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by andkon 9y ago
Congrats Phill and Max! Glad to see some Toronto exits.
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by andkon 9y ago
THIS IS SO GOOD. And readable! But mostly adorable.
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by andkon 9y ago
Robert Glasper, whose piano is all over To Pimp A Butterfly, is also extremely worth checking out. It's been great seeing him get more exposure with Kendrick. https://open.spotify.com/album/7M4DuL9Z6JqcNapcOUTPNS
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by andkon 9y ago
Totally trivial. And yet, I still can barely parse what's going on in there.
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by andkon 9y ago
At least part of the problem is that it looks so, so weird, and it's really tightly bound to models. This is like the most customized admin i've made and it's still pretty simple, but it sure doesn't feel that easy to re
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by andkon 9y ago
> if it really does become the money of the future then the prices now are going to look like pennies in five or ten years time. Yeah, that's literally exactly why it is a bubble. It's a big if, but that's how you rational
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by andkon 9y ago
I actually don't say that. I say that he should be fired because he has - not simply that he expressed - abhorrent opinions. It's an unfortunate epistemic reality that we don't know many peoples views until they explicitly
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by andkon 9y ago
I noticed that you edited your post to add a comment about my level of confidence and outrage, and I thank you for using your outrage to better clarify your concerns.
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by andkon 9y ago
Biologically unfit? The vast majority of people are _biologically unfit_ to work at Google? Are you serious? What 100 meter sprint time do you need to get a job at Google?
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by andkon 9y ago
Well, you probably wouldn't see women constantly exiting the field of tech because they encounter endless entrenched sexism, and endless skepticism of the existence or significance of sexism.
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by andkon 9y ago
You totally missed the point. So here it is again: even if all the research he cites is real and well-supported, he makes a logical leap that is not substantiated by any evidence he cites. There's nothing in his evidence about women&#x
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by andkon 9y ago
Oh sorry. I was too broad. He wrote that it is unpopular for him to say that, for many biologically determined reasons, women do not have the traits required to excel in computer science, and that in reality the lack of their employment at
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by andkon 9y ago
Let's be super clear: if this guy gets fired, it would not be because he expressed his opinions. It would be because he has abhorrent opinions that will forever affect his ability to work with women, whom he has decided are inherently
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by andkon 9y ago
https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-24-2015/_Iy_o-.gif
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by andkon 9y ago
If you can't concentrate or work and feel anxiety and occasionally hopeless, that sounds like the definition of depression to me. I'd suggest immediately finding a therapist you connect with (or at least get into meditation with a
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by andkon 9y ago
Well, so far I don't get paid as an artist. But artists definitely get paid. It's probably about as hard as getting paid as a startup founder.
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by andkon 9y ago
This is funny. All I would've thought you'd need is a score, which you'd increment if you get a shot of espresso out quickly, or decrement if you touch a hot pipe. Let people figure out the rest!
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by andkon 9y ago
I think the best description is conceptual art; I tend to write code or build hardware that gets you into and gets you exploring a specific emotion or feeling. I'm working on where to show it actually — if you send an email to the addr
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by andkon 9y ago
I'd like to fill out the "maybe" part of his "If you answer yes three times, then maybe starting a startup is for you" bit. I answer a very strong yes to all three of those. Always have. But a startup, despite my al
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by andkon 9y ago
Offering a formal proof is really cool, but shouldn't be the whole of your marketing efforts. Instead, focus on what's gained. Even if it is faster, people are still going to rightfully ask: so what? How does that actually improve
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by andkon 9y ago
The sum of "problems" she brought was that she was direct in her feedback (surely that doesn't matter to a merit-based company?). If that's all it takes for your company to come crumbling down, then good riddance.
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by andkon 9y ago
The problem here isn't that capitalism lets you have productive assets that give you a return. It's that when r > g (when the rate of return of capital is greater than the growth rate of output), inequality increases dramatical
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by andkon 9y ago
Overall I like it, good music pick, pretty decent pace, but the editing and cuts lead to a fractured feeling. * "Meet Nudge Rewards" can cut to the iphone screen, but it'd be nice to throw in a zoom onto your logo there, as &
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by andkon 9y ago
This is so beautiful. Any plans to introduce Canada? Also, one thing I really would appreciate is being able to find backcountry camping routes by km/mi length or by number of nights. Any plans for something like that? All I can seem t
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Serverless Logic with Realm: Introducing Realm Functions(news.realm.io)
11 points by andkon 9y ago|1 comments
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by andkon 9y ago
Honestly, most of the skills I've learned in building products for people can be used to make tech that has a social purpose. First, you find a problem. Then you find people who can honestly tell you if your solution will actually work
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Ask HN: What are the best acronyms that programmers should know?
11 points by andkon 9y ago|27 comments
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by andkon 9y ago
So I do product marketing for a living, and have launched a whole wack of things with good and bad and boring names. The fact that CockroachDB is consistently on top of HN with each thing they do is pretty strong evidence that they're
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by andkon 9y ago
Having tried both a ton before settling on the Push 2, the screen is great, but that's not why I bought it. In every way it feels better to make music on than the first Push. The pads especially are a thousand times more responsive — t
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by andkon 9y ago
I love this product page so much! Great illustrations, a wonderful balance of levity and clarity about ngrok's purpose.

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