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by a_c 4y ago
My favourite scientific myth is "cholesterol causes heart disease" evangelized by Ancel Keys [1] in the Seven Countries Study [2]. From there, we developed plant oil. From plant oil, we developed margarine. From margarine, we disc
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by a_c 4y ago
The building spectrum covers from consulting on one end to crafting on the other end. The first step is to know yourself. Which style are you? Which style you want to be? If you are on the consulting end, talk to people, understand the prob
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by a_c 4y ago
Can we add 2014 to the title? For those unaware, Mike created https://observablehq.com/ and d3.js
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Even worse, what if it isn't a single actor on a single website but a whole swarm of army faking humanity? E.g. The CCP recently declared that Hong Kong was never a colony of the UK, but "under ruling of a colonial government&quot
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by a_c 4y ago
Anyone using tiddlywiki on mobile? I use tiddlywiki on desktop. I wonder how the experience is compared with gitjournal
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Assuming they rebuilt an exact replica of your software, there is a misaligned incentive at play. The hiring manager don't pay the 19 new hire salary out of his own pocket, the hiring manager don't build the product directly. No o
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Add secondary sliders on the primary slider to indicate current date/month/days in month then I can rest in peace. Oh wait, then it would be less elegant
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Just want to comment that, that's essentially public transit within a public transit. Public transit cares for throughput, private transport (cars, left-lane of escalator) cares for latency. Queuing theory in a nutshell.
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European founders plan to kick the asses of VCs who never started a company(techcrunch.com)
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Would love to hear HN's opinion on tracking. I was of the camp that all tracking is bad and should be banned. But one day I re-realized, website owner, having access to the server (e.g. nginx), can always track their visitor if they wi
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by a_c 4y ago
Same here
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Regarding japanese addresses, you can either see blocks as unnamed spaces between streets, or streets as unnamed spaces between blocks. https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_differe...
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by a_c 4y ago
I don't quite get why people are so hyped about VR. A novel experience, sure. Something to be "in" everyday, I'm not sure. And what about R [0], which we already have, and way better than VR, anyone? [0] https:/&#x
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by a_c 4y ago
Without the endless practice, he won't have the epiphany. Reading someone else's epiphany won't give you the muscle the endless practice resulted in. One has to look both the forest and the tree to distill and apply abstract
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Maybe it is just me, after skimming through the website, I thought "support" is to support the developer only to find out it is a documentation page.
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It also comes from a comment by Joe Armstrong, author of erlang, upon trying tiddlywiki. https://joearms.github.io/#Index Rip Joe
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What about the other extreme, let everyone do all the tests imaginable? Or course it doesn't make sense. The balance is on how mych evidence available before a test is suggested. Evidence is the incident rate among the population and t
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by a_c 4y ago
Can confirm. Have a stable family is key to work success. Or put it other way, always put family first
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You don't know what you don't know. Iteration is king. Experience can't be shared to team member. I don't mean that experience can't be documented and read. But that readers don't have visceral feeling upon rea
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by a_c 4y ago
Not sure if "entitlement" here has a well recognized meaning. But I think this is all about revenue recognition. patio11 gave a good overview here https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/accounting-for-saas-and-sw..
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by a_c 4y ago
While I agree with the article, readability is rarely precisely defined. What appeared to a veteran programmer be readable can be confusing to novice programmer. It then begs the question aren't veterans meant to understand a program f
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by a_c 4y ago
Can some of you share what are the ways to hedge against tumbling NASDAQ? The article is assuming we swing only a single bat. To me it seems spreading your investment into fixed dollar amount over a period of time is a sensible strategy.
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by a_c 4y ago
So if not IRR, then what? It's not that IRR is bad, it is the imaginary/on paper/not realized interim IRR that is bad. It's like instead of counting how much customer are paying, we measure sign-ups, page visits, time on
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by a_c 4y ago
It seems to me your career had been focusing on how to get things build. Would you entertain the idea of becoming the guy to come up with ideas "what" to build? Put it other way, to identify "problem" in a more general s
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by a_c 4y ago
Hi Gabriel, congratulations for the launch! I think software development is due for a disruption and your take on testing is spot on. As part of a dev tool belt we developing, we are building a tool to translate user interaction into a sele
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by a_c 4y ago
A product can mean a team that build - an one off project - an imaginary product solving imaginary problem - A MVP that verifies a hypothesis and taking care the whole customer journey - iteration and improvement of mvp - part(s) of custome
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by a_c 4y ago
Skimming through the comments, since when does API equate with HTTP API? Aren't we always integrating some API? Standard library anyone? What is poorly documented anyway? Put it another way, what is NOT an API?
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In an alternative universe I call the "yak shaving" refactoring
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by a_c 4y ago
> never trust a number One pet peeve of me is the water consumption of everything. Take milk production for example, it disregards so many things, local climate, soil conditions, ecology of having cow on land, biodiversity and so on. Som
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by a_c 4y ago
I think I understand your sentiment here. Being a father of two (2 and 4), I think children younger than certain age cannot connect the negative result with the action they did. I yell, I lose candy, so what? I get to yell. Also, telling ki

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