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by aegiso 13y ago
> but is there any reason it has less chance than bitcoin? I suspect serious (TM) business people would less like to associate with a currency based on an internet meme. At least, until its origins are inevitably buried from the public c
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by aegiso 13y ago
You're thinking like an engineer. Good on you. But most people aren't engineers. iPad [1-5] parses well but is meaningless to customers who don't ogle tech news and spec sheets. iPad Air conveys what Apple wants to convey and
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by aegiso 13y ago
Here's the thing that bugged me throughout the movie: once AI's progressed to the point where it can rival a human, all bets are off. Nobody needs to work again, ever -- not even to maintain or develop the AI's, since they ca
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by aegiso 13y ago
It's a free service; you pay with your inconvenience so that Google can milk those who don't opt out. If you prefer not to pay with inconvenience but with dollars , there are some great paid providers out there.
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by aegiso 13y ago
I though the same thing. In fact, with each passing year the more I'm convinced that "no matter how far our minds have gotten us, they are no match for a well-engineered algorithmic model running at light speed on mountains of dat
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by aegiso 13y ago
On/off producer + audio engineer. A good discriminator might be "it's squaring out; what do you do?". A good answer would lead to an argument about the compression war.
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by aegiso 13y ago
The autistic coder in me never understood why we paste printf("Happy New Year\n"); readline(); at the top of every conversation during the holidays. But for once I'll follow protocol. Happy new year, HN!
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by aegiso 13y ago
Because the GPL is the best defense against an adversary that gets to redefine laws as they see fit? I'm all for FLOSSing all the things, but it wouldn't help one bit here.
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by aegiso 13y ago
The only meaningful measure of skill is the amount of pain experienced acquiring it.
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by aegiso 13y ago
When an organized group of people uses force to take your belongings, leveraging tactics of fear for political ends, isn't that firmly within the definition of terrorism? I don't know the facts here so I'm not implying anythi
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by aegiso 13y ago
> That said, how many working people have ever had to face the problem of getting a list of filenames into an email? Few, because when tasked with a problem that this could solve, most people would immediately throw up their hands and gi
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by aegiso 13y ago
Rumors of our death are greatly exaggerated. They are not rumors! We failed to sell and we have nothing new to offer. But in case you still think we have a shot, here's another meandering 720 degree tailspin in the form of an open lett
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by aegiso 13y ago
Pretty much everyone has come to the conclusion that Satoshi is probably not Japanese. He has seemingly native command of academic English, and nothing about him suggests Japanese influence except the pseudonym.
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by aegiso 13y ago
10K run every day and 10 hours of sleep. The productivity gains are in the 2-3x range.
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by aegiso 13y ago
To put this in perspective, as a starving entrepreneur with 15 years of experience, $22/hour sounds like a godsend at the moment. I'm not complaining or ignoring that this is below market rate. But it's good to stay humble.
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by aegiso 13y ago
Pretty sure the reason that you didn't get into YC wasn't simply because of some binary metric like your previously going though an accelerator. Give them more credit than that and look deeper, regardless of what the email said. -
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by aegiso 13y ago
Did you read the article? The whole thing is basically an argument for why your comment is culturally insensitive and myopic.
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by aegiso 13y ago
If you were writing Big Bang Theory scripts this might actually be a great way to optimize the process.
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by aegiso 13y ago
As someone who has tried (hard) to build something like this (seems I'm not the only one), I'll chime in. This is a great execution of a bad idea. It's the worst kind of bad idea because it seems like a great idea until you t
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by aegiso 13y ago
A self-reminder I use to stay humble: If X really is so perfect, I better start looking for a new job because I'm no longer required. We need look no further than the existence of the programming profession to see that there ain't
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by aegiso 13y ago
Recalling PG's previous answers to this question: there are several instances of successes that YC didn't accept, but it's not PG's place to disclose who did and didn't apply.
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by aegiso 13y ago
I think it's exactly why they should. If these unfortunate folk knew their internet security they would know better than to pump their money into random internet wallets, despite claims that it's the "most secure wallet ever
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by aegiso 13y ago
A better rule is to use triple-equals always, and manually coerce if you really mean it.
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by aegiso 13y ago
As an internet commenter I do not understand the purpose of Wifi signals that are not visible to humans. In my understanding discussion is a communication method between human souls. A computer has no soul, likewise Internet "comments&
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by aegiso 13y ago
Whoa, I just had a flash forward to 2030. First, probe the outrage machine for banners for particular brands. Then for a huge price tag, add lightweight widgets to the SERP for brands so searchers can e.g. buy tickets from the Google Search
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by aegiso 13y ago
> It's a sign of the inability to relate emotionally to other people, not clear-headed rationality. I dunno. In my books the ability to disregard emotional biases is the definition of clear-headedness. I get that people aren't
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by aegiso 13y ago
Looks like pretty clean handmade CSS. I don't see any magic here. Modern CSS3 lets you build arbitrary geometry with arbitrary animations if you're crazy enough. What I do see here is an excellent grasp of Cartesian geometry and s
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by aegiso 13y ago
I don't use Firefox but if that's the case then asm.js can no longer claim to be "just javascript". I wasn't expecting that one. Interestingly enough, this makes the V8 approach all the more welcome since it doesn&#
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by aegiso 13y ago
That's all very nice, but it ain't gonna happen because of backwards compatibility. One of the main points of asm.js is that it runs everywhere the same as plain JS, whether the platform knows about asm.js or not.
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by aegiso 13y ago
That's true. But it does show how good V8 is at optimizing out the JS part of JS when it's irrelevant to the computation, and it shows how well-optimized the regexps in V8 are. None of this is terribly surprising given V8's u

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