"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men." Well this is true for every other words synonymous to Rule.

Thats awesome! People easily overlook these things. They hardly realise that its same as upgrading an aircraft in midair.

Donation and enterprise level support is what comes to my mind. Also depending upon what you are developing, running a training program could bring in some extra cash.

Donations: yes.

Commercial support and training: yes, but for that the software has to exist. A good idea for later on though.

When you reach certain level on development, funds might also come in from bigger industry. But its tough to get funds upfront no matter what the source is. May be you can look into what light table did - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table

Best analogy is knife vs swiss knife. AWS has a great toolset and comes handy when it comes to scaling, at the same time it seems complex if you don't know how to use it.

That is why I always use different password for different services.

Hey dan, I will be a bit late for the meetup. I will be arriving at SF in 1st of feb. Can we still meet for a coffee or sth somewhere?

Yes. Sounds great. Just email me at dan.p.gailey@gmail.com or DM me on twitter @dpg

>Is Python lately becoming mainstream in everyday development in startups vs. say ruby and RoR?

http://jakevdp.github.com/blog/2012/09/20/why-python-is-the-...

> What are the FOSS libraries & recent developments saying so?

Python has universe of libraries. Just google "What's new in python"

A sigh of relief! Finally I can upgrade to ios6.

I just lost The Game - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)

ifconfig.me is my personal best. The reason is: http://ifconfig.me/#cli_table