Shamiq

I was really really hoping the OpenMoko phone wouldn't have been such a flop AND cost a ton. My guess is you need the resources (more that just money) a company such as Google can provide to currently develop and popularize an Open Source phone.

Any genius here capable of shaking up that market?

Is this unethical?

This sounds interesting. Someone willing to give it a shot and tell us how it went?

More things I'm bumping into for class.

Maybe your problem is actually a graph coloring problem...

You don't.

Matasano uses Ruby for many internal and external tools. With a little dash of IRB, you can have a lot of fun (just ask Mike...)

Eating what you cook -- a great way to know what's wrong with the food.

This may be old hat to some, but I just bumped into this while working on my Introduction to AI Programming homework.

Hope it's helpful.

It's a shame that being gay is embarrassing.

It's the FBI compiling dossiers on everyone :)

At what point does it "make sense" to continue developing and supporting APIs for a product? Arguably, Skype has a huge user base and thus huge "custom application potential energy". But here we see them shaking off any ties, without mention of possible future offerings.

So, what metrics should they be aiming for to prove viability?

This sounds wonderful.

At least not the cave people that survived.

OFF TOPIC:

To add blank lines in your text output here in HN, hit return twice (\n\n).

It could help that Head First HTML/CSS is wonderfully written for someone who basically knows how to use a computer.

Accelerando is amazing.

(I speak as a Sci Fi fan).

HN does have some members who do not fit in either category. :)

Ruby

Etherpad?

Not so much atrophy, but underdevelopment.

Haha, great resume...

Later, still under the spell, Price paid the perfect tribute to Taylor. He said: "We saw no sign of fear in him. Watching him made men of us. Marching or fighting, he was leading. We followed him because there was nothing else to do."

Taken from: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/196011/omaha (another submission)

Link us?

10k + a rolodex, from what I gather. Or a couple million in risk capital.

Some one made a custom RSS for that. Try searchyc.com to see if you can find it.

Just to clear up, I am advocating zero-coupon convertibles.

Yes, you'll have to get the corporation to cover the cost of the shares. However, convertibles will give you a tax break since they go onto balance sheets as a liability, and so they effectively give you a ~35% discount.

The flip-side is that recipients will have to pay taxes on the implicit coupon payments. You really need to talk to a corporate accountant to get more details, and whether this is even a legal option for you, but definitely look into it.

EDIT

I misread your question. The payment becomes the responsibility of the issuing corporation, not the individual receiving the stock. That is a more clear answer :)

Here's something from the wikipedia page on Convertible Bonds:

Hybrid bonds typically are issued as loan capital, but the issuer retains the right to exchange or convert the bonds into convertible preference shares with similar conversion rights and income. The purpose is generally to ensure that the bonds (as loan capital) have the tax offset-ability (against taxable profits) of loan interest, and perhaps pay gross to qualifying investors. At the same time, the ability to change the bonds into cumulative or non-cumulative preference capital should mean that they pose less balance sheet risk. The issuer only achieves the best of both worlds if the hybrid bond is structured so that non-payment of interest does not constitute an event of default.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertible_bond

Strike price being set too high is one thing. The ability to sell those options (rather than having to exercise them) -- this is an issue with the liquidity of stock options. Rights after an individual leaves the company.

For the PS: There could be some financial engineering involved with creating convertible bonds and selling those at a discount to employees. Again, we run into liquidity issues.

I would say some kind of second derivative positive, quadratic function.

              /
             /
            /
  _________/

(That's the best I can do for the -decay- rate).

Do y'all consider this a ballsy move by the creator (and collaborators), or are there enough people working on this project that anonymity and risk of persecution are very low?