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Sun Feb 12 07:53:00 EST 2017 Slept from twelve to seven. Woke briefly around four. High of forty-two. Chance of rain and snow. - Golang study Done. - Work on a D&D thing I've been digging Michael DeForge's designs for Adventure Time. http://kingofooo.tumblr.com/post/156654689174/concept-art-by-character-prop-designer-michael https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=Michael+DeForge https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Akingofooo.tumblr.com+Michael+DeForge&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 The horror of blimps http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=160851 I laughed. Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624926k Redis, Lua, SQLite, and qmail get multiple mentions. The Stockfish chess engine gets a nod. https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddy_(web_server) https://caddyserver.com/docs/faq Watched a couple of episodes of Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States. Slightly slanted, but interesting. Truman sure comes off as a dangerously ignorant and reckless bumpkin. A racist. A real shit. The series seems in large measure a repudiation of McCullough's Truman biography. And General Groves comes across as excessively hawkish, but basically sane, until he advocates a policy of post-war nuclear preemption. Jesus. Wallace reminds me of Al Gore, although maybe mostly circumstantially. Saw a couple of crows hanging out on a telephone pole. Drank a couple of beers in the afternoon. Worked on not-sendmail brainstorming. Chatted with Jay for a while. I haven't talked to him in a long time. Pleasant. And Jake. Huh. Jake is actually enthusiastic about my start-up idea. Interesting. Me: > Mainly, at this point, I'm not sure if it falls into the category of **************************************************************************************************************************************************** all enterprises *************************************************************************** start-ups****************** expertise ************************************************************** notification ********************** secure, zero-config ********** drop-in ******************* as SAAS. Jake: > Let me tell you something. > You should run like hell with this idea, put together a basic business model, tech demo and be ready to explain to investors just how it would be profitable, because there is a large opportunity. > I contracted at one startup most of 2016, and another one now, 95% of it is puffing yourself up to look relevant and potentially profitable. > The guys I'm working with right now put all their effort into building deals and partnerships, their software is nearly non-existent trash, but they've finally got a potential investor nibbling at the hook that might pump millions into their pockets. > Detroit actually has a large growing startup investment scene right now, I have a few contacts that could get you audience with investors. > If you can frame your idea in a way that an investor can _dimly_ understand, including how it can be profitable, it's a slam dunk. > And by that, I mean, some investor will give you funding to spend as you see fit, including your very comfortable salary, hardware, etc. Probably keep yourself some equity too. Huh. Actually went on to have a long and detailed conversation with Jay and Jake about my idea. Breakfast: carrots, macaroni, coffee Lunch: beer Dinner: pizza

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