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ubudesign | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Early morning brain exercise?

take two shots of expresso and get to work :). alternative would be to splash your face with ice code water and go out for a quick run. do any intelectual thinking after.

ubudesign | 18 years ago | on: GPL'd Source Code

if you can separate your code from the GPL in such a way that the GPL version becomes only a lib (unmodified), then you can close or do any licensing you like.

for example.

package com.mycompany.lib

import org.someGPL.lib.A;

myClass B extends A {}

In this case you simply include the GPL lib as GPL and your Lib as any type of license

in your class B you can override functions you don't like and add more of your own functions.

Finally when you release your code you have to say that this code uses the following GPL code...

ubudesign | 18 years ago | on: How many of you do systems administration in addition to programming

I manage my own servers. it took a while to get it to a point where you could realy call it production servers. and I wouldn't have done it if I could have found hosting services that offered what I needed for a good price. but now that I have it's not bad.

The best alternative would be managed private servers.

ubudesign | 18 years ago | on: A Version 1.0

I think language is also a factor. English grammar is dependent on word order. a thought is more free. so transforming that into sentences that reflect the thought order is a challenge. maybe this is only true for people like me who speak a different language (Farsi) which has free word order. I can write a long sentence putting all my thoughts in it without much problem. but when I write it in English it turns into run-on sentence. The only solution I've found is short senses that follow my thoughts. While English is a simple language it's an art to be able to write well so maybe that's why Paul's well written work include revisions in the process. I'm sure there are more to this but I'm not a language expert :)

ubudesign | 18 years ago | on: So you got a YC interview? Now what.. (from the founders of Snaptalent, YC winter 08)

they both have a certain feel to them. call it web 2.0 web 3.0 :) or just look at the graphics or the language and yes sometimes features too. "Share the love" / "concert-savvy friend" just an example. There are other bits and pieces too. You could say that this is the general trend, what attracts yc, and so on. of course. that would be the value of their vision. I don't have any arguments about that at all. And it's a good think that they can see it. but my argument is that this is the theme of yc.

Another thing I've noticed is how features that have been around for a long time (web time), are slightly "modified" (most times more simplified, either for the good reason of simplification, or simply because of lack of technical experience, or in the worst case because of bad copying) many examples of this. but since you brought up dropbox, the first thing brings to my mind is box.net. again I'm not saying anything bad about it. I'm sure its better since I know about box.net and their not that great anyway. but my point is that there are not that many selections that are either new innovative products or an old idea that you could say wow this is how it should be implemented. say Google for example. And, they have common theme to them. no not from the perspective of the consumer or what the products are.

I really don't know about how yc views things but the theme of yc is clear. alteast to some degree. either because that's simply the result of their total work and it just produces this, or intention by design to move in this direction or both.

if you go to many vc's site and look under their portfolio many times you can find a common theme in their select.

ubudesign | 18 years ago | on: Poll: Ban Valleywag?

I don't think freedom of speech would apply here so yes if Valleywag is causing problems then ban, put on notice or anything that would fix it...

but there should also be some set of rules, guidlines that everyone should know about to make the ban fair.

ubudesign | 18 years ago | on: Plan B?!

You are right. I thought mabe we would vote on eachothers work before accepting.

The bigger problem is location and if we'll be ready to move :)

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