Yes and clearly they are not the same constraints.
It's ridiculous to think this raises any sort of awareness to the real issues that poverty presents. It's trite and ignorant to think anything otherwise.
Constraints? You mean like not owning a car and the increased insurance premiums from living in a high risk area with no credit to speak of?
Which is why it's complete and utter bullshit.
You sleep in horribly shitty conditions, where noise is a constant problem. You do this day in and day out and with poor nutrition, lack of heating/cooling, and a shitty mattress. All in a attempt to save up for a car, insurance, maintenance costs and gas?
Yet it's just about budgetary constraints. Right you are sir. Right you are.
I am guilty as much as anyone of riding my hardware pretty hard and for far too long but you're just moving into silly mode. Case entry alone would make a prudent upgrade.
I can't speak of the biggest obstacles but Clojure was bound to the JVM pretty early (hence the j) -- I personally have no real interest in getting off the JVM so I have not followed it close at all. Bootstrapping would be the obvious answer though.
"I'm really sorry you feel that way. Of course if you want your money back we have no problem refunding your 5 dollars."
Wow, this comes across as bitter and nasty. How about:
"I am really sorry you feel that way let us refund your money," or the like. Seriously. Your previous comment is such bad business just based on how demeaning it comes across. Better yet:
"I am really sorry you feel that way let us refund your money. However, we've developed some great premium features that you may be interested in; and of course our the main features are free. Can we convince you otherwise?"
It's next to impossible to hustle someone in poker regardless. You can only misrepresent your skill for a very short period of time before the losses become too great to overcome. In most cases you'll never be able to setup a huge bet to recover those losses. (Especially with capped buy-ins of 100-200bb). Furthermore, since there is still the unknown factor like in the the old 5c-draw scenarios -- you have a 4 of kind him a straight flush etc. you can bet everything and still lose regardless to how skilled you are.
Additionally, luck still plays a huge role in the short term no matter how skillful you are. You can't bluff/draw every hand and win over the long term. I can't lose to you for thousands of hands and then suddenly flip a switch and make it up in one hand. This is where/why the pool/golf/prop etc hustles work.
Poker is really about the long term unless you go on a short streak (such as perhaps Isil did) and get out. Otherwise the skill factor will eventually kick in; Even if it takes 1million+ hands before you can even start talking about the "long term" there is no real way to hustle anyone over that amount of hands. Poker wisdom is: "The long term is REALLY REALLY long."
He never said it should have used C++ vs Python but that good Python devs at the time were harder to find (vs C++/Java/C# in his example). This is something time can solve, however his point that picking a platform/language that is has a lot of available talent is a good point if you want to get your product to market quickly. Python was not exactly obscure, but at the time it in my experience, was used more for bash/shell replacement scripts rather then desktop app development. It might not have been the major point of failure but it definitely contributed.
I am with the school that the JVM will become primarily a host for other languages and that Java (the language) will move towards legacy status in the next few years.
Clojure, Scala, Groovy, JRuby, JPython etc all are moving in interesting directions and Java is too mired in backwards compatibility and politics to do anything truly interesting.
Java the language is very much closer to legacy then it is to innovation for sure.
Could you kindly elaborate as to the details of being "funded" in this situation? I am very interested in real numbers. (Obviously you may not be able to provide specifics, but even meta info would be nice, considering the product and the economic climate etc.)
How old are you now? When I was 14 there were no certs -- I got a job in a local PC shop as a stock boy. I am convinced I worked for Korean gangsters now; However back then I thought it was a kick ass job (Since nobody I knew was working.) I still own one fried 8088 mobo (black to black wha?) and the three surfboards I managed to buy whilst working. In reality it was one of the worst jobs I have ever had, as I had to work in an attic sorting PC parts and fetching orders in 100+ attic heat with a 4ft ceiling (I kid not) and had to get to work Sundays @ 5am to unload "orders" from Mexico from the meanest people I have ever met. I learned more about life in that year then I have in the last 20.
It's ridiculous to think this raises any sort of awareness to the real issues that poverty presents. It's trite and ignorant to think anything otherwise.