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by unono 13y ago
And how did they do that? Buzz, created by Steve Jobs, much of it from his pioneer status from the 80s. They had a built-in market to whom they can sell high-priced items (Apple fanboys) where they recoup costs. Then, after that, they make
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by unono 13y ago
You appear to delight in tearing down my suggestion with your multiple comments, and in knocking PG - whilst on PG's site. The biggest successes are in tech are from highly regarded, but less socially polished, techies (classic nerds),
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by unono 13y ago
harvard comp sci phd, repopularized lisp, successful sale to yahoo, created the biggest tech news forum (HN), Most Importantly - has almost turned creating startups into an assembly line.
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by unono 13y ago
Totally serious. Much of Apple's meteoric rise in the 2000s was because of the Steve Jobs brand, and Apple 2000s is the success you want to copy. All the above listed are the biggest names in tech today. There are others, Gates, Elliso
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by unono 13y ago
Microsoft should seriously consider hiring Elon Musk or a famous, Googler, Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, or Larry Page, though the googlers might not pass anti-trust investigations. The need a PR makeover, and Google and Tesla are the best bra
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by unono 13y ago
It's funny, the communication difficulty applies to PG as well. PG could be much more prominent if he had a better speaking ability. His speeches are really bad, he reads of the paper and 'ums' all the way through. I've
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by unono 13y ago
You'll look suspicious, like a ski mask wearing robber. But with headsets, which many people will also be wearing, you won't.
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by unono 13y ago
If VR headsets like Oculus Rift take off, this problem can be mitigated. People will walk around with headsets to cover their entire face, defeating the cameras. Surveillance is going to happen, if you ban government surveillance, the publi
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by unono 13y ago
Thanks, looks good. HN was built before heroku and app engine then. Nowadays, putting a db-backed site on them is pretty easy zero-admin affair.
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by unono 13y ago
PG didn't use SQL. Not sure why, I would love an explanation from PG himself. He's a great programmer and can teach us something while explaining his reasoning.
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by unono 13y ago
Microsoft should pick Elon Musk or a famous googler, one of Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt. That would create a tech super-empire. Then one of these should run for president.
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by unono 13y ago
Only to vulgar, childish individuals. The target demographic for this is businesspeople leading honorable lives.
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by unono 13y ago
That's a good point - PG is essentially decision engine. All YC investments are public and some investor could go through and build PG's model using videotapes of all those founders. Collect all this data, put a few data scientist
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by unono 13y ago
Is there something about sqlite that postgres can't come in to replace it completely (a kind of dynamic postgres that starts up and shuts down like sqlite). With mysql,postgres,and sqlite, the open source db industry gets diluted. Some
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by unono 13y ago
There's less of an investment industry (in Canada there's an oligopoly of a few shitty banks). And of course, London, New York, and Silicon Valley are special places. Also, very anecdotally, in the US and southeast UK you get more
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by unono 13y ago
If that's true, then that's astounding. Why isn't some huge wall street fund swooping in to this? Do people not know. The White House should be calling in PG for advice.
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by unono 13y ago
No wonder he left, Canada is the worst anglo country when it comes to business (Australia only slightly better). US and UK are way better for anyone with ambition.
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by unono 13y ago
Does anyone know what has been PG's ROI on his investments is, for all we know it could be below industry standard. Also, by PG's own words he only invests in the relentlessly resourceful. What do they need PG and later round VC&#
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by unono 13y ago
I'll get to it right after I start my own OS because Microsoft's too evil and my own superpower country because the military-industrial complex is too evil.
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by unono 13y ago
I meant that he's trying to hide HN's real intention, publicity for YCers - their job ads and blog posts are on front page but no one else is allowed, and if anyone else's story gets up there it's dealt with by his algos
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by unono 13y ago
The real purpose of HN for PG to hawk his investments while not being too brazen about it. Anything that takes too much attention that he has algos he tweaks every day to take care of that peskiness.
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by unono 13y ago
There's a lot of potential for multimodal gamified programming using tablets. A combination of gesturing, shaking the tablet, face expression, hand drawing, myo sensing, as well speech, in addition to machine learning in the compiler a
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by unono 13y ago
There's a good stackoverflow answer on that http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2117651/difference-betwee...
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by unono 13y ago
The semantics of sql and prolog are the same, so in one sense it's everywhere - relational databases. Prolog specifically is not commonplace because historically the gui's have been written with OO and then the web came and fronte
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by unono 13y ago
Abstraction in sql are views, done with left joins (rules in prolog). It doesn't seem like much, but that's the beauty of of it, you only need one concept and that's all you need. Contrast that with other languages where you
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by unono 13y ago
Prolog can be used in embedded systems http://www.hercsmusicsystems.com/
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by unono 13y ago
Sql is extremely popular, that's the LAMP stack. Rails and Django led people astray for a while but that's ending. Prolog should be more popular, it should be at least embedded in every program, even in the browser. If there are m
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by unono 13y ago
Having programmed at least 10k locs in all major paradigms, I've come to the conclusion that relational programming (prolog and sql) are the best. Haskell talks a good game and a lot of OO procedural code has been written, but for prog
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by unono 13y ago
Phones should be thin clients anyway, the cloud provides the muscle. What use is packing compute into it. You just want it get smaller and zero energy use (using ambient energy for charging).
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by unono 13y ago
Think of problems, outline a solution into a video and a pitch, put it on kickstarter and market. You only need to implement it after you received the money (the lean startup method). To find problems, do searches on google, yahoo answers,

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