Costs are in euros per month. developer pay (one person) 3000 office rent (50% of apartment rent) 200 food 200 hardware amortisation 150 electricity, consumables, phone 70 internet access 40 web hosting 10 domain names 5 total 3675 Costs: about 50k euros / year. Return: Probability Gain 80% 0 15% 100k 4% 500k 1% 5000k [...]
I just bought the 5 plane tickets: Warsaw – Budapest Bratislava – Bucharest Bucharest – Bratislava Budapest – Rome Rome – Warsaw Looks strange, isn’t it? In fact we only wanted to travel on this route: Warsaw – Bucharest – Rome – Warsaw. In Europe, there are two major low-cost airlines: SkyEurope and WizzAir. SkyEurope [...]
I’ll switch all my 6 domains from GoDaddy to another registrar. I’ll never pay them any money again. They accepted payment for two .eu pre-registrations, that they couldn’t register, and now 3 months later they still refuse to refund the money. That’s stealing, IMO. And their support is the archetipe of brainless drones who are [...]
I developed this simple clasification of programming languages that is of no much use I guess. Perhaps it is inspired from the toothbrush clasification (hard, medium, soft): Hard languages: C and C++ Medium languages: Java and C# Soft languages: Perl, Python, Ruby Exotic languages: Lisp, ML The Hard languages are the oldest. They can reliably [...]
The v0.1 release that I wanted to prepare for the 1st of July is postponed. The situation is that there are too many problems and missing functions at the moment to warrant a release. In the future I’ll avoid setting release dates. I wanted to use the ‘release date’ trick as a self-motivating device: knowing [...]