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Yep, stuff like Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader. In the 1920s they were the first to produce a machine to automatically decapitate and debone fish, and they've been the world leader on this and related tech ever since,
Out of frustration after not finding any relevant methods that could help me come up with more business Ideas to develop, I've ended up creating the BIGF Method (BIGF stands for Business Idea Generation Framework).

There are methods and tools out there, but they basically are for teams of people working for a company, not for entrepreneurs / indy hackers / side hustlers by themselves.

So I decided to document my own journey and use that as the base to create the BIGF Method with the hope that it will be helpful for other entrepreneurs like me.

You can get in for free with the code hn (it will be valid until tomorrow).

I hope you find it useful and that you can help me improve it.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post and checking out the BIGF Method.

Ramon
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The FSF has been wildly successful at marketing, its ideas have completely pervaded and transformed computing and tech, and its effects will be felt for centuries, if humans last that long.

In my experience, people who say the FSF have been bad at marketing have three types of criticism.

The first two are unbelievably shallow, and honestly obviated by the FSFs success while ignoring them: 1) fonts, and whatever web design trend is current, and 2) Richard Stallman's personal appearance and tone. Plenty of contenders for the group du jour of software freedom have concentrated on web design and being attractive TED Talk types, have gotten zero traction, and faded into the mist - turns out people prefer a complete and detailed philosophy, a track record of standing behind it, and a spokesperson who clearly has no ulterior motives.

The third is both far more intense and more telling: when Stallman would criticize the practices of specific companies, or the failure or more permissive licenses to require the users to share changes. IMO, this is the criticism of people who don't actually agree with the idea of software freedom at all but don't want to say it because they have strong feelings about property rights and the ability to control their code after it's left their physical or technical possession, that don't jibe with their visceral disgust at a license that would force you to share, or to behave in any sort of an altruistic way (like the unfree "don't be evil" or "don't be the military" licenses.) Forced altruism bothers them.

The people in the third category are obviously unqualified to carry the torch because they at best are bystanders, and at worst enemies of the idea of free software. The people in the first two, the "marketers," are not likely do do it because marketing (of an useful, positive idea) is essentially cynical; it's sugar on the pill. It's what you do to get children to do something that's good for them but they don't understand. Adults prefer better pills. not better sugar. Sugar is cheap, I can buy my own.
Exactly. The problem with most of these responses is that they don't truly understand the Fermi Paradox.
Think it's more likely that it broke off the second you tried to use it and the motion wasn't enough to charge it anyway.

Think the written excuse is the PR excuse.
In the last few years I had the chance to live in Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Perth, Sofia and Tel Aviv

From all of those cities Amsterdam and Tel Aviv a lot more innovative and the number of entrepreneurs was high (at least felt like it)

I think that there are few criterions that a city need to have to become a tech hub

- Relatively small city
- Society who worship startups and entrepreneurs
- Many Programmers and engineers (In Israel every 4 months few hundred talented programmers are releasing from the top units in the Israel Defence Forces, bringing high quality manpower to the ecosystem)

There are probably more criterions, those are just few I thought about now
Google managed to do what RedHat failed at: to distribute Linux en masse for device usage. They also replaced the whole userland with either Android or ChromeOS, and they managed to do all that without breaking Linux for the rest of us.

If RedHat wanted to they could simply rename it RhOS or something like that and leave the rest of Linux alone. Now we are getting this false-flag enterprise borne push to replace all of the Linux userland with something that I could have very much done without all in an attempt to let RedHat try once more to go for that elusive enterprise desktop market that they have so far failed to attract.
2 new refineries coming to Anacortes? Boo!!!!! Ever looked at cancer rates for Washington state compared to the rest of the country? This article really helped shine some light on why it's so polluted up there.
Nicely propped up by the government.
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You can also build similar constructs on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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I think a major difference is also that for the teens of today, these apps are intuitive, if they are well designed. They take like 20 seconds to figure everything out. It is just us oldies who grew up with mouse and keyboard who have these problems.
> Semour Papert and Mitchel Resnick are luminaries who helped define the landscape of computation and play for kids.

Have Papert or Resnick done anything in the field of compuation and play for kids that stands up to critical empirical evaluation?
> Serverless only makes sense if you have a fairly trivial problem

That’s exactly the point. The web application needs of most startups are fairly trivial and best supported by a serverless stack. Put it another way: If your best choice was Rails or Django 10 years ago, then it’s serverless today.
Damn.. What country is this? Have you no bankruptcy protection laws?
We have to remember the Fermi Paradox is a Fermi estimation and only that
Startups need a fertile market to thrive
While you can just make it launch a program instead of /sbin/init, you may be surprised at the results, because it won't mount any of your filesystems, setup the network, etc. So you want systemd/sysvinit (according to taste) to run first, which will take the normal amount of time to boot.

