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John Gruber considers himself to be the BDFL of Markdown [1], though many question the 'B' part.

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.ne...

I think the parent was referring to his full name. "Guido" appears 7 times on that page, "Rossum" appears 0 times in text.

From the post:

> Please note this change has no impact on our existing customers, including those using the free version.

> Error(s) encountered: All events are sold out.

Bummer.

YCombinator invested in 9gag as well. That has absolutely no bearing on Paul Graham's insight into the current investment climate.

If YC strongly suggested that the company be dissolved, why would they invite them to participate in their demo day in March?

That's the composition of the board of that (rogue?) company. But YC partners decide who presents at YC demo day and who doesn't, so it's not a decision for the board to make.

> In the March Y-Combinator demo day, there will be a team presenting with no member that was ever accepted to Y-Combinator

> Please note that I (with the support of Y-Combinator) asked for the dissolution of the company and return of all funds to our investors

If you have YC's support on this, then why will they be presenting at the March demo day?

I thought the entire spirit behind applying without an idea was to invest in the team? If that's the case, and the original team is no longer there, wouldn't that team be disqualified?

Great work! Looks very similar to the more mature jQuery Waypoints library [1].

[1] http://imakewebthings.com/jquery-waypoints/sticky-elements/

One thing I learned after meeting with a bunch of top firms in the Silicon Valley (Fenwick&West, Orrick, Cooley, Silicon Legal Strategy) is that "innovative" and "creative" legal strategies can be much more expensive and can even hurt you in the critical initial growth period. If your goal is to raise money from investors, your best (and cheapest) bet is to follow established conventions and standard terms. When you get to be much bigger (e.g. Facebook, Dropbox), that's when more creative strategies may be needed (e.g. Facebook's strategy to prevent employees from selling stock prior to IPO).

In regards to IP, it's always a cost vs benefit tradeoff. It was quite refreshing to hear pretty much every partner we spoke to say "just focus on building something awesome and focus on the hard legal stuff later," instead of pushing us down the (more beneficial to them in the short term) path of securing patents, etc.

Does anyone else notice that the "Bounce In" effect is horribly pixellated in Chrome Canary? It's almost as if the scale effect is working with a much smaller resolution original photo. Seems to work just fine in vanilla Chrome.

Are you willing to share more info on your side project? Sounds like it's something meaningful enough to work on for nearly 20 years (minus gaps), and yet it sounds like it's not your startup... very curious as to what it is.

You should lead with that and put something similar at the top of your website.

Edit: Nice, just noticed changes on your site. You guys are fast.

How serious are you about keeping it private when it's on your servers? Do you have encryption at rest?

Do you have any advice on the length of the video? The application asks for a "one minute long" video, but most of the accepted videos I've seen are usually longer. Some are as long as 4 minutes. Does the length factor in to your decision?

I really feel for the Amazon employees working in the us-east data center this week. Not only do they have to worry about the safety of their families, but half the internet will be watching them if anything goes down. I can't even imagine all the contingencies they have to prepare for (e.g. engineer gets paged, but has no power at home, or can't drive in due to flooded streets). Best of luck to them.

Rackspace also has a big data center in DFW. I only remember one or two outages in the last several years.

Hakim El Hattab, the guy behind this concept, is on fire right now, with innovative UI concepts rolling out pretty much every month.

If you're interested in bleeding edge HTML5 experiments, you can watch Paul Irish interview him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogumRA9LxR4

The article you mentioned about Google's tough interview questions is from a community manager, not a programmer. If I was hiring a technical community manager, I would not subject them to the same interview process as engineers - that would probably eliminate the best community managers.

http://krislnielsen.blogspot.com/ The author is male.

I like the simplicity of it, but almost immediately ran into a usability/navigation issue:

- I hit the arrow key to go to the menu, and choose "A Personal API". So far so good.

- I click on the arrow again, it just fades out. Ok... let's try the back button. That removes the hash from the URL, but I'm still on "A Personal API". Pressing Forward adds the hash back, but there are no changes on the page.

The only option I have to keep navigating is to refresh the page.

I'm on Chrome Canary, and I'm not seeing any errors in the console. On my iPhone, the arrow button seems to work to go back to the menu, but the back button is also broken.

Every example so far is with physical media, but part of the premise is that established market leaders die as a result of innovation. The CompuServe/AOL model was once prevalent, and now has faded completely away. MySpace was the top dog, until it wasn't.

I'm using the latest Chrome Canary with the default Ghostery settings. The site looked fine once I temporarily disabled the plugin.

A lot more has been raised in a lot less time. Lockitron comes to mind.

As of now, with 23 hours left to go, they are only short $25K, so it seems almost inevitable that the target will be met.

This site does not load at all with the Ghostery plugin, and I'm having a hard time figuring out what I need to allow to see the content, because it all looks like tracking code.

The Wikipedia entry on CE certification says:

* The product may be placed on the market only if it complies with the provisions of all applicable directives and if the conformity assessment procedure has been carried out accordingly.

* If stipulated in the directive(s), an authorized third party (Notified Body) must be involved in the conformity assessment procedure.

I'm not sure if the machine directive stipulates it, but "authorized third party" seems to imply that the manufacturer can't perform the certification themselves.

Even if you can count yourself as the approving company, did you make sure that your product complies with all the provisions? Or were you taking advantage of some loophole somewhere to skip the entire process?

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

EDIT: I see that you mentioned this was 15 years ago, so I'm mostly curious for historical reasons.

I'm a (29yo) dad to 2 young girls, working 12-16 hour days on my own startup for the past few months, and I'd say I struggle with some of the same issues as the author. Staying a part of my kids' lives is still critically important, but it's insanely hard to balance the two, even with my wife being at home full-time.

Even though they are not old enough to realize it yet, my kids were the ones who inspired me to start something, and they are still my biggest inspiration. When they're older, I want them to look back and be proud of the (albeit tiny) dent that their dad made in the universe.

I really do hope that the concentrated effort now will lead to much more shared time and adventures down the road.

Pretty sure it's getting overloaded with traffic, because it wasn't like that a few hours ago.

Definitely. I'll shoot you an email when there's something tangible to show.