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I think the difference is an entrepreneur has orchestrated the whole process and isn't just a sales person. They are a dreamer building their dreams in to reality. Anything that re…

Great post. It is a hard thing to sum up. I think this HBR article ( http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/09/entrepreneurship_as_disease.... ) talking about it as a disease is one of the b…

Agencies definitely worked for me. If you are good, it can be steady work without much of the risks.

I don't have a portfolio site, but was successfully freelancing on the basis of referral for four years or so. I wouldn't take a random client on, because bad clients cost money. R…

Need to buy more than one first ... im still waiting in the queue in the UK. Even then it is one-per-person.

http://nostarch.com/hacking2.htm/ A good book, not hugely in-depth, but enough to bootstrap some learning.

"I had an opportunity once to sit down with Don Knuth and play Halo on the X-box." ... best thing I will read today.

As a C programmer, this is flattering, but I also know it isn't true. I wrestled with Erlang for a good while before I got the hang of it. Going from C up the tree of C-like progra…

Spot on.

Knowing both C and Javascript, and loving them both ... I would go with Python+Flask as the sensible choice. However, Go is a cracking language but not all that mature. Javascript …

It used to be annoying that the food looks so different, but after that video ... I feel better ... and hungry. Some good communication there from the McMarketing Department

Nice idea, though the way I see it, you are either: (A) A user who doesn't care what language(s) their OS/toolchain/stack is built with; or (B) A developer who sees the value in th…

na, just thought it was a good obfuscation is all. Fitting for your profession.

Well, an analyst would protect an email like that ... seems legit.

An article against ego that tries to encourage perspective, written by an author with such a big ego and lack of perspective he writes things like: "Maybe, you think that because y…

... if only business followed the logic of programming languages ...

"That's just your lizard brain freaking out." True. All sounds like sane advice to me! This thread has been a much needed re-balancing of my freaking out on the whole!

Good post! I very much enjoyed reading it. You are right in many ways. Also greetings from fellow UKers.

Nope, I don't feel like we have lost! But it is a critical point in the road and easy to lose perspective. so trying to get as much input as possible. You make some really good poi…

Did the times when you didn't force a differentiation or change of direction due to competition turn out well for you?

I am very convinced, it is quite hard to ensure your approach is balanced when your "human" part is worried, your ego says fight and your gut says be smart. Great link btw!

Yes, this is what we are thinking of focusing on ... also trying to take advantage of trouble we expect they will face being mass-market. The trouble comes because the mass market …

This was what I was settling on. Although we are not a me-too currently this seems balanced when considering our overall differences.

This is true.