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The web, neural networks..? Many innovations are made in Europe. Americans are better at finding the product market fit. Not always at innovating.
by satellite2 4y ago
The web, neural networks..? Many innovations are made in Europe. Americans are better at finding the product market fit. Not always at innovating.
- hinkley 4y agoNobody used the web until a couple college kids in corn country added images to it. You can call that market fit if you like and I won't argue with you about it, I just don't agree. I had to listen to too many rants about the quality of Tim Berners Lee's code to allow that he invented the web. I place too high a premium on execution, which is a big part of my problem with IP and patents. You made a box. Congratufuckinglations. Can you make a million of them? And not chop anyone's fingers off? If the web were the automobile, he's no living embodiment of Rudolf Diesel. Maybe closer to a valued employee of James Watt. He was channeling Engelbart, channeling Bush, and stuffing it into SGML. Rudolf Diesel, there's a European inventor. We went a little crazy with that car thing. Sorry about that. Edit: That was also 30 years ago for the one, 40 for the other. That's quite a long time. Whole countries have cycled though low-end tech to innovator to resting on their laurels in that time.
- scarface74 4y agoThe entire purpose of a business is to make a profit.