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by nadam 16y ago
Ok, so the problem is that Java the language supports only one target platform. This is not completely true, I don't know too much about about J#, but as far as I know using J# basically you can compile your program written with Java syntax
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by nadam 16y ago
What is not clear in the article is that languages and platforms are almost completely orthogonal in most cases. If we are speaking about the Java platform lock-in, languages are irrelevant, because I can use this platform from multiple lan
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by nadam 16y ago
"Yes, you're going to do those things, but since millions of other people are doing that too, you're still invisible. Visibility-fail. Anyone-gives-a-crap-fail." Hmmm..., I think we can say millions of people do (or will do in the near futu
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by nadam 16y ago
I've seen some offshoring went well and some which went not so well. Common mistakes are: Some western companies want to do it ridiculously cheap. To hire really good programmers in Eastern Europe you need to offer bigger than market salari
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by nadam 16y ago
I think smart offshoring can be a good idea. If they want the stuff for 1/10th price than they will not get quality. But if they want the stuff for half price they in fact can have at least as good qualty if not better. You can find the top
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by nadam 16y ago
Working on existing, bad quality code is the biggest nightmare for me. My philosophy is to think about a problem a lot, and write as few and as concise code as possible. Even delete code if not necessary. I am working alone on 180.000 lines
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by nadam 16y ago
How do you define the alpha geek identity? Is it the guy who writes down a beautiful piece of algorithm in notepad or on a piece of paper, or is it the guy who knows everything about the latest cool things, but maybe never programmed? Is it
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Ask HN: looking for remote work
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by nadam 16y ago
"Open Source projects offer you a chance to work on something that you want rather than something that others want you to work on." As far as I am concerned starting my own project is more what I want rather than fixing bugs in other people
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by nadam 16y ago
Not only is the algorithm described in the article complex for the simple task, but it is also incorrect. It has a single bottleneck: the grouper. It is interesting that I've been downmodded for providing a simpler but correct algorithm. (I
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by nadam 16y ago
"If homicide, suicide or resigining the job is not an option, how would you solve it?" I would create an n-ary tree (n is arbitrary, maybe 100) from coworkers. The 'leafs' would produce an array of ten numbers based on the blogs assigned to
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by nadam 16y ago
This is a bit impractical. Recognizing the food with few errors would be horribly hard. I think it is sometinhg like speech recognition or automatic translation: yes, it is easy to create some simple not very good speech recognizer or trans
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by nadam 16y ago
Just a very minor observation: I've read this on the site : "15 years of combined experience". Lots of people find this 'n years of combined experience' pattern a bit lame. For example: http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2010/02/combined
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by nadam 16y ago
Maybe this article is a PR piece. But I agree with that 'social' and non technology-focused startup ideas are overvalued currently by young enterpreneurs, by the media and by investors. As if those problems which existed 10-20 years ago wou
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by nadam 16y ago
They are competitors.
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by nadam 16y ago
Things are changing very fast in this industry. So even 10 years and 2 billion users are optimistic numbers. And if you take 2 billion users, most of these users are from very poor countries, it is extremely hard to monetize these users (al
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by nadam 16y ago
My gut feeling is that Facebook is somewhat overvalued at $33billion. (This is $66 for their average user.) But I don't think it is overvalued by orders of magnitudes and I think the 37signals article is very demagogue.
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by nadam 16y ago
Yeah, what I work on is quite similar to dabbledb. There are some differences of course. One of the most important differences is that my system will not only be available as a cloud service, but companies can run their own server if they w
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by nadam 16y ago
Yes, easy and intelligent import from Excel is strategically one of the most important things do right in this kind of application. I will release an alpha version in a couple of months, and I will submit an 'ASK HN: Please review' post on
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by nadam 16y ago
I am also doing my startup in the field of databases, but on the other end of the spectrum than Keyspace: I am working on bringing databases to ordinary people. What I am working on is a web based, multi-user collaborative MS Access-competi
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by nadam 16y ago
I am also a Hungarian, and I think Hungary is a worse and worse place as you get older. I've attended one of the best high schools in Hungary which was very high quality. Universities on the other hand are not bad, but also by far not the b
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by nadam 16y ago
I give you an example. Let's say there are 2 mathematicians 'A' and 'B'. 'A' works on different problems each day. At the beginning of the day he receives a task from his boss and solves it during the day. 'B' is experimenting and thinking
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by nadam 16y ago
I don't know, maybe the problem is that my perception on freelancing is based on a non representative sample: For example I've browsed rentacoder.com for a while: my impression was that the market is extremely saturated, most of the tasks a
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by nadam 16y ago
"If you don't make time, you'll never have time. The author seems to be falling into the all-too-common trap of equating long hours with productivity." Not necessarily. It probably depends on the market you are in. The author is a writer: m
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by nadam 16y ago
There was a time when I thought freelancing means freedom. I no longer think that. In my experience the difference between a day-job and freelancing is much smaller than the difference between freelancing and starting a startup. Freelancing
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by nadam 16y ago
A comparison article on search not mentioning Bing? Yahoo and Duck Duck Go both use Bing as far as I know. Of course there are cases when Bing is weaker than Google. For example your 'streamline/streamlining' example. (As Duck Duck Go also
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by nadam 16y ago
I am a big fan of simplicity, but I recently realized that I was going too far. It is hard to make money by just concentrating on simplicity. Most cash-cows are really complex beasts. See Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop
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by nadam 16y ago
I define a bubble like this to myself: too much is invested into something compared to the revenue it will generate in the future. Now if we assume that 'developer time' is an investment from the developer, then we can discuss whether apps
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by nadam 16y ago
Here in Hungary I don't know about any VC which would consider funding small software startups with realistic terms or would have the competency to understand this market. (An if I don't know about them that means they are incredibly incomp
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by nadam 16y ago
There is no local VC for example in Eastern Europe at all. There are no people understanding technology AND having money. Really almost zero. Lots and lots of talent is wasted. This is not an efficient market at all. Anyone can read all the

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