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by diego 11y ago
Clojure: The Joy of Clojure. Not for beginners, but it's excellent. http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Clojure-Michael-Fogus/dp/161729141... I've heard good thing about Clojure for the Brave and True, free online
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Ask HN: We have a service that finds experts in a given field. Want to try it?
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by diego 11y ago
(comp inc inc) is weird. You'd normally use #(+ 2 %) or (partial + 2) instead.
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by diego 11y ago
Google was really part of the second wave of successful internet businesses, including search. Yahoo was going public as Google was getting started. Inktomi was worth over 20B at some point, in fact I was there when the company had an oppor
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by diego 11y ago
You do realize that your comment could be about Uber itself, right? Cabs have existed forever too.
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by diego 11y ago
The bicycle cafe is a job on wheels. Would you rather drive an Uber? If the hourly rate is similar it would be a less stressful job. I suspect this could pay much better if you pick your locations cleverly.
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by diego 11y ago
Driving in the Bay Area is much, much worse than it was in 1998 when I moved here (and it was already pretty bad compared to the 80s, I imagine). I just spent seven months looking for a house within half a mile of a BART station because min
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by diego 11y ago
You don't have to exercise all of them, just pick an amount that you're comfortable with. Think of it as insurance against "I worked for a company that later became a unicorn and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." How mu
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by diego 11y ago
I know companies that did the same thing, only they were not onto something big. Having customers pre-product is a good signal. I'm sure that the class of companies for which this happens have a much higher success rates than a typical
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Failure Criteria for Startups(diegobasch.com)
3 points by diego 11y ago|0 comments
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by diego 11y ago
Backloaded vesting seems like a terrible idea. It puts the employee in a really vulnerable position. As a company grows, the absolute value that a given person generates should decrease relative to everyone else. The function (relative valu
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by diego 11y ago
If someone installed malware on that computer already, all bets are off. It might as well be a radio transmitter that's broadcasting every keystroke. The title is sensationalistic, because the hard part was installing malware. The &quo
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by diego 11y ago
"But 28 short years ago, the term [hacker] hardly existed–that is, until the Max Headroom Incident." That's blatantly incorrect. For example, the movie War Games (pretty mainstream, with Matthew Broderick) is from 1983. ht
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by diego 11y ago
The reason is that nobody (that I know, at least) uses them. The Clojure community uses leiningen, and leiningen takes care of fetching the version of Clojure a specific project needs. There is no point in installing one version of Clojure
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Let’s code about bike locks some more(blog.glyphobet.net)
1 points by diego 11y ago|0 comments
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by diego 11y ago
A couple of "mistakes" that I caught while watching, thought HN might find them interesting: - There's a reference to Viagra (6:20) but it hadn't been invented yet. - The "hacking time" sequence around 10:30 co
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by diego 11y ago
It's not really about the technology, it's about the hook. I also started using Java when it came out, and there were two main hooks for us C/C++ coders: - write once, run anywhere. - write programs that run on web browsers (
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by diego 11y ago
Author here. I studied Electrical Engineering for free at the University of Buenos Aires. Moved to the US in the 90s, got my masters degree, moved to Silicon Valley, did great. My parents both studied medicine in Argentina for free as well.
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College Is (Almost) Obsolete(diegobasch.com)
45 points by diego 11y ago|88 comments
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by diego 12y ago
PSP was not designed for consumer apps. It was conceived for mission-critical software that needs to be right the first time, such as the Space Shuttle's (400K LOC). I took a class on PSP at CMU in the 90s and it was obvious that I&#x2
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by diego 12y ago
You may be surprised to know there's evidence that moderate consumption of alcohol has health benefits, especially for the heart. Of course, excessive alcohol intake is known to be detrimental. http://www.mayoclinic.org&#x2F
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by diego 12y ago
I used this concept a while back to generate 7-word passphrases with 84 bits of entropy. I picked a list of popular words and filtered it down to 4270 that are reasonably short and memorable: https://raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2
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by diego 12y ago
I'm curious which one of his propositions do you think has a higher chance of not happening, and why. #3 can be phrased as "there is at least one unicorn among these 114 companies" so betting against that is rolling dice. I i
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by diego 12y ago
Several IndexTank employees did well. I can't tell you the exact numbers, but some went from essentially zero net worth to owning property in the Bay Area. http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/11/linkedin-buys-r
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by diego 12y ago
It's really not a hard technical problem at this point. It's mostly social and political. Think about the typical car out there: - You need a piece of plastic and metal to unlock it. Losing that object is a serious inconvenience,
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The science of what makes coffee great(theatlantic.com)
1 points by diego 12y ago|0 comments
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by diego 12y ago
Curious why you think it's crank material (and why my comment warrants a downvote btw). I've read most Steven Pinker's books as well. Miller's is mostly a rehash of other people's research along with some speculatio
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by diego 12y ago
I'm not saying he's right, but "we're all social animals" ignores the entire discipline of evolutionary psychology. Biology forced males and females of various species to evolve different strategies. For humans some
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by diego 12y ago
Here's more about it. http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/09/loopt-dau/
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by diego 12y ago
This is the kind of title that I would edit. The article is about how the National Resident Matching Program will use an implementation of the Gale-Shapley algorithm for matching medical students and residencies. The title makes it sound mu

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