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by bialecki 16y ago
Maybe I'm naive, doesn't $41M for two years of runway seem like a lot of cash to be burning through? How many people are they planning on hiring/what other costs do they have while they explore this space?
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by bialecki 16y ago
My rough calculation is that Minecraft goes for 15 Euros, so if he's registering 30k people/day, that's 450k/day in revenue. That's a lot. Maybe it could be double that if people who are pirating the game didn't have that option. But my poi
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by bialecki 16y ago
Right, that's why I said 30k/yr might become 60-80k/yr, implying that of those 70% maybe 40-80% would actually buy it if they couldn't pirate it.
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by bialecki 16y ago
I don't know whether it is or isn't piracy, but it's hard to take his opinion on this as representative or forward thinking because of how "special" Minecraft is (i.e. it's massively popular). Maybe his goal is to maximize revenue, but it d
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by bialecki 16y ago
The bit about "if we ever come in contact with other forms of life, they'll understand other basic data structures" is really interesting. I had never thought about that, but it's probably true.
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by bialecki 16y ago
Something that's left out that, as someone who has trained/run a marathon, you should appreciate is adrenaline. His plan is great, but when you're nervous/excited and taking on something that seems insane, you can count on a little extra in
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by bialecki 16y ago
Because Iwork mainly in Python, I just checked out the offerings you mentioned for Python that aren't GAE. Both Djangy and Djangozoom are in private beta still, so I can't imagine they're that far along. Eldarion doesn't look self serve,
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by bialecki 16y ago
Tangential, but I don't understand this reaction after he tells them in class they're going to go through a proof together: 'You should have seen the shock on their faces! Some started complaining. So I said, "No, seriously. You will all pr
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by bialecki 16y ago
This first comment about hiring great generalists rather than people who know mobile development has been echoed countless times and it's amazing how often people make that mistake. The most recent example I can think of is from Kevin Rose
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by bialecki 16y ago
I took a physics exam once where we had studied previous years exams and the test was essentially questions from those tests. Needless to say, that exam went fine, but it felt very weird. We weren't cheating, the exams were publicly avail
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by bialecki 16y ago
I liken this to when you try to get a group of friends to do anything. For the sake of argument, let's say go to the movies or to a bar. If you have go to friends, you can seed your group there, but what after that? Almost everyone says,
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by bialecki 16y ago
Attention to detail. Do the little things well and be consistent. Just remember, talk is cheap, build stuff. Also, keep learning. There's always more to learn. This coming from a guy who was a Physics major, took a few beginning CS classes
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by bialecki 16y ago
Is it really true you need four betas? That seems high from the betas I've seen.
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by bialecki 16y ago
Twitter is one of my favorite examples of this. Lots of people look at it and say, "it's so easy implement to build." I'd like to see them scale it to millions of users.
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by bialecki 16y ago
The thing is, I don't think it'd be that awkward for him. I bet he'd find a way to say, "you know, I got rejected once..." and you'd walk out ready to rock and roll.
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by bialecki 16y ago
I'm sure the rationale here is that if a given query takes 100ms, they don't focus on getting it down to 50ms even if that's several times what the average is because they know they can . Certainly someone should focus on making that quer
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by bialecki 16y ago
Check out Groupon Stores. Groupon just released a self-serve store for deals where you can get customers to follow your business and push out deals to them. They're not exactly the same, but Groupon's new offering is a very different beas
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by bialecki 16y ago
Maybe, maybe not. The point is you make your own luck. Work hard == more chances to get lucky.
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by bialecki 16y ago
One more data point: My brother eats Ramen pretty much every day and has for the last 2-3 years (he's in college now). He hasn't been to the doctor in at least 5 years even for a physical. However, he eats the Ramen without cooking it and
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by bialecki 16y ago
I like this question, but I'm wondering what a good interview looks like if someone is completely blind-sided by the question because they don't have a lot (or any) systems experience? I'm imagining an engineer who's experience ends with M
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by bialecki 16y ago
Very cool. Does it support horizontal histograms? :P
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by bialecki 16y ago
Wow, Longhorn is cited as putting them out of business. If only they could've seen the future...
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by bialecki 16y ago
>> 3. How do avoid being in the same position a year later? Seems to me the wrong question to be asking. Being in the position where you need to "challenge yourself" (and leaving is one way to do so), shouldn't be a problem, it's
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by bialecki 16y ago
Couldn't agree more with the relevant questions. Especially the first two. Show me you can write some simple code and show me you've pushed a language far enough to get frustrated with it in some non-trivial way. Of course, after question
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by bialecki 16y ago
While not a necessity, it'd be nice to filter by geography. Also, you should have to throw out three ideas you have -- just so there's a way to differentiate people.
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by bialecki 16y ago
The comments here are a wall of text.
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by bialecki 16y ago
I always wonder how often emails like the first one are really written. They're almost too good to be true. The "high" one gets from writing such inflammatory emails must be amazing because he/she MUST also know that, since it's sent elec
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by bialecki 16y ago
I don't really get the obsession with wanting to be retired at 30. What would you do for the next 60 years? Honestly, the math here is pretty encouraging. If you're the founder of a company that makes a smallish exit, you've just freed u
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by bialecki 16y ago
From http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php?url=http://motherfu... to http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php?url=http://motherfu... . At least the font got better.
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by bialecki 16y ago
I wonder when search engines will start indexing MathML. I spent a good part of college trying to figure out exactly what to search for in Google while working on problem sets and being able to search expressions would've saved some late n

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