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by trekker7 18y ago
I'm far from an expert, or even a semi-amateur with computer design, but I think Hillis is arguing that physical realities/constraints should deeply influence the theoretical computational process itself, regardless of implementation detail
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by trekker7 18y ago
I think the techniques the writer suggests are on the right track. If you feel lazy about doing something, don't brute force yourself into getting it done; there are more clever ways to hack the situation. Transform the task you have to do
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by trekker7 18y ago
To add on to that, both those posts are many days old. I've seen this before and I still voted up this post, just because I like it so much. I think there might be a need to relax rules about duplicates, when they appear many days apart.
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by trekker7 18y ago
Yeah, I can definitely agree with that dude. The doctor's life might be overall better if he finds a way to enjoy it.
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by trekker7 18y ago
I upmodded you because I think you raise a valid argument. But I do disagree, because I don't think it's immoral for a highly skilled doctor to quit his profession and open up a comic book store to sell Pokemon cards instead. Yes, society w
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by trekker7 18y ago
Probably old, but it was new to me and I thought it was interesting, especially the "initiative brief" PDF. Sorry if this isn't appropriate for HN.
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Google.org to help small and medium businesses(google.org)
2 points by trekker7 18y ago|1 comments
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by trekker7 18y ago
Any advice for how to learn about these markets, for the 20 somethings out there that can't immediately relate to this stuff?
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by trekker7 18y ago
Just for clarification, this isn't my project, it's just something cool that I came across.
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Home Brew Solar Powered UAV (Yes, it runs Linux!)(dementor.sfe.se)
5 points by trekker7 18y ago|2 comments
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by trekker7 18y ago
Interesting how people want to feel safe, instead of actually being safe. If people act irrationally, doesn't economics theory break down? Also I think the article ignores the possibility that drivers of quick and nimble cars could be (on a
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by trekker7 18y ago
Over the last few months, one common trend I've seen on Hacker News is that there are a lot of articles about characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, or where to live if you want to succeed, or the ideas/implementation debate, and so o
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by trekker7 18y ago
T1000, version 0.1
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by trekker7 18y ago
If someone paid you $1 billion right now, with the condition that you could never work a day in your life again, and never start a company, would you do it? Edit: rms is right. How about "If someone paid you $1 billion with the condition t
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by trekker7 18y ago
Are you allowed to take a leave of absence, without any penalty?
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by trekker7 18y ago
Sam and Andres?
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by trekker7 18y ago
Very cool, dude... I don't know much about the web design industry, etc., but maybe you can get multiple revenue streams going by using this technology for a variety of applications. Maybe Web-based photo annotation? Web-base architectural
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by trekker7 19y ago
Well, the social news sites I already frequent have some central theme. Reddit is for general purpose news (so the most generic theme is already covered), Programming Reddit is for programming and technical articles, and Hacker News is for
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by trekker7 19y ago
I'm genuinely confused about valuations. Craigslist is making $80 million in revenues, and of course less in profits. Say someone buys the company/organization for $5 billion. Won't it take a good many years to recover the price paid via th
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by trekker7 19y ago
The customer pain for college students isn't just that they need a machine to crunch numbers or browse the Web... they also have the pain of wanting to be cool, hip, and trendy.
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by trekker7 19y ago
So when's your next startup going to launch? Second time could be the charm!
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by trekker7 19y ago
Not all Ask YC posts are bad: Ex. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150077
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by trekker7 19y ago
Amazing... does anybody have any more information about this? Is this a trick where an elephant gets trained for many years to draw images, and gets used to the actions of moving the paintbrush across a canvas in a particular way (still an
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by trekker7 19y ago
I thought this was one of PG's best essays. A lot of the other ones are motivational or thought-provoking, but in terms of usefulness and clear thinking, this was it.
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by trekker7 19y ago
To add to your great post, here are some questions listed at a website for one of his books: Does the internet really bring us together ... or does it isolate us from each other? Suppose the network replaces newspapers, books, libraries, an
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by trekker7 19y ago
I think the influx of new users is good; there are probably people out there with great things to contribute, that don't even know Hacker News exists. But of course the characteristics of the front page posts are going to change. There is a
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by trekker7 19y ago
Wow, this is amazing. Anybody on HN happen to see it?
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by trekker7 19y ago
killing me man... my profit targets just got pushed up from $300,000 to $3,000,000! :-) The Moller Skycar (www.moller.com) is also an exciting project, although I don't know when it will hit mass market.
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by trekker7 19y ago
If material goods are any motivation, I personally think this is far better to visualize: http://www.yafanet.com/pics_news/2007-11/ferrari599_4.jpg :-)
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by trekker7 19y ago
Damn, I'd have hoped this would get more points.

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