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Good writeup. There were a couple things you probably could have done better (which you probably know).

* Nevada LLC - Half the time I've seen people do it, it's not worth the effort to form a company outside your actual state of operation. Especially not for an LLC, which is already not well suited for companies which plan to take outside investment at any point.

* LegalZoom - This is also usually not worth it. You mentioned in your post that LegalZoom is a major part of your expenses so far. Did you take a few minutes to actually look at your state's website for creating an LLC? Here in Michigan, it's literally a one-page form that takes less than 2 minutes to fill out, with a $25 filing fee. And yet, I meet people all the time here who used LegalZoom to form their LLC.

* Filing an LLC simply for personal protection - A lot of people don't realize that simply filing an LLC does not protect your personal assets. Someone can still try to sue you personally and it's up to the court to decide if your LLC is valid and protects you personally. Filing is easy. But you have to actually operate on a day-to-day basis like a real company for it to hold up in court should the time come. This means doing things like doing all transactions through a separate company bank account, presenting yourself as a representative of your company when you meet potential partners or customers (e.g. making sure your LLC is on your business card), using the LLC for all legal docs, dealing with applicable business insurances, etc. IANAL, so be sure to look up the actual rules of the game for your state.

* Kickstarter title - I didn't think it was that good. It doesn't even mention "iPhone" in the title, so I would have had no clue what you're talking about without visiting the page and reading up.

I don't want to sound like this is all negative though. This was a great writeup of your experience. I especially liked the points about developing a physical product.

EDIT: By the way, your homepage is awesome, especially the "Charge Ready" slide.
Apparently I have a Bacon Number of 4. I dated a girl who was an extra in "Footloose" (2011 remake), with Dennis Quaid, who was in "The Right Stuff" with Fred Ward, who was in "Tremors" with Mr. Bacon.

Neat.
To me Canada's tech sector isn't damned; just dwarfed when it is compared to our much larger southern neighbour. The economy of Canada isn't really based around innovation and technology but rather primary industries like oil/gas/lumber/etc... so it makes sense that our business focus’ on our unique advantage. To me is seems that starting and growing a business is harder to do in Canada then in the States. Just as an example the rate of return for VC firms is roughly about -5% in Canada while in the States it is roughly %10. See: http://www.bdc.ca/EN/Documents/other/VC_Industry_Review_EN.p.... I am not sure why our companies have difficulty competing internationally but alot of the reasons in the article (Lack of Acquisition of Knowledge, Second Place is Good Enough and We Suck at PR) seem like symptoms rather than causes.
I agree with the distinction, but the product itself is called Balsamiq Mockups :)
This is like saying people should avoid jquery because everything jquery does can be done with javascript. Some of us enjoy the convenience of not dealing with hacks.
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I got this:

A server error occurred. Please contact the administrator.

That's pretty damning of the Canadian tech sector, all right.
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I wonder if Peldi has plans to move Balsamiq off of Adobe Air. Given the recent pivots Adobe has made regarding Flash, there seems to be some risk with sticking with Adobe Air in the long term.
I agree with you mostly. Although you are comparing Go to a language with manual memory management, not another GC language, like Lua (sorry to keep using that example).

A question: What is your idea of "something significant"?

Go seems like an ideal language to quickly build servers. Am I missing something else?
Actually I'm fairly sure there were 2 teams with single founders at the time of application. All had a team though, that's the most important thing.
Is stupid not to use it given sometimes is high quality and it's free. There is nothing cheaper than FREE!
"I had to be done [with Javascript] in ten days or something worse than JS would have happened."

I've heard this quote from Eich several times now, but I've never heard what the "worse than JS" alternative would have been. Anyone know?
You jest, but I'm afraid we're going in the other direction. 4:3 laptops are all but dead, and spotted an extra-wide (~21:9?) laptop at Best Buy the other day.
Shouldn't this be listed on http://rubydramas.com/? Name-calling, platform bashing... Why can't we just get along?
The challenge is that as a Canadian it's a lot easier to get a TN-1 or H1-B as an employee than as a founder. So the valley is full of Canadian expat employees, not founders. Hopefully some of those will return to Canada and become startup founders. (That's what I did.)
Can you give an example of a javascript hack that you have to deal with?
500 has always been about startups with some degree of traction. Out of our batch, all bar 2 had a product, and over half had revenue already.
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which i personally absolutely hate.
That's only true for things requiring a physical infrastructure though.

