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by mstevens 16y ago
It sounds like his problem is too many nonspam emails. Which presumably wouldn't be helped by spam filtering!
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by mstevens 16y ago
In my (inexperienced, non-lisp-coding) book, Clojure looks really cool and the sort of thing I can see myself using a lot. CL looks old and painful to deal with, although it does have all the lisp goodness in there somewhere.
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by mstevens 16y ago
Yes, there's OpenJDK, but I'm a bit suspicious over whether enough of a community has built up around OpenJDK to continue development without Sun support. I'd be delighted to be proved wrong, of course.
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by mstevens 16y ago
I'm starting to worry about the future of clojure, given that it's based on the JVM.
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by mstevens 16y ago
I have one, they're a good toy. I haven't managed to do anything useful yet, although as I bought it mainly to have a small device that runs "vi" I'm happy.
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by mstevens 16y ago
As far as I know, RMS doesn't care, it's just that by commercial accident, systems that are particularly open in other ways have tended to be MIPS based.
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by mstevens 16y ago
But can we have email notifications yet?
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by mstevens 16y ago
I'd suggest this as a business opportunity, but I suspect non-sucky shared hosting is a hard sell.
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The dangers of Incoming messages(sethgodin.typepad.com)
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by mstevens 16y ago
Well maybe they work a little, but the number of fat people I see every day (starting with myself in the mirror) suggests they could work better.
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by mstevens 16y ago
The problem with solving problems people don't know they have is that you have to sell the problem before you sell the solution. I was more inspired by Paul's post today and recent personal musings on the vast supply of ideas floating aroun
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by mstevens 16y ago
I am trying to do that, They may use them internally, but I think a lot of their work is focussed on external users.
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by mstevens 16y ago
Free startup ideas! Get your free startup ideas here! Taking the first ten, for example: # lose weight 37862 people - dieting website - exercise website # stop procrastinating 27741 people - 8aweek - rescuetime - leechblock - your-own-twist
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by mstevens 16y ago
I think people are reasonably good at going "It hurts when I do this", but terrible at working out what might fix their problems. And sometimes they're so used to the way things are now they don't realise there's a problem in the first plac
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by mstevens 16y ago
I'm quite interested by Steve Blank's stuff on Customer Development. My personal theory is that you can sometimes build profitable products, without being the customer, but you can't build great ones. Microsoft and Apple seem to be two ex
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by mstevens 16y ago
It sounds like not being very good at this was their problem, which they realised.
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by mstevens 16y ago
Reminds me a lot of Steve Yegge's "Business Requirements are bullshit" blog post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirement...
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by mstevens 17y ago
You stop having to teach new users that a program called iTunes does a wide variety of non tune related tasks.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Thinking about it more, a problem that personally cost me a couple of days was investigating a problem where AJAX calls intermittently fail on IE6. It took a while to find, and was something obscure with keepalives I forget.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I've seen people spend somewhere between weeks and months purely on IE6 support.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Related, I've repeatedly seen companies try virtual office services, and abandon them for being awful. A reasonably priced non-awful option therefore sounds good.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Thanks, that looks worth a closer look.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I agree hugely. I mainly react to the way that people seem to suggest not that targeting tech types is perhaps unwise due to it being a fairly saturated market, but that it's almost morally wrong in some way. Personally my area of focus is
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by mstevens 17y ago
Another problem I'd be very tempted to pay money to solve right now: I'm taking lessons in French. It's pretty cool. I'd like to find ways to improve my French at home. I'd love a site that would make it easy to find someone to video chat w
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by mstevens 17y ago
I half-agree. Clearly the people you describe often have problems for which they would appreciate solutions for which they would be willing to exchange money. On the other hand, news.yc users ALSO tend to have both money and problems, and t
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by mstevens 17y ago
Can't find it on a quick look at searchyc, do you remember any more details?
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by mstevens 17y ago
I was cheating a little, clearly a payment provider who sucks less will be just as popular with users as paypal, or they wouldn't suck less!
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by mstevens 17y ago
Many existing suppliers are available.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Something I was looking for recently (slightly UK specific). I like to buy FSF-level free hardware and software - ie no binary blobs, free software bios if you can get it, no binary only video drivers. I couldn't find a store clearly focuss
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by mstevens 17y ago
We have similar problems. For example, I'm fairly certain some sort of bayesian model could tell me valuable things about my data. Someone who could run with that provide me an automated way to extract probabilities of desirable outcomes fr

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