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by steego 9y ago
It would be an interesting way of streaming data if both sides used a custom decompression algorithm that skipped n bytes without allocating it anywhere. The payload could be encrypted text of two chat bots talking jibberish.
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by steego 9y ago
> ...an idea meant to be evolved and applied thoughtfully instead becomes ossified instantly and applied mindlessly, with many mistakes, and zealously. That's such a good quote, I just may copy + paste it mindlessly into my next pre
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by steego 9y ago
I'd hate to be the Gang of Four, especially since they wrote their book 20 years ago. Since then numerous people (including myself) have discussed how to evolve some of their ideas given today's landscape. My position is many ide
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by steego 9y ago
> Not much of a premium. Good point. I think I overstated it.
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by steego 9y ago
First, thank you for stepping up the level of discourse. > Since imposing NN will not solve all the problems, and may as well create some new problems, the next time a problem appears the State will be prompted to introduce a new regulat
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by steego 9y ago
That's a very good point and even better pointed question! Part of the value of the network is how much bandwidth one can use in a month. The other part is simply the convenience of being able to send/receive lots of data in shor
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by steego 9y ago
He's also wrong because Jobs never assembled a team to create a desktop PC that was as powerful, simple, extensible and well thought out as the full Alto stack. Even when they started NeXT, they still didn't fully realize the full
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by steego 9y ago
:) I'm sorry. I thought the sarcasm was dripping when I wrote this. It was my attempt to cut through the nonsense of his conclusion and to highlight that when Steve was visiting PARC, maybe the reason he wasn't "top gun&qu
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by steego 9y ago
I apologize for calling your opinion vapid in my other post. Thank you for taking the time to articulate your ideas in this post. I too am a proponent for free markets, but I have to point out that the telecommunications industry could car
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by steego 9y ago
I upvoted this vapid opinion because I think it needs to be addressed rather than censored by lazy thinkers. Making the Internet more expensive today so we can accommodate high traffic use is a smart long term strategy. The first incentive
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by steego 9y ago
> I realize that. Thanks for the condescension. But, you realize that people aren't motivated by just one thing, right? Even if they are business people, right? I'm still not sure you do realize it. People are motivated by a
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by steego 9y ago
> Also interesting is how Kay dismisses Job's objections as being motivated by needing to put someone down. You realize that's a thing, right? People do that on both a conscious and subconscious level. Some people actively pl
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by steego 9y ago
Yes. That's exactly how he came to that conclusion. Alan Kay scanned the room, noted some of the the greatest minds and contributors of early personal computers, took one look at Steve Jobs and assessed he wasn't the smartest per
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by steego 9y ago
I don't care to argue whether this is true or not, but I will highlight that the cloud business was nascent enough that Amazon had the opportunity to define it and they were able to bootstrap quickly because running a large data center
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by steego 9y ago
I can't emphasize enough how food is a fundamentally different business in so many ways. First, to say the product is evaluated and experienced in a much more visceral way than most other industries is a huge understatement. Our bod
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by steego 9y ago
Meh. This deal is about expansion, not about tapping into 431 measly location. Amazon knows they can set up satellite warehouses a lot faster and cheaper than they can create a store. Let's be clear. Whole Foods is not a commodity fo
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by steego 9y ago
I think the founder lived in Montclair, which is where they had their first office. As soon as they could move, they hiked over to Hoboken. That helped them considerably as it allowed them to recruit people who lived in the city as it&#x27
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by steego 9y ago
I have to echo this. You can start a company anywhere, but if you want to grow quickly, there are a few places where you can get the capital, infrastructure, community and talent quickly.
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by steego 9y ago
I get it. However, if criminal punishment actually scared people away from committing crimes, why are our incarceration rates are so high? You'd think a country with mandatory minimum sentences and capital punishment to deter a lot of
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by steego 9y ago
A really fun read is The New Turing Omnibus. I'd call it fun reading rather than required reading. Basically, it's a collection of small fun loosely related chapters about various ideas in computer science. It's the kind of
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by steego 9y ago
Sometime allowing companies to maximally extract value from their employees actually hurts the economy in the long run. If there's less incentive to improve operations, it's just makes it easier for companies to crack the whip ra
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by steego 9y ago
Yes. That's what I meant.
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by steego 9y ago
I think Google gets the public cloud. What they struggle with is lower margin, revenue driven, customer obsessed businesses. First, it's important to understand unless you're buying ads from Google, or renting their machines, you
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by steego 9y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'll throw out this perspective: If you want to invent tomorrow's computer today, you can do it by spending a lot of money per unit. That was thinking at Xerox Parc and at SRI before it. Tyi
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by steego 9y ago
Only if you're already the dominant player. If you're the dominant player and you mention the second competitor, you're lending them your credibility by suggesting you can even be compared to them. Microsoft is in a differen
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by steego 9y ago
You raise a good question. I own a Chromebook precisely because it's limited in the software it can run. Other people own it because it's simple to own and use. Restricting to the Windows Store is a good move for security, but I
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by steego 9y ago
You missed the part where I wrote: > I don't think we should break up companies either... Here's my point: I too am hesitant to break up monopolies for most circumstances, but compared to the rampant regulatory capture that&#x
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by steego 9y ago
What about when companies influence government policy to stake out their monopolies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_AT%26T#Monopoly I'm not a fan of breaking up companies like Google who've gotten w
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by steego 9y ago
Do you think I should ask people if they prefer the homework format? That answer might be eye-opening itself.
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by steego 9y ago
I would like to add the reason I continue to use my current method is that it creates so many diverse points of data (using that term loosely) because so much happens in the hour we're together. There is something incredibly revealing

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