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This was posted a month ago as well, discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6591186

> In fact, [the past] tells us that a larger deficit right now would help us greatly.

That conclusion is quite a jump from Reinhart-Rogoff is flawed.

How many confidants do you currently have? Friends that you can and have trusted with anything.

You need to find an intimate community of people to connect with. Someplace with members who are ready and willing to welcome new people and support them.

It sounds like your problems are a little bigger than having lost interest in programming. Having a personal support network is where you need to start if you're going to do something as ambitious as starting a company again.

Confirmed here, Ubuntu 12.04 Chrome Version 24.0.1312.70.

I found this to be inspiring.

The "if all goes well" outcome is that you pour a decade of your life into your venture. Be prepared with that knowledge to knock out the naive stumbling blocks going in, and then go be that one person who gets it right in your space.

"Mr. Bowman said that before his case, Vernon Hugh Bowman v. Monsanto, 11-796, was taken pro bono..., he had spent $31,000 on legal fees and handled much of the legal research himself, using a computer at the library because he does not own one."

There's a real farmer for you. Don't know anything about law? Doesn't matter, can't be too hard, I'll figure it out.

My grandpa was a farmer, and my co-founder Jesse's dad and brother are farmers. Our first office was here: http://goo.gl/maps/oAOk4

We've used MySQL Workbench to visually design our Postgres schema.

We then export it into MySQL database, generate a migration based on that, and then apply the migration to a Postgres database. Before we used migrations, we instead had a shell script with a series of sed commands to map the MySQL SQL output to SQL that will work in Postgres.

So, there are options, but I'd very much like a visual DB designer for Postgres as well.

Just found TeamPostgreSQL (http://www.teampostgresql.com/) earlier today, by far the best I've ever worked with.

Not that the other tools have set a very high bar. pgAdmin crashes constantly, and you can't sort columns by clicking on them. Navicat doesn't run properly on Linux, you have to mess around with wine. phpPgAdmin has a single DB host is hard coded into a config file and just feels antiquated.

One major drawback of TeamPostgreSQL so far: it doesn't support SSL connections.

Thank you to all of you commenters from the FarmLogs team! Your feedback helps give us a glimpse of things we haven't learned yet, and it encourages us when you bring up things we're already using to our advantage.

PS - We're hiring an awesome front end dev, and mobile, if you'd like to join.

If this upsets you, you need to contact your representative now and complain, especially if they're GOP. If they're a good one and they hear some noise over this, they'll take note of it.

http://house.gov/representatives/

One thing I noticed while in YC was that the most successful people I met (founders, investors, etc) weren't primarily motivated by the financial rewards. Money is a result of a successful venture, not the main objective.

Point is, founding a startup doesn't actually make sense from a financial perspective. Most often you will be more profitable having been employed.

It'd be interesting if the statistics on this are being kept. You could answer questions like which brands don't have strong color identities, whether people tend to err on the side of lightness/darkness with certain logos, etc. You never know what unexpected things you might discover.

I agree that you shouldn't go out to the extent of bragging - as jacquesm points out your business is still vulnerable. Don't let success give you an inflated opinion of yourself.

I disagree with prescribing the opposite extreme. The most successful products don't become successful because nobody has heard of them yet. It's selfish to not share what you've learned with others, and just as bad it deprives you of opportunities to learn from their feedback.

The best don't become that way by being kept secret. They're the best because they add value to the service by being good at what they do. If your level of dedication to making good product is clonable, you're dead already.

Go Ann Arbor! Ironic, considering that was the former headquarters of Borders.

You're right, claiming Santorum openly supports SOPA style content filtering is hyperbole with no basis in his actual statement (http://www.ricksantorum.com/enforcing-laws-against-illegal-p...). Admittedly though, it is a potential outcome.