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by ippisl 16y ago
That way you get two hundred java IDE's.too much competition. Better: connect your knowledge of creating , with the knowledge of a domain expert who knows the problem well.
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by ippisl 16y ago
"But making movies and books and other forms of unnecessary art still makes hundreds of billions of dollars of revenues every year." in the u.s.: Hollywood's yearly revenue is around $10 billion.Legal or engineering services are a $200-$30
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by ippisl 16y ago
The agricultural "green revolution " , which probably saved around a billion lives , was started by the Rockefeller foundation who cooperated on agricultural research with the mexican and u.s. governments.
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by ippisl 16y ago
Apple's disruptive path started with the ipod. they gained control a great supply chain , the itunes(and some basis for the app store) and it's users , a great mobile brand , and a lot of experience , which enabled them to execute well on t
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by ippisl 16y ago
Why is it? Is this mostly a social issue , i.e. sexiness of techcrunch like startups ? Or is it an information problem, i.e. because it's hard for software engineers to come across worthy problems from other domains , that they have the ab
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by ippisl 16y ago
In the last few years , there was in the legal industry for fixed-fee arrangements(probably because of the financial crisis). Does a similar business model change happens in the defense part?
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by ippisl 16y ago
Never in history was a time when machines were capable of doing everything a human could do and do it more cheaply. We might be approaching that time , and that makes predictions difficult.
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by ippisl 16y ago
"Over the long run we find things for people to do." The problem with such a prediction is that we have so very little data to base it on. if computers are to replace most of man's intellectual activities, that change compares to the indust
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by ippisl 16y ago
There are quite a few teams working on driveless cars. for example six won the last DARPA challenge , a european funded vehicle won did a 8000 miles trip from italy to china , israel is using similar technologies for military purposes, and
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by ippisl 16y ago
There's a better solution. using pre-arranged coding challenges , and testing candidates using automated testing (including automated scoring mechanism), to filter quality candidates. see http://codility.com/ .
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by ippisl 16y ago
regarding "social security" : before they go back to full employment, do women get money from the state , and how much.
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by ippisl 16y ago
No point of view , just curiosity.
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by ippisl 16y ago
Predicting 40-50 years ahead , in today's world is pretty meaningless.
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by ippisl 16y ago
That's interesting. Could you please share more details ? 1. What is the minimum wages in Germany ? 2. What's the rent for nonprofit apartments , or are they free and provided by government ? decent size , reasonable quality neighborhood ,
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by ippisl 16y ago
This strategy doesn't seem very helpful to the middle class : "estimates that the disposable income of the German middle class hasn't increased at all in the past decade. About a fifth of the workforce, he says, is stuck in insecure and poo
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by ippisl 16y ago
I don't think there's a lack of radical innovation. maybe it's less concentrated in silicon valley , but all across the u.s. and worldwide you can see radical innovations unfolding. Things like robotics and artificial intelligence are prob
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Explosion of 50- to 100-person companies that are going overseas(online.wsj.com)
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by ippisl 16y ago
Doctors do struggle with diagnosing rare illnesses effectively. sometimes with really bad results. But there's no need for watson. there's already good enough expert systems for this job. for example see isabel healthcare. The issues in aut
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by ippisl 16y ago
The problem in the article is that he talks about the two extremes of interface design, the gui vs the linux command line. There are better interfaces for complex tasks.just try a good python Shell , with auto-complete and context sensitive
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by ippisl 16y ago
I'm not so sure all of the barriers to entry have evaporated. they have just changed. You can look at netflix , amazon , google and apple and the ISP's. each have a huge competitive barrier : wheter it's huge customer base , big data , big
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by ippisl 16y ago
Can you please explain what differnece this makes , in a digital world , where once a digital copy is sold it can be almost instantly availble around the world for free ?
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by ippisl 16y ago
From looking at your examples for disrupted companies, they are mostly disruped by the internet, which was a huge technological change. Yes , we live in time of rapid technological change , but how soon do you see an internet level change a
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by ippisl 16y ago
This is really interesting. Do you remeber more details , or can give a link to the study ?
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by ippisl 16y ago
I don't think this is true when devices are being sold throught carriers. carriers would require decent quality , and 10% price reduction for carriers is a lot of money.
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by ippisl 16y ago
incPy need checks the functions it caches to be pure and determinstic. determinstic function is a function that when given the same input , always returns the same output. incPy tests for a few options of non-determinism , and will allow in
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by ippisl 16y ago
Hyperactivity and impulsivity are two of the primary characteristics of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). So Adhd is one example of hard-wiring that affects impulsivity.
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by ippisl 16y ago
It's hard to determine the value of many (great?) ideas from the start. hence we have various ways of idea risk management: customer development(for market risk), prototyping(for technical risk) and market research(which is the weakest form
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by ippisl 16y ago
Which profession?
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by ippisl 16y ago
The the role of open porn on the decline of the industry is highly overvalued. the huge availability of free commercial porn in many forms is probably a more important factor. even without open porn , i bet the situation would have been pr
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by ippisl 16y ago
Making everyone pursue his passion is a bit hard i think , but framed differently , this becomes the question : can everyone have a job he mostly enjoys ? I can think of a few ideas that might help: 1. giving people the ability , at work (d

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