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Dont depend on the grant money to run your business, treat it like icing on the cake. the money is more of a reimbursement than upfront cash. Grow from sales.

is there anywhere that we can get pix all of the y-combinators founders per batch? something I can crawl with node and run face recognition against?

FYI: Its a Drupal7 site hosted on new jersey linode so they can't really be php haters - maybe self-haterz. Using TypeKit. Sophisticated enough to include a custom server header an…

Lots of startups use PHP (with frameworks like Laravel4, CodeIgniter, Symfony) for their API and sexy new front end JS frameworks that they promote. On our current codebase, starte…

> PHP isn’t a great language, but it is a good language. So what is a great language? If it runs the largest active user app on the planet (FB), the most widely used CMSes (WP,Drup…

I'm the founder of an edTech where we are using software to _IMPROVE_ teacher training. Teachers, especially new teachers, need a lot of support, not just from in school peers, but…

Its important to note that some will NOT want to attend a classified briefing because they will then be bound NOT to discuss what they have heard in that classified meeting.

Are you in the US? Try looking for a local Legal Clinic or Community Law center that helps employees, via http://www.probono.net

+ the $114K to the mayor

Cool, just installed it. Can you say anything about the platform it was built on, Cordova?

Great work LocalWiki. This is a good way to build hyperlocal mobile/sms apps. I find myself usually scraping data off wikis, massaging it a bit, then building my own api endpoint t…

Wonder if he is including the S3 costs in there?

The monthly contribution amount is determined by company policy. It can be a $ amount or %. It just needs to be stated in policy and applied consistently to all employees.

In CA, pre-Obama, an Insurer cannot deny an employee based on a pre-existing condition. I believe, The Health Care Act made that standard across the U.S. Some people with pre-exist…

We are in California. Over the years of our business we have gone from Blue Cross/Anthem to now being with Kaiser- at one point we had a carve out plan where we had both. However, …

Congrats on shipping Philip! Gonna set up a test-bed. Oaktown needs a Wiki too.

anyone know of a good place to get Movie data (and possibly Cast/Crew) info for free or low cost for a commercial project?

This one is more interesting: Can this be called the Facebook bill? It moves the 500 shareholder limit to 1000. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2167

H.R.2940 did pass the House today http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR02940 : http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2940/ -- H.R.2930 (CrowdSourcing one) still making it…

SolarVPS has servers in New Jersey and Los Angeles for $5-40 that I've been using for a years. Like Rackspace (4 cores), these small boxes also have up to 16 cores. Great for mysql…

Also, look at GroundWire.org. They work with mostly environmental organizations. They have a non-profit (Grants + Private Funders + lower cost Services revenue model. As a US Non-p…

I'm the CTO at TUMIS.com, we are one of 2-3 boutique dev shops in the Bay Area, CA, US that work 99% with social justice organization, social enterprises, green businesses, campaig…

PHPCloud isn't built in PHP. Anyone know if Pagoda is built in PHP? I'm more partial to supporting a php PAAS that is intimately familiar (on a day to day operational basis) with m…

Anyone know who tracks the widest deployed version of jquery min on a CDN? I would think its 1.4.2 on google cdn ? Good info to know for a little page speedup as it will be cached …

great to hear all the details so quickly so that others building similar systems aren't in the same situation. as fellow PHP'ers its also great to hear that you are not blaming it …