comatose_kid

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by comatose_kid 5y ago
The coolest thing about bbsing in the 80s was a side effect of running the over phone lines: because long distance charges were expensive, you ended up dialing local bbses and organizing meetups with other local users. That was fun and fe
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by comatose_kid 7y ago
not sure if thinking of the solution ('advancing the state-of-the-art) is appropriate yet. Two questions to ask yourself: 1)how well do you understand your customers (are you your customer)? Have you talked to at least 10-20 potentia
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How We’ll Invent the Future, by Bill Gates(technologyreview.com)
13 points by comatose_kid 8y ago|1 comments
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by comatose_kid 8y ago
I liked this quote - "I think the essential way to do anything great, you have to have some incremental development philosophy because you're just going to be wrong with your grand design that you don't iterate on."
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by comatose_kid 8y ago
Where does this man-child get off building these kinds of cynical products? As if border crossings are the largest threat to American security. It's technology without any sense of history, humanity, or culture.
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AIY Projects: Updated kits for 2018(developers.googleblog.com)
5 points by comatose_kid 8y ago|0 comments
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CEO shares why he left Silicon Valley and moved to Canada(businessinsider.com)
2 points by comatose_kid 8y ago|0 comments
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Thinking Machines = Old Algorithms on Faster Computers(edge.org)
2 points by comatose_kid 10y ago|1 comments
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by comatose_kid 10y ago
It's surprisingly hard to beat investing in real estate in growth markets like SV because of the leverage afforded by the ratio of down payment to home price.... For example in Los Gatos, appreciation has been 5% on average for many ye
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by comatose_kid 10y ago
That's awesome! Keep it up :)
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The Future of Privacy(nytimes.com)
1 points by comatose_kid 10y ago|0 comments
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Melinda Gates Asked for Ideas to Help Women in Tech: Here They Are(backchannel.com)
2 points by comatose_kid 10y ago|0 comments
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Baidu open-sources its deep learning software(paddlepaddle.org)
2 points by comatose_kid 10y ago|0 comments
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by comatose_kid 10y ago
Traveled to India ~2+ years ago. Landed in Delhi - couldn't make out the city at all from the air due to pollution. We drove to Agra (3 hr drive) and there was smog pretty much the entire way there. This seems like a promising opport
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How I Sold My Company to Twitter, Went to Facebook, and Screwed My Co-Founders(backchannel.com)
4 points by comatose_kid 10y ago|0 comments
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by comatose_kid 10y ago
"Oil, coal and gas received more than four times the $120 billion paid out in incentives for renewables including wind, solar and biofuels" source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-12/f
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Danny Hillis: the Enlightenment Is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement(jods.mitpress.mit.edu)
1 points by comatose_kid 11y ago|0 comments
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Bill and Melinda Gates 2016 Annual Letter(gatesnotes.com)
255 points by comatose_kid 11y ago|144 comments
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Good Technology Wasn't So Good for Employees(bloombergview.com)
5 points by comatose_kid 11y ago|0 comments
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by comatose_kid 11y ago
This is amazing, thank you. For those of you who didn't read the Usage guide: "Use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-. by default). It’s worth memorizing this." btw, I'm not sure why but Tabli isn't searchable on the Chr
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by comatose_kid 11y ago
You beat me. MicroEmacs on an Amiga....
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by comatose_kid 11y ago
The second sentence doesn't necessarily follow from the first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham-a...
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by comatose_kid 11y ago
I worked there in 2000 as a graphics engineer - it was an interesting tech, lots of bright people.
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Anderson Forecast: Silicon Valley Jobs Numbers Near Dotcom Boom Peak(nbcbayarea.com)
1 points by comatose_kid 11y ago|0 comments
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by comatose_kid 11y ago
Didn't ATM use 53 bytes/cell?
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
Empathy vs problem-solving is a false dichotomy. Having empathy helps to better understand the problem, and this understanding can lead to better solutions.
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
Jeff - Congrats!!! I clicked on the link and hoped this was your company (we met at Startup School). Great press, looking forward to seeing your company own this space.
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
why do you think data was the only or largest driver?
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by comatose_kid 12y ago
What do people think about an alternate path - read a few good books, create something useful on a github page? My hiring bias skews towards people with a good engineering background or concrete examples of meaningful contributions to non-t
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Startup School 2014(linkedin.com)
2 points by comatose_kid 12y ago|0 comments

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