cewawa

"... during the clarification process all of the milk fat is burned off"

Ghee is milk fat. The clarification process removes the water and protein from the butter.

A formula I've used is to take yourselves out of the equation. Pretend that you are going to hire outsiders to do the design and dev work. Decide how you would split the profit, given that you would be doing zero work yourselves.

Then bill your time back against the revenue at realistic hourly rates for the qualifications and experience. Finally split the profit as decided above.

Good idea. I often have questions where I'd like to canvas the views of other developers. Given the popularity of a lot of closed questions on SO, I'm guessing I'm not the only one.

Don't much like the drill-down aspect. When you click on a question (/topics/blahblah), I'd rather see one long single-column page with everything on it. The Select Viewpoint nav bar could stay with you, as you scroll, for convenience.

Put news.ycombinator.com in your /etc/hosts file, pointing to 127.0.0.1

"Copyright was never about rights holders making money."

Here's a quote from the Statute of Anne:

"Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing... Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors... to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families:"

Also copyright doesn't protect ideas.

Also the "high quality ideas (and shit)" are not free. High quality work is expensive, but may be free to you because they are subsidised. A model not without its problems.

guardian.co.uk, economist.com, aljazeera.com, arstechnica.com

My comment wasn't asking for anything. I was pointing out that an "allow access to address book" dialog wasn't going to solve the underlying problem, which is that unlike location services, the data you are giving access to is someone else's.

You can discover friends using a service without allowing wholesale access to address books.

Um, you proposed "DRM on your contact details", not me.

Seems to me the flaw in the plan here is that we're talking about asking the user for permission, when we should be asking the contact. I don't want Path to have my contact details, but anyone who has me in their address book is able to provide them. Asking the user for address book permission doesn't fix that.

Don't think so. I use a fair number of web apps and can't think of a single one that I wouldn't prefer to have a well designed desktop version of. Gmail, google reader, google calendar, twitter etc I use desktop apps.

Adafruit.com have MicroBuilder LPC1343 boards and the Chumby hacker board. And there's always a Beagleboard