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I would venture to say you haven’t packaged or shipped any complex software or had to do so in a way that scales to hundreds or thousands of machines. This is a
by medellin 3y ago
I would venture to say you haven’t packaged or shipped any complex software or had to do so in a way that scales to hundreds or thousands of machines. This is along the line of “i could build uber with 50 engineers”.
- userbinator 3y agoTake a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748924 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748924 and you may find a whole new world you probably haven't seen before.
- userbinator 3y agoYou can try to keep on thinking that it doesn't exist, but the truth is there for you to see.
- ponderings 3y ago...wait, didn't we have taxi's before computers? Rickshaw, Japan, 1860?
- mdwalters 3y agoThe first (mechanical) computer was made in 1822, and the computer has origins dating back to the 17th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
- TeMPOraL 3y agoThen again, taxis date back to at least Ancient Rome (IIRC they found a taximeter device using pebbles to count wheel rotations). And arguably, knowing humans, as soon as we figured out how to reliably use an animal to move a person, someone started offering moving people in exchange for money...
- ponderings 3y agoThe Antikythera mechanism suggests quite a bit of previous art. Making a device for counting wheel rotations wouldn't be very difficult. You could do the billing on a wheel too! One set for each customer! But it would be easier to just do the billing by carving it into a clay tablet.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoI feel like the killer app for taxi services was central radio dispatch.