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Ask HN: Plans for 2010
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Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010
#42Close some of the prospects we have; lock-in our angel round (we've been talking to them for months) and get well down the path towards series a.
Now that would be a good year.
Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010
#43i doubt anyone's that interested in my personal plans, but this is perhaps a useful exercise anyway :o)
- improve lepl: simplify configuration; better logging showing how values are bound; possibly automate tokenisation; possibly improve speed.
- return to an idea i worked on years ago to generate synthetic rhythms. at the time i didn't have enough cpu power; now i think i can use a gpu.
- long shot: develop a small language that targets the llvm and opencl (gpus) in a simple way.
- improve my web site (already 90% done). motivated by people laughing at it on reddit a couple of days ago :o(
looks like i will be spending 4 months in the usa, on a tourist visa (partner has a sabbatical), so i should have time for some of this. i also plan to visit icfp for the first time.
Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010
#44Get married. (the most ignored part while hacking away with work & startup alone)
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#458. I plan on being happy as much as I can and maintain a positive demeanor.
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#47Try again and again to launch something that would be useful and popular. Failed twice this year...
Well, if you can learn from your mistakes, it will not have been a waste of time. You can use the experience of failure... or so I have heard. I have been failing as well.
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#48Well, they say confession is good for the soul... I've got four great kids. They're bright, curious, fun and I love 'em to bits. Thing is, I absolutely suck at being a Dad. I'm lazy, vague, inconsistent, moody and I find it all to easy to go hide in the study and respond to interruptions with "Go and play. Can't you see I'm busy". I don't want to be like this, not one little bit, so my one goal for this year is - no…
Wasn't your dad like this sometimes? Mine was. I'm the same way sometimes too. Not that I'm arguing with you. Spend more time with your kids. But don't beat yourself up. Are your kids happy? Good on you.
2010 is my year of teaching my kids to play Go.
Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010
#49My new year begins with one month of semester holidays.
Plan:
Release one app every 15 days and spend 1hr a day iterating the app I created in the previous 15-day session.
That'll make 2 apps in one month of holidays. while the rest of the year I release one app every month to manage college and freelance work (to support the side projects).
At the end of the year I should have close to 10 apps (or maybe only 5 if i take regular breaks). And atleast one of them I hope succeeds. I took this lesson from the 2D BOY studio guys who developed World of Goo. They prototyped a new idea every week until they found a nice prototyped idea.
Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010
#50Let's see. 356 days ago here, I said "The math behind signal processing; curing and drying ham and salami.".
This year, let's call it "The math behind signal processing; write a book."