badatmath

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   by badatmath 14y ago

   I for one think that they are "gaming the system," but I don't see that as a bad thing. It's great that these kids are entrepreneurial enough to proactively push their product. It's clearly a very effective way to title a post, and they are
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   by badatmath 14y ago

   Agree 100%. Also, I think it's a positive, because it means the poster is proactively thinking about how to get attention for his product, as opposed to being the "proud closeted genius".
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   by badatmath 14y ago

   What's wrong with using every advantage you have? If it helps bring attention to your product, you should use it. Let's do a simple cost-benefit analysis: Benefit: A lot of users are (cheaply) drawn to the post. Some snobby coders are going
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   by badatmath 14y ago

   Nice analogy. I'm hoping to find a girl that doesn't yet realize she's pretty enough to be a model, and hasn't yet developed that diva attitude ;)
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   by badatmath 14y ago

   Would you ever consider being a cofounder before the MVC is built? I guess you're saying that you'll only build MVCs for cash, but then will consider joining as a cofounder afterward if the project looks promising and you can work out a fai
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   by badatmath 14y ago

   Thanks for the info. Very helpful. Will check out those sources!
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   by badatmath 14y ago

   > you're either stupid or you really do believe in your business. haha, I'll refrain from trying to answer that for now ;) You're right in that by far the most challenging part of the learning so far was the first day, and trying to get
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   by badatmath 14y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. I will check it out!
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   by badatmath 14y ago

   Yeah, Japanese people are shockingly bad at English. The idea is for Japanese users that CAN read English to provide short summaries of interesting English articles. While the Japanese media is pretty open and liberal, there are still some
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    by badatmath 14y ago

    Thanks. Really appreciate the feedback. It's so tempting to keep build quick and sloppy, but I know I need to be more diligent with testing and documenting. I'm setting a relatively low target number of users to acquire just to make sure th
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    by badatmath 14y ago

    Novice with 7 months of learning here. Quit my strategy consulting job to focus full time on learning to code, and am currently working on this project, built in Rails, on Heroku (it's all in Japanese, but the concept is similar to Hacker N
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    by badatmath 14y ago

    Yes, now that I recall, I believe this was a very popular topic in Japan a few years ago (I wasn't in Japan to see it first hand). It was referred to as "India-style multiplication," and some guy(s) sold millions of instructional books.
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    by badatmath 14y ago

    32 year old Japanese here. I can unequivocally say I've never seen anything like this in my life. Possibly the younger generations, but I somehow doubt it, as people are pretty slow to adopt completely new teaching methods. Pretty cool tho