herdrick

HN polls are useless now. Too many trolls. :(

Arithmetic is a "bombshell"?

Really? I'd take as given that this is happening now, as it's cheap. But back then? Can you link to some evidence of this?

He's criticizing git.

Quick tips:

- You should choose when and where to talk about her and her death. See, people who know you will want to know how you are doing and how it all happened, or why you are not yourself lately. Or you hear from someone who doesn't know about your sister who says, "What's up with you these days". You'll feel like you have to tell them, including how you are doing with it. But you don't have to tell them. "I don't want to talk about that" is a perfectly good response. Pick and choose when to talk about it or you are allowing anyone you interact with the power to send you into a tailspin.

- People will want to show empathy with you by telling you about the time they went through what they think was something similar. And yes, when the loss is similar, it can be a source of much increased mutual understanding and friendship with him/her. But usually it's more like, 'My grandmother died at age 87 so I know what you are feeling'. As you know, they do not (usually). They are just inexperienced in life. They mean well though. Again, I'd recommend "I don't want to talk about it". Feel free to interrupt early in their story.

I think there's little issue with heat, as a major advantage of capacitors is efficiency in charging and discharging.

That sounded amazing but it's just a bad title. "Facebook knows you’re gay before your parents" would be true.

    All Google did was better results over Altavista

"All"? What else do you think a search engine is for?

"But it can only give you an upper limit on the value of the innovation, since if it paid to do it the labor intensive way, that would have been happening. It needs improvement."

"This is really what the search engine that Google launched in 1998 did that was so great. Its results were ordered in a way that seemed like magic."

Well, Google isn't generally thought to replace human abilities. And fast transportation isn't either, yet with both you can reduce those things to human work. See my follow-up to this: http://herdrick.tumblr.com/post/45193590173/the-boat-engine-...

But spacesuits... hmm. That is really tough.

Author here. Would love to get some feedback about how to make this scale of innovation work better.

Yes. What a debacle. We're all going to regret this.

Wow, this guy worked with Doug Engelbart and Kelly Johnson!

Hey everyone - before commenting, please notice how many people have already commented with essentially your opinion. No need to pile on.

What we have here is a cascade of overreaction. HN and other communities are overreacting too. Think how much better it'd have been if, for example, PlayHaven had waited a day or two to think through this (assuming we've already got the story right, which is unlikely). That applies to you too. Let's just take it easy for the time being. Probably by tomorrow we'll have a clearer view of the facts.

Don't try to hurt someone on the internet, especially when others are doing the same.

Very cool.

How much does a house cost where those startups are?

This is so great. Thank you.

I don't know. Google has come up with Glass and is working hard on the self driving car. Sounds pretty innovative still to me. I hope the author is wrong about the pipeline of new stuff.

OK, glad to hear it.

     they are not simply complements.

Which argues against this change, right? If you think the next Dropbox could have some red flags along with its positive signs, you'd want to mostly ignore red flags.

    My country has always been and will always be poor.

You feel no connection to ancient Greece? Your ancestors created astonishing wealth - you don't think you can anymore?

Google didn't do that, sadly. Their initial offering price was set by their underwriting bank, and most of the shares were distributed in the usual way. A small chunk of the shares were auctioned with the help of, IIRC, W.R. Hambrecht.

What a sad waste.

A key point of the post is that in Germany it wasn't dropping out. It was joining a school of a different sort, a much better one for certain kinds of learners.

This is a great talk.

This is great, nice work!

Cute. :)

Oh no no no! I thought the same about Jobs back in 1985 but everything that we've learned about him since points up how irreplaceable he was. Without Jobs, Wozniak would have been a brilliant, happy, but obscure engineer at HP, Ive talents would have been mostly wasted, and Jef Raskin would still have, maybe, gotten a shot to build the Swyft and the Archy which even in our universe are obscure. Without Jobs you would never have heard of any of them. Instead you would be claiming that Steve Jobs rode on the success of <unknown brilliant people whom Steve worked with>.

EDIT: I should be clear that I thoroughly admire Steve Wozniak (one of my first heroes), Jony Ive, and Jef Raskin.

It's not red/blue. She's trying to build a political career in Massachusetts.