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by corentin 19y ago
There's something called KioskCD (at kioskcd.com). I've never used it but it looks like what you're looking for.
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by corentin 19y ago
We can imagine different search results for a same request depending on the peers you connect to (if you connect to people you know). You would share a dedicated subset of a search engine with your fellow Cthulhu programming language fans,
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by corentin 19y ago
I'm not against the idea; quite the contrary, the more the better. The problem is that most of those copies of YCombinator aren't even started by hackers and they just basically copy their model while at the same time pretending they know t
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by corentin 19y ago
Judging by his essays, Paul is clearly for more startups, not less startups. But you have to admit that, e.g. YEurope is just a cut and paste from YCombinator: from the name, to the website (same Heysan rolling stuff!), the amount they offe
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by corentin 19y ago
If I understand correctly, what you call the "meta key" is just a part of the key.
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by corentin 19y ago
"This is now a heuristic I use in my activity." In case you're interested, there is a method called ASIT (for "Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking") to help solve problems in creative ways, by forcing us to look where we wouldn't look ot
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by corentin 19y ago
It's no surprise; creativity is "think different." It's seeing what cognitive fixation prevents us to see.
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by corentin 19y ago
Now that is something people want. I'm much more excited to see this go into production than a hyped web 2.0 phone.
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by corentin 19y ago
I don't like being harsh, but it seems to me that most of the websites and blogs about ideas are started precisely by people who couldn't find any better idea.
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by corentin 19y ago
Follow-up: the company they're talking about (Global Locate) was just acquired by Broadcom: http://www.globallocate.com/PRESS/Press_Releases/Broadcom_To_Acquire_GL.htm
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by corentin 19y ago
"If you are one of the few people in the world who have the technical skills that these companies look for, then why would start at a startup rather than go into finance?" To change the world?
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by corentin 19y ago
When you're bringing some technology closer to Microsoft's platform, obviously you're not killing it.
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by corentin 19y ago
Maybe we could share the effort. It's just an idea, not very original, maybe bad but here it is anyway: PGP had the interesting concept of a "web of trust" (it was used in other places as well such as advogato.org). Maybe this concept could
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by corentin 19y ago
Exact, the thread is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21107 "Of late I've had at least one Web2.0 person express an interest in working for us." Well, you have a second interested person now! But I'm not a web 2.0 person; I'm an
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by corentin 19y ago
From what I can read on their recruitment page ( http://sproutsys.com/careers.html), SproutSys seems to plan cool stuff! Regarding web startups: well, a few of them are quite innovative but most of them are indeed uninteresting copies of c
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by corentin 19y ago
Without Amazon, I would never had as much books as I have now. I'm even buying books legally available as PDFs/HTML (including books I've already read). I don't see them disappear anytime soon unless someone comes up with a really good port
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by corentin 19y ago
Bloat is different from complete (or "feature-full"). Bloat means very long installation processes (Microsoft is the champion here), long startup times, slow software, huge memory requirements, crashes, etc. When you install a typical, chea
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by corentin 19y ago
I'm learning economics, marketing and business as well and there are good resources online (although, that's true, I'm reading a few books as well, but it's the same for computer stuff in fact). Among the resources I know and use are: P
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by corentin 19y ago
Maybe it could be used by the referees? I have no idea indeed, but I love how nearly everybody responded to the question by pointing out technical difficulties :)
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by corentin 19y ago
The open source Frink programming language already does this: http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/#OtherDataSources
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by corentin 19y ago
I have 23 years of experience with the world surrounding us (and by "world" I mean: everything minus computers). In fact, I have hundred thousands years of experience wired in my brain. Now, I only have a dozen years of experience with oper
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by corentin 19y ago
Shared interest is sufficient for a lot of projects (e.g. format converters, small plugins, bug fixes, performance improvements, support for a certain standard/protocol, driver support, port to another platform, etc.) It wouldn't work for a
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by corentin 19y ago
There are other known examples of proprietary platform problems (e.g. the Linux/BitKeeper debacle; abandoned products by Borland, Microsoft and others leaving developers alone in the middle of the desert) Proprietary software is inherently
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by corentin 19y ago
It can be done: http://gigs.37signals.com/ In that case, they're using price ($100) to filter out people who don't care about quality.
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by corentin 19y ago
"Our approach: only approved providers on sourceitgood." A good thing IMHO. The problem with rentacoder, guru and other outsourcing websites it that there is, maybe, 95% of bullshit on them (from both sides of the game).
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by corentin 19y ago
"Plus, who out there is starting a game company?" The target audience for "Founders at work" is not just news.YC ;)
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by corentin 19y ago
Yep, Carmack would be great; on the other hand, you can learn pretty much everything you need to know about how he started id Software with his friends by reading the great book "Masters of Doom" (I strongly recommend it). George Broussar
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by corentin 19y ago
Thanks for the idea but I have no plan to join nor start a start-up. I'm just trying to find a way to be as free as possible while feeding myself.
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by corentin 19y ago
Worker's unions are so powerful in France partly because the five biggest ones were given a special status after the occupation in WWII (because they fought in the resistance). But they aren't so representative of the workers (and aren't so
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by corentin 19y ago
Three weeks since I've left my day job (it was my first one and I've been working for three years at this place). I have no real plan yet, nor any savings remaining but, still, I'm really happy I left. I promised myself to never accept bein

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