Ronnie Beltran ronbeltran

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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

The Case For Go

Interactive Debugging in any Python Web Project

Ron DuPlain - PyOhio 2013

	Apache:
	- Activated 'KeepAlive' connections
	- Lowered keep alive timeout from 15 seconds to 2 seconds
	- Increased the number of minimum workers from 8 to 16
	- Activated server status page (/server-status)

	APC (Alternative PHP Cache):
	- Set cache size to 256MB (ideal for SugarCRM workload)

	Memcache:

	"""
	The activation key for the ``UserProfile`` will be a
	SHA1 hash, generated from a combination of the ``User``'s
	email and a random salt.

	"""

	salt = hashlib.sha1(str(random.random())).hexdigest()[:5]
	email = user.email
	if isinstance(email, unicode):

	{% extends 'base.html' %}
	{% import 'macros.html' as macros %}
	{% block content %}
	<div class="row">
	<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3 col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-4 col-md-offset-4 col-lg-3 col-lg-offset-4">
	<div class="login-message">
	Login to AwesomeService!
	</div>
	{% call macros.render_form(form, action_url=url_for('login_view'), action_text='Login',
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	{% capture html %}
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	### My alias
	alias cls='clear'
	alias v='vim'
	alias such='curl -I'
	alias r='dev_appserver.py .'
	alias serve='python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888'
	alias fab_stage='fab no_upload no_package no_hipchat stage'
	alias up='echo pwd \| appcfg.py [email protected] --passin --no_cookies update'
	alias down='echo pwd \| appcfg.py [email protected] --passin --no_cookies rollback'

	from django.db import models
	from django.forms import ModelForm
	from django import forms
	from django.contrib.auth.models import User
	from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

	from accounts.models import UserProfile

	class UserProfileForm(ModelForm):
	def __init__(self, args, *kwargs):

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Ronnie Beltran ronbeltran

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