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Show HN: Magako – a virtual maths teacher who understand maths like a human(magako.com)
3 points by S4M 12y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 12y ago
You make it sound so simple, but how did you find your first customer? >Take buyers and sellers of technology services out to coffee and ask what they buy/sell and what they would buy/sell but for the impossibility of finding i
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by S4M 12y ago
It's pretty neat for a paradigm of poor design to last so long...
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by S4M 12y ago
I think it's fine to mention as "he" by mistake, but if she says "Don't mention me as 'he', I'm a 'she'.", people should say "oh sorry" and not "Are you a fucking trans?&
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by S4M 12y ago
What's special with HP?
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by S4M 12y ago
I am not an expert Lisper myself, but to understand Lisp's power I'd suggest to write a basic parser of maths expressions (to evaluate things like "2+3*4-7+log(100)") - the language you choose to write it doesn't ma
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by S4M 12y ago
How about Goldbach's conjecture: "Every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture
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by S4M 12y ago
I couldn't agree more with your comments: the innovations sama mentions are just shiny copies of what existed ten years ago, or maybe more - with a few exceptions. This article is pretty depressing, since what he is saying is in essenc
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by S4M 12y ago
a) Linux Debian here. b) Advantages I see using Linux on the desktop: I got fed up with the Windows UI when I switched to Linux couple of years ago, and I kept it because of the power of the command line and the possibility to change the De
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by S4M 12y ago
When I said "nothing interesting", it means that I don't have an open source project people are using, and I am not a massive contributor. However, I have some ELisp code to help me write Python a bit faster, a contribution i
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by S4M 12y ago
Well, I put it because I thought it would be relevant, but apparently it wasn't. How could I know beforehand what will not be relevant or interesting to whoever will read my cv?
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by S4M 12y ago
Yes, I put a link to my Github on my cv, and it was never mentionned - my Github doesn't have anything really interesting though.
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by S4M 12y ago
When you went back on the job market, did you have something to show off for your failed startup? I know that all hiring managers are not completely rational, but IMHO if you can say: "I worked at X, we were building X.com, and I imple
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by S4M 12y ago
I like it, but you should add some tags with the questions, because "Is a head expected on the first date?" next to "What is the tech stack of this website?" feels a bit weird - I may have the wording of the questions w
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by S4M 12y ago
I did actually. In 2012 I wiped my hard drive to install Linux on it. 6 months later the screen of my computer started to act funny, and I could use the guarantee to have my screen replaced. FWIW it was in UK, maybe in other countries the r
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by S4M 12y ago
I couldn't agree more with your comment. Maybe there is a way to collect data about user only after they have been anonymized, so the data would contain only what user_xxx does, with no way to map user_xxx to his real identity. I don&#
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by S4M 12y ago
Can't you just buy the Windows one and then wipe the hard drive? That's what I did with my Dell.
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by S4M 12y ago
Don't take it in a wrong way, but I checked your web page, and while it looks very impressive, I have no idea how you guys are making money. Would it be OK for you to explain a bit?
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by S4M 12y ago
"server not found". I don't know if HN crashed the server or if there is some irony involved.
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Leadership is not a stepping stone(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
3 points by S4M 12y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 12y ago
This comment is very true, but I would like to add that if the public Universities have quite a bad reputation for the first two or three years, the level of the Msc (in France it's 5 years of University) is decent, and still free.
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by S4M 12y ago
I think when you hire someone who is a manager, you have to do this kind backchannel reference makes sense, otherwise you get someone who is not experienced at all in managing people but pretends to have done it already.
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by S4M 12y ago
The name is misleading, I expected the article to be about a Starcraft parody.
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by S4M 12y ago
I have troubles understanding how someone can think hacking people's voice mail will get them to invest in his company - that isn't related to security.
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by S4M 12y ago
From the description you gave it sounds the business model of AnyPerk is based on the fact that HR departments are too lazy to do their job.
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by S4M 12y ago
Taro, two questions: 1. What was your thought process when pivoting from a dating site to AnyPerk? They seem to me like two unrelated things. 2. You say that your burnout was very low, but living three guys in a motel room, surely it has to
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by S4M 12y ago
I expected it to be some random user here who was revealing to be actually pg/Zuck or someone famous.
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by S4M 12y ago
Hmm dude, everybody here who is not a native English speaker knows at least a second language on top of his mother tongue. I'm French, fluent in English and conversational in Spanish and German and I don't think it's so impre
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by S4M 12y ago
>Oh, you went to Harvard 10 years ago? That's so relevant considering we just met 2 minutes ago! You used to work at Goldman and now you're doing a consumer-tech startup? Yeah, that really needed to be in the first 3 sentences
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by S4M 12y ago
There is one thing I don't get with your product actually, why would a team need it instead of keeping using whatever chat or messaging system they are currently using and putting links to google docs or shared drive on it? Maybe I am

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