely resembling that.

I hope this helps a bit... I'm still figuring stuff out myself, of course, and expect to be for the rest of my life. True for everyone, I imagine, though many folks stop trying at some point.
I haven't bought a retail Windows PC in a while, is there not normally a Windows CD included?
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> In your system where copyright dies with the author, the interests of others who might invest in a project or stand to gain from it (like a creator's children) are not looked after.

This is the problem, I think. If a product requires investors, then I can accept that their interests should be looked after. Not for the ridiculous term that copyright currently allows, but it is reasonable that their protection should not be strictly limited to the life of the author.

However, the current system goes to great lengths to protect the interests of people merely because they have something to gain, not because they actively contributed anything. If I make cars for a living, I don't expect or demand that my children continue to receive a royalty for each mile driven in one of my cars after i die (or just retire). They are taken care of through my estate, insurance etc, not by perverting the market.

I don't think author's children are inherently more deserving of social protections than anyone else. Jk Rowling's kids would be just fine if copyright lasted only twenty years. If they want a secure income after that, they should be able to do some productive work of their own.
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That's exactly what I also thought when reading the title.
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I often use:

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My hourly rate is usually higher than my daily rate, in this way most of my clients tend to hire me for the whole day.
But it depends on the type of job I guess.