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> "It's too expensive to make the whole internet free."

> Translation: "It is not lucrative enough to us to make the whole internet free. We only want you looking at things where we stand to make money off of you, not anyone else."

There is nothing inherently wrong with a CEO trying to maximize profit for their business. In fact, that's in their job descriptions. I understand that.

What I find distasteful is their dishonest marketing attempts trying to mask Internet.org as a benevolent "lets-help-the-poor" effort and as something compatible with net neutrality, when it's obvious that their goals of providing a walled-garden version of the Internet where Facebook is the gatekeeper is in conflict with net neutrality on a fundamental level.

This poor, self-conflicting denial certainly isn't helping their image in my book, but judging from many of the replies on this thread, it appears they have the masses fooled.
I feel like it's tough to transpose the mindset of 1995 into the zeitgeist of 2015. The average citizen of 1995 was a lot less sensitive to the every day minutia of disparate civil rights flashpoints that culminate to create the picture we have of civil rights today. There is also a lot more deliberately controversial political content produced by today's media which sets up an environment where there's something of an implicit expectation that everyone will or should have a "stance" on every political issue. The world of 2015 is one where every average citizen has their own set of pet grievances that are wont to implicate the government in a violation of civil rights.

Can you imagine how the citizens of 1995 would have reacted to a Snowden of the time? It'd be a complete non-event.
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They didn't make the entire archive available to download?
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You're done with this one (because it seems you lack energy and conviction to continue), but: You haven't lost at life and you're not losing at life, you've gained something extremely valuable: experience.

Find a job, recover for a while (or if your partner is really wealthy kick back for a week or two and do absolutely nothing until you can't wait to get back to work, if you are from such different backgrounds it would not be outrageous to ask for a bit of support from that direction) and then try again, the start-up world does not care as much about your failures as it cares about your experience and you'll do much better the next time around, I guarantee it. Been there, done that, have several t-shirts, failure is absolutely ok and simply the expected outcome so don't sweat it. Best of luck and if I can help you or if you have concrete questions drop me a line, email in profile.

Apropos different backgrounds financially: that's a bad combination to start with, it means you will have a hard time keeping your respective goals aligned in the longer term.

If your partner does want to continue the business without you then that's fine, simply hold on to your portion of the business even if you don't work there any longer (your obligation to work stopped when you stopped receiving payment) or sell it to him (he can afford it after all...). And don't sell too cheap, keep in mind the company owes you at least several months back-pay!
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It absolutely is Microsoft's... well, not fault, exactly, but the way the ecosystem has evolved has been driven largely by choices they've made. If the ecosystem allows for buggy hardware driver releases to screw things up for customers, it's because MS made the choice, possibly by default, not to run an Apple-like ecosystem.

The reason I don't blame MS entirely for this is because it's clearly a trade-off. In return for the risk of unreliability, they got a vast increase in the number of hardware manufacturers willing to play in their ecosystem, precisely because MS can be fairly hands-off. This drives prices down, and increases the size of the market-place.

Where I do take issue with MS directly is that despite consciously being in the driving seat of an ecosystem like this for so long, it's taken them years to successfully isolate the user from buggy drivers. They control the OS, so they control the ability of a manufacturer's bug to affect the user. It's not a foregone conclusion that a screwed-up driver must inevitably lead to a bluescreen, or anything like it.
Can anyone read Angelica Langers FAQ with all the strange limitations and corner cases, and still call it good design?

I can understand it as a compromise for migration compatibility. I disagree with the goals of JSR14 - and history has shown that the concerns that lead to the migration compatibility constraint was non-issue.

Taken as an isolated type system where you want orthogonality and principle of least surprise (among others) it is not good design. And in that sense, yes, it is wrong
But you cannot kickstart an ios game because you don't know if you can deliver. Due to apple censorship.
I'd be intrigued to know why the downvote.
Even at a 100 person company I knew, half the organization used gchat and half used jabber/webex connect. Each side had champions that spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to convert everyone to one platform, and last I checked they still hadn't succeeded.
If you take one thing from my comment then take this - you're 1/2 the age of many people here and have decades of opportunities ahead of you.

If you're 1) unable to raise money, 2) need money to scale and 3) don't have any money then I suggest taking care of your needs first and foremost. There are lots of glamorized stories of people barely scraping by and beating all odds. It doesn't have to be that way and it's healthier if you're wise about the risks you're taking.

I'd like to give more optimistic advice but the truth is that you're young. For many it's an opportune time to do a start-up but you're in a position which makes something that's already difficult even more difficult.

