smackeyacky

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by smackeyacky 6y ago
Ah, the holy trinity of languages: Forth, Smalltalk and Lisp. The BMW Isetta, NSU Ro80 and Citroen SM of the programming world. Sure you'd love to own all three but nobody is taking a business road trip in any of them. However the F
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by smackeyacky 6y ago
You budget for a tiny team, getting paid minimum wage and hoping that you can stretch it to a further injection of funds. Most startups who get to YC or HAX already have a demonstrable MVP and the 125k should get you to customers, a furthe
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by smackeyacky 6y ago
Don't unless you have a compelling reason to do so. You need a problem to solve OR a very rich network of contacts. Rod Canion started Compaq without an idea but he was well connected. Unfortunately great ideas are also hard to get
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by smackeyacky 6y ago
Did they only interview people with bullshit jobs? Event coordinator, human resources etc i.e. the jobsworths, the fluff workers whose meaning in work is entirely defined by wasting productive workers time. It would be more interesting to
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by smackeyacky 6y ago
I have a pile of IOT devices in the field that I made malfunction en-masse with a buffer overrun. I used the boilerplate, generated bluetooth LE stubs to make a GATT interface and didn't pay much attention to what it generated (in C).
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by smackeyacky 6y ago
No I probably should write it down before I forget though.
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by smackeyacky 6y ago
The product I make is a very specialised system in the agriculture industry. The first 10 customers were a mix of old clients from a previous job and new clients who read about the product from an ag news source. I had to rely heavily on
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by smackeyacky 6y ago
Soundtracks definitely. Jazz too although I find using vinyl for this too distracting. I generally fire up a streaming service or an old 5 cd carousel player full of CDs. I also get grumpy during work that requires extended concentration
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by smackeyacky 6y ago
Back in the 90s we hit a massive wall on three fronts using Smalltalk: collaboration between developers (no file system to share code); no change control; deployment to users (stripping down images to make applications). We had a pile of h