By Mihai Preda
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
This means that with 80% chance the project will be a complete failure, and will bring nothing (0 gain).
With 15% probability it will have a little success and bring [...]
By Mihai Preda
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 is a Slovakian company, and has the main [...]
By Mihai Preda
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 [...]
By Mihai Preda
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 be used for any task, [...]
By Mihai Preda
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 that [...]