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by hyp0 12y ago
Reading his books, my overwhelming impression is that it's unclear if there's any predictive power. I'm unsure how you'd go about demonstrating it one way or the other - but that's Christensen's job. That he
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She didn't get around to critiquing his theory, just the over-use of it. And her summary didn't include the theory's essence: that incumbents are captured by their present customers - even when they are 100% on top of the com
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by hyp0 12y ago
Microsoft bringing protoypes to the PA offices seems about as expected as this Dave Barry line: giant talking broccoli stalks will come around and mow your lawn, for free Touchscreen latency is difficult, especially with increasing r
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by hyp0 12y ago
complaints ∝ usage: There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. Bjarne Stroustrup tl;dr they want to make things better Languages are like products in a market that solve a proble
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See what I mean?
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An intriguing idea... the text content enabling relevant ads. The problem is it would break immersion (even text ads, because they bring in the outside world). I wonder if there is a way to incorporate ads, so that it does not break immers
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by hyp0 12y ago
iPhone does some of that: resolution constant, GPU up, process shrink: battery life constant.
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by hyp0 12y ago
It's weird, I always get downvoted on HN for saying I love Elon, and analysing what he's doing. Something similar used to happen with Apple posts.
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by hyp0 12y ago
I love Elon's PR. He reframes himself as a champion of humanity, above ego competition, to make you feel good (and I do!). He simultaneously criticises the competition, in those terms. And I also agree he was right to fear the better-r
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Sounds right, esp for hotels. Though taxis are already distributed and on-demand. Just regulated centrally. Deregulation is pretty common: banking, utilities (electricity, gas, telecommunications), railways, jails. States get a phenomenal o
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by hyp0 12y ago
With both the taxi and hotel industries being disrupted (technical meaning), I wonder if there's a pattern here... Is it a direct consequential of the web, enabling new ways to connect customers and providers? Or, deeper societal force
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what are CPU/RAM specs?
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by hyp0 12y ago
I really like this - what would RNA world be like? What would even simpler life be like? (It probably can't exist here now, because other life will eat it). Some interesting comments from last year (mostly critical): https:/&#x2F
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by hyp0 12y ago
I like viral the old-fashioned way, by word of mouth. Simple short memorable; problem you solve; positioned among alternatives; intriguing/funny/elegant. People pass it on for its own sake... and if that problem comes up in conver
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by hyp0 12y ago
Yes, and whoever creates the most value will (and should) win. tangent: I've noticed ALDI products are often the same quality - and the same price - as the "generic/home/no name" brands of regular supermarkets. Bu
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by hyp0 12y ago
Massive datasets do outperform clever theories... but I think that's just because no one has yet worked out the theories that work best with the data. This requires insight, in addition to data, and could come from anyone. The alternat
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Maybe not Clippy 2.0: people responded well to Eliza.
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by hyp0 12y ago
Not an answer, but I was surprised to note that Erlang also requires you to explicitly choose the parallel version of a function. Might be interesting to see what Guy Steel did with this issue in Fortress. If you did it often, I guess the J
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by hyp0 12y ago
Wouldn't Mandatory<MyType> (or NonNullable<MyType> ) be better for Java, since all reference types are nullable (aka optional) already...? Haskell's Maybe monad doesn't meet java's specific needs. It could
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by hyp0 12y ago
have you seen chomsky and norvig's debate on this? http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
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It's interesting that there doesn't appear to be lag when he's actually drawing.
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I think the idea is to increase the marginal cost of doing business, so it isn't economic any more. That is, assuming it takes enough some time and effort to declare bankruptcy, set up a new corporation etc. But you're right, it w
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by hyp0 12y ago
Thanks for looking into it. That does sound strange. My mobile internet connection is flakey at times; but unlike a regularly failed request, there isn't any evidence of failure for voting (BTW I noted that SO does give an alert if t
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low tech alternative: Glass appeals to me because it takes up less room. e.g. in a tent, you don't always have room to hold a device out far enough for your eyes to focus on it. Eventually I realized that reading glasses ($5, availab
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http://www.reddit.com/r/stoicism
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by hyp0 12y ago
It's exactly as e12e describes: if you've had the page open for a while, and click an upvote, then the arrow disappears and it looks like you have voted. But if you refresh the page, you'll see that the arrow is still there.
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Tell HN: upvotes don't register if you take the time to read the article
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from the article: the key technology Luckey used to establish Oculus was developed by Zenimax a weird statement: it sounds like it's about the Oculus technology, but it seems to be about the kickstarter promotion. i.e. marketi
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It's like a parallel universe, captains can go and sail the world during the day and still go to parties in the evening
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i read somewhere that Woz never wrote a floating point basic , and that was left to MS. if true, i'm glad it wasn't for lack of ability.

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