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by westside1506 18y ago
Interesting comments. First, let me explain that the client side runs entirely within memory; the hard drive is not touched at all. All processing or computation is done within the Java sandbox. In other words, you are not giving us unfe
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by westside1506 18y ago
Hey guys, we just launched our private beta for Plura. I submitted our game page as the HN link, but www.pluraprocessing.com has more general information. Take a look and tell me what you think. We've been paying our alpha affiliates for m
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Review my startup - Plura Processing: Web Traffic = Grid Computer(pluraprocessing.com)
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by westside1506 18y ago
Well, it was a complicated data format for many 10s of GB of seismic data on machines that probably had 32MB or 64MB of memory. The partial sort and merge did the trick for me.
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by westside1506 18y ago
I wrote this algorithm to solve a problem for myself one night about 10 years ago (agree - not a very tough problem, but very useful if you don't have enough memory). I told a client about it and he tried to patent it! I never checked to
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by westside1506 18y ago
Man, I was hoping the article would be about 39-year-olds being better than 28-year-olds at something. :)
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by westside1506 18y ago
Don't do it for the promise of their future activities. There is a chance that they might never deliver (you're the only one in a position to estimate this). Think of it in terms of an equity investment. If they invest $X on a $Y premoney
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by westside1506 18y ago
That's a great point. The publishers and huge game studios will continue to have their market, but the barriers to entry for small and mid-size games have definitely crumbled. It's easier to create, distribute, AND monetize the games than
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by westside1506 18y ago
It's amazingly difficult to make a game that gets traction these days because of all of the competition, but it is definitely getting easier to make money without license fees and subscriptions if you manage to hit paydirt. There is a gold
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by westside1506 18y ago
I've always wanted to do more to "change the world", but I've found that I am ineffective/unmotivated to do so through direct actions via volunteering. I've tried and I'm not good at it. My wife and I used to have many discussions about t
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by westside1506 18y ago
Interesting note - I don't know if it's a typo in the article or not, but 15PB/year is less than one CD per second, not the 6 CDs per second the article states. If the numbers in the article are correct, they might be combining or selecting
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by westside1506 18y ago
100,000 processors is a big-sounding number, but it might be less interesting than the glue holding them together in this case. The dedicated 10Gbps pipe allows much more interesting problems to be solved than a traditional grid computer (
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by westside1506 18y ago
I've always thought that deferred comp was a long shot at amounting to anything. It rarely pans out. I've gone for the "founders never earn more than anyone else" approach through several startups and I've found that it works well. Sometim