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Other than the opportunity for a misplaced pun on the term “spiral”, why would you take an otherwise linear-in-time graph and make it radial? Why would age 0 to 50 be somehow cycli…

I'd rather they be able to run mail servers. SMTP lends itself to intermittent delivery.

Orig article has lowercase ‘n’ in ‘next’, which makes more sense…

Because it was perfect…

The author is displeased with the sort of discussions present on networks built on a couple different technologies. Unclear how the third technology magically makes them “happy.”

I concur. The term obviously refers to another sort of thing entirely.

"In short: this author is endorsing a funding model focused on low initial investment and faster profitability." -> so basically, Canadian "venture" capital. They don't even want t…

This is the furthest thing from the truth. That a human has a certain capability does not in the slightest imply that “DNA”, at least as commonly understood, encodes that capabilit…

I would just point out that HN does this in the title of every link posted, and has been doing this for years.

Toronto’s tech talent is keen... but relatively green. Since few companies have had to deal with scaling networks, users and data to the same magnitude as is common with Valley com…

I agree this is an abysmal article. A much much more rigorous proposal was put forward by an American mathematician several years ago regarding the geometry of trajectories of comp…

Are you guys going to release something describing your concept of "category oriented programming" any time soon?

To be fair, I do insist on calling Deloitte "Deloitte Dot".

Reducing the number, length and complexity of regulation is a valid goal, and that hasn't changed in thousands of years: "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the governmen…

The main computationally intractable problems around drug discovery surround protein folding and identifying macromolecule shapes. This is necessary to infer receptor sites for pot…

Basic income is absolutely one route, but I can think of a few others. A startup could thrive in a smaller city where their employees could achieve a high quality of life without e…

Cities are largely about people, and people are largely about the difficult-to-describe sense of 'opportunity'. Cities reflect networks effects as strongly as anything, which is wh…

Hi Alan, I've heard you frequently compare the OOP paradigm to microbiology and molecules. It seems like even Smalltalk-like object interactions are very different from, say, prote…

Then there'll definitely be ads.

...with just really bad inter-node bandwidth.

For sures. The ECEs are very much complicit too. Perhaps this is a ECE software team communication or power problem? ECEs invent the systems architecture and some poor chap has to …

So, it's becoming abundantly clear that vehicle companies (autos, jets...) have approximately zero knowledge how to hire software engineers. Presumably they're somewhat more succes…

I just noticed this was authored by Michael Nielsen... co-author of the text on quantum computation, and now a huge open-academia advocate. And he's open-sourced the micro-lisp he …

My understanding was that the greater losses in today's tech tend to lie at the VDC->VAC conversion panel-side. Also, I agree that the USB Power Delivery spec is a very good candid…