yxhuvud

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2311.
by yxhuvud 16y ago
It is established as a fact that patents are beneficial for society ? Heh, please find me those studies that establish this 'fact' by empirical means[ ]. You will find a few that says that says that it is a good idea for a company to get
2312.
by yxhuvud 16y ago
This is much more a case of budget advantage than knowledge advantage.
2313.
by yxhuvud 16y ago
The way you phrase this, it seems more of a trade mark violation than anything else.
2314.
by yxhuvud 16y ago
On the other hand, complexity also geometrically increase the payoff for successfully making intuitive software.
2315.
by yxhuvud 16y ago
Interesting formulation of the group payment problem (we are a group of people, and we want to keep track of our payments). Nice constrast to for example Eventbrite (I want to sell tickets to an event) or SimpleSignup(I want people to be ab
2316.
by yxhuvud 16y ago
Which is true if and only if the problem can be solved at all by a centralized system. This is not true for the major use cases of erlang.
2317.
by yxhuvud 16y ago
Occam's razor is the answer to that. Let him make predictions that the more simple model doesn't do, and test them.
2318.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
Why do you think you should listen to economists?
2319.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
If I own a chair and someone take it without me ok:ing it first, then it obviously isn't ok, since I wouldn't have any chair left. If, on the other hand, I had made a chair and someone looked at it and made a similar chair, then I would thi
2320.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
So instead of learning to write a better contract, you want government bullies to enforce the contract you didn't write?
2321.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
... and openlayers. I'm curious as to how they made the buildings. I'm guessing some serious SLD magic, but it would be interesting to know.
2322.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
Manipulating a currency takes a lot of money. They will not be able to keep it up indefinitely unless they start inflating the money supply. That will not be passable for the general populace, and thus they will have to go off the peg when
2323.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
Not to mention a lot bigger problem set. 256 points is laughably few nowadays.
2324.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
Unless you are going for mass market and can find a payer that is not paying for the service directly but rather for some kind of access to your customer. Ads come to mind, but there are other ways as well.
2325.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
Apparently people like to reinvent the wheel.
2326.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
What a perfect thing to read while on a break from work!
2327.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
Lets see, their previous killer apps also either required Windows, or WAS Windows. I don't really see how being platform specific affects ability to be a killer app. Obviously depending on how a "killer app" is defined.
2328.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
That should be a nonissue as long as the protocol is backwards compatible.
2329.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
There are certain assumptions in that article that was, as far as I've understood it, simply wrong. For example, They assume that the streaming is done mostly server to client. From what I've heard, from people directly involved in the comp
2330.
by yxhuvud 17y ago
Given that Spain don't really have the ability to print money any more due to being a member of the Euro, what do you think will happen?
2331.
EU launches EGNOS, a system that improves GPS accuracy from 10 to 2 meters(esa.int)
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