mojuba

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1711.
by mojuba 20y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean "affordable" exactly in terms of money. The tools became much easier to use, which means a better learning curve, which means saving programmer's time, which means money.
1712.
by mojuba 20y ago
That first bubble was a "boom" until it bursted. And what exactly he's supposed to learn from PG's essays?
1713.
by mojuba 20y ago
This second bubble was made possible by better web programming tools and languages -- everyone becomes a PHP/MySQL programmer nowadays. These tools weren't that affordable in 1990's. Technology made many things easier, like copying books an
1714.
by mojuba 20y ago
I think this is Ok, except some improvement is needed on news.yc. Comments should somehow affect the rank of a post. And it's not the number of comments that matters, but rather the number of people involved, possibly taking into account th
1715.
by mojuba 20y ago
In fact, YCnews is perfect, except it doesn't take into account voting that's going on inside a post. That is, if there are good comments under a post from many people (the more the better) that post should get a higher rank. Well, hm, like
1716.
by mojuba 20y ago
True, but doesn't voting add some dynamics to a simple forum?
1717.
by mojuba 20y ago
Perhaps you could use freshmeat for that if only there weren't a requirement for posting a link to your tarball, which obviously doesn't make sense for web sites. Freshmeat could have done that if asked to, I guess.
1718.
by mojuba 20y ago
Wiki sucks in many respects, including lack of true parallelism, while a simple reddit-like system with discussions would work better, perhaps with some modifications.
1719.
by mojuba 20y ago
(1) If I have an idea but don't have the time to implement it, let someone pick it up through this site. (2) If I have an idea but I'd like to "check the waters" before implementing it. (3) Any brainstorming. Most of us shouldn't be afraid
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Can anyone build a site for sharing startup ideas?
8 points by mojuba 20y ago|34 comments
1721.
by mojuba 20y ago
I don't speak Scheme, I'm sorry.
1722.
by mojuba 20y ago
I can probably write a similar site in any dynamic (dynamic enough) language in 100 to 200 lines. It's the mentality, not the language... although the language you use may form your mentality, too, of course.
1723.
by mojuba 20y ago
Agreed, although I usually skip items with the word "startup" in them - I'm too old for that :) The rest is great.
1724.
by mojuba 20y ago
That's unfortunately not the only problem. Socially selected content sucks because it is being selected by an Average Joe, while actually what I, as an Average Joe need is a better content, provided (and selected/voted) by people better tha
1725.
by mojuba 20y ago
Binary editor? Written in C? Oops... :)
1726.
by mojuba 20y ago
You can fight this by adding a code into the compiler source you have that detects a backdoor pattern in the resulting binary and wipes it off or just refuses to compile. In response, Ken Thompson designs a compiler that detects the backdoo
1727.
by mojuba 20y ago
So Reddit is a new nuclear submarine, I suppose?
1728.
by mojuba 20y ago
PayPal accepts credit cards from a very limited number of countries. It is West-centric, in other words.
1729.
by mojuba 20y ago
At least they invented and marketed OLE. The importance of this technology seems to be underestimated. OLE for windowed environments is the same as the streams/pipes philosophy in UNIX. In fact OLE/COM is something that's still missing in U
1730.
by mojuba 20y ago
Invisible Hands