13ren

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by 13ren 18y ago
Your tastes only narrow But even if they do narrow, the more you look, the more you see... a world in a grain of sand.
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by 13ren 18y ago
It might work better with karma (and games) instead of money. All those accounting figures seem out of place with cool new music... but I don't know the profiles of indie music lovers - maybe they like numbers :) EDIT I think startup foun
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by 13ren 18y ago
Ambiguity is not necessarily a bad thing e.g. if all interpretations give positive phrases. Would be cool if it could be done with 'ot' and 'd'.
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by 13ren 18y ago
I think the "young genius" is a function of their times: the area was ripe for a revolution, and it just needed someone to say it. Like some discoveries. It's easier to see it (and go with it) for a less experienced person, who is less inve
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by 13ren 18y ago
What do you mean? Just that it cites older references, and not newer ones? Or is it something about the style?
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by 13ren 18y ago
Thanks - http://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi They give other reasons, but I wonder if it is also retaining the quality of the community. Also, they seem to use public bookmarkin ("favourites"), and not voting as such. Maybe that makes
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by 13ren 18y ago
problem 1: voting sites don't work, because they attract too many users problem 2: subscription sites don't work, because they attract too few users startup idea: a subscription voting site, with smallest possible monthly fee ($1 pcm?) - th
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by 13ren 18y ago
It references fewer academic papers than the Dragon book (guess: by a factor of 20). Examples are in "a subset of the language Oberon, which is a condensation of its ancestors Modula-2 and Pascal". I'm annoyed by Wirth's EBNF, in which "0 o
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by 13ren 18y ago
This is a social-based startup, not a technology-based startup. It sounds like technology, because cool-sounding mathematical prediction is the selling point... But it isn't that hard to do (though with data, and time, you can surely incr
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by 13ren 18y ago
Anyone care to enter a past "learning-experience" startup (i.e. failure), to test this out?
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by 13ren 18y ago
I love this kind of idea, but it never works. TechCrunch tested predictions of success - but what of failure? (maybe it says they all succeed...?) Anyone care to enter a past learning-experience startup, to test this out?
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by 13ren 18y ago
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything"
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by 13ren 18y ago
I think I know what you're talking about. It actually sounds like an aspect of depression. Have you asked yourself if anything else is happening in your life that might contribute to your feeling sad? Are you in basically OK shape physica
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by 13ren 18y ago
I don't know about your numbers, except that income does not necessarily imply assets... IIRC, from the survey done for "The Millionaire Mind" (<5, but anyway), many people had a family/lifestyle business. Technically, a start-up , but
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by 13ren 18y ago
Reminds me of Robocop: You have 10 seconds to die.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Paradoxically, the road to riches often means acting as if you already have that freedom. I think the only true freedom comes from within. Money can't give you this freedom; but this freedom can give you money.
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by 13ren 18y ago
they've got amazing simplicity, and done client-side so instant response (remembers you with cookies, but seems to be no server storage). But you have to do the tasks in strict order, and you have to finish it before moving on (you can't ju
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by 13ren 18y ago
You're right. In a sense, that's also true of comp sci academics and professionals. The field isn't a disciplined field (unlike mechanics). I think it's partly immaturity (mechanics is older); partly massive opportunity (everyone just rei
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by 13ren 18y ago
You're welcome - I had seen the schedule on train page, but not the one on the stats page (this may be because I'm on a tiny eee PC, and didn't happen to scroll down... for this (rare) case, I think some sites have subtle guides in the desi
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by 13ren 18y ago
I think the "elephant" part does, esp with the graphic. Though I don't get the "spicy" part... for me, it actually brings to mind an elephant that has eaten too much spicy indian food... But sometimes, memorability is more important than m
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by 13ren 18y ago
Great stuff! I think you need a clear pitch of what you're offering users. Something that can leverage word of mouth: short, easy to grasp, exciting. (Of course, maybe through following supermemo's seeding the geek market, you don't need
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by 13ren 18y ago
I agree: don't make the concept/idea patentable, only the specific implementation. The specific light bulb; the specific telegraphy system. OTOH, I kinda like the idea of Segway owning the concept - it was a cool idea, and a lot of work to
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by 13ren 18y ago
Very cool, especially the video of the hands-free gracefulness. The small size is also cool, but I suspect these research/demo models have terrible battery life... EDIT it gives 3 miles, at 3.7 mph http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl
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by 13ren 18y ago
turing
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by 13ren 18y ago
30 people whose company got bought out is amazing - kudos to YC, and to each of them. Each one is an extraordinary achievement Just reminding myself I've also done something cool: I think one has a right to that statement after the first sa
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by 13ren 18y ago
5. Have some really unique features (they will get duplicated though) Someone told me "You have limited time to make money". Does that time give you enough money? Or can you add another unique feature in that time? I'd like a business th
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by 13ren 18y ago
The developer gets 5.99/4.2 = 70% of revenue. A sensational deal, if you can concentrate on the non-admin (i.e. interesting/real) stuff. If software writers are "authors", then it makes sense to have a "publisher". Surely there's a reason t
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by 13ren 18y ago
Bill Gasper... said: "Don't forget a data structure is merely a stupid programming language, and its point is that a data structure in effect, when given to the program that processes it, is guiding a computation and in effect constitutes
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by 13ren 18y ago
reddit has a toolbar, exactly as you describe. If you're logged in, you can see the option here: http://www.reddit.com/prefs (immediately below the languages)
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by 13ren 18y ago
Nice point about divorce by death, 1860 vs. 1960. But increased greatly from 1960 to 2008. Compound interest and intergenerational warfare reminded me of the goodness of creating wealth, as opposed to protecting wealth via enduring competit

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