Right, the point is, your dad is interchangeable with most of the 'successful' people in music. Unfortunately, this is always true for subjective creative endeavors.
Uh okay. I will say what I will. They could have held this position from the beginning if they had any foresight at all. How hard would it have been to say something like: 'We do not plan to support Bitcoincash given the impact on operations, security, and value uncertainty. If you want complete freedom with your Bitcoincash, take out your Bitcoin. Otherwise, we may add support in the future, but the timeline will be based on our determination of risk to our systems and effort required.'
I think the question to ask is: does Amazon make things better for consumers? The answer is an emphatic yes. Their practices squeeze every dollar out of the price of goods and then put that money right back into something else you want. Magical overnight shipping, digital books and videos, fresh and local food delivery -- what more do you want?
That's a fairly standard retailer request. Walmart doesn't want you selling them something for $15 that they sell for $20 at $15 on your web site either.
Can someone explain the point of all this? Is this to challenge your own ability to stick to a plan? Is it to impress others? The motivation alludes me entirely.
Success of your project isn't entirely objective or logical. Why do we expect the process to funding your project would be? You know, I heard that sometimes wealthy parents will invest millions of dollars in their children's projects. How incredibly biased of them. They don't even ask tough questions in the due diligence process.
There's an assumption here that the amount of design and planning is the correct amount of design and planning. Your statement suggests you want your cake and to eat it too. You want freedom from management, but then want exact specification when advised to "build a box." There is likely a happy medium and I would suggest that your manager probably understands that dynamic more completely than you.
Edit: Agree that technical managers are best suited to evaluate the level of design and planning.
That's not true. Managers are measured on delivery, customer satisfaction, and revenue or profitability. These measures are directly related to ability to manage inputs (engineering resource) to outputs (finished code that drives those measures).
I have seen this work the other way. Manager asks for something reasonable. Devs do not execute successfully on timeline. Devs complain it was unreasonable or unrealistic but refuse to review the process that got them there.
But also a company that shares very little. Snapchat's positioning has always felt relatively scammy to me. Look forward to some amount of transparency around traditional metrics either as a result of this suit or through the IPO process.
If you can open items from Dropbox and edit them directly, there might be hope for the product. Saving even one click between Dropbox and my current collaborative tool (Google Docs, Slack, etc) can be meaningful.
The problem is that companies doing crowdfunding still have too much leverage. They set the valuation, the terms, etc. A 3rd party should set the valuation and it should likely be at a discount to traditional VCs.
It's funny because if you know education's history this is a debate that has gone back and forth every other decade. Before "we" were in school when mixed abilities were separated, mixed abilities were in one class. No doubt in another few years, we will go back to believing that separating based on ability is ideal. At the end of the day, the important thing is to focus on goals / outcomes rather than magic solutions to enable learning.