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by S4M 11y ago
I've been using Emacs for only four years. I would love to have a peek at you guys' .emacs files.
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by S4M 11y ago
Not sama here, not affiliated with YC, but my guess is that a talented researcher who spent some time on a bad track at YCR could keep working for YC as a scientific advisor or work for one of the YC companies that might need his/her s
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by S4M 11y ago
How about installing Linux on it? (I am curious to know if that's possible because I'm considering to buy the Surface to put Linux).
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by S4M 11y ago
Thank you for the reply, but I already knew about duckduckhack - I made a small contribution to it in 2013. What I meant however is the core search engine, that is currently closed source.
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by S4M 11y ago
That's great! Two questions: - Will the researchers need to be based in the Bay Area - AFAIK: not the best place to raise a family? - In the short term, how many researchers do you plan to hire?
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by S4M 11y ago
Hey Gabriel, Do you have some plans to open source the search engine of DuckDuckGo one day and let people contribute?
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by S4M 11y ago
By "virtually every dev not in gaming", do you mean "virtually every dev not in gaming and living in an area of San Francisco known for its high rent and for producing small companies of dubious utility with crazy high valuat
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by S4M 11y ago
You might want to read about "statistical arbitrage", it's basically what you are describing, and it has been around for more than twenty years.
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How to be awesome(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by S4M 11y ago
I would rather agree with what you are saying there, but I don't see what it has to do with your original comment, where you said "The VCs that are funding this company and its ilk are signing deals that immensely limit their down
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by S4M 11y ago
>The VCs that are funding this company and its ilk are signing deals that immensely limit their downside potential and max their upside. How does that limit VCs' potential downside? Of course if the company gets acquired for a good
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by S4M 11y ago
How does this work? Is this some kind of Linux VM with an XFCE interface that runs in the browser?
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by S4M 11y ago
it works offline.
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Chess computer Komodo 9 playing GMs with handicap(en.chessbase.com)
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by S4M 11y ago
I think you explained very well why HomeJoy failed this summer.
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by S4M 11y ago
Another one here for whom skype is down is Spain.
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by S4M 11y ago
As a doctor, wouldn't you be in a really good position to work on a medical startup? I don't know that field at all, but I understand that lots of the work of a doctor can be automatized with machine learning, for example, writing
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Ride-sharing app Blablacar raises 200M(telegraph.co.uk)
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by S4M 11y ago
I think French and English spellings are complicated for different reasons: given its pronunciation, the spelling of an English word is generally easy to guess (and I insist on generally : I needed the automatic corrector to tell me that I
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by S4M 11y ago
French here. I do believe that English is very easy to learn, because not really error prone. Do you conjugate verbs? No (well, kind of). Do the English nouns have genders? No. It's true that English is not straight forward to pronounc
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by S4M 11y ago
French expat here, considering coming back. I just checked bpifrance.fr you linked, and... it's really badly designed. The navigation is really made really complex (you need to know exactly what you are looking for in order to get the
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by S4M 11y ago
It depends of the complexity of the software. The small Unix utilities like grep or ls are, AFAIK, bug free, because what they do is very simple, but something more complicated is more likely to have small bugs somewhere.
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Good UI(goodui.org)
3 points by S4M 11y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 11y ago
"7. No one cares how you did it"
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by S4M 11y ago
Is it just me, or it's the "gather" function to mine resources is not working? Really nice apart from that.
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by S4M 11y ago
Since it's for UI, it would be good to see some screenshots in the documentation or the README.
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Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns?(stackoverflow.com)
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At Burning Man the Tech Elite One Up Each Other(nytimes.com)
3 points by S4M 11y ago|1 comments
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by S4M 11y ago
I cannot prove it, but I suspect chess improves the capabilities to remember words in foreign languages.
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by S4M 11y ago
Fair point, but I would say that a mathematician might require more intense concentration than a programmer.

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