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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
I'm mystified by 'blame the victim' tone of your comment. Does any old lady deserve to be taken advantage by scumbag lawyers or accounts?
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Yes, blame Google, who spent, literally, over 100 million creating, supporting and pushing forward a new, non-patented codec (VP8, VP9) and in general trying to push web video forward. Blaming Apple or Microsoft for not willing to put VP8 i
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Not both sides. Apple and Microsoft has been waging anti-android patent war for ages, suing HTC, Samsung, Barns&Noble and many other Android manufacturers. They are publicly pro-patents and when they are failing in the marketplace are s
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
The way to validate it is to create it and see if it works. Your problem is that the success depends on execution. We do know that there is market for good educational software. Many successful apps already validated that. If you write one
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Insurance companies won't care if you're driving yourself or using a self-driving car. They price their premiums so that they always make a profit, regardless of the risk. That's why drivers that have accidents pay more than
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
That's not what Xiaomi does. They do have designers and program managers whose job is to decide which submitted ideas should be implemented and which should be discarded (and I'm sure a majority is discarded). In fact, listening t
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
So if we apply your logic to software, a "thoughtful R&D process" of yearly releases (also known as "waterfall software development") is better than agile process of shipping frequently and tweaking your future featu
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Xiaomi is 3.5 years old, currently only sells in China and in Chinese market it has already overtaken Apple in market share. I think comparing them to Apple on the basis of sold phones in China is justified. Looking into my crystal ball, I
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
OP was clearly talking about hiring people on odesk where different rules apply. On odesk you hire people for projects of limited time. He didn't mean that you don't pay the people you've hired if they do the work they promis
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
You can do marketing and sales yourself. In fact, since you can't afford to pay anyone to do it for you, you have to do marketing yourself. Writing a decent product website isn't that hard. For motivation, start by reading http:&
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Quotation needed about mother's involvement. The story that I've read was that IBM had the hardware but didn't think they could make software on time so they went shopping for the OS. First they went to Digital Research who d
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Don't say "shit" in a professional context, even if it's "get shit done". You gain nothing and to many it's unprofessional.
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment with unrealistic expectations. People that are in demand are programmers and good programmers code 90% of time. Some people, including yourself, suggested graphics but read the hist
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
You're empirically wrong. I actually did write a fair amount of Go code (my primary languages are C++ and Python). On real, non-toy programs it is significantly more concise than C++, in the ballpark of Python code. This isn't vis
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Write code. Write code. Write code. Then write some more code. That's how you learn to program. Don't waste your time debating the "best" resource. Pick up OReilly book and learn everything in it. Follow an on-line tutor
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Without context to narrow down the answer space, you're asking questions that require book-length answers. Few disparate thoughts: 1. Yes, it is extremely tough to make money selling iOS apps. App Store creates power law dynamics where
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
What kind of database? An embedded key/value database like TokyoCabinet? An embedded SQL database like SQLite? An in memory data-structure database like Redis? A server SQL database like MySQL? A distributed key/value database lik
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
It's impressive that you've build a good looking app. Good job on that. Unfortunately, the app seems to fall into "build it but they won't come" category i.e. lacking product-market fit. I used to be a student and I
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Alternatively, improve the process of fulfilling FOIA requests so that it cannot be "bogged down" by someone making requests (which is a manual process). One such improvement would be to publish all this information publicly in th
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Actually, it doesn't look like anything to do with DOJ settlement. This program is completely voluntary for publisher - they have to sign up for it explicitly, Amazon can't just force their hand. Also, it's the publisher who
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Most likely what they mean by that is an optimization of the system so that it runs better or low-end (i.e. cheap) devices (think: india, africa, china markets) as currently you need relatively high-end hardware for smooth operation. "
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
The crucial difference is that teachers don't work in groups i.e. you would rank them against all other teachers in a given school. People say stack ranking is bad within Microsoft because you're not ranked against all 50k+ emplo
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
You can put a price on GPL software. What you shouldn't do is to hope that anyone will pay you. The first person who pays can offer exactly the same thing for $0. It's impossible to convince anyone that they should pay you even $1
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Why isn't Mozilla working with standard bodies on this and instead trying to pushing their proprietary, developed in secret APIs on everyone? Do they think they can just implement new web APIs without first discussing them with W3C and
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
The reason you should be surprised is this: regular expressions are implemented in C. In some implementation they are even jit'ed. It's a testament to how good V8 is that char-by-char loop is faster in JavaScript than optimized
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
You picked one example (Apple) that supports your thesis (technology is cyclical). It is, however, an exception to the rule. Computer industry is littered with bodies of slain giants: Borland, Sybase, Lotus, Wordstar, Personal Software (Vis
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
One difference is API e.g. for compressing an array of integers in Java, you say int[] compress(int[] toCompress) i.e. it natively works or Java's int[]. While it's true that the layout of data in memory could be re-interpreted as
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
That's circular thinking. Because Python is slow, Python is not used in scenarios where speed is crucial. That much is true. However, if Python was faster, it would be used in those scenarios, so more people would be using it for speed
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
If you have a personal story on how a law was violated and given the fact it was on books for decades, it clearly is ineffectively enforced (taxi drivers apparently prefer to violate the law regularly with a small chance of being ticketed a
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Even accepting your biased wording ("deliberately blurring"), you failed to state what exactly is wrong with Uber competing with taxi companies (in my corner of economics, competition is good). Is this a Bruce Lee thing, an argume

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