The later works of Scriabin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin

Well yeah. They're releasing spiders!

The best OOP advice I ever read was "model the solution, not the problem". It sounds obvious in retrospect, but only in retrospect.

    (if (and (not (null suggest-key-bindings))

My C-oriented brain screams bloody murder at this. (I still want to learn Clojure.)

It's because you are missing the other part of the and

  (if (and (not (null suggest-key-bindings))
           (null executing-kbd-macro)) 

  if(not(null(suggest-key-bindings)) && null(executing-kbd-macro))

Does that help?

No. I mean, I understand it just fine, I just hate the structure of it. Something about it causes revulsion, something that would probably go away if I actually sat down and learned lisp.

you'll end up with the inverse problem when you go back to infix notation though - be warned! when I see func(arg) I feel like I am on the inside of a star fruit.

Agreed. If he came to Seattle, I'd show up/donate/spend money/whatnot.

> The low just got lower.

That would depend on the wife.

And how many of those failures actually pay back investors instead of burning through all their cash first?

This is quite possibly the most responsible failure I've ever read about.

Odeo. Except that in hindsight, I think the investors may've wished that Ev kept their money and started Twitter out of the same company...

I know someone that tried to shut down his company (rfid luggage tags) and return capital to investors. He ended up being forced out and the company burned through all the cash and shut down. Sometimes doing the right thing isn't possible.

The 3 thirds figure is thrown around a lot: 1/3 of VC investments make a sizeable return, 1/3 break even, 1/3 crash and burn. This would appear to be the middle 1/3.

No one's making the product I desire, so after years of searching and waiting I have decided to just make the darned thing myself.

I bought a cute little Martian file server from them years ago when they sold interesting hardware.