Interesting overview, thanks. It would be nice to have a follow up post with some examples of running Parallelism is ruby via some of the mentioned Ruby Implementations.
I'll follow this up by saying I've had my early adopters very happy to be "getting in on the ground floor" (as they put it). I believe some will find this as the leverage they need to become successful, or at the very least have one up on their competition.
Indeed. Also telling is a lot of the stories on folklore.org - You see a lot of what was described in this article, from yet another unique perspective.
You're looking at it purely from a money perspective. There is more to it than just that.
Yes, you can make $100k/year at a "job" but you may be living a miserable life delegated as a gear in a gear box with no freedom of creativity.
On the other hand, yes, your chances of having a $500/k exit are slim, but how is your quality of life effected? Are you happier? Are you able to spend quality time with the people in your life instead of bitching about your shit head manager?
This is a difficult topic. I've found that adhering to TDD is just not realistic in some cases.
For example, I'm following the Steve Blank approach of Customer Discovery, building my MVP. If I take the TDD approach (which takes more time to code a finished piece of functionality), and successfully iterate enough times during the Customer Discovery process, I throw out all of the tests that I built and am now moving onto something different that I've discovered a customer is actually willing to pay for.
My only advise would be to begin by looking at iPhone and Android applications that transport data (ex: Bump) and see what they are doing. Maybe dig into the iOS online developer docs, they are really good, and see what exists with them first.
"A founder who believes in his business, will never cash out early. period."
That is just not true.
You have zero clue of any one founders back story. How many years have they been building their business and not taking a pay check? Not taking health insurance? Struggling... Taking a payout, in some cases, can motivate someone who has been putting in 24/7 for year(s) to keep going. It can also allow the people in your life (family) to support you in pushing forward with your passions.
This sounds odd, but very intriguing. What are they going to do with that extra tax income? Are they going to put it towards helping educate those that are obese to learn more about nutrition?
I don't really understand your question. I think you need to clarify how you want to transport that data (unless this is your question) before anyone could attempt to answer what you ask.
For me, it's so very nice to have the full power of a unix shell underneath a very elegant GUI.
I know some people will argue they can get the same GUI (or even better) in other environments, and I also know some people will argue they can get the full power of unix in other environments (ex: cygwin). For me, Apple comes with this setup out of the box, I don't waste copious amounts of time configuring it, it just works (for the most part).
I believe at work it's difficult, you have a lot of issues (such as politics) at play. Some peoples daily jobs are the things you may be trying to fix/simplify, and they will do everything in their power to not use it in order to keep what they perceive as their job.