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by mdonahoe 7y ago
Directed by David Fincher!
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YC (and other VC) doesn’t seem like selling shovels to me. If you’re selling shovels, you can succeed without any of your customers ever finding gold again. You happily sell shovels even if you knew the customers could never find gold. When
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
Klysm's Law: Nuggets of knowledge are not laws. Referring to them as such annoys Klysm.
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This is you, right? https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/... I really enjoyed that story. I had a random question about this: I remember Crash 1 had a password-based "save&quo
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
“ If you look at the night sky and see a bright object near the (original) moon, that’s not the mini moon. It’s Venus — the third-brightest celestial object to light the sky, after the sun and moon — which is visible this week in the west a
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
Who is Scott Alexander?
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I’m not condoning his behavior, but I like the news that he was faking. It should make the entire movement even less credible: “How can you believe this? Your fellow believers are probably just faking to get attention”
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
“ the overlap between players of games like Doom and those like Myst is inevitably limited. (The surprising thing is that an overlap exists at all…)” Really? Is it that rare to like both? I find this hard to believe.
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
Sorry to hear he died. Glad to hear he wasn’t actually a flat earther.
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So what? It’s not like the video is getting taken down, just marked. I’d honestly prefer if more satire was labeled as such....
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So taking that analogy backward: who was Google's USSR that motivated them to start X? Facebook?
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The Apollo program didn’t exactly reach product-market fit either. It too got shutdown by price-conscious Congress. Moonshots are inspirational, but sadly do not seem sustainable. On the other hand, I wonder how many successful startups ex-
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
"Athletes unionize" is one of the better arguments I've heard for why devs should. I'm curious to learn more about the origins of the players' union.
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"Rule #5: Don’t do freemium" Isn't CrankWheel, the author's company, a freemium product? "Free forever for limited use. No credit card needed" What experience does the author have with SaaS products that have n
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
> And that feels like a pretty unfortunate misallocation of society's resources. Unsuccessful startups don't do much damage to society. It's the successful startups that you have to watch out for!
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
That 6-axis robot was hilarious. "Bruno is a very powerful robot. He's a 6-axis robot. You've seen this kind of robot mostly in manufacturing settings. We're using this robot to make pizza." Bruno then moves the piz
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
Definitely. The air is a universal medium... the ground is a mess.
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It depends on your definition of vehicle. I bet we see a few Level 5 flying cars before we see Level 5 ground vehicles. Roads are more complicated than the airspace. Flying cars are unlikely to be as mainstream as cars due to energy require
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
I feel like you can get a descent amount of wisdom with the right youtube playlist But an interactive tutorial would be better!
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The excuse is that Society doesn't care that much about moving our meat sacks around 5x faster, when it can move minds around the planet instantly. Instead of building flying cars, we digitized ourselves.
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> Yes, but much more insignificantly 1950-2000 to 1900-1950 -- and slowing down ever since. Here are a few more significant innovations since 1950: 0. Search Engines 1. Video Games 2. GPS 3. Medical 3D Imaging (CT/MRI) 4. Genetic Se
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
FYI Joe died last year and is best known for inventing Erlang. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer)
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Software fixes can be costly, but they are easier than most other fixes at scale. Doing a recall on a popular hardware product is orders of magnitude harder than issuing a software update for that same product. There have been a few scenari
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
I didn't think much of it. It seemed like yet another take on on his usual "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." Which he bemoans as bad government or something, but I suspect is a consequence of software ea
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
I can’t remember where I first read it, but a policy I liked was: “if any meeting attendee is remote, the entire meeting much be remote” which sounds similar to your solution.
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I wonder what is more to blame: the government structure or the sheer number of citizens. I assume the former but would be curious if anyone can make a compelling case for the latter.
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I have meta-comment fatigue and I hate myself.
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I like thinking about variables as boxes with labels. Hadn’t heard that before, but seems like a simple way to teach people. I skimmed the description of recursion. Seemed a bit long for my taste. I was taught how to write a recursive funct
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
Have you sold any? The site looks pretty barebones on mobile.
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by mdonahoe 7y ago
No worries! I also enjoy the opposite: when people pronounce words incorrectly because they've never heard them aloud, only in writing. I've embarrassed myself several times in this regard.

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