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Comment · 6 years ago

Leonardo Da Vinci's Biography by Walter Isaacson:

https://www.amazon.com/Leonardo-Vinci-Walter-Isaacson/dp/150...

Comment · 6 years ago

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Comment · 6 years ago

I dont know what you guys expect. Its an opportunity to learn at $10-$20 a course. Yeah a course can be bad, but so can a book.

The sales part is definitely dishonest, but as far as people who make content, if they get more $$ on youtube, why dont they post on youtube?

Comment · 6 years ago

Good article. I think a lot of times, including with myself, design is used as a "hack" to somehow skips steps. It's not like IDEO had to design the whole mac, or design how the FIRST mouse would work, or the wiring, or the bluetooth. They had these tools and had to put them together, with already. If there is a goal way too far out and "design" is supposed to get you there, I would guess there will be a lot of speedbumps on the way.

Was the iPhone design thought largely out of thin air? Or was it brought about by people who understood and worked the the technology for years and that is what drove the design focus?

Ask HN: I think I hate programming, but love technology. What should I do?

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Comment · 6 years ago

A great, great podcast on the whole Nintendo/Sony early saga is:

Business Wars -> Nintendo vs Sony series

Highly recommend.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wondery/business-wars/e/544...

Comment · 6 years ago

Just going by description and the "red book" it seems like its Auto Mechanics Fundamentals:

>>> "It is the aim of Auto Mechanics Fundamentals to provide a thorough understanding of the design, construction and operation of automotive units. Each unit is approached by starting with basic theory, then parts are added until the unit is complete. By following this procedure, the function of each unit is explained, and its relationship to the complete car is made clear. Hundreds of illustrations were drawn especially for this text. Important areas are featured in these drawings, and many are exaggerated to place emphasis on parts being discussed. Unfamiliar words are defined immediately following the words. In addition, the Dictionary of Terms in the back of the book defines more than 1,100 terms..."

https://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Fundamentals-Construction-O...

(This one is blue but there is another version in red)

Comment · 6 years ago

Interesting viewpoint - also achieving profit through massive scale is their DNA as well I would say.

Still though, enterprise is a tough domain in my experience, AWS did a great job

Comment · 6 years ago

I agree, Google is not enterprise focused as far as I can tell. Microsoft is and that why Azure has been able to do so well so quickly.

It's impressive to me that Amazon was able to shift focus to AWS without much existing presence in enterprise tech stacks.

Comment · 6 years ago

I see, very helpful, thanks. But doesn't this leave room for what you potentially have not accounted for? I am just trying to wrap my head around how one can write a proof by saying something doesn't occur

Comment · 6 years ago

Not too well on mathematical proofs, but to me this sounds like the "proved" something by not being able to disprove Batchelor's law?

Also, the part about randomness makes sense in theory but the jump to an actual proof seems a little wide to me.