baguasquirrel

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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
You can't make good shit without having made bad shit first. Were you always the programmer you are now?
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
It's scary what you can do with machine translation these days...
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
It's like there's a spacesuit full of nuclear waste in every single computation!
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
unsafePerformIO is not nearly as useful for introducing effects as one might think it would be. Because Haskell is lazy, any effects you might want would have to be grounded in the toplevel IO monad anyway. To answer you directly, I've read
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
We have Pakistani cab drivers in New York City shuttling Jews around. Don't you have similar situations in Toronto? That should be evidence enough that we cannot make claim to the cultural heritage of our ancestor's nations. People come to
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I'm kind of disturbed by the kind of cultural misunderstandings that are going on here. Bribes are one thing. Gifts are another. An iPod is cheap change. How much do you want to bet those officials didn't have one already? When I was a chil
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Does it bother anyone else that YC has become so important that it's being covered in Forbes? I appreciate the attention that the startup community has been getting these days, but I'm sure many of you likewise enjoyed the underdog status w
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
This was great. I just wished that more in-depth articles like this one would rise to the top just as much. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2429082 ML may have lost the war, but from an academic and educational standpoint, folks in th
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I don't offer any solutions, but I can offer a cause of the problem. HN has become important. I know people IRL who will get their friends to help mod their submission. I likewise see stories that just scream, this person has friends who pr
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Europe does. But I realize the way that I put it was not constructive. There is no debate. In Europe, they have a problem of communication between classes. In America, we have a problem of communication between communities. One society is n
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Does anyone else here this and then think about Silicon Valley? Maybe it's just paranoia...
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
America has "black" problems that Europe may not have.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
The elevated rates of asthma occurring in inner city kids is also pretty shitty. One of the better things they did in NYC was to shut down most of the power plants that were actually in the city.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
So there's millions of Chinese women and girls out there who've never received an education, and this is a country that is trying to build a middle class...
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Why are you looping over array, when you are checking over the bounds of args? Shouldn't it be s += args[i]; Normally, you loop over the thing you're checking the bounds for. The fact that this has been sitting on HN front page all day and
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
The same language used by lawyers and prosecutors are the same words they hear on TV when the ads roll. Are you surprised?
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
The finance people have a point. The high level of government services and comfort thereby provided are funded by unsustainable levels of government debt that are well beyond any Western country, and practically all of it is privately held.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Don't you folks think this would discourage people from joining a startup? Who wants to work for a psychopath? That having been said, I've noticed the startup world seems to have more than its fair share of psychopathy, but psychopathy seem
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Both programmers' and artists' work can be reproduced at the twitch of a `cp -a`. You don't see those goddamn Ruby hipsters up in SF complaining about compensation.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
History time! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189316
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I remember also reading a piece in Stratfor about how the American leadership was disappointed with Japanese diplomacy. This sort of boring stuff is actually important in real-world policy enforcement. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Wait now, hold on a minute. I thought people have been saying that Flash on the Android was horribly slow.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Oh whatever. I can see it on me iPad. And iPhone. And Android. Who uses a fucking computer these days anyway? Programmers? ;-)
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Talk about sour grapes. Seriously. Where is the content in this article?
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Here's an answer counter to the conventional wisdom, which feels a little too self-serving. What if ideas are things that need to be worked on and hammered out as well? After all, isn't that why working on a startup is more rewarding? The p
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Stacked up money for himself? For the company? For the company for a few quarters? I agree with you, definitely. Finding good business folks is as hard as finding good programmers. Really damn hard.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
It is antisocial to forsake speaking with your friends. Speaking directly is a medium of communication, as is Facebook. You can argue about the cost/benefits of each, and claim your way is the better one, and this would constitute a lack of
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The Tiger Mom's Endgame(lambdasquirrel.posterous.com)
3 points by baguasquirrel 16y ago|0 comments
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Is France more concentrated than the UK or the low-lying countries are? Why so empty there? I mean, it looks empty in California too. A heat map might've looked a bit different.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
FWIW, we were in opposition to Libya and Cuba for how long, and it didn't get us anywhere. We need a real poli-sci explanation for why certain leaders are sticky, and why certain regions seem to have more than their fair share of despots.

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