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phildinion Microsoft Corporation sponsors IPython

You can build Django apps in Visual Studio now. The end is nigh.

phildinion Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

http://reddit.com/r/startups http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur

I think your best bet (based on advice from this site and my own experience) is to find the community most relevant to your product and make sure everyone in that community knows you're launching.

phildinion Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial

As soon as stakeholders are personally responsible, you suddenly have no protection afforded by the corporation.

"That's Great!" you might say. "Now everyone will make more careful decisions."

Except what will actually happen is people will stop forming companies, since they will be completely liable for things outside their control, like the bad decisions of others or stock market crashes or the weather.

The US corporation system is by no means perfect, but the protection it allows people who are actually trying to create things (read: not patent trolls) really does foster innovation a lot of the time.

phildinion Tell HN: Startup school acceptance emails are out

I'll see all you lovely people on the 18th! I got in!

phildinion Stop Using Digital Ocean Now: The Aftermath

you're going to back up 1TB of data to dropbox?

phildinion Google Shopping Express now available to all SF and Peninsula Shoppers

But what about the East Bay?

phildinion Effective Django

If you want to see the video of the guy who wrote Effective Django giving it as a tutorial, here you go: http://pyvideo.org/video/1717/effective-django-0

phildinion Adria Richards: ‘I’m staying safe’

Thank you! Everyone is getting down on the PyCon folks, when all they did was follow their own rules. No one was kicked out, there was no over-reaction.