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15841.
by api 14y ago
A reality TV show or viral marketing stunt is more likely than an outright scam.
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by api 14y ago
I was a little on the fence at first, but their insane timetable has convinced me it's either a scam or -- more likely -- some kind of reality TV or viral marketing stunt. Too bad. I would like to see a serious effort to go to Mars. But tha
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by api 14y ago
I think it ultimately comes from three things: (1) Boston has an undeserved liberal reputation. Boston is extremely conservative, but in its own way. It's NPR-liberal, not fun loving socially open liberal, and definitely not San Francisco
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by api 14y ago
It's an interesting point. You could say the same about Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte, Toronto, etc., maybe even Seattle and Vancouver, not to mention any number of smaller towns with a startup culture presence. I'd add two more bad t
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The GitHub Octocat(robertbowenart.com)
1 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
15846.
by api 14y ago
Everything is good enough. An evolutionary biology professor said this once, and it struck me as deep wisdom: "life doesn't work perfectly, it just works." You could say life works better than dead.
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by api 14y ago
Depends on how you define buggy. IP is vulnerable to all kinds of DOS attacks and weird edge case stuff. Are those "bugs?" Not really, since the spec didn't call for it to be strong against those things, but ... I guess it's a matter of per
15848.
by api 14y ago
There seems to be this tendency for good UIs to degrade over time. A good UI usually comes from someone who knows the basic principles of good UI design: unit economy, intuitiveness, ergonomics, simplicity/minimalism, uniformity, etc. But t
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by api 14y ago
What, you don't want to upload every word you ever say to advertisers?
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by api 14y ago
Perhaps. I'm just astounded it's a minority opinion. It seems like the whole "freedom" concept that undergirded the PC and Internet revolutions has been absolutely forgotten. Again I ask: what would people have said if Microsoft had propose
15851.
by api 14y ago
Most 64-bit systems have a 64-bit time_t, so this won't affect them. Some 32-bit systems have also shifted to a 64-bit time_t. But it will be an issue that'll require a lot of recompiling and patching of ancient legacy stuff.
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Secure Multiparty Communication(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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by api 14y ago
Probably not. I love the technology, but the feudal model is completely insane. It's worse than iOS-- at least iOS devices won't arbitrarily record you and upload it to a single large company with a EULA agreement authorizing them to do wit
15854.
by api 14y ago
On the good side, one reason I think the Valley is overrated today is that what the Valley was has gone airborne. I see more innovation in more places.
15855.
by api 14y ago
I thought I was the only person around here who thought The Valley was overrated. I think its center-of-innovation days are behind it. Today it's more where things are marketed than where they are invented, and the major activity seems to b
15856.
by api 14y ago
"That admins are not fond of having non-TCP packets on the network. That firewalls are often configured to discard anything other than TCP or UDP. That NAT solutions sold by various vendors are not designed to work with SCTP. And so on, and
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by api 14y ago
This sounds really, really, really freaking cool . I am overjoyed to see AMD not throwing in the towel and conceding the entire high-end CPU market to Intel. A monopoly there would threaten Moore's law. I can think of a lot of cool things
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by api 14y ago
Oh thank god... when that leather crap started to creep into OSX I took it as a sign that Apple had peaked and was on its way down. Things should look like what they are. A computer display is not leather, so it should not look like leather
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by api 14y ago
Are these theoretical or have they been done in the real world? I have seen an endless procession of game-theoretic illustrations of nove problem solving techniques. In the real world the only technique I have seen work is "hey, you, stop s
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by api 14y ago
The prevalence of discrimination toward extreme youth in the software industry is probably a historical artifact of the fact that it's a new industry, so for the most part young people were the ones who "got it." That being said, I think it
15861.
by api 14y ago
It's interesting that getting people to cooperate to improve the commons is so hard, given the obvious and stark benefits to everyone in doing so. The only solution that has ever actually worked is for government to step in, tax, regulate,
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Poet: a node.js blogging platform(jsantell.github.io)
2 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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by api 14y ago
There's always a freedom/stability trade-off. One thing I discovered with my own startup attempt, and also by watching others, is that being completely out there on your own can be a real pain in the butt. You have to hustle, and you have t
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by api 14y ago
Stuff takes time to make, and time costs money unless you are independently wealthy or have a trust fund. This looks gorgeous, but many of these features are non-trivial to implement.
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by api 14y ago
I found that having a failed startup was good resume fodder to some extent. I was worth more in the marketplace after my failed startup, since I was perceived as having a more versatile skill set. (It helped that my failed startup, while fi
15866.
by api 14y ago
If this doesn't illustrate it I don't know what would-- just because it runs open source does not mean it's open.
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by api 14y ago
People always thought that, but I don't find what's happening here encouraging. It seems perfectly possible to compartmentalize to such a degree that one can excel at engineering while maintaining alarmingly irrational beliefs in other area
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by api 14y ago
This is just a bunch of idle speculation. We can't speculate on the motives of aliens at all. Look at how hard it is to discern the motives of other humans, and now tell me you're going to discern the motives of something biologically compl
15869.
by api 14y ago
So if you start a startup, you're totally fine if I take your code, your logo, your copyrights, and your name and create a copycat site and take your customers? You're okay with that? If so, please send me the details so I can keep an eye o
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InteLib - Lisp dialiect implemented within C++(intelib.org)
2 points by api 14y ago|0 comments

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