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by MarkMc 7y ago
Most users prefer an app over the web on mobile. If installing apps on desktop can become as painless as on mobile, perhaps users will also prefer an app over the web on desktop? Maybe then we can let browsers just render documents and stop
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These days Indians can transfer up to USD 250,000 per year for the purposes of buying US stocks: https://transferwise.com/au/blog/rbi-fema-guidelines-remitta... But for mainly cultural reasons Indians still invest
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Most Facebook revenue comes from US and Europe where user growth is basically zero. The 8% user growth is driven by poorer countries like India and Indonesia, so the contribution of user growth to revenue would be much less - I'd say a
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It's interesting to consider the psychological aspect here. By publicly saying they expect a fine in the range $3-5 billion, Facebook increases the chance that the regulators ultimately decide on a figure in that range or close to it.
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> Could you have a human driver in charge with an accident preventing robot, getting the best of both worlds? I'm not sure that human+robot would be better than robot alone. Eg. The human is in control and starts moving close to the
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A great book on this subject is The Checklist Manifesto [0]. An interesting point made in the book is that checklists help to correct the subtle psychological problems that occur in an operating theatre. Without a checklist a nurse who sees
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I don't think the Elon Musk or Steve Jobs analogy is accurate. Katie Bouman was co-leader of one of four imaging teams on the project. It seems to me the other person who co-led that team deserves equal praise and fame, and perhaps als
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You seem to be saying that unless a significant fraction of their students end up at FAANG companies then recruiters will not care whether "Lambda School" is on a resume. Is there anything Lambda could do to change your mind on th
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> Except for the very top tier programs, no one cares that you have bootcamp on your resume. Couldn't Lambda School be one of those top tier programs? > For an online course, that is way too much. Lambda's co-founder recentl
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What matters for most people is not accreditation, but rather how much the program can boost the student's income.
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McLaren College | Online Software Engineering Teacher | Indian Timezone | REMOTE | Full Time | https://mclarencollege.in I'm developing a live online course to teach software engineering to people in India. I'm lookin
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I'm the founder of McLaren College. You can think of it as kind of like "Lambda School for India" - the goal is to train people to earn an income from computer programming in return for a share of their income. Happy to ans
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Show HN: McLaren College – an online bootcamp for Indians with no up-front fees(mclarencollege.in)
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To say that "tech is behind medicine's adoption curve with resepect to gender inclusion" suggests that the percentage of women in tech is slowly growing from a low base, on a similar trajectory to women in medicine a generati
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Isn't working face-to-face simply more productive?
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Pilot who hitched a ride saved Boeing 737 Max a day before it crashed(smh.com.au)
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Thanks - that's a good overview :) Most of my apps just code against the servlet spec with a JDBC connection to a MYSQL database, sometimes with JSP. Perhaps because most of my business logic lives on the client I've usually found
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I'm so glad I was taught Java at Macquarie University back in 1998. For the past 20 years I've had a career built on a solid API that doesn't change every 2 years like some flavour-of-the-month Javascript framework. Even on
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by MarkMc 8y ago
I know Spring and Spring boot are very popular, but I don't understand why. The Spring Boot home page says, "Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run&q
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Meaningless Growth Metrics(twitter.com)
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Do you mean the teacher's effectiveness would be improved if slow learners were cut from the class?
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Good response time nonetheless. Sam Altman recently did an interview where Tyler Cowan asked, "How quickly should someone answer your email to count as quick and decisive?" Sam's answer: "You know, years ago I wrote a li
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Can you tell us the name of the college?
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No doubt it's a disappointment for these kids, but they will get over it pretty quickly. People have a powerful ability to protect their ego and tell themselves what they want to hear.
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Facebook says their North American monthly active users have increased 1% since 2017. Edison Research says there are 6% fewer US users since 2017. I'm curious to understand the reason for this discrepancy. Edison says, We're sa
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This is an example of US economic dynamism. In France or even the UK people would be saying, "How can we let such a large, profitable company lay off people so easily?"
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Several related facts: 1. In countries that empower women, they are less likely to choose math and science professions: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more... 2. In the past 30
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"In countries that empower women, they are less likely to choose math and science professions." https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
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With an in-memory database like Derby I find my test cases run fast enough
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Readable to me, and I assume most other Java programmers. Here's an example I recently came across [0]: Option A: static <X, Y, Z> Map<X, Z> transform(Map<? extends X, ? extends Y> input, Function<Y, Z>

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