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by comatose_kid 13y ago
I don't understand how this seemingly random bunch of statements strung together is the top-voted comment in this thread.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
In b-school, we talk a lot about political risk - mainly in terms of emerging economies. The US government's actions are resulting in events that will heighten investor perceptions of political risk here too.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
That's funny because you kind of did the same thing here :)
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Wonderful comment. Please write a book so I don't have to search HN posts for nuggets of wisdom.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
I implemented Bresenham's algorithm in ARM assembly on the gameboy advance based on reading his 'zen of graphics programming'. Great writer, the anecdotes at the beginning of each chapter really hooked me in.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
I've written production firmware (computer engineering background). In my experience EE's don't usually write production firmware, but are responsible for writing non-production verification loops and code. Usually a compute
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Based on your reasoning, why don't all other automakers (all have large marketing budgets, GM spends even more than Toyota) have similar reps for quality? Toyota's rep has been well earned, there's plenty of literature in ope
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
This is an excellent framework Slava. Succinct and pragmatic. Thanks for sharing it. As you state, a big problem is developing enough of an intuition about how to slot features into these buckets. Founder preference for given features ca
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Very cool. Also, check out and sign up for Matt's link (at the bottom of the page) for his upcoming OReilly book - AFNetworking the definitive guide.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
This list is so good, I should memorize it to the point when I can look at what I'm doing wrong and shout out one of your numbers! I've made many of these mistakes (#1 in particular). Here are my top picks by number referring bac
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Yes, this was a really well written book that told the story of how Harrison, a carpenter, accomplished what even Newton thought to be impossible.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Science vs engineering distinctions aside, it is pretty cool to see the attention to detail + effort put into solving this problem.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennesey and Patterson is the definitive text, and it is good (at least the 3rd edition I read back in 02). One way to put the ideas you learn into practice is to try to write an optimized
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
If only he had gotten the domain for his first name, he wouldn't have to worry about legal issues.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
happy OVH (Canada) customer here - good price, good h/w, no problems so far (just one box so definitely on the anecdotal side)
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
choice quote: “Honestly, I don’t understand why there are 50 incubators. There should be one or two.”
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Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize(popularmechanics.com)
601 points by comatose_kid 13y ago|95 comments
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Don't be so hard - I think their page looks really nice and the suggestions make sense. I'll be using them when we update our landing page.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
I did some embedded sw on vx works based systems back in the day. Any embedded engineer we interviewed had to know what priority inversion was.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
You should consider hiring an editor.
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Creative Entrepreneurship(kbsp.vc)
2 points by comatose_kid 13y ago|0 comments
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Andrew Gerrand - Go: a simple programming environment - Railsberry 2013(vimeo.com)
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
This is a convenient justification that paints the British as 'bringers of light' rather than the oppressors they were. http://www.hinduwisdom.info/European_Imperialism13.htm
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
England's treatment of India made the world a better place? Please do explain.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Greg McAdoo (Sequoia) http://www.appdata.com/ios_apps/devs/148071-greg-mcadoo
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
I read SJ's quote as about being intentional in the things you choose to do and to not let other people's expectations guide your life choices. This is orthogonal to whether or not a person chooses to donate money/time to others. I think
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
It's a little more nuanced - things like this change the focus of the relationship from a 'we're in this together' approach to a more transactional one.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Most good professionals I have worked with adhere to this simple rule.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
The legendary Erlang infestation of 09.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512280
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
I believe that this is exactly what Al Gore had in mind when he invented the internet.

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