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Ask HN: Mentor Saturday
61 points by eatitraw 12y ago|41 comments
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by eatitraw 12y ago
Several people emailed me, and now I seriously consider mentoring a small group of people(instead of one-on-one mentoring). If you know some C++ and want to learn(by doing) how search engines work -- email me!
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by eatitraw 12y ago
I am a software developer at Yandex(russian search engine company) and I want to mentor someone(or even a group -- it is much more fun to learn in a group!). Ideally, a potential mentee: -- Wants to code her or his own small search engine.
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Ask HN: Thinking of mentoring? Looking for a mentor?
25 points by eatitraw 12y ago|22 comments
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by eatitraw 12y ago
I am a software developer at Yandex(russian search engine company) and I want to mentor someone(or even a group -- it is much more fun to learn in a group!). Ideally, a potential mentee: -- Wants to code her or his own small search engine.
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Ask HN: Looking for a mentor? Want to mentor someone? Let's match such people
1 points by eatitraw 12y ago|1 comments
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by eatitraw 12y ago
> they're cost effective Probably not as much as simply reading books. My currrent understanding that they were cost effective at some point of history, when students didn't have books, but lecturers did: > Not only are they
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by eatitraw 13y ago
> If I give you a dollar for a burger, then I've lost a dollar and gained a burger, and you've gained a dollar and lost a burger. Assuming this was a fair trade (that dollars and burgers are of approximately equal value), then
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by eatitraw 13y ago
Many people like to picture the bitcoin inventor as some sort of god who knew everything in advance. The truth is in 2008/2009 (almost?) nobody was sure that bitcoin will succeed. Even Hal Finney(famous cypherpunk, who actively partici
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Maidan, Kiev, February, 19th . Chronicle.(zyalt.livejournal.com)
2 points by eatitraw 13y ago|0 comments
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by eatitraw 13y ago
You don't "control" the blockchain in the strict sense. To generate a transaction from one address to another, you must know the private key corresponding to the sender's address. Without that, the transaction is invalid
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by eatitraw 13y ago
I'm from Russia too, and my understanding that the situation is not that bright: they clearly declare that <<bitcoin is "money surrogate" and cannot be used>>(used as money?). What they _might_ do at some point is
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Criminal case is initiated in Russia against BTC-e bitcoin exchange(coindesk.com)
1 points by eatitraw 13y ago|0 comments
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by eatitraw 13y ago
> We would probably not know how to add, subtract, or multiply efficiently. Why do we need to do simple arithmetic efficiently in our minds? We already have readily accessible computers for this, let's focus on something computers c
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The other side of Maidan(zyalt.livejournal.com)
3 points by eatitraw 13y ago|0 comments
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by eatitraw 13y ago
> They are more like share owners than customers - they can vote on who will be on the board. And they can migrate if they doesn't like some policy. I never understood this argument. If I don't like every company, I can start m
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by eatitraw 13y ago
Well, you have to establish such protection agency first. You start your business, run advertising, etc. People come to you and pay for your services. Most people don't want to rob and kill other people, they want peace and protection,
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by eatitraw 13y ago
Well, in my comment I simply wanted to distinguish between state-run currencies and bitcoin. > But fiat currencies are simply currencies that aren't backed by collateral I've checked wikipedia, and one of the definitions for th
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by eatitraw 13y ago
> I don't understand this. Someone is taking the risk right now. Correct. > Currently it's the exchanges and merchants directly, because they rely on the exchanges. Incorrect. There is the solution: https://bitpay
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by eatitraw 13y ago
Also, interesting discussion here, on Free State Project facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=666691373374112&set=...
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New Hampshire House Votes to Legalize Marijuana(mashable.com)
1 points by eatitraw 13y ago|1 comments
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Reddit, Mozilla, EFF to hold day of protest, activism in memory of Aaron Swartz(news.techworld.com)
5 points by eatitraw 13y ago|0 comments
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by eatitraw 13y ago
It is not like profit from white males running Federal Reserves automatically goes to underadvantaged white males. My point is that if you believe in equal abilities regardless of race/gender then you probably want to completely get ri
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by eatitraw 13y ago
Why the fuck is this being downvoted? The comment isn't stupid: such gender/race discrimination _may_ backfire(for example, if your message is read not as "black girls have the same abilities but may need extra help" but
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by eatitraw 13y ago
> Bitcoin is an economic dead-end. It takes CPU cycles to make a Bitcoin, and those cycles aren't used for anything else. It is an output of production that has no intrinsic value. You simply don't understand bitcoin. It is not
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Bitcoin, what took ye so long? [2011](unenumerated.blogspot.ru)
1 points by eatitraw 13y ago|0 comments
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by eatitraw 13y ago
It may be rooted in reality. Not that they can turn on microphone on any phone, but that they were able to hack someone's phone to download firmware, for example. BTW, there are recent news about FBI secretly activating webcams: https
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by eatitraw 13y ago
Assurance contracts? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contracts Example: you start a project on something like kickstarter, people contribute the amount of money they like. Then after the project reaches its goal
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by eatitraw 13y ago
> To argue that they are somehow not capitalist is somewhat disingenuous isn't it? There is even a term for this: "laissez faire capitalism". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire > Isn&#x27
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by eatitraw 13y ago
Yes, this is a problem in bash. In zsh you can use temporary files for process substitution, like this: vimdiff =(ls /bin) =(ls /usr/bin) You can use it even from bash: zsh -c 'vimdiff =(ls /bin) =(ls /usr&#x2F

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