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by dgreensp 12y ago
I think the question is, can 100% of children be brought up to read and write and do basic math? If so (and it would be pretty controversial to argue otherwise -- who are these genetically unhelpable children? maybe there are a few, but le
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by dgreensp 12y ago
Except without the cross-browser part.
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by dgreensp 12y ago
(I work at Meteor) There's a small point to make here that many iOS apps that use WebViews just do the easy thing and load the content over the Internet, rather than storing it on the phone and fetching updates in the background. This
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by dgreensp 12y ago
The quality of discussion about procrastination is shockingly low. Try telling people you're reading a book on procrastination, and some joker will say, "Ha! Ironic, right? Get it?" And everyone will chuckle good-naturedl
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by dgreensp 12y ago
I'm not going to defend Quora's actions, but your comment sounds like knee-jerk cynicism to me, especially if you don't know the founders personally, and that irritates me. If you've started a start-up before, you know
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by dgreensp 12y ago
I'm acquainted with the founders of Quora, and I don't think making "fast money" was a primary motivation in founding Quora. They set out to create a question/answer site with a better user experience and a better
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by dgreensp 12y ago
Very, very cool!
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by dgreensp 12y ago
"Studies show" that growing up is bad for your brain? Does this professor tell his students not to get married because it will dull their minds? How depressing. I'm reminded of the way many 20-somethings think that if they
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by dgreensp 12y ago
I agree that the primary mechanism of ads is to affect the "landscape of cultural meanings" so that a product is associated with a broader meaning or image, but I don't think this is so different from the Mad Men philosophy,
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by dgreensp 12y ago
I’m certain that if I had children, I would be failing at my job. I’ve hit my 30s, a period when it seems as if all of my friends suddenly have kids. That’s a priority shift completely incompatible with my goals. Startups require that yo
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by dgreensp 12y ago
So is the primary purpose of the library to save you from having to type "M 0 0 L 1 0 L 1 1", instead letting you type "Path().moveto(0, 0).lineto(1, 0).lineto(1, 1).print()"?
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by dgreensp 12y ago
Yeah. For example, if your parents freak out over small failures, you will learn to freak out over small failures. And how about the message that it's helpful to be "smart" and work hard?
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by dgreensp 12y ago
I guess the canonical JSON could be considered the canonical LCON...
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by dgreensp 12y ago
Conway's description of entanglement is misleading. FIN does not actually apply here. According to quantum physics, no information is exchanged between the particles. If information is exchanged, it is not limited to any finite spee
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by dgreensp 12y ago
From the examples, it looks like JSON and EDN are both first-class "transport" formats for Transit: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format/tree/master/exam...
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by dgreensp 12y ago
I was disappointed by the "Letters to Women" video because I kept waiting for a gender-specific slur, and there weren't any! A different "letter" might have been chosen to make the point better. If you put your ant
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by dgreensp 12y ago
You never actually explain the semantics of Escher. I think this is why reading the README feels like a great setup with no payoff. Or maybe it's there, just not explained well enough. For example, there's no comprehensible rela
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by dgreensp 12y ago
Two guys aren't a "mature product development company." Also, it's pretty common for a big company to take a few years to develop a new product and produce it at scale.
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by dgreensp 12y ago
Dealing with suppliers and Chinese factories may present a logistical challenge, but it's still easier and less expensive than doing the manufacturing yourself. If you have experience developing a hardware product, I'll defer to y
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by dgreensp 12y ago
It doesn't sound like they wasted any time due to incompetence to me, it sounds like they took a few years to do something that realistically takes a few years.
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by dgreensp 12y ago
Can you give examples of which opinions you consider "finance sector norms" rather than a more neutral or individual viewpoint?
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by dgreensp 12y ago
It's fairly well-known that Array#forEach is up to an order of magnitude slower than a for-loop, across browsers. The usual reason given is the overhead of invoking a closure from the VM. A JS implementation of forEach ought to be so
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by dgreensp 12y ago
The EtherPad UI had a bunch of checkboxes and whatnot that were synchronized live, so I definitely acknowledge the problem. We're working on it at Meteor now too. The way I look at it, as long as the server has the final say over the
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by dgreensp 12y ago
If I talk to a hundred drivers and pretty much every one is happy, then I'm going to be skeptical of a rough spreadsheet that's supposed to say they're getting financially shafted and are going to quit.
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by dgreensp 12y ago
1. This may be true, but the article doesn't offer a strong rebuttal, nor does it stop there before throwing around a bunch of other arguments against Uber as a business. 2. Uber is extremely profitable and growing a ton. The only ar
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by dgreensp 12y ago
It's a lot simpler to just have the socket, with a notification when your PUT has landed. This is what Meteor does. I don't see anything I recognize as eventual consistency in the traditional sense. It sounds like the client is
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by dgreensp 12y ago
I've been riding Uber since October 2010, and I've chatted with plenty of drivers. Many of them used to be taxi drivers and have told me about how much they prefer driving for Uber. They also tend to be very happy with their inc
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by dgreensp 12y ago
Java uses type erasure purely as a strategy for implementing generics. Combining type erasure and dispatch-on-type definitely produces some odd edges.
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by dgreensp 12y ago
Agreed on both points. In addition, I don't know why anyone would think Google is going to make all the AI, just because today's most notable, state-of-the-art AI systems are made by a few big companies with the resources to fund
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by dgreensp 12y ago
It's important to explain why (or when) TCO is important. You could read a dozen articles like this that explain what a tail call is in simple terms and still not know. The core demographic that cares about TCO is implementers of lang

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