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by avinium 7y ago
The thing that annoys me about all of these attempts is failing to recognize the impact of irregular forms of the verbs. So - for French - all the different forms of the verb aller (go) are treated individually. I paid for ReadLang for a w
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by avinium 7y ago
Am I the only one who is astonished that the company suffers 50% employee turnover in the first year? What an abysmal environment. Sounds like everyone is just lusting for money.
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by avinium 7y ago
This sounds like it makes sense, but falls apart when you start to scratch the surface. ML practitioners can - by and large - build affordable GPU rigs. That’s why Google is heavily pushing cloud TPUs instead - they significantly outperform
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by avinium 7y ago
Salient line: While Storm's Clojure implementation served it well for many years, it was often cited as a barrier for entry to new contributors. Storm's codebase is now more accessible to developers who don't want to learn C
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by avinium 7y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "clinical significance"? Is it a case of "we're confident the treatment shrank the tumour by 10%, but the patient is still going to die in a week?"
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by avinium 7y ago
This feels like a PR puff piece - I had to scroll halfway down before it was even mentioned what Notion is. But I’m more interested to know - how does a non-Japanese relocate to Kyoto to work on a startup? Aren’t there visa considerations?
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by avinium 7y ago
You're exactly right, but I think the real world is even more more nuanced than that (particularly when it comes to software). Some markets just don't exist, period. Think nail polish for pet turtles. It's easy to figure this
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by avinium 7y ago
The first time I went to Sydney (late 90s) I remember thinking the same - 7-11's everywhere. There was definitely an explosion of convenience stores across Adelaide - perhaps 2010 until 2015? But they then all shuttered in quick succes
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by avinium 7y ago
Is it fair to assume the author is a Mormon? From my limited understanding, large families are the norm for Mormons and I'm guessing there's a lot more structure in that kind of community. By contrast, my father came from a much l
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by avinium 7y ago
> Imo the problem with the article, and perhaps if it is a faithful representation of the original idea of orientalism, is that it is incoherent. It’s been at least 15 years since I read Orientalism, but I recall that being exactly my im
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by avinium 7y ago
Great summary.
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by avinium 7y ago
Super ambitious, but I love/respect the fact that there's still people out there driven by sheer passion and originality, rather than money. I've ranted many a times about the hypercapitalistic race-to-the-bottom approach tha
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by avinium 7y ago
I think "mentally ill" is pretty unfair. Passionate, depressed, maybe even self-righteous? Sure, all of these. But his capacity for logic doesn't seem to be affected. English isn't his first language, but he still writes
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by avinium 7y ago
I must admit, I am partial to your perspective. People have been building successful businesses for centuries without any notion or discussion of "product market fit". What's more, all these observations are written in hindsi
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by avinium 7y ago
Given some investors mistook penny stock ZOOM Technologies for Zoom video conferencing, yes, they really can be. https://www.ccn.com/zoom-ipo-stupid-investors-made-unrelated...
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by avinium 7y ago
If you think the Damore discussion has been done to death, then fair enough, I can understand the moderation decision. As to whether it's irrelevant to the overall discussion, I can understand your viewpoint - the article was specifica
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by avinium 7y ago
Maybe I don't understand the flagging system then? This literally has the word "flagged" in it: https://imagebin.ca/v/4hUkYoBw77QE https://imagebin.ca/v/4hUlR8OqhabH
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by avinium 7y ago
Yes, it's been flagged - ironic, given the nature of the subject matter.
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by avinium 7y ago
> It isn't a good example. Damore wasn't "fired because of an offended woman". Regardless of what you think of Damore, that isn't close to accurate. We all need to be much more careful about facts than that. I d
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by avinium 7y ago
Well, I disagree with that characterisation of the affair, but ultimately it’s irrelevant. He was literally fired for making people (in this case, women) uncomfortable. Doesn’t matter whether you agree or disagree with the firing, but that
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by avinium 7y ago
James Damore, for one..
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by avinium 7y ago
Can’t recommend this book highly enough. Unfortunately I only read it after making all the mistakes it lists - but I know from personal experience that everything it says is correct.
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by avinium 7y ago
Why do you say BitBucket has been lost?
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by avinium 7y ago
As someone who's been on both sides of the table - client and contractor - I completely agree. I never do or ask for fixed-fee. When I'm the client, I feel fixed-fee gives the contractor an easy backstop/fallback position - t
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by avinium 7y ago
What field are you looking to work in?
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by avinium 7y ago
These are some absolute gems here, great find. As someone with little experience in hardware, what kind of cost would you be looking at for the oscilloscope?
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by avinium 7y ago
You’re right, but the problem is that most people have forgotten what real hunger feels like. They confuse “hormone dependence” from years of eating carb heavy meals with actual hunger. The easiest way to retrain yourself is to stick to sim
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by avinium 7y ago
Thanks for linking this - had never seen it before. Fascinating to look back into the annals of gaming/software history to see the birth of ideas that we now take for granted. Also interesting, on an unrelated note: > Romero is now
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by avinium 7y ago
I have no idea what you’re trying to say with this video - which is Floyd Mayweather (a boxer) clowning Tenshin Nasukawa (a Kickboxer) in a boxing match. Nothing to do with MMA (or for that matter, Kung fu).
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by avinium 7y ago
FWIW I was working with F# SQLProvider recently and despite some teething issues, managed to get things working fine.

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