If you truly believe in the your idea and partner then you can take up some consulting work and do the start-up part time.

I also question the working relationship if you and your partner aren't feeling the same level of stress. It's critical that either you're both in the trenches or neither of you are.
It's been happening since the 70s with cruise missiles, which are a basic drone that just flies into a target and explodes.
They discussed using Civil Forfeiture and the Economic
Espionage Act to steal the Slysoft.com domain from Slysoft:
https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/05/docs/AACS/Litigation/Outl...
You had to have lived off of something. As I said in another comment, if there is less in the bank than it takes to pay this month's expenses. Then the business has gone bankrupt and has failed.

It really is as simple as that.
Hi everyone, author here. Initially, Wiki-Watch only allowed users to search for articles using their voice. I got some great feedback and made the app focus on geo-locating articles. This way whenever you're in a new area you can just touch "nearby" on your Apple Watch and see articles about places around you.
Based on location and size, I'm guessing it's used for the USB type C port - specifically implementing the CC sideband communication protocol.
Every single Windows trackpad is shit, and the common feature of most of them is Synaptics. Windows laptop makers could probably get near double digit market percentage increases from fixing their shitty track pad situation alone.

Android and Microsoft phones and tablets' touch sensitivity is great, so it's not some secret of Apple's.
it's over when you quit. plenty of people work on their startups/business without a salary, sometimes for years. it's fucking tough, it's no easy street.

Get your shit together and then reassess, you need a roof over your head first if you wanna keep at it.

good luck.
I think failed vs successful is a false dichotomy. Pretty much any idea could become viable if you dump a ridiculous amount of time and money into it. The best ideas are runaway trains and you have to struggle to keep up with demand. That doesn't seem to be the case with your current idea.

If I were you I would borrow money from family to pay the rent, get a job, save up money, and try again in a couple of years if you still want to.
> So, if you've had a failed startup, how did you know? Did you run out of money and call it quits?

Yes, that's exactly it. Even better when you know it when you determine that X months before you actually run out of money

Close shop and get a job. This is not the end of the world, so don't sweat it.
This reminded me of the article "The Jihad Cult: Why Young Germans Are Answering Call to Holy War" [1] - after reading it, I got the impression that at least some young men became jihadists because they are basically narcissistic losers whose attempts to be cool via normal and non-destructive means (like becaming famous rapper or kickboxer) failed so they convinced themselves that joining ISIS is the cool thing - they perceive it like courageously fighting with their 'brothers' to enforce God's will... or something like that, they perceive this concept as cool and some of them desperately want back home when they get to Syria and see the grim reality of real ISIS. The whole article is worth reading.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/why-young-germany-...
Maybe it is the SMC? (System management controller?)
if I may: are you a Pole?
Only part of the total cash needed to make the raises will come from his salary; the other 1.5MM, apparently, will come from profits.
Sounds like it's time to move on. Keep in mind that you (as in you, the person) matters a lot more than your (or any) startup. Don't ever equate a failed business with a failed life. There are many successful founders that hadn't even thought about starting a company at your age and you'll probably get many more shots at this over the course of the next few decades.

It does sound like you've reached a point where the best course of action is to call it quits and start something new - contrary to popular opinion, startup companies are just _one_ instance of the many things you can do with your life.
We know about that. Many of the packages are overriden if there are drop-in replacements like PIL -> Pillow.

In above list, these are not drop-in replacements and it will require lots of changes in your application code if you want to use them. One idea is to show alternative packages https://github.com/chhantyal/py3readiness/issues/9
Another catchy headline why u should read this post about how my startup failed
having this sort of income inequality between partners is a big problem. it changes how you look at the business. it seems to me you've already at a point where you have to find a job.

what I recommend is this: discuss the situation with your partner. you need to find investors - it is as simple as this. if you cannot find one, ask for your partner to invest in the company some money if you both still believe in your business model. it doesn't make sense to to forgo your salary when you don't have any money in the bank - what will you eat ? grass ? if you can't raise money or not willing to invest your own it means that your expectation for a viable business is gone. if that is the situation call it quits asap. it doesn't make sense to try to go another few months and lose more resources and acquire debt - find a job and try your hand again in future when you're financially more stable...
> us techie boys (us because I am one), think that an M1 Abrams tank, a F-15 airplane or a Sig Sauer rifle are, well, cool.

Speak for yourself only.

As a child Ive seen artillery in action, MiGs XX dropping bombs close to basement "us techies" were hiding it, those things are not fucking cool.

