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by corentin 19y ago
As he said, he's talking about business ideas, not trade secrets. If your idea is not obvious, most people will think it's stupid anyway.
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by corentin 19y ago
I know neither desktop programming nor web programming (I do embedded stuff) but as I see it, web apps require an awful mess of ad-hoc technologies (XHTML, CSS, Javascript, some server-side language and framework, SQL, a webserver, etc.) wh
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by corentin 19y ago
If I were him, my main selling point would be trust. That is, I would trust him much more with my data than any random guy who copied his code (because he really knows computer security and cryptography and because he has some credentials,
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by corentin 19y ago
I've read the first half of it but I have mixed feelings about it. Yes, the advice is sound but the tone is dry; it lacks enthusiasm. The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin (and, generally, everything Seth writes or talks about) is much bet
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by corentin 19y ago
I'm trying to put a name on this trend (writers writing about writing, bloggers blogging about blogging, software developers writing software development tools, etc.) This kind of self-fueled, zero-value added spiral.
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by corentin 19y ago
I bet you don't because you're afraid of the truth. If your application sucks, why wait any longer to know? And if it's popular, you'll be glad to have released it now. edit: I'm not trying to teach you lessons here, because I'm a programme
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by corentin 19y ago
Ah! Just put it in the hands of people and you'll know what to fix.
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by corentin 19y ago
I'm not knowledgeable enough about economics yet but I find it strange that the same rules don't apply whether we're talking about capital, goods or individuals. If we agree that exchange benefits both parties, why not fully open everything
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by corentin 19y ago
What kind of university has a whole course dedicated to the study of a corporation's proprietary technology?
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by corentin 19y ago
That and the fact that we're way more tolerant about drugs. You really should focus on the european market.
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by corentin 19y ago
It's funny how everyone is against rms on this issue; I don't get it. Maybe he's promoting his business too much here? I don't think so. And AFAIK his business is legit (there's nothing wrong with selling drugs to adults who know what they'
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by corentin 19y ago
You'd be surprised by the skills of east european programmers (and engineers). Yes, their industry may be smaller but on the other hand there is a lot of good hobbyist hackers (e.g. in demoscene and computer security circles).
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by corentin 19y ago
Why do you need YCombinator's permission to do what you want?
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by corentin 19y ago
The silicon valley probably ain't a bad place to be but: - there is this thing called the Interweb that helps communicate efficiently from all over the world (I find amusing the idea that you have to be in a certain place in one country to
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by corentin 19y ago
In any case, the State is an organized entity that uses its legal monopoly of violence to steal your money; it's like a mafia, just much bigger.
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by corentin 19y ago
Yes, and they throw bolts of lightning from their arses. Seriously, as much as I like open source software (and I really like it), I can't agree with you on this. I think you're doing raymondism . There is little innovation in the open sou
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by corentin 19y ago
With slow motion on my side, I too can beat any attacker!
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by corentin 19y ago
> But how hard would it be to create a peer-to-peer internet connection? One of your devices would be connected to WiFi, but also connected to every other device in the area. And those would be connected to more devices, and so on. It w
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by corentin 19y ago
Moore's Law has a limit but it is not the limit. There's plenty of room at the bottom ( http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html )
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by corentin 19y ago
What's wrong with reddit-like, as long as it's not trolling, ad-hominem, three-word messages and stuff?
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by corentin 19y ago
Nope, I'm franco-french (and I never went to the US). The french elected Sarkozy because he's a real expert at marketing communication / propaganda (heck, during the french elections american spin doctors came here to see how he worked) a
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by corentin 19y ago
First, let's get this clear: as far as I know, we only have two cases of McDonald's restaurants attacks in France. One non-violent, symbolic dismantlement by leftist leader Jose Bove and one bomb attack by right-wing independendists in Brit
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by corentin 19y ago
Well, let's follow the money: who pays for climate research? And do they pay more if climate guys tell tem "OMG, we're in deep trouble!" or if they tell "well, er, it's quite a complicated system we have here... and we don't, er, fully unde
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by corentin 19y ago
I'm sure that many interesting software gems were abandoned because the hardware was not powerful enough at the time. Plus, when computer science was new, a lot of crazy stuff was being researched; nowadays the academic research seems prett
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by corentin 19y ago
I did brutally quit too, a few months ago, for the same reason. But I had no money, so I had to take another job. Anyway, I don't regret it and I'll probably do it again, this time with more preparation :)
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by corentin 19y ago
It already exists (probably since webcams appeared).
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by corentin 19y ago
Most of these people live in Russia (or former satellite states of USSR); apparently, their government has better things to do. Add to that the fact that such botnets are not operated by random geeks who seek fun or fame but by profit-minde
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by corentin 19y ago
See also http://hop.inria.fr/ (especially the "Demo" page) It's french, too and it's developed by Scheme hackers at INRIA.
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by corentin 19y ago
I really don't like telling that but your new project (Diffle) hardly is a startup at all! It's a nice website but it's nothing new. You need to solve some real problem.
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by corentin 19y ago
Probably the fact that the marketing really is: "add truckloads of markup to everything you write using this bunch of over-engineered standards and, magic!, you have the semantic web". I guess that if you want to see this semantic web happe

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