For example, Toronto has a reputation for being a hotspot for mobile development, and there are probably as many talented developers as in any other tech hub. But they all work for agencies. Where are all the Canadian "Angry Birds" success stories?
Stock market indexes are generally forward-looking. We'll see QE3 "priced into" the market before we see its effects.
I don't agree with your version of human history in this ancient past of being of primitive's who 'discovered' agriculture. The knowledge of ayurveda (vedic health texts) and other vedic texts don't suggest they were primitives but rather people with advanced knowledge.

In Vedic epistemology there are 3 ways to ascertain knowledge, your senses, inductive logic and hearing from an authority. There are detailed descriptions on the theory of food, medicine and the functioning of the body. The reductionist view of counting calories and chemicals in a laboratory will never come up to it's standard because the human body is far more complex.
> I have never seen any evidence of regular users of smart drugs doing anything smart.

Paul Erdős famously claimed that amphetamines helped him in mathematics:

> After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[34] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
My Galaxy Nexus has been down the toilet and after a few weeks it worked fine, aside from the charging being a bit weird, but googling suggests that this might not be due to the toilet adventure.
Absolutely. We seek to solve the problems we see in the world through technology.

I feel your message would be more honest if you went for an approach like WordPress did: with an open-source tool. You make money by providing a hosting platform for the less technically inclined.

And think about it. Wordpress actually did revolutionize publishing.
Really they should just use underscore:

@originalStyle = _(@element.style).pick ['top', 'left', 'width', 'height']
> It sound to me like the sentiment is not so much rebellious, as it is very ethical.

Sure, I just meant rebellious in the sense that the participants tend to rebel against what is seen as government fascism or privacy violations - not that they're evil anarchists.
Is this what you guys used, or did you use the regular client in some other way?
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If you sign up, they've got a pretty rad system behind that join form.
Where is your production app hosted? Heroku? AWS? Your own colo box?
Yes, but QWERTY was designed for English.
Which the authors conceded is good idea most of the time on the old submission http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486264
And yes, you're absolutely right. And this is part of my frustration with schools, curriculua, adminstration boards, and how they all mesh together.

I will probably resort to some other method to make sure my child understand and possibly even enjoys math. I realize that.

But I believe I deserve a right to be upset because one path would give my son a decent education and the other will cost me $1000 a year to fix.
That was an awesome lecture. Thanks for the link. I did not know Hopper was such a humorous lecturer. The audience wasn't so lively - I guess they were mostly military.
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Thanks, Edit Room has been live for 2 years now. I first launched the prototype version in 2010 actually.
Theoretically, a c-compiler could produce self modifying code.
You're right, and my apologies for the snark.

It does seem like many more people are building web design apps, that's all. I like it. This one seems like a decent start, i'll be keeping an eye on it.
In general, the evolution of JavaScript from most-ridiculed to one of the most-used languages is surprising.
Consider this:

At Goto in Aarus [1] Anders is giving a keynote on "A yet to be disclosed project in the Development Tools space".

Sometime in the last 2 days this page [1] changed. It previously listed a co-presenter with Anders from the Chakra JavaScript team.

Not sure why the other presenter (can't remember his name) was removed; it could be as simple as he can't make the trip. Or Microsoft was afraid of letting the cat out of the bag too early?

[1] http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2012/presentation/Closing%20Keynot...
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We know Woz is an 'outside looking in' type person. His remarks remind me of all the people who are really upset with Apple for pursuing this lawsuit. People seem to have this conception that Apple saw an opportunity to sue the pants of a harmless company so it did. This is not the case at all. The two corporations were in meetings with lawyers for a year trying to iron out a deal. The deals fell through and they went to court.

The truth is everyone has been and is suing Apple, all the time. http://c4sif.org/2012/04/web-of-tech-patent-lawsuits-infogra... This graphic is now 9 month old. Truth is Apple is the most sued company in tech! I just don't get this 'down with Apple' mentality. It's completely irrational.

When Apple entered the phone telecom industry, it turned telecoms on their head. Apple started to take control from these awful companies (see my article on t-mobile: http://news.nucleusdevelopment.com/2012/09/11/t-mobile-infla...) and give it to consumers. Remember verizon didn't want any part of the iPhone because 'it gave the consumer too much control'?

