coopdog

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by coopdog 15y ago
If they were never paid one day either the company finally dies or it gets wound up. On wind up day, assuming the company was profitable there'd be one huge pay out (ie dividend) More realistically if you look at Microsoft and Apple, they w
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by coopdog 15y ago
There's no point in code that doesn't do anything for anyone Notch has proven he's able to program fun games, and his programming styles is pretty well tailored to that Who's to say if the goal changed he wouldn't change his style too
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by coopdog 15y ago
Loved this. As someone who was into tech but oblivious to the tech scene in the 90's this was incredibly useful, will read as many as you write! (anyone know if there are videos of the lectures available?)
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by coopdog 15y ago
Wow, really? I thought the Nokia video was creepy as hell (and the Google one was quite well done)
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by coopdog 15y ago
I think the videos main point is that they're bringing it main stream, as a new multiple times a day tech for the average person No doubt developers will do some amazing things with it when we finally get some practical hardware
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by coopdog 15y ago
You realise how much money they've made from Minecraft yeah? If he wants cutting edge virtualisation technology he can no doubt pay for it (if it'll be fun, and he definately has an intuition for what is and isn't fun)
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by coopdog 15y ago
Keep your core secret, open source the support code, declare war on those who violate GPL >:[
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by coopdog 15y ago
Sounds like a game you can disguise as work!
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by coopdog 15y ago
Off by one errors, maybe we'll even bring back the golden age of buffer overflow exploits, emergent realistic hacking gameplay mechanics, Notch you're a genius...
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by coopdog 15y ago
Would be fun to have a market for functions (literally programming functions) Let the original author keep the insides secret, maybe the protection decays over time (say a year) Sounds a lot like copyright but sensible and the false constra
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by coopdog 15y ago
The fact that you're looking at the site is all the feedback he needs. It's interesting the first iteration of the site was actually on April fools day, a good way to withdraw the idea if it sucked (no withdrawal needed ; ) ). I'm guessing
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by coopdog 15y ago
Getting a prototype out in 72 hours is a pretty good start, from there you can validate whether the approach is good, and if it is go into greater resolution about specific parts of the pain point and solve those too in the next iterations
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by coopdog 15y ago
I C & D thee for defamation! How dare you comment so freely..
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by coopdog 15y ago
Innocent until proven guilty is only for criminal court, civil law is done on the balance of probabilities Les disclaimer: IANALTINLA
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by coopdog 15y ago
Just curious, what was it about alpha and beta that don't stick as opposed to now? Have you stuck some users in the mean time? I also get stuck on the question of how many features is 'enough' that users won't immediately leave, which is wh
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by coopdog 15y ago
Plus losing a seventh or even half your income and then having a gap to look for new clients (you can ask existing clients for referrals) isn't anywhere near as risky as suddenly losing 100% of your income for reasons that can be fully beyo
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by coopdog 15y ago
Still, surely everyone in the company should understand the overall company strategy and business model. If he points out there's a flaw in the business model, someone should be able to tell him why he's wrong or elevate it to the next leve
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by coopdog 15y ago
I think companies can hold worldviews, which in themselves can be opposed to our own worldviews and therefore be 'evil'. I view Apple's stance on intellectual property to be 'evil', the fact that they would rather use lawyers than engineers
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by coopdog 15y ago
Kidnap is funny though, they could kidnap someone and say comply with everything we tell you. If either you or your family leave our control (they could be in separate places) or signal for help we will kill you both. The only escape would
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by coopdog 15y ago
One hell of a kickstarter project... I'd donate
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by coopdog 15y ago
The key stat is how much time an average user spends on facebook, it's taken a massive slice out of TV. That's a lot of time to show them ads for even if passively
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by coopdog 15y ago
I'd say the reason it didn't happen earlier was wireless communications and batteries. There just weren't any devices with enough wireless bandwidth to throw huge design prints around, and the batteries on small devices that use a lot of ra
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by coopdog 15y ago
A 'bit coin' is a space on a block chain that everyone has a copy of. You lock the coin with a cryptographpic key, which you need to store. Whoever has a copy of the key can unlock the bitcoin and re lock it with a different key, such that
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by coopdog 15y ago
I've had something similar happen to me (maybe not 300%) and I'm aware of the higher money but mentally I keep myself on my lower rate and standard of living, because I don't want to do this job forever. The sooner I can get to passive inco
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by coopdog 15y ago
Opt out? They're just giving you more choice, not less ala apple
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by coopdog 15y ago
But as a hiring manager if you pay all your new employees the same low wage, you'll still have to pay for that first year of coding but a soon a they can the non lemons will move on Your job is much harder in a lemon market, trying to fine
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by coopdog 15y ago
Big institutions threaten to create a drag on todays economy, Hollywood threaten our entire society by threatening freedom of speech for their own short term selfish gains. All it takes is one government to use them as an excuse to censor a
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by coopdog 15y ago
The problem with asking for reputation points in exchange for services is that you're really just asking for payment. A lot of the things people do that deserve payment would be free with nothing asked in return The system should also be an
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by coopdog 15y ago
Gmail's spam filters are so good because they have a network effect going though, I doubt one spam folder would achieve much, you need a much bigger sample of all the spam than one account could ever attract
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by coopdog 15y ago
When it comes to investing though you invest in a management team and not a product. The rate of change is increasing, all the products on the market today will be well and truly obsolete in a few years, even the market opportunities themse

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