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by gozo 11y ago
Not so much technical skill, as being able to run one of these "mass" game studios says something about the availability and flexibility of the talent pool. They've been profitable since 2005 so they've been doing someth
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by gozo 11y ago
Maybe it is, but on the other hand I've never heard anyone which couldn't easily get funding, i.e. the majority of people, not complain about it. I would even expect that the factors of ones specific situation quickly overtake the
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by gozo 11y ago
Except if you look at the successes they are as based on engineering and business talent as much as design. Spotify, p2p + licensing deals. Klarna, Erlang + credit checks. King, game development + gamification.
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by gozo 11y ago
While I don't think Stockholm can "afford" the state of its housing market, renting a sublet is quite comparable to the rest of the world. It's just that people expect more, including myself. For some reason the swedes t
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by gozo 11y ago
Linking a 91 page presentation without specifying your point isn't very helpful. As I said, you don't get funding for an idea anymore so being bootstrapped is becoming the norm. The presentation even says that "all in all, Q3
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by gozo 11y ago
I don't see how that, without any data, isn't just "the grass is greener". No one is surprised that Stockholm isn't London, that doesn't really speak to the different ecosystems nor that you can raise money acr
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by gozo 11y ago
Uhm, no [0]. It all depends where you work though. The web industry is more of a separate phenomenon than in the bay area. [0] https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/346637405668925440 [0] https://github.c
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by gozo 11y ago
> little risk capital available at the bottom Compared to where? The days where you get funding based on an idea is over. I don't think the funding situation is particularly bad "per capita" [0]. There are other problems w
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by gozo 11y ago
Speaking of the EU, anyone knows what is going on with the credit card fee cap? It's supposedly in effect, but I haven't seen anything in practice.
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by gozo 11y ago
While that's true many commodity components also currently doesn't live up to the real requirements of those environments. I have a number of friends who work with enterprise Linux deployments. They are all doing very well financi
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by gozo 11y ago
Not entirely sure why you're being downvoted. Sun terminals have had smartcard access for, what, 15 years? (Yes, for hospitals). It's a good idea. Some sort of complementary directional RFID might be even better. E.g. https:&#x2F
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by gozo 11y ago
Eh what? It's a reference. The year has no other meaning than to account for when the referenced work was published, which was in 2007.
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by gozo 11y ago
Don't get me wrong that's all good and well, but it's still 15 year old technology being implemented and not a paradigm shift. Most of the time you're still going to be typing in your e-mail, postal address and credit ca
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by gozo 11y ago
While "raw" progress is always fun, there's so much untapped potential in software that I'm not sure how much it matters. You stick one, two, three or a hundred ARM chips in a computer and, currently, it wouldn't re
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by gozo 11y ago
They've had this in Sweden for like 10 years. It's all pretty clunky, even though you can now use an app instead. You generally have to have your card, then some plug-in, then the host have to implement the whole thing. Usually si
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by gozo 11y ago
Because demand is much more elastic than building? Also they are building, it's not just going to help much. Because there is still money to be made in making inefficient households into efficient airbnb rentals and shared flats for yo
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by gozo 11y ago
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. But Mobileye, probably the most prominent company in the field, does object recognition? And they design their own ASICs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKfwHsHUdVc
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by gozo 11y ago
I don't know, it think the scenario in the article is pretty common where people offset the time the property is empty with a high price. Especially when there's things like seasonality. If an apartment becomes empty in the spring
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by gozo 11y ago
As someone who has lived a similar lifestyle for a while I have strong indications that Airbnb has made this much harder. People have become reluctant to rent out for one to three, or even six, months and prices have gone up significantly.
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by gozo 11y ago
Not only do I not think that is true, I think there's real danger that people conclude that more risk is better. SV is in many ways risk averse. The days when any kid could get a million dollars are over. Almost every success story see
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by gozo 11y ago
I feel like I'm being contrarian, but I don't see how your points aren't overshadowed by other factors. 1. Russia, China, India and other markets that to some extent have "their own Google" are completely horrible i
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by gozo 11y ago
"How many people do you know in Europe that can do that?" I did that, after only a couple of years in the tech industry. Most of my friends could do that. I wrote a tutorial of sorts how to do things like this in a comment on HN a
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by gozo 11y ago
"the poor execution of a good idea (take the EU privacy directive that forces the opt-in for cookie tracking. This has in its execution by Google etc. generally become more of an annoyance than a privacy feature)" That's beca
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by gozo 11y ago
I'm guessing this is what you're looking for? https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROM...
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by gozo 11y ago
Unfortunately this seem to have become par for the course on HN. Disagree, but don't say why so no one can counteract your arguments. Anyone who looks at self-driving cars from an engineering perspective know that there are still many
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by gozo 11y ago
I would be interested in hearing why you think proprietarism is such a greater problem than, and just not a symptom of, the things I mentioned and how you would expect to fix that.
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by gozo 11y ago
That's not the point, the point is that the effort required makes it harder to innovate and that not only does that limit competition but it also enable proprietarism. In a perfect world you could just e-mail the data without any conce
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by gozo 11y ago
I think it's too easy to blame proprietarism as such. It's a lack of universal sophistication in computer technology that makes designing systems living up to real medical concerns great efforts. When the "manufacturing tech
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by gozo 11y ago
There is little overlap between desktop and phone applications. Most phone applications are web applications in their non-phone form. Games being the exception. Microsoft needs to focus on the things they are good at and the competition isn
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by gozo 11y ago
I would say that "fast following" is a necessity for the Chinese market. Just look at how poorly Europe is served by US startups and our cultures are quite similar. Many western service are "clones" of other western serv

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