Before you think about how to run your shop, ask these questions:

Do you have a product?

Is there a market for that product? How do you know?

Do you have a business plan including a marketing plan?

Once you get past those questions, the rest is easy. Outsource anything that doesn't make sense (HR, accounting, payroll) and keep your core expertise in-house. Don't obsess about coding standards, etc. until you have cash flow. It's far more important to do your utmost to get the business making money thatn to worry about programming minutiae.

I did start a software product business back in 2000 and it's going strong. The very first person I hired was our VP of Sales and Marketing. I didn't hire another technical person until employee #5, so didn't have to worry about imposing coding standards on others. :)

I wonder how the OPP would react if they were required by law to stream video of all their officers' activities in real-time. Suddenly they'd like a little privacy and anonymity, thank you very much!

I was involved in some quite heated discussions on the DMARC list about one problem. DMARC is supposed to prevent someone from forging the From: header sender (and to a lesser extent if used with SPF, the envelope sender.)

The problem is that most MUAs (mail clients) do not show the full email address of the sender. They only show the full name. For example, a header that looks like this:

From: American Express Fraud Dept <bozo@example.com>

will be displayed in a typical mail client as just American Express Fraud Dept with not a single complaint from DMARC.

Even worse, a scammer can use a header like this:

From: "American Express Fraud Dept - fraud@aexp.com" <bozo@example.com>

and the mail client will display the fake fraud@aexp.com address with nary a DMARC complaint.

Mail sucks. User-interfaces suck. People suck. Bah.

My company (Roaring Penguin) uses SPF for outbound mail and we DKIM-sign our mail too. Our antispam software also supports SPF and DKIM. We don't yet support DMARC, but probably will at some point. The problem with fully supporting DMARC is the reporting component. It's a real bear to send DMARC reports, but obeying DMARC policies is much easier. We'll start by doing DMARC-policy-obeying first and then think about reporting.

He's (big) bang on! No more aping the creationists; Francis is a dinosaur no more.

This is what we get for blindly following the states^W^W^W^W being a Western democracy and refusing to be dhimmis to Islamist nutters.

FTFY.

It is not time to panic. It is time to get serious about taking on and defeating the terrorists. That doesn't mean curtailing our civil liberties, but it does mean taking sensible precautions and not spouting Trudeau-esque bullshit about finding the "root causes" of terrorism.

There's a war on against Western democracies. We have to win it.

I bet the reaction of the "Muslim Community" will be to wring their hands about how they're now going to be subject to discrimination. I have very little time for that sort of bullshit woe-is-us attitude.

Recognize that the tenets of Islam are incompatible with Western Democracy. Then make it treasonous to promote those tenets.

I don't think this was a rare incident by an insane person. There have been shootings at at least three different locations in Ottawa and there apparently are multiple shooters. This is a planned terrorist attack.

I live in Ottawa and I'm aware of the security of Parliament Hill. The security there was completely inadequate to deal with this kind of threat; it really needs to be increased.

The wonderful Tcl/Tk toolkit solved the layout problem in the 1990's with its excellent constraint-based geometry managers: The grid engine, the packer and the placer. I'm sure it would have been possible to express each of those layout engine's rules in something analogous to CSS.

That would have made page layout so simple it'd almost be fun.

We can only dream...

I am not a big fan of systemd and I find Poettering pretty abrasive. But if what he wrote is correct: Recently, people started collecting Bitcoins to hire a hitman for me (this really happened!). Just the other day, some idiot posted a "song" on youtube, a creepy work, filled with expletives about me and suggestions of violence. then that's beyond the pale. IMO, threats of death and violence should be reported to the authorities and the culprits, if found, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

The Open Source development community is not a friendly place. You do need a thick skin. But threats of violence or death go way beyond just "unfriendly".

Parsing out the binary format of HTTP frames will most likely open up a whole new class of client vulnerabilities as malicious servers feed them bad data. Yay.

Didn't I just say that? You'd have to explicitly invoke #!/bin/bash. I know of very few scripts that do that; most use #!/bin/sh.