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p47··on Teller – API for your bank account
It's possible for a government to be more open for non speakers of local languages.

Swiss Federal Government provides english translation of documents. https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920153/...

It's not legally binding, but for education and information purposes works great.

p47··on Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
Pricy. It is 85CHF for Zuerich for zone 110 which covers majority of the city.
p47··on Those annoying “Rate this app” dialogs
I've handled it that after 10 openings of an app the dialog is shown. The assumption I use is that after 10th time user kinda finds it useful. Anyway, 92 4 and 5 star reviews, of total 98 seems to confirm my assumption.
p47··on [Ask HN] do anyone of you knows a website which offers standard agreements?
Thanks this exactly what I was looking for.
p47··on The man who smuggled himself into Auschwitz
In addition to viraptor's post. I want just add that for sure some Poles we're anti-Semitic. But labeling whole nation like this is a terrible mistake, which lead humanity to at least one holocaust. In 1930 Jews were 11% of Poland's population. There we're 116 Jewish newspapers. In September 1939, around 120k Jews fight with Germans in Polish Army (as officers as well, please find officer in Whermaht or in SS) against Germans and Russians. All pow's with Jewish ancestors we're murdered by Germans :-/, only because they we're Jewish.

Well what my point is, you cannot say things like this, it's just wrong. You're harming a memory of wonderful and amazing cultural contribution.

I would gladly show you Łódź or Kraków in Poland, so you can witness with your eyes, how wonderful we're coexistence of Poles and Jews.

p47··on Android Market Sales data: pitiful $64/day for a Top 5 app
I have 2 apps on AMarket right now, making far to less money to live from them. Only solution is to work as a consultant for bigger players.

But still the same model is on App Store, my friend who is independent do the same.

Nice thing about Android is that casual users won't even know they are using Android, when smartphones will become standard. And slowly they are becoming.

From my perspective, AMarket when GOOG will finally make it usable (2.0 in month) may become really profitable. 3 mln users right now.

Also new handhelds look really promising, and if Motorola treats Android as their last resort, well I, as a small fish need to follow bigger players behaviour.

p47··on Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
For medicine/biology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.

During studies I used EBSCO www.search.ebscohost.com , there is almost every field, from Astronautics to Zoology :-), but access to some resources is limited.

p47··on Ask HN: Where do you live?
Poznan, Poland.
p47··on Nuclear Fusion Startup
Wandering if its one of many possibly dangerous start-ups. Few weeks ago i read about Copenhagen rocket science engineers, with great plans for future (moon landing was in their aims). What with bioengineering start-ups?

It's off topic, but do you know some of this groups? And what don't you think that freedom in such fields can jeopardise large population?

p47··on Poll: What kind of cell phone do you have?
All android phones for now. Samsung I700, G1 and still waiting for G2 :/.

G1 is my fav.

p47··on Ask HN: Anyone have success using cold e-mails for B2B sales?
I worked once in company (adv agency) for which it was common tactic. But market was ready for such practice (low availability of service, and large audience of potential clients).

It depends on Your product. If it's innovative give them chance to know You. I agree with prakash be short, and show them in short why it may become useful. I would add that You will hear "no" plenty of time. Don't discourage. Customer don't pay attention, they have enough their problems.

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p47··on A time travel strategy game
Does anyone have any data how to become beta? I'll code for possibility of testing it:P?
p47··on Ask HN: How can I get up early in the morning?
Well you all may missing the point. It's not important at what hour You get up. The matter is how long did You sleep. Normal person needs up to 4 circadian cycles. We make one every 1.5h, it varies individually. Here is real catch, if You sleep over this four cycles. Your brain starts to use some proteins produced during sleep. Its big waste because catecholamine is produced only during sleep. So if You over sleep, You loose energy, and You may wake up tired.

To start wake up earlier, this was tested by myself. You need to reset your brain. So don't sleep for night or two. And after go sleep on proper time. For 6-6.5h. You will be fresh as new born.

Interesting about the sleeps starts when You have idea about, training polyphasic sleep :-). Well its different story.

p47··on Ask HN: Is it necessary to learn maths to enter into programming?
For graphics its essencial to be great in math.

Rest of programing skills lies in pattern recognition skill. Its like learning new natural language.

I would recommend You to learn esperanto (many good programmers known to me are pros in eo), latin some greek (my professors from univ told me so, i know little of them).

As previous speakers pointed out, logic is essential. I would say that logic is a base line of all success. Cooker like programmer use the tool - brain.

And good luck!