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by api 12y ago
Not saying Java is the best language ever, just that it passes a certain minimum bar that JavaScript does not.
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by api 12y ago
I think you're enormously under-estimating the cost of getting UX right. Creating really beautiful UX is a brutal slog through the tar pits of hell. The amount of testing, testing, testing, testing, TESTING and endless revision that&#x
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by api 12y ago
In Europe it's gone: Anarchy -> Democracy (Greece, early Rome) -> Aristocracy (late Rome) -> Monarchy (imperial Rome, middle ages) -> Revolution (brief partial anarchy?) -> Democracy -> Aristocracy (Eurozone) -> ??
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by api 12y ago
Salsa20 / ChaCha is pretty simple. Curve25519 is not exactly simple but it's pretty small -- small enough to put on a shirt.
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by api 12y ago
You can't, at least not practically. You could do debug/trace analysis and reverse engineer but that'd be a massive undertaking. But it's also quite hard to tell if an open source application is secure. Do you have time
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by api 12y ago
I agree with you, but the problem is that the OSS/free world is not willing to confront the simple fact that without a revenue model it is not possible to compete with walled gardens or proprietary software. Sure you can build functio
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by api 12y ago
I tried GWT years ago. It worked amazingly well, and let me write web apps in a real language. But it was significantly slower to develop a new site in GWT vs. plain vanilla HTML + CSS + JavaScript, and the speed to get up and running event
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by api 12y ago
Those extensions are known as the "Mickey Mouse protection act," since more or less their sole purpose is to ensure that Mickey never enters the public domain.
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by api 12y ago
"accept the lifestyle choices that it imposes in the Bay Area" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8BDpqekENQ
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by api 12y ago
Something really fascinates me about medicine... it's so incredibly difficult to actually tell if anything works! I mean look at the debates over antidepressant drugs. There are some large studies that claim most are no better than pla
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by api 12y ago
I've seen some of these things, at least second hand. I can indeed think of another one. 0x angels (and advisors, etc.) constantly throw new ideas at the founders and team without first doing at least a little bit of thought and resear
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by api 12y ago
A wonderful relic from back when we dreamed. Contrast the way they talk here with the timidity you hear from scientists and engineers today. Then: the grandeur of our place in the universe, the likelihood that other life is out there, and t
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2001 a Space Odyssey – A Look Behind the Future (1968)(youtube.com)
2 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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by api 12y ago
I wish you were right, but C is still the only way to hit all platforms with a good product. It also still rules performance, which does matter in some cases. Hopefully this won't still be true in 10 years. Hopefully. But I was hopeful
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by api 12y ago
Yeah, I understand all that. If startups could be objectively and reliably valued at an early stage, there would be no angels or VCs-- banks would just lend to them. :) But... There is a market -- deals close every day. I am curious about w
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Ask HN: Good resources for determining early-stage pre-money valuation
3 points by api 12y ago|3 comments
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by api 12y ago
It is. The fact is that we really don't spend much on space.
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by api 12y ago
Why would that matter? Energy use = energy conversions = IR.
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by api 12y ago
My albeit limited experience suggests to me that there's a U-shaped curve with super-rich / powerful / "effective" people. One end of the curve is "pathological sociopath," and the other is "extremely
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by api 12y ago
Try filming a distant moving object with a commodity phone camera, especially in lower light. Everyone has a camera, yes, but it's the wrong kind of camera for capturing anything useful in this area. If you wanted to get a good UFO pho
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by api 12y ago
I've always had a passing interest in UFOs and similar mysteries. The sense I get from reading a bit into the subject is that when you subtract the obvious cranks and cultural mythology there does exist a hard core of very hard to expl
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by api 12y ago
Jacques Valee has a number of books on this subject. He's a bit on the spooky rather than skeptic side of the fence though, and argues for some sort of common underlying phenomenon. I think he might be right to some extent -- even if
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by api 12y ago
It provides more labor. Whether or not it uses more resources, and which resources, depends. But if you tax resources themselves, it doesn't matter. I'd say tax non-renewable resources and externalities (e.g. CO2) most of all, for
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by api 12y ago
I've heard versions of this before. It sounds almost like a no-brainer to me. Of course you should tax resources more than labor, especially non-renewable resources and those with negative externalities.
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by api 12y ago
It has them, but so many people don't use them. It's partly an issue with the language and partly with the community. One thing I learned from NodeJS is that the quality of the community around a language can matter more than the
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by api 12y ago
What a brilliant bit of book marketing! How much did this cost? :)
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by api 12y ago
Inconsistency, very prone to security mistakes, poor type system, and some people just find its syntax "ugly." For example lots of folks hate $strings and $_WTF['bbq'] type syntax. Perl is another language whose syntax
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by api 12y ago
New features like auto and lambdas reduce C++'s verbosity to manageable levels. In many cases it's less verbose than Java.
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Ask HN: Insurance costs for a typical early stage funded startup
4 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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by api 12y ago
Probably not. I mean, @pmarca can tweet-storm 24/7 and also manage to operate as a head of a major VC firm and nobody questions this.

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