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by nadam 16y ago
Last time, when pg was speaking about the trend of efficient markets, I was wondering how incredibly the tech startup funding is NOT an efficient market. We are in the internet age. Anybody can start a startup from anywhere in the world. D
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by nadam 16y ago
Thanks. My software is somewhere in-between: Both its price and its 'importance for the business' is somewhere between WinZip and Oracle.
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by nadam 16y ago
A question to those who are more experienced than me: I know that crackers are a big problem in the case of 'consumer software' e.g. games, simple utilities. My assumption is that this is not a problem in case of software specifically creat
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by nadam 16y ago
Basically good advice, but it also depends on the project. Some projects are too experimental for this. My approach is the following with my startup project (but not with my day-job project): I start to write this: brainstorm.txt In brainst
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by nadam 16y ago
I don't want to be rich, for me being free on my (an my family's) current standard of living is enough. I live in Eastern Europe (Hungary) and my current net income is $24000 per year. $30000 per year would be enough. (It is a very strong m
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by nadam 16y ago
I've read some Peter Drucker. It seems I am not alone: quite a lot of results when typing this into google: site:news.ycombinator.com Peter Drucker
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by nadam 16y ago
The issue here is not really the abstract definition of the customer. Every user has a certain value to the business regardless what the business model is. If you have a free ad-based application then maybe this is only some cents per user.
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by nadam 16y ago
I think the following two sentences: 'build something people want' 'build something that solves a problem' became just empty trivialities by now. These were important relevations after the dot com boom: During the first dot com boom there w
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by nadam 16y ago
That's the absurdity of the whole situation! Let's say I've stolen someone's credit card number. If I am a game producer, and I specify this credit card as the destination of the money I earned, then I only make the card owner a favor! On t
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by nadam 16y ago
I don't understand why paying me money is a problem, and I don't get it what kind of fraud are we speaking about. Normally the following should happen: 1.I create an account on their site with my username and password. I log in with this ac
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by nadam 16y ago
A little rant: "USD only for App developers, WWW for buyers" I translate it to myself: "west: place with creative smart people. rest: dumb idiot consumers" This is what always happen with 'gaming marketplaces', and 'mobile marketplaces'. Th
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by nadam 16y ago
My product/approach was too simplistic. It was just a word learner tool, basically a 'flash card' program, which tracked and modeled the user's knowledge, and 'annoyed' the user time to time with questions. My main mistake was that I did no
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by nadam 16y ago
"kind of stubbornness but also wild imagination" Yes, very true! "I guess the best we can do is to risk build something ourselves when the right moment comes" I agree. I hope I've learnt from my previous failures. My newest project is somet
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by nadam 16y ago
I live in Hungary. (Eastern Europe.) It is not an especially poor country, but poor compared to Western Europe and the USA. Multinational companies mostly bring here only the boring jobs. (I can understand them: they don't want to offshore
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by nadam 16y ago
It is interesting how much this blog post is not relevant to my status. I always wanted to create my own startup, and nearly always had pet projects for this purpose on the side. It is no news to me that starting a startup is a cool thing.
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by nadam 16y ago
"it on another language say Objective C" Maybe they could use Go for this purpose. (This would be a nice opportunity for Go.) http://code.google.com/p/go/
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by nadam 16y ago
I really think that P can be equal to NP, just the algorithm can be very chaothic, based on pseudonumber generators, and very-hard-to-analyze emerging behaviour. For others to have an initial 'feeling' on this, I've created a polynomial tim
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The good guys and bad guys algorithm(nadamhu.wordpress.com)
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by nadam 16y ago
Did Sony, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google have 10 people who said they will buy their first product? (I am asking because I am not completely sure. Maybe it is a bit more complicated in case of very technology-heavy/research-based/v
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by nadam 16y ago
I definitely don't want to code in Java all my life. I am in the middle of a project, and I don't want to change language until it is finished. Fortunatelly there are languages which compile to the JVM, and I can use existing Java libraries
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by nadam 16y ago
The most concise language I know is Joy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language) The 100 factor must be an exaggeration for most problems. In 100 lines I can put lots of information or quite complex algorithm even in Java.
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by nadam 16y ago
I know that it is possible to write shorter code in the above mentioned languages than in Java, but my experience is that it is rarely more than a 2 times factor. Some Java haters make exaggerations. Java (the language) does not equal J2EE,
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by nadam 16y ago
I don't understand this: "Why have a graph library when you can just embed the graph naturally in the data?" Why do you need a graph library in Java? Why cannot you embed the graph into the data in Java? class Node { List<Node> poin
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by nadam 16y ago
Yes, Lisp is a more expressive language than Java. But when I have to find out a nontrivial algorithm it does not help if I use a very expressive language. For example let's have this old interview question: find a loop in a linked list wit
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by nadam 16y ago
Interesting, but it is very different in my case. Sometimes I think days on a complicated algorithm, if it is a really hard problem. Once I know the algorithm in my head, is is totally trivial to code it in Java (or any other language I kno
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by nadam 16y ago
"I am currently working in Java to re-implement an algorithm I prototyped in lisp." Maybe this is the problem. If I develop in Java, I think in Java. I don't prototype in other languages. I don't use 'factory objects' and 'visitors' and a
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by nadam 16y ago
I would not be concerned if I would write a web based product. But I am writing a desktop application in Java. Someone with more resources than me can copy my stuff very fast and beat me before I can get real traction. My most important com
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by nadam 16y ago
Thanks and the same to you! (I did not want to sound offensive, I've just realized that I am not especially good in creating small consumer applications (and there are crazy amount of competitors), so instead I do something which fits more
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by nadam 16y ago
I agree. That's why I've decided to focus on a non web/mobile/social and a technically non-trivial topic as my new startup. - Non web/mobile/social, because web/mobile/social is highly saturated and overhyped - Technically non-trivial, beca
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by nadam 16y ago
They could automate this: if an article would not be read for a given amount of time by a given number of users, it could be automatically deleted. This would be much more objective than what they are doing now.

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