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"I'm pretty sure windows phone will be outselling the iphone globally within 2 years."

I'm saving this quote. Not to poke fun of you if it doesn't come true, but because putting together a list of "wild" predictions for the future would be pretty interesting.
It's a nitpick, but you left out WIN2k, which would break your pattern...

It was actually a very solid OS from my experience.
I was searching for a library that does something. I found various options, commercial (approx 7,000 per server)and open-source.

Getting my hands on one commercial library for testing was like pulling teeth.

1. Register for download which requires filling in loads of company information before being given access to a download.

2. Download the trial library (Only allowed to download either windows 32 bit, windows 64 bit, linux 32 bit or linux 64 bit..want more than one? tough)

3. (Wait 2 days) Sales guy sends me licence file (Forwarding the Salesforce "You have a new lead!" email no less which really annoyed me, "I am not a lead, I am a free man!") and I start testing the library

4. Find out the company I downloaded the library from (You can only download from their US based, English site) had partners in my (Non-English speaking) country so I got the sales guy speaking to me in a different language than what I expected (or wanted).

5. Asked to be put in touch with an English speaker because I had some technical questions.

6. (wait 1 days) Get an English speaker, ask some questions, get told they will be passed to technical guys

7. (wait 2 days) Get replies.

8. Ask about how I get the different library versions. Get told I have to re-do the ENTIRE process from step 1 just to get a different version of the library due to "Legal reasons".

So, it took 2 days just to get my hands on the library for testing and being told that I have to jump through more hoops just to get different versions.

Compare with the open source library:

1. go to sourceforge and download the library for any OS and start playing with it in about...oooh, 5 minutes.

2. Want to try a the library on a different OS? another 5 minutes.

3. Questions sent to the developer answered slightly faster due to not having to go through sales guy (although to be honest this was not a huge difference in response time).

The hassle of getting my hands on the commercial library soured me on the whole idea of using that company. If just getting an evaluation license is such an arse I do not see us having a happy relationship with the company had we bought the license.

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On a side-note. I recently had to bug fusion-io because they had their webinars behind a registration wall. Really? You put your marketing information behind a closed door? I am researching your technology and I don't want to have to sign up to yet another site just to see some information.(Although to be fair they fixed this quite quickly after I had a moan at them on twitter)
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It seems your problems are with JavaScript and not node.js.

With all of the transpilers surfacing such as CoffeeScript, Roy, ClojureScript, etc; you can program in an 'expressive' and 'natural' way and use node.js as well.

I don't see the problem with that.
Sounds like he's contributing the minimal funding (how minimal?), and you're building the entire app.

Without knowing more, I would say that you two need to go into this at 50/50 equity if you are going to both be bringing that much value to the deal. If not, you should allocate equity accordingly.

Just going off what you've written, I'd say he should be the one taking a 20% profit share and 10% sale share. It may be his big idea, but the world is full of big ideas, and short on people who make them happen.

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They sent me all the forms by courier (with a prepaid courier envelope to send them back in, too).
I've only tinkered with objective-C and I'm not even comfortable saying I "know" the language, but does anyone else think some of this code is surprisingly concise?
Efficient? Sure.. but I've been assuming that to make the founders feel like they've earned the term 'Acquired' that these things come with at least some sort of cash/signing-bonus that gives the whole thing an air of legitimacy. Also, I wouldn't be quick to suggest the startups are failing in these situations. It seems like plenty of them are barely getting started.
I have to admit I'm not hip to all the newfangled doings with alternative Clojure targets. To me though java interop is one of the core differentiators for Clojure from other langs aside from its lispness. But, you're right, it's not required.
I feel the same way (although I was a little grumpy at first, but it was 6am and I hadn't had a coffee yet!)
There was this intense Indian professor who had this air about him that was sort of condescending but more just dismissive. Ie, there was some pretty intense sttt he would routinely characterize as trivial or obvious.

The thing was, you were never sure whether he was trolling you or not. At a party or some event, supposedly somebody asked him what his research interest was. They were probably expecting to hear something like knot theory or PDE or whatever, but his research interest was "Mathematics", which I guess makes sense because that's what he worked on.

