arihelgason | 9 years ago | on: What Trump means for tech
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arihelgason | 11 years ago | on: Push API – W3C Working Draft
Any word on when browsers other than Safari will be supporting push notifications?
arihelgason | 12 years ago | on: Keep Your Identity Small (2009)
This also applies to professional growth. People often have a hard time receiving negative feedback because they experience it as an attack on their identity/ego rather than as an opportunity to learn.
The ability to take feedback constructively is probably one of the most important traits to hire for.
arihelgason | 13 years ago | on: NHS staff should code - Kelsey
This rings true with my experience.
I met a senior NHS physician who built a very useful and simple mobile information service to improve access to certain services. My understanding was that he funded it himself with help from sponsors and had to do it entirely outside the NHS system.
It probably cost 1/10th of what it would have cost if it had been done through the NHS.
Not to mention that NHS computers are still running IE6 and heavily locked down, making it a poor development environment. Tim Kelsey can encourage NHS staff to code, but the infrastructure to do anything meaningful with that inside the system isn't there.
This is the service: http://sxt.org.uk
arihelgason | 13 years ago | on: Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses
Good point. And if you sign up to Coinbase anonymously and acquire BTC reasonably anonymously any data that gets subpoenaed is worthless.
arihelgason | 13 years ago | on: Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses
BTC transactions are all public in the blockchain so they're not as anonymous as many think.
But as for preventing your identity from being linked to your BTC wallet? There's probably no way to prevent that if the service provider is under US jurisdiction.
arihelgason | 14 years ago | on: Just say No to brainteaser questions at interviews
Do you want people who bullshit with little or no relevant data or people who will admit when they don't know something and try to figure it out?
I'd say the latter.
It's frustrating to work with people who pretend they know more than they do rather than asking for help.
arihelgason | 14 years ago | on: Space Quest creators create kickstarter for a new Space Adventure
A comparable project, the Leisure Suit Larry remake, also had a $500,000 cut-off. It ended up raising over $650,000 so it doesn't look far-fetched.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-le...
arihelgason | 14 years ago | on: Colourlovers Buys Forrst
You're forgetting software sales (ColorSchemer), t-shirt sales and fabric printing.
arihelgason | 14 years ago | on: All of Iceland's public administrations moving towards open source
This point regarding education is interesting:
free and open-source software provides teaching opportunities that do not exist with proprietary software, since the background functions of free and open-source software, including its characteristics and programming, can be revealed to students. In these respects, free and open-source software is better suited to arousing interest in computer programming and information technology than proprietary software, where its use is all that can be taught.
The other points from the report:
1. When purchasing new software, free and open-source software and proprietary software are to be considered on an equal footing, with the object of always selecting the most favourable purchase.
2. Every endeavour shall be made to choose software based on open standards, regardless of whether the software in question is standard or bespoke (custom-designed). Generally, software which is free for anyone to use is also typified by open standards.
3. Public bodies shall endeavour to avoid any undue dependence on particular software manufacturers or service providers. The utilisation of free and open-source software is one means of this.
4. One goal for bespoke (custom-designed) software financed by public bodies, including software for research and development projects, should be its reusability. Keeping the software free and open-source is one way to achieve reusability. Strategies shall be devised at the outset of such projects for ensuring reuse of the software.
5. Students in Icelandic educational institutions shall be given the opportunity of learning about and using free and open-source software on a par with proprietary software
arihelgason | 14 years ago | on: Do Not Start A Startup: Or, What I Learned At Startup School 2011
That judgement looks like it's based on a very brief conversation with one of the founders. Carr seems to dislike his attitude more than anything.
Hardly a convincing condemnation of what Likealittle are doing.
arihelgason | 14 years ago | on: Isaac Asimov on Security Theatre.
People who have been working seriously on robotics in recent years probably have a strong sense of what's hard and what's easier.
arihelgason | 14 years ago | on: Getting Rich From Others Was Never Easier
Because their advertising overpriced? Surely it's easy enough for advertisers to monitor results. Curious why there's this perception.
arihelgason | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What documentaries are worth watching?
Riot On - a very entertaining and well produced story of dotcom bubble madness http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/
arihelgason | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Best way for startups to find awesome developers?
I'm partial to Hackruiter (http://www.hackruiter.com). Recruitment done by engineers for engineers.
arihelgason | 15 years ago | on: Union Square Ventures Leads $3 Million Round in Moot's Startup, Canvas
That's the big use case right now. A more flexible version of http://www.quickmeme.com - though I'm sure users will come up with other cool uses in the coming months.
arihelgason | 15 years ago | on: How to Raise an Entrepreneur
He probably means asmallworld.net - an invitation only social network for internationally minded people
arihelgason | 15 years ago | on: My experience outsourcing manufacturing to China
Alibaba is a very mixed bag.
I recommend using Panjiva.com to do some diligence on suppliers before committing. You can see who else they're supplying in the US, historical data (ie. are they doing more or less US business?) and even pull credit records and other data.
It's not failsafe but you'll get a much more complete picture of a supplier than with Alibaba.
arihelgason | 15 years ago | on: The traveling German carpenters
Exactly.
Economic activity centered on agriculture where efficiency increases were minuscule. Because of this economic activity did not grow much.
See this diagram for an idea of just how little growth there was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_GDP_Capita_1-2003_A....
arihelgason | 15 years ago | on: Fowndr: private network for startups, now live and handing out invites
I don't think you can be a part of too many networks
Sure you can.
The opportunity cost is being part of a network that you get more out of. Or building/maintaining your personal network. Or working on something productive.
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