Hexayurt

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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Good god, pay attention to the world around you people. 1> different kinds of businesses do well in recessions vs. boom years. adapt your start up plans to be "countercyclical." If you're not sure what kinds of businesses are countercy
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
http://e-gold.com Quite real, I spent about a year being paid primarily in e-gold in the late 1990s as an experiment, and it was pretty cool. You can argue, of course, that in this instance the gold in the vaults is the money, and tha
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Occam. Specifically, http://transterpreter.org Yes, the language it runs (Occam) is 20 years old. But the language was designed for programs running on dozens to thousands of nodes, and in the transterpreter implementation, there's the po
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Once you've got a bit of a start (i.e. you can write h1 { color: red } or whatever, try CSSEdit for the Mac. It's really good for rapidly understanding what you can do with CSS - it's pretty much the OmniGraffle of CSS editing, if that mak
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
"If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly." I thought this was mine for years, but Chesterton beat me to it. Generally, if something is worthwhile, but not critical, it's worth spending the 20% of the time to get it 80% of the way t
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
SVG with JavaScript on both client and server and code migration.
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
http://disastr.org I know I've discussed this here before, but this is exactly the kind of scenario that the system would handle - 300,000 displaced people in an area with massive network connectivity, trying to figure out where to go.
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
And organic chemistry isn't hard? Programming is a profession . Professions are hard. That's what makes them professions. If it was easy, then people would just do it as part of other activities, and there would be no specialization worth
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Domestic disaster response (i.e. Katrina II, Bay Quake) using the internet and commercial supply chains to provide sheltering: http://disastr.org Lots of room for mapping apps, GIS, route finding, and an enormous capability to handle
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Is there an Arabic localization?
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
If I might suggest a simpler question? "How do I value this idea maximize my odds of getting genuinely rich from this venture?" The question isn't "how much is this worth?" at all. It's "how do I price this to maximize the odds of success a
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
35, two years of computer science (Edinburgh), never completed the degree - helped start http://voxar.com
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
http://disastr.org exactly those kinds of technologies, and could save a lot of lives in disasters in America. It's also a prototype for a more general approach to handling disasters in the developing world. That is a platform for handl
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
1> no obvious demo button to see the tool in action 2> why I gotta register 3> can I upload powerpoints? That's a review of your web site, not your web application, but that's kind of the point - I didn't get to your application
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
A really good quality standard CSS layout. I don't mean the stylesheets - no, those come later - no, I mean a really good, one size genuinely does fit all, semantic HTML layout. Does blogs, does galleries, does comments, does discussion
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Algorithms, by Sedgewick. Various editions for different languages. Unbeatable as of 15 years ago :)
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
DMAE - it's a plant extract they sell at health food stores which is apparently metabolized into stuff that feeds your brain more oxygen. Commonly used with autistics because they often start to talk more fluently when they've been taking t
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
http://itamarst.org/software/cog/ Cog is the Checkpointed Object Graph object database, providing semi-transparent persistence for large sets of interrelated Python objects. It handles automatic loading of objects on reference, and saving
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Urgent need for venture philanthropy for tech-related project
2 points by Hexayurt 19y ago|0 comments
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Biometric identity management. You need a single namespace for human beings, which is cryptographically protected so that the only entity which can link a person's reputation to their biometric profile is a court of law. When there can only
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
I think the art would be to stop people joining the site when it reaches an acceptable level of coolness. Isn't this how Metafilter survives and maintains its excellent quality?
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Disastr - peer-to-peer disaster response (second link)(hexayurt.com)
2 points by Hexayurt 19y ago|0 comments
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
So what you're trying to do is prevent wholesale copying from competitors? The trick here is the agency doing the copying. You want to say that users can copy it, but that third parties can't. My suggestion would be to be very clear t
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by Hexayurt 20y ago
I have a US govt. contract to develop an ultra-low-cost biometric digital ID system with strong privacy features. As I've mentioned before, my work is patent free, groundbreaking, and could easily spawn half a dozen companies. We'll be look
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by Hexayurt 20y ago
Affordable biometric digital ID systems to enable people in the developing world to get loans and other access to capital. No patents. I already more-or-less solved the first round of problems in doing affordable housing for the developing
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by Hexayurt 20y ago
No, it's an information exchange for nerds looking to start businesses. Thanks for your comment, PG.
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by Hexayurt 20y ago
Sorry to repost, it's been pointed out to me that the original headline was poorly phrased. So, here's the situation: there's an idea, it's already been publicly disclosed by me several times in email and other mediums, so there's no possib
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by Hexayurt 20y ago
I can fill in a little more of the technical side of things here. The core challenge is to print a lot of data on an A4 / US Letter sized piece of paper, and then get that data back off the paper and into an application running on a cell ph
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by Hexayurt 20y ago
Hi. My name is Vinay Gupta. I'm an environmentalist and refugee infrastructure consultant by trade, although I did spend about 10 years doing software including a number of start ups. My projects include minor roles in http://oilendgame.or
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Looking for entrepreneurial team - have technology and first client. You find funding!
1 points by Hexayurt 20y ago|3 comments

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