> I'm a frigging EXPERT in dozens of stuff that would make people smile now (those who are old enough ;-))
I'd love to read your list. :)
I'd love to read your list. :)
I wrote a lot of "Apple Telecom 3.0" that ran on most "powerbooks" back in 1995+ or so, you know, modems, faxes, voice mails and all these very high tech stuff :-)
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3faz2u/steve_jobs_in...
This is the Steve Jobs more young entrepreneurs need to know about and emulate. Not the "Jobs was an asshole and successful, therefor if I am an asshole I will also be successful" vision of Jobs. Or the "Jobs made pretty things and suckered people into paying too much for them" vision of Jobs.
Finding these experienced people isn't easy. Many don't want to move. You can't just drop by a college and grab them in bulk. We'd hire more (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055183 for "Who is hiring?" post) if we could just find them.
When I first learned to program (I was about 12), I was using paper tape and those old Bell teletypes, in a facility that still used punched cards.
Here's my punched card story -- I bumped a box with a card deck and it sent the cards flying, mixing them all up. The systems operator made me sort the cards by hand. It took me hours. It was a few months before I learned that they had a machine that would have done that for me automatically -- but the sysop had decided that I needed to learn a lesson (which I did, in fact, learn!)