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Originally posted by TheFLY
You're only interested in this from a business standpoint... but I will throw in 2 more cents. Nick may not be a model of human perfection, but I appreciate much of his work. #1 you don't know either of us personally, and I doubt you know how Nick started in this biz -- he is technically very capable.
To give you an idea -- most people do not understand what AdultCentro is yet -- yet I can pick up the technical specifications that were patented -- the specifications that a team of coders were given and understand it perfectly -- this is the stuff that I live for! This is why I like Nick -- reading that specification was like reading an enjoyable book or like looking at a beautiful painting. If you don't enjoy software design, then you probably can't relate -- I've been designing software since I was a little kid playing Spacewars coded in straight assembly.
If you know about coding software -- you know that many programs survive, and even more fail -- the development process is never ending and full of roadblocks and difficult challenges -- some of which are never resolved -- but that is not effort wasted. On the contrary. What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger -- that effort is never wasted energy because you gain experience from the process and you have good code that can be re-used. Look at OS/2 -- IBM is not stupid -- they were resourceful and gambled on OS/2 for the public -- they already used that operating system internally to their operations. They gambled on OS/2 because they could -- yes it failed -- does that mean that IBM is a failure? No. Do you know what company has the most patents in the world? IBM. They incentivize ideas. And Nick encourages and values ideas within his company. I live for ideas, that's why I design software for fun and that's why I'm a professional artist. So I have common interests with Nick. So there's your answer.
A word of advice -- don't make assumptions that all relationships are dictated by money -- there's more to life, so get one.
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Wow you actually sound semi intelligent but here is my life and experience with Nick and his fuckin software development you admire so much.
I and another company I would rather not mention at this time each purchased a piece of software from Mr. Nick Tuhkman to the cost of about $20k each...we each gave a deposit of $10k.....This piece of sophisticated software was to be installed and operational within 4 weeks back in April 02....well 8 months go by and I have no software and what modules that were installed had bugs up the ass....
We also hosted with Like Whoa and owned our servers....
It is now fucking June 2003. Fourteen months have past and guess what, still no fucking software. We moved hosting services to XFR (awesome I will say) back in March because we had experienced over 75 hours of downtime from Nov 02 - Feb 02. I have requested my $10k back and servers which totals over $18k so I really could give 2 fucks about Nick and his fucked up ability to think up ideas especially if it is at the expense of others.
So in essence my experience with Nick is dictated by money because he has mine.....
If you want to do business and sit in a pow wow with him and theorize ideas and innovations, good for you. All I want is my fucking money and hardware back. Understand my position now?