tylee78
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14 years ago
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on: How the medical supply industry blocks device startups from selling to hospitals
reminds me of the 400 dollars the hospital charged me the other day for part of a splint (the wrapping cloth) which was probably manufactured in China for $.50
tylee78
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14 years ago
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on: Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled
Now seriously, as a software developer, what would be the best skill set to help these guys... As soon as I can afford it I would knock at their door and work for them for free. What would be most usefull for them (or spaceX)... A lot of C, C++, knowing NASA's open source repos in and out, doing MIT online courses on robotics and astrophysics... ?
tylee78
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14 years ago
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on: Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled
I almost upvoted all of your comments - its incredible - as if someone was reading our mind and finally said, let's just do what all of us ever wanted to do!
tylee78
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14 years ago
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on: FBI's software team built their own version of Basecamp = $451 million...
exactly. how can a five minute visit to a hospital cost $3000 dollars. same insanity.
tylee78
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14 years ago
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on: Francis Fukuyama: A Conversation with Peter Thiel
wow! that was a very insightful interview. the idea of technological stagnation is something which I discussed with friends over the last 10 years. really deserves some more attention.
tylee78
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14 years ago
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on: Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things
try Buddhist monk, esp. of the species of "forest dweller".
tylee78
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14 years ago
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on: Harvard 1869 entrance exam
look at the bigger picture: there is a lot to be said about mastering a classical language to such a degree that you can translate these sentences back. Sure, on the surface it looks simplistic, but students with such a command of Latin would equally possess a rich knowledge in Roman and European history and culture through the process of acquiring classical Latin. Someone mentioned "modern history" missing...well, maybe because they still thought highly of the renaissance value of "ad fontes"?
tylee78
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14 years ago
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on: Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr.
in America you are still in a first world country!! have you ever lived in Calcutta??? Oh please come on, stop the whining!
tylee78
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14 years ago
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on: Features of Sanskrit - Some analogy to OOP.
Sanskrit is an artificial language derived from Vedic. There is nothing different with it when compared to other classical languages. Just a lot of poetics led to a wide variety of synonyms and also compounds are easier to create than in English, very much like German. Sanskrit has nouns and verbs, of course it refers to objects like any other language. That said it was considered until not long ago to be highly beneficial from an educational standpoint to know at least one classical language - but ultimately because of it's content and not it's highly inflected grammatical peculiarities.
tylee78
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14 years ago
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on: Berlins new techno beat. why international tech startups should move to berlin.
berlin?? everyone is leaving berlin. It's the worst place to do business in. it has been mismanaged for decades now. crime rate is high. public schools are a disaster. if you are 20 something you might find the dirt and parties hip, but as soon as you have a family it's the worst place you could think of (unless you have a lot of money). for a tech company better cities are munich and hamburg if you really want to relocate your business into a country with high taxation and burdening regulations...have fun.
tylee78
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15 years ago
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on: MIT hacked by Lulzsec?
...also seems to be a different bunch - their twitter is twitter.com/ProjectLULZ and not
twitter.com/LulzSec
tylee78
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15 years ago
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on: Andy Grove: How To Make An American Job Before It's Too Late
Completely disagree: we need technological paradigm shifts and work our buts off... That was the way to our current standard of living, successfully copied by the East, and it will be the successful path to future growth and industrial/scientific advancement. Not that socialist whiny I need more money and less work attitude a la dying Europe.
