i guess how much time is spend depends on the nature of the blogging someone is doing and if there are any good thoughts to communicate. When someone has an audience I'm sure then don't feel it's a waste of time.
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It's also not that time consuming, if you are not doing it every single second that is...
Creating a multiplayer game with a click of a button giving you a url you can give someone through instant messenger and join you instantly.
other things i think that would add more fun:
new levels with thunders, moving obstacles, warfare trying to shoot you down,
missions like delivering parcels.
and maybe in the hall of fame you could show the most risky pilots (i guess you could measure speed and angle entering/avoiding the obstacles)
there is no even server hosting the domain. nslookup could give you a hint
godaddy forwarding is not working so for now you have to use it with alias www.
bug: when creating text if the text box is empty and click somewhere in the image new text layers are created with the previous textbox remaining active.
also simple users wont be familiar with the layers concept so if they try to create some text and right afterwards try to paint with the brush because the background layer is not selected it will seem to them it doesn't work because they wont be able to paint.
other than that its obvious it's great work
* oh and i was impressed when I even found layer effects
There is and will be room for more players. Google just wants its piece of the pie...
multiple vendors, different OSs and different UIs over the years is why the Web just worked and will continue to be the biggest common platform no matter if Android or Anti-Android comes along.
from http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/multi.html
Q: In an underpowered twin, what is the role of the second engine?
A: It doubles your chance of engine failure, and it will fly you to the scene of the accident.
That said probably it depends of how big the idea is and how many people are required to implement it, so the number of people it's really an illusion.
Relative to that, other interesting data would be to know how early before it was obvious did they go after their idea and if that gave them time to make mistakes and correct them. Minimizing time-to-market, that works probably in favor of no matter how many are the founders.
Thus, as the number/quality of founders decreases so the earlier your implementation should get or be feasible to get to the market.
all that needless offensive intro to her readers and that pointless ending.
she should follow her own advice starting from the "written communication skills" one.
what's the purpose of her article anyway if she hates 20ers-something that want to become founders?
anyway, just another web page in my block list added
"If it's some sort of enterprise software, and they have massive experience and connections in the industry they plan on serving, as well as the ability to sell, and possibly a line on funding, 2% might be acceptable"
That would just raise the value of their idea and their contribution, not that he should be offered 2%. It's obvious that their value is zero if there is no product built. That could raise his contribution to even more than 33% and not drop it to an "acceptable" 2%! It's ridicilus. If they are so sure about their idea then they should just pay someone to build the software for their valuable idea, which I am sure is as much naive as their attitude.
And from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=73708, someone can make the assumption that there is no salary. Which is why he should be considered founder and no employee.
It is really offensive and provocative for someone to be offered only 2%!
They basis of your thoughts is based in wrong assumptions.
Other mistakes:
"There aren't many professions where someone who is great at his job would be preferred over 10 people"
The characteristic of a profession for someone's capability to worth a lot more than the sum of N others combined, is not restricted to only programmers or limited to a small number of professions. The correct way to say it, is that the number of the people who are way better than others is a lot less than those who aren't.
"So if you think lack of knowledge market rates for developers is the case, you might want to explain to them that they're shooting themselves"
If they do lack the knowledge of "market rates" they should be kind to discuss the value of his contribution. This show that they are naive and want to take advantage of someone. Just this by its own is enough to ignore them because amongst others negatives its an indication they dont evaluate their enviroment, their assets and people, So, why trust their contribution?
"They might simply be unaware that they're offering such a low amount that they're potentially hurting themselves by ensuring they end up with a mediocre developer, if any at all."
If they were unware of the value of writting software they would probably try to pay for the software as much less they can. But instead they went to him and tryed to "hire" him thinking they can fool.
"So try explaining. It's possible, albeit unlikely, that they'll realize how much they need your assistance, and if not, at least you tried to do them a favor."
They know they need his assistance otherwise they wouldn't have gone to him.
"So I'd tend to say no, unless you really had a lot of faith in those two guys. I suppose you'd have to have some to even consider the deal,"
Having faith to guys that treat you innapropriately is error prone, especially for a startup.
Oh, and it gave me a headache reading all those undeterministic values of the words you are using "not so many", "how big", "that bad either". Compared to what? They just added confusion to the point you are trying to make.
Applications opening their data to others through a general api is the first step towards semantic web.
So where is the misuse exactly?
I didn't describe OpenSocial as the Semantic Web. W3C XForms were beaten thanks to the workaround of AJAX applications. which are not even supported in IE7.
Obviously the Web is not commercially mature to grasp Semantic Web in its whole.
It's also the first step towards semantic web!
Web is changing for sure
Probably even if you never go after this idea with others, these type of guys would even accuse you for their failure..
Aristotle Onassis
You can either give source code or flowcharts. I am not sure if it's ok with object code.
Have a look at the ICQ patent and other known patented software, to see how claims should be written.
Applying on your own online at uspto.gov or epo.org could really cost you not much.
Or try legalzoom.com.
A lawyer will be helpful if you don't know how to write your own claims.
*update
If the software is an early version you should consider filling a provisional patent, which costs less. This would give you 1 year to perfect it. Though you should be careful because if your description in the provisional is out of scope and doesn't match with the patent application it would not server any purpose.
it's obvious he is considering Facebook overvalued
Until then, the next version of XMLHttpRequest should somehow provide a way for the server to send a request to the client, not needinng the client to make requests all the time...
Or maybe you should be asking what will replace or make better the DOM?
by the you can downmod me how much you want. i dont care about my karma. i dont say anything here for karma anyway