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"…
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…
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…
Check out the following page for official information: http://www.kmu.admin.ch/themen/00614/00715/index.html?lang=e...
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.…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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.
OMG, they'd better use Sharepoint ... http://www.sonova.ch/
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"... 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…
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…
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…
The following site is focused on freelancers but there are also full-time jobs listed. http://www.gulp.de
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…
Maybe people think they're done when they see the mid-way confirmation page? If it looks like a receipt - it must be one. This happened to me when my bank introduced a new online banking system. In the very beginning I…
It sounds like you are "fit" on the client side. If you want to start programming the part on the server side, I would propose to study "data modeling" first. If you do not even know what "entity" means, your backend is…
Sorry, I forgot to provide an example. It sure is not a killer application, the example is only meant to show that there already are usecases where you do not need such things as Flash. Flash:…
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"…
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…
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…
Check out the following page for official information: http://www.kmu.admin.ch/themen/00614/00715/index.html?lang=e...
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.…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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.
OMG, they'd better use Sharepoint ... http://www.sonova.ch/
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"... 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…
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…
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…
The following site is focused on freelancers but there are also full-time jobs listed. http://www.gulp.de
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…
Maybe people think they're done when they see the mid-way confirmation page? If it looks like a receipt - it must be one. This happened to me when my bank introduced a new online banking system. In the very beginning I…
It sounds like you are "fit" on the client side. If you want to start programming the part on the server side, I would propose to study "data modeling" first. If you do not even know what "entity" means, your backend is…
Sorry, I forgot to provide an example. It sure is not a killer application, the example is only meant to show that there already are usecases where you do not need such things as Flash. Flash:…