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success is doing what you love, unless its partying in ibiza with the most expensive sluts, you can be succesful right now.


Prostitutes are expensive. Sluts are free spirited.


The license for server-side code - the one you would use to create your own cloud - is AGPL. Isn't this license too restrictive for business?.


Why would it be? It's the same as the GPL, only difference is: modified version sources must be available to remote-network-interaction users. I don't see what's restrictive for business.


If you go and sell somebody a hosting solution based on Nimbus, you'd need to share your source code.

What I'm not sure of, is if you build, say, a photo sharing webapp using Nimbus as the storage back-end, does your webapp become AGPL by linking? I'm fairly certain GPL would require this, but, as per the rationale for AGPL, you don't care about that when you run a webapp.

Curiously, if Nimbus adopted the exact S3 API instead of "similar to", it would not constitute linking, as it's using a standard interface.


AGPL uses the same definition of linking as GPL so communication over a network API to a storage backend is not linking.

http://www.quora.com/Does-the-AGPL-extend-the-idea-of-linkin...


Ah, thanks for that. I was under the impression that the bar for linking across the network was rather higher.


Go for your big projec. Siri's success has prooved that working on an interesting and deep problems will have its rewards.


Payment gateways can be a problem when your company is not US-based.


Paypal, WorldPay, ...


Risking to be downvoted. this article is worthless without pics.


Please, go back to Reddit.


You have now the great opportunity to learn the best thing that you can learn in life: to master your negative emotions. Keep the ballsy attitude you had when you quit your job.

Also, check the "connecting the dots" Steve Jobs speech... you're just 20 and in the future you'll be proud of how you overcame these difficulties.


I am looking forward to apply for startupchile, a little research on payment gateways has pointed me to dineromail.com, have you evaluated that option?.


I'm arriving end of this month for the Nov 3 batch, what I know so far of local options is that webpay.cl is the local PayPal which a lot of companies use.

Thanks for the tip.


There is something related to this for lego robots and android phones, Google for "do androids dream of lego mindstorms"?. The robots + augmented reality games are a great idea.


There are more represive laws in countries like venezuela and cuba.. and Wikipedia has not done anything like this there. Oh i forgot, everything a leftist government does is OK.


There's only one Spanish Wikipedia, there isn't a Venezuelan Spanish Wikipedia or a Cuban Spanish Wikipedia.


My understanding from the last thread on this was that the decision mostly came from the people running the Italian site.


The problem with scala and other non mainstream but powerful languages is that they are just ugly; no amount of marketing and feature lists will make them attractive because aesthethics are hard wired into our brains; at a low level ugly equals misery and pain, at a higher level its just an indicator of maintenance problems. Perl got away with it because at the time because there were not many options for scripting, now Python and Ruby are now dancing on its grave.


> The problem with scala and other non mainstream but powerful languages is that they are just ugly

You seem to be implying they all are ugly, as if mainstream languages are chosen for their beauty?


I can understand your viewpoint however I don't consider Scala ugly. How about some more explanation if you can.


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