kevin_morrill
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Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe the founders are just trying to throttle for performance and ability to let in users only as fast as they can talk to them and get feedback. That’s what I feel like Y Combinator taught me anyway. Feels like something we should encourage on HN.
I get the concern about vapor ware and fatigue but feels like there is a better happy medium here.
Comment · 4 years ago
Retool is the closest thing I've seen to capturing the magic of early Visual Basic.
Comment · 4 years ago
But if you can crack the code in solving the transaction cost/friction, it would open up a tremendous amount of creative value. I hope this team succeeds.
Comment · 4 years ago
I get what you’re saying but is the track record of terrorism any better at causing constructive change? Really we need to engage a lot of people’s minds, and that just turns out to be really hard in our current culture no matter what angle you come at it from.
Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
Really interesting to think about hardware vs software. Thank goodness for Von Neumann for helping us get more generic.
A lot of historians assume that Babbages work collected dust and was lost for 100 years. This turns out to not be true at all. His work was consulted by the Scheuts and Jevons. Details on what I found researching him at https://buriedreads.com/2019/02/09/when-computers-stopped-be...
Comment · 4 years ago
More over the risk of death is part of the cost calculation for tobacco. Not all prices / values are monetary. This is a crucial aspect any serious economist incorporates and this article completely misses.
Comment · 5 years ago
Carmack’s Twitter is a fun follow
Comment · 5 years ago
Our dog caught Valley Fever on a road trip through the southwest. It was just dumb luck that our vet originally practiced in Arizona and was familiar with this fungal infection. The only symptom was a mild cough, but left unchecked the fungus spreads throughout the body and can do quite a bit of damage.
Comment · 5 years ago
Why would this actually be true? If it’s easier to find in source, Microsoft probably would have found it. Ever single feature there goes through multiple security reviews and there is tons of code linting. All the penetration testers I have met don’t even bother looking at source. They just start trying things they think will flummox the software.
Comment · 6 years ago
"Stay Awhile and Listen" is a great book covering the founding story of Blizzard North, creators of Diablo 1 & 2. While not as great as Masters of Doom, it reminded me quite a bit of it.
Comment · 7 years ago
Was hoping for a way more interesting interview. This guy is the most singularly responsible person for being XML HTTP Request (AJAX) to web browsers. There could be such an interesting conversation how he came up with that approach and what he thinks of where it’s come.
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