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14311.
by api 12y ago
Microsoft knows far more about operating system design than Microsoft. I'm sure MS research is chock full of people who could design something far, far better than Windows. The problem is twofold: (1) Convincing anyone in management th
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by api 12y ago
HFS+ and NTFS both suck pretty hard. There seems to be some kind of pessimism filesystem principle in popular mainstream OSes. It's kind of impressive that Apple and MS have managed to make such balls of crap work as well as they have.
14313.
by api 12y ago
Tangent: what a gorgeous web site!
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by api 12y ago
"It’s a ridiculous idea — touch your phone against each wall and get a floor plan." Uhh... no it's not. Make that actually work and show it to some architects, interior designers, and real estate people. Be sure to have a mop
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by api 12y ago
True. Those are better if you want to grab a server and sit on it for a long time as a dedicated box at a data center. It's more like old school rack hosting but you don't have to actually screw with hardware. They'd be awful
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by api 12y ago
You're right, but ultimately this is a band-aid over the fact that OSes have terrible permission separation and application isolation. If OSes were better architected from a security point of view, it would be substantially less of a p
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by api 12y ago
Wouldn't be hilarious if this were a "silicon backwoods" startup running in some super-cheap locale, but in SF you'd be homeless for that. Of course 5% equity isn't peanuts if you really believe in the company... an
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by api 12y ago
I'm one of those people who say "$0 marketing spend," and I don't mean that it's bad to spend money on advertising. I've intentionally held back since I wanted to see if there was "natural demand" to
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by api 12y ago
Interesting trend. If you could spec out the whole thing including cooling for use in a data center, you could probably do some really damn fast many-core chips that wouldn't be likely to sell much in the desktop and a la carte serve
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by api 12y ago
Still damn expensive compared to things like a dedicated server from here: http://www.kimsufi.com/en/ Amazon seems to offer more network bandwidth though, so they might have an advantage for CPU-heavy and network-heavy
14321.
by api 12y ago
Seems like not picking. By $0 it's of course meant that you're not paying for clicks, salesmen, and paid PR. Marketing is never truly completely free. At the very least it takes time.
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by api 12y ago
They weren't really clear about their intentions right away. If they were, I'd probably just say no. In two out of three cases it sounded like they were interested in being a customer.
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by api 12y ago
By "desktop" I am referring to OS/platform more than form factor.
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by api 12y ago
I'd love to hear PG and other knowledgable folks around here talk a bit about partnerships: when, whether, why? My experience too is that most partnerships are only valuable for social proof. Often nothing much else happens, maybe one
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by api 12y ago
Two out of three were. The third was polite and professional but the offer just wasn't quite good enough. When I turned it down they just kind of went dark, which I interpret as a no. Interesting the third was a big successful late-sta
14326.
by api 12y ago
I had the same thought when I started reading, but didn't see any overt references to this. I am quite curious: has anyone around here experienced a case where it seemed like the objective wasn't to acquire/hire at all but to
14327.
by api 12y ago
Well if you do what to at least have the discussion, one tactic might be to throw an optimistic-but-reasonable valuation at them. "Yeah, that'll be $50 million..." Then when they push back or ask for more info, just more or l
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by api 12y ago
He gloated like this with you in the room? I'm only a little shocked... not that he'd gloat, but that he wouldn't think about the effect this might have on the morale of his new hires.
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by api 12y ago
Great essay. I'm at an earlier stage than PG's target audience for this -- still bootstrapping but experiencing 20-30% month/month growth and getting ready to go that next step (probably seed). At this stage I've gotten
14330.
by api 12y ago
Stuff like this reminds me a lot of sugary simple-carb-laden junk food. The holy grail of popular marketing is to find a way to tap into some kind of simple and probably very evolutionarily ancient "craving" or "desire"
14331.
by api 12y ago
But "Desktop is dead!" (even though everyone uses it and everything is made on a desktop)
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by api 12y ago
It'd "feel" like a vacuum, until you passed out. But it would mean that you wouldn't need to expend so much energy to heat your shelter, and that greenhouse-based farming is a lot easier. The important thing to note is t
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by api 12y ago
This place is actually colder than Mars.
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by api 12y ago
WhatsApp being banned under these plans would be doubly hilarious, since its encryption is a joke. There's a single hard-coded AES key for everyone. I'm sure SnapChat isn't much better.
14335.
by api 12y ago
Personal "doxxing" and direct personal slander is a completely different thing. We're talking about general types of speech that some find offensive, like mocking religion, profanity, racism, etc. Trying to censor offensive s
14336.
by api 12y ago
Eventually these terrorists will also learn that trying to censor something drives sales and popularity through the roof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Live_Crew#As_Nasty_As_They_W... If you don't like something
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by api 12y ago
Those aren't the worst offenders. I'm referring to curry, cadr, lambda, monad, etc. But map is confusing: it's also a data structure. "Wait, does map() create a new key-value dictionary?" Filter and collect are okay
14338.
by api 12y ago
Oh, "americanprogress.org". Never mind.
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by api 12y ago
MS did the right thing. A huge barrier to FP adoption is the unnecessarily obtuse terminology. In playing around with FP languages I often find myself having to re-look-up basic syntax because the terms are simply so obtuse that they won&#x
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by api 12y ago
Another way of thinking about it is this: Governments can make these kinds of investments because (as you say) they might still be around in 200 years, and because they can recoup ROI on them via overall GDP growth captured through taxati

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