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by bdr 14y ago
"Marie Curie... had two children, one of whom also won a Nobel Prize, as well as a husband, Pierre Curie, who claimed a third Nobel Prize for the family." Marie got two, one in physics and one in chemistry, the former jointly with Pierre. T
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by bdr 14y ago
I'm pretty sure you can find a 25x spread in developer compensation at Google, and that's within a pool of great developers. But they are an exception. In general, the skill difference is too hard to quantify, and the pay disparity would ca
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by bdr 14y ago
The key difference is that the Touch fits in your pocket. An iPad mini wouldnt, so you might as well make it as big as you can comfortably hold in your hands.
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by bdr 14y ago
Wow, what an amazing post. Honest, sensitive, and very well written.
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by bdr 14y ago
Disqus has never gotten enough credit for their design. People forget how crappy comments used to look. When Disqus came out, everyone eventually copied their design. With Disqus 2012, I think that's going to happen again. They are leading
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by bdr 14y ago
Note that if you'd bought the put option mentioned in the article you would have made a 4x return in 6 months. No borrowing needed.
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by bdr 14y ago
Did you try tornadio2?
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by bdr 15y ago
"And lastly, something I’ve been wondering: is it possible to fake experience by getting advice?" It must be hard, because so few people seem to do it. The history of humanity would look different if we didn't all seem to have to repeat the
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by bdr 15y ago
Disagree! Enjambment suits the form. I tend to like the robot's output.
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by bdr 15y ago
We do have extremely incomplete information, and saying things like "lack of self-knowledge" about a corporation is shaky ground, so it took me a while to get this post out. I'm glad you found it interesting. > will they change course o
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by bdr 15y ago
FYI it can be a sign of being somewhere on the autism spectrum. A lot of programmers are.
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by bdr 15y ago
The video worked for me in FF but not Chrome on Mac.
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by bdr 15y ago
I haven't applied to a stealth-mode startup in a while, but yes, last time I did I was asked to sign an NDA.
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The Google We Lost(andrewbadr.com)
23 points by bdr 15y ago|3 comments
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Gigantism in Insects (bioteaching.wordpress.com)
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by bdr 15y ago
Yes, not to mention the two stocks it failed on.
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by bdr 15y ago
This is a great comment. Imagining these alternative situations uses your intuitive knowledge of how things work instead of trying to apply abstract principles.
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by bdr 15y ago
Well said. I think there can be an element of subconscious, monkey-brain motivation behind that kind of behavior. Less status for them means more for you. At least sometimes — this flyer looks more just plain dumb.
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by bdr 15y ago
Hence the "in general". It still has its place for internal company tools. I often use IRC for technical help. Still, chat as we knew it, as some people still think of it, is dead.
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by bdr 15y ago
This has been tried a dozen times. The chicken and egg problem is especially hard in real time. And in general, chat is dead. It's boring. The web has more to offer than it did when chat rooms were popular.
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by bdr 15y ago
I think your criticism applies more to the consumer behavior than to this analysis of it.
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by bdr 15y ago
If you're still very bullish on AAPL, you could consider buying call options instead of stock. I didn't know about (non-startup) options until last year. They may be the highest-EV trade for a given belief about the stock's future, though t
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by bdr 15y ago
Replace eBay. Their interface is crappy, they don't help with fulfillment, and the reputation system could be improved. In general they seem stagnant.
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by bdr 15y ago
A few of his submissions: "Need Start-Up Advice" A year and a half ago. Sad. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1782800 "Darwin Skeptics Believe Neaderthal Cannibals have High IQ" A revealing attempt at humor. http://news.ycombinator.co
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by bdr 15y ago
I imagine it as originating in knowledge about plants and animals. To know is to be able to separate one species from another, or one individual from the group. In the Genesis myth, the first thing Adam does is give names to different anima
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by bdr 15y ago
Most of the work is done by ejabberd on the backend and client-side JS. Django handles some authentication and nginx the static files.
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by bdr 15y ago
IRC is too complicated for most people. It's also limiting: by building a custom web interface, Seddit can integrate with Reddit more deeply than generic services can. For example, moderators of a subreddit are automatically moderators of t
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by bdr 15y ago
Their authentication API randomly fails sometime. Try the alternative method.
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by bdr 15y ago
"Said it", like "Read it"
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Show HN: Seddit.com, a chat site based around Reddit(seddit.com)
47 points by bdr 15y ago|30 comments

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