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Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010

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Post by robfitz »

SingAlong wrote: post #49

My 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…

May I ask if these are going to be game projects? I'm very interested in people's experiences doing rapid game development.

Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010

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Post by cperciva »

asb wrote: post #82
cperciva wrote: post #3

I plan to end 2010 with 10x as many customers as I start it with.

I've opened an account and deposited $5 on a whim but haven't made any use of it. Would you count me as a customer?

I have a few different metrics I look at; the big ones (in terms of the number of customers) are # of customers with positive balances, # of customers with data stored, # of customers with bandwidth usage in the past month.

Generally for each 100 accounts created, there are ~80 accounts with positive balances, ~75 with data stored, and ~50 with bandwidth usage in any given month.

Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010

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Post by tokenadult »

frisco wrote: post #79
tokenadult wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LESS achievable. Multiplication by zero still gives a product of zero in the real number system.

>> Multiplication by zero still gives a product of zero in the real number system. Yeah which is why its more achievable: factor = final / initial = 3 customers / 0 customers = ZOMGx more customers

Ah, the usual division by zero error.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.divideby0.html

http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/0by0.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DivisionbyZero.html

Perhaps more to my original point is that cperciva replied to the thread-opening post

I plan to end 2010 with 10x as many customers as I start it with.

so the the comment by woid (grandchild comment to cperciva's comment) is CORRECT that such a goal is not achievable if

you start with zero customers

because there isn't any defined number of customers that is exactly ten times as many customers as zero customers.

It's funny that this isn't taught in all mathematics classes.

Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010

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Post by frisco »

tokenadult wrote: post #84
frisco wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Multiplication by zero still gives a product of zero in the real number system. Yeah which is why its more achievable: factor = final / initial = 3 customers / 0 customers = ZOMGx more customers

Ah, the usual division by zero error. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.divideby0.html http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/0by0.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DivisionbyZero.html Perhaps more to my original point is that cperciva replied to the thread-opening post I plan to end 2010 with 10x as many customers as I start it with. so the the comment by woid (grandchild…

I understand the math; sure, 10*0=0. Looking lim a->0: x/a, though, which goes to infinity, I was implying it was easier to achieve because mathematically he'd be way past his target of 10x. But you're right that it's impossible to hit exactly 10x.

Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010

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Post by jacquesm »

gabriel-coarna wrote: post #71
jacquesm wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think any language is worth learning. Right now I'm at 5, Dutch (my mother tongue), Polish, German, English and French (the latter poorly through inactivity). I very much want to learn more languages and I find that with every language added the next one becomes easier. So there is no such thing as a language 'not worth learning', almost all of the languages spoken on the European continent are related in some way…

That's actually a rather cool point of view. However, I don't share it. I believe that one should spend most of one's time trying to do something awesome in one language -- as opposed to wasting time by learning 5. Now, don't get me wrong, the fact that you now 5 languages is very cool; however, I don't think I'll ever use up that much time to gain those particular skills. You see, I believe that if one were to draw…

The idea of it being cool or awesome never crossed my mind, to me languages are tools and knowing how to use more tools gives me more opportunities.

Dutch was unavoidable, English at 10 in grade school, working for a US based bank (but in Europe), French and German you get in high school in NL and Polish because I lived there and had a relationship with somone from Poland.

Currently Spanish is very high on the wish list because of spending some time in Panama.

Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010

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Post by SingAlong »

robfitz wrote: post #81
SingAlong wrote: post #49

My 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…

May I ask if these are going to be game projects? I'm very interested in people's experiences doing rapid game development.

No. All web apps. But sometime one of them might be a game. Coz I've always wanted to get into game dev. SInce I dont have a Mac or iphone and I'm not a pro, I won't try the PC game market. I'll start off with the Android market. Small Android games seems like my piece of cake :)

Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010

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Post by tptacek »

frisco wrote: post #80
tptacek wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Teaching your kids to play Go or teaching them to code in Go?

The game.
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