bjornsing

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by bjornsing 15y ago
I like the general idea. :) A first step would be getting rid of government policies that favor larger companies at the expense of startups. At least europe is full of those policies.
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An entrepreneur's business cycle theory(conscienceofanentrepreneur.blogspot.com)
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by bjornsing 15y ago
On that same subject, I'd say there are rather few "large programs" that "run into billions of lines" (of code, I presume). By comparison the Linux kernel, one of the largest monolithic "programs" I know of, would have to expand by almost t
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by bjornsing 15y ago
Now if you and your small webhost is outside the jurisdiction of US courts then that might be a different story... At least that's the only "privacy" reason to not use gmail that I can't immediately dismiss. Anybody have any thoughts on thi
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by bjornsing 15y ago
Same in Sweden. There's even been some scandals about local governments refusing to pay for (more expensive) treatments for people who cannot afford them and are on welfare, instead having their teeth pulled out. Rather sad for a country wi
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by bjornsing 15y ago
The most interesting aspect IMHO is that just about everybody would agree that this reasoning brought to its logical conclusion is immoral. For example, a Space Shuttle launch costs on average $450 million, kills on average 0.1 astronauts a
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by bjornsing 15y ago
Exactly my thought. This is a huge difference compared to mortgages; with mortgages the originator gets perhaps 2%(?) of a good loan but with student loans the "originator" gets a very large share. The skin in the game effective tells a mor
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by bjornsing 15y ago
Yea, you will invariably run into the halting problem and similar. But I think academics are too held back by that in general. The "program space" is very large, and there's of course a lot of strange beasts out there, but only a very small
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by bjornsing 15y ago
The compiler could also be an interpretor. ;) What could be a better way to chose the algorithm than to try them all on the actual data runtime (or in "training mode")?
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by bjornsing 15y ago
Jon, I think you're on the right (or at least an interesting) track here, one that I have been thinking about a bit myself. For me these thoughts came after working for a few years on a clean room reimplementation project for a software com
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by bjornsing 15y ago
> Also, If everyone paid 15% (in total) I doubt it would appear fair. Wealthier people may benefit more from government policy, why should they pay the same amount? They wouldn't pay the same amount. They would pay the same proportion o
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by bjornsing 15y ago
I remember a joke from college that went something like this: There was this mathematics professor that used to tell his students that if they failed at proving a conjecture they should try to prove the opposite, and if they couldn't do tha
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by bjornsing 15y ago
Thanks! The first 1/3 about the disillusionment with the soviet system was fascinating. I was really hoping it would continue to explore the similarities with our time and (what the FT calls) "the crisis of capitalism". Not that they are on
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by bjornsing 15y ago
> Early startup employees get completely and utterly screwed. I think there's some after the fact reasoning here: Of course, if you look only at the startups that make it far enough to hire those first employees then risk/reward is much
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by bjornsing 15y ago
Agree. I think of Agile as sort of "the hill climbing of software development" (hill climbing as in the optimization algorithm). If you want to take the analogy to its logical conclusion it's really simulated annealing because in a refactor
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by bjornsing 15y ago
This is to me the most surprising aspect of this whole story, that Jones (and King?) at the height of a historic moment was thinking about... copyright. I can't believe that there was a commercial motivation behind this at the time, yet Jon
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by bjornsing 15y ago
A quick google for "compound annual growth rate mobile data" turns up numbers around 100%, so 30% would take 4 or 5 months and 50% might be 7 or so. You're right, an exaggeration to call 4-7 "a few", but certainly not much of one.
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by bjornsing 15y ago
"Intucell estimates these techniques can [...] boost overall data capacity throughout the network anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent." That's the equivalent of a few months normal growth in mobile data demand...
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by bjornsing 15y ago
> Based on what I've read from decompiled Minecraft, I'd guess Notch is self-taught. The abstraction is just barely enough to get the job done How can you tell from decompiled optimized code? Not saying you can't, just interested. Haven
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by bjornsing 15y ago
I think a major factor determining your opinion on Japan's "lost decade(s)" is how you view inflation. Those who stand to benefit from more (stealth) inflation (politicians / bankers with access to the fed discount window / those with highl
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by bjornsing 15y ago
Isn't there something slightly ironic about accusing the best pupil in the class of peeking over the shoulders of the other students during tests? Not that it can't be a correct accusation, but if this guy "cruised to victory in four consec