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by leon_ 15y ago
> I am a decent programmer. He's a decent comedian it seems.
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by leon_ 15y ago
not one line of code in the pdf ...
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Ultimately, piracy breaks down to "people want your stuff, but you've priced it too highly". I'd say it's rather: > Ultimately, piracy breaks down to "people want your stuff, but you've priced it".
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by leon_ 15y ago
Too hard or not - it's a critical feature. They can lure me with the most advanced APIs and super low fees. If they can't treat international customers (on the consumer side at least) like domestic ones then it's a deal breaker. There are e
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by leon_ 15y ago
> and are able to get visibility That's the big if here. If you can't get visibility you will make almost no money. It's a gamble.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Why so much fuss about a blogpost in the guardian? I mean it's a broad public newspaper. Would you, as an experimental physicist, take an article in your local newspaper telling you that linear accelerators are bad serious? Why do we comput
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by leon_ 15y ago
Well, he sells stickers. He shouldn't be talking about how a technical founder/entrepreneur doesn't need to know anything about the technical aspects of his company/product. If you sell stickers it maybe will work out for you. But if your c
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Is the Mac app store really so small that 15 sales per day gets you into the top 200 overall rankings? Yeah, the volume is not that huge in the MAS. I just didn't know how bad the music category was. I assumed the other categories wou
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by leon_ 15y ago
Yes. I forgot to mention that as the original submission is about the Mac App Store.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Thanks for the info but that has nothing to do with what I said :) To clarify: To enter the _MAC_ _MUSIC_ top 5 you need ~15 sales. Not overall. Storming overall with a music app is pretty unlikely.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Interesting what a huge difference the category makes. In the US-music category it's enough to sell ~15 copies/day to enter the top 5.
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by leon_ 15y ago
German engineering != German IT. German engineers are one of the world's best. But german computer scientists/software engineers are mostly just pathetic. I'm working in Germany and it's unbelievable what kind of people do get a CS master h
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by leon_ 15y ago
I honestly don't know what to think about the PP. I want them to be more than a one-hit wonder but they seem to not have much of a political agenda other than "legalize warez" and "don't censor the net". I hope their success stirs up the ot
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by leon_ 15y ago
If my teachers would have had their way I'd be working night shifts at a liquor store now.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Oh, the win8 app store looks really great. 0% cut, transparent review process and support for trials. I guess I will be writing some windows app in the future. (I'm a Mac developer.) And I hope this will force Apple to improve their app sto
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by leon_ 15y ago
Yeah, but Windows copied icons from ... We could play that game all day long. Let's just save our energy for something constructive ;)
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by leon_ 15y ago
> what's wrong with starting free to get a foot in the market? Are you VC funded and have $12 million sitting in your bank account? Then go and try to grab your part of the market with giving things away. Are you self funded/bootstrappe
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by leon_ 15y ago
They just copied back. First Palm copied from the Newton.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Yep, it goes to the level that Apple had to actively prevent multi tasking behavior.
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by leon_ 15y ago
I thought the same. But who am I to judge them for their choices. If they can live with it (maybe even they have really fun working on their coupon aggregator) then why not. Now I'm not sure about the sustainability of that business model.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Nothing against your method (it's what I did) but with a family things might look different. I'm perfectly fine living from pizza and internet for 2 years. But if I had a wife (+ kid) I guess I wouldn't be too comfortable with that lifestyl
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by leon_ 15y ago
Would you have bought that idea for $1 million? No one says ideas don't matter. Without a good idea even the best execution will yield nothing. Ideas alone are just not that much worth. (Other way round this is true too.) I'm sure that if 1
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by leon_ 15y ago
So I'm about signing the contract. And I somehow know that when I write down Mumbai I will get $20k/yr and when I write down NYC I will get $100k/yr. Guess what I am going to do ... > Do you really want to employ someone who does that a
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by leon_ 15y ago
In a world of tele commuting it's pretty backward to base salaries on locations. If someone is great pay him what he is worth to you and not what he would get if he decided to go and work at the local cubicle farm. I'm hoping for a future w
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by leon_ 15y ago
Indie games itself are a lottery. Either you get on HIB, Steam, Xbox Arcade, get featured by Apple or you die silently. Gaming is a market where you as an indie have to hit the jackpot or you have to somehow face your competition, which are
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by leon_ 15y ago
Yeah, if you can't beat them, join them ... and give your stuff away for free. And get thrown of your apartment. And starve.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Well, controls are some of the things you shouldn't compromise on. If it takes you more time to get them done right then take that time and skip some fancy graphic effects.
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by leon_ 15y ago
I wouldn't call the default screen shitty.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Hmm, the shareware market before the app store was pretty lucrative too. The app store didn't really change anything for small shops. If you compete against big money on the app store you still have the problem that they have a lot more mar
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Btw, no static typing please, the web is definitely dynamic Could you explain what you mean with that?

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