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NCSA was before them, and Netscape (and later Mozilla after server business didnt materialize) basically clean-room copied NCSA from scratch. Pioneers in new directions can define …

It's perceived risk/reward opportunity for getting away with something (ethics)... better to test a potential cofounder beforehand (know them well before) than find out later with …

I always wondered why, for the longest time, they thought competing with Chrome and Firefox was a good idea when they didn't have any compelling durable advantages and had distinct…

Failure to monetize such as hypertargeted/local ads/deals or freemium features. Winners tend to turn challenge into profit opportunities rather than give up and disappoint many peo…

I've worked in startups and large ivy league universities... the latter has more focus on social capital than necessarily delivering value or customer service because there is less…

Interesting. Just watched a Ben Horowitz interview containing the paraphrase quote "it's all rainbows, smiles and sunshine until someone stabs you in the back." People tend (not al…

As much as I (Somehow, I feel iMessage and related apps are MITMable because there is no mandatory, mutual, out-of-band validation of a recipient's identity.)

The could've called it "Silicon Valley." Including Monterey county is weird because that's inland and costal to the south. Santa Clara county encompasses most of Silicon Valley "pr…

Interesting. I was fortunate to be born in the late 70's in Blossom Valley in SJ because both sets of my grandparents happened to be US military families whom lived in Europe, US a…

Sadly, Amazon can just undercut and outspend them. "Competition is for losers" - Thiel

Now that Amazon has a de-facto monopoly on distribution and fulfillment with around a billion skus that rivals the likes of WalMart, it's no surprise prices begin endlessly ratchet…

First, condescending backslapping is rude and rationalization of ignorance is dumb. The sheer volume of methane from animal production is raising the temperature of the planet dang…

Not going to argue, it looked like Python with some continuation syntax inspired by others to me . I only have data on my perception until we all get neural implants to argue cyber…

Maybe there is a lack of available video courses teaching functional style, it might not be as hard as it seems (wan't for me, but a sample size of 1 is anecdotal). Give it another…

LabVIEW?

Etoys and many others have tried, maybe a good language and good IDE could have sufficient benefit, but I'm unsure how a UI would ever map to complex algorithms better than textual…

It looks strongly influenced by Python, probably to ease novice users into it. Edit: Not to be confused with another Luna Language: https://github.com/luna/luna

There is no arguing with Turing equivalence of Go and most other languages but there are practical limitations which prevent more complete general purposeness. I like Go since the …

"Don't make me think (unnecessarily)" is just one of several good ideals for scalable and maintainable projects, because valuable code is easy to learn and easy to add to. And sinc…

I was kidding. Of course I eat walnuts, pecans and other low-water tree nuts; fish, not so much.

I almost felt guilty for taking fish oil and eating sushi, but then it's clear that a fever reflex doesn't equate to missing Jane the cute fish next door, writing Leaves of Kelp or…

Johnny clubfingers 5-0 clicks Ok, and destroys "evidence" for being a total idiot... I take it he/she was hungover during that 2 hours of computer forensics in the academy. For cro…

This article is timely for us as we're using Scala for backend work. Ruby 2.3 &. operator and Swift can do something like this pseudocode: if let city = article?.author?.address?.c…