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If others are curious: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wordbank-walrus In a vocabulary quiz, a kid interpreted the header "wordbank" as one of the choices.
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> Many of Tilt’s San Francisco employees including CEO James Beshara were asked to stay on board, but most of the remote team was not. Bummer for the remote employees. :(
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I'm learning Scala at my new job (previously worked in Ruby, Python, and long ago, Java and enjoy learning about functional programming). It's a fine language with a lot of great things about it...that get tossed the second you to
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by 100k 10y ago
It's basically the _definition_ of luck: "the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual"
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This is a big point that Robert Frank makes in "Success and Luck" (the book this interview is about). Being born in a developed country is one of the luckiest things you can have happen to you. He talks about his time in Nepal for
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Finishing Europe: A History was a challenge but I really enjoyed it (especially his focus on "outlying" states). Norman Davies's No Simple Victory is also worth checking out. It's probably the best book I've read ab
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I haven't read the Century Trilogy, but his Pillars of the Earth is a similar multi-generational story (about the construction of a cathedral) which I enjoyed a lot. If you haven't read it, check it out.
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Thanks! Did not know about package-install, that's very helpful. Spacemacs looks cool. I have so many years of emacs keybindings that I'd have to turn that off, but I really like the look of what they're building.
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Somewhat related: I am starting a new job soon and I want to get Emacs setup "right" this time. I've been using Aquamacs for the last several years, but I'm wondering if there is a better way to use Emacs on the Mac thes
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Another thing to keep an eye on when making this decision is fees. A lot of 401ks have terrible fees that will eat your growth. Whereas if you use a Vanguard IRA you can easily get into funds with 0.18% fees or less. I've used a non-ma
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Considering the author's previous article was about how employees do not deserve to keep their equity unless they stay with a company until liquidity, I suspect he would not support granting restricted stock. http://a16z.com
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Fabulous book. I saw it as a metaphor for those things in our cities we choose not to see, e.g. poverty and homelessness.
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I support this change, but it applies to the zoning that exists. If it passes, NIMBY efforts will shift to down zoning. Down zoning has already happened in many cities (including San Francisco), but it could be taken further.
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Adding a command to list recently changed Git branches (three ways)(recursion.org)
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The problem most people have with "stealing" garbage are that it makes a mess (some scavengers are more polite than others -- I don't have problems in my neighborhood). The other issue I've heard of is that the companies
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I think of the bottle deposit fee as an extremely inefficient wealth redistribution scheme. Nothing wrong with redistribution, but it might be a lot cheaper to give people money. When I was kid, recycling was less common and the bottle retu
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Yeah, I think he did. Ironically, it reads great on mobile -- the text is full width (which on my phone is a great line length) and there's no design getting in the way.
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IVF. Plus a year of cheaper failed treatments leading up to IVF.
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To add to this: I won't say anyone should have kids now or ever, but take it from me, if you wait to have kids it can become significantly more expensive (not to mention the emotional cost).
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It looks like they did a Google image search for whatever the subject of the book is, and slap the first thing they find on the cover. Example: The Agile Samurai https://imagery.pragprog.com/products/176/jtrap.jpg?
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This is one of my favorite books about software development. I read it early in my career, and it was a big influence on me (for example, motivating me to learn Python). One thing I've always thought ironic is how much nicer the typogr
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Good read. I have been trying to eliminate "just" from my vocabulary because I feel it denigrates the effort a task will take. It's much easier when writing. When speaking I still slip up.
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I use both Pocket and Pinboard. For me, Pocket serves as a "I'll read this later" service. If I find the article noteworthy, I'll bookmark it in Pinboard (using the email gateway). Pocket has released a number of premium
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If you're interested in the dead end of space planes, Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" covers how the program lost out to the Mercury system.
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Yeah. In The Star Faction, the UK has devolved into a bunch of autonomous microstates, which the government in exile is trying to reunite.
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UK votes to leave EU. Scotland and London viving to leave UK to stay in EU. Anyone else feel like they're living in a Ken MacLeod novel?
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> it's not as if the value created by the early employee goes away if they leave before a liquidity event. Exactly. The comparison with a football player is asinine. A player who no longer is on the team cannot contribute to winning
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There's another story of a dinner with Thiel in George Packer's The Unwinding ( https://www.amazon.com/Unwinding-Inner-History-New-America/d... ). The vignettes about Thiel are a small but interesting part of a
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"If Stephenson wrote Huckleberry Finn it would be 4,000 pages long and mostly about paddlewheel design" -- https://twitter.com/baconmeteor/status/663076130077802496 I have heard good things about this bo
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What about by the quality of the discussion in the Apply HN submission? This was (as I understood the original experiment) to be the primary mechanism for selecting finalists. Pinboard's application had the best discussion.

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