blzabub

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   by blzabub 12y ago

   Funny, I was almost exactly 31 when I decided to abandon my small business and go into web development. I have a degree in Psychology but had a long hobbyist programming history going back to writing BASIC programs on an Apple IIe, then lat
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   by blzabub 13y ago

   Product/Market fit. Most think about changing the product, this is just changing the market.
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   by blzabub 14y ago

   Because of the points I made in my OP: engineers and patents. I'm not saying that Apple wants Bill Nguyen. Based on his leaving Apple last time his company was acquired, maybe they in fact don't want him. They want his engineers and patents
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   by blzabub 14y ago

   Why not an acquihire? Perhaps (pure speculation) Bill Nguyen is brilliant at hiring engineers, masterful at developing new technologies (and their associated patents), but utterly crap at productizing these technologies? Guess who is really
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   by blzabub 14y ago

   The man has a degree in Neuroscience from Brown University, he is not unfamiliar with critical thinking, analysis or statistics.
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   by blzabub 15y ago

   This is the first time I've seen "The Goal" referenced in relation to software development. I'm surprised I haven't seen it brought up before. I read it as required reading when part of a software project team back in 1999 and it still seem