I took a new job in a new city. Moving to the new city made me focus on my interests, I think after realizing that I could leave work at 4pm and head straight to the mountain made me realize I have control of my life. I spent 2-3 months exploring this, then ideas just sort of came out of the woodworks. Taking control of my life was instrumental to pursuing the business idea. I wouldn't have put up $30k before then, and it took losing $30k in this venture to realize the freedom that owning your own business really provides.
I ended up quitting the new job and for the next 6 months worked on a business plan and opened up shop. Today I am back to sitting in a strict 8-5 and spend all of my free time honing the next venture.
I went for the 55 and mine just arrived. technically speaking it's better than the TCL and HiSense I was looking at. can't complain for the price, it's bright and fast response. its not future proof, so don't expect 120hz and there's absolutely no features to write about (I don't think even HDMI-CEC volume control works :\)
but hey $219 got me a big ass panel that won't report my porn habits to the mothership
As someone who has glimpses into their own sociopathetic tendencies.. its less exhausting understanding that humans are really just slightly less dumb primates.
That said I'm very low on that totem pole, and am easily pulled back into human behaviors with e.g. a surprise bonus. I have worked with sociopaths who have fully embraced themselves and it's nothing short of amazing how they can bend time and space around them to make people insanely productive
Most ISPs are also content providers, so they may not be able to based on contract agreements they have (e.g. to get the nbc app preinstalled on a roku, they cannot block xyz domains on any of their corporate networks)
Walmart Online is selling a Spectre dumb panel (with good specs!) for $219 for 55” and $279 for 65”. Otherwise I love my LG OLED, which acts as a dumb panel until you accept the overbearing privacy policy (you can still play local DLNA/USB sources without accepting, but can’t run any apps including web browsers so no captive portals)
Do not skimp on your llc. I said $500 to protect yourself. You can go the cheap route but then your name is associated with your business and scams come out the woodworks. Plus it’s hella unprofessional and You may miss out on contracts because you don’t meet their vendor reqs
You also need to maintain out-of-state business registration in the state you reside. I would not get fancy until you can afford a CPA to ensure this is all up to date
It costs $500/yr to run an LLC (Incorporation/renewal fee, registered agent, and a P.O. Box), unless you have no assets and don’t plan to have any assets in the next 2 years then I would strongly recommend incorporating before you have any sort of liability.
All it takes is one oops at a client to have a $1m judgement hanging over your head. LLC (in your state, don’t get fancy) sooner than later. Business insurance is typically another $500-800/yr for software startups, but I wouldn’t recommend that until you have something to protect (like money in the bank)
...a rear fog light is an additional parking light on the rear driver side of your car to help other cars identify the width of your car in foggy or other incline to weather situations. They are not brighter than any other light that would regularly be present on that car. If it is brighter and blinding as you say, rest assured the car has been illegally modified and is subject to constant harassment by police in all other jurisdictions!
This is the Airbus v Boeing problem. There are two schools of thought, one being that you the operator can control all the settings including the ones necessary to avoid the fogging. There are others that do so automatically. So many times people would be aggravated that my a/c would turn on with the heat in my Audi. What they didn’t realize was how that prevented fogging of the windows which inevitably would happen a few min later. I noticed my current car also does this but it turns itself on after the heat has kicked in.
only maintain a separate codebase if the feature is accepted, that way there is a finite timeline on having to be in the build business. As someone who maintained a forked openstack distribution for 5 years as a company selling openstack tooling... we wasted significant time tracking down integration bugs rather than working with the community to integrate our changes upstream
Have never experienced this and we sold a huge number of our app using celery. Based on other replies one should pause, take a step back and consider if their code or design is to blame..
I ended up quitting the new job and for the next 6 months worked on a business plan and opened up shop. Today I am back to sitting in a strict 8-5 and spend all of my free time honing the next venture.