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by patkai 12y ago
"I have never been more impressed with a human being" ... in technology - I would add. Otherwise I agree. But let's not forget that technology is a niche, there area many other achievements of mankind, literature, arts, civil
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by patkai 12y ago
Great perspective on the future, we would need many more similar discussions. I love the main message of the post, i.e. "we need to grow up". I have the impression that while we are all optimistic that the future is owned by softw
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by patkai 12y ago
I think the author claims more like "it works", not that "it is solved".
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by patkai 12y ago
You made my day, guys, please don't stop :)
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by patkai 12y ago
I'm not an expert on this topic, but tried to look up why "we haven't crushed them", i.e. why those poor, suffering people were not given the option for change is that it is against the interests of the USA. If North Kor
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by patkai 12y ago
Good aspect! I know lots of mathematicians and excellent, "rational" engineers who are terrible investors and tend to go in dead ends with their excellent analysis. Our gut is smarter than we think!
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by patkai 12y ago
Good point. But I do wonder about Facebook's journal publishing policy.
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by patkai 12y ago
Am I the only one assuming that this many excellent scientists moving from academia is a loss for science in general? Will they really publish research in the same way they did before? (Make no mistake, I can fully understand them, professo
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by patkai 12y ago
Yes, there is: http://drupal.geek.nz/
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by patkai 12y ago
You are right, the practical side is a bit different. Another angle: which unemployed person would like to take the drudgery of a legal action when she has all kinds of other problems? It's easy for us to say he can take legal action b
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by patkai 12y ago
Do you guys remember the Disclosure movie, I think 1995? It was the coolest SGI advertisement ever. I actually watched the movie again last year, and it's still cool! Exactly at that time we had both Macs and SGI workstations at the un
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by patkai 12y ago
It is funny, but I would argue that the reason people don't use QR codes is that they haven't yet gotten enough value out of them. When there will be an incentive to scan those codes suddenly everyone will be using them.
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by patkai 12y ago
Exactly, but if you are a member of the cult you can't admit this.
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by patkai 12y ago
But what happened to Langton himself? After leaving SFI and the Swarm corp he seems to have disappeared. I met him once - about 12 years ago - and he was the most charming, kind guy who spent three hours and a lunch with me just because I s
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by patkai 12y ago
Also, usability should be about giving concrete solutions, not just pointing out problems.
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by patkai 12y ago
This made me cranky. "What if?" Why on earth would I want to juggle like this?
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by patkai 12y ago
If this is called "analysis" then there is no hope.
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by patkai 12y ago
Key observation.
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Attract new users and engage existing ones(growth.userium.com)
2 points by patkai 13y ago|0 comments
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by patkai 13y ago
you could add tagging and/or categories
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by patkai 13y ago
Remember what Churchill said about the USA? Something like "The USA invariable does the right thing, after having exhausted any other alternative".
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by patkai 13y ago
Very misterious :) Is it public what's coming?
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by patkai 13y ago
Slightly off topic, but relevant question: how many people move away from PHP because they get too annoyed to work with it - even if it does "work" - and how many are moving from other languages _to_ PHP because they had enough of
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by patkai 13y ago
I don't know if you tried it but when I offered pricing on the basis of perfectly measurable metrics everyone rejected. They all said they can't budget for possibly outstanding results. Based on this interlude I got the impression
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by patkai 13y ago
Very good points. I would add that one's relationship with customers is much more unpleasant when doing project pricing. The "out-of-scope" discussions are difficult and can make collaboration strained.
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by patkai 13y ago
What does the Scotty vs. Kirk comment imply? I don't watch much TV and I'm not a native speaker so I don't get it.
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by patkai 13y ago
I've been looking for such a list before, glad to have found it! Please don't stop developing it!
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Ask HN: where would you host a SmartOS instance?
1 points by patkai 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Startup funding from Dubai?
8 points by patkai 14y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: API-only startups?
14 points by patkai 14y ago|17 comments

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