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One option: use your entrepreneurship and management training to figure out the answer to this question: what could someone with your skillset, who didn't need to otherwise work to…

In his book The Millionaire Course, Marc Allen writes that "Your business goes through the same three stages that all living things go through: infancy, adolescence, and maturity".…

Very interesting! Would you use this for backtracking?

I didn't quite follow, perhaps an example to help me? Is there a specific place where the code would become shorter?

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9219

Thank you. I rewrote that paragraph.

OK, I have a HN etiquette question. I don't post much on HN, and I wasn't the one who posted the link to my thank-you here on HN. I've had a HN account for a while, but I'm still p…

[You came to the wrong Lisp then, as Arc has no libraries compared to all the mainstream lisp dialects] I'm not saying that Arc has better libraries than other Lisps, I'm saying th…

Your article doesn't list any of the library features that tipped the scale in favor of Arc. The features of Arc are well described in the Arc tutorial, http://ycombinator.com/arc/…

Can you give me an example of a snide remark that could be rewritten? (I appreciate your suggestion to say that I wish another Lisp dialect was more like Arc, but I'm not sure how …

For me it's a cost/benefit analysis. Programming in MzScheme or Arc has a cost to me in that the libraries I typically use for my projects are mostly available in other languages, …

Hmm, I don't know if I'm going to be able to explain it very well without an example. My general experience was that I'd start with syntax-rules, which would turn out to not be pow…

I apologize, it was not my intent to bash Java.

I have achieved hacking nirvana through Arc because I like Arc more than I like Scheme or Common Lisp.

Sounds like your catch-22 is that you'd be willing to put in the programming if you knew it would pay off, but you're reluctant to put in the programming if it's not going to pay o…

I recommend taking a look at a book called The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn. ( http://www.amazon.com/Teenage…

What would make it worth it to you? I.e., is there some $/month revenue where you'd say, "yup, I wouldn't mind putting in the work if I were getting that"?

Interestingly, IMVU had the same issue: many of their target customers didn't have a credit card, and apparently they were able to get mobile phone payment to work for them [www.st…

200 players at $5/month is $12,000 a year. "it was always our intent to make an experience accessible to anyone interested in politics and strategy gaming, the game is still free" …

It's OK to bail. Now, naturally you may decide not to bail after due reflection, advice, and discussion. And that's OK too. But as long as you're deciding not to stop because of yo…

That would probably be a good thing to do an A/B test on. Everyone has an opinion (like me: "hey, I like the dollar sign! It's simple, clear, I recognize it instantly, and I hate w…

Let me ask the question this way: if you have a bug fix or new feature ready to go that would be helpful to your paying customers, why would you delay releasing it?

Ah yes, I was thinking this morning that the article's interpretation of the study results was leaving out this selection effect. The study, by itself, doesn't tell us whether hiri…