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A little Python module/CLI I cooked up to parse the JSON file used in the EC2 website and show you the data mapped to the related values in the Amazon EC2 API (mapping region names, instance types, etc).
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However, how do you measure a co-founder's ability to add more value than the stock they are given? I am going through this problem with bringing on a co-founder at 25% equity vested over 4 years because I am at a stage where I can have a successful company without a co-founder. I already created the business, the prototype, version 1 and I am now getting the first customers to use the site--all before my potential co-founder even was in the picture. However, this is all hard work and I want add a person who can add more value, but how do I set milestones that will ensure I am not adding a person that is not worth the equity?
Hey It's the guys at Familio.com who did it. Feel free to join... Go on mom can't wait :-)
> And there are very few countries that explicitly ban all fire arms even the Uk which has very stringent laws still allows shotgun licenses.

I'm from the UK myself, so I'm aware my perspective on firearms might be skewed somewhat.

Nevertheless, in my experience there seem to be very few people who see the restrictions on the possession of firearms as a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.

There are plenty of people who, although acknowledging that more widespread firearm possession may have certain benefits, would nevertheless rather live in a society in which firearms are few and far between.
I'm not sure I agree with the premise of the article ... Part of Python's attraction is it's vast ecosystem of libraries and many of them wouldn't work in a browser. How many of those command-line applications would actually work?

If you're looking for a clean syntax, try Coffescript, limit yourself to javascript's "good parts" and be very careful with your style.
This type of defensive purchase by Microsoft just perpetuates the problem with software patents.

Maybe Bill should return from philanthropy, reinstate his position as CEO, burn these patents for the betterment of entrepreneurism, and resign to continue building his social-committed legacy. That's the irony in my eyes.
What's wrong is giving slightly bad suggestions, like keeping a global 'logger' variable. There's absolutely no need to do that, just use a import logging ; getLogger(__name__) for example.

I usually have something like self.logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) on my classes __init__() within project/package (sub)modules .
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Someone should make a FAQ for this. It comes up every 2 months.

One important point I remember is that it would have been Python without the standard library. Which isn't anything special, really. We call it CoffeeScript nowadays.
And thanks for the feedback. it's a great point. We'll add some about text to make it clearer... cheers
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I nick named it Startup Editor. It's a editor to put down your startup pitch and plans -- nicely divided into sections relevant to your startup idea. Modeled after Founder Institute pitch system.
Disclaimer: I didn't invent the system, I just turned it into a Android app.

I hope this helps someone out there. :-)
Well, it is worth understanding how the index works (as an aggregation of search engine results, which may change depending on how search engines index their content).

Reality check: I really doubt that any language would lose some 25% of its user base overnight. There's no explanation for why that would happen.

The TIOBE index is at best a very rough measure of popularity. It may reasonably distinguish between "very popular" and "not so popular", but beyond that it doesn't have a whole lot of scientific value.
Our family did a Spring Break expedition to Washington DC, including a visit to the Smithsonian Air & Space museum. In the Air & Space museum was the Goddard liquid fuel rocket. I was impressed by how crudely it was brazed (globs of brazing, not beautifully flowed)... but it flew, and proved the principle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard#First_liquid-...
In Brazil, among the youth, there's something called "ficar" (to remain, to stay) which translates to "getting with someone", which in turn can mean anything from kissing to sex. Ficar is something that usually happens more than once, as in you 'stay' with the same person several times. Think of it like a temporary boyfriend/girlfriend, no strings attached.

There's also "pegar" (to get or grab) and that is like "ficar" but more physical and usually just once.

Among a group of friends, changing around the person with whom you ficar or pegar is quite normal. It's as if they are choosing which shirt to wear for the day. Afterwards, everyone remains friends, just like before. In terms of relationships, one woman told me that it's perfectly normal to get to know someone through 'ficar', as if actually getting to know someone before deciding to kiss them is passé.

So take the US workplace example given where there's this repressed feeling going around in regards to sexual tension....well, in Brazil everyone (the youth) is cool with it. There's not even a need to hide it from others. 'It's part of life, let's enjoy it.'
The real reason investors "blindly" toss money at YC companies (and the reason the ivy league "credential" phenomenon exists) is because people like using heuristics to evaluate decisions.

An ivy league degree or membership in a YC class both serve the same purpose - they communicate to the world a minimum level of quality that should be expected from their alumni.

