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First, you did something. Nothing can take that away from you. So be proud of what you did. Next, you learned a valuable lesson that will come with you into your next projects. Learning to "sell" is absolutely critical for so much of life - not just tech startups.

Finally, this is not the end. There will be more ideas and more opportunity. You're already on to the next thing. Keep moving forward. It's not how long or short the game is, or how quickly you move. It's how long you stay in the game. Keep playing the game.

History is replete with examples of people who have found measurable success later in life. I might recommend starting with a review of those people and their lives and looking for any parallel that may suit you. Let me just leave one example from my culture, Rabbi Akiva, one of the most influential and revered Rabbi's of all time, that I often think of at times like these:

"When Akiva married the daughter of Ben Kalba Sabua,[a] a wealthy citizen of Jerusalem, Akiva was an uneducated shepherd employed by Ben Kalba Sabua. His wife's first name is not provided in earlier sources, but a later version of the tradition gives it as Rachel.[2][6] She stood loyally by her husband during the period of his late initiation into rabbinic studies after he was 40 years of age.[2] and in which Akiva dedicated himself to the study of Torah.

A different tradition[6] narrates that at the age of 40, Akiva attended the academy of his native town, Lod, presided over by Eliezer ben Hurcanus. Hurcanus was a neighbour of Yosef, the father of Akiva. The fact that Eliezer was his first teacher, and the only one whom Akiva later designates as "rabbi", is of importance in settling the date of Akiva's birth. These legends set the beginning of his years of study at about 75–80."

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi_Akiva

As a lure, so they can arrest him in the US? Clicks? Otherwise not sure why.

I love your work and admire your approach. But you should recognize a void will emerge and void get filled. Someone (probably reading this thread) will clone your idea and make it a supported for pay service.

It wont be me. But some enterprising engineer/pm/group who was recently laid off in this downturn will probably make a go of it.

If the client is worth enough to you, get on a plane and physically shadow the workers who use your system for a few days. Absolutely nothing can replace direct face to face engagement with real life users.

In this case the person you are speaking with is a boss who either will not or can not articulate his needs. You need to go the the source - the front line users.

While I’m sure everything in this PR is true, I’m also gonna take a moment to read between the lines. Apple will/should leverage this relatively unprecedented/innocuous statement to accelerate diversity in their supply chain.

With the US squeezing China with sanctions it is only a matter of time before China retaliates against Apple. Politically, reducing pressure on China in the US is not tenable in this climate. We’re in a one way ratchet and Apple needs to diversify away from China as quickly as possible. Covid lockdowns in China ultimately provide a fantastic opportunity and official/formal face saving measure for Apple (and all other US manufacturers) to establish alternate supply chains without openly antagonizing China.

Hypothetically? We’re already there.

Wait till some new laws show up. Wait till it is economically incentivized to buy redactocams.

“…erasure of undesired objects”

This is not going to turn out well. Do we really want to edit reality in this way? This is like the printer that automatically watermarks your prints - for your security and protection! Coming to a child protection law near you real soon.

Want to take a picture of that Ferrari? That’ll be an extra $5.

No, you really can’t take photos in airports.

Thats a police officer(s). (Literally) Nothing to see here, move along.

Vampires/Ghosts. A class of people who’s faces are in a master redact database. You know, like some real CIA Jason Borne stuff.

Military installation? What military installation? Replace with slave labor camp or, a more economically favorable rendition - “sweatshop.”

+1

All power to you! Congratulations. For me, the takeaway is that XR (AR+VR) opens up a new market and attracts new people (customers). Everything in our world is a continuum. Candles to lightbulbs, horses to ICE to EV mobility. Telegraphs to phone to cell. The adoption curve is the continuum.

Your comment is such a clear signal that this technology, XR, has a place on this continuum. It will evolve and attract new people to it who have not been sold on/motivated to engage with previous generations of presentation - in your case exercise.

^ This right here is a business ^

Helping small ISVs turn their software into SaaS offerings.

Well done and congratulations on shipping something that works. As you are still early in your journey, keep that with you. At the end of the day the specific tech and techniques will often recede into the background. What people - you, your colleagues, your bosses, your customers, even your competitors - will remember is that you delivered something that got the job done.

Always be shipping.

“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”

-Lavrentiy Beria

https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2018/05/09/show-me-the-man-and-i...

No, no, this is about exactly right. When the CCP comes for Taiwan, the exodus will be on a scale unseen in our generation.

It seems your family history has been blessed to not know this sort of existential crisis. For generations now, The US of America is, actually and literally, viewed as the land of salvation and opportunity for millions of people around the world. Do not pretend that it is not.

LGTM. +1.

Apple should be paying enough money that that issue is not a consideration. If I’m Apple (or anyone else for that matter) I’m paying absolute top dollar times two to resolve these issues. And I’m not even thinking twice about it.

(Right, like returning to a country you were trying to escape.)

Die, eh? Na, this isn’t the one.

I think they should add a few zeros onto that reward. These bounty programs should be dropping 10x dollars on these bugs.

My takeaway from the ask is what can you get done as a “solopreneur” and which tools do you use to do it. It looks like there are many answers and no single “right” answer. I’m particularly interested to know why people pick the tools that they pick.

Partition Key selection aside, if you want a better Cassandra, look at ScyllaDB. Much, much better engine, imho.

/disclaimer/ I used to work at Scylla.

The fact they failed twice, as you point out, is only more reason to believe they will succeed. There isn't much that success first contact with reality.

A trillion dollar company with the temerity to endure will eventually succeed.

If you were your ancestors who were "run out of town on a rail" you would care very, very deeply about your familial bond to Israel. Like yours, my family was run out of town. Unlike yours, many in my family did not run fast enough. If only there was a place they could run to either as first resort or when quota had been reached in other places. If only there was a place that could make running a specific people out of town a very costly pursuit for those who were making those people run.

Israel is and will always remain the eternal Homeland of the Jewish people. Am Yisrael Chai.

In the Jewish culture when someone has a birthday you say "ad meyah esrim". Which basically translates as "until 120". 120 is considered to be the max lifespan if not literally then certainly figuratively.

So is your internal mem structure/unit of operation split on new line? Sounds like you need to refine that to include a max character count sub line structure.

Couldn't they vote with their feet by selling Oregon and buying Idaho?

I think you mean, German Jews brought their innovations to the US because Germany tried to kill them.

There is an axiom to never negotiate with terrorists. While we all know that isn’t always entirely true, let’s recognize that this payout will be considered a turning point.

Regardless whether or not you believe ransomware should be paid, my takeaway is that these ransomware attacks have done more for promoting “cyber security” than all the marketing budgets of every security vendor combined. If you’re employed as a security engineer or thinking about getting into the industry, there has never been a better time to ask for more money and more authority.

As someone who reboots periodically just to clear dozens of windows with a hundred tabs or more, can affirm that this is the modern bane of my work existence.

+1 to making this better. Please.