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by 10ren 16y ago
How far off is a heads-up display? That would change the game. EDIT http://www.microvision.com/vehicle_displays/head_up_displays... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display These things are expensive, but electronics get
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A few years ago, I was offered a job because they googled java programmer australia and I was first (they told me in an interstate phone call). This could only have been because of my open source project.
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> We had a touch-screen, Wi-Fi handheld device that we showed in 1995. That was a decade early. By the time it was time to do the iPhone, we didn't have any business anywhere near the handheld devices. Unfortunately, engineering needs c
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I was amazed when he said "we lost, they won" with no sense of rancor, nor of defeat of self. Very growthful and in-reality. Say what you will about Jobs, he's not dogmatic; he's far from an apple fanboy. He's doing what a recent article on
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5 years ago was probably Java's sweet spot, in terms of cycles being used to help the developer, while still giving adequate performance. It would be interesting to graph the average ages of the users of the popular languages; youth being
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Sir, I find your dismissal of my comment rather cavalier. I am some java developer. My experience is that static typing makes things harder to change, and therefore you try to avoid change by getting it right in the first place. Refactori
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Maybe the static typing - harder to change, so you try to get it right.
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It's funny, one initial selling point for Java was as a rapid prototyping language. Because back then it was, relatively speaking. I think in the big picture of a increasing speed supply (courtesy Mr Moore, for cheap cycle farms and cache;
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fantastic business talk by Ed Catmull (pixar co-founder) at Stanford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc btw: I find it hard to believe that Toy Story 3 could be any good (because of the "3"). Is it?
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This is very cool. Geekout aside: I have a micro-SD card (it plugs into an SD card for housing). It's about the size and thickness of my little finger nail . It holds 4GB (ie 5 CDs; 4000 novels), and it's near the bottom of the range.
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I think Perl's market success came largely with the internet, and the need for CGI script (though it was popular before then, as a sysadmin tool, it really took off with the net). It's hard to replicate that market success, without some s
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127.659 MPH that's terrifying. Talk about a steam punk. I like Ford's plastic car... sounds like the soviet niva (sp?) made of plywood. Easy to ridicule, but cheap, economical, though not that safe. Unfortunately, once cars went mainstream,
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by 10ren 16y ago
Aside on testing: I was surprised in re-reading Fred Brooks how cloose he sounds to unit-testing, in Mythical Man Month , 2ed, pp.147-148. He suggests testing components separately, before integrating, even though this requires lots of "sc
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It can be sheer performance; going by the innovator's dilemma , in general it is whatever attributes are higher-ranked by the market (ie. customers). This makes sense, because that is what incumbents naturally worry about, and what they co
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> better is actually a con because it will invoke a competitive response. Be stealthy, young startup, and non-threatening. SINGLE-PAGE VIEW http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2010/04/28/how-to-predict-whe...
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That sentence continues but they’re getting faster with Moore’s Law . They're worse in terms of speed. They are described as a threat to Intel in terms of Intel's market, the desktop, ie. they may invade the desktop from beneath, which wou
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I was curious if F# is really that close to ocaml, and it seems they are related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179492/f-and-ocaml with some differences (eg. F# doesn't seem to have those crazy +. *. etc float operators for type infe
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504,703,000 Are there really half a billion people online? (let online visiting google on a particular day)
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Patented inventions can still have sex; in fact, patenting requires them to be published. It's trade secrets that enforce celibacy. You don't have to be able to use an invention commercially to learn from it, combine it with other ideas,
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thanks!
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In what ways do you find AJAX brittle? Also, could you explain (I think it's css/ruby/REST/psuedo code for an unordered list comprised of the foos - but how is that for a feature?): %ul#foos // - @foos.each do |foo|
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Because this article covers a lot of ground, it really struck me that the term testing is ambiguous: it can mean unit-testing or user-testing . In prototyping sprints , TDD seems to acknowledge that unit-testing slows you down and cre
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If they can work through the weekend, more power to them. As for me, I find I work better if I take 1-2 days off a week - my thinking is so much clearer. Clarity makes a big difference for the kind of work I'm doing at the moment (I've even
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What will happen when smartphones become powerful enough to run windows? [Thinking long-term, tectonic shifts here] There's constraints of display/keyboard size, and the form-factor encourgaes different usages (eg. less business software).
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Your assumption: HN readers only read HN.
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oblig: http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
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For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.
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BTW: Here's more on lean evangelizing (for want of a better term): http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch13_Promote_Through_Educat...
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That's not the case. Think of your quotation as a claim, that describes the set of all possible inventions that meet that claim. Within that set are all kinds of mappings, between different kinds of logical data and kinds of physical data,
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It's pointless looking at patent titles (or abstracts), You have to examine the claims . Even there, you can't just look at claim 1, because the standard approach is to begin by claiming overbroadly, and then narrowing the claims, so that

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