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by antoinevg 8y ago
Nice. $200 is eight raspberry pi's or a really nice FPGA development board. Love this idea!
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by antoinevg 9y ago
echo "Being able to afford good boots" | s/"good boots"/"good decisions"
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by antoinevg 9y ago
As an engineer my job is to engineer. As a manager it's your job to figure out what my impact is. If you make it my job to show what my impact is I (and everyone else you are responsible for) will simply spend my time coming up with ev
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by antoinevg 9y ago
Only if the incessant streams of breaking updates were primarily about device security would this be a valid argument.
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by antoinevg 9y ago
Really? No one gets the joke? sigh
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by antoinevg 9y ago
Dude... I read this and I wonder if you will understand what I'm saying when I tell you that it is specifically BECAUSE proponents like you fuck themselves up beyond comprehension that I consider whiteboard tests to be a massive red f
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by antoinevg 9y ago
Is that you Markov?
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by antoinevg 9y ago
Disparities in fairness create opportunities for one group to advance their short-term interests at the long-term expense of another group. Unfortunately, education levels in the general population are not yet at a level where the majority
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by antoinevg 9y ago
When I got my first MacBookPro in 2009 I was sold instantly. Not because of the specs, I had given up a Dell costing a quarter of the price with higher resolution display, more memory, a nicer keyboard and faster CPU. I was sold because, un
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by antoinevg 9y ago
The original vision for hypertext absolutely had multiple "browsers/clients" and feature parity between them was not even remotely an issue. The idea was that you tell the server what capabilities you have, it then tells you
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by antoinevg 9y ago
I beg of you to not assume, because you are not suffering, that the suffering of others is not real.
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by antoinevg 9y ago
Maintaining your own fork means you are taking de-facto responsibility for the maintenance of more projects in addition to your paying projects. The costs of keeping them current adds up surprisingly quickly. In fact, it adds up so quickly
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by antoinevg 9y ago
1. Payment is due on receipt of invoice 2. I give a 10% discount for invoices paid on the same day as receipt 3. I will not do repeat work for someone who did not pay on time
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by antoinevg 10y ago
Free Twitter business plan suggestion: Given Twitter's utility to the rich, famous and powerful why not introduce a follower limit of say 1000? If you want to allow more people than that to follow you then Twitter will sell you an incr
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by antoinevg 10y ago
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied. "
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by antoinevg 10y ago
Oookaaayyy… but then you don't get to complain when those people vote Trump into office.
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by antoinevg 10y ago
Spend a year being the person who makes new arrivals feel welcome :)
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by antoinevg 10y ago
thr0waway1239 pointed out the obvious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467898 So I thought I'd try to draw your attention to a suggestion I made in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12465972
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by antoinevg 10y ago
That was also our original idea but it turns out to not be that simple: 1) Whether you are an individual or a company, you still need permission from the South African Reserve bank to "just happen to own" a US company. 2) Whether
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by antoinevg 10y ago
Our situation is quite complex but the tl;dr is: We were already incorporated in SA but we also needed to be incorporated in the USA if we wanted to keep serving our customers.
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by antoinevg 10y ago
We're based in South Africa and joined the Stripe Atlas beta earlier this year. Solving the incorporation problem is only the first of many problems. --- Please understand that none of the following is a criticism of Stripe. If we hadn
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by antoinevg 10y ago
Maybe focus less on disruption and design for long-term stability and sustainability instead?
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by antoinevg 10y ago
Hi Alan, Do you think we're yet at a position where we could catalog a set of "primitives" that are foundational to programming systems? (Where "systems" are fundamentally distributed and independent of software pla
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by antoinevg 10y ago
My feeling is that the constraints ultimately tend to be political rather than technological and it's hard to find folk from either camp willing to take the other seriously. ObBookRecommendation: https://www.amazon.com/
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by antoinevg 10y ago
Productivity increases don't boost GDP if no one has money to buy the goods&services being produced. This is why you need to watch out for steep income inequality between the managerial and working classes.
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by antoinevg 11y ago
In the headlong rush towards exploiting the easy and trivial gains one can pilfer from the cost reductions achieved through automation I fear many of you fine HN folk may have forgotten other applications of technology in the workplace that
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by antoinevg 11y ago
The only thing that scares me more than the current information asymmetry between investors and startup employees is the thought of the kind of structures engineers can come up with when their livelihood is at stake!
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by antoinevg 11y ago
Genius :-)
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by antoinevg 11y ago
The beauty is that any engineer who masters this information will come to realise that they hold all the keys to the kingdom.
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by antoinevg 11y ago
All of which is true but until the larger community of founders and investors buy into the rational basis for their existence those common shares do not provide any incentive for a competent programmer to take the risk of working for a star

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