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by akavi 12y ago
Any way I can see a preview without getting a heroku account?
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by akavi 12y ago
>With a low level abstraction layer, I can do stuff like already_complicated_query.filter(another_param==5). Or I can write a function that does get_world_trade_aggregate(country="USA", aggregate="average") and it&#x2
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by akavi 12y ago
Replace "software engineer" with "person building a product" in that first quote. The value of engineering skills as they are defined today is falling, but the value of a single person with an idea and the drive to imple
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by akavi 12y ago
Competition?
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by akavi 12y ago
Check: Uber.Ping.attributes.client.rating That's where I was able to find it.
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by akavi 12y ago
At what interest rate? Seems to me the average startup's credit worthiness is somewhere between Junk and Non-Existant.
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by akavi 12y ago
What's the data source? Is it the rapid increase in total raised from 2012 - 2014 (even without Freakish_outlier) a data artifact or has the amount of funding actually exploded?
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by akavi 12y ago
>(pronounced AHN-zhe-lo) /ˈæn.dʒə.loʊ/ in IPA, if that confused anyone else. (I misinterpreted it as representing /ˈɑːn.ʒə.loʊ/.)
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by akavi 12y ago
For those who find themselves needing to write pīnyīn, two additions: option-a then a, e, i, o, or u: ā ē ī ō ū or Ā Ē Ī Ō Ū option-v then a, e, i, o, or u: ă ě ǐ ǒ ǔ or Ǎ Ě Ǐ Ǒ Ǔ
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by akavi 12y ago
It seems to me that making the first offer is sort of an "advanced technique". Ie, it's probably optimal, but you have to be decently skilled at negotiation to pull it off. I think the reason "Let them make the first off
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by akavi 12y ago
The procedure of always responding to "your name?" with "Arjun, A-R-J-U-N", then listening for anything that starts with an "ar" sound is just simpler than remembering to give a fake name and then remembering t
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by akavi 12y ago
One lovely benefit of being an ethnic minority living outside the "motherland" is that you get a large pool of names to choose from that satisfy both the "only one in their 2nd grade class" and "venerable and meanin
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by akavi 12y ago
> VimL -> Lua(JIT) translator is already quite advanced Does that mean NeoVim will support Lua for scripting alongside VimL?
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by akavi 12y ago
Could this not have anti-trust implications? This seems very analogous to Microsoft's tying of IE and Windows, considering Google's dominant position with regards to maps.
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by akavi 12y ago
fan.gs was definitely the best. Who's the lucky one who snapped it up?
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by akavi 13y ago
"Corner" style inner-city dealers definitely still exist. If you're in SF, walk by the corner of Turk and Leavenworth and you'll have quite a few entrepreneurs of a different sort offering you "Roxies and Ps"
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by akavi 13y ago
Perhaps because it's intended to reference War Games?
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by akavi 13y ago
Remember that "post money valuation" is for preferred shares and options are usually granted on common shares. 409a valuations usually value common shares at a fraction of preferred shares, and for good reason.
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by akavi 13y ago
Be careful about causality there; I'm conversational in 6 languages and am hopeless with women.
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by akavi 13y ago
>a better Python than Python As someone who's quite the Ruby fan, this is the only one on the list I'd object to. There's a very real philosophical difference between the two, which I'd identify as being their attitud
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by akavi 13y ago
Uh, don't most students take calculus senior year of high school?
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by akavi 13y ago
Really? Maybe it's environment specific, but bloom filters seem to be the "an aglet is the plastic thing at the end of a shoelace" of CS, ie., the "little know fact" that everyone knows.
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by akavi 13y ago
Make no mistake, this policy directly results in Yale students not seeking out help for fear of the consequences. I should know; I was one of them.
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by akavi 13y ago
Did no one else feel that the biggest issue with the original ip block was not the motivation for the block but rather Yale's blocking of a website on copyright grounds in the first place? Maybe Yale is indeed in the right to try to co
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by akavi 13y ago
I know this is sacrilege to say on Hacker News, but for some people, getting a degree is a goal unto itself, and not just a means to a job.
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by akavi 13y ago
This is the very sort of interaction that leads me to be very, very unoptimistic about ever seeing Moore's Law style runaway advancement in biotechnology. Biology, it seems, is deeply unabstractable . Ie, as one moves up the levels
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by akavi 13y ago
In a way, both of those guys are very much compensated for their posting here, albeit not directly from YC.
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by akavi 13y ago
For my social milieu (early 20s SF), naughty pictures are a pretty small fraction of use. I'd say it's more in line with "non-public twitter, with photos".
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by akavi 13y ago
I grew up in a very affluent school district in Texas, and I still had to deal with being harassed for being an atheist and having my biology teacher preface her lessons on evolution with "Now, this is not what I personally believe
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by akavi 13y ago
Except pollsters put in a lot of effort in making sure that the sample is representative of the larger population. Which is not true here, as the GP correctly notes.

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