Felz

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by Felz 8y ago
No, actually. In equity financings, the dilution's in the details. Specifically there are two major ways I've seen pro rata clauses vary: How the percentage of the company an investor owns is calculated, and what shares that perce
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> Howell seems like a great guy who would probably make a great senior developer, founder or PM at any company that aims to solve customer needs. Google's focus, however, is on hiring SWEs that can solve uniquely complex and difficu
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by Felz 8y ago
My apologies if my comment came off as disingenuous or overly binary. I'd agree you could take minimal MVPs too far. (Also, the phrase "minimal MVP" is RAS syndrome but how would I say it otherwise?) What I haven't seen
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by Felz 8y ago
What's the alternative? Overfunded waterfall-style development on fewer things nobody wants? The lean startup model seems like it works, even outside of tech. Even yes, in medicine that can kill as a failure mode. Drug development, for
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It seems odd to characterize a declarative approach to rendering as an optimization. The draw for me is that I don't need to manage the state of a bunch of DOM objects anymore. I wouldn't even mind if React were slower- the perfor
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Absolutely. I actually agree with you- this is playing with fire- I just thought it'd be helpful to point out the general dilemma. This is sort of awkward on HN, because there's a culture of stoic self-reliance that's very he
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by Felz 8y ago
I wish I could be more help for good reads. Unfortunately, I tend not to write them down, and the best stuff only sinks in later. SSC is usually fairly interesting for stuff like though, which is why I can remember to link it. For example,
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by Felz 8y ago
This is a bravery debate, in other words. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/09/all-debates-are-bravery... There are probably people who really need to hear "your problems are real and you should get help
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by Felz 8y ago
Not a direct answer, but immediate REM sleep is a symptom of narcolepsy. So the animal displaying the most REM sleep is probably a narcoleptic human. It just makes you tired, no matter how much sleep you get.
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But does the interest rate of this debt exceed the economic gains we've made from fossil fuels? (Also, did you just use technical debt as a metaphor for regular old debt?)
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I assume catering food for your employees is tax advantaged.
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Uh, so wait. If the IRS/Interpol becomes an effective source of truth on which coins may be legally transferred and who rightfully owns them, what was the point of the blockchain?
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I think that justifying personal ignorance as e.g. a "minimalist knowledge approach" is the root of mediocrity. Excellent developers have no sense of learned helplessness. They will not settle for ignorance in either their tools o
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by Felz 8y ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what the sample_rate query parameter in this URL is for?
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by Felz 9y ago
I've always found MobX to be a joy to use, compared to other state management that needs a lot more boilerplate. I see that there are schedulers for autoruns now, but will there be a parallel for computed properties? I implemented some
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by Felz 9y ago
I think bypassing the entire DOM would be ultimately a good thing. There's no real choice in webdev; we are all shackled to a rickety and cobbled together mountain of legacy code. Browsers should always have been a well defined VM with
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by Felz 9y ago
Funny, I was using the source-map library under Nashorn. The performance was poor enough that I had to switch to embedding V8; I'm not sure whether that was a consequence of Nashorn itself being too slow, or the Javascript optimization
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by Felz 9y ago
Well, of course something that skirts around regulations will require less red tape. Once the government catches up, you'll be required to do similar hoop jumping for cryptos. Exchanges suffer this problem already, don't they?
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by Felz 9y ago
I feel like proof of work blockchains don't actually solve the problem of "who to trust". Nodes just automatically assign trust to whoever mined the best hash that they know of, which turns out to be whoever holds the most mi
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by Felz 9y ago
Weren't Meltdown/Spectre exploitable via Javascript?
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by Felz 9y ago
Very neat! I could definitely use this for one of my side projects, which injects this sort of instrumentation into a webpage through a script tag.
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by Felz 9y ago
Have you heard of Aumann's agreement theorem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann's_agreement_theorem Theoretically it means that two AI should be able to reach a consensus pretty quickly without needing to
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by Felz 9y ago
You can effectively disable JavaScript with WebExtensions by injecting a script that overwrites all the properties of the document and window with undefined. Instantly crashes pretty much any script. If you want to do it sometime after page