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by amasad 10y ago
You can test this by rearing a generation of ants with no contact with the previous generation and see if they exhibit the same behavior. My bet would be on that it's all innate. I haven't seen examples of intergenerational knowle
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by amasad 10y ago
That's interesting but a bit too general, anything more concrete to read -- a book for example -- to understand what's "unique" and what "different priorities".
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by amasad 10y ago
It'd be interesting to read if Chine has any good reasons for censorship. This is mostly likely a taboo question to ask in hacker communities but I wouldn't rule out that there are good reasons for censoring. In fact, I have an an
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by amasad 10y ago
I run Repl.it ( https://repl.it ) and I have an interesting stat. Python3 has been loaded 3.6x more times than Python2 (500k vs 140k) just in November, and it's been used in 5x more classrooms ( https://repl.it&#x2F
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by amasad 10y ago
Any sufficiently advanced new age theory is indistinguishable from rubbish.
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by amasad 10y ago
>I find that people that hop from "hot tech" to "hot tech" don't ever build up a depth of knowledge and understanding to tackle hard problems in an elegant way You immediately assumed that the folks I found are j
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by amasad 10y ago
Almost half of my time in the past few months have gone into interviewing and hiring and I approached the subject with a complete beginners mindset and tinkered to see what works. Much to my chagrin turns out there is a positive selection e
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by amasad 10y ago
Fake news, hoaxes and scams existed long before Facebook. People just use Facebook more, things can spread faster, and all in all it amplifies an existing problem. Email forwards (and in their newer reincarnation, at least in the Middle Eas
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by amasad 10y ago
Thank you! :)
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by amasad 10y ago
I'm the founder of Repl.it ( https://repl.it ) and our aim is to make programming more accessible. In addition to being an easy-to-use online programming environment free for everyone, we are currently focusing on classroom e
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Learning Devops and AWS on the Job: Building and Scaling a Service(repl.it)
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by amasad 10y ago
You're implying that the web has gotten worse, but in my experience it used to be much worse. Just the memory of the sea of pop-ups that you had to fight when browsing the web makes my stomach turn. However, there seem to be a recent t
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by amasad 10y ago
That would be awesome. There is already quite a community that sprung up around hyperterm.
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by amasad 10y ago
Interesting that you use hterm to power this. Does that mean you start a WebView. Or do you somehow have a virtual dom of sorts that renders to Obj-c view (a la react-native)?
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by amasad 10y ago
Simple: majority of FB employees are immigrants. And they want more, much more. Why do you think Zuck formed Fwd.us?
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by amasad 10y ago
It's huge for FB, and he's on the board.
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by amasad 10y ago
Not sure if you read the book but it's far from a happy-go-lucky-optimism, if anything Pinker is as cynical about human nature as Thomas Hobbs. Heck, you can even call this book the Leviathan 2. With that being said I think he does a g
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by amasad 10y ago
That's what we Repl.it are focusing on. We currently have almost all the top bootcamps using our platform: https://repl.it/classroom
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From PyPi Import * – Import Any Python Package on Repl.it(repl.it)
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Show HN: Online Python REPL with every PyPi packages pre-installed(repl.it)
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by amasad 10y ago
I've been using it in production for a large app for the past week and it's been great. CI is faster, deploying is faster and dev is faster.
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by amasad 10y ago
Peter Thiel's support for Trump seems instrumental and not an end-in-itself[1]. I disagree with it and think it's stupid. But if he was my business partner and told me that he had good reasons to think that the long-term utility o
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by amasad 10y ago
There are really damaging things -- although nothing surprising and that's why I think nobody is talking about it. E.g. in one email HRC talks about how Qatar is funding ISIS, and in the next they're giving Bill Clinton a $1m chec
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by amasad 10y ago
Hey, I'm glad you like it! We will not take any features away -- we'll just introduce new paid features ;) I'm curious, where do you teach?
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by amasad 10y ago
We haven't started monetizing yet, but we are growing really fast -- there is a lot of dogma in edtech about making money so it's hard to predict.
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by amasad 10y ago
https://repl.it/api is an API to execute arbitrary code in a sandbox from anywhere on the web. People use it to build code interview sites and programming tutorials. Initial customers came from our open source work where I
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by amasad 10y ago
Repl.it | San Mateo, CA | software engineers, onsite https://repl.it/site/jobs We're building a platform for teachers to teach programming, for students to practice programming, and for programmers to run and shar
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by amasad 10y ago
For a minimal OS X native app check out Pomodoro One. So simple and clean yet had a great impact on my productivity.
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by amasad 10y ago
Not only that you can't know for sure that you're not living in a simulation, you actually can't surely tell that you existed before this point in time. Imagine that you are instantiated in a simulation with pre-installed mem
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by amasad 10y ago
Interesting. I don't have a problem with it because I usually read it as early stage growth hacking that involves manual, tedious, and hard work: getting the first few users, converting the first few customers etc.

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