He liked teaching undergraduates but the department only let him do it once every four years or so, as the memories faded from the last time he did it. The year he taught the honors analysis class, it started in the fall with something like 32 students (and all of them by invitation at that) and ended with 6. And so the six survivors printed up T-shirts for having completed the course and wore them to the spring semester final. He's handing out the final and sees the shirts and says something like, "Don't be too confident about that."
Personally, I don't like the 'gmapi' name since 'gm' could be Google Music or Google Maps, though this is obvious a bit nit-picky.
How were limited accounts worse? Previously, a limited user couldn't perform action X at all. After UAC, they could perform it if they had an administrative account (or could get an administrator to approve).
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I was under the impression that the good folks at github were using Vagrant in some capacity. Assuming they've used it or heard of it I'm wondering if/how it fell short for their server based projects.
The material and energy intensity of consumption, per capita, has increased exponentially over the past centuries. There is no reason to not expect it to continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Thus, you don't need an army of low-wage consumers to buy things from the wealthy.

The "material and energy intensity of consumption, per capita, has increased exponentially over the past centuries" EXACTLY because of the creation first and constant availability of "an army of low-wage consumers".

People were taught to hold jobs in the way we do now, and they were taught to consume, in the way we do now. The vast masses of the people not only consumed much less, but made their own everything, from clothes and shoes, to vegetables and housing. Like an Amish community.

A decline in the middle class, e.g by migration of their jobs abroad, translate to a decline in economy, unless you can create new jobs at the same rate, which currently we can't, and the economy took a hit.

Echoing another point made in this thread, but wealth differentials doesn't mean you need to have poor people.

No, but a market economy needs people poor enough to have to work and at the same time rich enough to be able to spend money on things.

Automation can eliminate the need to have people working, but it cannot eliminate the need to have people spending --except if you move beyond a market economy.
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Flew Boston -> New Orleans 2 weeks ago and New Orleans -> Boston last week. They scanned everyone with the back scatter both times.

That is one major international airport (Boston) and one fairly small domestic only airport (New Orleans), both scanned everyone.
I bought the "book" some time ago.

It's not really a book. It's a magazine article, maybe 20 pages worth of material. Basically: don't buy it. Everything of substance has already been revealed in articles like these.
I agree considering their existing services are much faster now, without any of these optimizations...

It's also easy to be fast when the functionality is so simple.
Keep It Simple S*

Do equity and if you agree to share profits later the corp can pay a dividend along the lines of ownership. You can have two classes of stock which is different than investor stock if you want to only pay dividends to founders but it will affect price of investment.

The percentage is a negotiation based on what you think that person can do vs. what you can do without the person. A great product with no development is worth little to nothing. Same thing for great BD with no tech, nothing to sell.

If you want to set up a sales/comp plan then that is slightly different than profit share but since you are tech this does not apply. In comp plans you would pay BD guy a percentage of the sales contract but if you don't know the value of the product then this will be a tough negotiation. Also remember the non-tech person probably has more practice negotiating.

If he wants you as a co-founder negotiate equity starting at 50%. If he wants you as an employee then you should get a salary. This is all a negotiation of who bears the risk. The more risk you bear the more you should get in reward, ie more than 10% for 3-5 years of work. Lots of advice about this on VentureHacks.
Mozilla has started a project to develop a demo-browser for Metro. It's not (even) going to be an alpha of Firefox, but it will let them familiarize with the Metro-way of creating applications.
It’s clear and unambiguous, and does the right thing. Seems pretty reasonable to me to use the convention of never writing the word "this" in Coffeescript code, if you like. Not everyone in the world needs to have precisely the same style guide.
There's absolutely nothing stopping us from implementing atoms, refs, and agents on clojure-py. Sure, the GIL won't help at all, but PyPy is working hard to fix that.
Short of the finger printing they do about the same to Americans returning home. I went to Oktoberfest in Munich several years ago and couldn't believe how easy it was to leave, how easy it was to enter German (they were very nice, took 5 minutes tops), and how much of a pain it was to get back into the US. Apparently 2 mid 20's males returning from Oktoberfest was suspicious and required 20 minutes of backpack searching and questions (not an interrogation by any stretch but still annoying).
Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla Motors is also a good example of a successful multitasking founder.
Well that just isn't true. Here's what they actually say:

SpaceX offers open and fixed pricing that is the same for all customers, including a best price guarantee. Modest discounts are available for contractually committed, multi-launch purchases. Falcon 1 is the world’s lowest cost per flight to orbit of a production rocket.	Falcon 1 Price:	$10.9M
Current plans are for payloads that would fly on Falcon 1 to be served by flights on the Falcon 9, utilizing excess capacity. This is a very cost-effective solution for small satellite launch needs.

So.. if you commit to using SpaceX more than once, you can negotiate a discount. If you are prepared to use a different launch vehicle, you get a discount. They offer a best price guarantee, so you can play them off against another company.

