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The first 18 months of a startup

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tomerico wrote: post #67
ozim wrote: post #65

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My approach in life is that all advice is bad. Exactly because of the same reason you write about. Someone giving advice usually does not have all needed context of your situation. At the same time they are not going to give you all the context they were in while taking similar decision. Even if you would deal with the same people as that person, those people might just not like you and they liked him/her. Where some…

Do you also ignore online reviews on movies, restaurant, products, etc.?

Well yes "Sturgeon's law - ninety percent of everything is crap.". Online reviews are useless.

I get to know about things like series from friends or sites. But I don't have any expectations and quickly judge if it is crap or not, well with "it is a crap" as default and expect to be positively surprised.

Re: The first 18 months of a startup

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owyn wrote: post #66
Cilvic wrote: post #60

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That's sounds awesome and I'd be ready to pay alot for that. Can you use it as desktop replacement installing all applications etc.? Or is there an hour limit? The pricing of 14 € / month can't really provide an unlimited usage of 4 core/12GB/256GB SSD/GTX 1080? Also when i try to pre-order for Germany the ETA is Mach 29, 2022 ...

I've been using Shadow for a year and that's exactly what it does. It's a standard windows box and you can install whatever you want on it, and there's no usage limits. I use it to play windows games on my mac without fussing with dual booting. I played through the Witcher 3 entirely on that machine. :) Non action games are playable over Wifi, but on a wired connection it's much better. It does have its own client an…

You use it for gaming? What was the input lag like for the Witcher 3? I imagine you wouldn't be able to play certain genres of games (like online FPS games for example) due to high latency.
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