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I've been in software for over 20 years. In my early days most things had to be hand rolled; none of this libraries for every action you could imagine. So today I was working on a storage tree and I was getting really annoyed that it never stayed balanced, I was sure it should, but it just kept getting out of kilter - an example was with 500,000 elements I expected it to be 10 deep but it was 60 deep.
Elephants were named, I called the sunshine developer [me] every name under the sun. What was I doing wrong, it MUST be self balancing, that's the bloody point. So I read up on B-trees and I had an epiphany. I DID NOT UNDERSTAND HOW TO OVERFLOW UP. Yup, I was splitting at what ever level and not overflowing up. Twit, twat, twot!
Vilmos R stoopid!
Twenty bloody years and I never saw that. 
speramus in juniperus
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Well, we knew you were a slow learner... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Says the man who still hasn't learned to keep his trousers on a pasture...
speramus in juniperus
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Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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I hope you'll consider writing an article for CP on your overflowing-up technique; I'd be very curious to know which sphincter needs to be reversed to permit this.
bill
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: it MUST be self balancing, that's the bloody point
I never worry about that, I think it's a waste of time. I would just balance it periodically rather than wasting time/processing after each change.
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Hi All,
In our place we routinely have what I have taken to call the 'Friday Panic' usually down to either customer A jumping up & down, units that we were supposed to sent/receive being either not ready or not arrived. The stuff we send mostly is international so the courier is booked in advance, leading to the Friday Panic like today I spent a good portion of yesterday trying to get a delivery ready to avoid said panic, but ended up with two units missing (see where this is going...) couldn't find the <<kss filter="">> dang things <> found this morning by the Boss in a bin cue "we need to be more organised speech", program, test finish boards. Panic over by 11:30 should I be worried....
Off Topic "Happy Birthday Bob!!"
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glennPattonWork wrote: Panic over by 11:30 should I be worried
Oh yes! There are plenty of hours left to generate a new panic! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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That is what I am afraid of. Well drink coffee, experiment with some code keep VS open so anyone who walks past my desk thinks it of use, dream about my Raspberry PI experimentation tomorrow!
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The ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) icon has changed.
The is dead, long live the !
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Maybe it's a birthday thing. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Happened a couple of days ago at least.
I think Nagy was teh first to notice (pretty much as you'd expect)
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Joan Murt wrote: he [beer] is dead,
The [beer] is never dead mate, you are wrong. The [beer] will live long after the humanity is extinct or eaten by enormous space human-eating bugs.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Hello all,
Searching for advice here. Only starting points, nothing so deep.
Own experiences welcome.
Previous notes:
Imagine that:
- You have a big business idea that could give lots of cash.
- You don't have money to start with it.
- This would imply leaving your country and travel and establish yourself in the USA.
- That business would be something related to new technology, gadgets and programming.
- Implementing that would require good lawyers, some programmers and a small infrastructure.
- Preparing a professional business plan it's not an issue.
Question:
How would you proceed?
Which are the steps you would take to ensure that the idea would not be taken by others keeping in mind you need to explain the idea to get financing from any kind of source (business angels, partners...).
As always thank you in advance! 
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Venture capital
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Firstly: I haven't done anything along these lines myself...
But:
Joan Murt wrote: would require good lawyers
Joan Murt wrote: ensure that the idea would not be taken by others keeping
Can't you already patent the 'idea', which (c)(w)ould even make a stronger case towards the venture capitalists as mentioned by the resident Dalek?
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I'm not sure why you feel the need to go to Merca.
Can you not, as I am doing, at least get to proto-type stage with your idea without funding? That way you have a concrete concept to copyright, left, over and above; software patents are for trolls. After getting to that stage, then go after vulture capital. If you can at least get going on a small scale with little or no finance, then other investment streams become available without having to whore yourself and your first born to the VC banditos.
That's my tuppence'orth, now where's my equity share?
speramus in juniperus
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you had bad experience with venture capital?
dev
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Not really, I have worked for a VC funded outfit and it was oft tiring trying to balance their desire for return with that of the need for investment.
speramus in juniperus
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Work on the side, have the product ready before quit your day job? Start sell small (with your day job funding the advertising/marketing) - I'd suspect you'd be in a much better position to bargain with Venture Capitalists if you have some actual sales
dev
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First step is to protect your idea.
Spend some time and try to cover all little variations of you idea and patent it.
Next funding issues,Do a raffle with techie guys. Winner gets the job offfer in your idea implemetation.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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how much patent will cost you these days? (Anyway only things easy to copy need patent, algo don't, just need obfuscate it)
dev
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With VC or angel funding, the goal of the entity giving you the cash is:
1. Ensure that they make their money back, quickly (usually 5 years or less).
2. Make sure they double, triple, or more the initial investment.
3. Get out when they've hit the return target.
This means that if you seek venture capital, be prepared to:
1. Give up a majority stake in your company.
2. Give up control of your company to somebody the VC will put in place.
3. Get ready to lose your company/product/idea after they sell off.
This doesn't mean you can't make gobs of money if you do it, but just don't expect whoever buys your company after the VC gets done with it to keep you on board or even continue your product line. This happens quite a bit, companies buy other companies just to reduce competition.
So why do you think you have to move to the US to make this company/idea? I have a company that specializes in gadgets and programming, I will be coming out with some new products next year that work around some very new (still waiting on the first production units) hardware.
Another option you have is to team up with a company, you can always do a poor-mans patent, which is basically documenting your idea sufficiently then filing it with somebody (lawyer) before presenting your idea to other companies. Then you can go searching for a company that builds similar products or is in the target industry and pitch the idea from them, being reasonably certain that if they "steal" it, you can sue them for it.
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