stevenameyer

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by stevenameyer 14y ago
From my second hand knowledge of investors, I actually believe that competition actually works in your favor when seeking investments. It is a good for establishing that the idea is viable and can really help them understand the product and
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
When in the hiring process are you trying to identify passion? Are you talking about recognizing it when reading a CV or during an interview? If it's an interview I'd say it's not that difficult. If you can get them to open up an start talk
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
Whether or not a startup succeeds is not about probability, it is about producing a good product that people want. If you have the time/talent/resources to produce 20 different solid products that people are likely to be interested in using
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
It's a habit some people have. When I'm really trying to get a lot of programming down I am trying to shut out distractions so I can focus on what I'm doing. For me this means having everything just so, my monitors a certain way, programs l
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
At the same time though I'm sure there are people who are a lot better off then you who still have rough times and feel down. The truth is that everyone has those times, and just because your not in the worst situation (you can always find
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I am by no means an expert but here's my two cents in the hopes that it helps: 1) Stop invalidating how you feel. Just because you feel like other people have it harder then you doesn't mean that you're not allowed to feel sad or down. Pers
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
If you have code that is difficult to maintain and build upon and as a result are loosing a lot of your top development talent then this will eventually kill the majority of companies. But like you said if you have little to no cashflow rig
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
It's sad to look at the state of news lately. The industry as a whole seems to scrambling for viewers/reader/consumers to stay a float and in doing so I think they are starting to compromise a lot. Seeing the 24-hour news cycle churn out se
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I don't know if it'll ever get so bad that a small cut could be life-threatening but it certainly is a large issue. People need to learn that they need to take the antibiotics for as long the doctor told them to, deciding to stop taking the
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
This to me is right mentality. If it is technology that is reusable in any/a lot of applications then it is a good candidate for being open-sourced. If it specific to what you are doing then it is probably not.
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
Would those things be better if they were privately run for profit? My personal opinion is that there are certain things that you can't allow the the private sector to run because it leaves too much room for abuse by individuals looking to
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
See my post to another one of your comments as to why as far as I can see it is impossible to make a system that is completely unbreakable. But I definitely think you could create a system that is so difficult to break that in practical app
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
If the system has a state where the hardware reliably doesn't self-destruct, then that state can be replicated. From there probing can handle extracting the information needed and presumably some sort of interpreting of the information woul
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
Exactly. Anything that is deterministic can be compromised, even if that is something physical. The only thing you can do is make something so difficult/long/expensive to compromise that it't not worth it. This is the theory behind encrypti
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
You do bring up some interesting points. Restricting a program to physically secured hardware along with software protection would definitely make it extremely difficult to get the program or information outside of the way that the maker wa
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
There is no way to stop people's ability to pirate things if people want to bad enough. I think the only real way to eliminate pirating is to find a way to make people not want to. Maybe it is naive of me to think this, but i honestly think
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
Also, I've realized that I also have crazy downtimes or crashes that are bigger than them. In those times, I appreciate the stability and the calm in the other founders. So I'd challenge you to make a list of positive characteristics in yo
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I'm not saying blindly trust the government on everything. Questioning your government is very important. But there is a baseline level of trust that must exist, you trust them to protect you in times of war, that the money you have will be
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I understand that hiding or faking an id is a concern for highly technical people but I would hope that it would not be easy to the point where someone of medium to low technical skill could do it. I'm curious as to why you believe it would
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
Freedom to voice politically unpopular beliefs is far more important than making law enforcement easy I am a firm believer in this as well. My post way probably a little too aggressive on the side of overwatch, but I tend to go a little t
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I totally agree that we should not prosecute based on being the originator. But I'm saying it is a reasonable place to start an investigation. Being able to pick a starting point for an investigation even if it just narrows the search to a
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
My example was obviously extreme. But I think my point still stands. Being able to trace an action back to a person or a group of people is important if we want to be able to police and prosecute people based on their actions online. Just b
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
The online videos are great. Although it would have been beneficial to sit down and talk some of the teams in person. Anecdotally I have heard that in talks with engineers on different teams you can learn a lot of little tips and tricks tha
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
The real danger with leaving you router unsecured is people piggybacking on the connection to perform illegal actions online. I don't have any stats on how prevalent this actually is but being investigated for something like downloading/dis
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
If the 1% is the least offensive, I'd hate to see the rest of it. I guess I'm glad that I'm on the technical side of things :P
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
This is where you are precisely wrong. A VC wants to cash out within 3 years. I think we may have different definitions of "short term". When I say short term I mean that you are in the process of proving a concept as viable and at the po
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
As an Android developer who has recently been doing some iPhone work, I don't know any resources directly for iOS developers but these are some areas that I think you should look into: 1) The activity life cycle model.[0] This is something
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
When you are talking about large markets 1% is not a short term goal. It is important to specify how you plan to keep your company running as you grow, but I don't see how saying if we reach 1% market share we will make a lot of money does
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
But if the whole point is saying there is a lot of money in this space so it's less of a risk then why mention 1%? Mentioning the market size and opportunity is important but I think the issue people (such as myself) have with this specific
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
The biggest issue I have with this 1% fallacy (which is a huge pet peeve of mine) is that it shows completely the wrong mindset needed for success in my opinion. To me it is saying we don't have confidence in our ability so we're going to t

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