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by amasad 9y ago
Closely related is the adage that great ideas often look like bad ones. I think it's worth thinking about all these nuggets of wisdom in terms of efficient markets: Given that there are so many entrepreneurs building startups the best
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by amasad 9y ago
It's also a potential cross-domain attack vector if you let your users insert arbitrary code. See, for example, why github pages was switched from `.com` to `.io`: https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-doma
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Evalbot: a slack bot that evaluates code(repl.it)
1 points by amasad 9y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 9y ago
Instead of Facebook flailing about trying to come up with the best news feed algorithm to please everyone they should just give the consumer a choice. Imagine an "algorithm store" that lets developers build and publish ranking alg
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by amasad 9y ago
Love Pinker but thought this was too funny not to share: "Steven Pinker jinxes the world" on how a lot of the trends that he spoke about started to stall and even reverse since the publication of the book. https://amp.r
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by amasad 9y ago
That happens in angel/pre-seed/seed rounds. They're usually much smaller contributions and are much easier to do because you're not giving out equity, you're technically taking debt which will convert to equity on t
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by amasad 9y ago
I've always admired Eve but thought it was a longshot. Had it worked it would've changed the future of computing. I'm also working on making programming easier but instead of taking a moonshot approach -- where you build the
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by amasad 9y ago
"Ambiguity," "animal spirits," "neuroscience" -- the article could be summed up with "I have no idea what's going on."
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by amasad 9y ago
I think some of the things done here are in poor taste but I think overall he's coming out net positive impact on the world. Providing a good service for poor people in India and the Cameroon to communicate.
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Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp(catonmat.net)
480 points by amasad 9y ago|222 comments
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by amasad 9y ago
Right after I quit my job and just before I decided to raise money.
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by amasad 9y ago
Looks good -- thank you!
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by amasad 9y ago
Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart
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by amasad 9y ago
Causality. We know that everything follows a cause-and-effect model. And if you're a physicalist -- philosophical term that you believed the world doesn't have any supernatural forces -- then, leaving aside quantum uncertainty for
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by amasad 9y ago
How does the ending imply that the universe is predetermined? I might've missed that. (It's also not surprising if it did because it's modern scientific dogma that the world is deterministic. Even if you take into account qua
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by amasad 9y ago
I haven't seen Inland Empire yet. I discovered David Lynch in the last 5 years and it's taking me a lot of time to get through his movies because it takes a whole lot of processing to really understand every one of them. It creeps
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by amasad 9y ago
The first story of the series about how a short-selling investor was able to uncover a potential murder case against a rehab company and profit from it is an interesting anecdote on how the same market incentives that we tend to blame so mu
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by amasad 9y ago
I naturally stumbled upon this method but it's nice to have it formalized. At first I noticed how insomnia fed on itself and noticed how I start to question my ability to fall asleep and as the night comes around I start feeling anxiou
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by amasad 9y ago
Apply some game theory thinking here: companies will now have to lead with an honest offer -- an offer that correctly values the candidates skills and experience -- because that's their best option. They don't have an anchor and g
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by amasad 9y ago
I'm generally skeptical of regulations but in this case I think it's warranted because companies were basically "price fixing" by asking candidates about their previous salary and then matching or nudging up a bit. This
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Simplicity a blockchain contract language in 30 lines of Haskell(repl.it)
3 points by amasad 9y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 9y ago
Time the loops plus an iteration counter. Together they work well. If something is taking long AND is looping a lot then there's a good chance we're running up against an infinite loop. Additionally we setTimeout and reset the cou
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by amasad 9y ago
This looks awesome! I'm excited to learn more. Is there an abstract I can read? the website/github doesn't say much about how it works.
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by amasad 9y ago
Surprised never heard of this project. Peaked my interest -- how do you do it?
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by amasad 9y ago
First of all big fan of Pyret. And I (the author) did something similar in the past and I totally agree it's the way to go. What I did is exploded every JavaScript program on statements, wrapped function calls with thunks, and then con
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by amasad 9y ago
That's a good summary, thanks! So in addition to not timeboxing the user code what's interesting about this is the heuristics we came up with for trapping potential infinite loops in JS.
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by amasad 9y ago
I hope folks would forgive this plug but I think we can help: if you're looking for an alternative check out https://repl.it We have a lot of folks using it for online courses and YouTube tutorials. We're committed to
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Fake Minimalism(amasad.me)
6 points by amasad 9y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 9y ago
> There is practically zero chance of ever detecting a signal from the one or two other intelligent species that might be in our galaxy. What are you basing this on? I'd like to see your Drake equation variables.
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by amasad 9y ago
Did you actually hold up the photos for the dead fish to see? How did it feel like holding photos of people for a dead fish to see?

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