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by hyp0 12y ago
It's important, but not enough. I don't think it's important enough, to buy a super-powerful (future) iphone, for just that, for enough people. Consider PCs: also used for gaming, and certainly much more powerful than xone&#x
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by hyp0 12y ago
And yet, people buy SSDs even though they could get more memory in a HDD. Because they value speed over capacity. "The Innovator's Dilemma" traces back the disk drive industry, and in each generation, people choose smaller me
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by hyp0 12y ago
Apple has the technology headroom to keep making more powerful iphones for several more generations... but will it reach a point where people don't need a more powerful phone? (that they don't get any benefit from it, so that powe
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by hyp0 12y ago
really like the loading spinner, a fun extrapolation
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by hyp0 12y ago
also: swim, cycle
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by hyp0 12y ago
> 'Look, I made a hat where there never was a hat.' I mean, that just pretty much summarizes anybody who makes something artistic. > "The joy of it is, there was nothing there, and now something that was in my head, is
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by hyp0 12y ago
I feel we're approaching a resolution. "Dead" is misleading hyperbole - pg emphasises that MS is "highly profitable". His data point is that MS, in his and startups' experience, is no longer a threat. It's
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by hyp0 12y ago
Also adwords (the product that is actually sold). Brilliant idea: users only see ads relevant to their interests; advertisers get qualified users, and instant feedback and adjustment; google gets the highest price possible (by advertisers b
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by hyp0 12y ago
> I already know what the reaction to this essay will be. Half the readers will say that Microsoft is still an enormously profitable company, and that I should be more careful about drawing conclusions based on what a few people think in
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by hyp0 12y ago
Why the downvotes? If you look at the stock price over the MAX range, you can see exponential growth until 2000 - then it went sideways. Stock price represents the opinion of investors. It's not just programmers.
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by hyp0 12y ago
To clarify, I meant stopped growing at its previous rate. I can't find any data further than 10 years old ATM (which is within its mature growth period), but have a look at its stock price. Note the exponential increase before 2000. h
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by hyp0 12y ago
I'm guessing that if the balloon was often scraping ground, and they let gas out, it would be even worse. But the article could have clarified this, and at least spent a little more time on this pivotal moment of the narrative.
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by hyp0 12y ago
Astrology is obviously nonsense, but it seems plausible that the season of birth could have a personality effect: the cold dead of winter, with little fresh food vs spring etc, also from the attitudes of surrounding adults. Of course, diffe
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by hyp0 12y ago
"which has been huge" is the key. Businesses typically grow, mature then decline. Microsoft's revenues had stopped growing. The very basis (PC) of their core franchines (Windows and Office) is in decline. It looks like a busi
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by hyp0 12y ago
A related way to learn is from git's initial source, which was quite small. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8650483 Warning: the file format has changed slightly.
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by hyp0 12y ago
There was a fad a while back, less popular now, that you need to assert dominance, in raising all dogs. Sounds like it's been nuanced to wolf-like dogs. At least the study shows a genetic behavioural difference between dogs and wolves.
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Dogs, but Not Wolves, Use Humans as Tools(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
159 points by hyp0 12y ago|73 comments
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by hyp0 12y ago
> TL;DR http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png > This is what I sent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqn-EmU5KPw > This is what they got back to me with: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png &g
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by hyp0 12y ago
Yes. Make sure it has a definite end, so the end is in sight. The key is you'll gain a lot of information by doing this: from the work, from the obstacles, from things you notice along the way - and especially, a sense of how you feel
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by hyp0 12y ago
This reads like science fiction, even unto the name, Trans Time .
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by hyp0 12y ago
Because of the distance involved, it seems satellite phones will always require a much larger battery than cell-tower phones. The other idea, of cheap cell-towers to intermediate the satellites, seems much more likely. Getting billions onli
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by hyp0 12y ago
I like the traffic lights example, because it demonstrates civil obedience; cooperation with their fellows in society, in general, regardless of their relationship, or agreement on ideology or religion. I agree on in-group/out-group (a
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by hyp0 12y ago
The excessive certainly combined with ellipses was meant to imply irony. Essay Time. But DDG + NSA is interesting. Google was attractive to users because it gave them what they wanted - instead of the busy "portals" and paid place
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by hyp0 12y ago
In the big picture, mutually beneficial cooperation works. That's what civilization is, and why we still have it. What we consider sociopathic is often highly cooperative, in an absolute sense. It's just that our standards have ri
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by hyp0 12y ago
What will they use the money for? If they're not expanding, and are profitable (and so don't need to cover running costs), I can only guess at retiring founder debt.
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by hyp0 12y ago
search was considered done to death before google. of course, it really is done to death now...
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Gofix – src transformation for API evolution(blog.golang.org)
1 points by hyp0 12y ago|0 comments
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by hyp0 12y ago
> If the Go compiler had been the first big Go program, that use case would have had undue influence on the language design and distracted us from the real target.
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by hyp0 12y ago
some more on Voltaire's quote: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good recently on HN, great for perfectionists: http://finishonethingtoday.com/
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by hyp0 12y ago
Yes; and "terminalIDE" includes busybox to fill in the missing commands, vim, tmux, git, javac and gcc. It's fun, usable, but limited: you have to work around a few things. Wintel is making a push, with extra cheap quad-core

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