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by amackera 8y ago
Relevant PG essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by amackera 9y ago
Ada Support | Front-End, Back-End, Web, and Machine Learning Developers | Toronto, Ontario | Full-Time & On-Site Ada Support is a venture-backed customer support automation company that enables teams to easily leverage machine learning
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by amackera 9y ago
Ada Support | Front-End & Back-End Developers | Toronto, Ontario | Full-Time On-Site | https://www.ada.support/about/ Ada Support is a venture-backed customer support automation company that enables teams to easily
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by amackera 9y ago
Increasing the block size doesn't seem to me like a long-term solution for Bitcoin's scalability problem. From the tone of your post though, it seems like you're mind is unlikely to be changed about Bitcoin Cash.
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by amackera 9y ago
Good advice, though it's pretty light on concrete actions, details, or examples.
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by amackera 9y ago
Seems to me to be an obvious attempt at humour.
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by amackera 9y ago
Ada Support | Toronto | ONSITE | https://ada.support | Ada Support is a venture-backed customer support automation company that enables teams to easily leverage machine learning to provide instant answers to their questions in c
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by amackera 9y ago
Bitcoin makes arrogant developers realize they don't know everything?
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by amackera 9y ago
It's a nice sentiment, but tech is very far from any sort of meritocracy. Falsely believing that it is a meritocracy can do more harm than good. I'm not trying to be negative towards your experience --- I'm glad you have a
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by amackera 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We've got some great ideas for more intellectually stimulating stuff. I'll send it your way. Thanks again for the tip.
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by amackera 9y ago
Full disclosure: I work for Ada. Just wanted to share our good news with the HN crowd. David and Mike really took the YC philosophy of "build something people want" to heart when the started working on Ada. They embedded themselve
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Ada Support raises $2.5MM seed to bring AI to customer support teams(ada.support)
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by amackera 9y ago
Haha well he got plenty of dates (150 of them), he just never found that special someone. TBH I think his problem was that he didn't quality his leads well enough.
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by amackera 9y ago
The actual boring of the tunnels in cities is the smallest part of the problem. Still a lot of work to get there! But maybe someday :)
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by amackera 9y ago
That's true, but React doesn't directly deal with those problems (and certainly not the parts specific to Facebook).
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by amackera 9y ago
Nobody said learning API surfaces is the right way. Most of these frameworks offer fairly simple APIs that are frankly pretty trivial to learn --- the key is to learn the application architecture and why it's different than the alterna
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by amackera 9y ago
Facebook's use case happens to mirror a great deal of web products currently.
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by amackera 9y ago
Not even close. They still help design, test, and fabricate a huge number of high performance ASICs.
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by amackera 9y ago
Not a valid criticism of Redux.
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by amackera 9y ago
So when somebody says "I am going to write some Lisp now", in your mind they are always going to write Common Lisp?
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by amackera 9y ago
"SICP uses Scheme, which is not Lisp." --- is that a "no true Scotsman" argument or do you just mean "Scheme is not Common Lisp"?
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by amackera 9y ago
I think the idea behind hourly is to provide the best "bang for their buck". If your clients feel cheated, they will fire you. Evidently OP did a good job, and made them feel like they were getting high value.
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by amackera 9y ago
CEO of a public corp maybe
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by amackera 10y ago
Could you elaborate a bit? I'm super curious but I have little experience with non-OOP languages.
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by amackera 10y ago
I would love to use pass but I can't figure out a decent way of getting it on my iPhone. Sometimes I don't have my laptop with me.
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by amackera 10y ago
Every time I see something about org-mode posted, I get mad FOMO and decide to re-dedicate my life to learning emacs and everything it has to offer. Then a little while later I inevitably drift back to vim. It's getting to the point wh
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by amackera 10y ago
Interesting! I like this logic. However... what should one call oneself?
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by amackera 10y ago
This single comment has cleared up so much magic voodoo. I feel like everything fell into place a little more cleanly, and that the world makes a little bit more sense. Thank you!
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by amackera 10y ago
Is that also true for projects that have a commercial presence? I'm thinking like sentry.io.
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by amackera 10y ago
For the stuff that IS good, and adding a lot of value, are the creators / maintainers recognized (other than through twitter followers, etc.) What are we doing to keep the good projects afloat?

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