Google and Samsung have been helping the telecoms regain control, allowing crapware and bloatware to go right back on the phones. That is one of the very things that Apple fought so hard to keep off their phones, and one of the main reasons Verizon didn't initially want Apple as a vendor. Not to mention, The spyware that gets installed with out our knowledge, ie: Carrier IQ. Controlling the software OS on the phones (ei: why it takes so long to get a new version of Android on your existing phone).
The on-site oil changes aren't free. I'm not sure if Google even spends any money on it. They basically just let a mechanic set up shop in the parking lot one day a week. It's nice because it saves time, not because it saves money.
But won't this matter if you get, for example, first round funding from a VC firm?
The rest of the article is about how you prefer CoffeeScript syntax, so how is that tldr wrong?
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> primary industries like oil/gas/lubber/etc.

You're missing an m or a b there.
I'm hoping this is what ultimately became of Volta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Live_Labs_Volta

Basically, you could write C# and mark different segments of the code as being server side and client side. the client side code would be compiled to JavaScript and run in the browser ... and you got full debug support across tiers with the original uncompiled C# source.
Apple's presentations are typically full of impressive-sounding assertions that are some combination of misleading and outright false. I don't think anyone but the most naive takes Apple's claims at face value.
Java is the better analogy. Rails is now a mature enterprise-worthy framework, but it suffers in some basic areas that Node handles well despite a relative lack of maturity.
I thought phrases like "the biggest foo since sliced bread" means that sliced bread was a greater foo, but other intervening foos may be lesser. That doesn't seem terribly hyperbolic to me. The retina display on the 4 is the only one that I would say rivals the changes in the 5. The numbers are arbitrary anyway. People are silly. Apple tries to be as silent as possible and people get lathered up anyway.
Hilarious. People are just downright brainwashed by genius marketing, hype and a general oblivion of the facts and reality. America. LOL
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Bottom ten

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Early Childhood, 148
Computer and Information Sciences, 149
Industrial, 149
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Student Counseling and Personnel Srvcs, 149
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Other, 149
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**Quantitative skills**

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Physics and Astronomy, 161
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Bottom ten

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Full disclaimer: I haven't done much UI (outside of HTML/CSS/JS, that is)... I dabbled with Visual Basic and the associated tooling (WinForms, at the time) during my college courses.

Of everything you describe, I think the area I struggled most with was:

>getting your event routing / updating to happen in a __clean__ way.

I was a naive and young programmer, so I'll withhold any criticisms towards WinForms, but the event routing was a _mess_ by the end of that project.
They buy mortgage-backed securities in the secondary markets which, in simple terms, are bonds issued by securitization agencies (well, mostly by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the residential mortgage area) to fund pools that buy and collect individual residential mortgages. The higher prices for MBSes leads to cheaper funding for such pools.

If funding of mortgages is cheaper for banks and agencies, then they become cheaper for the borrowers as well. Even if you aren't buying a new home, you can refinance your existing mortgage at a lower rate.
Your point is true. However, I've found in real world use that we don't go through the low-res "wireframe" much anymore. We skip right to the meat of things since working in Keynote is just as quick.

I'll also add that it probably matters if the consumers of the mockup/prototype/wireframe/whatever are internal/external to the organization.
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It has been known since 2002. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4511242
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Ah, right, of course! Still, I think this is the closest possible to the wish the OP had.
Finance geek here. The whole point of this is to raise inflation. Not by a lot, but by a little. The market is currently forcasting ~2.5% inflation looking forward and this won't likely push that expectation above 3-3.5%.

The reason for this is because the fed's 'dual mandate' to keep inflation low and unemployment low. The big theory behind this is the so-called Phillips Curve, which states that there's an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation. The reasoning here is threefold:

1. It's believed that inflation 'lights a fire' under capital (i.e. it's expensive to hold cash), which spurs people to invest, which in turn creates jobs.

2. Wages are sticky -- after losing a job, people tend to be reluctant to take a big pay cut when accepting new job and so tend to wait for something better to come along. Paradoxically, people are more willing to take a REAL pay cut when the NOMINAL pay cut is smaller, as would happen in an inflationary environment (note: there's no change in actual spending power).

3. Higher inflation acts as a transfer to borrowers from lenders. Any debt currently issued before a change in inflation will have been valued in light of lower epected rates of return. A change in inflation expectations effectively decreases the debt burden on any debt held before the change. This improves firm's balance sheets by decreasing the value of debt on their balance sheets, making them more able to invest.

