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Hey Walter, What were your "salesman" lessons from Empire? What would you do differently today?

Thank you for sharing the details.

Hi, How did you manage to get them to pay you hourly to create a project plan? What did you propose? I also need to do this for my venture but never clicks. Please share some advic…

even if it's explicitly stated in the contract and the employee has agreed to it? Why would it get thrown out?

Thanks for sharing that.

Did you promote/share it somewhere? How did the customer find you?

Welcome back Walter! Which is your favourite D compiler? Do you ever play around with other compilers too and compare the executables?

Could you enlighten on how you managed to take those to market after the rejections?

I was just looking at your classicempire site and stumbled upon the rejection letters!! Did you take up Sirius's offer to act as broker for 30% cut on deal?

I was a bit surprised by the inclusion of lesser languages and the omission of D !! Please share the secret of your tenacity and inspiration in the face of such "setbacks". How do …

> "Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?" You are an inspiration Walter !!

Dear Walter, Thank you for the great work you are doing. If you could get people to include D in the benchmarks / shootouts that get published it would help improve the popularity …

(a) In the short run, a good job generally gives much better financial returns than a startup. From the overall vibe of your post, I would say don't startup unless you have a compe…

I have tried D, loved the language but I feel the ecosystem and environment issues need to be addressed asap. Here are a few inputs (1) setting up env different operating systems e…

outsourcing search to Bing certainly didn't help. Not sure they had much to lose in search.

They could have been serious contender in semantic search. I remember trying to reach out to some yahoos regarding an ambitious, yet serious proposal on semantic search using ThatN…

Here's a Specific case: A classifier to bucket input text(email body containing 1 or more sentences) into booking, refund, other (3 buckets).

What are the benchmarks for the best classifiers in the world? Are there any benchmarks available on leading commercial providers?

This question would be on the lines of : * If you are so smart why aren't you so rich * If your product is so great, why aren't you the market leader already

You are welcome!

I agree there. Plenty to be done still.

I agree with Shostack. He is talking about removing friction, easing out the learning curve. The command line make command on GNU/Linux is an example of something that "dumbs down"…