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James could buy a mobile? And then go the baseball game and participate in the discussion from his mobile, maybe even use the touchscreen to draw diagrams on th
by sherjilozair 14y ago
James could buy a mobile? And then go the baseball game and participate in the discussion from his mobile, maybe even use the touchscreen to draw diagrams on the virtual whiteboard.
If he was using GChat, him loggin off would have put an end to the conversation.
If he was using GMail, they were probably just sending each other big mails, like what was conclusively decided after today's meeting, and that could wait.
- DenisM 14y agoI think you're missing Patrick's point? You could describe an alarm clock as a mechanical device which steadily advances its state with passage of time, and for which you can set a trigger to start making mechanical noise at a certain pre-set state. Or you could start off with "Joe, a young adult, is having trouble appearing on time for his white collar job, which he want sto keep and succeed in, but can't because health problems/kids/partying are keeping him awake at night, so he can't reliably wake up in the morning. This device will make him get up such that he has enough time to get into the office and be a good employee in the eyes of his boss". Closer to home, hacker news is not a visually desaturated lisp-coded online forum thingamajig, hacker news is a place for tech/business hackers to meet and talk shop. Quora is a place for knowledgeable people to make a measurable, satisfying difference by spending 5 minutes to answer a question. Who are the people with the problem? What is the problem? You won't get traction without solving these questions.