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by mtts 19y ago
The reasoning behind this idea, I think, is this: since the entire population depends on a search engine to do their work and pretty much everything else, search engines have become a utility and utilities should be state run. Much in the s
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by mtts 19y ago
It seems to me you're suggesting that Asians are less capable of producing elegant design than Europeans. Which seems to me fairly racist. It's also not true. Most European companies are not Bang & Olufsen. The products of Philips (a Du
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by mtts 19y ago
Hopefully this racist drivel won't make it to the front page. The only merit in this piece is that it illustrates the current fashion in Europe for taking pride in narrowmindedness and bigotry (a trend that is, according to a sociologist fr
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by mtts 19y ago
Cute, but, really, all good musicians do that. At least the classical musicians I grew up with (my parents and their friends) did. They'd run through a whole bunch of scales for at least twenty minutes before tackling whatever hard piece
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by mtts 19y ago
The confusion between you and this guy is that you seem to be talking about "a business idea" and he's simply talking about "an idea for an app, but with no idea behind it for turning it into a business". It doesn't seem like you and he are
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by mtts 19y ago
Web 2.0 blah aside, if this guy is really hiring high school graduates from poor backgrounds instead of elite (by Indian standards) college graduates, that in itself is worthy of praise.
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by mtts 19y ago
Since the author neglects to mention an example of "a patch-based environment (there are many of these for working with audio)" for audio, I will: - PD : http://puredata.info/ which is based on (as opposed to "a clone of") - Max / MSP :
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by mtts 19y ago
If you're posting here, presumably you know how to program already. In that case working through the free "Dive into Python" PDF really is the first step you should take. After the first seven chapters you should then be able to make do wit
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by mtts 19y ago
"10 years from now, facebook will be forgotten and social networks will seem even lamer than they do now." Agreed. The only thing these applications really do for people is to make it easy to stay in touch with their friends without resorti
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by mtts 19y ago
If history is any indication, then yes. The Dutch website http://www.schoolbank.nl that let you get back in touch with former school mates tried just that and saw their users leave, for example to the Dutch facebook workalike http://www.