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throwaway60703
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I'm absolutely certain there are much more non-white (Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese...) programmers than white.

And if we stop with the racism, are you sure it's not the programming that made these guys upper middle class?
throwaway60703
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Yes, that's one of around 50 currently recognized factors of aging.
throwaway60703
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I would hate to have to rely on society to provide services like that. Chances are nobody except the top political brass ever gets their bio-heart.

Thankfully, society in its majestic equality allows all people to establish or invest into startups. Total addressable market at $1M/month is much smaller than at $1k/month, which is still much smaller than at $100/month.

Assuming the expenses are low enough to still give the company a healthy and IMHO fair 20-50% profit margin at $1k/month or $100/month, it'd be dumb to price it at $1M/month. There would be thousands if not millions of companies offering this service - and a race to the bottom of the pricing.

Think about cars - companies are competing on lower prices and better features of these complex machines. There are many models for different kinds of buyers - not just a single option at $1M/month that'd allow the rich to move around.
throwaway60703
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
SOAP

HATEOAS
throwaway60703
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Also bicycles, motorbikes, e-scooters, trams, trains, runaway objects...

I always thought that the city itself could be part of the swarm system. Roadside sensors could broadcast information to all relevant participants - such as "emergency vehicle incoming, move to the right lane, vehicles ID 123, 456 and 789 stop immediately" or "danger - static object at 45th km", or even "slow down/speed up to 60 km/h to optimize traffic flow".
throwaway60703
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
We tried doing this, in many different forms, but it never worked out. At first meeting, almost everyone is present, the second one a half of the team, the third one practically nobody. No matter what we do - eat food, drink tea, play games, tech talks... Nothing works.

Small groups worked only if the people already have a relationship (which is rare), I never successfully got people to consistently join small groups with people they didn't know.

During the office times, this just happened naturally as people felt like it. I don't think you can schedule fun.
throwaway60703
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Pair programming is terrible over Teams/Slack/Zoom.

Hours and hours of "no, click a little bit up/down/left/right, no that's too much, no that's not what I meant, I meant that, no not that" and "write a curly brace, no that's not a curly brace, hold shift and it's the key next to P, oh you don't have US keyboard, it's line 47, no that's line 57, at the end of the line, no I mean really the end of line, put it next to the variable declaration, I mean the part before = ...".

When I worked in an office, I simply sat down next to the programmer I was helping and pointed at the screen or shown them how to do it. The same thing takes 10x more time and 100x more mental effort online, and many times I just do it myself at the end of it.

And when I'm showing something on my screen, I get practically no feedback - do they understand? Are they even paying attention? I have no idea. Seems like they don't and often I notice phone screen reflection in their eyes. I don't really blame them though, I also can't hold attention over the internet. I don't think it's a problem with my teaching style - the guys I taught in person were genuinely excited about it and applied the new knowledge immediately.

The mid/junior guys in every remote team I worked in are nearly stuck in the same place for years, whereas the guys I and other senior engineers helped personally got to senior level within a year or two.

And I don't know these people. I can't talk to them at lunch about cool technologies/games/movies/music, I can't see whether they actually get excited or just politely listen because I'm senior to them. I just can't build a true friendship this way. Very unusually it works out, but it's nothing like the old days of office work where all of our 50-member office were best buddies.
throwaway60703
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Sure. Though if it turns out that there are no customers worth having due to free/cheaper competition, your business has a problem.
throwaway60703
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The seller will always find a maker, but a maker won't be able to make without (being) a seller.

It's normal to sell without actually having anything. Like, famously, Bill Gates and DOS, and many other examples.

You can't rely on "build it and they will come" - that happens only in special circumstances (first mover in a new market).
throwaway60703
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I would never buy this app for more than $9 - there are free alternatives such as Rectangle. $9 is low enough I'd consider it if it has some extra features or polish, but definitely not $49 or $79.