BrandonM

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by BrandonM 6y ago
Take care to observe how John Carmack went about it, though. He described the issue from his perspective, gave a clear example, didn't blame anyone, and asked before making any changes at all. Someone replied suggesting that the refact
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by BrandonM 6y ago
Indeed, we’ve come full (half?) circle. IIRC, it was renamed to Hacker News in part to discourage meta-discussion on intellectually stimulating posts, questioning why the front page had so many posts that weren’t about startups. Now we are
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by BrandonM 6y ago
Your third and even fourth paragraphs are pretty interesting. It's a shame that they come after the speculation and jabs in the first two paragraphs.
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by BrandonM 6y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming that these companies are acting out of the goodness of their hearts. These companies all have missions, though. Companies are made up of people. Some of those people believe in those missions and choose
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by BrandonM 6y ago
I think that's taking things a bit too far. Of course, the ultimate goal of every for-profit corporation is to make a profit. But along the way, most of them are providing value to society. So much of the Internet as we know it is buil
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by BrandonM 6y ago
The article addresses that point.
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by BrandonM 6y ago
Overcast does roughly that for podcasts and it works great.
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by BrandonM 6y ago
You don’t have to be out of money to raise funds, so I question that you have to spend the money. You can raise with years of runway, provided that you have a compelling story about how you’re going to put the additional funds to use creati
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by BrandonM 6y ago
If there’s anyone in finance who’s less focused on quarterly numbers than VCs, I’d love to hear about them. One of the bigger criticisms of VCs is that they encourage a high risk, high burn, swing-for-the-fences strategy, even in businesses
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by BrandonM 6y ago
Bringing back mammoths based only on DNA seems to me to be akin to bringing back a New Yorker based only on DNA, thousands of years after NYC no longer exists. Even with perfect DNA, I think we underestimate the role that social structure a
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by BrandonM 7y ago
I found the video to be worthwhile overall. For anyone looking for the Kayfabe-specific part, though, it starts at about 23:40: https://youtu.be/bsgWSPWX-6A?t=1420
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by BrandonM 7y ago
To me, the main point of marriage in the present day is to have all your friends and family sign off on your mutual declaration, “This person is now the most important person in my life.” Your parents, best friends, siblings no longer have
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by BrandonM 7y ago
In a given time period, let's say a year, you may personally work harder or smarter than in some other year. Do you believe that you should be compensated the same regardless of how hard or smart you work in a given year? If you'r
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by BrandonM 7y ago
...if everyone is bringing their whole self to work. Not saying I agree or disagree, but I think that's important context that shouldn't be left out.
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by BrandonM 7y ago
Many comments mention the merits of Lisp. That's all well and good, but I think they miss the largely historical reasons that Lisp is so popular here: Paul Graham wrote Ansi Common Lisp and On Lisp . Both are great books and were us
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by BrandonM 7y ago
Are you implying that SF is a lot less racist than America is on average, or that there are places in America that are a lot more racist than SF?
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by BrandonM 7y ago
To your point, I thought Columbus, OH, would be a good candidate for a large city limits population. According to Wikipedia, "Columbus adopted a policy of linking sewer and water hookups to annexation to the city." This means that
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by BrandonM 7y ago
There are 5 different Greyhound buses next Monday from Chicago to Dayton (called "Dayton Trotwood"), ranging from $36 to $90, all taking about 7 hours. There are some passenger trains in the US—I've actually gone overnight fr
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by BrandonM 7y ago
That would be hugely ironic considering https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 . Then again, Shuttleworth spoke pretty positively about Microsoft when he closed the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net&#x2F
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by BrandonM 7y ago
@track_me_now: you seem to be shadowbanned even though your comments seem reasonable to me. You might want to message the mods.
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by BrandonM 7y ago
I wonder whether a human calculating a math problems is not unlike a computer simulating another computer. Observing the hand-eye coordination of top athletes, it's pretty clear that our brains do some amazing computations, and fast. I
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by BrandonM 7y ago
Is the human species every really comfortable?
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by BrandonM 7y ago
That basically is what they have (see bottom): https://www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/how-ratings-work/ I think it's absurd that they try to dictate user behavior based on broad averages, as opposed to normaliz
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by BrandonM 7y ago
I live a couple blocks away from Van Ness. Here's the project: https://www.sfcta.org/projects/van-ness-improvement-project . They're moving to dedicated bus lanes, allowing the buses to load and unload safely
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by BrandonM 7y ago
There really are cities that pay for bus tickets to ship homeless out, generally under the banner of a name like "homeward bound." The reality, though, is that SF is a net exporter under those programs: https://www.theg
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by BrandonM 7y ago
Not what I was saying at all. The Starbucks comment is questioning the value proposition of a service that a lot of companies clearly value, providing an alternative that isn't realistic for more than a single person. It's a typic
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by BrandonM 7y ago
An HN submission 4 months ago¹ reported that WeWork forms a separate subsidiary for each lease agreement. So at least when they're not the owner, they've conveniently arranged to not be on the hook if a particular location or regi
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by BrandonM 7y ago
Yeah, that's not what that post actually said, nor is it true to the context of the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by BrandonM 7y ago
The Overcast podcasting app seems to be built by a single person: https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq
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by BrandonM 8y ago
It’s funny that you assume the narrator is a male while I assumed female. I’m not sure whether that would change anything about how to address difficult situations with a male roommate.

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