Emad Ibrahim - Latest Comments

Re: Error Logging With Angular and log4javascript

Dennis — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 01:30:08 -0000

Great post guys

Web Designer in Bangalore

Re: Fellow Americans, Help Me Understand

brent_noorda — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:24:43 -0000

thanks for the extra clarification

Re: Fellow Americans, Help Me Understand

Sherif F. — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:27:08 -0000

Very well said. Someone just explained to me that the U.S. only cares about 3 things: (a) a quiet border with Israel, (b) an open Suez Canal, and (c) relative stability in Egypt so that oil markets aren't badly affected.

I understand U.S. short-term concerns. What I don't understand is the lack of forethought about the long term ... Islamist rule is bad in the long-term for everyone ... But U.S. foreign policy never seems to concern itself with any of this. It's the kind of reasoning that helped put the Taliban in power that I still don't understand ... I wish someone actually would explain it to me.

Re: Fellow Americans, Help Me Understand

Emad — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:06:32 -0000

Compared to the 2011 coverage which was 24-hours for 18 days, they are merely mentioning it and mislabeling it as a "coup". I usually get my news from CNN but even Fox news coverage was non-existant.

Re: Fellow Americans, Help Me Understand

brent_noorda — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:03:18 -0000

Maybe the coverage isn't as much as you'd expect (and I give in on #5 being an issue), but it seems to me the Egyption protests have been top of the news for at least the past week. What American news media do utilize that isn't covering real news? If they're not covering this, then they're a lousy news outfit.

Re: Tough Mudder and 6 Startup Lessons Learned

Bill Hogenauer — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:50:54 -0000

Congratulations! Well put, my friend - you are wise beyond your years. Great analogy and eloquently presented. BTW - I am doing my second Tough Mudder in a few weeks, and I have been involved in more than one start-up...what does that say about me?

Re: Should I Take My Friends Money?

irishnugget — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:22:55 -0000

A resounding no from me.

Ask yourself one simple question: can you live with yourself if you lose your family and friends' money? I personally could not. Like it or not, when you ask them for money many will feel an obligation - it doesn't matter how you phrase it or how often you reiterate that they shouldn't feel obliged - the people who care most about you will sacrifice so that you have the potential to succeed.

You've outlined numerous approaches you could take, and I'm sure there are more, but taking investment from family/friends so that you can get up and running quickly ("I want to start NOW") is the wrong option. You're reluctant to bet your financial well-being on it (i.e. taking loans, etc.), take the same responsibility when it comes to investing others' money.

Take the conservative approach. Bootstrap (how much money are you talking about ballpark? can you reduce costs?) or get funding from an Angel/VC firm...my two cents...

Re: Pre-Startup Contract

Caroline Gi — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:22:10 -0000

LOL! I love it but let us know how the contract is working. How are you monitoring compliance and progress?

Re: Should I Take My Friends Money?

Chris Meawad — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:31:39 -0000

I would say that as long as you make it clear that you don't NEED their money (ie. they don't feel obligated to give it), and you're clear about the risks and rewards, then friend's money is fine. I would ask them how they would handle it if all of their money was lost, and the whole startup failed. If they're not okay with that, then don't take their money. I invested in a friend's startup and lost everything. He and I are still friends because I knew it was risky and I knew he did actually try to make it work. It's all about setting/managing expectations.

Re: Should I Take My Friends Money?

Emad — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:57:57 -0000

Yes I considered it but that would be too "normal" and slow. I want to start NOW :)...

Re: Should I Take My Friends Money?

Max Brown — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:52:53 -0000

Personally, taking money from friends/family scares me. The fact is, most startups fail - I don't want to expose my friends and family to that kind of risk even if I want to take it myself. Have you considered keeping your day job or consulting full-time and saving money (build a financial runway) to use for expenses when you work on your startup full-time afterwards?

Re: Should I Take My Friends Money?

Emad — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:24:11 -0000

Why do you say that? Have you had a bad experience?

Sincerely,
Emad Ibrahim
http://about.me/eibrahim

Re: Should I Take My Friends Money?

Athan — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:12:17 -0000

dont do it. there's always another way. and if you're that confident you're going to succeed, do both the credit/consulting.

Re: Objective-C is a Piece of Shit

Jake Scott — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:43:05 -0000

Hey well if you want to pay money for Xamarin and spend the majority of you time trying to port Objective-C code to C#/Xamarin go for it. I would rather use Cocoa Pods and be happy knowing that any OSS libs I use will be maintained by the thousands of smarter people in the Objective-C community and to a larger extent bug free.

C# static typing means you will have to write your own classes just to implement delegates which means you'll have to write more C# code in those cases. For example to populate a table view you have to write another class, which is usually nested. The other downside of this is that it is not a 1-1 mapping between the Xamarin API's and the iOS API's.
http://docs.xamarin.com/rec...

Instead of saying "the more I use Objective-C, the more I hate it", you should be saying "the more I use Objective-C the more I realise it's similarity's to C#.

You don't stand a chance if you think Objective-C is a piece of shit.

Re: Cutting Down Expenses Before I Lose My Income

GarfieldPebble — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:17:20 -0000

My tip is : eat less and sleep more

Re: Objective-C is a Piece of Shit

Steve — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:25:20 -0000

Bad programmers hate languages instead of understanding pros & cons and doing proper research before reaching opinions. I hope I never need a product you've coded.

Re: Objective-C is a Piece of Shit

kgelner — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:16:20 -0000

You need to google "modern objective C". Most of those examples could be significantly shorter.

Re: Objective-C is a Piece of Shit

Emad — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:43:55 -0000

lol

Re: Objective-C is a Piece of Shit

Objective-C — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:20:57 -0000

Emad Ibrahim is a piece of shit.

Re: Objective-C is a Piece of Shit

Guy G — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:07:33 -0000

I really, really hate to tell you this, but at one point or another you're gonna say that about just about any language or platform. Lisp? wtf with the damn ((()()(()(())(())) Java? really, static void main() ?? Perl? well I love perl but does it have any sort of GUI yet? Does that even make sense? If it compiles it's a pain in the butt to cycle thru and if it's interpreted then anyone can steal the script and screw you getting paid for your trouble. Sigh! yet we all still keep trying like mad fools.

Re: Objective-C is a Piece of Shit

Shinohara — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:00:56 -0000

Yeah, unfortunately those are all horribly written examples that seem to have been created just to make Objective-C look bad, I rewrote the first two to be proper Objective-C here: https://gist.github.com/Xer...

Re: Objective-C is a Piece of Shit

Emad — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:37:49 -0000

Well that shows you that I am ignorant when it comes to obj-c and my experience with obj-c is no more than 2 or 3 weeks. I just know that the more I use it the more I hate it :)...

BTW, I got the code samples from http://xamarin.com/how-it-w...

Re: Objective-C is a Piece of Shit

Shinohara — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:28:42 -0000

It might be a more effective demonstration if one of the Objective-C samples wasn't poorly written, and the other two were actually Objective-C instead of C and CoreFoundation.

Re: Angular JS Resources

patshaughnessy — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:42:59 -0000

Thanks for the list! Here's an article on AngularJS internals that came out just this week: http://www.alexrothenberg.c...

Re: Cutting Down Expenses Before I Lose My Income

Emad — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:53:01 -0000

I have a "nice" smart thermostat and love it :)