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by emmett 18y ago
This browser looks great - it has a ton of features (mostly security/stability related) that I've been wishing for.
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How many of lines of code for infix-to-prefix?(blog.emmettshear.com)
23 points by emmett 18y ago|7 comments
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by emmett 18y ago
In this instance, we all happen to be people who spend a lot of time thinking about startups and websites. So it's like someone posting something on global warming to a climate modeling forum - I would expect people to judge on merits not a
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by emmett 18y ago
While I agree 37signals has a much more impressive product track record than Aaron does and know quite a bit about marketing their products, the source of a statement has nothing to do with its validity. Either Aaron's argument is right, or
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by emmett 18y ago
If we actually performed that experiment, and you were to be killed if you guessed wrong, what would you answer to the question "Is the coin heads or tails?"? Then ask yourself, how afraid of dying would you be? (In particular, the reason w
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by emmett 18y ago
It's just better coded, for the most part. It was actually better before we started growing a lot; now we have scaling problems. We're working on smoothing everything out now. Of course, there have also been insights that I think may be fun
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by emmett 18y ago
I think this question is fascinating, and it's one I've asked several people at various startups I know. Because you're comparing extremely different types of work to each other, it's very hard to answer.
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by emmett 18y ago
YC startups are often technology companies; I'd argue Justin.tv, where we wrote our own video server software from scratch, would count. The ones who file patents tend to be slow burn, and are still under the radar.
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by emmett 18y ago
Just because one could do something, doesn't mean one will do something. I'm not arguing you should use Lisp over Python, merely that the strength of libraries is not a language feature per se. Clearly, it's one of the most important things
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by emmett 18y ago
Specifically, the Blub idea applies to language power. You could build python's libraries in Lisp, but you can't build a macro in Python without changing the language. On the other hand, Lisp isn't at the top of the theoretical Blub hiera
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by emmett 18y ago
You cannot be woken up on tuesday with heads; that's part of the problem definition. So there are 3 ways to be woken up, and two of them are in the tails case.
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by emmett 18y ago
Try thinking about it this way instead: If the coin comes up tails, you will be asked 1,000,000 times in a row. If the coin comes up heads, you have a 1/1,000,000 chance of being asked. I wake you up. If you had to guess if the coin was hea
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by emmett 18y ago
For Y-Combinator founders it appears to be pretty decent so far, but perhaps that's an anomaly.
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by emmett 18y ago
Editors will also kill straight up dupes of other stories, or things with no intellectual content (like funny pictures, etc.) A lot of it is arbitrary though, obviously.
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by emmett 18y ago
This is my favorite of these ideas so far. It's one of those inevitabilities - eventually, someone will build a virtual currency exchange.
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Bram Cohen on Taboo Words(bramcohen.livejournal.com)
2 points by emmett 18y ago|0 comments
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How makers work(rodcorp.typepad.com)
5 points by emmett 18y ago|0 comments
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by emmett 18y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite Paul Buchheit quotes: "The internet is about harnessing the power of the bored for the benefit of the lazy."
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by emmett 18y ago
Why isn't there a network type for WAPs that is encrypted but passwordless?
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by emmett 18y ago
The point is that the combination of the three is the most powerful and secure. To copy something-you-are, they have to have access to you or things you've touched. To copy something-you-have, they have to steal the object itself. To copy s
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by emmett 18y ago
I'm not familiar with the iPhone development platform, so I'm curious: if they distributed the source code for the app, could anyone sign up for a dev account and create a development copy of the application for their own phone?
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by emmett 18y ago
Bug: the scribd link seems to point to the pdf as well.
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by emmett 18y ago
A trade secret is "a plan, process, tool, mechanism or compound which a company desires to keep confidential as a competitive advantage." By definition, trade secrets are not patented (that would be public exposure). Also by definition, the
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by emmett 18y ago
The real question is usually not "Is this legal" but rather "Will this get us sued". We do many "illegal" things like jaywalking all the time, but everyone with sense knows which things are truly illegal.
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by emmett 18y ago
Pretty sure it's just YC funded startups.
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by emmett 18y ago
Justin.tv is not a YouTube clone; it's a site for live video. This article is poorly researched in general.
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by emmett 18y ago
What do you suggest we use instead?
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by emmett 18y ago
My experience with Justin.tv has shown me there is a more dangerous kind of troll who will call the police on you, prank call at all hours of the night, make prank deliveries, etc. These more dangerous trolls are mostly enabled by the weak
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by emmett 18y ago
From his webpage: I came back to the US for college, where I attended the University of Pennsylvania for one year, then transferred to Yale, where I got a BS in Computer Science. So yes, but mostly Yale.
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by emmett 18y ago
A symptom of the web being the lawless frontier. Eventually, the law will begin to close in on this frontier as it has on every other.

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