Benja

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by Benja 19y ago
To clarify: (1) Your scenario = don't trademark, use open source license. (2) What Mozilla does = trademark, use proprietary license. (3) What Mark thinks should be done (afaiu) = trademark, use open source license. I don't know a good way
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by Benja 19y ago
That makes so much sense. I thought you might be pulling the e-mails out of the applications manually, and having coded and used a system for processing submissions (to an online fiction magazine), I was wondering how the hell you could s
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by Benja 19y ago
Hi Ryan, The thing that struck me as really useful was the way you could use the slides to get an overview of and jump around inside a presentation. For me, that looks like a killer feature that could make me want to watch presentation vide
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by Benja 19y ago
dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=22037
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by Benja 19y ago
Yep, but then he explained it even further and made clear that the quote didn't quite make clear what he said :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=21967 I've had the same reaction as boris when reading the original quote. But what
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by Benja 19y ago
They're really running on a tight schedule... On the other hand, my understanding is that they've been hard at work since their original announcement, figuring out how their program is going to work legally and organizationally. Being willi
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YEurope introduces its team, one day before their submission deadline(beta.yeurope.net)
4 points by Benja 19y ago|6 comments
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by Benja 19y ago
DabbleDB is a startup using Smalltalk. http://dabbledb.com/
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by Benja 19y ago
Thanks, Paul! Between your reply and pg's, I understand your point a lot better now, I think.
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by Benja 19y ago
I suppose I took PB's post more broadly than it was intended, then. If he was only talking about solving hard problems that don't benefit the user proportionally, I see that there's no contradiction [and have a clear answer to the question
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by Benja 19y ago
paul says that the way to build successful products is to avoid hard problems: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/secret-to-making-things-easy-avoid-hard.html http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=16409 http://news.ycombinator.
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Graham vs. Buchheit: All else being equal, should startups seek out hard problems or avoid them?
2 points by Benja 19y ago|7 comments
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by Benja 19y ago
"The survey did not ask where the respondents obtained the content, ignoring the reality that many were possibly downloading television shows from Bittorrent or similar services." To me, it sound like a good idea not to ask that, if you wan
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Real people talking to real people: A good way to design a b2b site(sethgodin.typepad.com)
1 points by Benja 19y ago|0 comments
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by Benja 19y ago
Thanks for the answers! :-)
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by Benja 19y ago
A general question and a specific one: Who are you? Metalab has an extensive website, but who's behind YEurope? You know that the funding is only a small part of what YC provides -- you won't be able to live up to pg, rtm et al, which is
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by Benja 19y ago
What I'd like to see is companies hiring lawyers who spend their surplus time blogging. Being involved in the community should prevent them from being as seriously out of tune as this, and if they spend some of their time explaining tech la
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by Benja 19y ago
Your point is that news.yc and other social news sites are actually more useful when more people use them, right? I agree with that. But IMHO, that's missing the point of the article. Music doesn't objectively get better just because mo
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by Benja 19y ago
Oops -- sorry that I misunderstood so completely what you were saying! Thanks for the explanation :-)
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by Benja 19y ago
And closer to home: Is Google?
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by Benja 19y ago
Hey, death threats aren't funny, and being afraid of a death threat is something very different from being afraid that taking a stance might hurt your bottom line.
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by Benja 19y ago
Well, I haven't read everything on their site, so I don't understand all the details and I may have misconceptions, but my understanding is this: In the physical world, to prove that you have a driver's license or a valid credit card or tha
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by Benja 19y ago
As the Ars Technica article is, uh, rather light on details, here is what appears to be the homepage of the IBM project: http://www.zurich.ibm.com/security/idemix/ Looks like it's an IBM Research project, which is nice because it means th
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by Benja 20y ago
Not new, but useful. Thanks for reminding me of this!
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by Benja 20y ago
I don't find it ironic. I find it unrelated. If you could find a successful startup today that used a lot of IBM technology -- even if you could show that a startup today succeeded only because they were using IBM technology -- that wouldn'
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by Benja 20y ago
I guess I'm in the younger half, because on reflection, I realize that not only do I agree, but that this is old news to me. I'm not complaining, though -- this article made me realize something I didn't know consciously. A lot of comment
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by Benja 20y ago
But, of course, you don't have to have code files full of parens in order to have s-expressions. Alternative syntaxes have never taken hold in the Lisp world, which may mean they just offer nothing to an experienced Lisp hacker, but they'
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by Benja 20y ago
The "test case" of DRM-free stuff that I'm most familiar with is Baen Books, who are selling DRM-free e-book versions of (almost) all their titles and -- according to themselves and their authors who are also have books published by other p