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by akavi 14y ago
>Some of my engineer friends have serious doubts as to how well this technology will actually work (haters gon' hate?) That's unfair. It's fully possible to want something to work, while having serious reservations about the technical
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by akavi 14y ago
Yep. Dude's been on a pretty solid streak for the past year.
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by akavi 14y ago
God, I abhor this sort of peevery. But especially here, when the linguistic innovation is so damn useful . The "trendy" meaning of trope, is, as far as I can tell, not one easily replaced by another word. It's not a motif so much as a kind
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by akavi 14y ago
Creating a new language is trivial (Hell, I've made one). Creating a robust, well-designed, full-featured, peformant language is very much not. And that totally ignores the absolutely massive benefit of having a community around your lang
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by akavi 14y ago
"Cock Sauce" for me too. Assonant and slightly inappropriate's the way I like my condiment nicknames.
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by akavi 14y ago
> You're not even doing a good job being selfish, since you'd actually benefit a lot more from more people having the opportunity to create value. Well, that's sort of the question, isn't it? Will the benefit I receive from other people
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by akavi 14y ago
The fact that everyone would be broadly better off in the long run doesn't change the fact trade and immigration barriers do indeed benefit the local incumbents (At least on career (ie, decades) timescales). It's similar to the idea that a
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by akavi 14y ago
Why is KG being used as a unit of pressure? 500 KG applied over 1 mm^2 is a VERY different amount of pressure from 500 KG applied over 1 m^2.
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by akavi 14y ago
Googlebot executes JS now (has for a couple of years, I believe), and let's face it, it's really the only crawler that matters.
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by akavi 14y ago
YC invests widely enough that this isn't surprising in the slightest. Hell, they've funded competing products at least a couple of times.
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by akavi 14y ago
Can we, as a group, just agree that we're all sufficiently aware of the fact that yes, average (by which we all mean "mean", don't be pedantic) does not require that 50% of the referent group is above and below that number for all sets of d
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by akavi 14y ago
As a native speaker, I'm going to push back on the nuance you suggest, and say that that distinction certainly does not exist in my idiolect. Which jibes with a quick dictionary check. Neither word connotes intention, as far as I can tell.
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by akavi 14y ago
I can only speak for myself, but I just signed up, so I guess I'm part of their market. I consider myself (or at least, aspire to be) decently fashionable, but I have a lot of anxiety about actually clothes purchasing. The whole subscriptio
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by akavi 14y ago
I'm going to refrain from passing judgment, since the link is so thin on details, but I'm seriously having a hard time thinking up ways that this could be anything but a terrible idea. Any help?
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by akavi 14y ago
Is there a name for the fallacy of ignoring marginal effects at the tail end of a probability distribution? I see it here incredibly frequently. There will almost certainly be some number of people who would have stopped by Amazon right n
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by akavi 14y ago
I've consumed heavy doses of ayahuasca on three occasions, and never experienced diarrhea. Nor have my friends or any of the innumerable people who have posted experiences online. You will vomit, however.
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by akavi 14y ago
A tangent, but I always thought "YAML" was pronounced /'jæm.ḷ/, however the post's use of "an YAML" suggests it's actually pronounced /waɪ.eɪ.ɛm.ɛl/. Weird.
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by akavi 14y ago
I also hear "The City" for San Francisco often enough to find myself using it on occasion (Something I vowed I'd never do after bristling at my friends using the appellation for NYC when I lived in the Northeast).
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by akavi 14y ago
What fraction of gold's current value is based on its physical properties? I don't know the answer, but I can tell you it's miniscule .
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by akavi 14y ago
My Uni still had computer labs (at least, for people taking CS classes) and I graduated in 2012. Massive, high-resolution screens, nice keyboards, and a social atmosphere meant I actually used them quite often.
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by akavi 14y ago
I'm aware of what the current state of the law is. I'm suggesting a change to it.
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by akavi 14y ago
We already have the legal concept of consent, don't we? Who's legally culpable? Whoever shares these photos without consent of the person they're of.
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by akavi 14y ago
A facebook friend just took ownership of one numbered roughly 3,000. So probably about that many.
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by akavi 14y ago
My understanding: Mr. McKenzie's ability to add value is weighted heavily to marketing/sales. It's therefore way more likely for him to be able produce large improvements for a company if they haven't already invested a large amount of effo
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by akavi 14y ago
PagerDuty will similarly offer a $37 credit towards an account with us.
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by akavi 14y ago
To elaborate, from Harvard's financial aid website: "Beginning in the fall of 2012, this "zero contribution threshold" will be increased to $65,000. Financial aid is available to all students based on assessed need. Beginning with the class
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by akavi 14y ago
If I had the mathematical background necessary to understand it, I certainly would. ... and I really wish I did have the mathematical background. Anyone have any recommendations on how to go from a standard CS undergrad math background to b
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by akavi 14y ago
I was pretty dino crazy (as most kids are, I suppose), and to me, Brontosaurus denotes the animal with the short, massive head that the camarasaurus skull implies, rather than the slender head that the actual Apatosaurus had. That chimera
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Make words with javascript brackets(euri.ca)
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by akavi 14y ago
Dalton's law of partial pressures says Fizz-keepers don't actually work[1]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_keeper

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