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Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
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Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you actually working on that? Sounds cool.
Sounds like eugenics
Not necessarily. It could just take a lot of data on compatibility and see if it could correlate it to genetics. Whether or not there is any correlation would be the question though.
Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
#53Real life Battle Royale match broadcast on pay per view. Solves the salary problem nicely.
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#54A portable personal Internet server that runs as a turnkey no-user-maintenance image on AWS, Digital Ocean, and OpenStack. It hosts your email, federated social networking and chat, file sharing and ad-blocking web proxy. The user experience is pure Internet with no ads, surveillance or vendor lock-in, all for $6/mo (hosting + DNS).
This is an idea I've been toying with several times, but it never gets beyond the thinking stage because of the obstacles interacting with the rest of the world: getting at least two cloud provider accounts (one for regular operations and one for secure off-site backups, ideally with a different provider), estimating costs (because good luck actually calculating them), buying a domain and transferring it to the cloud provider, the intricacies of configuring email to not be black-holed immediately by other providers (something I only know from rumours), and I'm sure a host of others. Even an effort to make some of these things slightly easier would be most welcome, but I don't think 10,000 work days is enough to get something like this to a "turnkey" level. It would be absolutely the best to be proven wrong, though!
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#55Assuming 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…
Didn't they try that in 1930s Germany?
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#56I recently watched a video of Kevin Horton discussing creation of the Super NT, SNES on an FPGA. He mentions doing the same for the N64 would be extremely difficult. It's not gonna change the world, but it would be a fun challenge to throw some resources at.
Youre entitled to your own wishes, but really? Out of anything at all, you'd put 100 (talented) people to work for 100 days to implement an obsolete console in FPGA?
Think big.
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#57100 people @ 100 days / 6 hours per day is 6,000 person-hours at best.
30% of that time or more would be spent on consensus building and chatter.
10% on LaCroix & Coffee runs.
5% on bio-breaks.
I'm left with about 60% of the original time, which I would have to spend on the problem of preserving the original allocation.
Certainly some software product would be the result, negating all the ritualized product management activities we hold dear.
It would require ego death for all involved, as well as the willingness to cast aside "reason" for the sake of gain.
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#58Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 talented people for 100 days, what would you work on?
#59I 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.
Subtleties are lost in the unwashed masses, too funny.
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#60Post the question on reddit and HN, wade thru 99% bad humor theads, and borrow the best idea