A couple useful links:

https://intermediate-and-advanced-software-carpentry.readthe...

https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/

When I get no response from a company, I always fax a letter to the company CEO and without fail I get action.

If there are external antennae on the unit, just unscrew them and that will effectively disable the wifi radio since it can't attenuate.

if OP has the same modem as I do they are internal. I use to have this on/off war with comcast as the SSID kept getting turned back on.

I finally just bought my own modem and was done with it.

That's correct. They are internal on this model. Even if they were external, I still want my wifi network, just not the public hotspot so disabling all wifi wouldn't help.

>> Voting should be done from our phones, using a secure account we hold with our government. Vote counting should be done by computers in the cloud

Okay, so now you've removed humans from the voting process two MORE levels, and introduced two MORE possible places where votes can be hijacked.

Never mind that the constitution CLEARLY disallows a direct vote by the populace ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_Unite... ), and the electors can vote for whomever they want and are answerable to nobody since their identities are not known.

All this technology can still be undone by the electors, and until the constitution is fixed, none of it matters.

so what you're saying is that our vote indeed does not count? We are so screwed.

In order for any simulation to proceed at a steady state, there must be at least one constant. Everything else can be variable, but in order for time to progress at the same "tick", it has to have something to measure by.

That said, why create a "tick" when the perception of that tick can vary by individual? When I go into code mode, 10 hours can slip by in an instant, and I'm not hungry or thirsty until I come out of it.

Perhaps it's just an affectation of focus, as time still "ticked" by at it's normal rate.

Einstein said that the effects of time move more slowly the closer you get to C, so it makes sense that C would be the univeral "tick" if this was a simulation. As evidenced by Mars rovers and Voyager, an earth clock on another planet or in space still ticks at the same rate (Voyager and Mars are moving through space at the same rate we are moving around the sun, about 61,000km/hour).

There's no other reason for light to move at a steady speed, and nothing apparent that's stopping it from going faster.

This "tick" theory gets my vote.

I see c as an emergent quality of a base granularity. If the universe is a cellular automata then c would be related to the distance between two successive layers, between what just happened and what is happening now, between now and next.

The most interesting thing about what you said is you don't need coffee every 10 minutes in code mode.

Perhaps I can help you "find" some ideas... they come so easily if one is open to them...

For example, Uber appears to be the end of the taxi business, but it opens up a whole market to developers. You have a beautiful imbalance now, all those taxi drivers and cab companies are heavily incentivized to compete with Uber or lose their companies/jobs.

If there was (and there might be, idk) a platform that allowed all the cab companies to aggregate into an uber-Uber, there's a market for that with known customers. The only obvious issue I see is that in order to make this work, the cab companies would have to give up their fights to block Uber using municipal codes as they are now.

Anywhere you have an imbalance, there's a potential market. The problem is, if you're not on the demand side, your product has the potential of a short lifespan unless it corrects the imbalance.

Google did this with ads, Uber with rides, AirBnB with rooms, tinder with.. well, you know.

Each of these markets had an unseen demand side which each of the companies exploited. Find an unfilled demand and fill it. It doesn't need to be huge, but if it's in the way of someone already moving there, you greatly increase your chances of being acquired.

>Perhaps I can help you "find" some ideas... they come so easily if one is open to them...

The idea should not be a spur of the moment thing. It has be well researched, pros and cons analyzed etc. I am curious if the creator of the thread can elaborate on why the need for a startup. I am even more surprised he was able to find a co-founder without an idea.

Please see my comments.

You should have found an idea before a co-founder. Your co-founder should complement the direction of the business and bring what's missing in your personal skill set.

First step now, is to figure our what each of your strengths is/are, and then create a list of potential ideas that spark each of you, then choose the one that (a) ignites you both, (b) has a realistic revenue model, and (c) can be built without the need for investor capital.

Make sure you choose something that actually has customers you can get to, not something that has revenue potential when you say "If we can just get 1% of the population..."

Lastly, enjoy the journey.

They do complement my skillset.

We did this list mentality to start, but after awhile had crossed off the ideas in each industry we both were excited about.

If this happens, I'm never buying another nVidia card. I will switch to ATI/AMD in a heartbeat. Not because I think Intel is evil, but because it's a customer aggregation play. It's not happening because nVidia will become better under Intel.

As a result, nVidia will be put to death in favor of Intel's crappy graphics engine.

Partially, it's a business continuity issue. The other part of it is that startups with multiple founders tend to grow faster as the founders feed off each other.

If you're the sole founder, and you die. It's over. Nobody else is going to take over with the same energy, passion, and insight you had.

It`s impossible sole forever until die, right?

If the project got fund, it will affirmatively got more talent to join in and grow.

But why require this too much for early stage start-up while it has no enough to do that the best?

Solo founder does not imply solo company. You can hire people -- they'll be employees, not co-founders.

Yes, I have a part-time employee in current, but not co-founder.

Apple wants 30% of your subscription rate if you charge by subscription. I know this b/c I have had the same thing happen, and it's complete bs.

This is why you should be publishing an API and having a "3rd party" writing and publishing your app, so there is no revenue behind it for the douchebags at Apple to screw you out of.

Apple won't care if your app is free and uses a public API, but if there's ANY money in it, they want their 30%, especially if it's recurring revenue.

Thank you for answering my question.

I wish I knew that before going into all of this. How would they even know how much money you are making? Hopefully not by the number of people using the app.

The 30% cut would make sense if they were hosting my servers but 30% for just being a name is insane.