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by 10ren 16y ago
I had thought there was a shortage of rare earth metal deposits... but it seems that it's a shortage of processing facilities. I feel that tasmania (the triangular island at the bottom of australia) has incredible deposits of everything els
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by 10ren 16y ago
I have to admit, I have been going on for years and years because I can see that it will work, no matter how much I hate it at a particular moment. I can't claim that this is the best approach, or even a good one, but that's what I'm doing:
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by 10ren 16y ago
I can see how that mismatch would feel frustrating - more so than if you couldn't see the solution and had to muddle about in exploratory code to discover it. re "practice framing": I find that asking the question is very helpful for clarit
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by 10ren 16y ago
Alan Turing said that programming would always be interesting because the boring mechanical aspects could be automated (where "interesting" means "you don't understand it" - or else you could automate it.) I daily run into issues that I don
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by 10ren 16y ago
I must have noticed this too, because I switched my hackernews bookmark to go directly to the newest submissions a few days ago, since I didn't like what was on top. Reading and upvoting from newest is the most effective way to change what
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by 10ren 16y ago
Youtube is improving. They have votes now. I've seen a few insightful comments there (it depends on what kind of video you're looking at, of course - you being the crucial word here.)
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by 10ren 16y ago
Thanks, I appreciate that and might do it, though I don't yet feel I have more than my write up of 2 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1508379
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by 10ren 16y ago
Thanks! Domain knowledge - but applying this to a mass market feel a bit mind-bending to me. Of course, it's still problems and knowledge, and so not qualitatively different from those in a specific niche. I guess the misleading thing is th
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by 10ren 16y ago
Thanks! Interesting, a strong brand can be a negative. Further thought: google video was 'better' in that it had higher resolution videos, and it displayed more of them on the screen at once. While youtube had one low resolution video. It w
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by 10ren 16y ago
I'm trying to understand. I think youtube beating google was due to network effects: youtube had enough content that it was hard to displace (it was actually more valuable.) Secondarily, it had mindshare (people knew about it.) Possibly, th
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by 10ren 16y ago
Can you elaborate on "understanding behavior and preferences" with some example behavior and preferences, please? There are many bases of competitive advantage, but I don't have a clear picture of this one. The main customer-side advantage
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by 10ren 16y ago
product -> platform -> library -> standard library -> language -> OS -> FPGA -> ASIC -> SoC "Reaching critical mass" [so customers identify you with the technology/idea] is one way to avoid this.
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by 10ren 16y ago
I try to make rational, reality-based appraisal of the facts, the pros and cons. But this often takes the passion away, and recently I've been wondering if it really is the most intelligent approach.
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by 10ren 16y ago
If you want to find something worth building, get busy living.
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by 10ren 16y ago
The one that inspired the author: No. 7 in A major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UTAmV54OWE
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by 10ren 16y ago
I like this experimental approach, it's like debugging, except you can also edit what inputs you accept. But is it actually accepted by mathematicians as an accurate description of what they do? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_and_Refu
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by 10ren 16y ago
Good point, and rubbish-n-roadmaps is very apt (and google says it's original.) But I did cover myself on this: if you do solve an unsolved problem, all is forgiven. Getting it out into a closed beta can tell you about a large miss earlie
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by 10ren 16y ago
He also co-authored the Java Language Specification (with James Gosling and Bill Joy.) The wise are not dogmatic.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Steve Blank's idea (4 Steps) is that a roadmap enables you to ship a breathtakingly low quality product, because it is understood as the first installment in a bigger plan. Customers are really buying the vision, not the initial buggy, slow
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by 10ren 16y ago
The second section discusses SOAP/REST and XML/JSON, saying that XML Schema attempted to solve two problems (document formats + object wire format), but it predictably became too complex. He claims that we now use REST (not SOAP) and JSON
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by 10ren 16y ago
If you're nearing or over 30, ask yourself: have you made any fundamental scientific discoveries, conquered any world-wide empires, or founded any major religions? Many are called but few are chosen. And many of the young think they can.
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Objects Have Not Failed [Guy Steele](dreamsongs.com)
3 points by 10ren 16y ago|1 comments
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by 10ren 16y ago
Not really HN, but reminds me of the lyrics to sweet lullaby Young brother, young brother, be quiet You are crying, but our father has left us He has gone to the place of the dead To protect the living, to protect the or
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by 10ren 16y ago
I'm sorry; I didn't mean to dig a pitfall to entrap a helpful fellow traveler. When I noticed that a reading with the last two sentences as separable was misleading, I edited directly. I think the "sadly" part was communicated though, and
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by 10ren 16y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the support, but my opps, you caught my initial phrasing before I clarified to disambiguate: I didn't mean to write an operating system; but to write one in Dijkstra's way (ie by showing - proving - that it works before
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by 10ren 16y ago
This story inspired me tonight: reading about how he didn't know if it would work or not, and how he fixed bugs as they arose is true hacking style. And it's definitely a way to get things done. So that's what I did tonight, and made a ton
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by 10ren 16y ago
Oh man you reckon that's poor negotiation skills, wait til you check out this guy http://www.nucalc.com/Story/ EDIT found a video of Ron telling the story in person http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567...
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E.O. Wilson Proposes New Theory of Social Evolution(wired.com)
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by 10ren 16y ago
With inflation, that's only doubled: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24100%2C000+1984+%3D
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by 10ren 16y ago
You're right; but I think uprooting the persuasion from its source kills it. Steve didn't use that technique because it was persuasive; he used it because that's what he saw. After that calligraph class that connected so deeply, I bet he be

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