Amazing story. And I thought I started late.
I hope you succeed.
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I hope you succeed.
People in this field are all about testing hypotheses. This make sense of course, considering it's data and result oriented.
Why not make it so that if you want to save your composition you need to sign up?
Application like this, you don't need a video. Just let people use it immediately.
But what if the biker is not biking on the right edge of the road? (Like when he wants to make a left turn from the left lane.) This will be confusing and distracting for the driver behind.
Agree. The economy is done. People are losing their job. People are losing faith at the education system that promised them jobs. So they look for alternatives.
I have talked to a few home school networks in the Bay. The need for revolutionary change is pretty urgent.
This is a really good point. If the author do a little bit more research, expand on the premise further, and apply it to a few other failed products, this would actually be a valuable marketing article.
Maybe I will write.
First of all Daniel, college won't solve your problem. In fact, don't rely on any external factor to solve your problem (such as transferring to a "more interesting" school). It's all you.
I used to (and still do sometimes) have the same problem as yours, which is thinking that a lot of people are not interesting. This is simply not true, because if I end up spending more time with that person, I would usually change my mind.
What we are experiencing is a typical out-group mentality. It's a human instinct to be on the defensive when we first meet someone not in our tribe, because he can potentially be a spy from another tribe who plans to destroy our tribe.
This simply doesn't apply in the modern days, but we still have that emotion leftover from evolution. Being an emotion means you really have no control over it, you might even make up reasons for your behavior such as "oh this person is just not interesting." It's a known fact, that emotion is felt first and then re-interpreted by your brain. (Check out books on neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, if you want to learn more.)
However your brain can be retrained, just like how you can re-train someone who stutters. Believe me, the latter one is a lot harder to do.
This is what you can do to re-train yourself:
1. Get out of your house (exercise if you don't already)
2. Meet five strangers everyday (any age group is fine)
3. You goal is not to make friends. You goal is to make them laugh five times in twenty minutes
4. Keep a log of the people you meet and write down one thing interesting about each one. (Don't write "not interesting". There's always something interesting.)
5. Keep doing this for at least a month
Making friends is about giving, not taking. I can be the most boring person in the world if I don't want to be friends with you. So give me a reason to be interesting. Make me laugh and I will be interesting. If I'm still not interesting by then, you are having a good time, so what does it matter.
Eventually you'd want to do what SwellJoe has suggested, start a band, start a club, be a leader. Leader gives tons of value to the group, that's why people follow him (and be friends with him).
So, stop thinking, Daniel. Turn off your computer, get out and meet someone right now.
P.S. If you are interested in these kinds of networking/entrepreneurial training, I'm writing a series of blog posts on this topic.
In short, in any situation, if you see someone who might be interesting, just go up and say hi, don't hesitate, you have nothing to loose.
I have to go to work soon, so I will give you the long version later.
How old are you? Where are you?
You can find this out in the google map API.
I imagine vector calculation is just unnecessarily complicated when simply storing the images works well enough.
In that case, panning and zooming seems easier to implement, as you are probably just moving the images around and reloading different ones when you zoom. jquery comes to mind for these tasks.
Maybe it will take some work to make it run as smoothly as Google does it, maybe not.
However after some further thoughts, I changed my mind:
I've played Worms before. He pretty much copied the entire game design from Worms. So basically, he didn't even create the element that attracts the users in the first place.
He was smart to create a Lite version, so maybe he is intuitive about marketing. That's hard to say from one example.
He got lucky, but didn't realize that he did (apparently the app store environment is rather arbitrary). He thinks he has lots of talent at things he didn't design, so he went all-in by quitting his job. Now, he spends his afternoons watching Judge Judy (or as the article says.)
Yes, he knows how to write code. That's about all I can infer.
On top of that, he makes rash decision, lacks hindsight, spends his afternoons doing useless activities.
Now I don't know him. I'm sure he's a good guy. I just think the publicity he got was rather negative for his future.
But hey, any publicity is good publicity, right?
Company A -> Company B -> Acquire
Though I think we shouldn't have them in the first place.
I'd think twice.
However, all memory based knowledge can all go online. Also, video and audio of lectures, homework assignments, etc. Much like MIT opencourse, UC Berkeley webcast.
And, there's merit in an under-graduate degree. There is merit in going to prison too. But that doesn't mean we don't have better alternatives.
1. Most of the professors I had cannot teach as well as a well-written textbook. You can choose your textbooks on Amazon. You cannot (usually) choose your lecture professor. With MIT open course, Berkeley webcast, nowadays you can even choose your professor for without going to college.
2. The good professors and grad student that you met in college, why can't you meet them when you are not in college? What stop you from send them emails or just stop by their offices anyway? In fact, I've talked to far more professors who are not in my college than ones that are.
3. People who want more than a vocational education will actively go out and get their knowledge. The internet + a good library + Amazon is a far larger reservoir of knowledge than any college. Why do you need an excuse like college to learn more?
4. People who just care about a vocational education, and really don't give a damn about liberal arts or general education, why should they let a college force them to learn things useless to them, trick them into thinking that a degree is equal to vocational training, and rob them of their money so they had to spend the rest of their life paying back loans?
5. People who network in college, what stops you from networking in the real world? What stop you from talking to people on a bus, in a park, in the subway, in a conference, in a bar, in a farmers market, in your jobs? Most people don't learn networking in college. They are given their network by dorm assignment. Of course, there are exceptions, and those are the people who eventually learn how to network in the real world anyway, so why not start in the real world?
I can go on for a while. My point is under-graduate college has it's place, but it certainly shouldn't be the only way.
Yes the post author is generalizing. But the fact remains true that most people are not getting what they want out of their college degrees. If that's the way we educate the mass, then there's something wrong with that.
I'd say a framework is more like a factory that produces a variety of fixed-size spice racks (among with other products). You have to learn what button to press to get the right ones, and the spice racks produced will never be exactly how you want them to be.
If you want to quickly generate lots of generic spice rack, then a spice rack factory is all you need. But if you want something really outstanding and unique, then a factory may be anti-productive, and you are better off building it with your own hands.
There's also a difference between mindless consumption and focused consumption. People who produce a lot do the latter.
From my experience, awkward situation like this may ruin a potential relationship.
Eventually, I plan to build a "k-12" system that incorporate entrepreneurial ideas. Of course, nothing big starts big, so I'm starting with minor curriculum changes.
Well, I wanted to program games too, but they just seemed too far fetch at the time, and I had no idea where to start.
Much of the Chinese pride was rooted in such golden eras of the Chinese history. Sadly, in the modern days, this pride has become a nationalistic tool and is used to brainwash people into believing that the Chinese way has been and will always be superior to the other countries', when in fact there is so much the culture can learn from the rest of the world. (I suppose you can say that about any country.)
Things are changing however, hopefully for the better.
Or isn't it?