wantreprenr007

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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
NCSA was before them, and Netscape (and later Mozilla after server business didnt materialize) basically clean-room copied NCSA from scratch. Pioneers in new directions can define space but still get slaughtered because the next entrant (C
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
It's perceived risk/reward opportunity for getting away with something (ethics)... better to test a potential cofounder beforehand (know them well before) than find out later with random founders that could be crooks. Plus, havin
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
I always wondered why, for the longest time, they thought competing with Chrome and Firefox was a good idea when they didn't have any compelling durable advantages and had distinct disadvantages like not being able to set alt search en
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Failure to monetize such as hypertargeted/local ads/deals or freemium features. Winners tend to turn challenge into profit opportunities rather than give up and disappoint many people when they had something sizable which could be
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
I've worked in startups and large ivy league universities... the latter has more focus on social capital than necessarily delivering value or customer service because there is less survival risk, so the emphasis is on social organizati
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Interesting. Just watched a Ben Horowitz interview containing the paraphrase quote "it's all rainbows, smiles and sunshine until someone stabs you in the back." People tend (not always) have habit of changing when valuations
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
As much as I <3 Apple, they're still a SPoF just like Lavabit or anyone else with centralized servers that aren't "SWAT-resistant." If iDevices could work without iCloud and usefully communicate with each other direc
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
The could've called it "Silicon Valley." Including Monterey county is weird because that's inland and costal to the south. Santa Clara county encompasses most of Silicon Valley "proper." San Mateo county inclu
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Interesting. I was fortunate to be born in the late 70's in Blossom Valley in SJ because both sets of my grandparents happened to be US military families whom lived in Europe, US and Asia. I remember the wineries along Blossom Hill R
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Sadly, Amazon can just undercut and outspend them. "Competition is for losers" - Thiel
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Now that Amazon has a de-facto monopoly on distribution and fulfillment with around a billion skus that rivals the likes of WalMart, it's no surprise prices begin endlessly ratcheting up.
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
First, condescending backslapping is rude and rationalization of ignorance is dumb. The sheer volume of methane from animal production is raising the temperature of the planet dangerously. Next, the Petri dish that is playing Russian Roulet
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Not going to argue, it looked like Python with some continuation syntax inspired by others to me . I only have data on my perception until we all get neural implants to argue cyberneticly. ;) Doesn't matter.
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Maybe there is a lack of available video courses teaching functional style, it might not be as hard as it seems (wan't for me, but a sample size of 1 is anecdotal). Give it another try perhaps?
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
LabVIEW?
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Etoys and many others have tried, maybe a good language and good IDE could have sufficient benefit, but I'm unsure how a UI would ever map to complex algorithms better than textual-interface paradigms. They can try and see, even if th
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
It looks strongly influenced by Python, probably to ease novice users into it. Edit: Not to be confused with another Luna Language: https://github.com/luna/luna
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
There is no arguing with Turing equivalence of Go and most other languages but there are practical limitations which prevent more complete general purposeness. I like Go since the beginning. However, Go cannot be easily used for kernel dev
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
"Don't make me think (unnecessarily)" is just one of several good ideals for scalable and maintainable projects, because valuable code is easy to learn and easy to add to. And since the code and doc is a shared, collaborativ
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
I was kidding. Of course I eat walnuts, pecans and other low-water tree nuts; fish, not so much.
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
I almost felt guilty for taking fish oil and eating sushi, but then it's clear that a fever reflex doesn't equate to missing Jane the cute fish next door, writing Leaves of Kelp or being jealous of Henry's dorsal fins, althou
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Johnny clubfingers 5-0 clicks Ok, and destroys "evidence" for being a total idiot... I take it he/she was hungover during that 2 hours of computer forensics in the academy. For crooks, this is good news; for stopping potent
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
This article is timely for us as we're using Scala for backend work. Ruby 2.3 &. operator and Swift can do something like this pseudocode: if let city = article?.author?.address?.city?.ToLower() { // city pre
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Much better than the usual terrible patterns of pyramids of doom. Another reason to set tab stops to 4+ characters: make PoDs impractical and better code legible.
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
It's at least 3.5x as good as the best advisor. Better to have 93% of something worth 10MM+ than 100% of 100k.
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Just goes to show you can't legislate morality, but a crooked politician can try to make scruples illegal. (I so hope Bernie wins and has the DoJ investigate folks for corruption and racketeering, starting with Cheney.)
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Moon dwellers will pool their money to hire a posse to chase the outlaw gangs out for burning down the saloon. (It could happen or be a western movie plot.)
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Reproducibility from source and build env are fundamental to science or making changes to improve something. Without these, it can appear to signal hoarded proprietariness waving the banner of FLOSS or just a poorly-maintained project witho
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
"Narrow" AI is already here: search, banking, insurance, internet ads, crime prediction, Siri, plane autopilot (autotakeoff/landing too), autoparking, driver assist, on and on. (At Trimble, we had fully autonomous tractor PoC
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by wantreprenr007 11y ago
Neat. Swagger and HAL support make APIs easier to digest

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