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by Ryel 4411 days ago
Whenever someone comes to me with a great idea I kindly refer them 4 articles for studying.

Learn HTML, CSS, JS, and Michael Hartls book on Rails.

80% of them will give up when they realize I'm not going to do the work for them. 19% will spend a week on codecadamy before giving up. The final 1% are so motivated that it is no longer relevant what they do in life. They will be successful. Period.

1 comments

More than 100 persons have come to you with great ideas?
If you're going to be pedantic, at least be overly so:

Assuming each of his figures is accurate to within half a percent: We need at least 67 people to be able to round to 1%, but we can't quite get 80% out of 67 or 68 people (we end up rounding to 79% or 81%.) It turns out 69 people is adequate -- 1/69 rounds to 1%, 55/69 rounds to 80%, and the remaining 13/69 also rounds to 19%.

No, but far more than 100 people have come to me with bad ideas.