echo272
Joined 12 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
Think of ads as spam. There are a ton of spam filters, nevertheless spam cannot be eliminated completely. Ads are even harder to remove since they represent a revenue stream. THE revenue stream online.
Comment · 11 years ago
ad blockers have a tough fight to gain widespread usage, specially because ads are the de-facto monetization strategy, plus they are so easy to use.
A service such as yours offer the value of not showing ads, which for some niche is something worth paying for, so a subscription based service seems natural.
Comment · 11 years ago
Thank you vardump. It's numerical linear algebra kernels on C, in a multi-core environment.
Comment · 12 years ago
The way you describe things reminded me of a fairly recent Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8630972
It's a about a blog entry of a self taught programmer who was changing technology stacks back and forth, I suggest you to read it.
As he concludes, the answer is to focus. IMHO if you don't enjoy .Net and you want to change it, go for it; you will need motivation along the way and if certain technology doesn't give it to you then learn something that does and STICK to it.
Comment · 12 years ago
Platform seems promising, but it lacks a proper user manual, or at least a tutorial on the basics