While the investors still need to perform due diligence on their investments, the YC brand name automatically filters down their search because the portfolio companies have passed such strict admission processes.
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How Ryan Allis went from sleeping in the office to a $169M Sale of iContact
Fortunatly, repeatedly saying the same things

"Scheme shares Haskell's unsuitability for production code"

"it prohibits simple, but crucial, impure tasks such as writing to files and communicating over networks"

"it is beautiful, but it is useless for hacking"

doesn't make them true. Plenty of people use successfully Haskell in production. I wonder what kind of motivation one can have to say with such emphasis a tool is useless while they simply can't use it properly.
Ah, of course. How stupid of me to think that they would have an empirical definition or set of legal definitions that actually was robust and made coherent sense.

Why bother with the hard stuff when opinionated prejudice gets you where you want to go?
Yeah ask a politician to promise something and then hold that promise...

I'm sure that will turn out just dandy.
I think there's some interpersonal utility comparisons in there.
If you're giving up 70% of your company in order to pay for servers, you're doing it wrong. If all your server costs combined adds up to more than one developer salary, you either have a mammoth scaling disaster or a runaway success which should have VCs begging to give you money on whatever terms you like.
For what it's worth, and for all those asking questions about Canadian numbers, caller id name is handled differently in Canada than in the states. When a carrier sends an outgoing call, they include the caller id name in the SS7 IAM (Initial Message), unlike the states where the receiving carrier has to do a database lookup on the number to retrieve the name. This likely explains why a lot of Canadian numbers are not returning any results, or incorrect results.

Personally, I think the Canadian system of including the name in the IAM works a lot better than having to do a DB lookup.
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I was born in 1983, so I missed the first Bubble, but I believe you. I worked for someone (also a total sleaze) who had a late-1990s startup and once spent close to $2 million (out of about $15m on hand) on a launch party. Over 10% of working capital on a party before a product existed. So I'm well-acquainted with the fact that there was at least some sleaze in the first bubble.

I guess I'm crestfallen because I thought, at least over the past decade, that most of the sleaze would be in finance. I'm finding that not to be so.

I don't care about being a billionaire "master of the universe" as long as I don't have to be within 500 meters of the type of slime that does care about that shit. I just want to fucking work, to solve hard problems, to add value to the world, and to make enough money to have a good life. If I get rich, great. If I solve important problems and don't get rich, fine. That was the appeal of "tech" over finance, but now I see that the same sleaze has crept into our world too, and I want it out.
It is to help students get tutoring on line while also including the local feeling. Yes I haven't got a specific price/goal set but I am wanting to make a profit off of it through adds and premium service.
I recently put this guide together: http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html

Its focus is on self-driven discovery by leveraging the Emacs built-in help and source code. Feedback welcome.
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Most startups...do you have any data on the business model of most startups?

Presumably, if a startup is working from GPLed software, it's business model would be to offer training, support, custom modification and preferential updates and features. Lots of big players like IBM, Oracle and RedHat are making billions from this approach. There's lots of untapped markets and plenty of room for entrepreneurs here too. I think that even Microsoft is getting in on this game.

If it's working from MIT/BSD-licensed software, then it can close that software off and put restrictions on what people who buy it can do with it. Apple is taking this route.

Startups are also free to develop their own closed source, freedom-restricted software. Of course, then they generally have to compete in quality with software which doesn't restrict user freedom. It's especially hard for startups to offer closed source freedom restricted software because customers expect startups to fail, and then they are stuck with a product that can't be maintained or updated.

Startups are also free not to distribute their software in which case even with software under freedom-preserving licenses they don't have to distribute the code. They could do this for example by offering web services that used this software.
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What's amazing is I do NOT have hardware accelerated video yet Firefox 12 is not even breaking a sweat.

My CPU temps are only a couple degrees higher and it's very smooth.
From http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html

<INPUT name="edit1" size="50">
<SCRIPT type="text/tcl">
proc edit1_changed {} {
if {[edit value] == abc} {
button1 enable 1
} else {
button1 enable 0
}
}
edit1 onChange edit1_changed
</SCRIPT>

We could have had a future where you could choose which language to use in client-side code. The "removal" of @type from HTML 5 strongly suggests that not everybody believes in that future.

