If it's an experienced C++ job and you don't know the difference between rvalue/lvalue/etc, you're gonna have a tough time.

I still have a book on programming in COBOL I need to dust off.

Sometimes I'm playing a video game on steam and would like to have the steam overlay browser to do some work while I respawn.

Why?

Positive press of this magnitude can help propel your next big idea. If you have a reputation of compensating employees well when startup ideas don't pan out they will be more likely to want to join the next one.

Though there are probably more news worth things you could do with 300m.

Not being selfish?

Empathy and because he made an order of magnitude more money than he can spend in a lifetime?

> Imagine the positive press

Why? A fraction of that will buy you even better positive press.

How are they not substantial enough if you started with Bitcoin in 2011??

I didn’t start with bitcoin in 2011. I closed my bank accounts in 2011.

I started with bitcoin in 2015.

The main reason my life savings is almost nothing is because it came from almost nothing. $50 here and there isn’t much, but it’s more than zero

It's not as easy as "improving" existing protocols. Look at the ipv4 -> ipv6 mess. And even then ipv6 suffers from issues that are tied to how networks were built, etc. See this great article: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

If I'm building something to give connectivity to dog tags, why not do something simpler?

Because something simple already exists, for this very use-case (and apparently, in the case of LoRa, with better range)?

I'm personally rooting for this to bomb badly.

Will you guys be transparent on the pricing then?

Absolutely! We don't have any pricing right now because we have not done any work to figure out what the pricing will be.

Huh, but you have investors, eh? :-)

What about this: pass through infrastructure cost with a wee markup for maintenance/support and negotiate a modest percentage of gross revenue from your successful client companies.

That way you have a low-risk "farm" of potential big hits, and your users have stable costs.

You're assuming this person understands data locality, or memory latency or even memory in general.

>Is determined. Has 20 years of experience.

An average programmer is a few years out of college and is lazy.