benparsons | 13 years ago | on: Who really wants a self-driving car?
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benparsons | 13 years ago | on: An anonymous VC criticizes Quora
Starts out discussing Quora but veers quickly offtopic into a right-wing rant about political correctness, marxism and feminists.
Going to take this with a pinch of salt.
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: Bitcoins can now be used to pay for Domino’s Pizza
For interest, this has already been around: http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/06/09/order-dominos-pizza-via-...
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: IntelliJ IDEA 12 Wins Jolt Award for Coding Tools 2013
I have never used IDEA, but if it is even a fraction as good as ReSharper then it is still amazing. After being introduced to it I feel so handicapped without it when using plain Visual Studio.
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: 99% of Businesses fail.99% of Blogs are abandoned within a month. Coincidence?
The barrier to entry is also lower than ever. This means there is less incentive to truly think through every detail before starting a new endeavour, which leads to a higher percentage of failure. As has been discussed ad nauseam on HN, this is not necessarily a bad thing.
benparsons | 13 years ago | on: Barbarians at the digital gate
Comments on that article are impressively xenophobic (above and beyond expected criticism of a rival state I mean.)
page 2
"Will my car be smart enough to follow the guy with shopping bag and car keys in his hand to his car and wait for his space or will it just park in the nearest (and most expensive) garage
But, hey, while all these geniuses are working on making cars smarter, how about maybe forgetting the self-parking idea and coming up with cars that [can tell] my kids in the back seat to pipe down if the decibel level gets too high"