isaacsanders

This is a post by Joel Spolsky. The original post is linked at the bottom.

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else. Why? Because if I split the company 60-40, the company is going to fail when we argue ourselves to death. And if you ju

codito

Kernel driver debugging tips

Enable DbgPrint/KdPrint

kd> ed nt!Kd_DEFAULT_MASK 0xFFFFFFFF

reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Debug Print Filter" /v DEFAULT /t REG_DWORD /d 0xFFFFFFFF

christianroman

import cv2.cv as cv
import tesseract
gray = cv.LoadImage('captcha.jpeg', cv.CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE)
cv.Threshold(gray, gray, 231, 255, cv.CV_THRESH_BINARY)
api = tesseract.TessBaseAPI()
api.Init(".","eng",tesseract.OEM_DEFAULT)
api.SetVariable("tessedit_char_whitelist", "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")
api.SetPageSegMode(tesseract.PSM_SINGLE_WORD)
tesseract.SetCvImage(gray,api)
print api.GetUTF8Text()

fushnisoft

DECLARE @ClarionDate INT = 47563
DECLARE @SqlDateTime DATETIME 

-- Convert the clarion DATE into and SQL DateTime
SET @SqlDateTime = DateAdd(day, @ClarionDate  - 4, '1801-01-01') 

SELECT @SqlDateTime AS 'SQL Date Time'

-- Now convert it back from and SQL DateTime to a Clarion Date
SET @ClarionDate = DateDiff(day, DateAdd(day, -4, '1801-01-01'), @SqlDateTime)

chilts

var request = require('request');
var unzip   = require('unzip');
var csv2    = require('csv2');

request.get('http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip')
    .pipe(unzip.Parse())
    .on('entry', function (entry) {
        entry.pipe(csv2()).on('data', console.log);
    })
;

briankung

A Pragmatic Approach

"A Pragmatic Approach" focused on principles that are applicable to any and all software development. It was a bit more specific than the prior chapter. Unfortunately, it's been a while since I actually read the chapter, so we'll see. I may also be finding it difficult to summarize the chapter because it was a collection of tips rather than having an overarching theme.

Regardless; onward.

7. The Evils of Duplication

"The Evils of Duplication" explained why duplication was such a pain in the ass - basically, DRY, or "Don't Repeat Yourself." I loved this quote from this chapter:

hanswolff

// The MIT License (MIT)

// Copyright (c) 2020 Hans Wolff

// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

amirkdv

To be able to use PHP5 PDO with MS Access mdb files the following is required (the same applies for the PHP4 style of using odbc_X except for the obviously PDO specific requirements):

PHP ODBC module

In Linux this is achieved by intalling the php5-odbc package:

graydon

# extracted from http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/cultural/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip
# under public domain terms

country_bounding_boxes = {
    'AF': ('Afghanistan', (60.5284298033, 29.318572496, 75.1580277851, 38.4862816432)),
    'AO': ('Angola', (11.6400960629, -17.9306364885, 24.0799052263, -4.43802336998)),
    'AL': ('Albania', (19.3044861183, 39.624997667, 21.0200403175, 42.6882473822)),
    'AE': ('United Arab Emirates', (51.5795186705, 22.4969475367, 56.3968473651, 26.055464179)),
    'AR': ('Argentina', (-73.4154357571, -55.25, -53.628348965, -21.8323104794)),
    'AM': ('Armenia', (43.5827458026, 38.7412014837, 46.5057198423, 41.2481285671)),

teslatronic

/*
By Daan Rijks (daanrijks@gmail.com).

Idea & Inititative: Niels Meijer (niels.meijer@leerling.ig.nl)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
*/

var hosts = ""; // HTTP proxies go here, in the format host:port separated by a single space.