Maybe initiatives like Dart and NaCL will create an humus that will make the use of other languages acceptable in HTML pages.
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Haskell is not a language that you can expect to pick up and be writing awesome stuff by lunch time.

There's no substitute for humbling yourself and learning to program all over again. I understand that it's difficult; you think you've mastered the art of writing programs, but suddenly you're back at square one.

No language is perfect, but if you persist and stick with it long enough to become productive, you will have learnt a huge amount and that knowledge is useful in the real-world.
The argument that this would hurt legitimate hacking is a bad one. The example given was white hats hacking into e-voting machines. You aren't allowed to break into government buildings to make sure they are secure, it's illegal.

As far as preventative laws go, I don't think they are right but they are widely accepted by most people as right. I'll use one that most people agree with as an example. Drunk driving in and of itself doesn't hurt anyone, and some people can do it their entire lives without ever getting in an accident. But we make it illegal to try and prevent people from killing each other.
There are no legal definitions for being a programmer. There are for being a medical practitioner or a civil engineer. Only practising doctors who are certified to practice may prescribe. Only legally certified civil engineers who after prerequisite training and certification are permitted to handle high explosives and blow things up. Having a degree alone in either of those two professions does most certainly NOT on its own qualify you to do either. Or anything much. So maybe a bad example.

But that's a whole different argument. At present it is "programmers" (self-taught or academic or industrially trained) who make things and routinely test them for hardness. You can't suddenly invent rules that say only certain types of programmer may use and deploy "hacking" tools. That won't work because there is no defined path to test suitability or career fitness in the majority of people who define themselves as "programmers". Too broad a church. Too many disciplines and areas of specialisation. And too few people qualified to legitimately or meaningfully assess that either way. Or are we going to say, for example, only Microsoft Certified Pros are allowed to test? God in heaven forbid!

Reputation (from both peers and clients) and demonstrated output that works is the only test for whether someone is a good or bad (read, fit or unfit) programmer.

And no, in answer to your question, we don't allow only certain government regulated individuals to have legal access to perfectly ordinary systems analysis tools. They are probably the last people you want doing it.
I don't think they would but it would be a big plus if you have a DEGREE.
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Can someone with experience tell me a little bit about the dashboard AWS provides to clients and why it would be worth paying for an additional service to manage the cloud?
IMHO the biggest way to look at this is compared to AOLs normal revenue and valuation. AOL did just over 2B in revenue last year, and is currently valued at a bit under 2B (well, for the next 8 minutes). To raise 1B in cash in a patent sale just gained Tim at least a full year if not two of runway to complete his turn around plan.
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Javascript without its standard library (string manipulation, alert(), DOM functions) would not be all that useful as well.
How about the rest of the world other than AOL?
What a brilliant idea! We can have hacking tool licenses! Wouldn't the government love that? oh god, never repeat this to anyone.
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We just added a bit more text under the "subscrive" box. Is that clearer now?
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I'm afraid this article will lead people to mis-prioritize their decision making. When doing a startup, all of your focus needs to be on the building the best product possible. If you can do that as a single founder, great! But if you need more people, you should do that if that's what the product calls for. In my opinion, making decisions based on future equity and payout is poor management.

Everyone complains about coporate CEOs who are so focused on the stock price that they forget to make good products. Focus on the product, and the $$ will take care of itself.
Head to this page with a browser, if its all green then its fully supported on that browser. Otherwise, open an issue on github :) http://d0ugal.github.com/locache/tests/index.html
No one should control the Internet. Unfortunately the only way to ensure that is to make it so no one can, and the changes required to make that a reality will make getting people to switch from IE6 look like a piece of cake. At any rate, if the US government is the "voice for Internet freedom" in Dubai this December, then every entity on the planet that isn't a government is going to lose something. The United States has absolutely no credibility or capability as a defender of freedom, on the net or otherwise.
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"Apart from a few relatively rare mis-fires, we are only sexually attracted to people who are attracted to us."

I don't know. It seems to me that desire expects to met with desire. There were and perhaps still are quite a few men out there who thought that lesbians simply needed some attention from a good studly guy (themselves) to straighten them out.
Actually it's only 2 layers of protection, as SelfControl.app just appends things to the hosts file.
Test your web pages in an iPad browser emulator.
One size fits all, is rarely a perfect fit.
How would you compare using QML to a Qt wrapper for a interpreted language, say python-qt / pyside ?
And still end with a $%#% product after so many years.
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Regarding the hidden point: I think there’s an expectation in contemporary American culture that emotional intimacy is women’s work, i.e., they provide support and counsel and do other semi-therapeutic for their boyfriends, their husbands, and their female friends. Straight men are uncomfortable turning to other men for that kind of intimacy.

