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Unintended Consequence of Debt Notes: Inflated Liquidation Preferences(thegongshow.tumblr.com)
1 points by andrewparker 13y ago|0 comments
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by andrewparker 13y ago
I have a dell xps 13 and the trackpad responsiveness is a disaster. I have tried endless combination of drivers (both Dell and third-party) and sunk 20 hours into debugging. I strongly recommend you do not purchase an XPS 13 if you do not p
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The Spectrum of Identity Anonymity in Social Networks(thegongshow.tumblr.com)
1 points by andrewparker 14y ago|0 comments
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The File System Evolution and Dropbox Strategy(thegongshow.tumblr.com)
2 points by andrewparker 14y ago|0 comments
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The Unfortunate Rise of Zero Affordance Interfaces(thegongshow.tumblr.com)
10 points by andrewparker 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewparker 14y ago
Uninstall any extensions you have running in Chrome to get it feeling fresh again. In my personal experience (strictly subjective, not benchmarked), a clean chrome install runs faster than a clean Safari install.
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by andrewparker 14y ago
I'm a VC, and when I read the line "buying sole control" I assumed that the Series A investment from Benchmark is intact, and their shares still vote on any protective provisions granted to the preferred stock, but Adam simply bought enough
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by andrewparker 14y ago
Yes, this survey design is questionable by most standards. But, it's not a survey design disaster and is likely a "directionally correct" reflection of internet users' actual behavior. Are exactly 34.5% of the US Internet Population not usi
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by andrewparker 14y ago
I wonder if Marco hosts his own email? Email's the place where embarassing/sensitive information is most commonly stored, not the FS.
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by andrewparker 14y ago
The lack of "Intents" on iOS is deliberate IMHO. Apple's products are in the default roles for all the common intents and implementing support for switching intents across the OS would result in less people using Apple's first-party apps.
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Ask HN: Want to know who is upvoting you?
1 points by andrewparker 14y ago|1 comments
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by andrewparker 14y ago
Comcast is a content owner by virtue of owning NBC. I wonder if Comcast is treating NBC differently or not in this process.
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by andrewparker 14y ago
Do any of the readers on this thread work at Apple? I'd love to have you chime in. The silence is deafening...
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by andrewparker 15y ago
Forget about Yahoo's dumb patent trolling decision for a second... If you're still working at Yahoo today that sends a clear message to me about how you value innovation, product quality, thought leadership, and other important assets. As
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by andrewparker 15y ago
It's a big deal that a for-profit company is willing to let all their customers and competitors see their source code and reuse it (in accordance with their license). If we need a new word for this type of behavior to distinguish it from FO
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by andrewparker 15y ago
Anyone have a video link? Google came up empty for me
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by andrewparker 15y ago
Companies that have been funded by Spark Capital (and thus are venture-backed and can afford market salaries) have all their aggregated open jobs listed in one place: http://sparkcapital.com/jobs/ Includes job openings from Twitter, Tumbl
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by andrewparker 15y ago
I don't know if this is already common knowledge to everyone here, but this is a YC co, from the second class, which was in Cambridge.
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by andrewparker 15y ago
For those interesting in peeling back another layer of the onion on the odd world of the MPAA, definitely watch This Film Is Not Yet Rated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated
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by andrewparker 15y ago
For those who tldr; The author should have taken CS 229, but instead took CS 229a and was disappointed. He then overgeneralizing from his 229a experience about the future of Stanford CS education.
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by andrewparker 15y ago
If you're crediting MIT in your comment, then I feel your credit is misplaced. MIT is reacting to Stanford successfully completing a semester of a very similar initiative. MIT's initiative is incredibly generous, and looks awesome, but I t
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by andrewparker 15y ago
I contributed a lesson to Codecademy that just went live today on the DOM and jQuery: http://www.codecademy.com/courses/jquery-and-the-dom
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by andrewparker 15y ago
Many of the online learning solutions quoted throughout this comment thread are excellent for people who are autodidactic (and I suspect a vastly disproportionate % of the HN audience are autodidactic). But, for everyone else who lack the w
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by andrewparker 15y ago
For anyone who is interested in the article, I strongly recommend reading "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said It's about how the counter-culture attitude of the 60s helped inspire
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by andrewparker 15y ago
West coast VCs are aggressively investing three thousand miles away from the valley in NYC. I'm sure being geographically closer to VCs makes it easier to raise money, but I really hope startups don't pick their location based on where VCs
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Guido van Rossum joins WWW-Talk list and merits of Python Debated (1992)(1997.webhistory.org)
1 points by andrewparker 15y ago|0 comments
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Enrollment for Stanford's ML class online is now live.(ml-class.org)
1 points by andrewparker 15y ago|0 comments
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by andrewparker 15y ago
For your next side project, read CLRS and force yourself to complete a reasonable number of the problems (say every other problem, or every nth problem). Then I think it will stick. If you really don't need this info, then don't waste you
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by andrewparker 15y ago
yes because I couldn't finish it so I don't have a comment.
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by andrewparker 15y ago
favorite stephenson books in order: 1. snow crash 2. diamond age 3. cryptonomicon 4. zodiac 5. baroque cycle

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