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by 8ren 16y ago
Pre-announcing cuts off the oxygen to competitors - although you probably could code up what they've done, how do you feel about competing with Adobe's headspace with animators? Better to try something else, right? And they also have huge d
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by 8ren 16y ago
Adobe is an unusual large company, in that it has successfully managed the transition between closed and open before. Starting with the fonts for postscript printers, just a few years after Adobe was founded. Flash itself was also (somewhat
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by 8ren 16y ago
My observation over a couple of years is that HN is consistently - sometimes boringly - critical. The top comment often is in disagreement with the submission, sometimes focusing on an incidental point, and it can seem that people actually
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Debugging DNA(gnxp.com)
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by 8ren 16y ago
Stockholder's equity has grown at over 100% (about 109%) over the last 2 years: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=AMZN+Balance+Sheet&annua... ie. more than doubled annually.
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by 8ren 16y ago
one page: http://www.itworld.com/print/124541
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by 8ren 16y ago
Thanks, I like his market payment model esp how demand modulates supply - but I believe that just the fact of payment adds admin overhead/transaction costs, and slows adoption - you might as well charge a little more and make it a business.
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by 8ren 16y ago
> Now a someone who's purely back-end can actually take software he's written, and just throw it on some EC2 instances and sell it directly to consumer internet companies. There's no need to take a job with these companies now and...the
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Hydrogen bombshell: Rewriting life’s history(veteranstoday.com)
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Why Breasts Are the Key to the Future of Regenerative Medicine(wired.com)
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by 8ren 16y ago
Aside: with application development becoming so much easier and faster, will it also become much more competitive (which is bad for developers), in comparison with systems/infrastructure development?
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by 8ren 16y ago
AppEngine is amazing. It's free web-hosting, that also happens to include everything you need to make webapps. The man who never made a mistake never made anything
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by 8ren 16y ago
Seems pretty much an Apple netbook, but 2-3-4-5 times the price. Jobs said they weren't interested in that market because too cut-price, but now it's died down a bit. It will be interesting to see if Apple ease-of-use etc will be enough to
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by 8ren 16y ago
Another great interview, Andrew. I think it's the combination of fantastic guests, and you asking the really interesting questions (that are often somewhat uncomfortable), and sort of harping on them a bit until you get it across. That's wh
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by 8ren 16y ago
It's a little bit amazing having a touchscreen keyboard, in that if it's missing a certain key, you can just add it.
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by 8ren 16y ago
I may have used the wrong word with commoditized. Firstly, Apple has done a great job of riding the engineering curve, from the first iPods, down to several versions of the iPod shuffles. During that period, performance was crucial, partly
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Astronaut invents Zero G Coffee Cup [video](space.com)
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by 8ren 16y ago
I think it's inevitable for the integrated iPhone to be displaced by the modular Android (or some nascent modular tech), because integrated devices only provide competitive advantage at certain points of market development - where performan
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by 8ren 16y ago
> Things I probably am going to reuse in other projects. [emphasis added] Fred Brooks said that a "programming product" takes about 3 times as much work as a plain program (so it becomes a module reusable by anybody). The extra work i
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by 8ren 16y ago
Do you also find your pseudocode (and therefore python) clearer, or was it entirely pedagogical? Redesigning a data format to match how I notate and think about it, to minimize my cognitive load, has been very helpful to me. The long-term t
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by 8ren 16y ago
Giving away all my secrets here, but anyway: - rate of stockholder's equity growth, over 10 years - a graph that projects that growth over the next 10 years, assuming I buy 1 share at today's price; plotted with a projection of the same dol
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by 8ren 16y ago
New languages are carried on the backs of new platforms. eg: unix & c; web & javascript. To predict the next big language, predict the next big platform. The upcoming platforms are: smart phones & tablets; cloud computing &
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by 8ren 16y ago
I think it's to do with the iPhone. I noticed this a long time ago on HN: any comment that could be interpreted as negative towards the iPhone was downvoted. Like you, I couldn't understand it at first, but eventually concluded it was becau
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by 8ren 16y ago
Sorry to write such a long blog post, but I didn't have time to write a short one. Another solution is an appendix, as a sort of purgatory for zombie passages. Or a short and long version of the same blog post - your own tl;dr. Perhaps be
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No danger of drudgery: turn over mechanical processes to the machine(libreamoi.com)
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by 8ren 16y ago
> Do you practice specific skills with repetition and intent? This troubles me a bit for coding, because: There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to th
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by 8ren 16y ago
microcredit seems hopeful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grameen_Bank While the love of profit can be evil, if a business is actually creating value (eg. a windmill saves the labour of hand-milling flour; division of labour; technology in
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by 8ren 16y ago
For every 1000 people who has the idea, one actually does it. I think the really big differentiator is not how well you execute (in code or in marketing), but whether you do it at all. If you're prepared to stumble-and-ratchet (ie. expl
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by 8ren 16y ago
An interesting perspective, esp actually studying Italian cars. BTW: Edison also worked in terms of systems (electric power + grid + lights), as did Mr. Birdseye (refrigerated supermarkets + trucks + frozen food). Yah, that was his actual n
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by 8ren 16y ago
Adopted from What Color is Your Parachute 's "real questions behind every interviewer". A cover letter with one paragraph per point has got me an interview every time (before becoming independent of work.) 1. why them? 2. are you com

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