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by bengl3rt 14y ago
I dunno about you guys, but as a college student that frequently takes internships, I move every 4-6 months. Having a really powerful desktop that can be thrown back into its (incredibly well designed) original box and shipped here, there,
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by bengl3rt 14y ago
Nice to see a fellow Leykis listen here on HN. Props for the reference. Almost guaranteed the show will be about this on Monday. For the unfamiliar: blowmeuptom.com
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by bengl3rt 14y ago
Honestly, for code that controls millions of dollars worth of business and could seriously screw over a lot of people if a subtle flaw was introduced, I don't see a problem with doing it this way. Might be overkill for one line of code, but
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by bengl3rt 14y ago
Are we sure about Basho being fully distributed? Their "careers" page lists positions in particular cities and gives a few office addresses.
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by bengl3rt 14y ago
I couldn't agree more. I am 20-something and have always worked for startups with older founders - I actually respected them and always learned a lot. Meanwhile, the atmosphere in some of the incubators is little better than a frat boy club
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by bengl3rt 14y ago
Hiring??? :D
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by bengl3rt 14y ago
Every ride I've taken with Uber has been exactly the fee presented before getting in the vehicle and with no tip expected. Eh? At what point do you give it a destination so that it can present you with an estimated price? The only time it
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by bengl3rt 14y ago
One reason I hope Amazon Silk takes off is so that sites can no longer afford to do that, lest they incur a support nightmare.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
So Cray used to make unique, iconic supercomputers and now their secret sauce has been reduced to some interconnect for gluing together mass-market bits like the next ODM? Who drove them out of the supercomputer market? I know IBM still sel
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Every year we’re throwing more and more JS on top of the web, dooming our best intended semantic thoughts to suffocation in the Turing tar pit. JS libraries are the “fuck it, we’ll do it live!” of the web. Still waiting for someone to inv
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
I'm all about the Acura NSX, the 20-year old car that still seems to be from the future. But I'm a weirdo, most folks my age really like the Audi R8, and yes, the Tesla.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Hmm, my experience with that has been that it's not actually that fast - certainly nowhere near a hardware RAID controller. But hey, the benchmarks don't lie. This is pretty cool! And two SSDs probably sucks less battery than one HDD and
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Are they using Mac OS Software RAID for this?
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Hmm, I feel like Acunu and Mixpanel would let me focus on my first love (C/systems hacking), Acunu and Fastly would let me be the most active in open source, and ThoughtWorks would have the most travel (that's right, folks, I actually want
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Done. Looking forward to seeing the other responses pile up! One thing I'd like to know is how much of the things we perceive externally about a company on account of their messaging/reputation are actually true - I've had a couple of jobs
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
You should put an email address in your HN profile!
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Cool! I am working on automated mileage run finding at mileagebrain.com - hoping this will turn out to be complementary :)
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Have you considered allowing people to optimize for something other than cost? I'd be very interested in paying people to find me mileage runs - that is, itineraries that minimize the cost per mile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequent-f
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Cool! Best of luck to you and keep us posted :) And you're right about one thing - if I ever found myself suddenly single, I would move back to NYC in a hot second. As a (somewhat) sane straight guy with a bit of money, that dating scene ca
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Hmm, I always imagined I'd get a car I really liked and drive down 280 south (against traffic). But those condos in SoMa sure are nice.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
1h 30m commute is only if you insist on busing down to Apple or Google every day. There are plenty of companies you can work for in SF that you can reach in much less time. And if you think it's going to be affordable to live five minutes w
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Carsabi rules! Been using it since it launched. Best of luck to them.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Or they have Apple laptops but they hook them up to ugly, flimsy-looking Dell displays that are about 3x fatter than they need to be.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
I've always wondered if YC would fund ideas that were based on scraping (like this one) and therefore liable to receive this sort of letter at any time Now I know! Usually there is some sanctioned way to get at the data that you're scrapi
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeJ0LLsr3sM Chris Evans in Sunshine dies as he gets stuck under a computer tower which is being lowered back into its freezing cold fluid.
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Did anyone else think of the scene in Sunshine where Chris Evans gets stuck under the computer that's being lowered into fluid and freezes to death? The mechanism for making "the hot aisle" temporarily habitable fails, you get stuck on/in s
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Ah, bummer. I was going to apply to Palantir but I'm neither the top of my class, nor do I go to a particularly top school. May as well not bother I suppose. Glad I saw this and didn't waste my time!
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Agreed. Along with great headphones, it helps me get "in the zone" once I sit down at my computer in the afternoon after a morning of stupid/boring meetings... Its effect is probably 50% psychological at this point :)
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
To me, all of this seems like typical geek behaviour: something is making them uncomfortable, and so they attack it on “rational” grounds. Most likely, they aren’t even aware of the gut reaction fueling their logic. The truth hurts. It's
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by bengl3rt 15y ago
Quantopian is the one I was looking for. Thanks!

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