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Then again, I'm biased.

A proven track record of being self motivated and being persistant with their goals are far more valuable traits in an individual than a piece of paper saying they went to some college or university for several years.

2. $3000 for marketing is nothing and will most likely get little results even if op is a marketing guru which does not appear to be the case.

I've had this happen to me multiple times, and I'm the most reliable person I know when it comes to this stuff.

Reasoning aside, sometimes people are just rude and selfish and it doesn't have to have anything to do with being late at all it's just one of many symptoms of the underlying problems.

I've never met someone that was an elitist and not full of crap.

The most 'elite' people I've ever had the pleasure to know were intact very humble about it so whenever I come across someone who acts elite but is not at all humble about it they usually don't last too long because I see this as an attitude problem that can and should only be solved by the individual.

I'd be interested in knowing why this is so as well.

Things are always great till they don't work, and usually are absolutely horrible when they don't.

I see your pipe dream on a daily basis as do many other competent functional programmers so I have to disagree with your entire argument which seems to more related to human error than programming paradigms getting in the way.

The two hours were most likely spent on office politics as opposed to fixing the problem. I'm surprised it wasn't > 5 hours to be honest.

I'm not sure at what point MVC based design patterns became the definition for OOP but stranger things have happened.

People calling JavaScript the new HTML5 gets me everytime!

To be fair though the topic of discussion was semantics so if we are only talking about semantics it is correct as per the dictionary terminology to call JavaScript an FP or an OOP because it is both.

This simple logic of fitting smaller things together to make bigger things has always delivered superior results for me regardless of the language in use.

OOP seems ass backwards to me but everyone I talk to generally doesn't have a clue how FP is different to OOP!

If you had done this originally, this blog post would never have been written, but you would have had a superior name to learndotdotcom 8+ months ago.

I know it may look bad to change your name again, but thinking long term, this confusion around this name is going to impact your organisation in ways that you can't even measure so if it is at all an option at this case I would strongly recommend pursuing an alternate path.

Sometimes its cheaper to do things the expensive way.

By their definition i'm a scientist because I've built a few products! I certainly don't see myself as one.

Had the exact same experience, otherwise, pretty nice.

If we do, then perhaps it is possible to make the manufacturing processes simple enough within this time frame to bring the costs down to the point where these types of companies would be commercially feasible.

Give yourself some credit, you know stuff, and you can know even more if you want to :-)

That is what self growth is all about after all!

I find that having an understanding of human psychology is a critical step towards being effective with this kind of stuff, because it helps you work through the psychology of other people for a common goal (ie, a random conversation with a stranger, job interview, speech, etc).

Without it, your flying blind. When I was younger and flying blind it cost me a number of futures I will never see now.

Humbleness can come off as exploitable and dumb, just as much as it can come off as being intelligent, it's not just what you say, it's also how you say it!

Safe journeys!

It doesn't 'look' or 'feel' good at all.

Almost every change I see is a step back, instead of forward, which is crazy considering how awful it was before.

Then again Ebay's strengths were never in anything product related.

I do believe that Ebay is very strong in the business side of things which is the real reason why they are still here today.

Sadly the product has always been in a state of neglect, so maybe I'm crazy for actually expecting something different from them this time.

If you don't have the personal desire to learn in the first place, then I doubt that education can genuinely "teach" you this.

Where does this desire come from? It comes from within, so it can't be "taught" to most people who are unreceptive in the first place.

During my life of 27 years, I have met only a few other individuals with the same eagerness for self growth as I have, and hundreds of people who have no interest or concept of what self growth even means and dozens of additional people who are somewhere in between and use their social skills to manipulate other people instead of manipulating themselves to be better people.

Funny, funny world we live in!

The total percentage of Mac+iOS across the total uniques was quite high at around 25% and like your figures, a huge portion of this was from iOS users, not Mac users.

Never thought to do a run down by OSX version but I agree that the numbers would be very small.

Uniques over this period were between 2-3 million.

I'm part of that small percentage although I'm trying to change to Safari!

It would be really nice to have it using the same API, but yeah, it would be really tricky to actually pull it off.

Then again, I heard about gifsockets (http://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets) earlier today, so I guess anything is possible!

And I'm not? Talk about judging someone without knowing anything about them, wow! When did I say that the Microsoft idea was a good idea? It wasn't.

"And Nokia is not a startup, but a big company that should have the resources to branch out a little and test the water with an Android phone."

I never said or implied Nokia was a startup either? Nokia is a big company with big problems without the resources to branch out a little and test the water with anything, and this will probably be their downfall. That was the whole point behind my previous post!

That's how smart companies are doing it - they are A/B testing competing solutions. Take a look at Google - that's still working on Chrome OS, in spite of Android being a success.

I'm not even sure if your talking to me now?

And I get that Nokia wanted to focus on fewer products, to preserve resources, however they've gone to the extremes, throwing away years of hard work and even consumer goodwill, adopting an operating system that they don't and will never control

I completely agree?

at least with Android, if anything had gone wrong with the Google partnership, they could have forked it, just like Amazon did.

Yeah, but they had Meego back then, and the Android platform was unproven, so tell me why they should have chosen Android over Meego again?

Actually, I have a better idea, don't bother, I'm not interested in talking about "what if's" only "what now's".