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901.
by allenu 8y ago
It looks like it's UK and India only for now. See bottom right.
902.
by allenu 8y ago
This reminds me of the quote that the four most expensive words in investing are "this time it's different".
903.
by allenu 8y ago
You're right that the money wouldn't necessarily dry up, but attitudes towards the risk might change if the likelihood of success of these startups goes down over time. There may be a point where investors don't want to stoma
904.
by allenu 8y ago
I'm with you. We've seen a demo, not a real product that people are using. I wish people would temper their expectations a bit. If product development has taught me anything, it's that it's easy to put together a demo to
905.
by allenu 9y ago
I totally agree. I only started playing with Go a few months ago and remember how amateurish the website and the mascot made it look. It gave the impression that it was a work in progress and research project instead of something that'
906.
by allenu 9y ago
This is interesting advice, but the real world is messy and 30 minutes to boil down everything you should know is not going to happen with most people. (And 3 minutes to talk about the biggest challenges to the team?) Have you ever tried
907.
by allenu 9y ago
I don't think it's any different from watching a sporting event and screaming and shouting when the team scores a goal. Even if you're all alone, you want to show appreciation.
908.
by allenu 9y ago
A PS4 1TB Slim is $320 right now. Target has it for $300. During the holidays, they and retailers sold it for $250. After the holidays, I watched slowly as the price started rising each week. Retailers jumped back up to $300, but Amazon was
909.
by allenu 9y ago
I would say don't work on the branches first. If something is simple and predictable, it can be done later. (This also allows you to slowly converge on a completion date since all the stuff you've put off is simpler and easier to
910.
by allenu 9y ago
Choose Your Own Adventure and text-based adventure games you type into your computer (with BASIC) really got me into computers as a kid back in the late 80s/early 90s. I wrote my own gamebooks using a simple notepad and "turn to p
911.
by allenu 9y ago
It does feel gross, even if we all implicitly do it. Some things aren't meant to be consciously commodified, I think. It's like the thought experiment of asking a friend (or your mom) how much you owe them if they make you dinner.
912.
by allenu 9y ago
This, pretty much. Once you're on gmail, I doubt you leave and you're giving them free data already. There's no reason to improve the service once you're in.
913.
by allenu 10y ago
I loved OS/2. Back in the '90s I ran the later OS/2 Warp version and it was pretty solid. I remember running a BBS in a window and was still able to use the OS for other things. Multitasking like that was still a novel thing
914.
by allenu 10y ago
I think the answer to the mp3/h.264 question today is yes, you do have to pay party X. The payment is for the license of the spec, I believe, and not the implementation.
915.
Reduce risk by working on unknowns first(ussherpress.com)
5 points by allenu 10y ago|0 comments
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by allenu 10y ago
Yes, I wrote a few different ones for text-based BBS games I wrote in the 90s. I did it because I wanted to write a totally customizable game engine that didn't require any additional tools. Also, I don't think there were too many
917.
by allenu 10y ago
Fair enough. I think unconscious bias like this is incredibly frustrating for people who can see it and feel its effects. When you're on the other side and aren't affected by these issues, it's easy to critique legitimate con
918.
by allenu 10y ago
That's great except these women didn't choose to be women. Picking a sandwich is a trivial decision and not the basis of who you are. It's telling that your immediate response to this is to concoct some specious argument to s
919.
by allenu 10y ago
I don't know if using spaced repetition works that well for "memorizing" code that you don't use normally. Coding is the kind of thing that you do where if something is done rarely, it's probably not something you n
920.
by allenu 10y ago
Those pics remind me very much of the old game Out of this World. I wonder if someone can modify this to encode video. It would make for an interesting effect.
921.
by allenu 10y ago
That may be true, but if you take the set of all people who have worked hard, not all of them will be rich. Being a hard worker is not a requirement to be rich and there are certainly people who are rich not through any hard work of their o
922.
by allenu 10y ago
I suspect that he's probably convinced himself that they will one day be successful so these smaller missteps will be paid back several times over once they are. If he's been operating that way for a while, inertia must kick in, e
923.
by allenu 10y ago
Good point about it being a double-edged sword, but I think strategically it's better to rely on an existing service (allow use of multiple services to diversify the risk). If the services disappear, yes, you're a bit SOL but I&#x
924.
by allenu 10y ago
Having a custom sync server and a custom font are both surprising decisions to me. I suppose they both have to do with a certain design quality they wanted with the app. I'm not that familiar with the features of the app, but the reaso
925.
by allenu 10y ago
I'm not the poster you're responding to, but the difference between something like writing vs. stamp collecting or gaming is the act of creation. You're making something that others can enjoy and that you can look at and appr
926.
by allenu 10y ago
Sorry, it was ambiguous. I assumed the writer of the original code intended to execute them in the order of the line numbers and that was the "correct order". Otherwise, the line numbers are meaningless.
927.
by allenu 10y ago
It gets run in the correct order. Think of each line as a command that stores the instruction immediately at that line number. You could actually "re-type" a line later by reusing the same line number but replacing it with new con
928.
by allenu 10y ago
I remember reading that the creators of the ARC format sued Phil Katz for essentially taking their original source code and rebranding it PKARC (with assembly optimizations). They claim [1] that Katz did essentially the same thing with PKZI
929.
by allenu 13y ago
Wanting to make things better really isn't enough. You need to be able to make it happen. Writing a blog post to the world from your limited experience that a particular company has problems is cute and probably feels good, but not r
930.
by allenu 13y ago
A lot of the problems these companies cover are interesting to everyone. Search is interesting to everyone, maintaining a social network is interesting to everyone, buying stuff online is interesting to everyone. Cab-sharing is not interest

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