In cultures with a greater social separation between men and women, men can have intense and emotionally intimate friendships with other men, because there isn’t the same kind of expectation regarding women, and because a man will understand what another man is going through in a way that women, living in a “separate sphere”, would not.
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Ladder theory is a ridiculous construct for people desperately trying to understand love from a purely intellectual point of view. It strikes me as one of those things that's correct enough to make it look like they have something; but at the same time, its reductionistic viewpoint causes you to close yourself off from wonderful friendships that end up developing into something more. And you won't realize you're doing this until it's happened several times...if you ever introspect enough to realize that.

That is the problem with something like this: it isn't intellectually rigorous, it just has the facade. The cost of simply holding the belief is higher than what you get out of it. It is not a truism, it's some kid writing on his blog.

(Sorry if I seem acidic, but there's very little critical discussion of the implications of ladder theory for one's belief system.)
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Normally I would downvote snark, but this is my exact thought too. Political promises only last as long as the money does.
Very very nice tutorial.

Careful when you say elisp `if` is a function, it's a `special form` aka different evaluation semantics.
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The Javascript standard library is tiny compared to the one of Python. This is very relevant when people say they prefer Python. They don't use Python with the Javascript standard library.
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You wrote: "Do you think he would consider clicking on adverts free? I don't think so because clicking on them results in a transfer of money somewhere. Unless his definition of free is that he himself did not pay out of his own pocket for it? (someone else pays for it). If this were the case, If someone bought him a copy of windows as a gift would he use it."

I think the previous reply was right to point out you were confusing free as in beer with free as in liberty.
They don't use GWT for many of their big properties though.
But that is I think OP's point, Haskell forces you to "model", versus something like scheme or python where you can just sling dicts around.

Haskell absolutely forces you to do a non-trivial amount of thinking up front, which is counter-productive when you're trying to throw something together in 10 minutes.
Really? So you've never felt attracted to a sexy film star? Or the person next door you have a crush on? That flame from afar who doesn't even know you exist?
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This article is pretty good and identifies a number of the reasons, but I think there's a couple broader reasons it misses, that effect government's actions in other areas as well:

1. Government's incentives are misaligned. Politicians want to get re-elected. Bureaucrats want to preserve their jobs or expand their fiefdoms. Both of these desires promote the passage of more laws, of ever greater complexity, and a conservative "you can't blame me" approach. Often this means government ends up regulating things- like the internet- that it doesn't understand, with regulations that make no sense, or make things worse.

2. There's no real check on government. In theory elections are a check, but the government conducts the elections. This means that in every election the choices you can make are going to be limited by the choices the government finds acceptable. This manifests itself in such a variety of ways-- from the republican party changing rules on a day to day basis to thwart the Ron Paul campaign, to election fraud, to the fact that "disband the government" is never an option on any ballot. Naturally, of course the other branches that are supposed to be checks are filled with politicians or partisans put there by the parties they're supposedly keeping an eye on.

3. Once government gets in the regulation business, corruption is highly incentivized and never punished. For instance, if you're regulating the internet, you're highly incentivized to listen to the big media producers like the MPAA. Nobody is going to jail for passing legislation advised on by the MPAA and getting a campaign contribution from the MPAA. But is this not, at its base, corruption? Regulations in all industries tend to favor large corporations (who can afford to keep people on staff to manage compliance and who tend to influence the legislation to cause difficulty for would be competitors) and hurt smaller companies (for whom compliance hits the bottom line harder.)

4. Government simply doesn't have the bandwidth to address all these issues. Over time, government wants to regulate more and more and more areas, and there's really almost no stopping them (especially in the UK where they have less controls than the US's constitution.) There's thus never going to be enough bureaucracy to do everything that needs to be done, and in the end you often can't even get the government to answer questions about the regulations-- which are themselves contradictory. Politicians want to pass a law and move on, but bureaucrats don't want to ever get caught saying the wrong thing, and nobody has enough budget to provide the services they should to the industry they are regulating.
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