Comments by Peter Renshaw
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... what tunes are you working to at the moment? ..."
♫Prairie-wind blowing through my head - trying to remember what daddy said♫ ~ http://www.last.fm/user/bootload
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... what tunes are you working to at the moment? ..."
♫ Prairie-wind blowing through my head - trying to remember what daddy said ♫ Prairie Wind, NY ~ http://www.last.fm/user/bootload
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... What do you want to know? ..."
Is the book being pitched as a 'business' book, an alternative way to tackle business? Or is this another tech-related book? I suspect the former as the article makes numerous hints to a popular rather than technical audience.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... Lack of scalability will nag at you and may prevent from making some choices ..."
To the point where you have trouble getting more users. MySpace is the classic study here. How do they scale all those windows servers? ~ http://www.baselinemag.com/index2.php?option=content&tas...
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... "Ask yourself: what open source software exists that solves a big problem in a large market?" ... then host it and provide it as a service ..."
I'd agree with that one.
Free software allows you to take an individual copy then run it yourself or even run a company. It's not as if Free or Open source software has to serve the market any more than that.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... Ask yourself: what open source software exists that solves a big problem in a large market? ..."
Linux kernel?
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... I've always thought firefox should have a team making & maintaining extensions ..."
Probably not a good idea for most (aside from Google who have the resources). Most projects concentrate on the core api, documentation and leave the the add-ons for users. I'm specifically thinking of Firefox, JQuery etc.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... He began by scanning the Internet for workout tips and read that five minutes of sprinting was the equivalent of a half-hour jog. This seemed like a great shortcut—an elegant exercise hack—so ... That same afternoon, he laced up his new kicks and burst out the front door ... He took a few strides, slipped on a concrete ramp and crashed to the sidewalk, shattering his left elbow. ..."
Typical programmer error. How many times do you have to say it before it comes back to bite you ... don't prematurely optimise.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... Because it simply doesn't matter that much IMHO. A startup doesn't succeed or fail based on which RCS it uses, it may fail if it doesn't use any at all ..."
But you are making a statement not using good tools and it might be harder to get good hackers.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... Why couldn't Pownce get enough users? ..."
Power law observed in most naturally occurring scale-free networks means there will be a few sites that have most users ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... Good to see they're planning AdBlock in advance. ..."
Does that include a mechanism to block textual adverts as well as image based adverts?
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... But I come here to read startup related stuff. If it ever gets to the point that center of gravity isn't in stuff related to startups here, I'll stop visiting. ..."
Old news as the place long since changed from "Startup" to "Hacker" ~ http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html One positive trait that is encouraged is "curiosity" (another is focus) but I seriously don't just hang around for the "news" posted but the quality of the comments. BTW, let us know if you find a "HN" alternative with a purely startup focus. Mine is ~ http://groups.google.com.au/group/silicon-beach-australia
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... For good measure, Milgram's Six Degrees theory, has subsequently been debunked since Tipping Point appeared. Gladwell couldn't have done that himself using a bit of investigative research of his own ..."
Don't let the truth get in the way of telling a good story. Well that's the way 'theregister' likes to tell it.
The ideas behind the "6 degrees of separation" are measurable and form a new type of science, not surprisingly called Network theory. The ideas behind them instead of being debunked are strengthening. In '99 Duncan Watts ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Watts and Steven Strogatz ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Strogatz wrote a paper submitted to Nature working on the "Small World theory" problem called "Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks" . Their results tend to support the idea that there is a finite number of links in a network between nodes and that clustering does occur. The idea applied to various other natural networks (Actors in Hollywood, neural networks in the brain, Transmission lines across the US) also support the conclusions.
"... a scale-free network is a network whose degree distribution follows a power law, ..."Then consider "Albert-László Barabási" ~ http://www.nd.edu/~sciwww/Faculty/barabasi.html who who picked up the Watts-Strogatz work ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_and_Strogatz_model and came up with the idea of "Scale free networks" which gives probably the most important insight into how networks cluster, Hubs. I don't just believe the ideas of Watts, Strogatz and Barabási because of who they are but what their experiments reveal.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... For good measure, Milgram's Six Degrees theory, has subsequently been debunked since Tipping Point appeared. Gladwell couldn't have done that himself using a bit of investigative research of his own ..."
Don't let the truth get in the way of telling a good story. Well that's the way 'theregister' likes to tell it.
The ideas behind the "6 degrees of separation" are measurable and form a new type of science, not surprisingly called Network theory. The ideas behind them instead of being debunked are strengthening. In '99, "Duncan Watts" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Watts and "Steven Strogatz" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Strogatz wrote a paper submitted to Nature working on the "Small World theory" problem called "Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks" . Their results tend to support the idea that there is a measurable, finite, minimum number of links in a network between nodes and that clustering of node links does occur. The idea applied to various other natural networks (Actors in Hollywood, neural networks in the brain, Transmission lines across the US) also support the conclusions.
"... a scale-free network is a network whose degree distribution follows a power law ..."Then consider "Albert-László Barabási" ~ http://www.nd.edu/~sciwww/Faculty/barabasi.html who who picked up the Watts-Strogatz work ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_and_Strogatz_model and came up with the idea of "Scale free networks" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_networks which gives probably the most important insight into how networks cluster, Hubs.I don't just believe the ideas of Watts, Strogatz and Barabási because of who they are but what their experiments reveal.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet"... "They are these creatures of almost myth and legend and that just blows people away, but secondly, deep sea in general is just so fascinating because you don't have to travel to other planets to find alien creatures," he said.
"There's things down there where their entire bodies are made of snot, they've got detachable heads, their teeth fall out, they explode and they eat their snot jackets. There is just weird things going on everywhere ..." ~ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/17/2307028.htm
Some of you here have a distinct lack of curiosity. The words above describe such squids. I happened to make time earlier this year to see a live squid dissection undertaken by Dr Mark Norman Deputy Head of Science (Marine Zoology) and a team of scientists at the Museum of Victoria and it was fascinating stuff ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157606211764544...
The video show is important because there is so little known about giant squid even though they live a kilometer below the surface of the ocean.
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