Man get all wacky about $175 transaction. IF you're playing that close to the bone, my advice would be to stick to cash sales and forget about banks and online escrow services like Square.
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RMS: "Rajoy (Spain's president) wants to kill us all."
Well there you go, Richard.
Let me clarify this for those not in the know:
Unless you're in the business of selling design services, under no circumstances should you ever hire a full-time staff designer, never mind considering them for an equity-sharing position at the outset of your enterprise.
If one doesn't know what should and shouldn't be hired for in the early stage startup, one shouldn't be wasting their time pontificating about it. OP is a moron.
Only a fool would pretend to be blissfully unaware of what he's talking about and then offer you advice on the very subject of his ignorance.
More of a reality than a concept.
No, it's an inside joke. There's a big difference there.
I wouldn't because it would be an inordinate waste of my time. Just like a skilled engineer would never walk over to human resources and ask the boss' girlfriend to teach them all about recruiting because after all, recruiting is a core requirement if you plan on expanding your little website business beyond just yourself. They'd simply wing it until they found someone good enough that they could afford to hire.
I can help you. I make double as a designer as what I made as a front-end developer and I'm also happier for it. The more focused you become on design the less dependent you'll be on either the business side or the engineering team. And you'll be more in-demand than either.
Also, including the Aviary viewer in the demo takes away from the product.
Stop. Hire a designer.
You're living in the past.
> The consolidation process delays the data by ~100 ms. This is still considered real-time by many people including professional traders.
A couple of months ago we achieved round-trip [cleared] trades between Tokyo and New York of under 50ms. That's your barrier to entry.
You're not in business if you're looking at an average of 100ms.
A real-time quote provider is someone who's server is physically connected to a direct exchange feed, as in you have a 5' wire running from your box to one of the CME's servers, not someone who's obtaining web-based delayed quotes.
However, shifting blame to one of your employees in an effort to cover your own ass for burping a lemon signals poor judgement and a lack of maturity on your part. To silence the critic, all you had to do was acknowledge the problem, allude to being "in development" and thank the over-eager Michal for pointing it out. Instead, you made it worse by exposing internals for a problem you should've taken responsibility for alone. Probably at the price of their reputation.
Your job today is to seek them out and make a personal apology.
Had it been a bug in the code, I highly doubt you would've named the entire dev team in a thread and pointed out the party responsible.
Michal did a sufficient job of providing examples right there, although I'd caution that very ambitious young man, programmer and designer not to use such an aggressive approach while still an SFSU student, photographer and soon to be entrepreneur (wtf does that mean?).
I call not trolling simply because I agree with the premise that the redesign is half-baked.
Like development, design works best by iteration. The overall concept isn't bad per se, the implementation looks to be haphazard and needs style, tone, ease of use and continuity.
> what you think we can do better
Iterate, iterate, iterate.
The visual design is poor enough, not to mention the actual code implementation but the interface itself is even more disjointed and incoherent, using a varied mix of metaphorical elements on the view that have no implied structure, hierarchy or continuity. It's as if each part of the view was designed in isolation without regard for the others.
That turkey wasn't ready to come out of the oven.
What I alluded to is that should Dell engage in a product comparison campaign with Apple, their approach would probably do more to highlight their shortcomings rather than convince a potential buyer that they should choose price and configuration over experience.
Those two companies may be in the same industry but they are selling very different products to different demographics. It would be like Chevrolet comparing their free tote bag for every purchase with Porsche's optional carfit luggage kit.