ivan

aaargh :) ... I apologize PG, I overlooked previous post. however is it so hard to check if suggested address is already in database and throw some warning to sender?

$1500? but it seems openid becomes popular.

David, a day without your comment is a bad day :)

I read your comment yesterday in another thread Salvatore :) and tried to find some contact on you, but without success. Yes I can but it's not widely supported by hosting providers. That's pity.

It would be very nice if Ruby would be taken in similar approach as PHP is. mod_ruby for apache and templating system like smarty. that's my orgasm. no frameworks no orm. oh my! :)

If you try these strings on a URL that isn't PHP, they won't work, even if the web server has PHP support. In any case you can: 1. Try it somewhere. 2. Visit http://37signals.com/index.php 3. Ask'em directly.

PHP Easter eggs tell us everything:

http://basecamphq.com/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000 http://backpackit.com/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000

heh ... and millions of blogs are clones of kubrick theme

Many famous empires were destroyed from inside.

stolen or not, thanks for link. very interesting.

Signals are creating largest link farm on the planet and you are luckily on the list :)

In connection with demomyapp?

No problem I give a point to you and Who really needs investors could be next question here to discuss.

You can run your business alone and you can be successful. There is no reason why this can't happen. Just from VC's point of view it's disadvantage.

Why? Say you created successful online web service. Alone. Than, accidentally (ex. caterpillar behind the next corner) something fatal happen to you. Who will care about running business. Do you think that by ex. PG has appetite to search for new business owner and maintainer? It's not possible to simply jump in the running train if you know nothing about business internals and by Murphy's law one day after your death application stops working due some old, forgotten bugs. Take any Y sponsored site and ask PG what he knows about its source code. This is IMHO the only reason why VC's encourage you to find a co-founder. I'm running my sites alone and still have not a feeling of burn-out :) If you don't have enough skills to implement your idea, employ someone, if you don't have enough time to work on business, employ someone.

Now think about it. If your online business idea is something what cure your customers' pain, you don't need VC's capital to be sucessful. We are living in age of blogs and other wonderful viral marketing tools. Cheap hardware and hosting. Everything what you need is courage, kind community and forget arrogance.

I don't want to say that have a co-founder is bad thing. I just want to say that this must have reason and that reason should not be the VC's opinion.

BTW: find a dependable co-founder is like find a needle in hay stack :)

Exactly, I'm referring to that claim :)

Um .... PG was not right :)

... is twitter popular?

it's secret

Congrats :) I have first edition of K&R in my bookshelf and I still love it. It cost 25 slovak koruna /approx $1/ at that time :)

Oh these Levys and other jews :)

Learn ruby and/or python and C for low levels and/or create extensions for those two.

Hi edawerd, reddit creators created :) fake contents in early stage to have something on their site.

Currently, I'm doing everything in PHP, I know it, I love it. Sure I'm experimenting with Rails localy but Rails still hasn't appropriate support at hosting providers and Python after so many years also isn't widely supported and won't. Hope, Python's fate will be not Ruby (rails) fate.

Be careful otherwise you will "twitter" soon because of huge load :) If you wish, I can create a css for you as you mentioned on your site.

At least something 50 kilometers away :) Alles gute Paul.

This is big shit

There are many articles on the internet where we can read about how important is to start a startup with partner, but nothing about how to do it and how to avoid some mistakes. If you have some links related to this topic and partnership agreement samples, please post them here.

I never spent money for my sites. Word of mouth, google, craigslist (in case of english content) and patience, this is my approach.