The Craftsmanship of Code

Last week my sister accused me of being a snob. That stung in that special way reserved for jabs that are true; that you wouldn’t change if you could; and that you wish other people wouldn’t notice. In this case I had apparently gagged raised an eyebrow when she told me about her [...]

The Maestro Set-up

There’s been a lot of chat about the Subway Maestro, some of it wistfully sad, most of it implicitly self-congratulatory, and all of it lamenting the sorry state of mankind.
For the four of you who missed the story, Joshua Bell, who is the current Best Violinist Ever, did a stunt where he spent a few [...]

Funding now, funding later, funding never

When do we start to try for funding? That’s the question that’s been hampering my coding recently and making me sleep a little less soundly.
Research doesn’t help. Web 2.0 patron saint Paul says you need angel funding to succeed:
There is much empirical evidence that this is true. Very very few companies make it [...]