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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
This turns out to be a key component of Clay Christensen's original theory of "disruptive technology" (before it became a buzzword.) The theory is that the disruption comes in part because existing producers ignore the new technology, since
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
Why is it necessarily the case that "stars would compress into this material rather than into black holes"? For example, why can't it be the case that there are two kinds of matter, one that can be used to build infinitely strong wire, and
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Best Ipad salesman ever(youtube.com)
4 points by geoffschmidt 14y ago|0 comments
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
Meteor (the company) uses Hackpad extensively and I don't know what we'd do without it. We do almost of our systems and API design in collaborative Hackpad documents.
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
[meteor dev here] We actually have a great realtime test system that we use to test the framework itself. Whenever you save a file, your browser test console automatically updates to show which tests are passing and failing. It's great for
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
You're jumping to conclusions and it's insulting. I posted it because I thought it worthy of discussion. Here are some of the reasons: 1: It's gotten use, and you can look at the leaderboard to see where. I'm certainly not proud to see MIT
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Winters are cold. Youd like to see hobos clad in your rival schools jackets.(hobojacket.tk)
9 points by geoffschmidt 14y ago|6 comments
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
One of the most valuable things about YC is the pressure it puts on a startup: focus or perish, excellence or death. I've really seen this bring out the best in people, including myself. I think that reducing the "free" c-note from $150k to
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Why you can't use nuclear weapons to destroy a hurricane(doubtfulnews.com)
10 points by geoffschmidt 14y ago|1 comments
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
One option is for-pay medical studies, especially if you live near the right kind of clinic or university. Googling "medical research for pay" might give you some starting points. I have never done it myself but it is a real thing. (EDIT:
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
I think what you're missing is that network effects ("standardization") have intrinsic value. Is it "stealing" when that value accrues to its creator? It is true that it can lead to anticompetitive behavior and eventually dated, mediocre pr
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
It's Scheme that has continuations and TCO (guaranteed by the spec) -- Common Lisp has neither, I believe.
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
Because HN actually has the best content, it doesn't have to do any of the other things you mention to get users. So it can focus on the thing that really matters, which is the value that users get from the site, which in the case of HN has
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
This sounds like a company that would have benefited from a program like YC. It would have given them a peer group of entrepreneurs that would have pressured them to keep shipping product, filled in some of the totally understandable gaps i
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
He is famous for some other things too, like xemacs, xscreensaver, and DNA Lounge.
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
I totally got sound out of Pokemon Red! It was pretty choppy but I think that's because my Macbook Air can't quite manage to run the game at full realtime.
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
If true, this has an interesting implication - if our parent universe bothers to do it, it probably means they get useful information from it. That means that the recursion eventually terminates, that eventually in some great great grandchi
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
You're misrepresenting reitzensteinm's position, which he put clearly: "I don't disagree with the direction of your sentiment, just the magnitude of the word you are using." His comment certainly seems to have been made in good faith even i
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
Sure, if you believe there are network effects to geography, then you can predict that there would be a Silicon Valley somewhere in the world. But why did it end up being in Northern California? Do you think that was pure accident? Could
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
> "we were told there was money :(" People invest in services like Twitter knowing that there is a chance that they might not be monetizable, but believing that if they turn out to be, then the payoff will be enormous. So the expectatio
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
You're simply wrong. Earlier this year I did the full tour of Sand Hill Road and ultimately raised an A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, considered by many entrepreneurs to be the "top" fund today (whatever that means). The top funds tend
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
No, it is defInitely not possible. If it were, you could do it over and over again and compress any file down to an arbitrarily small size. Two things to search for are "pigeonhole principle" and "kolmogerov complexity." Essentially the pro
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
To dig in a little further, when we say base N, we mean that we are expressing an integer as a sum of the values N^i (for i being every nonnegative integer), each multiplied by a weight that is an integer between 0 and N-1 inclusive. Why do
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
But surely that's not the way it works in any other base. In any other base there is a digit '0' such that: 0 = 00 = 000 = 0000 = the number of apples I have if I don't have any.
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
Really? How do I write zero in your system? (as in the number of apples I have if I have none at all) If octal uses the digits 0-7, and binary uses the digits 0-1, then shouldn't base one use only the digit 0?
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
You're right, saying that you were whining was out of line and I apologize for it. It is what I would say to my real-life friends to challenge them, but it is not appropriate with someone I don't know well and in any event it is not appropr
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
In fact, that (and your other parenthetical about how having worked on something for 10 years doesn't mean it's valuable) is why I took the time to reply to you above.
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
I understand that frustration can be hard to deal with but this attitude really doesn't advance your cause. No one likes to talk to whiny emo people. (Except at goth clubs where it can be kind of fun.)
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
You sound like a nice guy who has been working hard (though I think it's unlikely that you've legitimately "solved five outstanding problems in physics") and I would like to help you. I will try: You have a problem, which is that most of th
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by geoffschmidt 14y ago
The story addressed this at length. Actually, the student evaluations were an excellent predictor of test score gains.

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