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by nadam 14y ago
I agree that the comment was too mean. But in fact dcurtis was a bit arrogant too: "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 utensi
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by nadam 14y ago
It would take an extreme amount of time and quite a lot of money to apply this philosophy if you have a family with small children (like me). I am quite minimalist and selective in my work, but do not (and cannot) apply the same philosophy
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by nadam 14y ago
Works for me too. (I am from Hungary, maybe this matters?)
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by nadam 14y ago
1: holded 0: not holded binary AND: ==O-- binary OR: ==>-- So the generalized riddle for any monotone boolean function can be easily solved because all boolean monotone functions can be built up of binary ORs and ANDs. (Edit: accidental
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by nadam 14y ago
Two of the problems can be easily avoided: 'cofounder disputes' and 'investors' are not problems in case of single-founder bootstrapped startups. :) One thing I would add to the topic of 'determination': Are we speaking about determination
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by nadam 14y ago
"Getting kids excited about programming today means that one day, you're more likely to have competent juniors. If you plan on being in the workforce eleven years from now, the fifth grader you talk to today is your new hire in the future."
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by nadam 14y ago
I hate the expression 'working in technology'. Because it does not say anything about what a person actually does or knows or likes. (For example I am a prototypical hacker/programmer, but not working in the 'tech industry'. I work as a sof
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by nadam 14y ago
Thanks for your detaild answer.
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by nadam 14y ago
You and barkell are right: I forgot the case of actively malicious input. (other than that worst case cannot practically happen, at least I think, taking a glance on this algorithm's pivot selection.) This could be solved with randomization
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by nadam 14y ago
I am not an expert of this, but: 1. I think the stack usage of Quicksort is O(log(n)). Which means it is impossible to blow up the stack unless your dataset is bigger than the number of atoms in the universe (but in that case how are you ke
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by nadam 14y ago
I don't know Hemmingway, but given this description: "No surprises here. Code reduced to its essentials with no word or variable wasted. It’s not fancy; maybe its even a little pedantic - but that’s the beauty of Hemingway’s writing. No nee
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by nadam 14y ago
I did not think about the definition of a startup too much but in fact I always thought about it as 'product business' as opposed to 'service business'. Given this definition of a startup I don't want to start a startup anymore. My aim is a
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by nadam 14y ago
"giving the lay person a chance to be a part of the next facebook is a great story" Not necessarily lay person. For example maybe a world-class database technology expert in Russia wants to invest some thousand dollars into a database techn
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by nadam 14y ago
Sillicon Valley investors are interested in funding markets being non-efficient. They are not interested in making themselves a commodity. Commoditize your complements: make startups commodities but preserve early stage funding a non-commod
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by nadam 14y ago
I think there is no long term solution to this if you already have a family (with children to care about): Day job, side project, family: it is too much, at least one of them will suffer. I don't see this as something that can be balanced,
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by nadam 14y ago
I would say it is great design. Why? Because there is an also very important requirement: when the user wants to get his stuff out let him do it immediately: do not waste his time. This way they did not compromise this important requireme
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by nadam 14y ago
Quite promising from someone who has bean dead* for at least 5 years. :) * http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
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by nadam 14y ago
Just go to donwload.com or Apple's appstore and look at the tens of thousands of applications/apps there. All those programmers who created those applications/apps can do FizzBuzz and more. But only a fraction of them make good money from t
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How to bullshit programmers(google.com)
3 points by nadam 14y ago|1 comments
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by nadam 14y ago
I did not even open the post, and did not know what Kogan is: I just looked at the title of the post on HN and said to myself: What a great PR idea!
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by nadam 14y ago
Yes, doing it yourself in a short time frame is not realistic in most cases. The real 'problem' are those people who make free software as a hobby. They write these softwares for years (sometimes with more free time than I would have if I w
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by nadam 14y ago
In my opinion you have to overcome at least one of two obstacles to make money with a product: - Either know an interesting domain / niche-market which is not known by thousands of other developers (This is suprisingly hard for me) - Or you
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by nadam 14y ago
Both those questions are trivial and I answered them correctly. This is in line with the article's conclusion: I don't consider myself very smart. I mean I had some moderate successes in my childhood at math competitions, I am a reasonably
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by nadam 14y ago
"I'm on an adventure - to explore the limits of design's ability to solve social problems, big and small." Cool. On the other hand I am on an adventure to explore the limits of my brain's ability to solve problems, mostly small. Even solvin
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by nadam 14y ago
"there are clear business reasons for technology companies to focus their efforts on women. But few do." Well, for example I am creating a writers' tool (basically a markdown editor). I wonder if there is anything in the product design wi
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by nadam 14y ago
Definitely much of my identity is linked to my family (especially since my children have been born).
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by nadam 14y ago
"being capable of quickly shifting registers from the large picture to small details and back again — relies on the strong memory" Something like that, yes. Just huge memory and fast processor. And unfortunatelly it is just talent, after 10
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by nadam 14y ago
The file system is basically a simple abstraction: store data in a tree structure. The broader topic is how the tree structure can be 'disrupted' by less structured data organization and what are the territories where the tree structure (or
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by nadam 14y ago
"Perhaps if people bothered to learn a fraction of what is available in just the computer science or engineering departments of their university we wouldn't see the same old 50 year old technologies being reinvented again and again." The pr
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by nadam 14y ago
Yeah, in user interface design everything should be as non-geeky as possible, but not non-geekier. :) Sometimes it is really hard to figure out how geeky your potential customers are. I am building a markdown editor, and while I am trying t

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