joshstrike

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by joshstrike 16y ago
I'm not saying the guy isn't smart. Just throwing out a little "outliers" to grease the wheel for the rest of us donkeys. Sometimes reasons to hope are not best expressed by those who have nothing to regret. This is one of those times.
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by joshstrike 16y ago
Yeah, I know. Meanwhile, there's now an industry built on telling children their dreams really can come true if they accrue enough ycombinator karma. Way to harness that aptitude, baby. edit: yeah, rate me down for telling you what you didn
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by joshstrike 16y ago
Right. Which has a tendency to reduce all discussion to the lowest common denominator.
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by joshstrike 16y ago
I actually had this idea when I had dropped out of web design and became a taxi driver for a few years in 2001. It's a natural. However: "Taxi dispatchers make money on tips..." is an incorrect statement. Taxi dispatchers make money on BRI
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by joshstrike 16y ago
Meh. Lucky people always love to talk about how easy it is if you just do what they did - though they usually have a hard time explaining exactly what it was that they did. How does he explain all the happy-go-lucky young fliberdygibbits wh
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by joshstrike 16y ago
Okay, but networking a thousand jihadists makes a stronger jihad, while doing nothing to make them better or less violent people. Networking a million cancer survivors makes people feel better but doesn't do much to cure cancer. Where is th
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by joshstrike 16y ago
I don't know. Facebook users didn't even have the power to roll back the outrageous TOS changes, they all know exactly how many of themselves there are. You're telling me they have the power to overthrow the Ayatollah? If so, where's the pr
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by joshstrike 16y ago
Been doing the same thing - Argentina, then later Thailand and Vietnam - while working on my startup and turning flash projects to pay the bills. Telecommuting from the third world is where it's at. Made the arguable mistake of spending 9 m
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by joshstrike 16y ago
How can targeted advertising be a service? It would only be a service if you wanted to buy something but you didn't know what until you saw an ad for it. I think it's bizarre that anybody who grew up after the '50s would buy anything based
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by joshstrike 16y ago
I know that's the positive view of the situation... but if it makes governments less relevant and makes Facebook more relevant, all it's doing is shifting the power locus somewhere else, not actually enabling people. Spreading the word is w
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by joshstrike 16y ago
The decentralized, anonymized web definitely helped get those videos out...but I don't know whether the social networks really had much effect. Even if they had, you're assuming that the Iranian gov't cares what a mass movement of its citiz
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by joshstrike 16y ago
You can make distractions for the masses or you can consume them; ya can't do both. If you have a thousand telephones that won't ring, then social networks are a great way to get suckers to sell your garbage to each other with as little eff
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by joshstrike 16y ago
Also remember that many browsers will autofill this field, including the password, if someone just types the first 2 characters of the username. And malicious websites can take advantage of that fact to scrape U/P pairs with half the work.
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by joshstrike 16y ago
Cool stuff. Do you already have an API for people to write their own solvers -- something that passes a board state and an interface to return ranked choices? How do you stop people on the network from overranking their own AI's choices (a
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by joshstrike 16y ago
Wow. I really dig this idea of sharded / modular network problem solvers. It would be interesting to take it a step further and let the solvers themselves negotiate their own distribution over time, CPU use, etc. - e.g. replicate all the ac
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by joshstrike 16y ago
I did consider it, actually. The thing is, I need to use the Adobe suite a lot, much of that for graphics work, and I loathe Windows. If all I did now was code, I'd consider a Vaio running linux...I would say that's a better value overall i
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by joshstrike 16y ago
Agreed. A small screen and the right IDE is perfect for focusing. At first I thought I'd miss the extra real estate but after about a week I adjusted and never even think about it now. Especially with Spaces and gesturing between apps. And
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by joshstrike 16y ago
I've been using a last-revision 2.13 Ghz Air (SSD) as my dev box and only computer for a year and a half. I love it. It's the best mac I've ever had (and my 10th since 1992). I do a fair amount of graphics work as well as code, and it's sui
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