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by alephnan 9y ago
TLDR: writer with "a bunch of half-baked ideas" whose plan is to "pitch a tech startup and get obscenely rich while writing a book about how to pitch a tech startup and get obscenely rich – the Silicon Valley way" moves
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by alephnan 9y ago
I’d add a CSS3 text-shadow [1] to make the text more legible against the background image. There are other UI tricks to achieve the same goal as well. Also, I think this would be one of the rare cases where adding scrolling parallax effects
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by alephnan 9y ago
Would be ironic if TaskRabbit was a platform for hiring cybersecurity specialists.
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Is the intended audience supposed to be humanities professors or the layman? Hypocritical how the article appears to be talking about humanities alienating the wider population, and a few paragraphs in I’m already lost on context.
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by alephnan 9y ago
I knew some “entrepreneurs” from college who couldn’t land a job upon graduation. They’re prideful, so they sugarcoat their situation and justify why it is meaningful, when really the opportunity cost was zero. This isn’t a knock against a
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by alephnan 9y ago
> Javascript can be as fast as C, but generally isn't in practice. Can you elaborate or cite
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There's a lot of console.log statements being executed...
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How long until it becomes cannibalized into a frivolous Snapchat selfie filter?
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by alephnan 9y ago
Are there any endeavors to decouple VCS interface from the implementation? An analogy is LLVM, but for VCS, in terms of modularizing the architectural layers. It’s difficult justifying learning a new VCS when popular open source projects an
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by alephnan 9y ago
This reminded me of the Cobra effect[1] where in an episode of the Simpsons[2] they introduce snakes to population control, but this causes cascading effects in the ecosystem. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_eff
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by alephnan 9y ago
> requiring 2^38 steps to find a solution Isn't the premise of the company to use "AI" to find a solution? I'm going to go out on a limb and assume AI here means deep learning. I took both an AI and ML course during c
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by alephnan 9y ago
For those interested, this is using the Monaco editor https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
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by alephnan 9y ago
One use case where I default to Zipcar is picking up furniture / big items. Also, I like hiking in Muir Woods but there is no cellphone signal there. You can book a trip to, but not a trip from. Another one is when I want some privacy.
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by alephnan 9y ago
That’s interesting because for my use-cases, ridesharing and on-demand car rentals are substitutable goods. Ever since I moved to SF where ridesharing is noticeably more cost effective, I’ve shifted my more towards ride sharing. If prices o
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by alephnan 9y ago
I worked on the Data Science team. We were headcount strapped. At the same time, we were crucial to the rest of the business operation. At the time, data science positions were hard to fill. At least when you don’t want to fork out exorbita
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by alephnan 9y ago
Any guesses whether this means subsidized rentals, in accordance with their winner-take-all model, to price-out competitors like Zipcar? On a related note, does anyone know about Zipcar’s business model? Are they focused on unit economics &
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by alephnan 9y ago
Whenever I asked, there would always be some project, deadline or fire. It was my first job out of college. I was naive and didn’t realize ‘no’ was an acceptable answer. With unlimited vacation days, it was this gray area where I didn’t kno
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> They got unlimited paid time off (yes, you read that right—some companies offer unlimited vacation time to compete for talent). I started reading the article with skepticism after that. At my previous startup, unlimited vacation time e