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Re:Ask HN: Best programming font? on Thursday December 09, 2010 @02:04PM (#1988656)
I like Consolas. It's monospaced and designed for programming.
Re:Geek Christmas Ideas... Anyone? on Thursday December 09, 2010 @10:39AM (#1987808)
NANO USB flash drives are useful for laptop backups.
Re:Founder Control on Monday December 06, 2010 @03:50PM (#1976757)
With an equal number of founder elected Directors and VC elected Directors, if your outside tiebreaker director is brought in by the VC's you will be in danger of losing control because you cannot control the situation.

Especially if the tie breaker is planning on doing some additional business with the VC in the future, you may not have a truly neutral person casting the vote.

So, how is founder control typically structured?

For instance, do founder Stockholders get 2 votes per share to elect Directors with, and VC's get 1 vote per share with a guaranteed VC director seat on the board? Or are Directors elected by founders getting 2 votes on a particular decision item A and 1 vote on decision item B, and VC Directors get 1 vote on A and B?

Does anyone know what is currently going on with this?

Re:Whats up with my local geek community.Need to vent on Saturday December 04, 2010 @07:55PM (#1970652)
You should have found "one" who was interested (hot to work on your project) while you were there, and "closed the deal" right there.

Separate the wheat from the chaff, and ABC (always be closing)!

If you thought to get their e-mail (in my opinion, the best way to "initially" communicate with most coders) pop them an e-mail and see if they are still interested. Not everyone is a phone person.

It might be more productive to isolate genes that relate to a low IQ, and then discard those from the sample. When looking for a needle in a haystack it would make the haystack smaller.
WARNING: Trojan.JS.Redirector.cq caught by my software comming from this site.
WARNING: Trojan.JS.Redirector.cq caught by my software comming from this site.
Re:Austin Co-Founders Meetup is this Monday on Saturday December 04, 2010 @01:48PM (#1969851)
I think it would be nice if this were a co-founder meetup/founders networking & drinks.

Broaden the horizon a little and include founders who are not looking for co-founders among the networking time.

Try it as an iteration and see if it improves the quality of entire evenings experience for everyone.

Re:Ask HN: I want to build a robot that cleans my bathroom. on Thursday December 02, 2010 @11:53AM (#1962666)
Maybe think about building separate robots for each task (tub, etc...) that can be permanently attached to wall or the ceiling near its work spot. Tasks could be accomplished using special arms for each sub-task. A lifting arm, a chemical spraying arm, etc...

It would take the "where am I" "where is the target" out of the robots equation. You could simply hardcode the desired movements into the robot. Then if you wanted to sell them you could build a learning routine into the code so the public could easily use it after bolting it to the walls in their houses.

Why not just write it into Federal law that a site can act as its own registered DMCA Takedown Agent, instead of having everyone go through additional red tape and pay a $105 fee to run a blog.

In a way it seems like the fee to register is a freedom of speech issue. Pay an inconsequential tiny fee to run a blog, or potentially suffer huge financial losses. Kind of like the old Poll Tax from years ago.

It seems like being proactive as builders and maintainers of the internet, and getting a new field added to the WHOIS data for a DMCA takedown email addresses would make the process easier to administer for the complaintants, and more in keeping with Freedom of Speech that the United States is founded on.

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