It's nice they have a list price, but to me that sounds exactly like the list price for Oracle: only suckers pay what is listed.
Well yes, that's why it's my opinion.

Just a thought; when you get all these angry responses from people criticizing what you wrote does that make you think 'huh, a lot of people are mad about what I said, hence I must be wrong', or 'huh, a lot of people are mad about what I said, hence they must all be wrong'?
"Sure it hurts at first but like a child living in a warzone you normalize to it eventually and learn to live with it. The best part of depression is that you feel like you are seeing the world for what it really is, gone are the happy hormones that force the oppression of hope on you, gone are the dreams and fantasies that you know aren't ever going to come true. There's a beauty to it. You feel awake."

Emphasis mine, obviously.

This is why people are giving you that reaction. If you have replaced the "you"s with "I"s it would have been more obvious that you are being descriptive rather than prescriptive.
Joel's article was written in 2004 so, using gasoline as the benchmark, the 2012 dollars figure is $2180 [1].

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28average+price+of+gas...
Keep in mind that there have been attempted attacks that the TSA failed to stop. In every case the TSA proved useless and other forms of security (vigilant passengers especially) saved the day.
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(I was using spam in a loose term)

Eh, I was going to address your reply point-by-point, but then I realized it was kind of dumb - all of my replies were just my opinions and preferences. To sum it up, though, if I'm really interested in a technology, I'd rather choose when I get to read about it - if I don't have the information in front of me, I'll read the information provided by your competitor, and if I have to choose fast, I'm probably going to go with the devil whose brochures I've read, instead of the one whose I haven't.
How does that follow? The EFF doesn't promote the GPL, but rather open source software in general. I think you're mixing them up with the FSF.
• All of the revenue for the thousands of vendors in the Apple App Store together for 2011: $3.6 billion • Oracle's revenue alone for 2011: $36 billion
Notice that decimal point there? There's a reason it's in a different place.

Yeah. How about because Oracle is a 30 year old business, whereas the Apple App Store is a one year old new market that came out of thin air? What's the non Apple App Store Mac software sales revenue for the same time the Apple App Store is in operation? That'a fairer comparison.

Also, how would the Apple App Store revenue be if they followed the Oracle sales process --call us to give you a price, etc? That would also be an interesting number.

But the reason I'll do it is because our customers demand it and folks at that level, when a deal closes, pay enough to make it worth it.

ie: la la la la, it's how it always been done, we don't need to look at the process, la la la la la, talk to the hand.
This is not true at all. PyPy implements a tracing jit that compiles specific loops for each set of types run through the interpreter. This means it is actually possible to have Python code that runs faster than C code in some rare cases: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/07/realtime-image-processi...
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I'm interested in your comment about m4. I've never really used it except for sendmail configuration. The idea of using it to pre-process namespaces is interesting.

Would you mind expanding on how you set things up and what you do to use m4?
The key here is to make sure you never let yourself become an employee who is considered dead weight.
You can see results here: http://html5test.com/results.html

Looks like IE10 is making the gap smaller, but there are still many points separating them from the competition. Those results are probably not updated to reflect any potential updates in the Consumer Preview yet, though.
They're transitioning to CSP: http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/more-secure-extensions-by-d...
Real automated testing in games is rare and never even close to comprehensive. Honestly, I'm amazed when I see game codebases that do have substantial tests.
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I would love to hear more about this. Did you create a corporation or were you a sole proprietor/owner operator?
If a lexical item composed of alphabetical characters consists of one or more morphemes and communicates a meaning which can be comprehended from the context without reference to a dictionary, then that lexical item is more of a word than most of the words in the dictionary.

Edit: Well, 'most' is stretching it, but you know what I mean.
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This happens ALL THE TIME. I accidentally boarded a plane (through SEATAC) in 2007 with this knife in my pocket: http://www.amazon.com/Gerber-45860-Ranger-Serrated-Knife/dp/...
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Props to John and Zach. These are two really smart guys any company would be proud to have.
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The OP completely missed the EB-5 program which is less a visa and more like free citizenship. And while the initial investment can't be borrowed, it can come from investors. But those investors specifically have to get equity rather than a promissory note to repay them.

Getting a EIN is also trivial, I got one on my phone, while signing up for a bank account for my LLC. It was just that quick and easy.
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They are cheaper through resellers like GoGrid. I believe it is competitive with Cloudfront.

As far as speed, they were among the best as far as we were able to test. There are lots of variables involved though that make it kind of hard to compare - how long things stay in the cache at the edge vs. your traffic patterns, etc.
What if what you are feeling is only a personal opinion reflecting your particular skill set?

