GabrielBen

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by GabrielBen 1y ago
A game of Go can be legally infinite due to recaptures. (player passes 360 times, then eats the entire board and it starts over). It's also a natural infinite game due to Kos which can be the best move to play. This requires a set of e
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by GabrielBen 1y ago
Instagram, Whatsapp
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by GabrielBen 1y ago
Use practice mode so you don't have the competing cursor! Will look into the singlequotes issue!
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by GabrielBen 1y ago
Yes, but at the same time in a technical interview you don't control the IDE and you need to type it out. I.e. google interviews on a google doc.
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by GabrielBen 1y ago
This is why I built wpm.silver.dev. Theres no tolerance for typos on code and way more special characters than MonkeyType. 120 on monkeytype can be 50 on wpm
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Show HN: Silver WPM(wpm.silver.dev)
2 points by GabrielBen 1y ago|0 comments
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by GabrielBen 2y ago
There's something about some of the 80's and 90's games that showed exceptional love and art from the game makers. I bought my 5-yo daughter an arcade for her birthday and we have been playing Bobble Bubble non-stop for month
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by GabrielBen 4y ago
Argentinian here - this 100%.
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by GabrielBen 4y ago
This is a site made by a VC, for news on VC startups, for VC startup news consumers. Its mind-boggling that so many users come here to rant against capitalism, or advocate against startups, or have absolutely no relationship whatsoever with
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by GabrielBen 4y ago
Argentina is way more socialist as measured in a controlled economy than europeans - some taxes are higher than 80% of net income and often exceeding gross income as well. It is also way more capitalist than the US by having a large part of
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by GabrielBen 4y ago
This is a common argentinian conception, and it is a big misconception. Gov corruption is a lot worse in the united states. It's just that corruption is not a 1-1 correlation with the success of an economy. Argentina has a poor economy
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by GabrielBen 5y ago
I think its not about danger, but about the general libertarian-ness of developers as a whole, specially the internet. Some countries have tried to put degree requirements for software engineers, but developers are not union-friendly or cer
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by GabrielBen 5y ago
Hospitals are very interested in running their operations close-to-a-loss. This is more important than the spend-share on equipment or salaries. Hospitals are setup mostly as non-profits, which means they have no incentive to have an operat
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by GabrielBen 5y ago
Excited to read this! > >> you would also lower admin costs. > Not clear that this is true or why it would happen. There is an operational tax whenever you involve more people into the operation. You need to communicate, add pap
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by GabrielBen 16y ago
Im about to move out with my girlfriend, and my realtor checked my background with Facebook. I only knew about this because that guy turned out to have gone to high school with my boss, and my boss told me. Even though im a programmer, the
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by GabrielBen 17y ago
Killing an IPO market its more a healthy sign than a bad one. IPOs were always a way for the finantial institutions to take profit from naive market investors. Historically IPOS have very bad results in average, and in the case they do get
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by GabrielBen 17y ago
With finances you always have to sit down and do the math, which could be already a fair ammount of work. I think that this situation happens in part for the "moral"restrictions, in part for the credit rating, but also because of the effect
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You don have to be evil to exploit a human being. Just powerful.(prisonexp.org)
4 points by GabrielBen 17y ago|0 comments