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by api 12y ago
Another huge problem with all of the above alternatives is deployability, upgrade cycles, and general "installability" UX issues. Runtimes like Java that want to install the runtime as a separate package on the system which must
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by api 12y ago
Won't this result in a lot of duplicate records at the NSA?
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by api 12y ago
I'll keep saying it: give me a modern language that is cross platform, results in reasonably sized code footprints, is fast, and that can be used to ship code on all the major OSes, and I'll switch. Until then C/C++ is the on
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by api 12y ago
Where I learned to program: http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/man/pics/vic20man.jpg
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by api 12y ago
I'd love to see the inverse too -- Cuba coming to Netflix. Would be fascinating.
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by api 12y ago
"But the real lesson is that the process for helping companies die is in dire need of study and executive education. There has to be a better way than the status quo." Priceless. Kodak's actions do indeed strike me as insane.
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by api 12y ago
Ahh, the joys of total banking deregulation...
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Ask HN: Selling Software and Sarbanes-Oxley?
1 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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by api 12y ago
I'd say #3 jumps out as the most tragic and obvious. It reminds me of Kodak's failure to get ahead of and dominate digital photography when they had the IP, the funding, and the brand to do so. I'd say the demise of both comp
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by api 12y ago
Ahh... that explains it a little more... though I don't see why you couldn't just share model data via the cloud instead of actually sending audio from a microphone directly out to a remote endpoint. But then again anything with
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by api 12y ago
Why is the cloud required for speech to text when a four core ARM SOC is under 15 dollars? My Commodore 64 had good text to speech, and Dragon was doing speech to text on 90s PCs. I don't get the technical rationale.
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by api 12y ago
Agree with the sentiment if not the particulars. Real estate hyperinflation is the devil and must be destroyed.
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by api 12y ago
Yeah, I can easily imagine future archaeologists postulating the use of left-over Saturn V hardware as part of a burial ritual for the Potus (our high priest) or some such thing. I do often wonder if things like the pyramids had some actual
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by api 12y ago
I'm looking forward to desktop UIs also being supported by something like this -- e.g. native Windows, GTK+, and Cocoa widgets. Then we'd have a true framework for writing GUI apps that can share most of their code across the whol
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by api 12y ago
"The number of people who believe we haven't visited the moon is growing year over year." It took a lot of evidence to convince anyone that Vikings visited America before Columbus. There is at least a small amount of evidence
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by api 12y ago
A post of mine from another thread on this general topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8985668
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by api 12y ago
It's a great way to self-congratulate, but it never changes anyone else's opinion. If anything it makes others' opinions more entrenched by pushing antagonistic emotional buttons.
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Risk sensitivity as an evolutionary adaptation (2014)(nature.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
We need a Godwin's law analog for the phrase "conspiracy theory." Kooky conspiracy theories are things like the queen of England is a shape shifting reptile or commercial airliners are spraying us with "chemtrails."
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by api 12y ago
Whether or not it's possible has nothing to do with fearing it. It's not that brave people don't feel fear. They do. They just aren't ruled by it. Brave people move forward in spite of whatever fear they might feel. I wo
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by api 12y ago
That's somewhat better, but wake me up when one of our current political leadership tells us not to fear them at all.
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by api 12y ago
So was most of the Patriot Act and "Total Information Awareness." The biggest thing that disgusts me is how our government responded to 9/11 by essentially telling us to be more afraid-- in other words helping deliver precise
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by api 12y ago
Ever since the Iraq war I've been of the opinion that forces within the USA shamelessly used 9/11 to pursue pet agendas that had been "on the table" for years but lacked sufficient support. Afghanistan was related to 9&#
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by api 12y ago
... except that we cannot bifurcate history into multiple different timelines and run parallel experiments to test different assumptions. This is why "experiments" in soft sciences like economics or psychology don't necessari
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by api 12y ago
"Species" gets muddy with asexually reproducing organisms like bacteria that can also transfer genes via various mechanisms like plasmids. Bacteria are kind of like a distributed massively parallel learning algorithm in goo form.
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by api 12y ago
Economists also thought stagflation was impossible before the USA in the late 70s.
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Anthem hacked– insurance data on up to 80M exposed(latimes.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
Saucers of course. They had the anti-gravity but still had to run them on old fashioned petrol, not having had time during the war to perfect the ability to tap the zero point field. In all seriousness though I was hoping for some deeper an
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by api 12y ago
This is why "free as in beer" is a problem for "free as in freedom." Just to maintain things costs money because people take money to live, not to mention how much it costs to field things that are competitive on UI&#x2F
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by api 12y ago
Depends on the work. For software absolutely. For books not so much. Author's lifetime would be better.

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