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by bstrong 16y ago
I don't like any of the traditional investment options right now. Bond interest rates are too low. Stocks are overvalued. I'd probably put it into an investment I actually have control over: a new startup.
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Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?(blog.benstrong.com)
437 points by bstrong 16y ago|67 comments
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by bstrong 16y ago
The Android/ChromeOS strategy makes sense from Google's point of view. At this stage in the game, it's unclear whether the future of app development is browser-based or native, but it's incredibly important to get the answer right. So what
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by bstrong 16y ago
I think the whole point is that being extreme about it turns it into forcing function to make sure that the dev setup process is extremely fast and easy. As soon as you start relaxing the timeline (to, say, pushing code in the first week) t
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by bstrong 16y ago
I have a 2.5 year old daughter, and I've found that once we got past the sleepless nights phase, I became more productive on my side projects than I was before she was born. I have dramatically less free time to work on them, but out of nec
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by bstrong 16y ago
Actually, while applying a blur does obviously eliminate detail, you can retain most of the important detail with a selective blur. Give it a try in gimp and see for yourself. The default selective gaussian settings work pretty well for de-
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by bstrong 16y ago
To my eye, webp reduces compression artifacts at the expense of losing detail (this is especially visible in the portrait example). Another way to accomplish a similar effect without requiring a new file format would be to apply a selective
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by bstrong 16y ago
I don't know about that. A big part of what holds me back from blogging (and I suspect others as well) is stage fright about putting my ideas out in public. Tweeting is a low friction way to get over that. I would also add becoming a more a
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by bstrong 16y ago
I've been involved with a number of startups, and I can't think of a single occasion when early employees worked less than 10 hours a day. I think setting a lower expectation is wrong for at least three reasons: 1) It is entirely possible t
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by bstrong 16y ago
When I saw the headline, I has hoping for something more like the Firefox/Mozilla or Drizzle/MySQL forks (only pull over the good parts, leave most of the bloat behind). That would have been something to get excited about.
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by bstrong 16y ago
My guess is that this has a lot to do with when they started. In 2006, the cloud platforms we take for granted today didn't exist. Running a service meant buying servers, hiring an ops team, etc. Starting today, you could probably bring a s
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by bstrong 16y ago
It's good to see something positive coming out of the Sun acquisition: a whole crop of very interesting startups are probably being founded right now.
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by bstrong 16y ago
I wouldn't say they're mostly ignoring the web. Once they finally made it a priority, they went from irrelevant to a serious competitor in the single most important business on the web in a remarkably short time (search, that is). If they a
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by bstrong 16y ago
Another answer is to stop treating reading and video games as mutually exclusive. Maybe the real answer is a new genre of media that includes interactivity, game-play dynamics, and lots of text.
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by bstrong 16y ago
They may be a database vendor first, but they also have a big applications business. They already have a good processor for databases (sparc), and ARM is exactly the kind or architecture you want for your app servers. Btw, I'm just playing
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by bstrong 16y ago
They didn't need to buy Sun to run on their servers, either. But they clearly have ambitions to own the whole stack.
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by bstrong 16y ago
I would argue that ARM is the biggest threat to Intel/AMD in the datacenter over the next ten years. Datacenter design these days is all about computation/joule/$, and ARM has a big lead by that metric. Smooth-Stone is already working on AR