The cleaner way of doing this is through "inittab". Normally this starts a program called "getty" on the console which provides the login prompt etc. That's what you want to override. It will also restart your program every time it quits.

(Less normal options include "put your program in the initrd", which is viable if it's very small and does all the setup itself, or "write something that runs directly from the UEFI loader")
> Why do you think that is? Why have production grade Linux distributions all chosen to adopt systemd?

Because RH funds a lot of software development, and Poettering works for them.

> Journalctl is far better than `tail -f /var/log/starstar`

Except when journald shits the bed and corrupts its own log file. Or when you want ship logs off-machine, yet journald does not support any standards-compliant transport so you end up have to log a second logging daemon (e.g., rsyslog)—in which case what's the damn point of the first? Or when you do a "service mysql start" and it dies, but there is no output anywhere of what went wrong, and you have to guess that you have a typo in your "my.cnf".

But other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

> ... in an /etc/init.d shebang without process restarting (and logging thereof), cgroups, and consistent logging.

The problem is not systemd-as-init-replacement. The problem is systemd-as-kitchen-sink. udevd is an "essential" part of systemd? Really? It can't be it's own stand-alone project? Really?
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Olpc leadership saw government education bodies and curriculum groups as potential road blocks best avoided. This is with some reason as it can take years to work through then. That said, they can't be advoided in my experience if you expect to have any impact. They also disregarded the concerns of every day teachers because they presumed every kid could be an autodidact just like them once they had the magic laptop.

It all stems from Seymour papert's original vision that inspired olpc. This theory is called constructionism and held that children can develop knowledge of the world through experiential learning. They can "construct" their own knowledge. Unfortunately, the role that a teacher might need to pay on this process was often underestimated.

To counteract this, we engaged the most creative Nepali teachers (of which the re are a large number) to create educational activities that aligned with the nationial curriculum and addressed content areas where nationally Nepali kids were struggling.
This is an interesting point that I hadn't quite considered. Not sure how it would apply on the scale of inanimate objects but I could see it being relevant to a macroscopic organic system with consciousness, like our brains and bodies.
Shooting fish in a barrel but -

In the first world -

Computers are not generally useful for a classroom

To try and be useful you must also have significant education for teachers and have significant maintenance budget.

We know the "Sugata Mitra’s famous Hole-In-The-Wall" failed, and we knew that years ago.

Turning down Windows and Mac support which rich people use is insulting.

The concept people would steal the OLPC (The reason for the color) is dumb, but unstoppable anyway, so the fact for years they wouldn't sell OLPC's to developers and hobbyists because of this imaginary blackmarket, shows the lack of thought and also the total arrogance to pretend it was "open".

It was well known at the time it came out people in the communities needed mobiles phones and radios. But it just wasn't sexy enough for NGO's. The whole industry is a scam designed to be just barely enough to get the next round of funding, this project just further supported this systematic structural flaw.
Not sure how smart it is for insurance and pensions companies to invest their endowment and policy funds in startups.
Other good examples of lightweight, character-based interfaces like HN's?
What are some other good, fast ascii-type interfaces out there in production?
To anyone experimenting with such stuff, take care and don't make your services publically available. Especially the dark web is full with highly illegal content such as child pornography and in some jurisdictions even "involuntary possession" such as in browser caches may be enough to convict you.
I do like the blue background choice, which I will forever associate first with Borland Turbo C which used yellow as the foreground colour.

It was also used by Wordstar and a few other programs, as it was the only readable background colour that wasn't black. A few people had early "paperwhite" laptop LCDs that preferred black-on-white.
Which is fair, we already ruined facebook.
Must one rely on appeals such as this (i.e. a cultural solution) or does tor have a technological solution to the problem you're describing?
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Lambas are not simple functions because your environment is different in local compared to production.

If I run a Node.js function in AWS Lambda, my Node.js version might be different, my dependencies might be different, the OS is different, the filesystem is different, so I or one of my node_modules might be able to write to /tmp but not elsewhere, etc.

It's the reason people started using Docker really.
If you don't have the same environment, you can't call it reproducible or testable for that matter.
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When you're almost £2 billion in the hole, how feasible is it to hedge currency?
Getting funding in EU right now typically involves miles of red tape and/or friends in the right places. Hopefully they address these issues. Would not hold my breath though.
Running large requests over many hops takes up limited Tor resources so it makes using Tor slower/harder for other people. Decreasing the amount of hops means that you use less resources, running your own relay means that you provide resources to others.
>You'd really need to calculate "successful entrepreneur per 100,000 people" or something like that.

