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by brianchu 12y ago
It is a matter of expectations. I've been the Startup School for three times now. I don't go for the talks - I go for the people. The talks certainly have an inspirational bent to them, and most of the info can be gleaned from HN,
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This sounds great. It bears noting that this form of code push is routinely implemented in native apps too - I know at least that the Quora and Facebook iOS apps make liberal use of web views (and code push). Native apps can take the opposi
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by brianchu 12y ago
One proposed reason for the evolution of sleep is facilitating neural plasticity (growth and change). These studies merely show benefits in the short-term. An interesting hypothesis to test is if people with this mutation, over the long-ter
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by brianchu 12y ago
The problem is with taking Instacart's $3.99 delivery fee at face value. Last I checked (which was a year ago - they've probably lowered this) on top of that they charge 10-20% markup on each item, and they also pocket any savings
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by brianchu 12y ago
For each native platform, there actually aren't many (viable) choices. Android has Android (framework) and Java. iOS has iOS (framework), and a choice between two very similar and interoperable languages, Objective-C and Swift. If you
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by brianchu 12y ago
AFAIK Ionic isn't specifically engineered for performance. Famo.us is more low-level.
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Big fan of what they're trying to do. I've kept my eye on them for a few years. It's remarkable that at a place like UC Berkeley (where I study CS), the pinnacle of innovation is videotaped lectures and programming assignment
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by brianchu 12y ago
Really interesting. About a year ago I spent some time thinking about the concept of building semi-decentralized versions of typical web apps with WebRTC and a series of trusted centralized hubs.
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by brianchu 12y ago
Two salient examples of Angular include: Amazon's AWS dev console (not the best example of Angular, but the only public use by a large corp I know of), and Lift's web app (lift.do). I also know that Apple uses Angular for a few in
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by brianchu 12y ago
Awesome. I remember giving you a coin for my vote at the MIT demo day 1.5 years ago, and was pretty disappointed when I didn't see it released afterwards. Really happy to see it now!
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Facebook, Twitter, Asana. Interestingly, each developed their own JavaScript libraries/frameworks - React, Flight, and Luna (Luna is not open-source). Others: Google Maps. I don't find Gmail to be a particularly good example, unfo
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Nude photos of strangers are a 'fringe benefit' for NSA employees, says Snowden(independent.co.uk)
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Google Glass Creator Joins Amazon(mashable.com)
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Firstly, what's you financial situation? Are you paying for college, do you have a scholarship, etc.? I think anyone can make it without a degree given sufficient motivation. I'm doing a degree because I recognize I don't hav
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Ask HN: Best way to start with functional programming?
26 points by brianchu 12y ago|13 comments
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It's important to keep in mind that it is quite likely that for most of the Thiel Fellows, there is not much "cost" associated with college. Give the high-achieving student, immigrant family skew of the fellows, it's qui
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by brianchu 12y ago
Berkeley's first intro CS course uses Python for 2/3 of the course, then uses Scheme. The final project is writing a limited Scheme interpreter in Python. To further clarify, Java is used in Berkeley's 2nd CS class (followed
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The Facebook Prison Experiment(online.wsj.com)
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by brianchu 12y ago
I'm also a sophomore (in CS) at Berkeley. My background is a bit similar - I took a year off before college to take a software course and work at a startup. The year I took off was probably one of the periods of greatest personal gro
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In defense of In Defense of Facebook(talyarkoni.org)
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This is http://famo.us 's approach. A JS framework built on the idea of positioning everything only using CSS 3D transforms.
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by brianchu 12y ago
A modern front-end stack looks like: For structure/content : raw HTML, or less commonly a language that compiles to HTML (Haml, Jade, etc.). If the HTML is being rendered and served from the backend, you might use a templating languag
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by brianchu 12y ago
The "cutting-edge" web frameworks that already exist today are the fat client frameworks you describe (client-side rendering). The web frameworks of the future will have robust server-side and client-side rendering, in my op
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There is pretty much no market for QR code services here in the States (I would guess it's the same in Europe), which is reflected in the opinions here. In Asia (I think China specifically, not sure), QR codes are ubiquitous and widely
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Back to the future of databases(yinwang0.wordpress.com)
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Most normal people don't care about having to sign up. Or how Quora is allegedly gaming Google.
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Yeah, it's definitely a Silicon Valley thing. I grew up in SV and go to school at Berkeley, and dropping out is definitely considered a valid choice. People I know in SF encourage me to drop out all the time, and I know of several coll
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There's a middle ground of having leaps come from applying technology that already exists, but in novel ways (see: touch screens for the iPhone). So neither purely engineering driven nor purely aesthetically driven.
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It's whatever is to the left of the dot. The exceptions: 1) when used with new, it's the new instance of the object (pretend that when you use the new keyword, an Object.create() call is inserted in the beginning of the constructo
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by brianchu 12y ago
That has less to do with React specifically, and more to do with how languages/tools/libraries generally gain adoption. React is at a point where there's still an emerging "early-adopter" community. Angular was like

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