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by dylandrop 13y ago
Oh -- don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with choosing not to have kids. I was referencing people who have kids at a very young age due to lack of sex education, no access to birth control, or some other circumstance that t
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Sneering and attacking those who call out techies for elitism, sexism, or whatever it may be is the wrong way to go. Especially when you write an article that sounds as elitist and uninformed as this. (One thing that stood out for me was th
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by dylandrop 13y ago
While I agree with your sentiment about real problems, this is focused on startups outside Silicon Valley.
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by dylandrop 13y ago
As an engineer who works for a startup, I find that one of the troubling aspects of this heroic startup narrative is the hacker who stays up all night voraciously coding and then makes a breakthrough at 2AM. While there exist those of us pr
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by dylandrop 13y ago
"There will be aircraft, of course, but even ground travel will increasingly take to the air a foot or two off the ground." Curious as to why there is such an obsession with hovering vehicles in pop culture depictions in the futur
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Everyone revises their work, many times over. But yes the great authors do as well. I think this tool is cool for that reason. “I have rewritten–often several times–every word I have ever written. My pencils outlast their erasers.” -- Vladi
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Can we lay off the cheesy deification of PG? He was called a sexist, and he responded well. He is not a paragon of society, he is simply someone who is very good at tech and making money. And he is probably a good person too, but come on, t
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Teachers get paid basically nothing to do their work. So should no one be a teacher just because it pays poorly? Absolutely not. I don't know about you but I'd hate to live in a world with no artists. I agree with you that she sho
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Rise in Twitter's Stock Reflects Exuberance in Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
2 points by dylandrop 13y ago|0 comments
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by dylandrop 13y ago
For the first part, it's still more intuitive (at least for me personally) to write a = 3/4 + 5/8 than (setf a (+ (/ 3 4) (/ 7 8))) and the primary problem that I have with the parentheses not closing the
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Well actually, for all of the places in question I was an intern myself. Most of the places I worked were small startups, so there weren't any intern predecessors (I was usually their first). Rather it was mostly the guy who hacked up
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Alright, that's one anecdote. But take a look at this one. In Python: a = 3 * 4 + 5 In Lisp: (setf a (+ 5 (* 3 4))) Now maybe it's just me, but balancing all those parentheses and thinking in prefix notation gets a little hairy, e
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by dylandrop 13y ago
As for #10 -- "Critique code instead of people – be kind to the coder, not to the code" -- I find that in almost every place I've worked though, what happens is "that guy" who used to work there (or even the guy who
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by dylandrop 13y ago
I do think that RapGenius' punishment is pretty harsh, but I don't think Google's behavior is "absolutely ridiculous". RapGenius did some shady stuff and they should be penalized for it so that this stuff doesn&#x27
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Da Vinci's String Organ(npr.org)
91 points by dylandrop 13y ago|18 comments
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by dylandrop 13y ago
I did undergrad CS @ Columbia as well. Of course you're not going to skate by as you would in insert-non-offensive-easy-major-name-here , but you learn a hell of a lot more. It's my personal belief that (especially in technical f
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Oof, that video is cringe-worthy ("baller-sourced" please no..). Moreover, they're dressed and acting _exactly_ like CollegeHumor's The Startup Guys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Well two things: 1) "Organization X in some part denies climate change" Organization X in _totality_ denies climate change 2) "This seems analogous to someone on the right " The difference (at least in your quote) is tha
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Because he needs a job?
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Perhaps the one with a higher count, and if they both have the same count (in the case of the "China Mobile" phrase) keep the longer one. You might want to test different strategies against different sets of data and see which mak
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Personally I'd make it not sample the same phrase within the same article title, or count subphrases as a different topic... In particular, there's an article with "China Mobile" mentioned twice, and it seems to be count
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Google Play Catching Up To Apple's App Store(forbes.com)
3 points by dylandrop 13y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Send Text Message Using Vodka(voanews.com)
29 points by dylandrop 13y ago|15 comments
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by dylandrop 13y ago
The one area where I see this lacking is git autocomplete. Also personally I wouldn't use the `s .` command for Sublime... maybe you could make some of the aliases configurable rather than default?
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Out of curiosity, why is none of northern Africa mapped? I'm even more surprised none of Turkey is mapped... they even have positions there [1], so I'm guessing it's not an opposition to Google by the government. [1] http:&#
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Interesting that you chose to specify social problems. I would say that social problems are perhaps those which technology is particularly poor at addressing, even though it is very good at solving practical ones (how to get from point A to
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Noam Chomsky: American hates its poor(salon.com)
26 points by dylandrop 13y ago|11 comments
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Bill Gates is one anecdote, but what about the heir to a fortune? Did they build that wealth out of skill? Certainly not. Furthermore, so few people actually give half of their wealth like Bill Gates does [1]. Could you really argue that ev
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Some problems with the Paul Graham quote mentioned in the article -- "...hear that the richest 5% of the people have half the total wealth, they tend to think injustice! An experienced programmer would be more likely to think is that a
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by dylandrop 13y ago
I'm seeing a lot of vitriol and generalizations in this thread. It's understandable to be upset about this, but automatically assuming that the protesters are "lazy trustafarians" leeching off of the tech community is no

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