blackiron

success is doing what you love, unless its partying in ibiza with the most expensive sluts, you can be succesful right now.

The license for server-side code - the one you would use to create your own cloud - is AGPL. Isn't this license too restrictive for business?.

Go for your big projec. Siri's success has prooved that working on an interesting and deep problems will have its rewards.

Payment gateways can be a problem when your company is not US-based.

Risking to be downvoted. this article is worthless without pics.

You have now the great opportunity to learn the best thing that you can learn in life: to master your negative emotions. Keep the ballsy attitude you had when you quit your job.

Also, check the "connecting the dots" Steve Jobs speech... you're just 20 and in the future you'll be proud of how you overcame these difficulties.

I am looking forward to apply for startupchile, a little research on payment gateways has pointed me to dineromail.com, have you evaluated that option?.

There is something related to this for lego robots and android phones, Google for "do androids dream of lego mindstorms"?. The robots + augmented reality games are a great idea.

There are more represive laws in countries like venezuela and cuba.. and Wikipedia has not done anything like this there. Oh i forgot, everything a leftist government does is OK.

The problem with scala and other non mainstream but powerful languages is that they are just ugly; no amount of marketing and feature lists will make them attractive because aesthethics are hard wired into our brains; at a low level ugly equals misery and pain, at a higher level its just an indicator of maintenance problems. Perl got away with it because at the time because there were not many options for scripting, now Python and Ruby are now dancing on its grave.

I don't know the game, but "papyrus" sounds like a nice alternative to me.

I doubt that any sci-fi writer wrote about you buying shoes and finding old friends.. which is the point of the article.

Python is versatile, easy to learn and has lots of nice libraries. Check out Paul Graham's article about python and hiring smart people http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

3d data of the surroundings could be also obtained with a portable sound-to-3d sonar system.. not sure if such exists yet but it would be a cool thing to connect to your device for enhanced bat-sight.

Samsung QX411 actually looks a lot like the macbook air. It costs around 800$ with i5 and 6gb of RAM. Its very light for a 14' laptop and battery is pretty good too.

I own one and just love it, at first I installed Ubuntu but video and clickpad drivers didnt map well.. then found out I could just run Ubuntu inside VirtualBox with seamless performance .

Some strange things to note about this case:

- she rants about airbnb, but not so much about the thieves.. in those Ebay scam cases the victim usually directs his/her anger and takes action toward the scammer, not towards ebay. She reports very little about the thieves and the progress of the police investigation.

- Are these psychotic rockstar thieves so expert at hiding their identity? its a very 'proffesional' job then.. which can raise more points to the hotel lobby conspiracy theory.

- I thought that you use airbnb to rent extra properties; not your home with your documents, jewels, money, personal diary and what not in there.