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OK .... looks like someone's in a bad mood

Educating people like you! If I can knock some sense into people like you, you might be more productive and create something that I might benefit from.

Yeah, if you're getting paid to create it. If you're a starving artist, then society doesn't pay you because you're not solving a real problem.

They're the same thing, you'll only get paid if you solve real problems (though that's not really true, a lot of people get paid by stealing - most of the finance industry, many go…

His wife, the crowdfund backers, and the net loss to society by him taking himself out of productive business. Those are not 'dumb strawmans'. And I wasn't talking about him in tha…

I'm not saying that entertainment doesn't have value. I said it's perfectly fine if you're earning an income from creating it and it's OK as a hobby to create. But otherwise, the m…

Doesn't this guy realize that asking for money they way he did with flex funding defies logic. If you only raise some of the money, how were expecting to finish the project, and wh…

So paper is the final frontier? Hundreds of years old tech is the optimum and 21st century tech like tablet computers is a step backwards for humanity?

My point is - why is anyone printing anymore? Everyone can get their hands on a tablet these days

(you tamp down a little with your rudeness - why would multiple decades old tech be 'magical') Prolog with clpfd and chr, Mozart/Oz, Sql, Clips. Libraries like gecode, java choco. …

But that's not the main style of programming. If you teach someone lisp he'll hack around with functions and macros and not realize that his problem could be elegantly written in c…

That's basically the consensus among professional academics on the matter. Also among well respected programmers in senior roles like Joshua Bloch and John Carmack.

(putting aside the rudenss and cluelessness of your comment ...) Operations research type algorithms can be thought of as forward chaining compared to prolog's backward chaining. P…

Lisp is a dangerous language that shouldn't be taught or used these days. There are plenty of superior programming techniques. Mathematical programming - linear programming, finite…

Slightly off-topic, Pdf and Ps are just plain outdated for today. They're unreadable on small screens and for people with bad eyesight, and no one sane prints stuff out these days …

Virtual Reality, no doubt about it. Having tried the Oculus dev kit, VR will blow everything else away. The limitations currently, screen resolution and sensors, will be chipped aw…

The best web platform is haskell and postgres, or ocaml-java/yeti and mysql on appengine. Phpers and rubyers are missing out on the most delightful and least error-prone ways to us…

This is a huge opportunity for startups. Online dating is still not as successful it could be because all data is not used. Everyone has smartphones, partners could be matched up b…

This is kind of silly. If Google launched it's own uber with the google brand on it, it would easily trump uber. Developing the the uber software would cost way way less than $250 …

I don't want to say anything against Patrick or other consultancy oriented entrepreneurs, but I'd just put up a price on the saas app and be done with it and move on with the next …

Yes they provide value, but as consumer I'd like to see that 5% drop, and Kickstarter being a household name benefits them, giving them leverage to keep prices high, and a net loss…

The thing is, senior people don't eat their dogfood in anything. The CEO of Ford probably drives a Benz. What has worked in all industries is quality control. Government has always…

People like to blame the US government for this, though I think the real culprit is that often the dumber, more xenophobic members of society are usually hired for these kinds of p…

Much more of this is needed, crowdfunding has a lot more potential to change business but kickstarter and cohorts are getting fees while offering little value. The huge opportunity…