savoy11

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by savoy11 16y ago
So I am pretty sure you have your successful open source story to share. Where you saved the queen, anything green, the oxygen, as we know it - and made millions along the way - while slaying bad guys around. PS. It is easy to spot a clown.
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by savoy11 16y ago
Excellent HN material. Out of the 0 startups, that ran Node.js to be successful, 0 ran it to do Scrabble for their day-to-day-work. Thank you HN for that unique experience. You are almost as good as state school and IT hot-shot series at Ma
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by savoy11 16y ago
I'm not quite sure how/why you think this is news. Something going open source historically means 99% death. I really hope you get to be that 1% of the lucky ones... but...
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by savoy11 16y ago
I believe at this point most of the people on news.ycombinator are well aware of the "work at startup" bait. If you are that good to help a startup to grow from 0 to millions, you typically get $150K at Google (for example). For the 4-5 yea
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by savoy11 16y ago
And there we go - the typical HN oh no, it costs money ($99 for an engine, mind you, that may save you hundreds of hours development time). How much do you charge per hour? Can this library save you hundreds of hours? Do the math. I am not
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by savoy11 16y ago
This is a ridiculous post and can be upvoted only here.
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by savoy11 16y ago
The daily Microsoft bashing HN post. There are literally thousands of startups started by ex-Microsoft marketers, developers, sales people and they are doing great. Microsoft is definitely doing great as well. People are smart and can adapt
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by savoy11 16y ago
That's why noone is taking you seriously, folks. Copy/Pasting .NET and you claim you do not even have the original on your machine - nobody is going to use your crap. How on Earth am I going to trust my business on Mono when you claim that
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by savoy11 16y ago
"Open Source Developer" is not a job or career or profession. How many people out there really make their money checking in open source code? 0.1% of all developers? 0.01%? Most people do it in their free time, use it as marketing tool for
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by savoy11 16y ago
This is not correct. There were multiple MVC frameworks on top of ASP.NET years ago, including Monorail and FubuMVC and a lot more actually. All of them were open source. Some of them were quite good, actually. Were you active there? Did yo
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by savoy11 16y ago
Another day, another leaving .NET/Java for Ruby/Python post. This very link btw got posted twice, the first post was 3 months ago. Aren't you guys tired of that? We get it - HN is the place where people will go at great lengths to contribut
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by savoy11 16y ago
The unfortunate truth is that big companies can play that game - this or that is free and commoditizing software in general - they can win elsewhere. A very good example is what Google is doing with browsers and all kinds of software just t
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by savoy11 16y ago
Why are people always writing these types of posts? .NET/VS.NET is one of the best programming environments ever engineered, no need to bash Microsoft on that. And what's the deal with licensing? We, as software developers and entrepreneurs
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by savoy11 16y ago
The co-relations of driving, being a doctor, etc are really making me laugh hard. How much of what you have guys written is that important? FourSquare... look at me, I'm at McDonads and taking a pee You guys are taking yourself why too seri
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by savoy11 16y ago
Right, but I'd like to hear the reasoning behind that. You mate with women while being drunk, you do lots of other stuff - and most of it is good. So why not code? Give me the explanation behind that.
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Ask HN: How much of your production code have you written while drunk
8 points by savoy11 16y ago|12 comments
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by savoy11 16y ago
I am just saying there are two sides of the story and we have not heard the other side yet. And we are talking about a professional and personal life getting ruined here (the guy is already screwed up regardless of what comes out of this, w
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by savoy11 16y ago
Yes, thanks, I'll upvote that since it is spot on. You pretty much nailed all the issues we have. At this point we have chosen to just keep on. If we manage to sustain this type of progress for the next 2-3 years, things cannot go worse. Al
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by savoy11 16y ago
Read carefully guys before downvoting and know there are always two sides of the same story. Tomorrow this can happen to you too. Ruining someone's personal and professional life forever is a very drastic thing to do and is a very hard puni
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by savoy11 16y ago
Very competitive, established and growing segment. Also, kind of big. Developer tools, basically. There are are at least 5 very big companies (revenues of $10mil+) and hundreds of employees each, and like 100 small companies in this segment
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by savoy11 16y ago
I'd like to put this into the perspective of a foreigner. I believe the sexual assault problem has been blown out of proportions in American culture - there are things that are just too much, like the sex offenders registration/web site for
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by savoy11 16y ago
btw - somewhat related - how much money can be made of Google Ads out of a site with 1 million page views per month? Content is technical - developer oriented. We are currently running a niche ad network and making approximately $1000 per m
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by savoy11 16y ago
Almost full-time. Product is also very support intensive (a lot of email/forum support that is highly technical). The product can fit well into competitors portfolio of products and can make them much more than what we do (they are establis
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Ask HN: How much are we worth?
20 points by savoy11 16y ago|27 comments
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by savoy11 16y ago
This is correct, demographics/industry specifics should be taken into account. What I was trying to say is that we also had something similar (IE stats very low)when we developed our product/service - when you are in Beta, your team and the
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by savoy11 16y ago
The sample of visits is probably too small and misleading. Developers (e.g. you and guys on the team developing the product) tend to use FireFox and now, Chrome, whereas most users will use the stock browser they have by default - IE. I am