Leon

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by Leon 18y ago
It is somewhat important to hackers what the future of tech policy in the United States will be. Net neutrality? FCC regulations on different parts of the spectrum? FCC regulations on ISP's? Funding on new internet backbones or litigati
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by Leon 18y ago
Yet you deny that anyone can be as masterful at managing and making computer systems work together as a professional violinist, and then claim that 'these people' have bias against everyone else. You also falsely state anyone can become a
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by Leon 18y ago
Why do you have such a bias against expertise in technology vs. expertise in violin/anything else?
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by Leon 18y ago
Failed? As in how? Do you think open source will die or something? Do you realize that hackers will never stop hacking on software - and that this is the important part? That whatever happens to proprietary software developed, it stay
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by Leon 18y ago
Who are these 'most people' you speak of? If you mean people, in general, then you are talking about middle aged parents in suburbia, the elderly, or youth outside of the IT field. What do they know of software? But if you would like to
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by Leon 18y ago
Wouldn't this fly in the face of common carrier regulations and subject the telecoms to massive taxes/fees/penalties and congressional litigation for stymieing small IT/software businesses? The government would probably put a stop to this,
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by Leon 18y ago
yeah, great, 'Why isn't NASA doing more about this?' Let's blame an underfunded agency whose government won't give them enough to accomplish what they ask of them (remember how we're suppose to go to mars sometime?). NASA is doing great th
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by Leon 18y ago
The reason it's required for children to attend school in our society probably has more to do with the fact that it's pretty much a requirement if you want to exist in our society, while for a native it isn't necessary to survive - they ca
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by Leon 18y ago
Well, like the article said, the biggest threat is probably disease introduced that they are not immune to. I'd say that's a good reason to leave them alone until we have at least a plan to go in and protect them w/ vaccinations (if they w
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by Leon 18y ago
Does anyone see one of the problems with this approach? What if a user visits a site multiple times, and searches the website, looking for new/different information that they have not found previously - would they have a different experien
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by Leon 18y ago
Unfortunately he has already posted his comment about signing an NDA, and you've responded about posting anonymously. Any anonymous post that breaks private NDA information would cast a long shadow of suspicion towards the original poster.
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by Leon 18y ago
I think their statement (of developers acting for their own personal good) is overblown and shows a lack of understanding of software development. It's a reactionary publication predicating on the fears of not being agile enough in the new
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Report from Management: Programmers don't know how to develop software(esciencenews.com)
3 points by Leon 18y ago|6 comments
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by Leon 19y ago
I have already begun development of BusyBeaver(Ackerman(Y)) Combinator. I'm hoping to complete it sometime in the next lifetime of the universe.
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by Leon 19y ago
The YC faq says they'll consider startups in any field but hold preference towards software. I know your startup covers DNA testing, so even with the ridiculous terms of service would you still apply to them?
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by Leon 19y ago
The author makes several really big assumptions that I would be hesitant to agree with. The first that YCombinator is able to find the best that are an almost guarantee for the top 10% success. YC has an incredible community and is backed
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by Leon 19y ago
I article says that application popularity is declining, but could it also be that people are using a wider variety of applications? I'd like to see the numbers on how many app's are installed total vs. time. Just because the top 10 are los
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by Leon 19y ago
Zuckerburg has been pretty big on promoting favor towards facebook app's, so it's probably not as bad as cell phone development (I had a friend in the mobile games market, they just aren't as friendly as they should be). Even if you don't g
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by Leon 19y ago
Yeah that's a good starting point, but that won't guarantee users. You've got to keep working on it. What causes people to go in the wrong direction?
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by Leon 19y ago
Sounds like you've already made a decision. Why compete with Facebook head on when you can use their market share as an advantage?
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by Leon 19y ago
Do a google search on 'failed internet startup'
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Ask YC: What causes startups to NOT build something users want?
21 points by Leon 19y ago|22 comments
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by Leon 19y ago
A lot of the big users of social media seem to view it as some type of game - who can get the most karma, votes, diggs, etc. That's not to say they are the most wanted users, but usually the most prolific. The best users of social media ha
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by Leon 19y ago
Hah, didn't England go through this same scare a while ago? Nothing quite like sensationalism in the media.
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by Leon 19y ago
Stories like this come up every now and then on the internet meme machine. Really though, it's about how engineers/professionals are taught to attack difficult problems all the time, that all the solutions they think of are in terms of dif
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by Leon 19y ago
Sometimes when visiting big cities I'll check google maps/city newspapers for big construction projects and high end hotels - then get reservations at them for a fifth the price. It's how I ended up in a penthouse at a swanky hotel in Toro
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by Leon 19y ago
But the thing of it is that he DID make something people wanted, he knew it would work from past experience and just had to sell himself. But still, it was a really risky move.
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by Leon 19y ago
Sounds like the French revolution lives on in the hearts of the people. Too bad they don't realize that fraud of this level hurts them directly.
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by Leon 19y ago
Something about this article feels wrong. Maybe it's the author's disdain for technology, or the apparent hatred towards multi-tasking (the author brings up the story of how he/she crashed while checking pictures on their camera while it w
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by Leon 19y ago
Why is this on hacker news?

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