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by hyp0 13y ago
This submission looks like it's to promote slant (and checking, the submitter is from slant). Nothing wrong with that! I think because comparisons often cause a flurry of opinions, experiences and religious wars, slant seem to have ins
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Love the copy. "Wait what". Totally hip. Interesting concept. Though I'm sure there's an app for that... or will be.
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You can have a private bubble - it's just a smaller market. There's certainly a trend, that software companies add value. There may also be a bubble atop that - it's hard to tell. But I do hesitate over all these social start
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by hyp0 13y ago
I've heard that action precedes motivation - you force yourself to start, and then you become engaged. I've found this is true for me. Many (not all) professional novelists have a schedule, to ensure they write each day. They fo
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by hyp0 13y ago
Sounds like a fair summary, but you haven't addressed what (I believe) is the key issue: OP feels bad . pain [...] consistently high [...] don’t have the energy or enthusiasm I think a huge turn off for "goal-setting"
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The energy and interest you have is a tremendous positive. Don't take it for granted. It's something to nurture. What exactly is making you feel bad - what are you thinking when you have that feeling? i.e. what thought is stopping
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by hyp0 13y ago
Some US dollars were paid to my paypal account; I won't convert them to local currency, but wait til I buy something in USD - and so avoid the exchange costs you mention. Meanwhile, my local currency works fine. Of course, the bigger t
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by hyp0 13y ago
Similarly, a cycling app would also be great; also, a heads-up display for ordinary car navigation. Perhaps the best way to market it is as purpose-specific equipment: you ride a bike, you wear a helmet. It's not weird to wear special
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Reminds me of Perl 6, which was designed not to meet a user need, but to keep the Perl developers engaged. It has succeeded in this.
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[Python 3 releases live in parallel to Python 2] In retrospect this was a mistake, it resulted in a complete lack of urgency for the community to move Adoption comes from solving urgent problems - not from creating them.
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Similar to Innovators/Visionaries vs Pragmatists ( http://www.chasminstitute.com/METHODOLOGY/TechnologyAdoption... )
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Egotism, the genius and the tragedy. I think he'd be horrified at his type, once used for the bible, now being used for posters.
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piracy is radio
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My experience: I've tried nespresso and it's just not in the same league as really excellent coffee. This is true for some surprising reasons. Coffee from most specialist espresso cafes is really not that good. But some are. I got
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This is old news, but: smart glasses solve the problem of making something smaller and more convenient, without the problem of a too-small screen. While google glass does look stupid, it's not hard to make cool-looking sunglasses. Priv
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challenge: use machine learning to find the best solutions. They might improve on those intended by exploiting accidental regularity in the corpus - though charmingly, the golf-cost of regex length helps combat this overfitting. They might
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^(.)[^p].*\1$ # 177, "cheat a little"
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Fred Brooks advocated most aspects of extreme programming in 1975 (MM-M).
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Cool, you've tried that twitter idea already. Looks good. Iterating so quickly bodes well for your success.
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We're had Frankenstein's monster since the first time someone got burnt by their own fire. fun fact: Bill Joy (vi, bsd, sun) has misgivings about AI.
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Having untangled ideas using hunks, when diff doesn't choose the desired boundaries I'm not quite sure it's worth it. Certainly an engaging exercise.
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Frequency increases haven't held. Strictly, Moore's Law is about transistor density - and it's holding so far. Relevant here is the corollary, that transistors per unit cost doubles every 1.5 years (also held), which in 5 ye
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by hyp0 13y ago
Tweet-for-license is a logical idea, but it feels too paid-for-compliment - even though people must be sincere, since they want the license... like Dropbox's referral program. However, maybe google juice isn't that important for y
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by hyp0 13y ago
Other monopolies have produced great things: Xerox's PARC labs, IBM. But not always: Standard Oil, East India Company. Maybe opportunity (as you note) plays a part.
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Most developers aren't scripting web interaction fulltime. This gives you a target: in which businesses are they doing lots of it? Have some copy on your website that speaks to the managers of those specific businesses - since the
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by hyp0 13y ago
First off, excellent idea. It seems simple and straightforward to automate web site interaction, especially for those lacking APIs (e.g. my stoneage bank, to check for telegraphic transfer payments). But I'm torn. On the one hand, I su
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by hyp0 13y ago
tangent: isn't the tricky part of a spellchecker the edit/Levenshtein distance? i.e. to still recognize a word even when misspelled - else you can only look up words that are already spelled correctly. (I checked the comments on t
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Reading, writing, 'rithmetic are about the only really useful things taught in schools. The rest is important for "education", broadening the mind, and practicing learning. Learning a second language is not only important f
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I think grammars are a way to formalize this intuition of novelty (NB: grammars can be use to generate as well as to parse). Noise is like a stream of random symbols from an alphabet - anything is possible; most all of it boring. A grammar
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