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by portLAN 19y ago
Sure it is -- two co-founders, creating something new, and seeing it through from a nascent stage to maturity.
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by portLAN 19y ago
> what would a startup that is disruptive to our education system look like? Parents taking responsibility for educating their own children. I would never leave that up to government indoctrination school. People have been brainwashe
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by portLAN 19y ago
> The Internet gives little people the power, confidence, and anonymity they need to abuse anyone they want without any fear of retribution. So obviously the solution to anyone hurting your fragile ego is to make it easier to lash out
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by portLAN 19y ago
Six-month anniversary of YC News, six-day anniversary of Hacker News.
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by portLAN 19y ago
If you want to get stuff done, Python. If you want to understand how the computer works, Assembly.
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by portLAN 19y ago
A life spent creating is preferable to a life spent consuming.
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by portLAN 19y ago
The fire marshall comes in handy there. "Max Occupancy: 301 persons" That's probably what I'd do -- "hey, how much space we got?"
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by portLAN 19y ago
The Fresno Bee had an article about this recently, suggesting Clovis: http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/99048.html It gets a little hot, and it's about 3 hours from Silicon Valley. If you just want to live in a cool place that's startup-
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by portLAN 19y ago
> "Without database access, sockets, threads, POSIX, or a portable FFI (which I could at least use to write many of those features), my programs can't talk to the outside world, and that makes them basically useless." I'm embedding it
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Sorry, Lisp. I tried.(ketralnis.com)
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by portLAN 19y ago
Virtual Reality, where you can do and have anything and everything you want, thus obviating real-world conflicts and mediating.
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by portLAN 19y ago
A searchable news timeline with the highlights would be handy; zoomed out, only the top stories would show, which makes navigation much more feasible (unlike Slashdot's "Older Stuff") -- kind of like the human history timelines we see from
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by portLAN 19y ago
Nonviolent noncooperation FTW. "Evil" schemes can't be implemented without programmers to do the work. Simply by being aware and choosing to work on something else -- GNU, Linux, your start-up, defeating DRM, anything open source -- you h
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by portLAN 19y ago
Some of the old stuff is classic, and will be new to younger hackers: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
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by portLAN 19y ago
Whether or not this is the appropriate forum for this particular post, it's high time that hackers became politically aware. Existing power structures are set on criminalizing possession and usage of information in order to enforce artific
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by portLAN 19y ago
Probably the best solution is to have a "posted by" (editor name) and a "submitted by" (user name) like Slashdot. Alternatively, an "edited by" tag added to anything changed after submission.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Three examples of extremely motivated people: Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong, and Bill Gates. Everyone knows they're hyper-competitive; the common traits seem to be extreme reactions to slights real or imagined (using anger as fuel) and
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by portLAN 19y ago
I think the notion that "we have great minds!" in combination with, "we outsource the simple stuff to other countries" is rather a bit ungallant. It's a classic trap, overestimating one's self and underestimating others. The reason outsour
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by portLAN 19y ago
You're in luck -- the last version of YC news on archive.org had it! http://www.darrenherman.com/2007/04/04/where-are-the-tech-st... The O'Reilly Radar post is here: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/startup_centers.ht... The
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by portLAN 19y ago
Repeatedly on Reddit, e.g. http://science.reddit.com/info/1rssu/comments Agriculture simply multiplied everything. Hunter-gatherers still had and have tribal wars, murder, rape, rapine, torture, high infant mortality, much lower male lif
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by portLAN 19y ago
This is the kind of thing nobody would believe if you made it up. Nature is always more interesting than we imagined. "Queerer than we can suppose."
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by portLAN 19y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if we could do it in 40 years. If you only want to stimulate pleasure centers, no need for expensive equipment -- just use poppies. If addiction is a problem, then presumably there is more to life and hence a reas
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by portLAN 19y ago
> How can we "live" in these worlds? Cf. The Matrix. Except with enough processing power, instead of sharing a simulation, you have it all to yourself -- so you can always be the #1 Most Important Person in the world, if you wish. Eve
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Could one atom in a quantum computer be used to simulate more than one "virtual" atom at a time? That's the beauty of it: "at a time" can be arbitrarily long in real time. [1] You don't even need to simulate every particle in the Univ
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by portLAN 19y ago
Our virtual Universe had the right parameters. Those may be completely different when you go up in scope.
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by portLAN 19y ago
This also explains the Fine-Tuned Universe. An interesting property of a simulated brain is the simulation can take an arbitrarily long amount of time. You can update in virtual "Planck timesteps", even if in real time this takes a million
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by portLAN 19y ago
It's not maturity, it's caution. People are more careful when their real names are attached. It's also not a good comparison because the set of options is completely different; it's like arguing whether a trout makes fewer programming mist
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by portLAN 19y ago
The real tiger can never compete with the paper one. Facebook and Flickr use PHP; MySpace uses ColdFusion and/or ASP.NET; doing it NOW with crappy tools is scrappy, the start-up way. Start-ups don't wait for the stars to align.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Second Life's user base has an average age of 32 IIRC. Says Gartner research chief Steve Prentice: "Second Life is moving into a phase of disillusionment." Gartner talking about MMOGs is like John McCain talking about Nine Inch Nails. The
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by portLAN 19y ago
I care about it in the sense that it's a privacy nightmare. That's why I don't use it. They are getting people to voluntarily do what they couldn't compel them to do through legislative means: build dossiers on themselves and submit them

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