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by brianpan 11y ago
The business serving ads. The business importance is improving access that users have and reducing costs of delivering bytes. Making money being in the business of being an ISP is probably not a business goal. If data rates magically improv
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by brianpan 11y ago
The Big Bang came from....gravity?
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by brianpan 11y ago
Not onerous? For what size libraries? For your iPhone? For a 3 year-old iPod Touch? My iPhone 5 was trying to process photos in the background last night and my Twitter app stopped responding to touches. The keyboard was lagging by 30-60 se
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by brianpan 11y ago
I have considered moving away from LinkedIn and designing an online resume. LinkedIn is not perfect, there are plenty of reasons you might not want to use it. Besides finding engineers, what does LinkedIn provide you as a hiring manager tha
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by brianpan 11y ago
There are 3 reasons people need to buy a new computer- too slow, ran out of HD space, or too slow and ran out of HD space. It was true 10 years ago and even more true now. Backup your 32GB phone a few times and you're wondering where
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by brianpan 11y ago
I don't see the difference. If you're limiting the bandwidth I can't access the data. I think it's reasonable to expect "unlimited" to mean without artificial restrictions or limitations to accessing the thing
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by brianpan 11y ago
I don't know why you'd only count button presses that result in code. I think I spend way more time on the keyboard than not. A large amount of my time is pressing buttons to debug or understand code: Find class, Find string, Go t
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by brianpan 11y ago
> It sounds like writing prose is as hard as writing code. Who knew? Donald Knuth for one. He published Literate Programming in 1984. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/lp.html
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by brianpan 12y ago
I don't see how it's not mostly luck. Being gifted with the right mindset is not a small exception. That's pretty huge. Of a hundred million babies born this year, they do NOT all have the same chance of becoming a billiona
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by brianpan 12y ago
The measure of a tool should be: how much of an improvement is it over not using it. It's not about how fast a bike can go, it's how much faster it is than walking. vi can be a huge speedup doing text manipulation. Programming is
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by brianpan 12y ago
The iPhone was a computing device in a form factor that the market was able to relate to as a phone. The Apple Watch is a computing device in a form factor that the market will be able to relate to as a watch. 'Phone' and 'wa
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by brianpan 12y ago
Corollary to the rule-of-thumb: if you replaced meaningless numbers with a meaningless analogy, it also does not belong in the sentence. Generalization of the rule-of-thumb: write sentences that have meaning.
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by brianpan 12y ago
Not everywhere and not all the time, especially not considering a 30% better mpg, as the article mentions.
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by brianpan 12y ago
You forgot to multiply by the probability of winning. If you have a 1 in 3 chance of winning, the expected payout is only $75k per attempt.
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by brianpan 12y ago
I love the kits. I didn't see an FAQ anywhere- what's the minimum number of inexperienced people it would take to put together the small/big domes and how long does it take?
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by brianpan 12y ago
I thought Cris Carter only caught touchdowns.
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by brianpan 12y ago
It almost seems as if it's an essential feature for browsing HN in a sane way. Naw, everyone replying to the top comment in a post in order to be seen is probably fine.
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by brianpan 12y ago
Unless that price is zero, that's exactly what net neutrality is trying to avoid- an uneven playing field.
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by brianpan 12y ago
This is a tired meme. Apple's use of translucent elements was not well received when they first did it (and I'm not certain it is highly regarded now, either): http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/06&#x2
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by brianpan 12y ago
You stated: most people probably believe that factually incorrect statements are not valuable to the conversation. I don't think this is true at all. I disagree that 1) this is a thing most people believe and 2) that incorrect statem
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by brianpan 12y ago
You guys disagree with the Japanese programmer because of the difference in cultural contexts. You see how "valuable" programming is compared to janitorial in the context of our culture. Western society (business people, aunts, an
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by brianpan 12y ago
Well, it's off by 30 seconds now . But eventually....
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by brianpan 12y ago
Somewhat related is the friendship paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
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by brianpan 12y ago
Exactly, I was speaking from a US perspective. The historical reason for this is in Europe, interoperability as you travel between countries was a priority, so a single European protocol (GSM) with a removable, interchangeable SIM developed
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by brianpan 12y ago
Most people don't even understand what a SIM is , let alone how to replace one. They probably can find their Settings app though.
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by brianpan 12y ago
Ocean waves crashing against a retaining wall. It doesn't matter how many small waves come, it's only waves greater than a certain height that are dangerous.
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by brianpan 12y ago
I noticed the same thing with Noah's Bagels and Jamba Juice. Apparently there is also a connection between the two: http://breakfastatepiphany.blogspot.com/2012/06/noahs-new-yo...
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by brianpan 13y ago
I don't know what numbers you are using but my calculations are different. I don't think it matters that there are 1 billion users worldwide . I think it's fair to assume that a majority of local, state, and federal requests
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by brianpan 13y ago
I thought so as well, but I'm not really that interested in "organizing" my friend list. Ideally, yes, I would. But there's too many corner cases and overlapping circles that it's never exactly what I want and it quickly gets out of date. F
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by brianpan 13y ago
Even their reviews of Apple products? http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/11/consumer-repo...

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