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by nadam 16y ago
Thanks, I did not know about it. I think this is a still quite undiscovered territory so there is place for multiple companies/products here. (I will follow them to learn from them.)
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by nadam 16y ago
This is a good post, but there is the risk of survivorship bias here. Drew Houston is a brilliant guy, but let's be honest most people only recognized his true brilliance after he became successful. (I think most people thought he is smart,
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by nadam 16y ago
Yes. Solving the generic problem is usually much harder than an actual problem. Only try to solve the generic problem if you really think that there are huge benefits of it, and really know what you do, and you can take huge risks. (Like cr
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by nadam 16y ago
Yeah, I think Joel was right and wrong. He was right because there are architecture-astronauts who overdesign things that they don't understand yet. He was wrong, because the mistake of architecture astronauts is not that they want to solve
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Ask HN: are your business ideas too technical too?
3 points by nadam 16y ago|0 comments
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by nadam 16y ago
"Today we are standing on the shoulders of giants, and are able to access amazing development tools, frameworks, and libraries " Being able to make an impact mostly depends on how many other people have the skills you have. So while I am st
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by nadam 16y ago
"I've had lots of personal issues making a long distance thing work" Yes it is a problem. The best way it works is when you modularize your organization so that module boundaries are where the least communication is needed. This is how the
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by nadam 16y ago
Sorry if the title is confusing. I did not want to be dishonest. Shall I rename the verb 'offer' to something else? I can help in small issues for free, but I cannot do huge gigs for free of course.
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by nadam 16y ago
Thanks, I will contact them.
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Ask HN: Pls. give me a hard prog. problem (re: talent wars)
2 points by nadam 16y ago|2 comments
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by nadam 16y ago
Yes. If anybody is interested: For example offering half of Sillicon Valley salary to developers I could find the brightest 10-20 programmers from my country. I am well connected amongst developers. (Hungary is a 10million people country.)
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by nadam 16y ago
The most important things for me as a developer: - Money (I have a family to care about) - 'Interestingness' of the job: does it require creativity? Do I have ownership? Can I start things from scratch, or do I have to maintain an ugly over
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by nadam 16y ago
Professionalism makes the difference between bad quality and reasonable quality. For creating something amazing professionalism is not enough. Following the rules just leads you to a certain level, after that you have to break some of them.
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by nadam 16y ago
"But making movies and books and other forms of unnecessary art still makes hundreds of billions of dollars of revenues every year." Everything else being equal, I would not choose these markets. Why? Because these markets are too sexy and
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by nadam 16y ago
I think there are already lots of software companies which aim not too high. Last time I heard there were 150.000 apps in the AppStore. There are lots and lots of indie game developers and casual game developers; a great chunk of them don't
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by nadam 16y ago
In the case of some brutally hard problems there is virtually no difference. When yet another person claims that she proved that P=NP they usually don't read tha paper at all unless they feel that the author is a serious mathematician. Othe
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by nadam 16y ago
This is a motivational article, which is fine. Some people (depending on their personality and their current state in life) need motivation: 'you can do that'! Some other people, the born dreamers who are overly motivated and naive by defau
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by nadam 16y ago
foodfuscator.com is available if anyone is interested. :)
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by nadam 16y ago
The body of the messages seem to be (excerpts of) real job postings, but the titles are of course made up by the editor of this satirical site.
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by nadam 16y ago
But in that case (if SMS is necessary), why is this phone a good idea at all? There are good old-fashioned simple and cheap phones on the market. For example: http://www.ciao.co.uk/Nokia_1100__Review_5583589 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by nadam 16y ago
Everything is hard on a world-class level. Even programming and Math is hard on a world-class level. Writing 3D engines like John Carmack does is hard. Solving million dollar math problems, or coming up with unexpected theories is very-very
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by nadam 16y ago
I love philosophy but for me Lisp is just yet another programming language. (I don't even know what is the definition of Lisp, as there are lots of Lisps. Is it that there is no syntax but the programmer should type in the AST as it is usin
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by nadam 16y ago
I think Paul Grahams essay IS somewhat contradicting Paras's essay. For example look at this paragraph: "organic startup ideas usually don't seem like startup ideas at first. We know now that Facebook was very successful, but put yourself b
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by nadam 16y ago
Can easily happen if the individual is a physiscist. :) Edward Teller wrote this book in his 90+s, and nanosecond is certainly not the most technical word in this book:) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0738207780/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp...
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by nadam 16y ago
I like the approach in Scala: every function is an object, and every object which provide an apply() method can be used as a function.
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by nadam 16y ago
"the language designers perhaps could have used a bit more restraint in their design." The problem with that if they would follow your advice it would not be Scala anymore. There are dozens of programming languages which used more restraint
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by nadam 16y ago
98% of younger than 18 year olds overestimate their knowledge. I know this from experience from programming forums. I began programming when I was 12 and I massively overestimated my knowledge when I was 18 years old. (I know there are rare
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by nadam 16y ago
I think programmers are special kind of engineers. We could call them software engineers. My feeling is that the word 'hacker' is invented to state that hackers are somehow more than engineers. As if engineers were dumb people without creat
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by nadam 16y ago
What I am not sure is that the word 'hacker' is a useful word. There were other words widely used before the word hacker appeared: 'smart people', 'creative people', 'artists', 'scientists', 'mathematicians', 'engineers', 'polymaths' etc...
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by nadam 16y ago
I sometimes feel that I wasted all my years because I was developing quite diverse applications, so I am not an expert of anything. For example I am writing a Java to Scala translator now. I hate that I was dealing with completely other top

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