Embarrassing Flaws That Made My ‘Weekend’ App Possible
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Embarrassing Flaws That Made My ‘Weekend’ App Possible
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#2"While thinking about this on a plane to England, my mind makes the natural leap from my motley collection of python functions to turning down acquisition offers from Amazon and being invited to talk at Davos."
haha happens all the time, who else suffers from this?
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#3"While thinking about this on a plane to England, my mind makes the natural leap from my motley collection of python functions to turning down acquisition offers from Amazon and being invited to talk at Davos." haha happens all the time, who else suffers from this?
It's my one weakness ;)
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#4"While thinking about this on a plane to England, my mind makes the natural leap from my motley collection of python functions to turning down acquisition offers from Amazon and being invited to talk at Davos." haha happens all the time, who else suffers from this?
Delusions of grandeur, IMHO, are a key part of the drive entrepreneurs need to slug through the pain of building a new business.
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#5"While thinking about this on a plane to England, my mind makes the natural leap from my motley collection of python functions to turning down acquisition offers from Amazon and being invited to talk at Davos." haha happens all the time, who else suffers from this?
Came here to quote the same thing. I too suffer from this and it's unbearable after it happens. It's exactly what my stupid brain does. And then I get angry on my brain for doing it. I think it is a symptom of a deeper problem in the way I think about developing something.
While day dreaming, I have made a better search engine than Google, a better operating system than existing ones, a game played by millions and each of the projects having a "situation room" like the one in Bourne Ultimatum.
It's all fun and games while I am dreaming though.
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#6"While thinking about this on a plane to England, my mind makes the natural leap from my motley collection of python functions to turning down acquisition offers from Amazon and being invited to talk at Davos." haha happens all the time, who else suffers from this?
Hah, I usually do that before I even write the first line of code! Actually I think Jeff Bezos might be ringing my doorbell right now, gotta go...
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#7"I remind myself that pride is another I Ain’t Gonna Need and get on with it."
YAGNI applies liberally.
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#8"If I’d played around with every piece of technology I should be using whether I felt like it or not, I’d never have got anywhere."
I feel like this all the time. Sometimes it's better to do a less-great job in a language you know backwards and skip the learning curve of a new tech.
The site works really well btw: after entering a handful of my favs it took my a while to get through all the games I already like to find new ones - so it's doing something right :)
Thanks for the interesting read.
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#9"If I’d played around with every piece of technology I should be using whether I felt like it or not, I’d never have got anywhere." I feel like this all the time. Sometimes it's better to do a less-great job in a language you know backwards and skip the learning curve of a new tech. The site works really well btw: after entering a handful of my favs it took my a while to get through all the games I already like to fi…
Great, I'm glad to hear it's proving useful! I'll do a follow up with how well my NoDB implementation stood up to the pounding it's getting at the moment later in the week...
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#10I haven't looked at this data to know if this would fit, but SVD worked really well for the Netflix prize.
When I first heard its use in recommender systems I laughed and then thought... wow, that's kind of perfect.
Here's a good explanation if you're not familliar with it, and very accessible to those who haven't studied linear algebra (or haven't thought about it in a long time) http://journal.batard.info/post/2009/04/08/svd-fun-profit