SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 7y ago
That's basically putting technology out to pasture. When you've got a handful of large corporate customers that depend on a product, you can continue to extract money out of them for years or decades without the product having a f
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Technically speaking, they were quite far ahead of the curve. While VMs were all the rage, they were shipping container-based products (their Sun refugees kept developing Solaris Zones and ZFS in this context). The technical abilities of th
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
You're not wrong about that, it was more dismissive than it should have been, though I'm not sure how else to express the idea I had in mind. Perhaps I should have instead said something along the lines of, "I value rapid gro
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
"Uhh, hate to break it to you but startups don't get "special valuations" because someone calls them startups." Is this condescending tone necessary? I was suggesting growth plays a large role in why startups are va
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Young people get old and accrue wealth. I still have my Ameritrade account from 25 years ago (then Datek, which was, at the time, revolutionary), so I'm not even the obvious consumer of Robinhood services since there was friction for m
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
What prevents Robinhood from diversifying? They've figured out how to get a lot of customers fast. They're executing extremely well, IMHO, and that means they have many growth options. A team that can deliver a constantly improvin
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I think we're decades into the era of that kind of "robot" and on the horizon there is a world with more general purpose robots. By that I mean, the mindless rote tasks are mostly already served by mechanical devices, like
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I think that's a reasonable assumption. Economies of scale apply to all hardware, and there are many roles that a given robot design could fulfill, given the right software. The mainframe market might be a reasonable predictive model t
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Sure, it's in the future, but it's not the distant future. The company I work with does P2P within a given environment. It has a map of the hotel/hospital where it works and can basically deliver anywhere on that map (barring
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
"Software is complex. The main tools to create software cheaper are abstraction and reuse." Robots have all of the software complexity (more software than most software startups I've been involved in), plus hardware complex
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I recently took a job with a robotics startup...it's a tough business to operate in with huge operating costs (compared to software), but I think there are a lot of opportunities yet untapped. The old Feynman saying "There's
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Just from a logistics perspective hardware is harder than software to make profitable, and robots as a business involves a lot of hardware. More things have to go right, fewer things have to go wrong, etc. You rely on an entire supply chai
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I've been living full-time in an RV off and on for nearly a decade. I just bought my third RV (first was a motorhome, second was a travel trailer, which I had for three years and grew to hate moving it, and now I'm back to another
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
The power supply is one of the trickier aspects of getting a working C64 rig, and it's not uncommon to spend as much on it, as on the C64 itself. You'll see a lot of "no power supply, untested" C64s on eBay because of it
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
One was mid-50s, and nearing an early retirement. He'd worked in a dozen or more languages, was working mostly in Python and C (for performance-critical Python extensions) when I worked with him. He'd been significantly involved i
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
So...you think Facebook and Google don't already track individual devices, even with IPv4?
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Rust has been the most surprisingly fun thing I learned this year. I was shocked at how quickly I was productive (even while still having no idea what I was doing). It really is astonishingly like using a very high level language, with a fe
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Word processor pioneer Evelyn Berezin dies aged 93(bbc.com)
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
You've already made it clear you have no experience with the language...so, what are you trying to accomplish here?
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Can you give an example of a language that is similarly precise with less verbosity, while still being comprehensible? Perl 6 is alarmingly concise in a lot of cases (hyper-operators come to mind), so it's super weird to see it called
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Well, yes, that, but also announced that Hangouts would be shut down, which is exceedingly confusing messaging.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
This is what I see at the first link when I search for "Google Meet" (url is: https://meet.google.com , which seems like it's a reasonable point of entry URL for the product): https://photos.app.goo.gl&#
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Literally everything I see has Hangouts branding. And, not just for me or my events...I was invited to a meeting with someone from another company yesterday, and everything about it was branded with "Hangouts" and not "Meet&q
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Nobody told me. Or Google, apparently. https://photos.app.goo.gl/E9qk9KJC73VoEj5y6
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I don't know what Meet is. When I add an event in Google Calender, there is an "Add Conferencing" dropdown...in it is "Hangouts". That adds a conference link to the event, which I can then share with whoever I want
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
People use Hangouts. No one I know has ever used Allo. It hasn't even come up in conversation, even when they were marketing it. Hangouts, on the other hand, I get meeting requests all the time that include a Hangouts link. It's
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
We produce and process more data in a few days than we did in a year even as recently as a decade ago (and, by "we", I mostly mean companies that want to store every detail of every human life for analysis in order to maximize pro
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
They keep their facebook account, until they don't. Large numbers of people have opted out of facebook in recent years. Just because it's been around for a few years, doesn't mean it is permanent. Nobody is finding me on MySp
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
"Ambivalent" is the word I used. I'm older than the original facebook demographic. I was well into adulthood when facebook took off. It took me a few years to even open an account, and then only because friends, mostly younge
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
They had a platform. Then they killed it by killing anybody who did something better than them on the platform. Now they have a burned out husk of a platform. Who wants to live and work in that? The kids don't even like facebook, any

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