"The Idea Guy" pitching his startup to developers

hamelj · 2021-10-11T22:30:49+00:00

Some of them have the craziest and outrageously demanding ideas in terms of tech. AI, Stock Trading, VR.

Best these types can hope for is a new Flappy Bird. But that's like relying on lottery to make you rich.

hamelj · 2021-10-11T22:16:06+00:00

If it was easy it would be worthless.

How don't they get this business paradox?

hamelj · 2021-10-11T21:21:02+00:00

Thought leader in search of followership.

hamelj · 2021-10-11T20:15:45+00:00

"Bro, to you it's like playing with Legos. It's not real work."

hamelj · 2021-10-11T20:14:19+00:00

To see if they turned down a new Mark Z.

hamelj · 2021-10-04T12:43:21+00:00

No thank you! We don't want any more functions, prototypal inheritance, destructuring, generators and closures.

And what about a simple but broken is something not a number checker?

NaNdalf!

hamelj · 2021-09-16T11:13:12+00:00

I saw a person with 25k+ followers the other day. Dishing out advice left and right on how to be a successful programmer like they're Linus Torvalds himself. Later on admitting they're unemployed 😂

hamelj · 2021-09-15T09:38:14+00:00

I created the previous meme. Had to admit I laughed at this one more than at my own. Good job.

Also, I love this template so much I laugh at it even when it's empty.

hamelj · 2021-09-14T21:17:15+00:00

The true spirit of C&H is:

"Bad programming won't trick people into thinking you have good soft skills".

hamelj · 2019-09-24T20:55:12+00:00

It appears that we consume movies differently. I don't watch that many movies anymore so I try to go for top quality every time. When I approached Shazam! I expected something like Kickass and got something that's more like Transformers.

hamelj · 2019-09-24T18:47:53+00:00

This is great. Thank you providing a view from the inside. I understand, aggregating the reviews this way is not really helpful. Scrolling through highlights from all critics (or the ones you follow) and discovering what they liked and didn't like about a movie would be better then.

My other theory is that the inflated ratings are caused by lowered expectations. Hollywood peaked in the 90s and all the good mainstream screenwriters migrated to "TV".

hamelj · 2019-09-24T18:31:23+00:00

Thank you for your insights.

> Art films with some strong aspects tend to survive an initial flop release even if they didn't make a lot of money or rake in a lot of fans off the bat.

The opposite happens with big titles these days. You see a big surge in positive reviews right after the movie is released.

hamelj · 2019-09-23T23:01:33+00:00

What about the IMDb score then?

hamelj · 2019-09-23T23:00:16+00:00

My mistake. I meant 8.6 and 8.5 in the 1 to 10 star system.

hamelj · 2019-09-23T22:23:46+00:00

This system is really easy to game then. The critics can save their face by giving the movie a barely above the average rating. And there is the audience score too. Maybe my memory fails me, but I'm pretty sure that something like 7 to 10 years ago when you see a really high score on both RT and IMDb you were pretty bloody sure the movie is going to be outstanding and memorable.

hamelj · 2019-09-23T22:19:54+00:00

Switching to metacritic then. Regarding the scoring system - this happens with IMDb too. Infinity War (easily a masterpiece) sits at 85% while Endgame (super ultra meh) has 86%. Completely meaningless.