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by mpf62 16y ago
You seem to have found your destiny. Why do you even care what other people think/do? I would say: follow your path perseveringly and you will end up fine. Not having the urgent need to think about the "investor route" is a good thing. Ever
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by mpf62 16y ago
Probably not in general, but concerning architecture I would tend to say yes. Isn’t it an important part of “postmodern architecture” to melt premodern/traditional designs with modern ones? So, conservative ideas/values seem to have some in
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by mpf62 16y ago
The prohibition of minarets does not have anything to do with religious freedom. You can build as many mosques as you want and you are free to pray to anyone you like. It's only the minarets (the towers on top of the mosques) that most swis
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by mpf62 16y ago
I second that one, plus: I would especially check up on the persistency of the founders. Are they really dedicated to the product/company or are they going to lose interest if either VC money is used up, they have not become rich after a f
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by mpf62 16y ago
Check out the following page for official information: http://www.kmu.admin.ch/themen/00614/00715/index.html?lang=e...
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by mpf62 16y ago
The debate should not only be about Flash vs. HTML5. With SVG-Support in IE9, there's another argument against Flash coming along. SVG is already a pretty good alternative to flash for some tasks on iPhone (eg. interactive maps). If SVG get
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by mpf62 16y ago
Actually, the US isn't a net exporter anymore. You are importing far more of value than you export (2009: +45%, 2008: +66%) and that is the problem. How are you going to pay the people abroad that dig in the dirt for copper that you actuall
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by mpf62 17y ago
According to CIA World Factbook, you're not the largest in terms of percentage of GDP. At least Germany, Japan, Italy and even Switzerland rank better in that metric. All of these single-metric comparisons are flawed. E.g. the world largest
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by mpf62 17y ago
PPP is indeed a silly measure as practiced. McDonalds has almost no competitors in Switzerland (no In&Out, Jack, TacoBell or Subway across the street) - therefore a BigMac costs at least 5 times more than in the US. There are other meas
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by mpf62 17y ago
I know of a company that makes a living for about two dozen people selling (or better developing) ideas. Maybe you find some inspiration on their website: http://www.brainstore.com
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by mpf62 17y ago
I fully agree. And they need to make a good amount of money to "feed" 20 people after they exhausted the funding. Think of it this way: you need at least 95% less sales to make the same profit per person (implied you sold your app for the s
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by mpf62 17y ago
Was that before or after the Japanese did the same thing? I nominate you for the Ignorance-Award. I've never read such a stupid/useless Comment on HN before.
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by mpf62 17y ago
OMG, they'd better use Sharepoint ... http://www.sonova.ch/
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by mpf62 17y ago
Red Bull. An Austrian spots Krating Daeng in Asia, buys a license for all continents, designs a can, puts some carbonic acid in that “syrup”, positions Red Bull around extreme sports … and is now a billionaire (according to Forbes: No. 151
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by mpf62 17y ago
I personally doubt that you have been taken advantage of the way you describe it. Did you really take the one product from $50 to $700+ daily revenue all by yourself or did you “only” make it easier for the salesmen to place it in the marke
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by mpf62 17y ago
Of course it hurts to lose any business just because some of your potential customers think your company is too small. Serve the customers you can get now well. Not only does “many a mickle makes a muckle” (a Scottish saying that reflects p
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by mpf62 17y ago
Stop using fake names immediately and start responding with your own name in all cases. Many customers will probably think: “there seems to have taken place a reorganization; cool, now I have a single contact person for all my concerns”. Th
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by mpf62 17y ago
I would recommend learning JavaScript. Java, VB, PHP, etc. are pretty much all the same in comparison to JavaScript. I’m not talking about syntax or patterns but about general purpose. In my opinion, JavaScript is the most important complem
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by mpf62 17y ago
The article you linked to does only look at static data. That’s to simplistic. What if you factor some dynamic data into that equation? For example Germany: this country exports about 20% more of value than it imports per year, while the US
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by mpf62 17y ago
How does buying stuff on credit increase your standard of living? At short notice, this may be the case, but this kind of behaviour is not sustainable. You know, there will be a day when the bills become due. What are you going to do then?
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by mpf62 17y ago
I can’t see much difference in comparison to a shotgun. I have had training with the older Sig SG 510 and the newer Sig SG 550 assault rifle of the Swiss Army and they’re both about as easy to use as an airgun. Even if you walk around in pu
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by mpf62 17y ago
But what if they encounter them? "I could theoretically develop a solution within a day, but I have no idea what you are talking about!" I hope such programmers make sure that they can work on the next twitter and such things and don't have
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by mpf62 17y ago
"... with the exception of ease of deployment" Sometimes, this actually is a significant (technical) advantage. Of course, PHP is not perfect, but which language is? Sometimes, even the old VB(A/S) can be the best choice to solve a given pr
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by mpf62 17y ago
I would say: keep focusing on fundamentals. Learning new technologies is pretty easy if you do understand the basic rules that they are all based on. For example: I you have no idea what the "De Casteljau"-algorithm is about, how could you
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by mpf62 17y ago
What industry? That sector accounts for less than 20% of US-GDP. Besides that, if the dollar becomes worthless, how will your "industry" pay for raw materials that have to be imported? Of course, you can at least buy oil in dollars ... but
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by mpf62 17y ago
Our share of foreign nationals accounts for about 22%. That is almost 10 times the share of foreigners in the Czech Republic and about double the amount of the USA. If a multicultural experience (four official languages) is boring, then you
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by mpf62 17y ago
The following site is focused on freelancers but there are also full-time jobs listed. http://www.gulp.de
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by mpf62 17y ago
... as long as the article has not more than about 3-5 paragraphs. I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist. We have plenty of news. What seems to have gone missing in online news in general is deepened analysis. So, these youngsters sure have hear
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by mpf62 17y ago
I'd like to mention another problem in the B2B space: customers often feel uncomfortable buying from very small businesses. And in decision processes where Consultants are involved you can almost be sure that they usually do recommend bigge
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by mpf62 17y ago
Personally, I couldn't disagree more. Specializing to early would narrow your window of opportunities. A sixteen year old boy doesn't really know what's going to happen during his lifetime. Maybe, one day he would really love to program for

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