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by colmvp 7y ago
Does anyone know why PG doesn't comment on HN anymore?
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by colmvp 7y ago
I wonder if they are being conservative with their estimates? Or maybe it's because of the high amount of demand they expect to happen. I sent my MacBook to an Apple store a few weeks ago, and it only took a few days to replace.
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by colmvp 7y ago
Back in 2012, I bought the original rMBP. It fit everything I needed: it was thinner than my previous laptop as it had no optical drive, it was lightweight, it had a gorgeous screen, good enough keyboard, and seemed like a reasonable price
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by colmvp 7y ago
Agreed. I really liked Chernobyl but I honestly thought Breaking Bad and the first four seasons of Game of Thrones were superior, in no small part because of the high excellence that’s extremely difficult to maintain beyond a few episodes.
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by colmvp 7y ago
Followed by “what is the time and space complexity?”
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by colmvp 7y ago
I think it's telling that those in tech, including billionaire execs like Jobs, were/are very sensitive to the usage of tech devices by their kids. Addiction to games, news, apps, entertainment is real, but that's only half t
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by colmvp 7y ago
I like Strang and have worked through some of his books but when I was first learning Linear Algebra, I preferred learning from Dr. Aviv Censor's videos on YouTube[0] from when he was teaching at Technion. It's a few dozen videos
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by colmvp 7y ago
FWIW, I've been using WeWork for the last six months to do both contract work and studying. As someone who has worked remotely for the last five years, I like having the option of working away from home, as I can get a bit cabin feveri
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by colmvp 8y ago
It still feels like 3-6 months is far too short for a curriculum for people making career changes, as there is a great deal of depth for each topic covered. For example, in their Robotics Software Engineering degree, one of the topics they
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by colmvp 8y ago
I would guess CS193P is probably more in depth just in their lecture content alone than the Nanodegree lecture content. And I can't speak to every Nanodegree, but the projects I worked on in my Nanodegree were 'easy' enough t
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by colmvp 8y ago
I took one of their Nanodegrees a while back. On the one hand, I wouldn't say it was a total waste of money. The production value of the videos was very good, the Jupyter notebooks were invaluable as practice, and the structure was pas
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by colmvp 8y ago
FWIW, the way I was able to bump my reputation up was suggesting edits. It's pretty satisfying spending months learning proper technique and then recognizing small coding inefficiencies made by more experienced coders.
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by colmvp 8y ago
Whoa.. such complicated hoodie rules.
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by colmvp 8y ago
Why hate templates?
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by colmvp 8y ago
Is this an example of the 'Most Vexing Parse' problem?
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by colmvp 8y ago
I would totally buy this fear if iOS was anywhere close to the marketshare that Windows was back in the 90s.
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by colmvp 8y ago
I tend to agree. A company I was associated with was in YC a while back and there were a number of companies that had zero traction at the time. I truly believe that they put a put a good deal of weight on the talent of the group, so even t
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by colmvp 8y ago
Internet shopping is still very much a small share (~15%) of all shopping that occurs in the United States.
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by colmvp 8y ago
When my friends parents had to get the unfortunate news that their sons body was found, the police drove to their home to give them the bad news in person. The news was going to hurt one way or another, but they appreciated that other human
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by colmvp 8y ago
Do you experience symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency?
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by colmvp 8y ago
Most of my friends despise Facebook, but at the end of the day we're still using their other products like WhatsApp and Instagram.
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by colmvp 8y ago
A very recent example of this is the passing of Luke Perry, who was the voice of Sub-Zero in the cartoon series of Mortal Kombat. MK Co-creator Ed Boon expressed him sympathies on Twitter and a number of fans replied to him, asking why he w
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by colmvp 8y ago
Personally, I love C++ Templates: The Complete Guide (2nd Edition) since it's such a thorough book on templates (which are pretty fundamental) and also goes into depth into other general C++ topics. It also discusses Concepts which are
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by colmvp 8y ago
Yup. I was at a ML meetup and one of the kids who was only 12 or so knew advanced level coding and Tensorflow. Another one was a 16 year old who had been coding C++ for more than half a decade. They both credit a lot of it to the internet a
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by colmvp 8y ago
I also recommend interested people to watch David Silver's RL lectures at UCL on YouTube. He covers material from the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0&list=PL7-jPKtc4r...
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Maybe. I remember having a hard time searching for information when I was young, as it was pre-internet and I was reliant on my parents on driving me places like the library to access information. Nowadays, if you want to learn the ins and
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by colmvp 8y ago
I had to take a blood test today. Normally if I go my local clinic the wait time is 15 minutes. But because I went on a Saturday the wait was 1-2 hours!!
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> "The Reveal reports that in one of the unsealed documents, two Facebook employees are recorded discussing whether or not to refund a child—whom they refer to as a "whale"—who racked up $6,545 in charges from a Facebook g
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by colmvp 8y ago
Sure but those people will be hooked with another game.
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by colmvp 8y ago
I'm a designer by trade and I think Lichess is really well done. They've managed to pack a ton of features and have a game that works well for me on both mobile and web. Certainly there are ways that it could be improved, but call

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