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Out of curiosity, do either of you two know what your MBTI types are? My initial guess would be some kind of NT. Maybe ENTJ?

How is it determined where the corporation "resides"? I know for a physical company, it is where ever I am physically located. But what about a purely online company?

Can you give advice on how to "log and track everything?" I was thinking just separate banking accounts and keep all expense receipts. Is that enough?

Also, how much do I have to separate things like e-mail and server-usage? Do I need to pay for a separate server for my personal homepage and my company's page?

Does your Delaware recommendation include LLC's? I was under the presumption it was mostly advantageous for C-Corps.

Thanks!

I find when I move across languages (which happens frequently) or even tools (like grep), regexp implementation often differs enough to throw me off and introduce subtle bugs.

Is there a page that shows a mapping between different implementations of regular expressions and which languages and applications they're used in? Is there a better way to figure these things out than hunt for documentation every time?

From Wikipedia: The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon occurs when a person, after having learned some (usually obscure) fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, encounters that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it.

In this case, after finishing the book I noticed several articles on news sites talking about the author. Perhaps this would be better categorized under the recency effect.

Me too: just finished it yesterday. Almost feels like the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

I know that, but for someone using mouse gestures in FF, I can't do a right click+drag left/right/up/down, etc.

"Until you spend a lot of time becoming proficient with OS X... it goes both ways. I don't understand how people come to these conclusions."

Right, it goes both ways. So if you spent a lot of time becoming proficient with OS X, I wouldn't recommend you switch to Windows. But if you spent a lot of time becoming proficient with Windows/Linux, I wouldn't recommend you switch to OS X.

I was in your position recently and decided to switch. 3 months later and I'm back with Windows - it is simply more efficient for me. I'm really big on productivity, so I really tried to customize every tool I've listed below. To give some background, the main programs I use are:

1. (http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/09/launchers.h... "Launchers - SlickRun vs QuickSilver + Butler/Launchbar")

a) Ported all current bangs from SlickRun to QuickSilver.

b) Tried Butler, Launchbar to quickly launch artists, songs. Ended up sticking with Launchbar.

* SlickRun is marginally faster, minimalistic. Support different use cases.

* Felt frustrated in QuickSilver's scripting language trying to do simple stuff like "Open new Window (not tab), ssh to this hostname."

* Tie as I'm prejudiced.

2. Terminals - PuTTy + cygwin vs Visor + Terminal, iTerm, x11... + Gnu-darwin, fink

* I heavily abuse remote (Ubuntu) session screens to do all my work. (I'm usually a Rails dev using VIM.)

* Needed 256 colors, package manager, bright (as opposed to bold) colors. Prefer no tabs.

* I have no idea why the native Terminal program doesn't support 256 colors. Entirely silly.

* Package management is a pain. Ended up doing all my work on my remote Linux box.

* I really prefer PuTTy. Every single terminal program I used on OSX either didn't fit in visually or were missing some feature that was provided in PuTTy.

* Spent way too much time frustrated while trying out everything. At then end, still frustrated.

* I understand this might just be due to my prejudices, so tie.

3. Virtual desktops - VirtuaWin vs Spaces, Witch

* Spaces has huge numbers of problems. Especially when combined with CMD-TAB. Spent way too much time frustrated. Gonna give this one to Windows.

4. Browsers - Firefox vs Firefox.

* Lack of right click drag mouse gestures. Large drop in productivity I never managed to replace. Windows wins.

5. Music - Winamp vs iTunes.

* I really learned to hate iTunes. A lot. Ended up bugging out on my giant music library and crashing a ton for no reason. ... Spent even more time debugging/Googling. Frustrating.

* Tie, lots of people like iTunes. I prefer my Winamp + Python script to update m3us.

Every other program had a relatively easy replacement. Here are my other gripes:

6. Hardware - Right click.

* 'nuff said. Everyone trying to justify this design decision is probably a fanboy.

7. Keyboard shortcuts.

* Three months later, I'm completely used to the keyboard shortcuts and hate them passionately. Does anyone honestly like the Apple bindings better?

* They lie! Changing bindings for applications like Firefox in the "control panel" does not work at all. Another frustrated day.

Conclusion:

* If you spent a lot of time becoming proficient on your platform of choice, you probably can only lose on OS X.

* It is incredibly frustrating trying to make "minor" tweaks. They turn into massive battles that remind me of my days trying to tweak my Linux desktop box.

* If you aren't an efficiency freak like me, you might gain by switching.

Do you have any recommendations for other resources for getting high-quality maps?

The only problem with EveryDNS is lack of API or way of making large-scale changes.

I'm less worried about reliability and more worried about having easy access to my stuff when on the road. With 10 computers, I inevitably have copies of my important data distributed everywhere -- it would just be nice to have a cheap canonical source I can pull from occasionally.

I'd also be okay with paying a large upfront cost (say $500) to buy hard drives and then paying small monthly fees for bandwidth/electricity/support. It doesn't seem to be too hard to make a profit doing something like this.

The last solution I can see is to make upfront and ongoing fees cheap but make me pay through the nose for downloads. I'd be willing to pay $50 per gig to download if it were free to upload/store. (I have really low usage requirements asides from storage.)

So I feel an entrepreneurial company would be able to make a profit in this realm (correct me if I'm mistaken) -- I'm just not sure where one is.

I also wanted to reach out. I am working for an NGO in Zambia (http://www.project-educate.org) and we have a couple of projects that could use talented coders. One for example, would be a web application similar to MIT's OpenCourseWare, except designed for Zambian students.

We also aren't shy about sending people to Zambia to help out. If you're curious, or want more information, my email is in my profile. I'd love to hear from you.

You sound like you have experience with this. Do you have more information?

I like the fonts you used (for the logo on top). What are they?

Thanks, but Gzip and HTTP caching are already being used. I'm just trying to squeeze the last few bytes out. :)

Do you have a link to: "Someone did a test of various compression tools and found that while they had wildly varying sizes before GZipping, they all came out to roughly the same size after GZip, except that I think raw+GZip was a bit bigger than JSMin/Packer/YUICompressor+GZip"

Also, does anyone have feedback on <http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/>; versus other alternatives?

Anyone else notice that Browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace is broken or know how to fix it?

I had the same _exact_ experience with you, except, instead of letting my sense of contradiction lie dormant for a couple of years, I sat down for an intense couple of hours until I got your same lightning bolt moment. I just wanted to note this, because I found it to be an epiphany that someone else had the same exact problem with pointers as I had.

How have people reconciled being able to work on your startup part time while at a large company full time? By reconcile, I mean in terms of legal contracts, etc. I'm pretty sure most people sign a non-compete clause in their employment contract.

Just a suggestion -- upvote the comments of people with interesting del.icio.us bookmarks. It'll help pinpoint the ones worth reading.

I think the key point is not that the Ivy Leagues have dangerous wealth in and of itself. The problem is that they have wealth at the expense of other, arguably more needy institutions. When Princeton is getting $136 million dollar student dormitories, many other public universities are lacking funds for more basic necessities.

It gets high reviews from Slashdot also: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/03/0353231

Based on your suggestion, here is a page with some really useful inter-wiki links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain

Here's an honest question. Why isn't more research being done into solving Poker compared to the amount put into Go or Chess?

> It seems to me that it is an interesting question that combines elements of computation, AI, and psychology.

> One can see instant practical results by playing your bot for real money.

> Poker is a fun game. :)

Any answers would be appreciated, especially as I'm thinking about doing a PhD and am currently exploring open problem domains.