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Good point, though not on point ;)

Interesting. I am not arguing, just sharing: people say that Drupal now is a framework and you an actually write custom stuff, not just stack modules. Can that be, what do you think?

Why do you say that?

God idea for courses! Thanks

Nice answer. I have things to say: - there are situations that number of levels matter - dependecies is one reason. There must be others, why is 51 the highest in WOW? I am looking for a source that can point all the reasons. - how many points do you award each task? Surely this matters, but what do i benchmark those to? Time it takes to complete? Mix of time, complexitity, scarcity, x y z? What are possible x y z, and in what proportions do i mix them? - books are "Gamification by Design" by Gabe Zichermann (biggest proponent), "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal, Also "Flow", "Drive" and a couple more. All of those seem too theoretical, and when i sit to create something, i cant put numbers to the theories.

Thanks, i still can not answer the very first practical question: How many player-levels should there be?

Awesome, that's exactly what I have been looking for, thank you!

Right. I have one thing I am working on, but I am sharing all my other ideas so that if anyone likes something they can work on it. Sometimes someone has something similar and just by reading those summaries can come up with a mix or with the missing piece in his puzzle. You never know.

Getting a partner only because he is a friend does NOT cover basic requirements for partnership.

Explanation:

Your idea is not going to work if no one knows how to code. Period. Your friend starting now will need a minimum of couple years to get to an OK level to build what you want. Your product will have bugs, inefficient code, hard to maintain. Given that, the only way to make it is if the market and idea are exceptionally strong and really pull you in sales so you hire someone better. Not likely.

What could happen?

Being honest and meaningful now with him is important because it will settle thigs right between you guys. If you keep him only because of friendship (yet worse, afraid to break friendship- if he is a friend he would understand whats meaningful for both) there will always be tension between you, low morale, the business will not move fast and things eventually will fall apart. Keep in mind also that you are getting him into something log term that is not likely to work this specific way, which is a bad favor.

What to do?

In my opinion, to keep the friendship and the business be honest with your friend and find a programmer to partner with. Or at least bring in a third person experienced coder. Otherwise it feels like you will lose both.

If you have already found that your customers are first timers, i can tell you one thing

Guide them step by step

With the problems. For example, for marketing, outline the process for Facebook marketing and ease it in their accounts. If you see they have problems with lets say accounting, integrate Freshbooks.

Your customers will be profitable when they put effort, and for that to happen, they need to know what they are doing and connect actions to results.

My 2c

Wake up, gmail, thefeelgood.com (music), HN, code 1h, breakfast, code 3h, lunch out with friends. I dont drink coffee, i dont smoke, try to stay healthy.

And what energizes me is that i love what i work on. The simplest, easiest and best motivator. Otherwise lots of contacts with lots of friends, Sports, games and sex (when circumstances allow) keep me in good mood and happy.

Not switching that fast. The few advantages are size/load time as well as switching effortlessly color. But at the price of ... compatibility, accessibility, rendering (white on black background issue with fonts), single color icons, delayed loading(sometimes fonts load after the page)?

If you want fast loading use css+single image robust method as in: http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo86.png and http://images.apple.com/global/nav/images/globalnav.png

I know, but there's no one there usually. Especially if you need anything slightly unusual such as python/django

Thanks, I will look into it!

I think what you said hits the sweetspot. I understand not to give advice until I am asked for, but I just never realized that someone coming to tell me a problem != 'i want a help'

huge heads up, thanx!

And why would someone not want a solution? yet to figure this one out...

e who cares about that?

Depressing news

you are a bit harsh but in any way, i am trying to show a different side of learning - one in which you don't need 100% accuracy. If 5% of the information of the information is wrong and it still does the job, what is the point of sweating the lack of perfection? glad to hear opinion though

and you just couldn't resist saying it...

this is the shit, for less that $1,600 you get lcd's on your buttons :) customizable with Shakespeare on the space bar! Now that is pimp. http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

I don't see 1 thing I would have missed if I never stumbled on this article. This guy is so far from being rich it just pity looking at guys making fun of themselves.

I acutally have numbers of good lawyers, but they are based in New York. B/n $200/h and $500/h. I haven't talked to them since i never had the money, but got their numbers from a good source. Email me if interested.

Actually, from what I know, you can sell, and buy, you can pay dividends to yourself (though you doubletax your own behind). What you can't do is be hired if you are on F-1 visa, which means that you can't get a regular paycheck or have a position in the company (owner/shareholder is not a position).

Oh I see what you mean, electric sheep is in iTunes. (i really like it) We'll try to do that soon.

Yeah, I listen to that too

=) The first 5 comments of that recipe are:

1. YUCK!

2. gross

3. no way i would eat this or anyone in my family

4. that sounds gross!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. That spunds so nasty. This will not be something that I will be trying to make. Yuck!

but thanx, I will try it...

I generally think stepping back for a little bit is ok. After all, this is why I am not a banker like most of my friends around.

I just feel that I have decent chances this time around and I am willing to take the extra. Once those 2 things I am betting on unwind, I will have time to relax and rethink.

Thanx though, considered.

You're right. All I wanted to say is that generally I am leaning towards making product rather than looking for financing, but I still decided to go for the competition first with this specific idea. Also it's not a "back-of-a-napkin" but it's 6-9mo thinking/research on brains, learning, market etc.I also have real chances since it's down from 41 teams to about 7 now and I have won other competitions, so I have a feeling of what judges are looking for, which is different than what investors are. So yeah, badly described there.

Organic pls :}

Money Ego Women FOOD! :)