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by bshanks 6y ago
Some of the people who will view the post will think that. Others will not.
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by bshanks 6y ago
This applies to only 1 of the 5 companies named in the "Other Failed YC Startups" section. What about the founders of the other 4 companies there?
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by bshanks 6y ago
I agree with gkoberger, you're not considering the impact on individuals for whom a Google search of their name may in the future come up with "Biggest Y Combinator Failed Startups". At least take the founder names out of the
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A Pipeline Made of Airbags(ferd.ca)
125 points by bshanks 6y ago|57 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
Too late for me to be allowed to change but I support a title change, if the mods will permit it. The site text suggests the subtitle "building up compilers and interpreters and tools from nothing". The site's actually a litt
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by bshanks 6y ago
Thanks
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Bootstrapping(bootstrapping.miraheze.org)
38 points by bshanks 6y ago|4 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on why Go might be better than Python for business logic.
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Tic-80 Tiny Computer(tic.computer)
43 points by bshanks 6y ago|3 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
Another solution to this is discussion wikis.
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by bshanks 6y ago
You might like this article titled "Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?": https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
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by bshanks 6y ago
I dunno about always, but in this particular case The Verge hyperlinked to the order in the first sentence of their article: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21400240/epic-apple-rulin... (and the great
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by bshanks 6y ago
Judge has issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Apple from restricting Epic/Unreal Engine from Apple’s Developer Program. This is only in effect temporarily, until the court makes a longer-lasting determination on a prelimin
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Epic judge will protect Unreal Engine – but not Fortnite(theverge.com)
1 points by bshanks 6y ago|1 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
Anti-monopoly legislation is important, but it is also important to create a mechanism for funding public goods. Browsers are necessary to keep the web open, and there should be a mechanism for society to fund that, even if it does cost $40
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by bshanks 6y ago
If you were designing a programming language with IDE tooling in mind, what are the things that Common Lisp and Smalltalk do to better assist IDEs than Python/Ruby?
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by bshanks 6y ago
I can see how this sort of thing might be a useful component of an AGI. One function could be helping to generate lots of training examples for other subcomponents along the lines of chess AI self-play; this could even be involved in "
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Facebook’s Civil Rights Audit – Final Report [pdf](about.fb.com)
3 points by bshanks 6y ago|0 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
Another theory is that people disagree more than they think they do, but their actual actions are not as disagreeable as their opinions. So, two people will often hold opinions that the other considers abhorrent but will be able to get alon
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by bshanks 6y ago
I've heard that on Postmates you can use the write-in functionality to order from a business that isn't on their platform at all (you order from a nearby business and in the write-in field tell the Postmate to go across the street
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by bshanks 6y ago
You can also order non-food items on Postmates (e.g. stuff from Home Depot). Also anecdotally, the probability of an order actually arriving and being correct seems to be higher on Postmates. Perhaps the drivers there are more motivated to
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by bshanks 6y ago
Debt should be allowed but only when the legislature authorizes it with a 2/3s supermajority vote. Having a higher voting threshold for issuing debt than for other decisions will reduce the amount of debt that gets issued, while still
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Ask HN: Status of Wayback Machine distributed backup projects?
11 points by bshanks 6y ago|1 comments
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Examples of Incorrect Abstractions in Other Languages(reddit.com)
115 points by bshanks 6y ago|133 comments
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by bshanks 6y ago
Summary of the article's recommendations: Don't use: - Cognito (authentication). Because: on mobile social login it isn't native. Instead: use Auth0, OneLogin, Okta or roll your own - Cloudformation (programmatically configu
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by bshanks 6y ago
For me, one big competitive advantage of Amazon is that i know that they will probably give me my money back if there is an issue (without me spending a ton of time wrangling customer support, and without me paying return shipping). For exa
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by bshanks 6y ago
Since the hospitalization and mortality rates vary so much with age, it would be surprising if the rate of asymptomatic cases didn't. Since prisons skew young we would expect a much higher proportion of asymptomatics to be found there
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by bshanks 6y ago
To add to your point, here is a paper with data on this: https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/how-man...
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by bshanks 7y ago
Do you have some organizational mechanisms in mind to prevent such an institution from eventually evolving gatekeeping and seniority (or to dislodge it from power if it does)?
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by bshanks 7y ago
We do need to fund more science, but we also need to fund more PPE, more testing and contact tracing, more medical equipment and more nurses. Please support the Coronavirus Action Plan: https://www.change.org/p/coronavi

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