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"Programming Clojure" is a really basic book and a bit outdated by now. A good way to begin but not sufficient to become good at writing idiomatic code.

You will be doing another startup. My experience is that once you have worked for yourself/equity the mere thought of being employed by other people becomes impossible to bear.

I don't think so. More likely the investor driven cult of must-have-multiple-founders has distorted people's perception.

There are many rights that can in fact not be signed away. You have no idea what you are talking about, do you? http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/

a user agreement cannot override statutory rights.

I have not changed my stance on anything. Do not make deletions out to be more work than they really are, as others have mentioned the suppression of content from a particular acco…

Not at all saying the subsidiary would be held responsible here (they are not operating the website in question anyway), it does however affect the question whether the parent is c…

you misunderstood. it can be argued that once YC has established a sufficient nexus within a particular country it can be held to its laws (in this case, DE data protection and pri…

technically, YC has a European subsidiary (a startup funded by them).

regulation outside the US may not apply here but this is not how the law works in the EU, which deals with the data itself rather than just identification. not too long ago I compe…

i did mail pg with a similar request (different account), and he essentially responded that he could not be bothered to implement deletion or do it manually.

single founder, for the simple reason that i like to be in control. imho, it is always a mistake to make somebody not strictly necessary for the business a founder. dishing out van…

the correct singular is alumnus (m) or alumna (f), not alumni.

the correct singular is alumnus few things bother me more than blatantly incorrect usage of Latin next to supposedly prestigious institutions

come on, my fiancee booked a flight for EUR 17 round trip recently, including their credit card handling fee (which can be avoided by using visa electron). if that's not budget the…

Helping to nurture local startups is definitely cool. On the other hand, picking them off to integrate into their product pipeline also prevents greater things from happening. I fe…

I share your dislike for the Windows platform -- for uses other than as a web browser boot loader and media player -- but Red Gate are (smartly) following the money. How many non-M…

comparing SV and the UK (where I live atm), it's very different. in SV you will be meeting people working on a startup idea of some kind literally everywhere, people are focused on…

did not see this in time, too bad...

scenario a: operate at a loss for a while, maybe achieve target (but maybe not), draw the ire of regulators for anticompetitive behavior scenario b: spend cash you can easily affor…

Their pricing seems far too high, though.

You're probably thinking of RealNames.

corollary: admitting to yourself that your idea has been wrong and requires change is much easier and thus more likely to happen than making a team of cofounders radically change c…

that's my startup's field as well (although not point-and-click since I believe that concept has failed in the past). i suspect there are quite a few people here working on similar…

this headline should read: fringe group of 44 wealthy germans demand higher taxes, strangely making the news. the rest of the country opted to kick out the socialists from governme…