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by angersock 8y ago
MLH kinda took the soul out of the hackathons they used to have at Rice. It made hosting easier for the CS club, but the difference in the events from before MLH to after MLH is notable. It's more of an interactive jobs fair now. :(
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by angersock 8y ago
This might not be so bad, since the board of directors doesn't have a huge impact on the day to day, usually. Does it require the members have voting rights?
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by angersock 8y ago
Who are we to say that a woman's identity isn't defined by her insurance rates? The obvious biological markers are no longer requirements, so why not.
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by angersock 8y ago
For folks that are curious, lurk on the site a bit and swing through the #lobsters IRC channel. Be prepared to demonstrate some kind of technical competence (online code, writing, whatever), and please don't join to shill your products
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by angersock 8y ago
My money is the following: * Final demise of Moviepass, leads to "wait, losing on transactions and making it up on volume doesn't actually work" and scaring investors * Magic Leap dies because there's no way to recoup th
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by angersock 8y ago
Netflix doesn't really have ads. Also, the viewing patterns and infra needs are totally different.
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by angersock 8y ago
You could even extend that argument to include "is there a need for people to live in a place where they can't grow enough food to sustain their population". I wouldn't pull too hard on that thread here, though.
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by angersock 8y ago
It's a good port city in land (swamp) that is otherwise undesirable, so yes. (I'm posting from Houston.)
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by angersock 8y ago
> How can a language be intrinsically compiled or interpreted? This is a great example of an academic nondistinction that is completely worthless in practical matters.
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by angersock 8y ago
Javascript, Ruby, and Elixir are emphatically not interchangeable. Elixir is compiled, the other two are interpreted. JS is supported natively by all browsers and is at its core an event-driven functional language, the other two are not.
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by angersock 8y ago
They pay that with taxes. Taxes come from citizens. Citizens come from babies. If you don't have kids, you don't create taxpayers, and then society can't pay.
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by angersock 8y ago
Baby belt?
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by angersock 8y ago
How do you measure your team's impact to the business?
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by angersock 8y ago
> It has to do with the purpose of this site—intellectual curiosity—being incompatible with tribalism. "You might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you." More seriously, though, the highbrow dismiss
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by angersock 8y ago
You're doing a lot of damage control on China stuff since that partnership thing was announced.
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by angersock 8y ago
The sense of purpose is defeated if you realize you're really just generating value for founders who will never let you get a fair piece of the pie.
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by angersock 8y ago
I was engineering hire #1, and we had no insurance and pay was half market rate, but at least the founders were incompetent and abusive depending on the day.
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by angersock 8y ago
5-20% depending on how much you're using their expertise. If you offer tiny or no equity, they have no incentive to align for growth. Also, founders are usually way less useful than the people they hire.
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by angersock 8y ago
Those people are spiteful twats.
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by angersock 8y ago
The protocol explicitly has mechanisms for protected and non-protected. If the owners don't want something public, it's trivial to lock it down--they might as well freak out when somebody uses the wrong door to enter the front of
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by angersock 8y ago
The problem comes when we've normalized the idea of exploring public endpoints as "yeah, this is probably exceeding authorized access".
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by angersock 8y ago
"If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid". I liked the post, but I'm not sure that I agree.
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by angersock 8y ago
Maybe they shouldn't have those devices then.
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by angersock 8y ago
No idea why you are being downvoted...this is true.
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by angersock 8y ago
The difference in strategy is why Apple sells toys and Amazon has an empire.
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by angersock 8y ago
To be fair, we can all totally ship incomplete and buggy software to good effect. Imagine a shipping system where users have to submit orders and then manually update the address zip code--sure it is buggy but the end user still gets value.
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by angersock 8y ago
Dismissing links out of hand as you are here doesn't serve to help discussion either. So, real talk, why do you think concerns over YC working with a government with super shaky human-rights record are unimportant or unfounded? A valid
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by angersock 8y ago
So, how much money is there in PRC contracts for surveillance and social credit software? For reference, this is the market they're excited about joining: http://time.com/5366225/china-uighurs-detention-report&#x2F
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by angersock 8y ago
Their job is to make money. Why people think otherwise is beyond me.
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by angersock 8y ago
Okay dang, have a link: http://time.com/5366225/china-uighurs-detention-report/ A million Uyghur and Muslims in camps. That's a sixth of a Holocaust.

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