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by clusmore 9y ago
Somebody please correct me, because it sounds like they're saying a $40m investment got them to a $1b valuation, which would mean the investors (Sequoia, Blackbird and Felicis) got 4% between them? Why would they take such little equit
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by clusmore 9y ago
>Swatting needs to stop, and unfortunately as long as there are few consequences for swatting someone, it will continue to be a potentially deadly means for gaining e-fame and for settling childish and pointless ego squabbles. Penalties
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by clusmore 9y ago
>The fact that every comment is another "article" is bizarre. And yet right here on Hacker News, submissions and replies are both just "items" and the UX is fantastic. It's not so much about the way they are repr
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The case against Net Neutrality? [video](youtube.com)
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by clusmore 9y ago
So how is Uber's runway looking now? This article [1] from August suggests they had just over three years of runway at the end of June ($6.6b burning at about $2b/yr). So this extends the runway by only six months? Are they going
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by clusmore 9y ago
C# has features close to this, property initialiser syntax [1] and dynamic object literals [2]. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g... [2] https://docs.microsoft.com&#x
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by clusmore 9y ago
You should also consider the time it would take the company to correct the mistake and whether it's actually worth their time to do so. I'm reminded of this [1] answer on Stack Exchange that sometimes going through customer suppor
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by clusmore 9y ago
Hmm, maybe it has improved. I did this around a year ago. I spent weeks trying to train it, hiding every single "X liked this post" "Y commented on this post" and worse "Z liked a comment on this post" hoping t
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by clusmore 9y ago
I haven't deactivated my account, but I have unfollowed absolutely everything so that I have an entirely blank news feed, and uninstalled the app from my phone to avoid notifications. I still use messenger for communication with friend
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by clusmore 9y ago
If you run `foo | bar`, what starts running first? Does foo start and push its output into bar, or does bar start first and pull its input from foo? Does foo run to completion then bar to completion, do they take it in turns, or run at the
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by clusmore 9y ago
Check out Raymond Hettinger's talks on YouTube. Here's one to get you started: https://youtu.be/OSGv2VnC0go
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by clusmore 9y ago
Slightly off-topic but does anybody know of other great talks with a quirky theme like this, where the talk is "set" in the 70s talking about the "future" (present)? I'll kick it off by submitting [Growing a Languag
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by clusmore 9y ago
Try viewing the site with uMatrix. It's a completely blank white page until you allow scripts, XHR and an iframe.
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by clusmore 9y ago
>There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is f
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by clusmore 9y ago
The step that worked for me was unfollowing everything from Facebook, so that I have a completely empty News Feed. If I want to see what's happening for a particular person, I just navigate to their profile and see directly. I've
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by clusmore 9y ago
I'm not endorsing the work done by the student, I just thought it was relevant to the discussion. I agree completely that they probably haven't addressed all of the requirements or gone through the rigorous testing and verificatio
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by clusmore 9y ago
> You're right that code is read many more times than it's written. That doesn't argue against abstraction — it argues for it. But it argues for choosing the right abstractions, and that's where I feel like we do a po
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by clusmore 9y ago
Don Knuth has a dragon curve in the entrance hall to his house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v678Em6qyzk
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by clusmore 9y ago
> I was, on the other hand, hoping to promote healthy discussion and pose some good questions related to IT procurement here in Australia. There needs to be a happy medium between what I've wired up and an $86M solution. A related s
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by clusmore 9y ago
My problem with null is that it doesn't nest. For example, if I do a DB search for a particular column of a particular row and get null, does that mean the row doesn't exist, or it does but the column is empty? With optionals, you
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by clusmore 9y ago
>In my experience, telling them to "just trust it" and such seems to not help much. I've sometimes got past the "leap of faith" step by replacing the recursive call with a call to a built-in. e.g. >>&gt
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by clusmore 9y ago
> but I think your mutualRecursion() function is a multi-parameter version of the Y combinator Yes, exactly. I've created a fork [1] where I replace the multiple-parameter Y combinator with a single-parameter kind that operates on w
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by clusmore 9y ago
I'm a little confused by the summary. To me it looks like he's showed that you can simulate open recursion with only structures and functions. If it's because doing so requires forward-declarations/hoisting/reassi
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by clusmore 9y ago
Ah, okay. Thanks for the clarification. The point I was missing was number 4 -- I thought you were leaving the summaries on the whiteboard.
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by clusmore 9y ago
Looks great. If I understand correctly, it persists to LocalStorage? Is there a way to create additional whiteboards? You say you previously had 2,000 notes on Evernote - how have you managed to compress this to 5,000 characters and still l
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by clusmore 9y ago
>but is it not equally damaging to imply that loved ones are in danger lest they broadcast their safety on your platform? Facebook aren't implying this, you're suggesting that people are inferring this. Again, without any evide
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by clusmore 9y ago
>But by making Safety Check a default expectation Facebook flips the norms of societal behavior and suddenly no one can feel safe unless everyone has manually checked the Facebook box marked “safe”. I'm not buying this statement. Wh
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by clusmore 9y ago
I think Emmett Shear's story in this video[1] is a fantastic example of how sometimes the best solution to a perceived problem is to take a step back and realise the problem shouldn't be solved at all. In his case, the problem of
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by clusmore 9y ago
YouTube link for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
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by clusmore 9y ago
This is a little off-topic but I find it completely baffling that we seem to have so little control over the code that is executed on our own machines. From Javascript on pages to viruses, why is arbitrary software given so much power? Java

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