NhanH

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by NhanH 12y ago
One thing comes right away to mind when reading those numbers: the average age for professor getting tenured is ~39. Is it really a creativity issue, or a more structural issue on process in university (ie you can't do great achievemen
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by NhanH 12y ago
It depends on whether you're classifying based on intentions or on results. When you're using the word "bad guy", it implied the intentions to be bad/evil. However, it's easy to see that a complex system can&#x
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by NhanH 12y ago
The range of weather that allows human to function properly and comfortably without clothes is extremely limited (I'd guess something like 17 to 25 Celsius, cloudy and no rain or wind). I live in Southern California, arguably one of th
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by NhanH 12y ago
Yes, I can relate, and I just barely started my career in software development. Let's have a thought experiment this way: imagine picking 4 programmers and ask them to implement Git from scratch, can you imagine any scenario in which
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by NhanH 12y ago
Off topic: Self promotion is not prohibited on HN, in fact it's even (semi) encouraged. But I feel like I've seen link to your blog too many times lately. And indeed, looking at your comment history, it seems to me that every oth
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by NhanH 12y ago
If we're talking about effectiveness, you then have to define what's the criteria that you're optimizing for - that's mostly the difference between morality frameworks. Certainly there is argument that was made within ut
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by NhanH 12y ago
"Good", "evil" and "good faith" are all too ill-defined to be used in a philosophical discussion like this: you will have to define them. It's fine for pg to used, because a) He's almost using good as
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by NhanH 12y ago
It's actually pretty interesting that small/lifestyle businesses get a lot of respect on Hacker News (pinboard, improvely, Appointment reminder and their creators are all very well revered here). In fact, a lot more than the gener
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by NhanH 12y ago
Did you read the paper? Because the paper doesn't contradict the claims that "Pets != humans". The argument that the paper made, and I quote "I argue that we should drop the belief in the equal value of human life, repla
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by NhanH 12y ago
May I ask which kind of performance bottleneck did you see in Lisp? And do you mind expanding on which characteristics make you immediately think Lisp is a toy language?
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I agree that most of the time, advice is lost. But I don't think it's because people don't get the importance of the advice, but rather because they don't recognize when the advice could have applied in the heat of the m
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by NhanH 12y ago
I'd second the jacquesm's post: you should write a book or a blog post on those. One of the reason I've noticed for everyone's wanting to use "distributed" and "cluster" stuffs is that we have no intu
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I just want to note that of the three providers you mention, they're really not providing equivalent services (GCE is definitely much different than EC2, so does Azure and AWS ecosystem). So depending on your stacks, it should be an
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by NhanH 12y ago
It seems to me that the essay tried to answer the question "What is it that you want to have as your career". Now, whether you can actually make that your career is an entirely different question. I might love playing tennis, but
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by NhanH 12y ago
In a sense, they were, if you consider "evil" to be doing whatever it takes to advance your agenda. On a more on topic note, I'm trying to imagine a world where personal cars didn't take off. What would be the differen
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by NhanH 12y ago
clojure.stacktrace is nice for production debugging from time to time, but it's not solving the problem: by the time the code get to production, it normally has enough log (and is reasonably in good shape) that you can figure out what&
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The main issue I have with Clojure is the stack trace ... If you've ever hate yourself when an error in Java popup and you have to trace 30 lines of stack trace in Java, it's far worse in clojure.
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That scenario seems extremely unlikely though. If you talk to FB with the mindset of "just to see what price you can get", I doubt they would have gotten anywhere near the 19B price tag. That was an extremely well negotiation proc
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by NhanH 12y ago
Now that's the first startup I've been excited to read about in a while. It seems to be a very sensible first step in solving the "email inbox is our new todo list" [0] that pg mentioned a few years ago. If they actually
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by NhanH 12y ago
The advice that I got was to join mid size startup (Think of google 2004, FB 2007, or uber/ airbnb/ dropbox right now). The company has been mostly de-risked, and there is still newer parts of the organization where you get to do
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Isn't what you describe (documentation first, then code) basically a poor man version of literate programming ;) ?
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by NhanH 12y ago
I've never liked the characteristics of Steve Jobs (and 90s Bill Gates) as mean. They're what I'd called "evil" - in the sense that they will do anything to get the works done, ethics or social norms be damned. But
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by NhanH 12y ago
I just want to point out that the "entrepreneur" with 20 years career did not just start recently: if it's bad, then it has been a while. >We did it because there was an inexhaustible quantity of information to be learned
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As someone who've always liked your writing, please do write the blog post even if it's similar to this one. While it has some merits in term of ideas, the writing is quite horrible, if not confusing ... For example, while he&#x27
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by NhanH 12y ago
$1b+ in payment was processed, which is far and much different than $1b+ in profit. We don't know what the margin is on that.
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Oh, let me be a bit more clear. To quote the article > The main push of docker seems to be for completely self-contained applications, basically a super cheap and consistent VM. But VMs are a hack, and docker in many ways is just as hack
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by NhanH 12y ago
That's actually an interesting point wiht regard to SQL DB: deploying PostgreSQL and juggling around with all the different permission/ login setting have always been one of my most dislike aspect of it. Considering that it's
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Do you mind elaborate more on what's wrong with self-contained VM?
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A few months ago, after reading on HN about long-term (forever) side projects, I decide to write a kind of personal tracker/ todo list/ personal knowledge base mix up (basically, a "this is my life"/ "this is m
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by NhanH 12y ago
I will need a follow up blog title "How to be productive" or something similar. But seriously, I can't fathom myself doing half the stuff being listed in the post in a year.

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