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by nadam 13y ago
This can be a good heuristic to find lib ideas, thanks.
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Ask HN: Any lib ideas?
1 points by nadam 13y ago|2 comments
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by nadam 13y ago
Maybe I am overly cynical, but if quality education will be commodity probably the following things will determine success: which country you were born into, the culture of the family you were born into, talent, access to education that can
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by nadam 13y ago
My fellow Hungarian Paul Erdos had so strong accent that his speeches are subtitled on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my0L2icGooU And he was successful in the USA. (Edward Teller was similar they say.) But it is di
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by nadam 13y ago
About pg's observation that founders don’t realize how independent they can be: It may be a selection bias: Probably a founder wants to participate in the YC program partly because they want advices, feedback and maybe just psychologic
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by nadam 13y ago
Because we measure the quality of their output. A weaker group can solve the problem with the same quality as a stronger group given much more time. (For example by doing refactoring in the plus time.)
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by nadam 13y ago
You can quite well measure productivity if you set a task, write tests for it, and tell two independent groups to implement it. You give them the same amount of time. Now the more productive / better group is which can do the task wi
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by nadam 13y ago
Now everything is clear, thanks!
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by nadam 13y ago
I thought the money goes to the company, not the original owner. I think this is what pg suggested in the article.
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by nadam 13y ago
Can someone point to a link which explains the math of startup fund raising? I was thinking about it, and what I get is a paradox: I assume the definition of raising money is that the original owner gives some percentage of the company to a
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by nadam 13y ago
I think creative people always do fun projects. I think it depends where you are in your career whether it will give you material gains. In my opinion these projects, and generally building a network amongst developers can help you if you a
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by nadam 13y ago
This is also a very good point, I did not think about this. Maybe we should come up with a FizzBuzz-like basic test that is similarly easy, but does not need the modulo operator.
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by nadam 13y ago
Very good point, this can be an important factor. (I also have a very iterative coding style.)
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The FizzBuzz Paradox(nadamhu.wordpress.com)
6 points by nadam 13y ago|5 comments
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Top Tech Companies: You filter on raw IQ, here is how to do it more effectively(nadamhu.wordpress.com)
32 points by nadam 13y ago|31 comments
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Show HN: The Maximum Clique Problem As An iOS Game(experiware.com)
1 points by nadam 13y ago|0 comments
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Find the Mafia: addicting NP-complete iOS game based on the clique problem(nadamhu.wordpress.com)
2 points by nadam 13y ago|0 comments
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by nadam 13y ago
"Most can’t afford to write two separate interfaces. (It’s a terrible idea anyway.)" Why? If the newcomers can afford to write an interface for iOS7, the established players also can. If there is money in it for newcomers, there i
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by nadam 13y ago
The Goldbach conjecture is this: "Every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes." My program is simply constructed in such a way that it terminates if and only if the Goldbach conjecture is not true. Maybe my p
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by nadam 13y ago
The program must run on the Turing machine. The Turing machine has an infinite tape, so it is able to represent arbitraily large numbers on its tape. It is a different question that a real Turing machine cannot be built in the known physica
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by nadam 13y ago
Yes, there is a small program, for which you could be one of the most famous mathematicians if you could tell whether it terminates or not: i = 4; while(there exists such p and q that prime(p) and prime(q) and p+q == i)) i+=2; keyword: Gold
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by nadam 13y ago
I wonder why did they put the visible spectrum on the lower end of the scale despite its frequency is higher than the upper end of the scale (it is 400-700 THZ).
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by nadam 13y ago
That's true. (I am a Hungarian living in Hungary). Although migration is not the best deal in my opinion. The best deal is to work remotely for clients/employer in Western Europe, as living/housing is cheaper in Hungary. Now I do that (alth
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by nadam 14y ago
I would say you have to consider the competition. (how competitive is the market you want to participate in). If you compete with very hardworking people ('everybody in the field works hard') then talent will be a differentiator. If you com
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by nadam 14y ago
"For example, a social network for pet owners. It doesn't sound obviously mistaken." It is not obvious so much that actually there are several social networks for pet owners with apparently hunderds of thousands (registered) users. There is
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by nadam 14y ago
Incredible compression scheme for a class of drawings :)
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by nadam 14y ago
Ok, I accept this. I have experience in refactoring really bad code. Refactoring these always led to smaller code: yes sometimes some of the refactorings increased the code size, but there was enough redundancy because of the bad (or no) ab
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by nadam 14y ago
I said that it is a rough estimate, and we can tweak the formula. My opinion is that programmer competence is not absolute, but also not terribly relative. I mean John Carmack is kind of absolutely a better developer than let's say junior a
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by nadam 14y ago
In my opinion programmer competence is not absolute, but a little bit more absolute than what ed's post suggest. :) A very rough measurement of programmer competence: The programmer is given a product specification. He creates the program i
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by nadam 14y ago
From dustin's article: "Reasonable people would probably not spend the time to read a book about the history of flatware, buy twenty sets, and test the feeling of each metal utensil against their teeth. That sounds completely insane. But wh

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