Even that wouldn't be enough, because the supporting apparatus and immediate market for a Dutch entrepreneur would be still very much smaller than for a US based on - so Dutch entrepreneurs should expect less support and not as good environment for their steps to grow their company, even if as a ratio there are e.g. twice the Dutch entrepreneurs for 100,000 people compared to the US.

>That's a pretty big disincentive to work hard to get big.

That sounds good. Now if we (EU) could also prevent other countries from having corporate behemoths that would be perfect...
I agree with all you say, but it's a reflection of a new generation of travellers who don't want to interact with other passengers. I've seen the effect over and over again when flying. More and more of the effort of flight attendants is being shifted from serving travellers to acting as a buffer and mediating disputes between passengers.

There's another story on HN now about Amtrak shutting down their dining cars. I read the story, and one of the reasons they are ending dining car service is because when they got focus group feedback from millennials they found that most of them didn't want to sit next to a stranger while dining.

I find the fact that we are more digitally connected than ever before but correspondingly more socially isolated quite troubling.
Wow people are petty. I think you’re never going to have a good experience in economy - might as well just go to sleep for the duration and not worry about what anyone else decides to do.

I don’t know why people choose to struggle to eat, read, or watch videos.
> He's the closest thing to a real life Bond villain there is.

I guess we watch different Bond movies when you have guys like Kim Jong-un running some shows out there, having concentration camps and killing their brothers with nerve agents on the airports
How does it go? Kill 1 person, go to jail. Pollute millions, make millions?
It's concerning how typical the hype machine is in IT. I believe Serverless has its place and value. So does Kubernetes or many other products that are often discussed on HN.

But let's be clear, we are talking about commercial products and there is a capital interest in selling these services to all of us devs and engineers.

So while use cases exists and benefits wait to be reaped, as a consultant I strongly feel that we should be MUCH more insistent in pointing out when a product does not make sense instead of jumping onto the hype train.

I am basically surrounded by "LETS TRANSFORM EVERYTHING TO KUBERNETES THIS WEEK!" exclamations, conferences are basically "DID YOU ALREADY HEAR ABOUT KUBERNETES?" and so on ...

It reminds me of Ruby on Rails, a mature and well-developed framework used by global tech firms (correct me if wrong: Airbnb, ~Stack Overflow~, Github) to handle parts of their backend in 2019. But for half a decade now even tiny companies have been screaming around about FancyHTTPTechThisYear (tm) because scale while reporting 1/500th of the traffic of some famous Rails users.

This is not engineering with objectives in mind, it's more akin to the gaming community yelling for a new console.
IMHO, human nature means that people will settle other planets or simply space if they have the technological capabilities.

Just look at SpaceX and co. and all the people interested in that. If the technology exists some people will go. This does not have to be a large number compared to the overall population. That's enough to kick-start the process in a chaotic and unplanned manner...
The switching is not very straight fwd last time i checked, that was my point.
It is far too easy to have all the tests pass locally and be completely broken in production for this reason.
What did you do with it? I did stuff like this: https://blog.jgc.org/2008/03/building-temperature-probe-for-... and https://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/simplifying-my-olpc-xo-1-temper...
That's nonsense. Lots of start-ups are getting funded in the EU without' miles of red tape and/or friends in the right places'.

I see lots of them (50+) every year.
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There are also old companies who manage to keep up and innovate, and care about competence. Not as much as tiny startups, but enough to survive and do well.

One problem with the British upperclass, is that they tend to be educated at private schools like Eton, where they primarily learn confidence. So tons of British politicians and managers know how to appear to know what they're doing, without actually knowing what they're doing. As long as things are going well, this works fine, especially since the people they do business with come from the same schools. But when the shit hits the fan, it turns into a fumbling circus. Like it did with Tories and Brexit.
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It isn't really a branding problem. "Toxic masculinity" consists of an adjective and a noun - the former modifying the latter and therefore describing a trait which applies to a subset of the latter. It's common English. A "red apple" isn't easy to misunderstand as "all apples are red." A "hot plate" doesn't imply all plates are always hot.

People who misunderstand this phrase refuse to do so even when the proper definition is given to them. It's not simple misunderstanding, as simple misunderstandings can be simply corrected, but willful ignorance. You can argue for hours and explain in excruciating detail that "toxic masculinity" doesn't mean "all masculinity is toxic," providing sources to that end, and at the end of the day people will still stand firm and refuse to accept it.

