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811.
by 6ren 15y ago
...or were pre-orders for the books (through the reward system) so dominant that you’re in the same model, just on a larger scale? RB: Definitely the latter. Although he's giving away his comics online, dollar-wise it's advertis
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by 6ren 15y ago
It's a good point and a step on the way; though these projects are not copyright free (the doublefine one is DRM-free, but not free). Will people pledge money, knowing that the game will be equally available to everyone (i.e. they aren't ge
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by 6ren 15y ago
It's a talent acquisition. Your idea is important too, but mainly as evidence that you can have good ideas. That's an important talent. http://ycombinator.com/apply.html
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by 6ren 15y ago
Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma" was motivated by DEC getting killed. He claims that DEC was a victim of a disruption: a new technology that offered something that didn't seem to be a threat, become successful in other marke
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Have tracing JIT compilers won?(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
2 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
6. Bring Back Moore's Law hmmm, maybe developer cycles are more valuable than machine cycles really is getting out of sync with current conditions? I didn't connect stalled clock-speeds to the web being slow til reading this. One
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by 6ren 15y ago
Tegra 3 vs. A5 benchmarks (Transformer Prime vs. iPad 2) http://www.anandtech.com/show/5163/asus-eee-pad-transformer-... BTW: Apple claims x2 GPU performance over iPad 2 - suggesting the doubling of GPU cores to MP4 is the only source of
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by 6ren 15y ago
A programming language can partially influence the way you think (a form of Whorfianism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity ), but a PL is a poor substitute for actual thought. Thinking in terms of any programming language l
819.
by 6ren 15y ago
The * have gone away (HN is treating it as markdown for italics). You can put spaces around it to prevent this (e.g. the first * in the first comment is treated literally; the last * in that comment isn't). The easiest solution is to indent
820.
by 6ren 15y ago
It's "industry news" rather than something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Although "News" is in its name, I think HN would be far more interesting without it. News includes industry gossip - and HN has more and more of that.
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by 6ren 15y ago
textbooks - this was a flaw in the kindle for technical books, and Apple has a textbook business in place consoles - although we might need to wait for the next generation for matching GPU power
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Grow faster than education - get a pop culture(queue.acm.org)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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Zuckerberg’s Complaint(cringely.com)
2 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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Peak Abstraction(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|1 comments
825.
by 6ren 15y ago
Those examples of elastic pricing are for consumer purchases (e.g. games). The app in question is free for home use; but paid for corporate. Corporate customers have an unbelievably different concept of "expensive" from you and me. I experi
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by 6ren 15y ago
The singularity is near says this, but it seems that the rate of Moore's Law has been pretty constant (cost version: x2 performance/price every 18 months ). When Ray extends this back to discrete transistors, vacuum tubes, relays, and
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by 6ren 15y ago
He disputes the success stories because of absence of failure stories (survivorship bias) - and then uses this lack of evidence to assert the opposite is true.
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by 6ren 15y ago
These are the benefits of LaTex - logical rather than physical structure. But LaYeX, strikingly beautiful though its output is, has not taken off outside computer science journal articles. Two opposing points: (1) on reddit, I'll often chec
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by 6ren 15y ago
So the theory is that this is the web-based OS, that Java and Netscape et al. threatened MS with. The key isn't technical in itself (the cloud), but marketing ( whose cloud). My own theory was that dropbox must be secretly headed towards
830.
OnLive streaming a Windows 7 desktop on your iPad(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
831.
by 6ren 15y ago
Submitting that first post (The Engineer's Brain), the 459 words are quoted as $61.2 (+20% service fee) = $73.44
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by 6ren 15y ago
In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near , Ray Kurzweil also claims that growth is not only exponential (e.g. doubling every x years), but that this rate is itself increasing - which I guess is superexponential . It's cur
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Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma(blogs.hbr.org)
117 points by 6ren 15y ago|55 comments
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Jobs made Apple great by ignoring profit(blogs.reuters.com)
81 points by 6ren 15y ago|74 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
Conventional financial measures such as maximizing shareholder value are subordinated to the new bottom line [delighting customers]. Profit is a result, not a goal. I like this way of expressing it. “the fear of cannibalizat
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Ask HN: anyone using atlassian's "unlimited free git/hg hosting"?(bitbucket.org)
2 points by 6ren 15y ago|1 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
It's even stronger, in that mathematics generalized arithmetic algebra into groups, fields, rings and other things I don't understand. Examples of specific algebras include: boolean, relational and Kleene (aka regular expressions). Other no
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by 6ren 15y ago
TXL is the best I've seen for transforming ASTs (sample: http://www.txl.ca/tour/tour9.html ). As you can see, it's a little complex, which is because the problem is complex. I think they do a really good job. (TXL homepage http://www.tx
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by 6ren 15y ago
Thanks, sounds like exactly my perspective. google viewer version of Naur's paper https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://blog.itu.dk/SASU-... People have tried to put more of the theory into the source e.g. literate programming. UML a
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by 6ren 15y ago
Clayton Christensen talked about this idea as integrated vs. modular . He actually used the example of unix as modular and Windows as integrated (though he there was talking about the ability to create different distributions of unix, mix-

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