I know this is an oft-raised subject on HN but I find that none of the tools I've come across thus far have solved any of my problems. As someone with poor impulse control and decent digital literacy, I find that I ignore any tracker app that tells me I'm on my computer too often, and I will circumvent any blocker I set up to disallow me from accessing media that I had earlier decided I should...
I'm a SWE and have been interested in building something on the side, but don't have any ideas that I think are particularly brilliant at the moment. I've seen a recent trend of people building what they call 'microstartups' which seem to essentially be very small, very specific products that they've able to ship quickly.My question is – how are you guys handling payment processing for those...
From a probabilistic perspective, the partition function is the normalizing constant for the Boltzmann distribution; if the partition function takes value Z, then the probability of any state of your system is given by P_state = exp(-E_state/T) / Z. Since the numerator is dimensionless (it represents an unnormalized probability), and the left hand side represents a probability (which is dimensionless), the denominator Z must also be dimensionless.
As someone new to entrepreneurship, I would say 90+% of the advice I've been receiving so far is 'make sure people want your product before you build it', or various platitudes along those lines.We're well on our way towards a polished 'beta' launch of our product, but I took this advice somewhat seriously and went ahead and developed some pre-launch marketing materials for our product that...
I realize now that my initial post may have implied otherwise, but I'm mostly looking to start establishing relationships that may lead to entrepreneurial collaboration in the future. I'm definitely not looking to jump straight into anything at the moment – it's not like there's a particular idea I'm in love with, and I'm naturally a very cautious person so I'd like to take the time to get to know people before starting a project with them.
My concern is moreso that it takes a lot of time and effort to build trust, and so I'd like to start meeting such people sooner rather than later.
I spent most of my undergraduate degree (in applied math/physics) with my head down powering through courses and working a job in the evenings to pay for my education. Over that time, I met a bunch of talented people, many of whom I keep in touch with, but none of whom I could ever see myself working with. Moreover, they're also all engineers as well with skillsets that more or less resemble my...