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Yes, but so far, I literally haven't achieved anything. I'm not shooting for Google or Facebook. If only I can find a small niche market, I would be perfectly c

by qisine 14y ago

Yes, but so far, I literally haven't achieved anything. I'm not shooting for Google or Facebook. If only I can find a small niche market, I would be perfectly content with that.

marcofloriano 14y ago
Small niche market ? It's easy to find, you just have to look inside yourself and your own problems. Like wanting to start a small business and not knowing how. So your next niche market is: "Employees who wants to start a business". Now go on and create your solution or product not to solve the problem entirely, but to reduce the pain. Step by Step.
goldfeld 14y ago
Then that puts you in a position to achieve fulfillment at an earlier age and with less risk than most twenty-something startuppies dreaming of an exit most won't ever get. Even though you're a dreamer, keeping realistic expectations and finding some project you care about is gonna put you on a fast track. I learned coding within the last 2 years or so, and before that I had felt quite as you did. I dabbled in Visual Basic at 14, but then I came upon this huge wall of C++. I couldn't grasp OOP and it's weird Cat cat = new Cat() for the life of me, and I though I just wasn't smart enough, so I stopped playing with it until recently. In the last year especially I got comfortable (and grew to love) the command line, git, vim and a bunch of technologies I thought I would never have the patience or diligence to wrap my head around. Really the last year has got me so far. You can do a lot in a year's worth of spare time, if you can find a practical project to motivate you.
- solistice 14y ago
  I agree with goldfeld on this, there is this barrier with every language that many people get stuck on. In Java it's Cat cat = new Cat(), in C it's *fu, in Perl it's s/win/fail, in Assembly it's Assemlby, in C# it's LINQ, etc. But once you manage to get over the first or second hurdle, your perspective on technology widens and you are ready to take on more hurdles.
  - solistice 14y ago
    Additional examples: Haskell - monads, Lisp (()())()()((())), Whitespace
laander 14y ago
Well congratulations, your first noteworty achievement: You just made the frontpage of Hacker News, gained a serious amount of replies and (most importantly) connected Wieth thousands of people around the world :) Now get your head up buddy

by qisine 14y ago

Yes, but so far, I literally haven't achieved anything. I'm not shooting for Google or Facebook. If only I can find a small niche market, I would be perfectly content with that.

marcofloriano 14y ago

Small niche market ? It's easy to find, you just have to look inside yourself and your own problems. Like wanting to start a small business and not knowing how. So your next niche market is: "Employees who wants to start a business". Now go on and create your solution or product not to solve the problem entirely, but to reduce the pain. Step by Step.

goldfeld 14y ago

Then that puts you in a position to achieve fulfillment at an earlier age and with less risk than most twenty-something startuppies dreaming of an exit most won't ever get. Even though you're a dreamer, keeping realistic expectations and finding some project you care about is gonna put you on a fast track. I learned coding within the last 2 years or so, and before that I had felt quite as you did. I dabbled in Visual Basic at 14, but then I came upon this huge wall of C++. I couldn't grasp OOP and it's weird Cat cat = new Cat() for the life of me, and I though I just wasn't smart enough, so I stopped playing with it until recently. In the last year especially I got comfortable (and grew to love) the command line, git, vim and a bunch of technologies I thought I would never have the patience or diligence to wrap my head around. Really the last year has got me so far. You can do a lot in a year's worth of spare time, if you can find a practical project to motivate you.

solistice 14y ago
I agree with goldfeld on this, there is this barrier with every language that many people get stuck on. In Java it's Cat cat = new Cat(), in C it's *fu, in Perl it's s/win/fail, in Assembly it's Assemlby, in C# it's LINQ, etc. But once you manage to get over the first or second hurdle, your perspective on technology widens and you are ready to take on more hurdles.
- solistice 14y ago
  Additional examples: Haskell - monads, Lisp (()())()()((())), Whitespace

laander 14y ago

Well congratulations, your first noteworty achievement: You just made the frontpage of Hacker News, gained a serious amount of replies and (most importantly) connected Wieth thousands of people around the world :) Now get your head up buddy