It would be so fun one day for you to experience an F15 dropping its load on your village or an M1 Abrams tank, firing its guns towards your house, then lets see if you think those are cool.

In general Americans are far far far from any war, and far far back in history to have any meaningful experience of it. Hollywood takes it lightly, it is entertaiment, for Americans, but "not so much" for lets say Europe.
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We (Fedora) are step ahead.

Currently we are waiting for a last few packages to be ported (anaconda is already running on python3 and ready for Fedora 23 release). Ironically the hardest part isn't porting (we've sent a huge amount of patches to upstream projects) but getting upstreams to accept the python3 as supported interpreter ("what is this python3 thing?" yes, this is a real quote).

I am happy to see a new distros joinning a party, gl!
We're not dumping. A comment (and most other changes) is a single text file so commit is fast.
To be fair, generics are only needed for as long as you insist on static typing. Languages with dynamic typing where types are checked at runtime do not need generics.

And generics is complicated topic. I am all for static typing, especially for large code bases. But sometimes when I venture too far out in generic land I find myself wondering if it is worth it? A well-designed library that uses generics prudently can be a bliss to use. But the implementation code can get near-unreadable.
If you die from hunger you can't expect to succeed in the startup.

Don't count on being the next big miracle.

My best advice is to talk to your partner. They are suppose to be as close as a spouse if not more. You need to make sure that they understand your circumstance. This will help you make a better decision going forward.

What we decided was to take time off and make money and come back after we've fixed financials. We believe in our partnership but felt maybe we did not execute fast enough or the business model wasn't strong enough at the time.

You should remember that not all the ideas work and that you can always try again unless you're dead.
I don't think they are trying to kill email. It's more like inter-team communication.
I get what you're saying, but your tone here is pretty hostile here and you don't seem to acknowledge that the point you're making is in perfect agreement with the post you're responding to. You quoted him just before he said, "[This] is, of course, nonsense."
I'm a bit confused by the reasoning too. We worked 18 months and put in 10s of thousands of our own money in the early stages prior to our first funding - a hefty negative salary. I think the only logical way to view it is that the founders are ALWAYS taking a loss relative to what they could earn elsewhere, for the life of the startup, until the very late stages or acquisition.

Very few investors will see it as a good sign if the founders pay themselves at or above their market rates, or if they do at or below the market amount of work. Likewise, the competition will punish startups for slacking or blowing money too fast.
At last someone has noticed. And I thought nobody reads this stuff :)
25 is young to feel like you are "losing at life". I was 35 when I started my first startup, completely bootstrapped. I ploughed all my savings (considerable amount) into the startup over a 5 year period, with lots of rollercoaster moments during that time.

From someone who previously earned a lot of money and now had a family to support, this was incredibly hard. I almost gave up a few times. Actually, I try give up once or twice by finding a job, but circumstances conspired to make me keep going.

7 years on, and things are much better now, and the business is actually doing quite well, and is a nice lifestyle business.

Seriously, 25 is young. You have loads of time to fail. Better to do it now, then when you have family obligations. That's when things are very different.
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I've read extensively about the Sudbury model and education in general when I wanted to find out why I didn't fare well in the classical educational system although I am of above average intelligence.

While I don't think the Sudbury model is generally applicable (they have had their share of failed schools), it contains a lot more postives than classical education.

The classical education system is the way it is for organisational reasons, not for any pedagogic reason:

* There is sufficient scientific research that proves that teacher based education is highly inefficient.

* The age based grouping of children is just plain stupid and has no merit whatsoever. A better way to group them, if you must group them, is on skill level. Grouping children of different ages has advantages for all of them: the younger ones get an attainable role model, the older ones learn a sense of responsibility.

* Sitting still and being required to concentrate for an hour is something you cannot ask a child to do, especially the younger ones. They should be allowed to play and explore. They will learn a lot more than what a teacher can offer.

* It’s a fantasy to believe that you learn much in school. The only thing you learn is to game the system: You learn to remember something long enough for a test or exam, and afterwards, you forget most.

And I could go on and on about it.
Anyone who has ever changed the world has been in your shoes, and it's because they were in your shoes that they were able to change the world.

Just remember that, and you will forever be fine, my friend.
It fails when you want it to. Let te me tell you my situation:

Some of my projects have been getting a beating lately. One of my sales reps. just went missing. Just gone. For 4 weeks now. Together will a kinds of random stuff that makes me feel like this house of cards is coming apart. But I still believe in the product. We have clients and there are still ways to go.

