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Open source and the challenge of making money(mobile.nytimes.com)
4 points by hyp0 12y ago|4 comments
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by hyp0 12y ago
idea: random constraints A grammar that generates every possible squence of symbols is boring. What makes it interesting is contraints, that only some subset of all possibilities is generatable. Even the Chomsky hierarchy relates to charact
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by hyp0 12y ago
Many technologies are developed, few are adopted. That's where your 3's are. The usefulness of schema is inversely proportional to the rate of change. They are great for getting it right, but what's the point if it all has to
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by hyp0 12y ago
> “Half of the human beings in history are women,” she noted, “but we have had so few recognized for their genius". There's an interesting view that while men aren't "better" than women, they are more distributed
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by hyp0 12y ago
He means scaling over the dimension of complexity - not web-scale, over performance/efficiency/throughput etc. Perhaps it would be clearer to include "complexity" in the title, but to be fair, complexity always has been
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by hyp0 12y ago
a supporting e.g.: housing prices drop off once you pass railway stations (and if you have different fare zones, they also drop at the boundary). Partially offsetting efficiency is more cars = more congestion.
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by hyp0 12y ago
I don't quite understand the use-case, because merging seems problematic if purely programmatic... A merge that seems clean might violate some invariants of the object. And if irmin detects that it can't automatically merge, how i
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by hyp0 12y ago
Maybe this is the kind of space-life metabolism we should be looking for? Cue: Larry Niven's Outsiders , who live on the difference in electric potential between light and shadown.
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by hyp0 12y ago
\tangent Google is commited to increasing revenue, but I loved their early idea, of showing you relevant ads that you would want to see. Similar enough to goto.com/overture's idea, of search purely for ads. You're far mor
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by hyp0 12y ago
I agree the camera is a tremendous benefit. But it's problematic; and there are great benefits without it (half of them by your accountant - it's still a lot). Specially, a phone/browser you don't have to take out of you
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by hyp0 12y ago
Simple solution: no camera. Wearable displays have other great benefits - though input awkwardness might kill it (voice isn't good enough as the sole input).
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by hyp0 12y ago
Agreed Apple won't win the Enterpise. But IBM already has. Agreed tablets won't replace desktop completely - just as desktops didn't replace mainframes completely. I imagine a normal distribution, over how much PC functionali
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by hyp0 12y ago
Yes, it's the "ongoing movement" to mobile that is disruptive. This agreement is just part of it. It's not even a technical change for Apple... the same devices, used in the same way (I think they'd fail brand-damag
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by hyp0 12y ago
Lots of wifi devices without network access in a high density CBD seems a strong candidate for an ad hoc network. i.e. each device becomes similar to a mini cell tower
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by hyp0 12y ago
lead the world, create jobs, and tremendous value needs another "create". much more minor than the other typo though!
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by hyp0 12y ago
all services - do people still pay for code? i.e. commercial libraries or has open source finally killed that business model?
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by hyp0 12y ago
Lithography guiding finer block copolymers pleasingly follows Feynman's pantograph talk http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
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by hyp0 12y ago
That specific quote sounds like a reasonable and fair assessment of a person with potential. I would expect the discussion to move to how could they keep her (more money, better position, or just extol the long-term benefits of staying),
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by hyp0 12y ago
> JSON + JSON-Schema is no more of a mess than XML + XML Schemas. For this reason, many developers resist JSON-Schema. We already have one mess, if we need it - let's keep JSON clean! That's why we like it. A concrete
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by hyp0 12y ago
The perennial question is: what do you like to do, that is worth money? What Color is Your Parachute is a job-hunting guide, but most of it is working out what you like. What skills have lasting value? JS frameworks seem to come and go fa
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by hyp0 12y ago
Competition is evidence that people want what you're selling. And even if there's no competition at first, if people do want it, there soon will be. I think a key idea is to make sure everybody who wants your thing can have it. Ot
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by hyp0 12y ago
long-term strategy: get established now, ready for when legal drones/self-driving cars shrink delvery costs. but also kinda reminds me of webvan...
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by hyp0 12y ago
aka the tortoise and the hare ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare ), or, for a more topical treatment determination beats intelligence ( http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.htm
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by hyp0 12y ago
> You have to give them a way of focusing on one level of abstraction at a time. Very true. Though having levels of syntax can actually help with this, such as python's indentation. The boilerplate of if and for helps beginners
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./jq playground (sed for JSON)(jqplay.org)
2 points by hyp0 12y ago|0 comments
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Are the comments here active constructive ? Will it predict the life of the relationship (HN)? Can you criticize active-constructively - or will it be too indirect to make the point?
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by hyp0 12y ago
Perhaps a real commonality is membership of an informal guild i.e. all know each other.
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Nice and truthy, but backwards: company success causes hiring of the Guild, not vice versa. Sun didn't die because neckbeards left. Neckbeards left because Sun was dying.
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by hyp0 12y ago
:( this is really sad. I guess the typing finger, having coded, has moved on to github etc. But still really sad.
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Freshmeat (freecode) is dead (gone static)(freecode.com)
1 points by hyp0 12y ago|0 comments

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