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Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
695 points by dostoevsky 7y ago|244 comments
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by dostoevsky 7y ago
Not sure about their underratedness, but I find the following newsletters interesting and insightful: Two Truths and a Take by Alex Danco (tech, VC, and broader topics): https://danco.substack.com/ The Uncertainty Mindset b
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Software Development at Startups(twitter.com)
3 points by dostoevsky 7y ago|0 comments
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by dostoevsky 7y ago
I've been using Yabai[0] for a few months and am generally pretty happy with the i3-like experience on macOS. [0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
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by dostoevsky 7y ago
This resonates with me to a surprising extent. My perceived threshold for expressing an opinion is very high, and I also find that I don't really have any particularly _strong_ opinions to begin with. The "hedge my answers extensi
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The Splintering of the Second World(mailchi.mp)
1 points by dostoevsky 9y ago|0 comments
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by dostoevsky 9y ago
Interesting. I wonder if that choice would lead to a noticeable impact on perceived latency (from the perspective of a human end-user) under some high-load/pathological scenario.
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by dostoevsky 9y ago
The justification for using LIFO (vs FIFO) queues for requests is interesting: at no/low load it makes no difference, while at high load the requests least likely to time out get serviced first. Is that a common architectural decision
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by dostoevsky 9y ago
That's close enough that I can look at the weather report in the morning and decide to take a day off work. This is an amazing advantage. How's the tech scene there?
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Ask HN: Do you like where you live?
2 points by dostoevsky 9y ago|3 comments
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by dostoevsky 9y ago
Regarding your last point: this is an idea I first encountered a couple years ago in Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness", and it's been on my mind ever since. Monetizing successful people's advice on how to become succes
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by dostoevsky 9y ago
IEX is an example of an exchange doing just that.
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Which Skills Are the Most Employable in Tech?(thehftguy.com)
4 points by dostoevsky 9y ago|2 comments
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by dostoevsky 9y ago
Over the years, how has your perspective on the stack + the type of work you're doing changed? I feel like due to my age I don't have the context to make a decision based on factors that will actually matter in the long term.
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by dostoevsky 9y ago
I'd be working in Kanata and would prefer to live somewhere closer to downtown, hence the estimated commute times (by public transit). Thank you for adding some perspective. It seems whatever choice I end up making, my brain will find
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by dostoevsky 9y ago
Where did you move from? Curious to hear about things you like and dislike about living and working in London.
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Ask HN: Career advice for a new grad
11 points by dostoevsky 9y ago|9 comments
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by dostoevsky 10y ago
Interesting how "Knowledge of algorithms and data structures" is the third most important thing developers think should be prioritized when recruiting (3.77/5), following communication skills and track record.
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by dostoevsky 10y ago
The ranger [0] file manager is probably my most used app -- it's fast, extensible and has VI bindings. [0] http://www.nongnu.org/ranger/
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by dostoevsky 10y ago
As a soon-to-be engineering graduate, I am very thankful for Octave. I've used it (instead of MATLAB) for projects involving numerical methods, control systems, image processing, and all kinds of data manipulation. While it may not be
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Debunking the myth of higher pay in Silicon Valley(medium.com)
2 points by dostoevsky 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Ideas for a Robotics/ECE capstone project?
2 points by dostoevsky 11y ago|1 comments