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I believe it's against Amazon's Terms of Service. They're bigger than you are and they will sue you if you violate their TOS. So check it out!

I liked Marty Cagan's definition: "once you have achieved a threshold number (I advocate at least 6) of live, referenceable customers for a given vertical market"

I'd say you don't have product-market fit until you have closed, signed win-win sales and a working process to acquire more at a profit. But I'm not a huge fan of 'minimal viable products' and rapid iterations. You really ought to at least have a strong competence at actually delivering something that solves the problem for skeptical buyers before you go out "testing".

Never give anything away for free! If people aren't willing to pay for it, your product has no value!

No! If my team can't write readable code, I'll get a better team!

No, because you'll be five years older and young people will cost less than you do. Might as well go eat worms.

Anything totally unrelated to computers, math and hacking! Food, clothing, printed books, sporting goods ... Really, seriously, us hard-core geeks have all the geeky stuff we need and want!

OMG LOL WTF

Yes, unless there's a paid development position at the end of the course. ;-) But seriously, your first programming language should be one where there are numerous entry-level programming jobs in companies where you live. Network, network, network!

Elves?

Yes, and because of the rampant age and sex and racial discrimination in technology, they're history by the time they're 35 just like an athlete.

There's only one reason for Netflix to buy AMC - if they can reduce content cost by firing a bunch of dead wood in AMC management.

I keep seeing this article or variations on it over and over. The question I have is, "Why did they ever have a free version?" Why does DropBox have a free tier? GMail? Why do Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE give away thousands of QA person-hours and more thousands of server hours on community Linux distros? Why are the complicated pieces of software that are browsers mostly free?

While clever and inexpensive, the low speed and low accuracy of this device made it unusable. It was billed as "3-figure accuracy", but in fact it only got that on some cases. A bright undergrad or grad student could quickly uncover useful problems that it flat out couldn't solve.

In short, it was a toy. Anyone basing one's academic grade on this thing was a fool. You really did have to spend the money for an HP-35, or the later Texas Instruments SR-5x calculators that were less expensive.