Create a full replacement for Javascript based on Scheme and integrate it into Firefox.
Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
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#42Assuming everyone knows each other and is ready to work, I would introduce myself and my idea: A dating social network that uses genetics data as one of the criteria for matching people. I will select the top managers in the group, assign each a responsibility, and then have them go into the crowd and build out their team to help accomplish that. I would have the best pitchmen go out and try to raise money from inves…
Are you actually working on that? Sounds cool.
Sounds like eugenics
Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
#43I would take them away from what they have known and done for years and years. I would finally take their skill and ambition seriously. They will work on a goal that is beyond what they could even imagine when they learned and studied and improved their knowledge while others partied and explored sex and drugs .
Bacause for me, they would be figuring out how to have more people click on my ads.
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#44First off, I'm crossing my fingers it was actually a drunk Jeff Bezos who posted this :D
I hit on a new general scheme for structuring programming tools and languages that doesn't use parsing, and I'd love to try building a language and editor on it. I've seen other people working on these syntax-free, no parsing schemes, but I've yet to see one whose fundamental structure is simple enough to be captured by a simple diagram, or just a few sentences; and that's what I'm lookin' at here, which leaves me endlessly curious about the potential significance of this thing (including the potential for its significance to be nothing!)—but I haven't had a chance yet to give it a real test.
So if I had the resources I'd do a bunch of iterations on it—likely with ~10 teams working on parallel iterations if I had 100 people. Actually, I'd start with just one team of 10 working on it, and if it continued looking promising after the first iteration, and add more teams in proportion to the perceived promise. Meanwhile, I've got plenty other (over)ambitious projects I'd like to have help with :)
Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
#45Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
#46Ask all 100 of them the same question, but they get 4 people instead of 100, collect the top 20 best results, give those 20 folks leadership over a team of 4 people, making a total of 20 teams of 5.
Statistically at least one or two of those teams is likely to come up with a highly profitable idea.
Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
#47I'd fix kicad.
Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
#48As a theoretical experiment it’s interesting. But it would never ever work. You’d literally spend a year or more trying to prepare for that 100 days and I’m still not convinced you’d get anything out of it. Now, if you were going to give me 6 people that would be a different story. With 6 people I have a number of startup ideas that I would love to work on and I think I could get a working mvp out of in 100 days. As…
You could make 16 teams of 6 and give each one a different startup idea. You could then create some metric for success and then choose to continue to work on the one with the most success.
I could. I’ve run very large development groups. It takes a lot of time and effort to get it right and with 16 groups of 6 it would be the same overhead, if not more. It just wouldn’t be for me, that’s all. I think I’d be much more successful with one strategic team of 6. If you can manage 16 teams working on projects for 100 days, by all means go for it.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. I have no idea how to manage 100 people, nor how to utilize 100 people in any effective way. I guess I would be hacking the challenge by holding some clumsy event on the first day or two where we sorted into 5 to 20 different teams, and then got to work on a lot of things in parallel. And then people could switch around between teams as interested or as they might use their skills.
I think it's a fair assumption to say one of those hundred would have the experience to manage the other 99, and allow you to play stakeholder, not project director. That said, hard to imagine getting a lot done in 3 months with a 100 person program.
That’s exactly it. It’s more the 100 day part that is restrictive. It takes a lot of time and effort to get 100 people working effectively.
Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
#50Probably something (or things) along the lines with helping out with the issues that low income families face, and more specifically the children and their education.