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by 13ren 18y ago
This strikes me as a market research tool - trying to find out what people want, the needs, the problem to be solved, the pain to address. It's tricky for users to make the connection between problem and solution (hell, it's tricky for any
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by 13ren 18y ago
The "library of foundational proofs" sounds a little like this graph of hyperlinked theorems online: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmset.html#overview
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by 13ren 18y ago
It's the tide. Digital corporation: very profitable minicomputer business... until workstations were good enough. Sun microsystems: very profitable workstation business... until microcomputers were good enough. It's hard for a business to g
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by 13ren 18y ago
Sorry about the inflammatory "hydrogen bomb" example - I couldn't think of a better way to express the thought (though maybe that's no excuse), but now I can: when looking for examples of companies that were harmed by opening sourcing their
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Add an image to any flat surface in a video(news-service.stanford.edu)
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by 13ren 18y ago
This isn't a bad strategy to try, for morale, confidence and people wanting to help you: http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
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by 13ren 18y ago
Another good "talent vs effort" article: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-sm...
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by 13ren 18y ago
Great article, I refer to it often, especially points 6, 7 and 8. However, I find the example of Steve Ballmer... uninspiring. It seems more like the luck of knowing Bill Gates, and he gets to oversea Microsoft's demise.
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by 13ren 18y ago
I'm personally troubled about the right attitude towards competitors... I but I think it's: Don't worry about competitors. Worry about making something people want. Constantly improving your product, for what your users want, automatical
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by 13ren 18y ago
Some other options: You could open source the engine, but not code that is specific to the game (then people couldn't run the game). For a legal distinction, you can also make source available , without making it open source. e.g. "look, m
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by 13ren 18y ago
There's a sort of Gresham's Law of trolls: trolls are willing to use a forum with a lot of thoughtful people in it, but thoughtful people aren't willing to use a forum with a lot of trolls in it. Which means that once trolling takes hold,
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by 13ren 18y ago
I wasn't defining Freemium; just using it as a jumping off point for talking about social good (because the blog author mentioned "do good" and "do well"). I'm concerned about social good, for the reasons pg discusses (morale, confidence,
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by 13ren 18y ago
I had this discussion with a (huge) US corporation, and they weren't interested in escrow, saying it was too complex. They wanted source code; and I had the impression that with appropriate license restrictions (i.e. they couldn't sell/dist
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by 13ren 18y ago
Yes, and those planets are also hotter, therefore brighter and more visible. The sky might be full of earth-like planets, and we wouldn't know (yet). unless... detecting star-wobble is already sensitive enough to detect earth-like mass and
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by 13ren 18y ago
If there was a habitable planet in that system with intelligent life, with the same capabilities as us, they wouldn't be able to see any of the planets in our solar system.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Can't you restrict the domain, and so that the program is complete (for that restricted domain)?
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by 13ren 18y ago
I didn't think you were attacking my character - I thought you were saying that my argument was so weak that it was a straw man argument, erected only be knocked down. I replied that your cynicism about my motives was misplaced. And it is.
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by 13ren 18y ago
I don't see how this is hacker news. flagged.
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by 13ren 18y ago
They do, but it's hard to find: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display...
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by 13ren 18y ago
pic: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display...
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by 13ren 18y ago
Well, he did say it was a diktat, which I had to lookup: http://www.tfd.com/diktat
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by 13ren 18y ago
Itanium
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by 13ren 18y ago
Maybe we do: faster client-side AJAX would create a much better user experience... but how much this is needed , I don't know. Maybe it doesn't really matter? At any rate, speed can be increased substantially without faster hardware, but w
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by 13ren 18y ago
I don't think throughput is a barrier at the moment. The main touted benefit I've heard of Chromium's tab-threading is insulation, so if one tab crashes it doesn't bring the whole browser down.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Many-core overshoots needed performance for most uses . Hence the rise in sub-notebooks, iPhones, best-selling games console being by far the least powerful console (wii). + Concurrency is a unsolved problem. There are locks etc; there's s
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by 13ren 18y ago
Please elaborate.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Sometimes that early release simply isn't worth paying for yet If so, no one buys it - no problem :-) (assuming they can evaluate it first, e.g. free trial). Though there seems to me a difference between releasing early to get people to
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by 13ren 18y ago
My argument also wasn't intended as a strawman, so I don't really understand how your initial reply relates to my comment. Though I think we're probably just talking at cross-purposes, as I'm discussing "being good" while you're talking fre
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by 13ren 18y ago
HN discussion thereof: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=337821
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by 13ren 18y ago
My own experience is with software that was free for a year before my first sale (though I made it available for sale pretty much near the start). So I did do what you are thinking. But I developed it entirely in public: the first version (

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