Hey!
Do you still love the idea of programming/building stuff?
Was your successful startup the product you always dreamt of building? (Or at least you had other ideas you didn’t pursue)
Now that you don’t have the financial pressure and don’t need to associate with co-founders that may drive you crazy… why not start something just for you, just for the fun of it? Give yourself a couple of years to try and make it work. Committed, but without pressure from others.
I guess we all have those things that we would do “if I had the money and the time”.
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There's more to the payment world than Stripe vs Braintree :) Actually, there's more to payments than cards! In many countries, local alternative payment methods account for more than 50% of e-commerce transactions. Do Stripe/Braintree support them? No.
Even more, you'll most likely have to integrate with each payment method's specific API/workflow!
2) Integrating with our API is the best way to remove the pain of supporting current and future payment methods! With one single integration you'll be able to support not only cards, but also dozens of Alternative Payment Methods from countries all over the world.
If you consider the "infinite" of space and, especially, time, I believe that the probability of the existence of (at least) one "inteligent" species capable of reaching any given place of the universe is 100%.
Time is not infinite, and our past light cone is not infinite. It grows as less than the cube of the space we can observe (the universe is very not universally distributed), while the independent probabilities of whatever is required for life multiply exponentially. The idea that the odds of life are 100% is just a naive "Big Numbers" fallacy.
The Prime Directive was created to preserve the desired structure of drama on a TV show. It is ludicrous from any other perspective.
The Prime Directive only works if you assume that these hypothetical species are much more altruistic than we ourselves are. I find it highly unrealistic that any species, however highly evolved, would be 100% altruistic, with no rebels/thieves/slavers/prospectors that would desire to interfere with or destroy us humans.
And that's not to mention that realistically it would be almost impossible for a civilization to completely hide its presence. For example as humans our radio footprint from TV and radio and satellite broadcasts is spreading out of our solar system. That's going to keep on traveling and I don't see any way that we'd be able to just "erase" that so that no one else would notice it.
It is a new kind of approach to software development: SFAQL.
Shoot First, Address Questions Later.
I bet this kind of decisions are a consequence of MBA/Excel mindset. Developing software properly takes time and money and that isn't... lean (lol) and doesn't drive billion dollar valuations.
You are aware that a core concern of business programs is risk assessment and mitigation, right? So how does this out-of-hand assumption follow so necessarily?
These days it is inconceivable to make any webapp, big or small, without some kind of Javascript MV* framework. IMHO Backbone is a great choice as it isn't too opinionated to start with, but scales to more complex scenarios.
What would be "nice to have" was a part regarding memory leaks, as it can become a problem with Backbone's Views.
I dont see a all how this is like an App store, unless you start selling arduino firmware as downloadable content. Its like the title says, Etsy for electronics
