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well, i suppose that is why a lot of people quit their jobs in the first place.

But if you really MUST stay with the job, get co-founders to help out. But it "might" be difficult finding a passionate co-founder who will understand why you cant quit a mediocre job to focus on YOUR own dream

look at it this way, you need to persuade people into paying a dollar for and app that sends an sms, rather than composing their own poems/messages (which by the way is more thoughtful and special) and sms it for a fraction of what your app costs.

wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

I am not sure what "intelligent persons" the writer researched before writing the article, but the points are very misleading and wrong.

<joke> Well with more people increasingly dropping out of college, salaries have to come from somewhere </joke>

This has been going on for years in many institutions, he has just managed to make it legal.

Instead of limiting his works to his classroom only, i think he will make more profit on his work if he pushed sales and adoption of his books in other institutions, to other professors/lecturers, even than he can ever make charging a class of +/-100 excessively. And forget about the stupid patent.

The main confusion comes in when you realise: Hey he's an economics professor, you'd think he'll understand business better.

Also all submitted apps goes through scrutiny before getting published. To make sure they dont violate any top conflicting issues in your distribution store

its not just Facebook with us-only or us-first products. i believe it has to do with legal issues with other countries.........or good old beta testing

On the contrary,when you get better at coding, just like mathematics,whe you compare your codes with others programmers and are comfortable with the similar code patterns and habits, thats one of the indications that you're becoming a great programmer, just like mathematics.

Impressive.

On point 5, thing is as a programmer (any career actually) with years of code experience, you just know the possible cause for any bug, and what function/class is at fault.

I think the problem is there are too many "me too start-ups" that have created a stereotype against social media start up that actually have a different and real business model.

However if there are problem in health,education etc, why not invest the time to be wasted on a social product that may fail, on an actual problem in the other areas?

i think you're just paranoid

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Question: does dropbox know about this? What about latency and performance issues?

Why?

RANT ALERT!!! "No reading"? What do you do to SMS, email, parking tickets, expiry dates on foods, music details, your watch, video games........ Except you're gonna lock yourself in a room and have a maid do everything, quit kidding yourself. And please reply all our questions and comments, 'cos I'm sure you came back to read them.

He won't see it either. "No reading" remember?

Morse code? I think it's way easier to excuse yourself from the table tho.

I hope we get unadulterated visuals pretty soon. I'm sure it'll be a beauty down there.

Browser of choice? I don't think so. When it comes pre-loaded with the os its no longer a choice. Especially since a lot of phone users have no idea there are other browsers.

To be honest. The best ideas come when you are not even trying hard at it. Like walking down the street, overhearing an argument, or my personal favourite - in the shower. But no matter what just keep a notebook.if that is too big, use the note pad on your phone. so that when even the smallest idea pops in your head (which you think is cool) write it down. It is not enough to just write it down either, don't stop mulling over it, for about an hour or so. (Because from a zen advice, if you go chasing your thoughts, you get too obsessed and lose opportunity for new and greater ones.) Consider a few things like possibility, implementation, improvement etc. After a while (say a day or two) read over your notes, if you still like the ideas, you just might have yourself a viable project.

selling tickets might be nice....how i love product managers (even better sales managers) :)