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Networking & meetups are great, as mentioned. I am also seeing a lot of people on good tech mailing lists start to reach out as well for co-founders. Groups like NY Tech Meetup ( h…

Trello ( https://trello.com/ ) - task management Statsd ( https://npmjs.org/package/statsd ) + Graphite ( http://graphite.wikidot.com/ ) - monitoring & graphing Kippt ( http://kipp…

No, but that sounds like a great fit, thanks! Have signed up so I know when the next round opens up for applications. Thanks, great pointer.

We got rejected also. We're a designer & developer in Ireland, both early 30s (one American, one Irish). We've built a platform for designing/building magazines & newspapers once a…

Sites like Scraperwiki work great with Python, PHP and Ruby. Take a look at their examples and see which ones make the most sense to you.

The Big Web Show - http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow Founders Talk - http://5by5.tv/founderstalk I used to listen to a lot of the TWIT / Leo Laporte ones but they have gotten really long &…

Segregation is definitely unsustainable, but I definitely agree that mentoring and support groups can make a huge difference. I've often been the only woman on otherwise all-male t…

For me the electronic versus paper thing comes down to what I bought the book for. For a book that I just need to reference occasionally, epub is usually fine. For a book where I'm…

Depends what you want to do with it really. If you're planning on using Django or Python Image Library, start with 2.7. If you're not using any dependencies or frameworks relying o…

Nomad Editions - New York city area (remote may be an option for this role) http://readnomad.com Web Developer for Digital Magazine Startup Nomad Editions, a startup creating digit…

I think the best point he makes is at the end: Ballmer is not a product strategist. He is in fact a fantastic salesperson, he closed amazing deals for Microsoft when I worked there…

I am trying it for the first time, I just reserved an amazing-looking houseboat for a week in Amsterdam while I'm there for the Mobilism conference. Can't wait! However I had tried…

Great advice! I find the hardest part is just getting in the zone where I'm not distracted and constantly alt-tabbing to other things. Ommwriter ( http://www.ommwriter.com/ ) is a …

I use this in my home office - it sticks on any wall via static and wipes clean. It comes on a roll so you get 10 or 25 giant whiteboards which you can reuse. Absolutely love it. h…

Agreed, I bought two Zunes, a 120gb one and the Zune HD. The devices were fantastic but more than that I love the Zune software. iTunes drives me crazy, but the Zune software looks…

The best manager I ever had was amazing at this and the reason was simple: he understood downtime and he negotiated. So when we were trying to ship something and everyone was worki…

Someone on the program now came to our Dublin OpenCoffee meetup last week to talk about it. He said that due to the cost of living, he was able to employ some very smart individual…

Kind of a bummer - the Zune HD was one of the slickest and loveliest devices I've ever owned. I can't help but think if they had tried to sell them outside of the US they might hav…

Implying that the individual's browser is not modern might sound offensive. Lots of people aren't allowed to control which browser or which version they use at work. I would rephra…

Agree. It's hard to imagine someone is going to be a great programmer if they've never given any hobbyist or intro coding a shot.

+1 for "Being Geek" - great read. Anyone read either "Mind Hacks" or "Performance Mind Hacks?" Wondering if they're interesting/useful.

I thought so too. Actually that might have been more entertaining. Instead I was left with a "Okay so whadiya gonna do about it?" feeling.