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by 13ren 18y ago
Point of view is worth 30-IQ points. experience is what you get when do not get what you want... [in a startup] you always gain valuable experience from a failed adVenture. to err is to learn.
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Ask HN: business case for watermarking or "social" DRM, for programs?
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by 13ren 18y ago
I was thinking "franchise" from the first bullet point. The global reach of the internet is great, but many needs are local (think fast food). One solution to this problem is franchising. But, if the capital costs are low, you can do it wit
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by 13ren 18y ago
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task in full humility and avoids clever tricks like the plague. I think people vary in how much they can model in their head - but e
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by 13ren 18y ago
An exciting effect is the possibility of new algorithms to take advantage of this different set of performance characteristics (and vindication of neglected, maligned crackpot schemes). There are avenues that intelligent people simply don't
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by 13ren 18y ago
[overwhelming majority spend most of their time on] publishing over-complicated solutions to easy problems, or non-solutions to difficult problems, or incomprehensible solutions to niche problems. [PhD, year 8] I also get this impression
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by 13ren 18y ago
iTunes for books - iBooks? And maybe Google could become a direct publisher... Libraries can buy more terminal accesses (I mean, they buy hardcopy books - why not online books?). It is a shame about those abandonware/orphaned book. I agree
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by 13ren 18y ago
It's about stackoverflow. I just tried it. Search was broken (gave a LOLCAT "WAIT I'll fix it") But typing a question title has a really cool web2/ajax auto-search facility, as in the article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask
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by 13ren 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348629 But the transcripted list differs slightly.
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by 13ren 18y ago
I found the video well worth watching, communicated to me much better than the bullet list. Some great points, esp "everything is renegotiable in this environment". Re: (4) Defer unnecessary expenses Alternatives to MS Office have been go
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by 13ren 18y ago
"invention" is a tricky concept. Edison didn't invent the concept of the light bulb - but he did invent a particular version of it that was commercially viable. I don't know the facts, but possibly both 23 and Tesla Corp. developed techn
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by 13ren 18y ago
WARNING: RAVE It's the simplicity of the ZX81 that appeals to me - especially the small number of commands available, in BASIC and Z-80 machine code. It's concrete and graspable, and possible to get on top of to master some of it perfectly
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by 13ren 18y ago
My main PC is currently an eeePC, which is not all that far from that! I predict another generation which is even lighter, lower wattage and cheaper. Those dime-sized java devices appealed to me - can't find the one I mean, but here's simil
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by 13ren 18y ago
Cool idea, but I've always found github a bit slow as a website (I'm in Australia).
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by 13ren 18y ago
> [serious buyers] don’t want [the price] available to competitors Anyone know why?
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by 13ren 18y ago
That's pretty impressive, though I was thinking from the beginning, and "recent years" being the last 10 years, and also of the kernel size (not its RAM usage). I agree that kernel size matters less than RAM usage. But to share my perspecti
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by 13ren 18y ago
Also, I believe that the kernel has also grown much larger, especially in recent years (don't have data or links, just from articles I've read). Concurrency isn't really a solved problem. If someone did solve it, and formed an OS around it,
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by 13ren 18y ago
Sounds exactly like "intensity cycling". You work hard, progressively improving, til you stop getting gains. Then you take a week off where you do virtually no work, to recover. Then, you start again at 70% of your previous peak, and work u
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by 13ren 18y ago
Yes, MS already sell XP Home OEM for $40 for the eeePC... they have the capacity for brutality. From sales so far, it doesn't seem to need to be any cheaper (in fact, a higher price would probably be OK). The ecosystem built on XP's platfor
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by 13ren 18y ago
I like his linked "cliff businesses" where network effects are essential for their usefulness (canonical example that he didn't use: the first phone). I think many businesses have network effects as an adjunct to their initial usefulness, w
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by 13ren 18y ago
Article's definition of "angel investor" includes "friends and family" (which they claim make up 92%, in myth #5). Whereas I think of investors as: founders, friends/family, angel, VC rounds, IPO. I think the other myths are more true of an
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by 13ren 18y ago
1929-bear-32-BULL-37-bear-42 BTW: they don't seem to use reinvested dividends - though this wouldn't change the underlying trend much.
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by 13ren 18y ago
if you opt of the clean feed I just meant that it isn't possible to do that for the ordinary citizen. This doesn't take away from your main point.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Yes - the donkey meaning. I think actual donkeys might also have been more common in the USA.
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by 13ren 18y ago
thanks for that
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by 13ren 18y ago
Re your question 2, it's even worse: There isn't a clean feed, just a more censored one (kid safe) and a less censored one (no illegal material).
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by 13ren 18y ago
I found this article thought-provoking (which is the best kind): it's about how we see . Our point of view is affected by where we are; and the lens through which we see is affected by the people around us, what aspect they pay attention t
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by 13ren 18y ago
I think you're right, that it's simply US vs. British spelling, but I've always felt that the usage is slightly different (and that therefore maybe they are actually different words...). An asshole seems to be someone you are angry with (
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by 13ren 18y ago
The internet is perfect for big-brother surveillance. It's inevitable; but let's delay it while we can. Grassroots awareness is probably the best beginning - just let people know about it. Anyone know of any official releases about it?
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by 13ren 18y ago
As a Australian, how can I protest this?

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