skullsplitter

I used to see Rasmus around Y! a lot when I was roaming the halls there. He always seemed insightful and down to earth despite being quite well known. I'll be interested to see what he ends up doing next.

Thats all really helpful actually. Its clear though that there is still one outstanding question, i.e. does CA have a specific requirement that even if youre incorporated out of state you are still responsible for the $800/yr ftb tax.

I think Im going to register in Oregon b/c I would have access to individuals who could act as registered agents but I still need to find the answer to the above question.

Hmm, this site for some reason evokes codinghorror for me. I wonder why.

Wherever works for me (im touristing so every place is an opportunity to see something new). <responding on doodle as well>

Im staying in neukoelln so neukoelln/kreuzberg is great for me. lets watch this thread for a few more hours to see if anyone else shows up and then pick a spot for say, tomorrow?

Any berliners want to meet up for a HN coffee? im visiting but im really really wanting to learn a little bit about the hacktivism/startup scene here.

Ok I appreciate the helpful discussion, this will inform my future practice. To wrap up, I think the takeaways are:

a, use your head, don't let convention override reason b, In general, keep module imports at the top of the file organized by type & package with the caveat that a large # of imports (say more than 10 or 20) may indicate the module is too ambitious and is a candidate for refactoring.

Yeah Ive thought of that (lets call it the meta-import) approach as well (tho never tried it). I dont know why I hesitated but Im glad to hear that it seems sound.

Ah ok, I wasnt aware that Python had an opinion, thats certainly (in my book anyway) a considerable argument for that approach then!

I think I might be converging on a reasonable practice of doing all imports in one place while including basic comments and/or just insuring at least that imports are grouped by category / 'package'.

# Sys imports import os, sys, urllib

# django imports import django.foo ...

# google apps imports import gdata.foo ...