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Palihapitiya Decries Airbnb’s Recent $112M Funding Cash-Out(allthingsd.com)
1 points by achompas 15y ago|0 comments
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by achompas 15y ago
Are you thinking about resources for learning web frameworks like Rails, Django, etc.? Or do you want them to start working through some of the newer multi-purpose languages (Clojure, Scala, etc.)?
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by achompas 15y ago
Congrats on creating such a nice client. And in C#, no less! Your title implies that your hand might've been forced here. Was that the case? Would you have preferred to keep it closed?
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by achompas 15y ago
He denied paternity of his daughter Lisa, even testifying in court that he was infertile. Lisa's mother was on welfare for a time because of this. So if you are going to say he was a loving father, you should also mention that he was a neg
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by achompas 15y ago
I wanted to post this great anecdote from Metafilter: Here’s a short tale of mine when I worked at Apple: One sunny autumn day, Steve (he was always Steve) was walking across Apple’s campus with a reporter toward Caffe Macs. I was walking
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by achompas 15y ago
I'd agree, that last part was a bit saccharine. On net though, I thought it was great too.
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by achompas 15y ago
Very surprising to read this. Was there anything in particular that bugged you about it? To me, Gruber captures Jobs as both a loving family man and a visionary who is selective with his attention to detail. This is a nice lesson, as I ofte
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by achompas 15y ago
I have to disagree here. The author might be insensitive for raising this point so soon, but that doesn't diminish the point's validity. There's a difference between "Steve Jobs survived with cancer for 5 years" and "Steve Jobs barely reach
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by achompas 15y ago
More importantly is why didn't it come out sooner I think the simple answer is "they wanted to release iOS 5 with the new phone." Rumors point to a lot of delays in iOS 5 development.
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by achompas 15y ago
Since this was before the iPhone 4S was shifted from early summer, it made more sense a few months ago. More sense than zero isn't significantly different from zero. I said this a few months ago, and I stand by it now: there was no reas
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by achompas 15y ago
So this flies over my head a bit. Can someone explain why: (a) Ryan Dahl is qualified to speak about these issues (i.e. he worked on the original Unix design or something) (b) Rob Pike's comments are a big deal to Ryan, and (c) whether Ryan
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by achompas 15y ago
Yep. I ignored the equity angle but it's a must stronger force in this whole charade.
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by achompas 15y ago
It would definitely be contrived. Let's see how contrived! ;) class FizzBuzzer(): def __init__(self, num): self.mod3 = num % 3 == 0 self.mod5 = num % 5 == 0 def check(self): s = ""
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by achompas 15y ago
Is anyone really shocked? Here, I'll write out the tech media "design pattern" for a new Apple product. 1. Hype up killer pie-in-the-sky feature that makes zero economic sense for Apple (see: retina iPad, 4G iPhone with larger screen). Traf
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by achompas 15y ago
This is an interesting idea: why not use FizzBuzz to show off your understanding of different paradigms? Someone who barely scrapes out an imperative-style FizzBuzz might not be ideal. On the other hand, someone who can write FizzBuzz in fu
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by achompas 15y ago
Wow! Excellent performance.
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by achompas 15y ago
Some people swear by their 15", while others (like me) have traded a bit of screen size for some portability. There are two major differences between the 15" Pro and the 13" Pro: monitor options and computing power. The 15" is obviously mor
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by achompas 15y ago
Curious: is this performance I wrote a classifier that's 99.96% accurate on comment spam, and 99.99% if configured to present a captcha when it's close. on a test dataset? Or new, out-of-sample data? I see those percentages and immediatel
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by achompas 15y ago
While we're providing critique: clean up the writing on your resume and change the "skills" section to something relevant. Rating half your skills at 4 and half at 3 tells me zero. Finally, lose the Apple love. It's very unbecoming.
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by achompas 15y ago
Yep, but its a good article. And apparently there isn't a discussion on here anymore...maybe we should have a new one?
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How I Was Nearly Seduced by Grouper, the Biggest Sham in Online Dating(gizmodo.com)
6 points by achompas 15y ago|2 comments
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Get that job at Google (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
2 points by achompas 15y ago|3 comments
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by achompas 15y ago
Trying functional: import sys with open(sys.argv[1], 'r') as f: word = f.readline() try: print filter(lambda x: word.count(x) == 1, word)[0] except IndexError: print ""
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by achompas 15y ago
My first pass (assumes input file is an arg): import sys def first_unique(word): if len(word) == 0: return "EOF" for i in range(0, len(word)-1): return word[i] if word[i] != word[i+1]
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by achompas 15y ago
I might jailbreak my iPhone just for this.
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by achompas 15y ago
Downvoted--please try to disagree more tactfully next time.
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by achompas 15y ago
Audio is the core feature of the original iPod. Audio quality was not. iPods never supported Ogg Vorbis or FLAC, for example. Ultimately, some ppl like reading white-on-black text on LCDs at night instead of e-ink. LCDs aren't better or
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by achompas 15y ago
Agreed. This might be ex post rationalization, but the keyboard helps me form thoughts. I've got no problem with it (but we definitely agree on the stylus).
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by achompas 15y ago
Reading can be passive or active. As an active reader I highlight and annotate my books, so the keyboard is invaluable for me.
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by achompas 15y ago
Semantics...would you argue the iPod nano diluted the iPod brand?

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