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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    I get what healthstatus is trying to say but in my not so humble opinion I think at least in the post I replied he is looking the whole thing thru too narrow lenses. There's so many different things you can do with coding skills as entrepreneur that saying nowadays you shouldn't even start...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    Again, this depends on what you are doing. If you are planning to build a web service that handles personal data, then I agree. But if you are building iPhone game where you solve puzzles by moving blocks, who gives a shit if the code is crap if it works? No hacker will ever waste their time on...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    You are right. However what I was saying is that if you choose to learn one skill and you know you want to be in the software business. Then I strongly recommend programming. Learning basics of marketing is much faster than learning how to handle a completely new language. There's also...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    Value of the software (yes, app(lication) is software) is not tied to it's complexity. In the cases of Google and Facebook it's the scale that makes them a complex system. Both of them started as pretty simple software. Google was basically scraping bot, key/value database and the famous...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    I outlined the problem for you. As long as you don't know where you're going, you will never get there. Don't dedicate 10 years for coding. Instead when you have that idea, research what it would take to make it happen. If it's insanely complex, you might not even want to attempt with that idea...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    Yawn, I'm going to follow theag's lead and express myself with visuals.
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    Well of course, I agree with you on that and I should have been more specific. So let's specify, to me money doesn't have any correlation with wisdom in anyway. By the way, so if money is symbolic to value you have given, how does non-profit organizations fit in? I can't remember if you said...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    Really, the worth of somebody's posts depends on their post count? This is good to know for anybody around here. Next time (which won't come obviously) I say something to you I'll keep in mind to first write a lot of positive posts so I suddenly come credible. Oh wow, now it makes sense, I...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    It's as much Field of Dreams as your market and the cash will start rolling in.. however this way they actually have a product... You obviously have no idea what you are talking about so it's a waste of time for me to even try to educate you. It's really ironic that you are advocating that they...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    Pretty great insights, now I'm enlightened. Hehe, so let me get this right. If they learn to market, the money will magically start to appear? Now that they know kungfu they can just whip out affiliate campaigns and get all the clients they want.. I think I saw similar pitch at WarriorForum.com...
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    How much visitors needed to be considered "profitable"?

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    Define profitable. Calculate your overhead and find out how much you need to make at minimum. Then depending your number it might be 1 visitor per week when he or she orders product that makes enough profit for you to be profitable OR 10000 visitors a day when enough of them click an ad that in...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    The thing with bad and good programmers is that like I said earlier, in many cases the difference is in the specs the client delivers. Of course there's some really crappy programmers around who really just simply can't code but if you hire based on feedback or references you most likely get a...
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    Social News Site

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    Focus on the smaller niche. Otherwise you are going to be overrun by spam. Research how yCombinator made Hackernews popular. That's a great example of niche social news site. However keep in mind that it's not very hard to setup social news site nowadays. There's plenty of ready-made software...
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    E-Commerce Analytics Question

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    Remember to use your own brain when reading advice from people who you can't evaluate based on real-life merits. There's a lot of folks here who know all the theory but lack the experience of actually doing it. In many cases the reality is a bit different when you actually take action. That's...
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    Took the forum advise and made it free

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    Don't you know that learning how to program is STUPID. Reference to the thread "Learning how to program is STUPID" in case you didn't get it :)
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    E-Commerce Analytics Question

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    Remember that Google's tools are notoriously bad when it comes to traffic counts. Nobody knows except Google whether they are doing it on purpose or is it because they do quicker than quick estimates on-the-fly but their traffic counts are nothing like reality. You could try Market Samurai...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    I agree completely. Too many folks here seemed to pick up only the line that said that you can use marketing to mask crappy product and sell it. So writing a sales page, creating PPC campaigns and knowing how to post to social media is the entry barrier? I don't think so. Learning AIDA and...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    If you were looking at writing scalable, self-healing web application, you could have used Java or Erlang. Also Scala came out 2003. PHP is a really crappy choice for a webapp that needs to scale. PHP doesn't have threads, is synchronous and doesn't perform very well when it comes to CPU heavy...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    Heh, it would help if you knew what you were talking about :) There's a difference between downfall caused by language choice and paying a boat load of unnecessary cash to make it scale. You do understand the difference between relational database and graph database? Or CAP theorem? If you did...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

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    I would say it goes more like: - Spend whatever time it takes learning to code while developing your app the way you want it at the same time, creating a system that will allow you to very quickly create other apps - Find out that because you started to code the app before what you actually knew...

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