glimcat

43 ms·

361.
by glimcat 15y ago
When you've got $10,000+ to spend on doing so, and have a reasonable expectation of that being a wise expenditure of resources. It often happens that patents appear to have significant overlap, so "the same idea" is a problematic way to loo
362.
by glimcat 15y ago
I have lots of ideas. They're mostly things I want. Seeing one implemented successfully elsewhere means that I'm having good ideas and that I can solve the problem by simply throwing money at it and move on to something else. Or, I can stra
363.
by glimcat 15y ago
A couple days. I made about $16 before putting things on hold because I was too busy and because I needed to come back with a more scalable model. But let me tell you, that first $16 is addicting.
364.
by glimcat 15y ago
I lose my passwords periodically and it's easy to get a new account. I post semi-anonymously anyway.
365.
by glimcat 15y ago
Checking out your competitors and drafting a version on your own is often a good starting point. You can sometimes save on legal hours and get something closer to what you want if you try this first and then run the result by your lawyer. S
366.
by glimcat 15y ago
A good team will often beat a good individual, but a team thrown together for the sake of having one will often amount to nothing.
367.
by glimcat 15y ago
I'd blame that on the author's image processing. It's also several times more common to be green-deficient than it is to be missing that cone entirely.
368.
by glimcat 15y ago
"The Harvest" and "The Starry Night" both look under-illuminated. The rest look more or less the same. Not sure whether that's my deuteranomaly talking or if it's his small pictures.
369.
by glimcat 15y ago
I think you may be confusing passion with infatuation. It's hard to have a meaningful commitment to a product which you haven't started building. You have to develop the relationship first. On the other hand, it's very easy to get excited o
370.
by glimcat 15y ago
People pay for information all the time. When it's valuable or somehow desirable.
371.
by glimcat 15y ago
Many public institutions have had their government funding drastically cut in the last few years. Simultaneously, there is plenty of support for student loans.
372.
by glimcat 15y ago
This is so far into WTF that I can't help being deeply suspicious that it's a deliberate ploy of some sort. I just can't figure out what it would be expected to accomplish.
373.
by glimcat 15y ago
May be problematic if you want people to type it or say it.
374.
by glimcat 15y ago
Work together on a small project first.
375.
by glimcat 15y ago
Magically, no. But given the same marketing resources behind either, the SaaS case seems to be more reliably attainable. Or stand-alone software. Or contract work. For SaaS, it's also important to model things like trial conversions, turnov
376.
by glimcat 15y ago
The market was highly profitable when it was small supply / big demand and you had good odds that Apple would hand you tons of visibility. Now it's big supply with a terrible signal to noise ratio. To succeed, it seems that you now either n
377.
by glimcat 15y ago
Photoshop is modular, not monolithic. Designing a large monolithic anything is insanely hard. It's often best to design around it.
378.
by glimcat 15y ago
If it's bugs and not just errors, then you've pretty much got a self-programming computer. Any such tool is necessarily only going to give you a rough approximation.
379.
by glimcat 15y ago
There are a few options, but C# works well. Many of the template implementations are in C#.
380.
by glimcat 15y ago
It depends on what you want to do with it. Python is great if you just want to "learn programming." It's very noob friendly and there are tons of libraries. Rails is great if what you really want is to learn web programming (and Ruby if you
381.
by glimcat 15y ago
This raises the question of whether you need a co-founder or a hire. It depends on the business. IMO "40% is way too high for a designer" is too general. It depends on how significant a part of the leadership team they're going to be. Since
382.
by glimcat 15y ago
Phonegap optimizes for development time. Where that's a limiting factor, it's a good option to consider.
383.
by glimcat 15y ago
Intelligence already likely correlates well with being a stubborn bastard. It helps with the part where you obsessively study topics everyone else thinks are too boring or inaccessible.
384.
by glimcat 15y ago
I've been turning autocorrect features off for ages, whenever possible. They break more than they fix.
385.
by glimcat 15y ago
NLP is hard, particularly for highly general problems conducted on small samples of text. Here's a problem case that you will find to be very common: a 20-second post with the right answer to a difficult problem by someone who's busy and ty
386.
by glimcat 15y ago
Every NDA I've ever signed has had a termination date. If you aren't past the termination date, then write down what you want to put and then ask if they would mind.
387.
by glimcat 15y ago
If I have to do significant typing, I either wait or I use a Bluetooth keyboard.
388.
by glimcat 15y ago
I think that's what they call "establishing precedent."
389.
by glimcat 15y ago
I keep hearing this flood meme. I'm not sure I buy into it. It may conceivably devalue the degree itself by making it less uncommon, but skills likely lose value at a much lower rate. There are also network effects - the pace of modern scie
390.
by glimcat 15y ago
Many of my favorite things have been made by people who needed it for their own use first. It also makes it much more likely that you can promote it to people with something more compelling than an email grab.

More ›