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by RKoutnik 12y ago
EDIT: Looks like this has been fixed already. Speedy update by GitHub, nice work folks. This is very easy to bypass. I was able to 'chime in' on one of the massive threads this feature intends to stop by referencing it in an iss
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As a response, I've started a project where I code out the answers to all of these silly "can you code" questions that pop up. I've been able to use it in several interviews, and it's thrown the interviewer for a l
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> The entire group of founder already has wallowed into a number of controversial issues, calling attention mostly to their idiotic hijinks than to their business. A claim like that should carry a source at least. Not all of us follow R
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Key takeaway: Ensure your cofounders are competent through third-party verification if you can't do it yourself. I know of company cofounded by a skilled business guy and a technical guy. That's a fairly typical split, except the
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It's just the same now with CS. We lost 75% of CS prospects in the first semester, almost all of them due to Calculus (although I think some of them came in with the malformed idea that programming was just like video games). I kept i
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See my reply to gwern above.
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> German and Dutch governments, perhaps from fear of elitism, try to ensure that all universities are roughly equal in quality. The downside is that none are especially good. http://paulgraham.com/america.html
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I learned about that particular situation from one of pg's essays (something I figured I could assume was common knowledge around here).
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If that was the case, I'd worry about the buckets becoming like German universities - the best minds can't get together, so we all lose out.
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That's a rather interesting concept. My big issue is that I'd be missing the best content from other buckets. Perhaps content can 'emerge' from a bucket after garnering a certain % of support from the bucket?
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It sounds like it's ever. I know he's mentioned overfunding as one of the primary wedge drivers into already-shaky teams, so that's post-YC.
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I know a lot of you will complain about the Facebook-only sign in. This was a deliberate decision on our part. There are several features in the product (most importantly, searching your own graph) that require some sort of social sign-on
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Show HN: Search the open social graph(needlehunt.com)
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World in Transition II (Albert Wenger)(youtube.com)
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Despite claiming I'm 'full stack', I've never done much in the design sphere. Everything seemed so complicated. How do I pick fonts? What's a color scheme? I've recently dived in and while it's complic
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Product-Market Fit(stanford.edu)
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Wonderful logo and nice slight zoom on hover. It seems to be ordered by length/alphabet. It'd be nice to be able to sort by word usage as well (not many know what sutures are).
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I did the same thing - They didn't have the "coming soon" banner on their website back then. Kinda scummy marketing if you ask me. FOSS is awesome, just don't overpromise and underdeliver or you'll burn goodwill.
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Apple boosts MacBook Air processor, slashes prices(cnet.com)
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On Privilege and Luck, or Why Success Breeds Success(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
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Sure there is! They provide good examples of what is not accepted here at HN so that bystanders know where the line is. Educating newcomers about what is acceptable is a very difficult thing to do in web communities, and examples (of bo
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I think this is by design - Downvoted comments clearly show community disagreement, but one can still read them with minimal effort. Not to mention that so long as they're displayed on the page, someone will come up with a userscript t
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This is actually the third time this has been submitted [1] (including once by the actual author of this post). There's an extra `/?` appended to the url so HN thinks it's a different link. Not sure why - just adding the
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AgLocal Goes from Meat Marketplace to Meat Subscription Service(fastcompany.com)
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by RKoutnik 13y ago
To be fair, sama listed "It's not about the money" as SV lie #1: https://twitter.com/sama/status/453708825250381824
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Why does isFinite(null) === true in JavaScript?(stackoverflow.com)
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Longer answer on StackOverflow (including V8 source): http://stackoverflow.com/a/21893602/1216976
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I agree, the main site seems to be 90% "Write code for beginning programmers who are too lazy to do any research on their own." However, the chatrooms are an excellent place to have those opinion-based off-topic discussions. I fi
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From Facebook investor relations, looks like the price was $2B, $400MM cash, $1.6 stock, with options on $300MM more. > Facebook today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Oculus VR, Inc., the leader in immersi
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Reminds me of Kathy Sierra's excellent talk on the topic: http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/kathy-sierra-building-... The gist of it: Help your users do awesome things, then get out of the way when they s

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