>As this is mostly a branding problem, I want to say I recently came across the phrase "Man Box"[1]. That might be a better phrase to use?

Case in point. This site describes exactly what toxic masculinity actually is and what it actually means. But we need a "better phrase" because feminists used the other one and therefore it's tainted? Despite the fact that toxic masculinity as a term originated in the men's rights movement and as a concept is hardly alien to male culture? We can have a conversation about the possible negative aspects of male culture and masculine identity, but we just can't say the bad words with the girl cooties on them?

The problem isn't branding, it's men refusing to accept that any concept they consider "feminist" could be rooted in anything but hate and misogyny. Modern male culture needs to mature and move past the victim complex its built around itself and see the common ground it has with feminists.
People taking money from French state related funds should be very careful with the small print and study the case of DailyMotion with great attention to detail. Lest you too end up being deprived of a well deserved exit.
Links about "the case of DailyMotion", please?
You can easily connect any cheap USB or Bluetooth keyboard if a lot of typing is required. Of course you can't use such a setup while walking around somewhere, but usually you also don't write essays in these situations.
Good point. I've used Audio distro's for this reason, but I think PA-Jack switching should not need a switch of distro (just install some packages and (among them) an new kernel we RT patches in).
Depends on the mix of other investments they have.
Eben Upton was partially inspired by the failures of the OLPC project - he could see how it was indulging all sorts of tech whims and reinventing everything possible, rather than providing an effective solution using proven tech.
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Europe is plenty fertile.
Came across this link where people are trying to help out the staff of Thomas Cook after they announced them shutting down and stopped trading. God bless the internet.
The whole point of a limited liability company is to shield shareholders from responsibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability#Justificatio...
>We know for a fact now that there are only technicalities like fault tolerance in our way.

We understand the theory behind nuclear fusion, we have plenty of hydrogen, we have the capability to initiate fusion reactions in the lab, so there are only technicalities in our way to powering our electricity needs through fusion. So it has been for 70 years.
What does it have to do with race? Aren't there people of every race in every climate?
Thanks for the digging. I would steer clear of this project. I expect there to be opensource alternatives that score better on openess.
The real reality: not all devs required are webdevs, especially if you want to build an infrastructure that can handle millions of people worldwide. It's not like some React and CSS will get you that.

The amount you'll pay for a single additional developer, even if it's "just" 70K, is already close (if not double) your whole Clould costs when you start...
As one who specialises in enterprise SEO.

That is still an issue with many businesses, websites are still seen as just an electronic version of a poster on a bill board, its gradually changing.

And Eu companies are even worse, a few years back I suggested a link from a German parents website to the uk subsidiary and was told the Head office lawyers where checking to see if they "where allowed" to add a link.
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> but I don't see all lives as equal either, for the record.

On the off chance of you having some plausible explanation for this outrageous statement I invite you to expand on this.
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> I have in mind the "monetary base" definition.

This is incompatible with your previous statement:

> it's still a debt for the government and an asset for you in accounting terms.

You don't own a single dollar of reserve money as an asset.

And the monetary base is a tiny fraction of money. The vast majority of which is debt.
Do any countries do fish stocking? My state (Michigan) stocks millions of fish in the state's lakes every year, funded by fishing licenses.
The bigger problem is the middle seats on aircraft with 3+ adjoining seats. Your seat mates almost always commandeer the armrests, and if you're seated with large people, it's miserable.

I've seen a few different seat configurations that fix this, but there isn't really much incentive for the airlines to adopt them.
https://www.reuters.com/article/yahoo-dailymotion/yahoo-scra...
TiVo has lost its mind. Just curious, what are the technical and legal challenges that have prevented TiVo from creating a DVR that records streaming video? Seems like a box that could do that would be extremely popular.
I've read somewhere that to some degree apps do that on purpose. The users feel a sense of "pride" when they figure everything out which reduces incentive to switch to a competitor app. Also users can bond over the app while they explain eachother how it works and what little tricks there are. I think Snapchat was the example used in the article that I read.
You can install the kxstudio stuff on top of your regular distro. It works like a charm.
> Nobody is arguing with you about what YOU ought to be doing

Current subthread started with this: "Yes, unpopular opinion these days, but car owners should really know how to do at least the bare minimum of basic car maintenance"
That might actually be "banner blindness". If you make something stand out too much, especially in strategic places like the very top of the message, people will subconsciously interpret it as an advertisement, and filter it out before it reaches their awareness.