Sort of an off-the-wall idea: Do some kind of event, maybe a promotional thing connected with the business model of your intended product. Or maybe a hackathon or competition of some sort with a cash prize. It can let…
Yes. Yes. You can use HTML and write just fine. It's a markup language, like old runoff, which could be used to generate nice, fancy prospectus documents for a major gov. agency in a far northern country I worked in,…
This may sound silly, but: - my hacked iPad. It's first generation, original software was stupid, but with "RedSn0w" and all of Freeman's Cydia apps, it has turned into my favourite device. It has a full, Linux-like…
I debated for a while if I should post this - but decided I had to. I actually built a working IEC fusion reactor in my basement, back in 2005-2006. I got to "first fusion" on Sept. 25th, 2006, and posted a video of the…
Yes, absolutely, I want to say this also. Hacker News / Ycombinator is very fine and excellent. Thanx for running this site. It is unique, the format is genius simple, and I learn and discover things here I would…
There are a few good things, but mostly, much of the modern tech is nasty and just not good - honestly. I am in my 60's now, and still remain a pure hacker of tech - really. I built a working IEC fusion reactor in my…
This is cool. Good to see. Thanx for posting this. If someone is coding some serious math hackery, drill down into the app and you'll often find someone's variant/version of the old IMSL library routines, written - in…
I had six apps on Google Playstore several years back. They were free, no adverts or in-app tricks... Google removed them, since I didnt keep creating new versions. Oh well. But the API churn has become explicit…
This is a good and important essay. I was crazy-lucky, being born at a time and place when kids could be left alone to build stuff and play with real technics when still young. I built hovercraft, rockets, ballistic…
If its a big idea, break it down into smaller pieces and try to prototype smaller parts - eg before organizing 100m, see if your idea works on 20 people. Also, try to boil the big idea down to an actual example where it…
Learning Z80 assembler, matrix algebra, reloading (9mm, .45, etc.), how to draft detailed building plans (something that is detailed enough to get a building permit approved), and market "Technical Analysis" - the study…
This is an interesting thread - thx for posting. I used to know a bunch of folks that used both J and K. I still use APL - the old APLWin 3.5 from APL2000 (Manugistics/STSC). APL was the first language I learned as a…
Ok, Read the story/read the comments - the 1.135 billion $USD got my attention. First "WTF?" was same as "corndoge": Who the hell is "The Internet Society?" Lotta reading... and then the penny hit the floor: "Ah! A…
Really interesting post. My suggestion: Hacking the stock market with AI's, algos, and current results from neural-science research, and large, accurate historical datasets and analytic models. There are lots of regs…
Sort of an off-the-wall idea: Do some kind of event, maybe a promotional thing connected with the business model of your intended product. Or maybe a hackathon or competition of some sort with a cash prize. It can let…
Yes. Yes. You can use HTML and write just fine. It's a markup language, like old runoff, which could be used to generate nice, fancy prospectus documents for a major gov. agency in a far northern country I worked in,…
This may sound silly, but: - my hacked iPad. It's first generation, original software was stupid, but with "RedSn0w" and all of Freeman's Cydia apps, it has turned into my favourite device. It has a full, Linux-like…
I debated for a while if I should post this - but decided I had to. I actually built a working IEC fusion reactor in my basement, back in 2005-2006. I got to "first fusion" on Sept. 25th, 2006, and posted a video of the…
Yes, absolutely, I want to say this also. Hacker News / Ycombinator is very fine and excellent. Thanx for running this site. It is unique, the format is genius simple, and I learn and discover things here I would…
There are a few good things, but mostly, much of the modern tech is nasty and just not good - honestly. I am in my 60's now, and still remain a pure hacker of tech - really. I built a working IEC fusion reactor in my…
This is cool. Good to see. Thanx for posting this. If someone is coding some serious math hackery, drill down into the app and you'll often find someone's variant/version of the old IMSL library routines, written - in…
I had six apps on Google Playstore several years back. They were free, no adverts or in-app tricks... Google removed them, since I didnt keep creating new versions. Oh well. But the API churn has become explicit…
This is a good and important essay. I was crazy-lucky, being born at a time and place when kids could be left alone to build stuff and play with real technics when still young. I built hovercraft, rockets, ballistic…
If its a big idea, break it down into smaller pieces and try to prototype smaller parts - eg before organizing 100m, see if your idea works on 20 people. Also, try to boil the big idea down to an actual example where it…
Learning Z80 assembler, matrix algebra, reloading (9mm, .45, etc.), how to draft detailed building plans (something that is detailed enough to get a building permit approved), and market "Technical Analysis" - the study…
This is an interesting thread - thx for posting. I used to know a bunch of folks that used both J and K. I still use APL - the old APLWin 3.5 from APL2000 (Manugistics/STSC). APL was the first language I learned as a…
Ok, Read the story/read the comments - the 1.135 billion $USD got my attention. First "WTF?" was same as "corndoge": Who the hell is "The Internet Society?" Lotta reading... and then the penny hit the floor: "Ah! A…
Really interesting post. My suggestion: Hacking the stock market with AI's, algos, and current results from neural-science research, and large, accurate historical datasets and analytic models. There are lots of regs…