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by ruslan 16y ago
If I had that wealth I would still keep coding... just for fun and for the sake of coding! Probably I would focus on something extraordinary, like robotics or AI.
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by ruslan 16y ago
ICQ/OSCAR protocol is totally insecure in essence, any attempt to fight spam on ICQ network is futile. It's kind of same as with email/SMTP.
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by ruslan 16y ago
There's a great and unstoppable tendency in Russia to switch to Jabber, so I wonder why would someone want to invest huge pile of money into almost dead service based on a centuary old technology? Either investors are dumb or there's some g
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by ruslan 17y ago
Why not just order "GEB: An Eternal Golden Braid" and read it ? The book is much more interstnig than any such course derived from it. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Godel-Escher-Bach-Eternal-anniversar...
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by ruslan 17y ago
Bureaucracy is a part of human nature and it cannot be fixed. Neither in Russian nor in any other country. Once it's there it cannot be eliminated, unless you kill half the country population. Same is true for corporate sector.
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by ruslan 17y ago
I live in Russian and am running an IT startup. I can tell you that nobody here in Russia takes these kinds of things seriously. It's clear even to a first grade kid that the only goal to almost any government endeavor that has "sience" or
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by ruslan 17y ago
Omg, yet another YC startup has been killed^H^H^H^H^Hacquired ? Oh well, hope the team has been offered something little bit more material, beside "the resources and freedom to build cool stuff". :-)
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by ruslan 17y ago
Except "go open source" (which is very questionable!) most startups do: -- launch at big confs or through popular blogs like techcrunch, which is essentially the same. -- stealth development. -- launch with features previously unseen on the
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by ruslan 17y ago
I liked this post in the comments: A couple of weeks ago I lectured in front of a classroom (in Belgium). I never prepare these things because I – naively – assume that the audience will want to know how it is to run a tech. start-up, like
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by ruslan 17y ago
All along through the interview he does not say anything new, alway repeating that Zimbra was a great open source product which spread virally. Unfortunately I could not find any piece of advice there. 40 minutes wasted.
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by ruslan 17y ago
I think he's just projecting his current income growth for the next 12 months, which sounds a little bit naive. :-)
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by ruslan 17y ago
Russians are not that dumb to use such services.
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by ruslan 17y ago
The less you know the well you sleep. Majority of people disregard the natinality prefer to sleep and eat well rather than to bother about missed possibilities and opportunities.
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by ruslan 17y ago
Anybody can point to figures/estimations showing how much Google makes in China and in North America per capita ? I strongly believe that doing business in China is really not worth the associated trouble in Google's case (and in many other
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by ruslan 17y ago
This is politics. Politics has no common sense, it acts in favour of small group of people whose intenations we can hardly recognize.
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by ruslan 17y ago
Somehow I missted that point in history when Open Source, from just an idiom and good philosophy for programmers, turned into big and dirty politics. This is all very disappointing.
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by ruslan 17y ago
Oh really ? Sipdroid does support G.711mu only, which a) never fits into narrow GPRS/EDGE bandwidth, b) incredibly sensitive to network fluctuations, lags and packet loss. So I believe you are a little bit unfair in regards of Sipdroid voic
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by ruslan 17y ago
Talkonaut for Android does support Speex (also many other codecs including G.729 through GTalk2VoIP gateway), it is not as complex in setup as Sipdroid. And you are right, it's easier to obtain free ipkall DID then point it to any SIP URI y
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by ruslan 17y ago
That's right. Any ideas what is the actual number of market share does iPhone take in Japan among all the possible mobile phones ?
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by ruslan 17y ago
Wonder how soon they find a way to spoof drone video streams with some open sourced software, probably VLC ;-)
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by ruslan 17y ago
I think they are taking recent Eric Shmidt's quote too firm :-).
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by ruslan 17y ago
Read carefully, the author explains it very well. Basically, 90% of app sales are made during first 6 weeks, which happens only and only if your app hits to top 100 (which is 99.95% less probable for an average developer). After that sales
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by ruslan 17y ago
I doubt that they will be able to affect Wave development significantly. There can be no two gurus at one church.
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by ruslan 17y ago
This is totally ridiculous: build something to throw it away and get job at Google ? Blah. This does not have anything in common neither with business nor with entrepreneurship.
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by ruslan 17y ago
I will say it again, this Scobler guy is moron and complete idiot! He proves this with every post he makes. Somehow the idiotism he posts makes his blog even more popular, so I conclude that ppl who read him are in same coherent "state of m
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by ruslan 17y ago
"My first reaction was “boy is the screen beautiful but boy am I overwhelmed by the complexity.” What do I mean by that? the iPhone has a far simpler UI. You can only drag it one direction, left and right. On the Droid you can drag the UI l
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by ruslan 17y ago
I'm waiting another post from this guy describing how they got tired fight the fraud and now they do offer their app for free. PS. We are charging from day 1 and it's damn not easy. Really! If fraud does not kill you in a year, there's 90%
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by ruslan 17y ago
I liked OpenMOKO project and the overall idea very much. It's sad they were not able to break into the market. Does anybody know what's going on with them right now ? Is there any hope ?
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by ruslan 17y ago
For example, if you have two similar (by functionality) Android based devices, one from Motorola and another from Google, which one will you buy ? Obviously it will undercut Motorola's business because Motorola will not be able to sell Andr
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by ruslan 17y ago
I know what JNI/NDK is, and believe me its applicability is very limited. Yes I do develop for Android and I already ported my VoIP (Jingle Audio) library to this platform and I also ported Speex codec using JNI and currently working on UI

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