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by api 14y ago
Node is excellent from an architectural point of view, but I can't get over JavaScript. I really think web developers have Stockholm syndrome with this language.
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by api 14y ago
If DRM is added to HTML5, then those portions of HTML5 will become like the legacy cruft in HTML 1.0, etc., and won't be used universally. Open alternatives will be designed and will become de-facto standards. More IF's will be required in
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by api 14y ago
In heaven, conservatives are in charge of economic policy and liberals are in charge of social policy. In hell it's the other way around.
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by api 14y ago
Manhattan has this problem, but it also has a much deeper bench of economic diversity. DC has The Fed, which is unlikely to go anywhere this century. Finally, both Manhattan and DC have good transit systems that link them to larger outlying
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by api 14y ago
This is a great read: http://www.amazon.com/Detroit-Biography-Scott-Martelle/dp/15... There are definitely some major differences, but there are comparisons as well. The big comparison is how Detroit was mostly a one-horse town -- automob
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by api 14y ago
What I wonder is: by pricing out the not-already-rich, does real estate hyperinflation actually destroy the engine of youthful ambition that created the success in the first place? I mean, $3000/month rent for a one-room apartment makes it
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by api 14y ago
This is one reason I don't live in The Valley, and I am by no means poor. I'm not an economist, but it really seems like there's a very perverse economic distortion that takes hold when the relative wealth of a region exceeds a certain leve
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by api 14y ago
In my experience, everyone in tech tends to think that their particular skill set is the only thing that matters and that everyone else is an idiot. This seems true for business, marketing, engineering, etc.
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by api 14y ago
This is the reality anywhere you have gatekeepers. I also have to point out that for all its talk about leveling the playing field and connecting artists to fans, the digital world has for the most part been simply replacing the old gatekee
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by api 14y ago
This is the origin of "you can't con an honest man." I was a victim of a very weird kind of con once, and I'm not ashamed to admit that my ego played a huge role in getting me to fall for it. Con men play to the mark's ego because because i
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by api 14y ago
2TB is good... their old bandwidth was paltry. Everyone chant with me: price war! price war! price war!
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by api 14y ago
That could be done. But what I wrote about above wasn't the only idea I can think of that could use heavy bandwidth, and the quality and richness would be better with local rendering anyway. What I'm ultimately talking about is a "640k is e
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by api 14y ago
I think those 50/100/etc. markets are too small to inspire the kind of innovation I'm talking about. One example that keeps coming to mind is "real" virtual reality (including next-generation MMORPGs and tele-presence stuff). Consider the b
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by api 14y ago
Mobile data is the worst, by far, but if we're talking about pushing the performance envelope then we're talking about PCs. Mobile is constrained by power consumption as well as network bandwidth, so you're not going to see blazing fast con
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by api 14y ago
I did a lot of work on evolutionary computation a while back. Now there's something that can soak up some cycles. It's also embarrassingly parallel. (For those who want to trot out the "GAs don't work well," "evolution is slow," etc. mantra
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by api 14y ago
Starting in the 90s up until today, the CPU surged ahead of everything else: disk, memory, and network. Today we have very, very fast chips that are bound by the speed of their connection to their memory, disk, and each other (the Internet)
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by api 14y ago
As far as I know, Siri off-loads something to Apple's servers. But maybe I'm mistaken.
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by api 14y ago
Good point. SSDs deliver a much larger speed improvement than a faster processor. A super-fast chip with bad I/O is simply wasted waiting on I/O all the time.
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by api 14y ago
It's economics. I can attest to the fact that most five-year-old chips are good enough for 95% of software I want to use. So there's no real demand outside of big data and data center applications. The only way to keep pushing performance w
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"Don't Let Life Randomly Kick You Into the Adult You Don't Want to Become"(zenpencils.com)
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by api 14y ago
SpaceX could throw in kinetic bombardment to clear traffic ahead of you during jams.
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by api 14y ago
It's unfortunate that the word "hobby" carries such negative connotations. A hobby is something that you do for the art, because you want to do it. The ability to engage in hobbies was once considered a mark of cultured aristocracy. My advi
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by api 14y ago
The "cooler" a field is, the more unbalanced it is from a supply/demand point of view for labor and the more you're going to have to bust your ass to get anywhere in it. People need to understand this. It's even true within fields. You can
15954.
by api 14y ago
The USPTO does no prior art checking, especially in software. You could patent simple logic gates... today.
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by api 14y ago
... and unfortunately all these new tablet type devices and phones are jailed. Microsoft tried to do this long ago via "trusted computing" and similar and the entire industry balked. But shift the form factor a little... iOS and (to a somew
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by api 14y ago
"This is making me angrier than almost anything I’ve heard since Aaron died. I finally figured out why: Because I worked my ass off to elect the Obama administration in 2008. I helped these people get in power. And then they drove the man I
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by api 14y ago
I wrote an XML-based language in Java years ago. It worked a bit like Rails macros, allowing arbitrary Java classes to be instantiated and their results displayed in a web page. In my defense, this was in the late 90s. There was not much ou
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by api 14y ago
The game is protecting cable TV from total disruption by the Internet. Cable is the big cash cow. That's also why there's such a powerful, almost jihad-like effort to keep sports off the net. A lot of sports fans have cable to watch the gam
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by api 14y ago
Personally I see this as another overbilled project on the part of the snake oil DRM industry to part content owners from their money. None of these schemes work long-term, as there are tons of different strategies for defeating them.
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by api 14y ago
Never used Glass, but I'm inclined to suspect that it's the Apple Newton: ahead of its time, ground breaking, probably the ancestor of many things to come, but not here yet. What's missing: full viewports instead of just the top corner thin

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