Thank you for the feedback. It appears that I chose a title for my article that struck a nerve with some of you. It was not my intent to encourage readers to rashly quit their jobs to start their own poorly thought-out businesses; though in hindsight, I can see how it got interpreted that way. It was my intent to describe the intrinsic connection that your fledgling business shares with your current and past employers and the importance and benefits of honoring that connection. To clarify this point, I have renamed the article to "Quitting Your Job to Pursue Your New Company" and rewritten a portion of the first paragraph. I hope that this new title causes less confusion.
I think that people use "covering (negligible) costs" as a euphemism for trying to businessify their side-project. Covering these low costs would be the first, modest goal in trying to convert the project to a business anyway. If they instead told their friends or web-colleagues that they're trying to grow their web-trinket into a viable business, they'd probably be criticized and made fun of and ultimately talked out of the idea. So instead they talk about "covering costs," and it's pretty much a low-investment, no-risk way of experimenting with making something a business.
Yeah, I can see your point. Covering costs is definitely a milestone that I look toward when monetizing, but only as a first step on the climb toward profitability.
I think it'd be sweet to have some kind of wishlist feature. Not like the Amazon wishlist where you link to items that are for sale, but where buyers can declare what they are looking for with the hopes that sellers will fulfill it. Nothing fancy, just maybe something that sellers could access when working on submitting their inventory.
I agree. I didn't see Chrysalidocarpus lutescens (Areca Palm), Sansevieria trifasciata (Mother-in-law's Tongue), or Epipremnum aureum (Money Plant) but I'd love to be notified when I can buy them.
Hmm, good to know. We are hoping to capitalize on special, hard-to-find plants that you won't find at Home Depot or Lowes, so having a wish list definitely might help.
Also, the nurseries don't necessarily list their entire stock, so if they saw a wish list with something they sell but hadn't listed, it might provide a strong incentive to get it up there.
My understanding is that last year (2007), while everyone was salivating over the iphone and contemplating the its ramifications on the high-end phone market, Nokia sold the rest of the world budget phones and posted record profits. So I don't think they're really banking on the smartphone market -- at least as we've defined "smartphone" in the US. Especially when their high-end phones are selling for double or triple the price of the too-beat offering (iphone).
"Some Web frameworks use session state to track and hold information about the user throughout their journey through the site, however they go against the RESTful principles and should really be treated as a bug."
I'll bet this guy's not fun to be in design meetings with.
I wouldn't worry too much about those young chaps, I do hear they are quite civil once they've had a good talking to. The boys from the club are the ones giving them money to play with after all. I'll take it up with them next time we take tea at the countryhouse.
i think that means you read philosophy, math, Latin and Greek: Homer, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Pascal, some Whitehead, Russell. Some Sartre and Camus and Nietzsche, Heidegger if you want a tortured existence. You want to go to St Johns college, i think, maybe Univ of Chicago .
With a rigorous math background and some linguistics , you have the foundation of a good programming career.
A classical education is more about technique than material or school. The standard education model is that students are told what is true and what is not, and then they need to regurgitate what they've been told. The classical approach is for a student to try to understand the material themselves, then interact with a teacher and fellow classmates through a discussion format based on the Socratic method to develop their understanding.
