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import sys
import linecache
import os

if os.path.isfile(sys.argv[1]):
   try:
       with open(sys.argv[1], 'r') as f:
           content = f.readlines()
       length = len(content)
   except IOError as e:

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If you look at a list of US cities sorted by population, the number of successful startups per capita varies by orders of magnitude. Somehow it's as if most places were sprayed with startupicide.

I wondered about this for years. I could see the average town was like a roach motel for startup ambitions: smart, ambitious people went in, but no startups came out. But I was never able to figure out exactly what happened inside the motel—exactly what was killing all the potential startups.

A couple weeks ago I finally figured it out. I was framing the question wrong. The problem is not that most towns kill startups. It's that death is the default for startups, and most towns don't save them. Instead of thinking of most places as being sprayed with startupicide, it's more accurate to think of startups as all being poisoned, and a few places being sprayed with the antidote.

Startups in other places are just doing what startups naturally do: fail. The real question is, what's saving startups in places like Silicon

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;; Load Path
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/")

;; Change directory for auto-save files
(setq backup-directory-alist
      `((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory)))
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
      `((".*" ,temporary-file-directory t)))

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Hackfest

Introduction -

A two/three night hackathon on free and open source software[Ex. Gnome, KDE, Wikimedia].
Mentors who have been contributing to said foss projects help new hackers get
started by giving them a primer on -

• Intro to FOSS – the philosophy of that project
• Download the source – using version control

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HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://blip.tv/file/post");
HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost("localhost", 8118);
httpclient.getParams().setParameter(ConnRoutePNames.DEFAULT_PROXY, proxy);

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commit c732680861e7f9f8a6983c21d5eeaf0bd3c5491a
Author: Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Aug 13 14:40:19 2011 +0530

    Added progress bar dialog + new home screen

diff --git a/bin/BlipTVUploader.apk b/bin/BlipTVUploader.apk
index 37b1515..c81658b 100644
Binary files a/bin/BlipTVUploader.apk and b/bin/BlipTVUploader.apk differ
diff --git a/bin/classes.dex b/bin/classes.dex

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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

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Shoes.app :width => 300, :height => 100 do
  def calc_time
    t = Time.new.utc.to_i%86400
    t = t.to_s
    t = "@ "+t[0..2]+" : "+t[3..5]
  end
  background "#BE8"  
  stack do
    @title = title "New Internet Time!",
      :align => "center",

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Intro + Warning screen – FIXED

• BUG – When activity is restarted when viewing “warning” screen, intro screen is displayed instead.
• Dirty flag variable approach won’t work – need to use SharedPreferences

Permissions screen

• “next” button needs to be made un-clickable – my code needs review – doesn’t seem to work(Not sure, why though) – FIXED
• TorTransProxy.testOwnerModule(this) is called in the stepThree() – before pressing “Grant Permissions” – causes lag – should this be called later when the “Grant Permissions” button is pressed ?
• Check flow of logic

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package org.torproject.android;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;