barisme

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by barisme 15y ago
Or you can do the human thing. Grab the water, move it next to the food, and enjoy them together. While you're at it, you can even pay someone to take the donkey to market and trade him for a case of scotch. That's multitasking!
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by barisme 15y ago
My first time being downvoted, I think. Humor falls flat == bad. Got it. Sorry for dragging you down with me.
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by barisme 15y ago
Yeah the other founder probably needed to contribute $5000 too. If he could not, that would have been your first clue that it wouldn't work.
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by barisme 15y ago
Product and sales first. It sounds like you spent your marketing money way too soon. Later you might have found out that your offering was not even what customers really wanted. Then you're back in the same position where you've spent every
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by barisme 15y ago
... if you execute them.
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by barisme 15y ago
I demo'd some apps I made at a local group and before I knew it they were beating the doors down. Job offers too, but I turn those down.
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by barisme 15y ago
I guess the real money comes when you help marketing people find spend-happy people's mailboxes ;) Or connect conmen with heiresses, vacuum cleaner salesmen with Persian cat owners, horny teenagers with lonely centerfold models... I can com
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by barisme 15y ago
This reply is quite hilarious. I'm bursting with laughter.
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by barisme 15y ago
Is that violin music? Are those tears? Is the resale value of your product hurting you? Aww. I guess next I should feel sorry for GM because they don't get a cut when I sell my 10 year old car. OR maybe they should disable the steering whee
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Floppy e-ink phone(mobile.slashdot.org)
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by barisme 15y ago
We came up with the same metaphor. My post started with the glucose meter as well, and pointed out that misinterpreting blood glucose was more likely to have immediate and dire consequences.
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by barisme 15y ago
Wow, your catharsis really comes through in your writing. If nothing else, maybe there's a memoir in all this ;) Seriously though, stay positive and stay in the habit of asking people for help when you're stuck. And don't just ask investors
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by barisme 15y ago
I think the one on the right (same one you indicate) is definitely more readable. I'm a former copywriter, so I'm more verbal than visual in some ways, and I am still quite sure you have this right. For further reading and info about user t
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by barisme 15y ago
Wow. Thank you. I'm still reading but so far you've increased my visual IQ by 1000%.
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by barisme 15y ago
Sort of a tech school with a marketing culture. They have a tendency to define new words and get the coolest press.
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by barisme 15y ago
There's a lot of talk about this from time to time, but it's nothing new. For example, the book _Free: The Future of a Radical Price_ by Chris Anderson discussed it extensively in human-readable language. 1st edition was July 2009.
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by barisme 15y ago
Yes. Why do people assume you can just make a phone call to Andromeda? 'Ya, hi ET, what's new?' If Andromeda disappeared into a black hole 1 million years ago, we wouldn't even know yet. We have to wait 2.5 million years for news from Andro
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by barisme 15y ago
Look into how Ghostscript is capitalized. It might be good to look at some other case studies too so you understand the broader range of possibilities. To get help on that you might need to phrase the question a little differently.
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by barisme 15y ago
Bill Gates might rather cure river blindness, malaria and cholera. He's at that stage when a billionaire thinks about humanitarian legacy. Similar to Andrew Carnegie and the moguls of that generation.
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by barisme 15y ago
Yes or 'they' might use a form of energy that is totally foreign to us. Maybe it's not even a beam or a ray. Maybe it's micro-black-hole-oscillation (yeah, made that up). I mean, who knows? It's all hypothetical anyway. And here we are spen
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by barisme 15y ago
No, programming empowers you to make your ideas actually work. It also forces you to break the great big idea into chewable little pieces, and that's the process that turns imagination into creation. But yeah, you might feel constrained for
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by barisme 15y ago
Do consider though that some of these positions may include options and other non-salary compensation. Sometimes the 'perks' are really the cake and the salary is just the icing.
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by barisme 15y ago
Maybe. At least some though are working on a bill to mandate a permanent base on the moon. That's a decent piece of high ground. And if it has a core of iron as has recently been suggested, could lead to some interesting research. Might eve
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by barisme 15y ago
Agree with your 1st paragraph. As for whether there's anything out there, I don't know. But if there is, it's optimistic to assume their technology would be related to ours in such a way that we could detect it with a few dishes plunked dow
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by barisme 15y ago
A better use of funds would be grants or investments in non-government space exploration / cargo / communications / research. That could be nonprofits or companies like Elon Musk's SpaceX. The latter is actually producing something we need.