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by baristaGeek 12y ago
And that's why we use HN. Moore's law is showing this asymptotic behavior because we focused on improoving hardware for so long, apprently leaving everything else pretty much behind. If the correlation coefficient towards Moore&#x
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
Ethics are an invention of the human mind, they are relative and therefore really hard to understand. From a pragmatic point of view the best way to understand ethics would be getting deeper into neuroscience and understanding at higher lev
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Mobile dev: Java, Parse Web dev: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript (JQuery and Angular), RoR Miscellaneous: R, RinRuby,
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The browser, specifically Chrome. This is a huge call for a HN native app.
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Arguments for and Against the Current Tech Bubble(quora.com)
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Many of you have probably read, or at least heard about, Peter Thiel's Zero to One. A core concept of this book is asking your self: "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?", I recently answered the questi
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It's important that cultures disappear(bgblog.quora.com)
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Will the results of the midterm elections affect YC for foreign applicants?
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
"One of the first steps is making sure that your idea is a good one." No, no, no! I'm not a successful startup founder but looking at cases where the startup has pivoted (such as Instagram) this is proved wrong. If the people
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
I don't understand. A few weeks ago Facebook forced us into Facebook Messanger and they payed a lot of money + stocks to acquire WhatsApp. And now, instead of demarketing WhatsApp to erase it out of the map and have the Facebook brand
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
There should be a curve that shows inflation, otherwise that GDP curve is not as informative as it should be. Or is it adjusted with inflation rates (which by looking at the shape of the curve, is not probable). Assuming that GDP per capita
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
Intelligence is pretty much a result of health (just as beauty, that's why there are a lot of beautiful and intelligent people, that could even explain why IQ correlates with life expectancy). Eventhough medicine has and still is advan
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
MOOCs and the archaic university structure in general should shift to this. There's obviously something really important to have in mind and it's that knowledge is cummulative, meaning that in order to learn something you need to
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
The uplifting air currents theory sounds like something unprobable for me. Since Europa (one of Jupiter's moons) is known to have an ice cape, and water is the origin for life, I trust more the theory that suggests that life forms have
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
Do you actually know someone who prefers using IE to any other browser? No right? Even if they build a perfect product, product perceptions in general need a demarketing process to be changed. Since they are so far away from having a perfec
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
This is a really smart move from Microsoft. I have to absolutely disagree with him saying that IE "has negative perceptions that no longer represent the product". It has improoved a lot in these last years for sure, but as a part
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
Spotify's greatest comparative advantage is its UX. No other music streaming service is so beautifully designed and definitively not that robustly engineered. I really enjoyed reading about this redesign process, we can all learn a lo
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How much do enteprise software providers charge?
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by baristaGeek 12y ago
In a regular week 12 hours (7am-7pm usually) from Monday to Friday and 4 hours on Saturday; for a total of 64 weekly productive hours. I spend this hours in college stuff, gym, volunteering and off course, coding.