Bamafan

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by Bamafan 11y ago
I'm curious about marketing costs for your app. Did you simply release that app and customers come after? Or did you have to pay a certain amount to acquire customers (i.e. paid advertising)? Or did you acquire customers some other way
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by Bamafan 12y ago
Agreed. In fact, there was a HN thread a while back about this very topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4494016 It's unbelievably annoying when this happens. I have a number of bookmarks to incredibly insight
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by Bamafan 12y ago
Not so great if it took 10 employees to create it.
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by Bamafan 13y ago
After reading this book, I realized I had WAAY underestimated Romero's impact on iD. Point blank - without Romero, there is iD Software (it was his idea to form a new company). There is no Doom. There is no Quake. Romero was one of
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by Bamafan 13y ago
Agreed. It's obvious now that losing Romero was a tremendous blow to the company, creatively. (Was not obvious back when it happened though, at least not to me.)
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by Bamafan 13y ago
I think for some years, companies didn't realize how high the cost of running on EC2/S3 actually is compared to, say, a dedicated rack colocated somewhere... But this ignores the cost of paying someone to setup/maintain tha
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by Bamafan 13y ago
I wasn't referring to residency spots at accredited medical schools. I was referring to medical school accreditation itself.
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by Bamafan 13y ago
The reason the cost of healthcare is so high is because medicare pays roughly 15% of a bill, others are somewhere between 20-50% of a bill depending. That is to say if the doctor charges you $40,000 you pay your 10% co-pay of $4,000 and th
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by Bamafan 14y ago
"I'm more interested in how this person got celebrities and billionaires interested in the product early on. Seems odd." Ding ding ding! That's my real issue with stories like this. They don't explain how these young geniuses got capi
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by Bamafan 14y ago
"As for commute, this much is true and is a particular problem in the Valley. For me, my commute is a 7 minute walk to work (in NYC). YMMV. :)" I might be going way out on a limb here, but I think this kind of thing is a subtle driver of
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by Bamafan 14y ago
This only works in environments where: [a] Others (non devs) can be entrusted to make decisions without developer input. Rare, in my experience.I've been in several hour-long meetings where I've only had 5 minutes of input, but that 5 mi
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by Bamafan 14y ago
Like I stated, wherever this is acceptable behavior, it's because the concept of successful project is redefined to accept this. The reality is that you didn't really hit the deadline, you just strongarmed everyone into accepting the fact
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by Bamafan 14y ago
Let's give a standing ovation for this needed criticism of SO. I just hope SO opens themselves to hearing it. I've said it before, I'll say it again -- the creators of StackOverflow don't know what made the site successful in the first pla
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by Bamafan 14y ago
Why? I find both perspectives very informative. Please don't let your personal relationships spoil an informative (if sometimes heated) discussion. That kind of kills the "hacker" spirit.
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by Bamafan 14y ago
"Which is why the site is hugely successful." You and Jeff are confused about what makes stackoverflow.com successful. The reason stackoverflow is successful is because it's a clone of another successful tech Q&A site (experts-excha
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by Bamafan 14y ago
"Take this question from Stackoverflow: Database development mistakes made by application developers [3], a question I spent some time answering and that people seemed to appreciate the answer to (based on comments and 1000+ upvotes). It i
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by Bamafan 14y ago
"This article is right about one thing: people do seem to put too much importance on the upfront cost. I see things like the latest gen iPhone is $99 upfront and the previous generation is $49. For $50 you get older hardware that will be o
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by Bamafan 14y ago
"In all honesty the only reason I'm even here is because I want to see it (New York in particular) before it's gone. The US reminds me of the crumbling, dying days of the Roman Empire." Thank god you got there in time! NYC TTYL is down t
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by Bamafan 14y ago
"4. Life memberships are silly. If they want to attract the business flyers they were talking about it should be an annual charge." I'm not sure an annual charge would necessarily fix the situation for heavy users. It's very similar to t
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by Bamafan 14y ago
"It is DI, adapters for vendor-specific libraries and utility. It's probably not the easiest thing to start with just because it is so flexible that it can be hard to know where to start. A good "Hello World" Spring MVC 3.1 app would go a
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by Bamafan 14y ago
Nice product and the team seems very talented. But whenever I read these stories (from 0 to $8 billion in 3 monthz!1!!!11), lots of important details are left out. #1 How are you able to connect to 4,000+ paying customers so quickly? Actu
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by Bamafan 14y ago
"Why would software engineers work for english majors?" Maybe it's just me, but I've "worked for" several English majors. OK, perhaps they weren't my direct boss, but I've been on many projects managed by Project Managers with degrees in a
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by Bamafan 15y ago
Serious question for Jeff - If I gave you a 500,000 line app (any language) with zero documentation and asked you to start adding features and fixing bugs, you'd be cool with that because you had "the source"? Also, how did you get so far
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by Bamafan 15y ago
I don't know. Michael followed that sentence with the following: " Similarly, if you’re a programmer, you’re probably perfectly capable of writing Facebook or the Google search engine or Twitter or a browser, and you certainly could churn
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by Bamafan 15y ago
" Hit your deadlines every time, not by estimating better, but by not caring how pretty your deliverable is." I'd kill for some Phase IV PMs. :) (Actually, it's rare that I meet Phase I PMs. Very few PMs think in terms of developing softwa