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cheez··on I Quit My Job. Here’s How I Planned the Start as an Entrepreneur
haha fair enough.
cheez··on I Quit My Job. Here’s How I Planned the Start as an Entrepreneur
Well said. Yes of course those rules aren't set in stone but the idea is remove as much risk as possible, as cheaply as possible.
cheez··on I Quit My Job. Here’s How I Planned the Start as an Entrepreneur
No one is a fan of your work, where do you hear this stuff..

Find people who will pay you to solve the problem you identified within two weeks.

cheez··on I Quit My Job. Here’s How I Planned the Start as an Entrepreneur
Find customers willing to pay. Actively. Not passively.
cheez··on I Quit My Job. Here’s How I Planned the Start as an Entrepreneur
Find me a FAANG company that didn't start out simply.

The trick is to shoot a lot of shots and double down on the ones that hit.

cheez··on I Quit My Job. Here’s How I Planned the Start as an Entrepreneur
IMO, it should cover company and living expenses.

The rest can come later.

cheez··on I Quit My Job. Here’s How I Planned the Start as an Entrepreneur
How to become an entrepreneur (from someone who has actually done it):

  - Get income from other people via job
  - Learn
  - Come up with idea
  - Test market in 2 weeks for < $100
  - Rinse and repeat until market test gives positive results you can't ignore
  - Quit job
  - Release version 1 in 2 weeks
  - Have income by 4 week mark
  - If no income by 4 week mark, u fucked up, get a job
cheez··on AKAI MPC 3000 sampler/sequencer drum machine
You said it yourself. It's a combination. No one said "listen exclusively to young people" or "listen exclusively to old people".
cheez··on AKAI MPC 3000 sampler/sequencer drum machine
The industry already exists now. You listen to young people on what is new.
cheez··on AKAI MPC 3000 sampler/sequencer drum machine
We can nitpick.

Do business types create them?

Or do tech heads with a musical inclination create them?

cheez··on Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language
Weird... Looks like you're right. Edit: aha, looks like this is the case under which it happens:

  class Testing123:
      def __init__(self):
          self.blah = whatever()
cheez··on A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode
Looks more like tech interview culture.
cheez··on Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language
Python's new typing is so useful. mypy works most of the time. Sometimes misses some things. Running in --strict is a bother (no one is going to annotate __init__ returning None thanks...)
cheez··on AKAI MPC 3000 sampler/sequencer drum machine
I use the MPK mini which just feels unnatural compared to a "real" synth. But of course it is way more flexible and sometimes the right tool for the job.
cheez··on AKAI MPC 3000 sampler/sequencer drum machine
People underestimate the impact that domain-specific nerds have on society.

Drum/sampling machines are an example. A simple tool, created by tech hackers, put in the hands of a sound hacker, created an entire genre of music.

Remind me again why we don't listen to the young people...

cheez··on Factorio 1.0
Fortunately it's a completely hypothetical situation.
cheez··on Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
That's great, I'll tell Firefox that,maybe it will pep up.
cheez··on Factorio 1.0
The hypothetical case was zero human input, self sustaining factories that rely on renewable energy. In that hypothetical case... How could nationalizing screw it up since there is no human or non-renewable input required? I guess they can "overuse it" so we all become Eloi but we're on the way there anyway.
cheez··on VC bias in viewing pitch decks can affect fundraising success
like the rest of the world
cheez··on Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
I have 64GB of RAM because I know the workload is memory hungry. But still, I have enough left over: https://imgur.com/a/Q25P7vJ
cheez··on Factorio 1.0
either/or. History is full of these types of tradeoffs. In the completely hypothetical example from above, it would be worth it to figure something out.
cheez··on What's the future of Servo?
That was hilarious and a harbinger of things to come.
cheez··on Using 'this' incorrectly in C#
I think we should encourage junior developers to be dogmatic about styling because they will want to make positive changes.

Once you get to a certain level of experience though, it should be a foregone conclusion that all code looks the same automagically.

cheez··on Factorio 1.0
You had the answer yourself. Legislation. Government-run factories for the benefit of the people.
cheez··on Expiring vs. permanent skills
jeebus
cheez··on Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
I have 18 windows open in Firefox vs chromium that say otherwise. Why would I lie lol.
cheez··on Expiring vs. permanent skills
haha.

I use it for application plugin configuration values which allows plugins to do whatever they want but also provides some structure just in case sweeping changes need to be made.

Basically where schemas aren't important or will be defined by someone else.

cheez··on Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
I use Firefox for casual browsing but heavy workloads need a better browser. So I have to use Chromium.
cheez··on Expiring vs. permanent skills
And if you aren't convinced, SQLite (and postgres) implemented MongoDB as a feature ;-)
cheez··on Simple SQL in Python
You should check out the typing stuff in 3.8. Combined with mypy, gets a lot of the way there to statically checked python without the hassles of statically typed code.
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