juwo

all deadlines, except death, are artificial.

zero. my brain shuts down after 11 pm. (unless I am anxious about something - not programming related).

"Don't use big type for the address and contact info. The #1 way we can tell if a business card is cheesy is with a glance at the type size."

bad advice. small type strains the eyes.

The vistaprint cards are free + $6 shipping. But there is their logo saying "free cards at Vistaprint" on the back. Is that a Very Bad Thing? I wonder.

rams, are you M Ramachandra?

I dont want to hear advice from people who are successful only at writing and selling books that tell you how to be successful. including Dale Carnegie, Steven Covey etc.

I would rather hear it from those who have done - Marc Andreesen and others.

the article is old! 2001

The British came centuries later in 1600. They unified the country, brought a common language, railways, administration etc.

Many people say that far greater damage was wrought by the many Muslim emperors and invasions.

By the time the British came, Indian Science was over.

"if things were basically opened up between wealthy countries"

so, only between wealthy countries?

most immigrants come here because their home country had a much lower standard of living - aside from the opportunity. So I am surprised that you took so much trouble; surely Britain has an equivalent standard of living?

drink a cup of hot milk and eat a banana.

well :)

which is more unethical?

the restaurant throwing away perfectly good food into the trash when there are hungry people in poorer countries (or even a few blocks away in the same city) who haven't eaten chicken in months because they cant afford it? (I know people like that).

OR

the "chicken leg buffet" person. He paid full price for his buffet, only his stomach can contain 2 legs, and he does not wish to greedily stuff himself with 6 legs.

or what if he took 4 legs on his plate, and out of a good conscience, cannot throw 2 uneaten legs away?

point: it is hard to judge other people.

please also comment on A) since the person is likely to become an investor in my product in the near term.

please also comment on A) since the person is likely to become an investor in my product in the near term.

its not about legalities.

This is the other extreme - which I didnt mention in the op.

I agree that copying code is wrong - but what about a good idea that you come up with, or a neat design or technique in code?

It seems unfair given that doctors, scientists, marketing and many other professionals can keep a record of their work. Maybe not reams of data, but something. (I am not 100% sure of the extent they are allowed to). All art professionals have portfolios.

Is your brain just a vessel to be washed clean before it is rented out again?

Again, I am not talking of secret algorithms that would break a company, not someone else's work.

From one perspective, juwo my product, has failed. No investors, No cofounders, No Users (apart from me). Yet - I plan to reimplement and hopefully, turn things around.

juwo is not a failure until I give up.

I won't give up while my convictions about it remain.

Just curious, did you do this independently as a 'small business', or was it as a consultant through a 'solutions provider'?

If independently, your business skills must be excellent - to get so many clients who would not choose an off the shelf solution.

But in any case, these are not products.

I wish you well, Goladus.

great point

I get very annoyed by LOC questions. They are idiotic. I was very, very surprised that PG uses it as a measure, in his interview to NYT and in the YC application.

In my day job, I am maintaining (and enhancing) a distributed system that was written by apparently Cobol programmers who switched to Java rather suddenly last year.

- apparently did not hear of functional programming, so 600-800 line sub routines with if-else-while nesting up to 7-8 levels deep. very hard to follow the logic.

- no knowledge of exceptions, so return codes were used.

- hand rolled socket server because application EJB servers were not on their radar.

- a pseudo "object-oriented" database layer with all sorts of design problems and takes 5-10 times the LOC (that I have written in a simple database access class to show them a better way).

Their output in terms of Lines Of Code is phenomenal but it is a maintainence nightmare.

I dont understand what your (pg's) question is.

edw, it seems to me that you are talking about being an IT solutions provider?

Because no consumer will pay the $10-20K or so it takes to develop a product prototype from an idea on paper. The customer wants to pay the $19.99 for a finished product - and then maybe not.

time flies

how will you pay your bills?

Go to nearby lake with laptop and fishing rod.

Catch 2 lbs of fish. Clean. Cut into nuggets.

or

go to store and buy catfish nuggets. (Walmart sells $10 for a 5 lbs box).

Mix together the following:

1 tsp black pepper powdered + 1 tsp salt + 0.5 tsp chilli powder + 0.5 tsp turmeric powder.

coat the fish nuggets with it.

heat oil in a shallow pan just enough to shallow fry.

When very hot, place fish in gently. lower heat to medium. cover. after 3-5 mins, flip fish to fry other side. fish must be browned, not black.

if you flip fish prematurely, outer layer will scrape off.

eat with white rice.

(you can buy Chinese rice from Sams Club. $5 for a 20 lb bag)

(Turmeric can be gotten cheaply from an Indian store).

IMHO

1) interpreting of tags

2) sending the tagged content at a site, to an enquiring browser so that in a virtual sense, one is visiting the location.

will PG please share his chicken stew recipe with us?

(If he wants, I can give him one of my recipes too).

"when I was in 7th grade, I was primarily interested in making millions of dollars"

really??

the $$$ question is, is it unobvious?

(assuming qs 1-3 from Pressman's Patent It Yourself are 'yes'.)

How boring y'all make it seem!

play them clips from movies (e.g. the scene from Titanic which was computer generated), popular games

then play short interviews with the designers and developers who wrote them.

then show them a simple computer program, and it executing to do some graphics. So they can correlate code with effects.