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by 6ren 14y ago
With always-on, always-connected devices everywhere, we are not that far from every device being a web-server by default, and every device being a router for web traffic. Data storage, and even computation may be centralized in the cloud...
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by 6ren 14y ago
> How come ... Jobs was able to cross the tablet threshold and Gates wasn't? There's also the small matter of 10 years worth of Moore's Law. It's significant, though, that if the tablet-winter could be overcome, perhaps other w
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by 6ren 14y ago
> it used to be the case in hardware I think it's fair to say that Woz was a 50:1 or 100:1 guy. Jobs isn't saying A players are as common as straight-A students (it comes across that they are extraordinarily rare; it takes " inc
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by 6ren 14y ago
Christensen ( The Innovator's Dilemma ) has an anecdote that prompted his PhD research: Digital used to be extremely successful with their minicomputers. Highly profitable, their management was lauded by the press. Then, the PC arrived, an
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by 6ren 14y ago
um, how is colour possible?
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by 6ren 14y ago
One solution (a little awkward) is to keep a warmed-up JVM in the background, and have your scripts send the arguments to it. Some trouble to setup, and of course the send-code can't be in Java... but it is lightening fast. I'm not sure w
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by 6ren 14y ago
Also, e.g. video phones have long been available, and though they have definite niche applications, they have not become the ordinary mainstream way of using a phone.
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by 6ren 14y ago
I started building a desktop app last year, but realized that many features I'd come to expect from using reddit/HN (like spell-check, and familiar keyboard short-cuts) weren't there, and I'd have to re-implement each one to mimic the web e
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by 6ren 14y ago
I asked a tomato farmer about this once, and he said that supermarkets only buy varieties that transport well without bruising; taste is secondary.
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by 6ren 14y ago
> based on small, executable ideas over grand strategies like Martian colonization I think many startups actually do have a grand vision - it's just that their initial money-making product is a small executable idea. e.g. the article d
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by 6ren 14y ago
Aside: "all-or-nothing" thinking has been described as a cognitive distortion, which can lead to depression and other problems. In the interview, he frames the failure as an test flight, from which they are learning - so it is not "nothin
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by 6ren 14y ago
It's striking how Android devices keep improving CPU power, even though graphic smoothness is acknowledged as a key issue - while Apple focuses on GPU performance. Tegra 3 has quad CPU; Apple's A5X (iPad 3) has quad GPU . (the GPU cores a
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by 6ren 14y ago
First, I'll correct my terminology - it's not "componentized" but "modular". Both integration and modular approach have components, the distinction is that different modular components can be used; there are many components that fulfill th
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by 6ren 14y ago
I've studied Christensen's three main books; I find them very appealing but I'm not quite convinced by the component-vs-integrated idea. While an integrated approach can squeeze out more performance, does it predict industry structure? Her
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by 6ren 14y ago
I knew someone working in VR about 20 years ago, and the big problem then was latency - if there's too much delay between when your head moves and the scene is rendered at the new orientation, it just doesn't work. IIRC the eyes are sensiti
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by 6ren 14y ago
big picture tangent: if you've gained enough experience/wisdom to accurately predict needed features, you should encapsulate them in a product (or library/component/framework/plugin etc) to be sold/open sourced. In this way, you should
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by 6ren 14y ago
I was very impressed on learning that Turing proved that a turing machine could compute any computable number... but then I started to wonder how one could prove such a thing. It seemed you'd need a definition of "computable" and a definit
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by 6ren 14y ago
> 8. [...] one starts with the conclusion in the abstract, and then builds up an argument for it in the paper itself. Yeah but you write the abstract last (intro too). Having a conclusion at the beginning is just UI.
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Matthieu Ricard "("happiest person in the world") on the habits of happiness(ted.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
Regarding bugs, I think it's clear that static typing does detect more errors - the issue is whether it's worth the trouble. I think a more significant difference is the inertia of the codebase, how difficult it is to change. Static types
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by 6ren 14y ago
So that's where those starcraft posts reaching the reddit frontpage are coming from... they do seem to have gotten into something big. I'm surprised that YouTube isn't already the "instagram of social video". I guess it just shows there's
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Slow motion effects with a high speed robot arm (youtube.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
Question: when looking at code on github, how do you know which holds the main guts of the code? Every time, I have to laboriously search around (I guess, maybe, if you know sinatra/ruby/rails, you'll know the convention for what each top
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by 6ren 14y ago
"Would people still buy your product even if it was rubbish?" If so, it means you are providing (something of) a solution to an important and unsolved problem. (Most) people don't buy technology or products, they buy solutions to their pro
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by 6ren 14y ago
We complain that there's nothing new, and here someone's electronic messaging system is being claimed to have been new because it was a reinvention. No one can argue with its success. Perhaps there's a lesson here, that the best innovati
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by 6ren 14y ago
Thinking further, primes become less frequent because they are defined that way - once a number is identified as prime, it wipes out all multiples of it. Like the integers, the number of possible combinations of things is infinite. The iss
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by 6ren 14y ago
They are competitors for entertainment eyeballs anyway. Usually, competition is defined by a market (i.e. what customers get from them), not by how they manufacture their product. Of course, each litigant will construe the situation that
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Is Software Improving Exponentially?(multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com.au)
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by 6ren 14y ago
I think it's for dealing with emotions. Malcolm doesn't seem upset at the start of this exchange.
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by 6ren 14y ago
(1) From a dialectic point of view, I think Kurwzeil makes an impressively compelling argument that the rate of progress has been exponential, historically (e.g. using others' milestones). So it's striking that he doesn't argue for an un

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