I've put it all on hold for 3 months to do some contracting and cash-up, than it's back to trade shows and sales.

But I also think that having a startup is a luxery and (more and more) a marketing term that comes from the investent people. "Do a startup" and you can ask people to work 60 hour weeks. "Build me this product" and that same amount of work will cost you way more money and time.

I have been so blindly running my own products ("Startups") for 6 years, until 2 weeks ago I realized that contracting myself as a developer makes me 21k a month. I had no idea it was like that, I hadn't checked what all my newly gained knowledge has meant for my rates.

So what does it mean to you? If it is making you depressed, maybe don't do it? With SO MANY startups right now, it's very unlikely that you will make more money from it than from contracting. So are you in it because of your passion? Or to make money? Ask yourself these questions.
What sort of product does your business sell?
This is interesting but the end of the article is weird to me.

They expell every student that does not fit, so obviously their "idea" work. I mean if you remove every data that show failure, any idea will work.

If anything it shows that every student is different and we probably can't find a single way to teach every one of them, which is again obvious and I believe well known by everyone, including the ones in charge of education / instruction (not sure wich word is right).
Why is why we are proposing a new one
What does your startup do? Maybe someone here could be interested in funding it.
You are of course correct, somehow I tricked myself into believing this would require compressing the number for every image into its image. But on a second thought there might still be a tough problem - altering the number will alter the image which will in turn require altering the number again. So the (possibly) hard problem is finding a fixed point which may actually not even exist (for a given formula).
So you are saying uninformed populist opinions should be made policy
Sure, but people rarely type them out - I might ask you to meet me at a particular cafe, but less likely at a particular café.
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/132611

Sony CEO Michael Lynton was already pitching press secretary Jay Carney on his last day at the White House
Weave Network works great on AWS, GCE, Azure, your laptop, ...
Pretty much anywhere you can run a (privileged) container, you can run Weave.

Here's some use-cases for each (and in one case both!):

http://weaveblog.com/tag/gce/

http://weaveblog.com/tag/aws/

Did you mean to write something else? I would love to know where you got that idea.

Note: I work for Weaveworks.

> Weave seems super neat

Thanks!
The first and main reason they give:

"1. Competition on the App Store has risen to a frenzied level. As a result, sales for our games has dropped massively and the cost of advertising them has shot through the roof."

Probably had the idea that mere hard work in creating a game is rewarded in the market (any market).
even in a simulation ad to give a use case, the drones are used to target a small village in the middle of a desert. it's somewhat obvious what the use case will be: don't send troops in so that US troop loses can be limited and in the meantime we can continue to kill all those pesky insurgents in 5-6 hut villages...

it's fucking insane.
Reality is that many founders / writers / actors / band members / famous mathematicians and scientists have lived off of their spouses / girlfriends / family / side jobs / benefactors for a long time before making it big. Investors is no magic solution.

*Based on studies I've seen and hundreds of people I've talked to across these industries. Bankruptcy is a legal process that you have to initiate and won't happen if you refuse to initiate it.
If Mark really believes in what he's saying, he shouldn't object to only making nonprofits like Wikipedia or OCW a part of the initiative. Facebook isn't an essential good.
Sony CEO Michael Lynton and Presidential Advisor Valerie Jarrett being very "cozy"

https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/?q=Valerie+and+Jarret*&mfr...
Great answer. Something fails when you loose belief in it. If she really believed in it she could ask for credit. The problem is that she doesn't believe in it anymore. Time to move on.

Imagine that you are swimming. In your hand you carry a heavy stone, you believe it is a diamond, but you can't be sure. Time passes, you are getting tired, you can't see land. What do you do?

Some people get so attached to their stuff that they sink with them. Be happy that you are not like this.
fail fast and do it public. don't keep dragging the failure in hopes of a miracle
fair point. edited
That's option (/alt) left and right (and has been, IIRC, for 20 years)
A nitpic:

with a traditional S.R.L., 10k€ is the minimum capital of the company, but you don't actually need all of it to get started. A S.R.L. only needs 25% of its capital to get started, so you need at a minimum 2500€, which your newborn company will spend anyway in its first month, to pay the notary and the registration fees.
Of course if you go bankrupt you still need to pay the remaining 75% of the capital to pay your debts.

Overall, the new form of reduced-capital S.R.L. will make you save around 1500€ for the notary, but it remains quite onerous, especially time-wise, because of all the bureaucracy you need to go through.