corentin

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by corentin 19y ago
Most people are dead boring in real time; a sailor, an astronaut or any other kind of explorer is just a little bit less boring than a teenage girl buying whatever crap.
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by corentin 19y ago
If there was a way to empty the Atlantic ocean, we could build a cool railroad between Paris and New York. Too bad it's not gonna happen.
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by corentin 19y ago
Just because operating systems all look the same from far enough nowadays doesn't mean no innovation is possible. As an example, we are slowly moving from the old file/directory organization of files to a less hierarchical system (tagging).
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by corentin 19y ago
It's silly in that the author means, by search engine, a clone of Google's architecture: "A crawler gets the Web pages off of that pesky Web and onto your beautiful disks. You'll need lots of disks. Then you need to index these pages--say w
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by corentin 19y ago
Do you know what is the reason behind this color scheme? Maybe it's easier to read in crowded trading rooms?
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by corentin 19y ago
For an anonymous sex service marketplace? This non-problem would be easier to solve by adopting less conservative laws in the first place.
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by corentin 19y ago
The infrastructure behind Google, Yahoo and even Microsoft is not just a bunch of machines plugged to the same Ethernet switch... They're building datacenters from scratch.
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by corentin 19y ago
I'm not sure that journalists are that stupid. It's just that the politically correct ones who just repeat what they're told advance their career and the ones who seek the truth usually end up pissing off someone and being censored, harasse
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by corentin 19y ago
Yes, it may be a factor. I like the idea of large projects undertook by individuals or small teams (because I'm always impressed by human creativity), but they are rare indeed.
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by corentin 19y ago
Yes, I have to agree that the technology behind justin.tv is quite interesting. Right now, it seems like it's only used by a bunch of exhibitionist and egocentric persons in a real TV fashion, but it will probably end up being used for more
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by corentin 19y ago
Why don't you fund a few (or at least one) "crazy" startups like Anybots? Because that's probably the coolest thing YC-related! Are you only interested in web stuff, or is it a lack of serious applications? Here are a few "cool" ventures I
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by corentin 19y ago
There is an acceptable line between a world full of Enron executives and a world full of Diogenes.
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by corentin 19y ago
The future doesn't need us ;) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
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by corentin 19y ago
I usually discover new music by 'accident'. For example, on radioblogclub.com you can search for artists or songs you know and you end up with a playlist you can listen to online. After you've listened to what you were looking for, you can
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by corentin 19y ago
This guy is just the answer to the question "who will watch the watchmen?" It's important to know where your military expenditure goes. It's important to know what the CIA is doing; after all, they have a track record of doing nasty things
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by corentin 19y ago
It doesn't have to. But most software people tend to design solutions starting from "best practices" and address every imaginable problem ("what if X and Y happen while Z is going on?") so they often end up with complicated stuff. Whereas,
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by corentin 19y ago
Right; they only have a few thousands of improvised fighters ready to sacrifice themselves for an idea. Yet, they usually beat the shit out of huge, well-trained and well-equipped armies. In most PG essays, replace the words "startups" by "
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by corentin 19y ago
Except that, apparently, in the case of Movie 2008 it's doing less with less.
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Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society, by Freeman Dyson(edge.org)
32 points by corentin 19y ago|9 comments
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by corentin 19y ago
If we had stick with hunting/gathering, obviously it would not have been progress.
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by corentin 19y ago
> Second, one of Diamond's premises in this essay seems to be that farming and its consequences are, directly or indirectly, the cause of the malaise in the world (over-crowding, wealth inequality, class structure, war etc). And he's no
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by corentin 19y ago
This article certainly is well documented... still I don't see why agriculture is a mistake. Yes, our ancestors were intelligent enough to understand that progress usually involves a temporary loss of comfort to achieve long-term benefits.
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by corentin 19y ago
You can include most software companies that started as shareware vendors: id Software, Apogee, etc.
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by corentin 19y ago
From where I am (Europe), it looks like SV is mostly turning into an advertising industry. They're just making the web the new TV and it's really depressing.
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by corentin 19y ago
There aren't a lot of consumer-facing web/software startups like in the Valley but there are startups working on pure technology problems in fields such as microelectronics, transportation, aeronautics, etc.
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by corentin 19y ago
The article ties one's dreams to his job. To some extent it's a valid link because work is so much of our lives. But as far as I'm concerned a job is just a tool, a (rather painful) way to obtain freedom; the wealth I create while working a
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by corentin 19y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html :)
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by corentin 19y ago
Such a technique is used to add a few years to photos of missing children.
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by corentin 19y ago
I don't trust corporations more than I trust governments.
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by corentin 19y ago
Think different. Structured programming is not an absolute truth; it's only a valuable thing in a given context (let's call one of those contexts the "mainstream programming philosophy from the 80s to the 90s"). Change the context and it ma

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