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I don't mean the product.

Your subconscious mind is not motivated by the product.

Tens of thousands of great products are created each year. Your subconscious mind does not care if there is one more or not.

It is motivated by how good of a life you will have.

If it imagines "more sitting in front of a computer and typing into a keyboard" it will not get excited.

My guess is that you subconciously know that the outcome would not be that great.

Why do you want to do a full-time job PLUS a side project?

What kind of life is that? You would work most of your waking hours. That is not the kind of possible future that motivates one to push through.

Well, tweeting where?

If it is tweeted on an account with 0 followers, then certainly not, right?

And when tweeted to one millioin scientists in the same field, then certainly yes, right?

Yes. That is how they scared him into signing it.

But I suggest standing your ground in such a situation. They wanted to work with him. They had a contract with him. So there was a lot of pressure on them too. If they breached the contract they would lose an employee and face legal repercussions.

I beg to differ. They did not "add" a non-compete. They scared him into signing one.

Someone at Amazon put a paper on his desk and said that unless he signs it, they would not "authorize my employment". Whatever that means.

    So I signed. Because what
    other options did I have?

The option not to sign. He had an offer from them and he agreed. That is a legal binding contract that they have to abide. So don't sign and say "Sorry, but we have a legally binding agreement. And this is not in line with it.".

If you let people scare you by saying something, they will continue to play tricks on you. Stick to what is written.

What does it give you over simple server-side rendered templates?

The way I read it, they scrape 25k pages per day?

I wonder if that could already bring them on Googles radar. If so, Google would probably send a cease and desist letter and this startup would simply give up.

I wonder if Google would also demand their legal expenses? Probably a couple thousand dollars?

I know, nobody would go to court against Google - but what would happen if this did go to court? Which laws would Google cite to deem this illegal?

How does the statement about dead pixels help people who ordered and paid a phone but get no information on when it will be shipped?

Regarding general population vs hackers: Do you imply that hackers value low price higher then others? Are hackers particularely poor? I thought hacker often means coder which usually means higher income then the general population.

Personally, I would totally prefer to pay 50% more and have my emails answered and my orders shipped.

I wonder why they price their products so cheap.

They seem to be totally overrun by demand. And give a terrible user experience when you try to order from them. Friends of mine have ordered (and paid!) Pine64 products weeks ago and get no information when they will be shipped. When you send them an email, it either gets ignored or you get a reply by someone who does not speak English. Telling you something like "Yes will inform you when be shipped".

Why not charge 50% more and treat your customers like customers?

This taints the whole Pine64 brand for me. I totally want a Linux phone and a Linux tablet. But I don't know if I should trust a brand that treats their customers like this.

From this announcement it seems PHP was not a language at first but rather a set of higher level tools.

From what I read on Wikipedia, this version did have language features already. Can somebody in the know explain why they are not mentioned in the announcement?

Interesting, that you say longer for travel.

To what extend is travel restricted at the moment? What happens when someone from - say - Germany flies to the UK?

As far as I can see, flights can still be booked.