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Ask HN: Why don't more apps use peer to peer networking?
58 points by api 12y ago|43 comments
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by api 12y ago
I think the problem was the same as that faced by languages like D competing with C++11: It wasn't "better enough" than the alternatives. It was better than NeXT (what would become OSX), but not enough to be revolutionary. It
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by api 12y ago
It's not startup founders themselves. Many would rather build long sighted businesses. But exit focus is the only thing that gets funded.
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by api 12y ago
Not the op, but I have an answer to this. This plant is wasting energy by glowing. It serves no purpose that enhances the plant's fitness outside of a human environment. If it were released into the wild, chances are it would lose out
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by api 12y ago
> The result is a steady rise in the productivity of labor, which continually increases the supply of goods produced relative to the number of workers producing them. The effect of this is a steady fall in prices relative to wages Huh? W
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by api 12y ago
Everything is going up but wages, which are flat or falling in real terms, and almost everyone I know is laboring beneath an insurmountable mountain of debt with no hope of ever paying it off (since wages are flat). What's wrong with t
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by api 12y ago
> Over the course of several generations, the US government has taxed away trillions upon trillions of dollars that otherwise would have been saved and invested and thereby added to the capital of the American economy. I'm going to
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by api 12y ago
> We've never been freer as we are now on iOS and Android, That's the part I just can't fathom. You do not control your device. You have to hack it to get "root." There is one app store, and all apps sold within
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by api 12y ago
Battery life is a special case of priority, throttling, and supervision, which with a proper security model is solvable with quotas and queues. The PC's security problems are not what makes it empowering. They're an ugly side eff
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by api 12y ago
It's a special case of a deeper problem with mobile: It's a feudal platform with a closed app store model and a "nerfed" OS. It was built this way because it's a lazy, thoughtless way to solve the installability, se
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by api 12y ago
One of the things that keeps me in the startup fray is the desire to earn the privilege of meaningful work. Not only is most work meaningless to the people who do it, but worse... quite a bit of my work throughout my programming career has
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20ms(adamierymenko.com)
2 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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Yazidi(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
A lot of it is also regional. The situation in California is different from that in Michigan or Ohio.
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by api 12y ago
There is a parallel divide in AI: "neats" vs "scruffies". Neats like systems that are provably perfect and formal, while scruffies do stuff like multiple superposed algorithms with fudge factors in between that are set b
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by api 12y ago
I would add a ninth fallacy to the eight: CPU is free. This is effectively true on desktops and possibly on servers if task priorities are used, but on mobile devices including laptops CPU eats battery life.
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by api 12y ago
Like I just said in another thread: most of America is in something resembling a depression. To those who see no opportunity and no future, optimism is an insult. The Valley's optimistic self-helpy "follow your dreams" zeitge
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by api 12y ago
The author is looking at the economy broadly, not just tech and not just Silicon Valley.
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by api 12y ago
I keep saying to people in valleybubble.io that the rest of America is in something like a depression. It might not meet the strict economic criteria of a depression, but the general sense is that there is no opportunity and that the futu
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by api 12y ago
I had a Commodore 64 with GEOS as a kid. It always amazes me what you can do without umpteen gazillioplex levels of abstraction.
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Former NSA director Keith Alexander patenting computer security techniques(schneier.com)
3 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
I'd be really curious to see that too, especially if it remained one person until revenue hit some kind of critical mass. One person builds, ships, markets, ... It's certainly possible but obviously very hard for many reasons.
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by api 12y ago
This one comes to mind: http://www.nastygal.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAVq-sW6LCA Not sure I'd call it a "tech" startup, but it definitely counts as a startup and a successful one. Apolo
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by api 12y ago
That's almost comical to think about... a one-person startup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXpKUu6pUg There are some that grow to large sizes with a pretty small number of employees though.
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by api 12y ago
I'm sort of in the market for a co-founder, someone with a strong marketing, sales, and biz-dev background most likely. I'm the nerd looking for the suit, not the other way around, though I do have some business experience myself.
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by api 12y ago
If we were having economic growth, it wouldn't matter. Robots would replace mundane labor, allowing people to be allocated to more economically beneficial occupations. The problem is that there is no economic growth to speak of outside
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by api 12y ago
The world is full of clueless firewall administrators who block everything but port 80 and 443 because security. It inconveniences users a lot more than attackers, but if you try explaining this you get a bunch of cargo cultism about reduci
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by api 12y ago
At the very least, regular http should support starttls to allow encryption. That at least requires your attacker to go to the trouble of man in the middle.
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by api 12y ago
It's an innovative market, which means people are trying a lot of things. Given that, there's always going to be an "oversupply" of things that don't work or don't solve a problem anyone really cares about. The
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by api 12y ago
True, but this is at least partly balanced by the fact that decentralized systems cost considerably less to operate. With my own example, I've already calculated that I could handle over a million concurrent users on a few hundred a mo

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