Trust me, it's not his "personal opinion". The callback spaghetti mess is a real problem, there are several libs that provide not-perfect-but-ok solutions, and even hardcore Node folks acknowledge it. Basically, you cannot NOT acknowledge it, except if you haven't got any experience with a language with proper constructs to avoid this kind of thing.

Your argument could be applied to functional programming languages that to many feel 'unnatural', but to others feel like the one true way.

That's not much of a counter-argument, since those others that "feel like functional languages are the one true way" are few and far between, and those languages never caught on the mainstream ever in 50 years.

And when the new, better thing, came along (functional capabilities in a more friendly syntax, be it Scala or Ruby or whatever) people adopted it much better than all the functional languages with the "strange syntax" combined.

RPN feels natural to some, alien to others.

Same thing here. That's why RPN is not mainstream, because the guys that get it are few and far between.

And that's what he argues --a technology that feels unnatural to many will be replaced with a similar technology that has the same goals/benefits but feels more natural.
I agree...you would end up spending most of your productive time trying to appease investors when you should be off on your own trying to make customers happy.
Erm... I honestly didn't read that from what he said... I thought the article was in agreement with Bruce. Where would someone get the opposite idea?
"I think this is one of those places where presumption of being guilty should proceed the one of being innocent. Otherwise, would you really care that now its about the time to point a finger that this guy is guilty [for planting a bomb] where your eardrums exploded from sudden cabin decompression and you free-falling into the ocean?"

You don't get to toss out innocent before proven guilty just because you come up with a particularly uncomfortable way to die. The risk of dying from terrorism in the US, with or without the TSA, is incredibly low. It could get ten or a hundred times worse and still not be noticeable next to the ~40,000 road fatalities in this country every year. Why is terrorism so special that it causes people to want to do anything and everything to stop it, while they don't even bat an eye at things that are far more dangerous?
As a programmer, Allen was famous for often going straight to machine code to get maximum performance. Long after Microsoft moved to mostly using higher level languages for development, Allen continued to write tons of machine code. It was a lost art 20 years ago, that much more so now in the days of throw-away computing power.
You can automate it a good deal with a mix of scraping and mturk, but that will result in both e-mails and phone #s, so your choice on what to do with them.

And experience w/ calls--I wouldn't say it was bad experience, it was just better with e-mail--tends to cut to the chase and replies are a better indication of interest. Everyone's selling something--even if you just want to talk to someone about their problems, you're still selling them on the proposition that it would be a more valuable use of their time talking to you than doing something else. And that doesn't make you a bad person, it just doesn't make a difference whether you're asking for money or someone's time.

But yeah, would be very interested to see your results w/ cold calling vs email, if you do two more rounds of e-mails and leave 3 vm messages on your cold calling before giving up, I'll bet you still do better with e-mail. But again, very interested to see your numbers, so very cool experiment!
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Can we please, as citizens of the countries that are pandering to corporate interests at the expense of freedom and liberty, fire our governments?
* In my opinion, JSON gets too much attention for what little it offers. It could become a serious alternative to XML in the distant future, but not until it has the kind of technological environment that XML enjoys.*

JSON has smoked XML in the RPC/SOAP etc style uses. Including replacing the X (for XML) in AJAX.

It is also the preferred format for many datastores.

It does not have mature tools like the ones you describe, e.g for schema validation, transformation, etc. Then again, lots of people have found that in regards to XML, the aren't gonna need them, anyway.

For other uses, still, XML is king.
I work in Procurement and run RFP's all the time. you are right that enterprises go through this whole process and that they ask a lot of questions about software capabilities. But honestly, at the end of the day, the process is so long and drawn out mostly because of compliance. Start-ups are fun companies that don't really have to worry about the threat of being regulated or audited by the government. But a publicly traded company that has a lot of risks (banks, car manufacturers, enterprise hardware) is going to be constantly under watch. As soon as the government finds what it deems a mis-use of funds, say sainara to productivity and hello to deep auditing and a halt on productivity thanks to long meetings with auditors.

I really think if it was about price and quality, you could get through a sourcing effort in a week or two. Show me what ya got, tell me how much you are charging.

Full Disclosure: I hate my job.
It doesn't say anywhere they had business transactions in the jurisdiction. Thats the entire point.

Non-US site, non-US registrar, non-US accounts/transactions.

Still seized by DHS. Because it's illegal in the US. That means you can be put on trial in any country in the world if you break any laws, anywhere. That's what the article is getting at.
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