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by dlkf 4y ago
Yeah, you have to be a real genius to make money buying the sp500.
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by dlkf 4y ago
This is a great comment. The language I use most is Python, and I am definitely biased toward its conventions. It's interesting to hear from the other side of the fence. I want to suggest a slight reframing: instead of saying: "It
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by dlkf 4y ago
I never suggested we ”optimize the language around this feature.” I only suggested that it is a higher virtue than some user on HN’s subjective concept of ”elegance.” What do you think is more important: the speed at which C programmers c
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by dlkf 4y ago
There’s a cost-benefit analysis here that you are refusing to do: Of the two variants you’ve posted, the first will click immediately with a generalist dev who doesn’t know Ruby. The second will have them reasoning out loud, and then reachi
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by dlkf 4y ago
He has founded six companies. You don’t have to like him, but refusing to acknowledge basic facts just makes you look like an idiot.
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by dlkf 4y ago
> If you've designed your sampling properly You are making a much stronger assumption than this. You are assuming access to demographic information of each subject, as well as population base rates for a sufficient set of attributes
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by dlkf 4y ago
Most entrepreneurs have a batting average that is closer to .000 than .500.
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by dlkf 4y ago
> One extremely frustrating aspect of plant meat is that they tried to aggressively push out traditional veggie burgers on restaurant menus. . . The thing is, vegetarian food is incredible without needing to taste like meat. ”Nobody goes
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by dlkf 4y ago
The top hit on my list looked familiar. I looked at their recent comments and saw a discussion between that user and me. We were quoting eachother directly throughout. I wonder if this explains our similarity. And if so, could we tweak the
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by dlkf 4y ago
> Retaining information shouldnt have anything to do with how you ingest it. It must. The ingestion method, and particularly how long the info sits in our consciousness, will govern the depth of indexing operations possible. Something yo
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by dlkf 4y ago
That was just an example. In general, the Swedish drugstore will have 5-10 options, whereas the Canadian equivalent will have dozens.
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by dlkf 4y ago
THE Robert Kiyosaki???
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by dlkf 4y ago
In Sweden, deodorant sticks are smaller than what I’d get in Canada. There’s also an appalling lack of variety. In particular, you never see Old Spice. I think there is a lucrative business opportunity in bringing American deodorant maximal
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by dlkf 4y ago
”Lung cancer is not specific to smoking at all”
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by dlkf 4y ago
> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools. Their manager might, but engineering managers only want to pay for discrete new capabilities, i.e. making their developers 18% faster when writing code did not resonate
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by dlkf 4y ago
> Question: Is weed bad for you? > Answer: To explain, the term "weed" is used to describe a plant that is not wanted. It is used to describe plants that are considered to be a nuisance. The term "weed" is also use
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by dlkf 4y ago
> what they're doing is _at best_ tangentially related to improving UX . . . You can spin that as the company just improving the experience so that people want to keep using it, but fundamentally it is intentional psychological man
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by dlkf 4y ago
> I have not experienced a product become better for the user as a result of involuntary A/B testing in my entire adult life. If you did, how would you know?
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by dlkf 4y ago
It’s a completely ubiquitous practice. So either it does generally help, or every software company ever doesn’t know what they are doing. To me the latter view is the one that’s hard to take seriously.
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by dlkf 4y ago
Brain scans, small sample size, sensational claims; when will we learn?
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by dlkf 4y ago
Stewart’s Calculus has an enormous number of exercises.
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by dlkf 4y ago
> many are missing the article's thesis Yourself included, apparently
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by dlkf 4y ago
This is grossly misleading. That is one kind of recommender system, but there are many others.
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by dlkf 4y ago
“Most people aren’t on twitter” is not a valid argument against twitter’s influence. Compare with “most people aren’t CEOs”, “most people aren’t politicians,” etc. Some people have a lot more influence than others, and the influential peopl
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by dlkf 4y ago
> This was a tradeoff to appeal to people whose vocabulary is narrow, not improve comprehension. ”Comprehension” is not some audience-independent property of a text. Comprehension is what happens when a text is well-calibrated for an aud
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by dlkf 4y ago
I don’t think you understand what Munch meant.
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by dlkf 4y ago
”The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.” - Edvard Munch
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by dlkf 4y ago
Now do email, cars, etc etc
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by dlkf 4y ago
> The ideal everyperson computer is a laptop. That laptop has a full-sized keyboard and a beautiful 13-inch display. Maybe a 14-inch display with really small bezels. A smaller display is too small for most people’s taste (and possibly n
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by dlkf 4y ago
I’d like to hear an actual response from the people downvoting this comment. It’s an interesting perspective, and while I can imagine legit criticisims (SPOF, privacy concerns, coordination with vehicles outside the system, etc) actually ar

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