Bleurgh

[prog]

Hiding in the Diesel with a nice green tea after getting dragged over the coals by one of our new business contacts. I am so glad that we brought daerr along, and regret not trying harder to get him to come to earlier dates with new business contacts. I can put together a mean argument in writing, given a day or three to grovel over it, but Andy's on-the-fly rhetorical kung-fu is so much stronger than mine.

The take-away from this is that our business plan - the written document, that is - still conatins some fairily hectic weaknesses and oversights. This guy's prognosis is actually similar to one we've already heard, from the angel who hasn't quite deleted us from his Palm yet: We talk and talk and talk about our wonderful tech, and that's great, everyone is sure that our tech rocks, as does our ability to make good on future tech plans. But we're still not clear, it seems, about how this translates to a massive ROI for the targeted reader. Where, exactly, do all these users come from? Why doesn't one of our competition take all our open source code and make their own Volity without out consent? How come we're not obsessed with exclusivity? We have answers to all of these but apparently they're not communicated very well in the document.

Very well. I shall have to fix it, along with the other 1000 things I have to do before August 1. Line em up

First I shall order a sandwich. And um... I probably need to look in another place for jobs today, too, since I have so far gotten only one non-negative response to my Sunday emails, and it is from the sketchiest-sounding company. (A "biomedical" company with a yahoo.com email address and no Google presence. Riiight.) Andy also gave me some good advice on looking for work that won't kill me. I can, in an instant, get a full-time job. I might even find one that I enjoy. And it will probably leave me with 2 hours per day left for Volity. So, this is not my number-one choice, no. There are other job morphologies, though...

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

"Biomedical" as in "sending emails about viagra", perhaps.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Oh totally. I was thinking that they ran contraband or something, but that makes far for sense.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Running contraband might at least be interesting. What kind of logistics software do you suppose they use?

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

We are in continuous need of competent Java coders. Let me know if you want more information; the office is two bus rides (or the red line + a bus) from your place, or about a 30 minute walk. There are even a number of people who work part time, for one reason or another.

Not me

[prog.livejournal.com]

I can pick my way through Java well enough - I did some early coding for Gamut - but it's not something I can do without stress. Perl is my sunlight and my soil.

Re: Not me

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Drat. And now that you say that I think we had this conversation once already, more's my shame.

Ah, well.

I was poking a bit at Gamut last night, with a vague intention of seeing how hard it would be to code a game in it, and to see what you've been up to. Looks pretty good overall, both from an end-user standpoint and as an API, at least on cursory glance. As a UI/UE curmudgeon I have a bazillion comments, but I'll restrain myself. (Unless you want that kind of critical feedback...)

Re: Not me

[prog.livejournal.com]

Actually, yes, I do.

Post em here if you want, or on the javolin-devel mailing list. But here is fine.