As an individual, there's not much to guard against here. We should expect this to have a slightly positive impact on jobs and asset prices. We should also expect inflation to run a little higher, but there's little risk of any sort of run-away, or "hyper," inflation because of this -- the fed can stop inflation as easily as it can start it by

[Edit: Corrected Taylor Rule to Phillips Curve]
So to sum up the comments on the previous submission:

1) Someone did make a fully compliant Regex https://github.com/larb/email_address_validator

2) Lots of people (including the author http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486264) think that you should at least validate that the '@' is somewhere to avoid username / email mixups

3) If your regex fails for foo+tag@something.com lots of people get pissed. I learned you can use that for inbox sorting since foo+tag@something.com goes to foo@something.com.

4) There are other schools of thought that promote validation and telling the user something is wrong like mailcheck.js (https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck), but these should not stop users from submitting forms.

Did I miss anything?
This post is great! It gets the juices going. It describes everything wrong and everything right about Canada's tech market and i'm so glad you wrote this. It's the Manifesto we needed.

I'm already excited about the opportunities ahead. I'm in. I'll do my part, starting Today!

Aside: I think I finally found a use for my domain torontotech.org - colleagues and collaborators wanting to take part, get in touch
Basically using more and more extreme measures to keep interest rates down and try to accelerate the recovery.

Step 1, bring short-term rates to zero (end of 2008)

Step 2, (2010) announce that you're going to keep rates near zero for an extended period, and make it increasingly specific (currently through 2015). Since today's 2-year rate is the current 3-month rate compounded with the forward 3-month rates out to 2 years, that has the effect of pushing the yield curve down to near zero out to 2 years.

Step 3, (2011) 'Operation Twist', announce that you're buying long-term bonds and selling short-term bonds. That pushes low low rates even further out the yield curve.

Step 4 (today) buy mortgages via MBS, directly pushing down mortgage rates relative to Treasurys. Means lower rates for borrowers who can qualify for mortgages/refis. Also lowers credit spreads by taking away an option for people who want to get high rates by taking on credit risk such as mortgages/corporates, pushing lower rates up the credit spectrum.

bottom line... low low rates. Europe, China, Japan not doing too well these days, Fed trying desperately to avoid similar fate for US. Generally good for stock markets/startups, if investors can't make high returns in deposits/bonds they're more likely to try to find them in stocks/startups.
Like clockwork.

Your schtick [1][2][3][4] is predictable.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512468

2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512581

3: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509876

4: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4475909
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Yes, for offline processing.
How can you compare Canada to the unique place that is Silicon Valley?

Edit:

How about a damning look at Canada's film industry (hint: it's not Hollywood)?
No, the parent is correct. JavaScript developers do not lose any sleep because '1' + 0 = 10. We learned to do integer math with integers and moved on. We learned to just use === and moved on. The Dropbox devs apparently didn't want to go through that learning curve, which is fine, but rewriting your application in another language just so that you don't have to look at semicolons is a big bikeshedding mistake. Writing new code in CoffeeScript and only rewriting legacy code as needed would have been a more sane way to transition.
Gold is already overvalued, I'm really not sure of its outcome
Does filepicker support restricting file types and validating file types? For example can I use Filepicker to bypass my own need to validate if a file is an image of a specific type (eg: png) or not?
WebOS was targeted as an Android/iOS alternative on higher-end devices using proprietary APIs. It was also being developed by a company with shareholders who were purely focused on the bottom line.

I am not trying to criticize them but there are inherit differences between the two projects. I am thinking Mozilla is also partly betting its reputation of protecting user information while being developer friendly.

The free market will decide of course but at least initially that free market won't be North America.
Are you f*cking kidding me? This is like tabloid trash.
What I hate about this vuln is there's no practical fix for many web servers because there was never an option to disable the TLS compression. They're rushing to backport those options now. The good thing is it seems the top three browsers don't even use TLS compression [anymore].
"CRIME works only when both the browser and server support TLS compression or SPDY"

If it would make more sense, then s/protocol/implementation/g
or whatever you need to do to make sense of this.

How ever you choose to frame it, the targets are TLS and SPDY.
Pricing is tough! On one of my websites, still running after 10 years, I still modify prices quite frequently based on market conditions. Their is quite a bit of "art" in pricing.
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