Excellent point, I need to remember this.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul



On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 3:24 PM, robert therriault <bobtherria...@mac.com>wrote:

> Well reducing your audience by a few orders of magnitude is still reducing
> your audience, even it does remain largish. :)
>
> And as a balance to Sturgeon's Law (which is discouragingly true), I
> present this quote from Ira Glass that applies to all those  (even
> programmers!) that dare to make something new.
>
> http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to-people-who-are-beginners-i-wish
>
> Cheers, bob
>
> On Feb 15, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Young programmers still covers a lot of ground, but I guess we have
> limited
> > our target population to something in the millions (not billions).
> >
> > Still, we could always make a bunch of them, run them past some people,
> see
> > what they think, and then try again. But beware that
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law suggests that many of our
> > attempts at attracting people will be unappealing to most of them.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
>
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