Sometimes a German word just can’t be replace with an English one that has the same effect. From an email today:
it seems you verschlimmbessert it 😉
It is the German words for “to make better” and “to make worse” combined into one. It seems to mean that in trying to improve something you make it worse.
“The first 3 years of any startup is very hard. After 3 years you just get used to it”.
From a Hacker Newsthread.
Did you ever have some success starting a business? Then you may identify with this problem.
Often an acquaintance or a friend offers me an “idea”.
Them: “Hey, I have this great idea for a website. I’m so generous, I’ll give you the idea and I only want 50% of the millions you’ll make with it.” This happened three times last week alone.
Me (a little too snarkily): “I get to spend 18 months of my life bringing your off-the-cuff idea to life, refining it, reworking it, marketing it, selling it. An idea which may already have been turned into a successful website so often the market is crowded. Or is actually an unworkable idea. Or has no wide market appeal. And in return I give you 50% of the profits? Or is it 50% of the turnover that you desire? Have you done market research? A feasibility study? You _have_ googled to see if it is already available, right?”
Them: “Um, no, I just thought about it while waiting at the doctor’s yesterday. But I’m sure it will be very successful. Jeez, you didn’t have to be so negative.”
The reality: I’m not short of ideas. I have lots of ideas for software products and web applications. I have half-a-dozen small software prototypes on my computer. Ideas are nothing without a lot of dedicated hard work executing them. And even then, they may not work. I heard that at a certain software payments processor, the majority of all their clients never sell a single copy of their software.
Poker Copilot 2.88 is now available to download.
What’s changed:
What’s fixed:
Update Instructions:
Now you are done and ready to hit the tables.
PokerCruncher – a popular iPhone app for calculating poker odds – is now available for Mac OS X. Awful user interface, but powerful software.
Clearly this competes directly with PokerZebra, a side project of mine. PokerCruncher does far more than PokerZebra and is priced higher. Choice is good for consumers, right? 🙂
Many thanks to the people who download the current Poker Copilot update, tried it with the various Merge Network poker rooms, and sent feedback. I’ve fixed some problems, and you can download an unreleased pre-release semi-release unofficial update with the fixes. It is here: http://pokercopilot.com/downloads/pokercopilot2.88_rc4.dmg
If all is well with the non-release, I’ll make it an official release in a couple of days.
What’s fixed:
You’ll most probably need to reset your database for the table size detection to work properly.
I’m quite impressed with MacUpdate. Every time I release a Poker Copilot update, within a few hours, they update the Poker Copilot profile on MacUpdate with the relevant information and send me a courtesy email. I’m not sure how they detect the updates but they do a good job.
Poker Copilot 2.87 is now available to download.
What’s changed:
What’s fixed:
Update Instructions:
Now you are done and ready to hit the tables.
The next Poker Copilot will have some improvements for Merge Network rooms such as Lock Poker, Carbon Poker, and RPM Poker.
The first important improvement is letting you tell Poker Copilot what your “preferred seat” setting is in Merge.
Ideally Poker Copilot would auto-determine this. But Merge Network stores the info in a file whose format I’ve been unable to reverse-engineer.
The second important improvement is finding way to detect the table size:
I solved this one by hard-coding a list of Merge Network table names in Poker Copilot, each with a pre-defined size. So, for example, if you play on any of the “Santiago” tables, Poker Copilot knows this is a 6-player table. Again, not an ideal solution, because when Merge introduces new tables, I’ll need to update Poker Copilot. But until Merge add this information to hand history files it is the best solution I’ve thought of.
There are limits to this approach; so far it only works for real money ring games. Play money and tournaments will need other solutions.
It seems yesterday’s Winamax update broke Poker Copilot. However the latest news I heard is that Winamax have today rolled back to the previous update, as there were some problems at their end. So Poker Copilot should work once again. Simply restart Winamax, let it update, and things should work again.
Let me know if this is not the case.