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by DanI-S 15y ago
This is awesome. Presumably, at some point we'll have the process optimised to the point that it could be done in your own home, or at a local (supermarket?) level. Imagine having a kitchen appliance that produces meat from liquid feedstock
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I'm not clear on why, as a rational software developer, you find this chilling. If our economic system of choice depends on there being work for everyone, our economic system will need to be changed. This can be as gradual a process as anyt
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by DanI-S 15y ago
When you think of the phenomenal potential of the human mind to feel, explore and create (at whatever level the individual is capable of) the idea that most of us should spend most of our time doing things we dislike is pretty ridiculous. M
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Cars didn't have airbags and safety belts for a long time, too.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
SF to Palo Alto takes me 30 minutes on Caltrain...
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by DanI-S 15y ago
All else aside, being rude to service staff because you dislike the business they work for is utterly inexcusable.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
The 'online presence' referred to includes getting started with marketing, not just creating a web page in isolation - there are tonnes of companies out there who already do that. When you're not making a huge amount per hour, but you need
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by DanI-S 15y ago
It's certainly true that a fully custom solution costs more money than is available. However, there are only a finite number of custom solutions out there. Once you've built a solution for one Tai Chi instructor, a very similar solution wil
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Ask HN: Have the non-tech self-employed been abandoned?
10 points by DanI-S 15y ago|10 comments
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by DanI-S 15y ago
If SMS was always free, but plans cost $5 more than they do now, would anyone even notice or complain?
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I am aware that hyperbole is the best thing in the entire world, but does the definition of 'terrible' really stretch this far? How about 'Google Calendar has some design decisions that I disagree with, mostly on the basis of some colors be
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I'm happy to see Google taking as much care and pride in the visual engineering that goes into their products as they do the back-end.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Unless you have a super-awesome job (and lots of people do), programming in your own time may be the only way to discover and play with new things. If you work backend at a C# shop but would like to start writing Ruby, you're unlikely to ge
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I think it's only fair to mention that this is on my netbook - it's reasonable, but not the most powerful machine. Netflix doesn't work because of no Silverlight. Hulu and YouTube are unwatchably slow when fullscreened. They work perfectly
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by DanI-S 15y ago
RVM is indeed a life-saver. I wrote a blog post documenting RVM setup on Ubuntu a while back - may be slightly out of date by now, but it's here: http://www.bootstrapp.in/39074927
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I switched to using Ubuntu on my personal machine about a year ago. I was seriously excited. My experiences: - Utter inability to consume streaming video, be it Netflix, Hulu or YouTube. - Complete madness wrestling with the built-in, broke
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I'd argue that astronomy does save lives! It does it through inspiring people to become more educated, and giving them a greater perspective on the nature of our world. Hopefully, that helps limit future conflict, warfare and environmental
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I'd argue that, through failure to gain consumer traction, Microsoft just haven't been able to create the network of tightly related devices that Apple has. Thanks to their consumer focus, Apple have an entire platform sharing the same oper
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Microsoft need to do more of what they did with XBox - spin off a smaller, more agile brand that doesn't invoke the image of dusty CRT monitors and lumbering corporate IT. Apple's brand identity works for selling consumer products, but nobo
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Incidentally, did you manage to find a career in a field where things aren't oversold in the pursuit of popular enthusiasm? It seems a fundamental component of capitalism, if not human enterprise in general.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I've been a janitor, and it's not such a bad job at all.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
This definitely seems true - which is interesting, since Apple and Google have both been floundering around unsuccessfully trying to create their own community experiences. Facebook & co are really the prize here - whichever OS company
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I am happy to see Google selling clever things like this. I feel that in the long term it's their future, more than advertising.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
The idea isn't to extrapolate predictions; it's to provide a reference to the accuracy of a person's prior assertions. For example, Gordon E. Moore would be rated pretty highly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_law Whereas the (Ex-)Ira
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Project Idea: Rating our 'experts' and their predictions
6 points by DanI-S 15y ago|4 comments
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by DanI-S 15y ago
The original post mentions a 3-year deprecation period. Given the speed of technological progression, that would be pretty difficult for me to complain about. Edit: The Translate API, specifically mentioned, will be deprecated December 2011
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by DanI-S 15y ago
It may be different if you're building a business for yourself, but if you're building something for your family you better make sure you still have some time to spend with them! I'm from the UK, but my wife and I live in the US. I get bare
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that the costs of healthcare provision and education are unaffected by computers? I'd be surprised if there wasn't somewhere you can do an online degree in the application of IT for cost savings in healthcare.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
That's a valid point, and an impressive list - but perhaps they are able to be the best in the world because they are able to charge so much.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I'd like to know why American university courses cost so much. The UK punches above its weight in research and quality of education, yet the maximum fee universities can charge is around $14k per year. The majority charge substantially le

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