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by auganov 10y ago
Sounds reasonable. But can't they keep them seamless? (silent) The other day I woke up, and out of nowhere I got the Anniversary Update (must have triggered during my sleep). Desktop style messed up, taskbar messed up (IE and somethin
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by auganov 10y ago
I wouldn't say HN is a strict part of geek culture or that trend (while Reddit et al. are). As far as the manga etc obsession goes - many geeks have long had a penchant for all sorts of Fantasy [0]. And the Japanese managed to capture
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by auganov 10y ago
React is a pretty simple concept (with, perhaps, a complex implementation) reified in a library. It's basically componentized state machines for UI rendering. Comparing it to general "web frameworks" is completely missing the
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by auganov 10y ago
Perhaps they don't want the US-bound money transfer to relate to their Cayman entity. I wouldn't worry about the source of the money and whatnot. Asking for that kind of a concession shows they're not a sophisticated startup
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by auganov 10y ago
Do we know for a fact that they want to solve this problem? I'm sure they'd love to change user behavior in a way that would produce more interesting interactions. But I doubt they truly want to go after the random fluff and outri
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by auganov 10y ago
There's no reason to feel bad about not exercising. If you don't like it, just don't do it. Sure, it might somewhat increase your life expectancy, but hey, so can other things. There's no way I'm going to do it unle
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by auganov 10y ago
Did they introduce theoretically innovative concepts to any of these fields? It's one thing to write a great database that people love, it's whole another to make a contribution to database theory. And nobody's arguing that p
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by auganov 10y ago
I've actually been worried about a more malicious version of that with complete disregard for privacy, scraping terms and what not. Sort of a personal Wikileaks on everyone. Somebody could host the real thing on TOR and just have proxi
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by auganov 10y ago
Just the fact that it's conjugated. And the female gendering of a word often having a diminutive effect in languages too. All in all it does seem fair (and suprising to me) given how similar the female form is, google says French has t
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by auganov 10y ago
Of course not (which I indicated fairly clearly too). To make a fair comparison you want to consider what kind of a feeling or connotation "You're a dog" vs "You're a cat" invokes. Variations on the sentence ar
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by auganov 10y ago
Yea, but that's a variation on cat. Not a standalone "cat', while a standalone "dog" has enough of a negative connotation in most languages.
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by auganov 10y ago
Most [all?] cultures agree. "Dog" is an insult across many languages, which indicates it's lower status. Never heard of "cat" being a standalone insult.
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by auganov 10y ago
It's a valid argument but in the big scheme of things it doesn't convince me. The same argument can be made for a wide array of things that are considered undesirable like, say, xenophobia [0]. I have definitely never sworn in my
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by auganov 10y ago
To illustrate the level of wechat craze: even VCs will often add you on wechat rather than exchange emails. I've seen group chats of founders and VCs coming up with ideas and arranging funding all within wechat. It seems like people do
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by auganov 10y ago
> Because those 91% of the people could easily ignore the Democratic and Republican candidates if they were terrible (which seems to be the case this year), and just vote for another party's candidate in the general election. Israel
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by auganov 10y ago
Of course it's silly. As silly as being, say, shy is. Knowing that it doesn't stem from some rational evaluation or even realizing it hinders you is only the first step. And btw I didn't downvote the parent. My point was most
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by auganov 10y ago
S-expressions is basically no syntax. Human-readability depends solely on the person that comes up with the schema. I mean there's many reasons to love S-expressions but human-readability is an unusual one. edn [0] is an interesting co
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by auganov 10y ago
A lot of individuals just don't feel comfortable speaking a language before they know it well enough. I definitely have a lot of respect for people that can just pick up a few basics and manage to always get their point across. But I j
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by auganov 10y ago
Shouldn't it just downregulate brightness and then slowly crank it back up? I could not stand anything below full brightness. Giving up on the cool hacker look and changing my Emacs and Terminal to black on white is one of the best thi
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by auganov 10y ago
When you've got 1000s of decent people applying you can't have enough half-decent sieves. You don't care about the false negatives, you only want to avoid false positives. The people that are hurting themselves are companies
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by auganov 10y ago
I don't believe there's anything in TTIP that shall directly relate to profits. ISDS schemes are about enforcing adherence to the treaty at hand and ensuring there's no legal/regulatory discrimination of foreign entities
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by auganov 10y ago
Well I don't know much about CVs and that sort of hiring. I was mostly concerned about your own possible confusion about who you'd like to be. You still seem to list a lot of "random" technologies rather than just operat
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by auganov 10y ago
You need to cut down on the noise. You mention so many things that it's hard to figure out "who you are". Would be nice to have something tangible you worked on that would give you instant credibility. Wouldn't mention t
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by auganov 10y ago
If it's enough of a problem to cause systemic decline of the city the property prices will have to drop. I just can't see how they would keep on buying and buying till nobody lives there anymore. Granted it is possible, but if the
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by auganov 10y ago
This very non-charitable reading of Zero to One makes it a hit piece. The reasoning is plausible and it's well written. But anyone that's in tech, has followed Peter and read the book knows it was never meant as a general philosop
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by auganov 10y ago
Abstract of the actual paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26268315
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by auganov 10y ago
It's trivial to get a job and a work visa. If you just wanna go work there for a bit and go back home - go for it. But if want to get legit stock options, start a startup or generally settle down then forget about it. You will be legal
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by auganov 10y ago
I don't think it's a terrible precedent. I only wish they were more uniform and systematic in banning similar kind of people. If anything it shows that you have to be very notorious until action is taken. There's plenty of ac
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by auganov 10y ago
tldr it's not about macros it's about homoiconicity;
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by auganov 10y ago
Yea the big problem with "opening up" the colonization game is you'll have people fighting over who's the colonizer (tho it's still sort of happening anyways). No doubt Russia might have been decent for them. Pretty

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