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   by api 12y ago

   Almost nobody in Washington reads anything. They just rubber stamp stuff written for them by bureaucrats, think tanks, and lobbyists. Question is who wrote this stuff: telecoms, Google, the NSA, ???
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   by api 12y ago

   Indirectly: brand identity, community building, etc. YC makes money off seed funding deals. Lots of venture capitalists blog heavily for the same reason.
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   by api 12y ago

   If those are actual pics of the Lizard Squad, that was incredibly dumb.
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   by api 12y ago

   I interpreted Ubuntu's failure more a statement of lack of confidence in the ability of Ubuntu to execute on this idea than as a statement against the idea's ultimate potential. Samsung, Google, Apple, or Nokisoft (MS+Nokia) could
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   by api 12y ago

   So we're all going to code, write, etc. on four inch screens? Seriously why hasn't someone made a smart phone that "transforms" into a larger screen form factor when connected to a monitor? I could see Android phones doi
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   by api 12y ago

   I am personally most concerned -- as others have said -- about the fusion of non-sentient but powerful machine intelligence with malign human intelligence. I think it's the most likely and practical scenario. We're in a sense alre
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   by api 12y ago

   William Gibson got the essence and the aesthetic of it in Neuromancer in 1984.
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   by api 12y ago

   The academic math niche was one of the only areas Java applets got traction.
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   by api 12y ago

   This could be unbelievably useful for some areas you might not have considered much: - Academic stuff, like distributing applications that do advanced modeling or heavy math. - Beta testing to select groups of beta users - GUI rapid iterati
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    by api 12y ago

    I want .sucks
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    by api 12y ago

    Question is why you'd use it over Go, Java, C#, or even Python or Ruby. I picked it originally because there are lots of quickly-up-and-running plugins and similar things in the npm repository. Like I said the community is great. But t
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    by api 12y ago

    It's mostly to do with JavaScript's warts: - Can't deal with 64-bit integers - Insane type system, e.g. null vs. undefined and all kinds of complexity around seeing what something is. Types are strings ? Really? - No baked-i
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    by api 12y ago

    I wish. I used Node recently for a project. Never again. It's just not a good language, for many reasons. The Node community is good, and the packages in npm are good, but the language itself is so wishy washy and has so many warts t
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    by api 12y ago

    Stimulating investment is very much the intent of QE. Given that the entire economy is transforming, we could use quite a bit more money flying into experiments and new ventures right now.
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    by api 12y ago

    Why FreeBSD for content delivery?
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    Why are girls flocking to ISIS?(nypost.com)

    1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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    by api 12y ago

    I think it's worse than that. What next wave are you referring to? Everyone wants everything online to be free so what should they do, insert ads into songs? I know people in art, music, etc. and all of them wish people in tech would p
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    by api 12y ago

    I Still disagree. Theoretically you should be right, but try telling a huge bureaucracy they need to lay off half their employees, managers, account execs, etc. because the whole supply chain is shifting. Things are not as rational as many
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    The Real Death of the Music Industry(businessinsider.com)

    3 points by api 12y ago|2 comments
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    by api 12y ago

    "I really don't understand the whole cars are in league with big oil." Yeah, nobody would ever "conspire" when trillions upon trillions of dollars in economic activity, millions of entrenched (and often unionized) j
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    by api 12y ago

    He expressed it in a bit of a one-sided way, and did that with a few other things too. I think he has the common tendency to do this when the other side of the equation is over-represented in popular discussion. For another example, he ta
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    by api 12y ago

    I thought that was this site. :)
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    by api 12y ago

    But how can you disrupt without parallax? ... And thanks. I thought I was the only one who thought the video fad was dumb. Now it's just a toll booth for getting a product presented, and I never watch them. How about others? Do you fin
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    by api 12y ago

    Bonus points for doing it by fixing OS permission models instead of just implementing walled gardens through mandatory code signing. Not likely though. The latter is far, far easier.
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    by api 12y ago

    The need for stuff like Docker is an admission that OS privilege isolation and resource management is woefully inadequate.
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    by api 12y ago

    No, nor at 45, 55, or 65. The biggest advantages early-twenty-somethings have over later age groups is a higher risk tolerance and a lack of obligations getting in the way of putting in unlimited time at the office. The latter is a little d
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    by api 12y ago

    A lot of people who do this also sort of lie to themselves and others about how much they really work. They work a bit, goof off a bit, or work slowly or inefficiently.
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    by api 12y ago

    That's not what I mean. What I mean is that given two products -- one with an open protocol and one with closed -- very, very few customers will exercise a buying preference for the former.
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    by api 12y ago

    People don't pay for open protocols.
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    by api 12y ago

    I'm aware of that, and you're right: pop Keynesianism is not what Keynes actually argued.