mwilcox

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by mwilcox 7y ago
He should obviously be selling to clinics / hospitals Plus when did the 'we don't have any budget' excuse stop a SaaS company? That's what you raise VC for - build the product, hand it to the customer for 'free
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by mwilcox 7y ago
In reality Amazon is accumulating cash faster than it can spend it, same as the rest of big tech. If it had things to reinvest it into it wouldn't be such a problem
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by mwilcox 7y ago
dating probably
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by mwilcox 7y ago
VC funded companies are often the worst when it comes to hiring because they are overcapitalised yet time sensitive - employees are more like contractors when they're brought on to address a short term issue without any real guarantee
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by mwilcox 7y ago
I don't think you could come up with a better critique of the problems with silicon valley today than "this product wouldn’t have billions of users, but you could charge the elite few quite a bit for using it."
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by mwilcox 7y ago
I get the idea but technically this is just making HTML more complicated.
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by mwilcox 7y ago
I think the best thing to do is use the existing system as a really, extremely detailed interactive requirements doc for a complete rewrite with modern practices and good documentation, then run both in production until you can switch the o
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by mwilcox 7y ago
So it's facebook
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by mwilcox 7y ago
Is it really complete if it ends with "-> GPU"?
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by mwilcox 7y ago
Even in the situation I described, the original company would leave the free / client side version on the site as free marketing. This is the standard today for enterprise-monetised open source software. Solving this problem isn't
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by mwilcox 7y ago
any marginally successful "local-first" app is going to go and raise $10m in vc, switch to software as a service, and add an enterprise mode that requires user permissions and data access to be managed on the server
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by mwilcox 7y ago
The entire debacle with the city council wanting to spend years "reimagining what the city could be" instead of getting back to work building new infrastructure immediately is why Christchurch has taken so long to come back to lif
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by mwilcox 7y ago
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/P-36-Berliner...
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by mwilcox 7y ago
MetaNet
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by mwilcox 7y ago
there's a good soviet russia joke here.
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by mwilcox 7y ago
This seems harder to use than the command line tool
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by mwilcox 7y ago
I think "HQ" is an intentionally overloaded term, and what will eventually happen is that Amazon will build something in most of these locations, constantly fighting against ballooning budgets typical with massive infrastructure
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by mwilcox 7y ago
Slack would do well to introduce a bash client if only for the purpose of ui design research
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by mwilcox 7y ago
Well, you still need to consume, eat, house yourself etc. Any situation where you're not paying for that without a productive output is one where you're increasing the ratio of consumption to production. Of course not all work is
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by mwilcox 7y ago
You don't drive to the mountain when you go for a hike or wear shoes when you go running?
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by mwilcox 7y ago
This makes no sense. Moving emphasis from Production (work) to Consumption (leisure) increases carbon usage, and halts progress towards more sustainable technologies and conservative behaviours. Climate progress takes effort not entertainme
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by mwilcox 8y ago
It's about distributed _ownership_ not necessarily physical distribution
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by mwilcox 8y ago
The price increase and subsequent quality increase of the X made the purchase make sense given that it would be a longer-lasting phone.. on the 3-4 year timeframe rather than a 1-2 year timeframe. If they didn't refresh the X (kept the
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by mwilcox 8y ago
He was promoted to handle all design including software. He was best focusing intensely on industrial design for hero products, under Jobs
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by mwilcox 8y ago
What about the Church–Turing–Deutsch principle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing%E2%80%93...
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by mwilcox 8y ago
Really easy to use, I personally don't need anything more than they offer
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by mwilcox 8y ago
This is called gravitational lensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens
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by mwilcox 9y ago
On WiFi in Cambridge NZ PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=7.65 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=8.53 ms 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=10.2 ms
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by mwilcox 9y ago
You hit the nail on the head but it's in contradiction with your point. Proof of work frees us from the burdens associated with protecting ourselves so that we can perform creative functions. Clearly a GPU, as a general purpose chip, i
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by mwilcox 9y ago
Purely scale / number of launches. They're certified to launch up to 120 times per year.

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