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Yes, the founders benefit a lot from keeping their identity small. Their identity should not be as a CEO, CTO, programmer, marketer, non-technical, etc. A founder need to have a flexible identity and learn as needed.

However, the flip side of the coin is that it's a great weakness if you don't know what you don't know. It's only when you know you don't know that you can find someone to fill in for that or expand your skills. Because in the end it's what you do that counts.

For me multiple desktop managers (KDE, gnome etc) is not a problem since Gnome 3 has become very competitive to Max OS X. The bigger problem is XOrg and it's constant tearing problem during video playback. People spend way too much time playing videos on their desktops to accept tearing. Wayland does not have this problem, and I therefore have great hopes in Wayland as a replacement for XOrg.

I agree, sleep functions still don't work on my hardware and gnome 3 is unfortunately designed to make shutdown inconvenient.

Another problem you did not mention is tearing during video playback. Desktop computers are heavily used for watching video, so until Wayland hopefully fixes this Linux won't be a great desktop replacement.

It would be more interesting, but a simple test like this doesn't demonstrate much. A benchmark testsuite with a few algorithms or data processing patterns common to a domain would be more helpful.

I agree. High-traffic websites are running on many of these frameworks. As long as several companies have scaled the frameworks in question, it's better to just choose the one that makes you more productive.

When building a company it's also good to choose something your team-members know and you can recruit for.

It's an interesting, but trivial test. The Rails numbers are incorrect and irrelevant now though because it's using an outdated Ruby version, 1.9.3 is now the gold standard, and outdated Rails version.

There seems to be a good supply of legislators that are willing to take donations for laws that benefits special interests at the expense of the many.

If this legislative problem persists I believe there are only three ways of fighting back:

Entrepreneurship: inventions that speed up the demise of the companies funding this and remove the dependency legislators have on special interests.

Legislation: increase cost of enforcement. Donate to legislators that increase friction to these processes by adding requirements and process to:

      - the submitter of a request (e.g a copyright holder). 
      - the processor of a request (e.g the FBI)
      - the executor of a request (e.g the dns system)

Technology: make the laws unenforceable by:

      - making information untrackable (e.g making it X%      
        likely that trackable information is incorrect) 
      - changing the trust model of the internet (e.g replacement to dns).

I suggest creating a list of special interest groups (strong pro- or anti-) paired with websites supporting their view that is a potential SOPA target. This list could be used by activists to inform each of these organizations of the risk that SOPA could effectively make it possible for their opposers to censor these websites with a false takedown request.

This would essentially reframe the issue from a piracy/copyright violation issue to a censorship issue. It would then be a censorship bill, not a jobs bill.

The main problem is that the Google representative incorrectly presented the offer as a partnership with Mocality. This is clearly fraud as the Google representative is using the business owners trust in Mocality to sell a competitors product, using a non-existing Google-Mocality partnership as a selling point.

There are many types of art that was created in large quantities for fun or sale to the common man like beautifully painted furniture, tree carving, jewelry, painted rooms and paintings etc. I think it's a false dichotomy to classify art based on who funded it.

I will believe that Godaddy is opposing the legislation when they demand that the exception for Godaddy is removed from the legislative text. An email is cheap, especially one stating that they don't like "the current form".

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Great and insightful comment! However, I think most "assholes" has an justification of their behavior that they find sufficient.

If the person thinks the greatness and contribution of their work is somehow dependent on the antisocial behavior, then it's hard to convinced them to separate behavior from action.

As a side-note I think this kind of asshole behavior is as prevalent in non-technical types as technical types.

“Be arrogant enough to get in the ring and naïve enough to think you can win after you feel that first punch.” (Go to 1:53 in the video) - Rich Aberman, WePay Founder

Thank you! I am happy to hear that. We're hoping these stories can be interesting and informative not only to founders, but for a general audience. And who knows, maybe you will be a founder someday?

Go to 4:17 in the video to hear why Steve Blank thinks founders are artists.