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by elwell 5y ago
Website design and intro video look nice.
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by elwell 5y ago
An outside observer reading Hacker News comment threads might suspect HN to be a luddite community, pouncing on new tech with an assailment of negativity.
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by elwell 5y ago
Exactly, I was creating a reductio ad absurdum line of thinking.
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by elwell 5y ago
They make enough money precisely because not everyone ad blocks. This seems like a fallacious argument.
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by elwell 5y ago
How similar counts as same question? Exact wording? Same pattern of solution?
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by elwell 5y ago
Startup Idea: Duolingo meets LeetCode: Interview prep that solves real world coding needs (for non-profit causes maybe?). Actually, I vaguely remember something about TopCoder doing similar.
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by elwell 5y ago
The more studying you do, the more likely the interviewer asks a question you've seen before.
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by elwell 5y ago
On LinkedIn, FB employees have Meta now; Google employees still have Google.
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by elwell 5y ago
Not comparing Apples to apples, but my Beoplay B9 are a joy to listen to; I have no affiliation with B&O btw.
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by elwell 5y ago
View Source reveals glorious image maps and tables.
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by elwell 5y ago
> startup succeeds only at extending human life expectancy by a single day https://donate.worldvision.org/give/east-africa-hunger-crisi...
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by elwell 5y ago
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field."
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by elwell 5y ago
I thought this post was good news?
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by elwell 5y ago
Q: Why did I fail the onsite HN interview? A: You failed because you didn't understand the context. I think by 'context' he meant 'capitalism'.
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by elwell 5y ago
Very confident: Q: Arc or Clojure? A: Arc.
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by elwell 5y ago
I got this: Q: What's a good startup idea? A: A good startup idea is one that has a good chance of being a startup.
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by elwell 5y ago
No requestAnimationFrame?
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by elwell 5y ago
I don't personally see a significant difference.
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by elwell 5y ago
"The key to the wallet is encrypted and stored securely in the cloud. Only you have access to the wallet." https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-service-announ...
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by elwell 5y ago
Fair enough; sorry if I was overly harsh.
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by elwell 5y ago
> Google will parse out any star rating from the recipe page and show it alongside the results Recipe Schema: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure... Yes, you can totally fake the #
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by elwell 5y ago
That poem reeks of selfish pride. To never cry aloud is not a virtue one should seek to attain.
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by elwell 5y ago
/subscribe
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by elwell 5y ago
Not to mention, if we all would talk with inward breaths then covid might spread slower.
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by elwell 5y ago
The nostalgia. Was waiting for a mention of "imagemap" and you delivered!
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by elwell 5y ago
Maybe leverage "specialization + trade" and have some 'SCDN' (Solar Content Delivery Network).
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by elwell 5y ago
It's interesting how AWS has taken so much of the market. I suppose it's just a better product + the free tier.
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by elwell 5y ago
Thanks for the reply! Despite the sometimes frequent negativity here, interactions like these remind me that HN is a special place on the internet. Oh I just remembered, I need to pick up one of your Klein bottles, and perhaps another as a
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by elwell 5y ago
I have The Cuckoo's Egg sitting on the table next to me, dog-eared with about 30 pages left. Thanks for writing it!
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by elwell 5y ago
It's all perspective.

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