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by melbourne_mat 11y ago
I don't get why the writer is so surprised. Marketing is a dodgy industry. So many advertisements contain lies our bullshit - most often small ones, sometimes large. And it's all pushed onto an audience that is ignorant or at the
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by melbourne_mat 11y ago
On your point about young folks not learning about binary and hex. I know these things myself since I started writing code 30 years ago and they were a necessity back then. I'd love to justify all the obsolete stuff I have in my head (
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by melbourne_mat 11y ago
It's a good acquisition in that it's a great product used by many people. I can't help thinking about the privacy angle - Microsoft gets to capture everything you type into your Android keyboard. And yes I wear my tinfoil hat
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by melbourne_mat 11y ago
So what? Your suggestions have nothing to do with basic income, and would not materially solve the issue that basic income tries to address.
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by melbourne_mat 11y ago
"Is this really a problem in Western societies?" All the people you know are not starving. There are however many folks - even in rich countries - who would not eat without the help of charity programs. Many of them are living on
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by melbourne_mat 11y ago
The first problem is that you're comparing children to adults. Adults are slightly more nuanced in their thinking. The second problem is your use of the word "steals". Does the hedge fund manager who earns $3.5 billion income
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by melbourne_mat 11y ago
+1000 for Sam Altman I always thought rich guys - particularly American ones - are just a bunch of selfish assholes. I'm heartened to see that there is at least one - Sam Altman - who thinks about those outside his social circle.
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by melbourne_mat 11y ago
I've been volunteering in hospitals in a developing country for a while now and the information systems they use here are really bad. With an eye on replacing said information systems, I've had a look at the open source medical re
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by melbourne_mat 13y ago
A few points pg missed: - be white - be under 30. Preferably under 25 - don't sound too foreign - make sure you are well connected and/or went to harvard, mit or some such - look like Zuck if at all possible! Did I leave anything
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by melbourne_mat 13y ago
All the news corp (rupert murdoch owned) web sites in Australia do this now. That's one reason I don't visit them!
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by melbourne_mat 13y ago
"If you can't 'rewrite from scratch' (i.e. write a new app) you probably don't have very good programmers" A statement like this makes me think you haven't been doing this stuff very long. Software develop
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by melbourne_mat 13y ago
It's a pretty complacent article. How long until software development has good quality automation - of a kind that drastically reduces the number of jobs? I suggest it's not as far away as the author thinks.
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by melbourne_mat 13y ago
This must be the ageism that everyone's been talking about. The whole team is probably under 30. The kids will never learn!
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by melbourne_mat 13y ago
There's nothing wrong with being ambitious and only having 5k startup capital, it's just that these don't seem enough to serve the target market you're aiming at. I would describe 'Big data' to mean the size at which traditional database te
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by melbourne_mat 13y ago
I read about your business proposal on the tech co founder sites. Please don't take this personally but you come across as naive and amateurish. Hosting is a very easy business to get into, unfortunately it's a very difficult business to ma
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by melbourne_mat 14y ago
Dude just a quick vocab tip: try 'than' instead of 'then'.
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by melbourne_mat 14y ago
You've all completely missed the point: anyone who knows technology thinks that Nokia phones are junk (myself included). But the clear message from the article is that the developing world still thought Nokia was awesome! Elop destroyed the