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Not significantly. The CO2 PPM count is going up, recession or not: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/global.html#global_...

A run a way process in which we loose all life on earth is not something I have read a lot of proof for. However, adapting to a changed climate may not be a pretty phase for the human race.

Despite all the green efforts, CO2 output from using fossil fuel still grows. Western economies barely, if at all, made a dent in their fossil fuel consumptions. Upcoming economies like China use more and more fossil fuels. I think its fair to say that we are nowhere near having a solution to reduce global CO2 output.

Low overhead and a great visual.

Nice. Even works somewhat on the iPad. Is it possible to have a different default font? Looks like comic sans now.

*she! Michelle. Sorry.

True - it seems though that she is in it for much more than the $$ which is great. Anyone joining a start up for the money does not have statistics on their side.

Here is Joe Spolky's on how equity ought to be divided: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...

It gives you an idea of reasonable percentages.

edit: changed he to she

Comparing pure visits or pageviews to sites with a counter is not capturing the whole story. App interactions are not necessarily hits for a stat counter. A better indicator is time actually spent on different devices (which is not the same as 'time on site' in analytics). How many hours are people in front of a desktop computer and how much time do they spent on mobiles and tablets?

I think you can safely say it is today's Minitel for many.

Facebook has taken their app offline: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/facebook-quietly-rele...

In the mean time, a company called FriendThem announced they are contemplating legal action against Facebook because they feel their idea was stolen: http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/25/friendthem-sues-facebook-c...

Which made me think this idea is too simple to sue each other over. I wrote a clone in about half a day yesterday (the link above). For those interested in the technology, it's made with Python, Bottle.py, Gevent, MongoDB, CoffeeScript and JQuery Mobile. Code is here: https://github.com/allards/connectnearby

A live version is here http://connect.othercircles.com

The app would be much more useful if you could connect on Linkedin, Twitter or with a vcard as well. NFC would be perfect for this. What do you think?

It does...

The internet was buzzing the last few days because Facebook added a mobile feature to connect to people nearby: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/24/friendshake-facebooks-new-m...

Since then they have taken the app offline: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/facebook-quietly-rele...

In the mean time, a company called FriendThem announced they are contemplating legal action against Facebook because they feel their idea was stolen: http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/25/friendthem-sues-facebook-c...

Which made me think this idea is too simple to sue each other over. I wrote a clone in about half a day yesterday (the link above). For those interested in the technology, it's made with Python, Bottle.py, Gevent, MongoDB, CoffeeScript and JQuery Mobile. Code is here: https://github.com/allards/connectnearby

The app would be much more useful if you could connect on Linkedin, Twitter or with a vcard as well. NFC would be perfect for this. What do you think?

Maybe because getting things pixel perfect across browsers can be hard and is an art in itself?

Comes with a nice flow diagram: http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/19/facebook-reporting/

Every time I am in a meeting about QR codes I share this: http://wtfqrcodes.com/ We all have a good laugh and then somehow, no one wants to suggest QR codes anymore.

It's the way for anyone, experienced or not.

I switched to Coffeescript and rarely if ever look back...

Can you elaborate on what you think is wrong with Gevent? It comes out pretty well in this shootout: http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers

The Python version uses Gevent so likely uses epoll/kqueue for this test. It'd be interesting to profile and see where the issues are in the Node.js and Python code.

The larger frameworks might have a better out of the box experience because of the 101 videos and tutorials. Smaller frameworks do have some getting started material as well. I find you are also learning a lot about how to do it the framework's way (HTML helpers, ORMs) while not really learning the underlying technology (HTML, SQL). That's going to hinder you.

If you decide to go with Python, consider a micro framework like bottle.py or Flask. There is less to learn to get productive. If you do anything non-trivial you will end up using a database. MySQL, PostgreSQL are most used. You may want to look in to a noSQL database like MongoDB. I find working with MongoDB very productive, especially when you are figuring / learning things on the go.

Recommended by others in this thread as well but try Coffeescript to write your Javascript and use JQuery for code that works in different browsers.

Like TRON!

I would not teach my children to hang out with people to get things done per se. Just start getting stuff done regardless of others and as a nice side-effect you will find yourself hanging out with others who get stuff done.