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by dstein 16y ago
Could it be that people are just so blown away by his god-like awesomeness that they are humbled? I mean, we are talking about a man so awesome that he has the ability to simultaneously teach himself how to swim while inventing ways to che
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by dstein 16y ago
For that matter it won't be long before children have no idea what a music CD is, if we're not there already.
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by dstein 16y ago
Google is starting to remind me more of Microsoft every day. But at least Microsoft doesn't make their anti-competitive strategic decisions under the guise of being "open" and "not evil".
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by dstein 16y ago
I learned this trick from http://thinktrylearn.com/ Step 1: Think. Next time you approach something new, think of it as an experiment. Be curious, with a healthy sense of detachment. A scientist would say "I don't know, let's see what hap
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by dstein 16y ago
Would this story be interesting if he hadn't worked at Google? The only thing unique about this story is that he hit the IPO jackpot.
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by dstein 16y ago
Maybe one way to do this, would be to make a "startup coupon" system. Where people would actually donate real money, which become coupons for whichever startups you want to support. And once the startup is running, the actual money would
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by dstein 16y ago
The Xbox has 2 buttons (one analog trigger, one digital) that are not visible, so it's not a totally alien concept. I'm just saying to use that idea, and move a few more buttons to the backside and leave the thumbs for analog input. Imagi
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by dstein 16y ago
Yeah this isn't gonna fly. They're basically just adding OLED keys to a netbook, and the result looks like an ugly netbook. I know exactly how to make the best mobile gaming device. You need something more along the lines of a wide Playst
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by dstein 16y ago
a map with HN users Start here. All you need to do is match up HN usernames with their geo-cooredinates, and dump the coordinates into a Google map. Then at least you'd have an idea where the clusters are, and can work from there on how
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by dstein 16y ago
Write a video game. I tell this to everyone who wants to learn to program. Forget web development, initially (unless you want to learn HTML5/Canvas to build the game, which is not a bad idea at all). Game development is probably the best
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Game Preview: Voxatron - voxel-based, destructible environment, 8bit soundtrack(lexaloffle.com)
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by dstein 16y ago
This feels awfully late given that Windows CE has supported ARM since 1996. I never understood why Microsoft was reluctant to get a full-blown XP running on ARM (minus the x86 & DOS hamstrings). Windows CE always felt like a precursor
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by dstein 16y ago
So now you take this, and write a NodeJS server, and you could have yourself 2 player SNES through a web browser.
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by dstein 16y ago
The payscale for computer professionals in Canada is 1/4 to 1/2 the salaries in the US. But the dollar is now par which helped a bit. There is little venture capital available to computer/software startups. The few incubators in Canada ha
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by dstein 16y ago
TO VIEW THIS TALK YOU MUST ATTEND THE LIVE TALK Microsoft still doesn't understand what the internet is for.
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by dstein 16y ago
If you don't have a computer engineering degree I'd forget about trying to obtain a TN. I'm Canadian and was working in the US for many years as a web developer under the TN "scientific technologist" category. I don't have a CE degree, an
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by dstein 16y ago
And 6 of the WD 3TB drives at newegg would cost only $1374, which blows my mind when I think about it.
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by dstein 16y ago
Any predictions on how long until a 3D printer can print a 3D printer?
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by dstein 16y ago
You mean, like a pad computer as suggested by Wieser in the 90s? I mean like a kids computer, and a socially acceptable computer, as I said so. The physical form factor isn't what's new, the implementation, software, use cases, and the w
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by dstein 16y ago
The iPad has changed everything. It's an entirely new type of computer that turned out to be substantially better than anyone imagined. Watch a 5-year-old use an iPad for the first time and you will immediately see and understand why this
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by dstein 16y ago
I usually find all-nighters to be counter-productive because it kills my productivity the next day or two. If you get stuck on a problem late at night you're almost always better off leaving it for the next day when your mind is fresh. Tha
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by dstein 16y ago
Begun, the cyberwars have.
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by dstein 16y ago
According to http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook Facebook has only even had $836M invested in TOTAL. And they have a lot more to show for it.
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by dstein 16y ago
Oh, I have criticisms for Microsoft, but not because I think I'm too good to work there. I would need to read a lot of very good reasons to make me want to work on one of Microsoft's many dying product lines and how to cope with their smug
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by dstein 16y ago
I'm to good to work at company X That's not what I was implying. Any article titled "How to land a job at X" should probably go into a bit of detail about why X is a desirable place to work, learn, and grow as a developer. The article d
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by dstein 16y ago
I'd prefer to first read an article about why I would ever want to work for Microsoft in the first place.
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by dstein 16y ago
The "transhumanist" movement advocates that in order to keep up with technological progress in the future (and stay ahead of a singularity) we'll have to augment our brains with cybernetics. And when that happens the lines between human an
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by dstein 16y ago
Won't happen. Sure, it would be a great acquisition for Apple, but the author doesn't explain why Facebook would even want to get acquired rather than going public. Facebook isn't going to sell for $50 Billion, they have too many hands in
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by dstein 16y ago
Touchscreen sensitive computer monitors are way overdue. They've had them in Kiosks forever, and I could never understand why they never tried building monitors with that functionality built right in. I want a Star Trek console already!!
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and basic manufacturing Everybody brings this up, but the reason manufacturing was sent overseas was because of technological progress. If you can't even convince Americans to pick their own peaches anymore, how are you going to convin

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