Looking forward to hearing what you need so that it works for your business. We have a fairly lively feature request room over at our help and support forum (http://geckoboard.zendesk.com/forums/176685-feature-requests) or feel free to shoot me a mail (see profile).
Yes, after lots of trial and error, my wife can quickly see through my flimsy ideas even though I still can't much of the time. I get excited about some pretty stupid things.
In the past, I was upset that she wouldn't connect with my vision. After lots of failures, I find that I would much prefer her to be constructively critical of me in this way, rather than always supportive. For one, if she trusted me blindly, then I would have immense guilt when my ideas crash and burn after costing us time and money for no return.
There are more poor people in eight states of India than in the 26 countries of sub-Saharan Africa
That doesn't say anything about the poverty rate.
When the vast central Indian Madhya Pradesh state, which has a population of 70 million, was compared with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the war-racked African state of 62 million inhabitants, the two were found to have near-identical levels of poverty.
So that means certain parts of India have equal or greater levels of poverty than certain parts of Africa. But the poverty rate as a whole is lower.
25 million pretty normal people would not find your statement very nice. The U.S sends a lot of Viagra spam - but that does not mean that all the internet users are sending viagra spam.
Spam reaches a lot of people, because that's its intent. Extrapolating from spam is silly.
I sometimes work with developers in China, it's pretty common for me to send a link to some tech info on a blog etc and then have to copy and email the content instead, since the site is blocked for them. Even one site I created myself, which has <10 visitors/day and barely any content was blocked at some point.
Yes it's impressive, if time stood still and politics never changed, but that's not how the world works :) Everyone knows from the lesson of "retrospectivity" that growth can be just a temporary rise, or just the spike before a decline etc.
If we look at the UK's numbers in that same graph, after having travelled back to 2002 in our time machine, we could also say "but look at the rate of growth the past 4 years!", but looking back at the graph today, with "8 years later" of extra data...
My underlying point was that no mistake in graphs and statistics is as common as the repeated mistake of us trying to predict the future from contemporary numbers, and always ending up being wrong a few years later down the road. Statistics need lots of time to mature and settle.
That's small consolation to him; his brother, former president of Nigeria, died last year leaving several million dollars behind. They are currently trying to recover them through the aid of western citizens.
Note that the two statements are quite different. The guy you replied to was implying that all Nigerians are scammers. I, on the other hand, implied no such a thing and simply made a joke about a type of fraud commonly originating from Nigeria.
I get the joke. But it's not funny. I've read the same joke about 1000 times on various forums. It's just a somewhat mean statement with no humour at all.
Millions of Nigerians work honest jobs to feed and educate their children. It's hard enough that they have to live through the negative stereotype caused by less than 0.1% who are bad guys.
Thank goodness we live in the now. Imagine all you want to do is study mathematics, and people are constantly pushing you here and there because of the color of your skin.
Racism is still very much alive today, yes, thank goodness we live in the 'now', but there is lots of work to be done in this respect, and skin colour is unfortunately not the only factor that people will use to discriminate.
Sorry, that's horse shit. Pirating software to make money is the epitome of hypocrisy. If you need something for your startup, buy it.
Pirating it outright is straight up bad for you and for your startup. If you are successful, someday you might have employees. How can you get any respect from anyone if you tell them to load up a pirated copy of something. Even if not, self respect is an important thing (even if subconsciously). If you know you're cutting corners, you'll end up be less motivated to follow through on things.
Edit: Don't know why people are downvoting, but to clarify: I wasn't sure if jeb was using TPB for the same purpose as we are or if he was suggesting TPB as a way to take a break (movies, music, games etc)
When I had no money, I'd get even $20 software off there. Now I buy $20 software, but I get $900 software off there. In the future perhaps, I'll buy $900 software.
