eusman

that was exactly my point, the advice was valuable because it was applicable relative to what you are experiencing.

the advice is not as important by who is said, as much if the person giving it is identifying what to tell you relative to your current experience. Otherwise any other advice will not matter.

you missed my point

e.g. Hearing someone talking about fear is entirelly different from living it on your own.

The same goes for many stages in a startup. If you don't experience it, any advice in the world will not matter.

I wouldn't be here if I thought I knew everything, but If you/I expect someone else to tell you how to understand if your product is ready then you lost already.

For example if you want me to be more precise.

In the certain advice everything is obselete and relative.

What is the competition? Have they already launched? How easy will be for them to just replicate you and crush you? When do you know you are better from the competition? What would make sure you will avoid crushing you?

All these questions relative to that advice are so crucial that makes the advice broad enough unless you are already experiencing that pressure and already have the realization of the market you are trying to enter etc.

Thats why advices are meaningless until you experience them.

You need to value the essence of the advice, not always upon who gives it.

You will get many good advices from many people if you don't undervalue them.

it doesn't matter who gave the advice, if you can't realise it on your own. And you usually do, without needing someone to tell you.

tell that to their billions

this is sarcasm I suppose?

this action would really make me spend some time, at some point, with Arc by trying to understand the code

no wonder who may painted it!

what goes up comes down

what "easy" means anw? there are other challenges in a succesful social network or any other web service. Most web services technically can be leveraged to "easy" for a good hacker, but thats not the point.

All these will look shiny to the eyes of a newcomer, and will probably accept your lies.

Phrases determine people as much people determine phrases. So, if someone has the power to act instead of talking, then even accusing that someone of using those phrases will be a shot in the water, because this kind of persons are untouchable, as much if you want to hurt them with a blog post!

"No one can do what we're doing"

“Oracle is too big/dumb/slow to be a threat.”

Oracle or any other big company is a threat if you have a poor idea and execution. All the rest are useless.

Patents

you can say whatever you want about patents, but for a startup is not about suing others as it's about gaining IP, which makes it an easier target for an exit.

1% of the market

define market first, then define what you mean by 1%

No, thank you. I don't go to reddit anw.

stars fall too, explode to be precise, leaving a big black hole.

actually it's funny if you read again the news title mentally replacing Gates as gates!

i agree, that would be more precise way to say it

w3schools stats are wrong because its obvious that the audience is more technically sophisticated, thus more probably they are using Fx and have JS disabled.

real numbers are 78-80% for IE(6 and 7), 14-16% for Firefox

and it depends on country too

if this worked why make it public and not use it for them selves?

doesn't everyone know failure feed success? So them problem is more how to increase your chance of success, not tell you Yes, No if you will succeed

it was 1 billion and the 15B evaluation will proove wrong in 1 year

"spots available"

they don't have a standard spots available number.

pure sand

I would argue assuming its stock trading, your concern should be transactions safety so you need a database with ACID support. Beyond that, which you choose is based on your experience.

Speed is really not a concern anymore because you can use memcached or other distributed cached system when you really need that much scalability and fast access to raw data.

i am not against the iphone. I was impressed too when i saw it. But all the fuss seems το come from the web browsing rendering cabapilities which as you know are equal το s60 and they always act like they invented the web or the multitouch tech which they bought actually. Of course hands up for the UI. Even a nokia official said we clone when something is innovative refering to the ui

There were nearly 85 million devices based on S60 in 2006. Today there are 20 different phones based on S60 3rd edition.

"18.8 million converged devices (S60) shipped in Q4 compared to 11.1 this time last year * Over 11 million Nseries devices and over 2 million Eseries devices were sold in Q4 * Market share in North America dropped to 5.1% while every other region except China experienced double digit"

http://www.nokia.com/results/results2007Q4e.pdf

Actually n95 is in the hands of more than 2 million people compared to iphone that its in half of these people.

And by saying n95 I was reffering mostly to S60 Version 3 platform, which is used on more phones than N95, which means they have the same browser.

iPhone may be appealing, but overall doesnt mean that is the only way to surf the mobile web. The browsing capabilities in many phones are really worthwhile.

It's obvious this is an iPhone praising story.

"popular" it's a vogue word, doesn't mean anything if you don't say location. In Europe, phones come free or at loyaltee-fee with connection packets, which make it more accesible for people to change their phones easier. So, you stuck with a "popular" iPhone easier.

"real operating system" ?

sorry, but it rings to my ears the 3-in-1 iPhone pre-launch Steve Jobs speech

What real means anyway? Multitasking with IPv6, multimedia capabilities and UTF-16 support that is possible to write applications for? Symbian answers to these.

"standard and good enough..."

Well, you should check your numbers with Symbian penetration.

Nokia is already working on feel-touch UI which will make touching surface feel like a keyboard when necessary.

"there will be room for many slightly differing approaches"

I agree

Also, although RT and 8AW seem different, assuming they are funded under the same roof, I wouldn't be surprised if they merged. RT will appeal more to busy people/professionals, whereas I see 8AW reaching younger crowd.

i am just reading this from a n95 quite pleasantly and replying with one hand which i an not sure you can do with iphone. Can anyone predict how much years is several as mentioned in an earlier post that it will outnumber? Of course its a natural direction and i dont understand why so much credit for the iphone

he sais he doesnt have someone in mind, so taking the risk to do it on his own is an indication at least of passion.

the only sure thing is that the whole javascript perfomance/memory footprint/cross-browser/degrade challenge can drive someone crazy!

the problem arises when you try to directly access the element with id="bob" e.g. bob.innerHTML this will work on explorer

and is called global namespace polluting. and it could get things mixed up. So, a good practise is not to name DOM elements with javascript variables.

The reason you never ran into the problem is because that locally you create a variable with a reference to the DOM element, so you are practising a "workaround"

the man asking the guy to sit down is saying it in a way "i know you are right, I was wrong, there is no other way to say it because I am so stubborn everyone hates me, but lets do business"

i think they are doing the question more because of general excitement for their venture, than need of an answer