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by emblem21 10y ago
King: Here's some land for you to work on. Serf: But we don't own it. King: You need to improve your soft skills. Serf: Sir, we don't own it. King: You need to realize that you're going to starve if you don't start
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How to run a startup in 2016: * No homebrewed tech allowed. It's too "complex" * We should only use off-the-shelf libraries and SDKs because bar-to-entry isn't a real investor risk ("Just trust me, I'm a chari
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The binding of the element to the lexical scope is done for later executions. .call is immediate.
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for(var i in list) { (function(element) { someAsyncCallThatNeedsTheRightIndexedElement(element); })(list[i]); } I've seen people grumble that this is " too clever " I've been known to snap back &
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My problem with these sorts of discussions is that they try to put technical know-how on the same footing as social aptitude, charisma, and other "soft skills". I can throw darts on a map and find billions of people capable of &qu
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How I learned code in 1998 VS. How I am teaching my daughter how to code in 2016(twitter.com)
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Ask HN: Bootcamps flood fullstack jobs with “good-enough”. What will you do?
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Hedge funds are downstream of money with performance-driven interest. Markets (the major players that skew the averages) are downstream of banks who use money the Fed's pay the interest on. His gamble is that the elite would rather giv
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Satellite warfare adaptability simulation?
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Ask HN: Schrodinger's Encryption: Secure and broken at the same time?
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We are witnessing the death of the hypervisor (global banking), not the virtual machine (nation-state agreements) or the underlying operating system (cultural norms) or the underlying hardware. (nature)
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I'll meet you halfway and agree on the importance on taking on the powerful. But I can't lionize Gawker for doing that. I can only criticize them for lowering the bar on what taking on the powerful means. Revealing a VC is gay i
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This means the algo only works in serial contexts, not in parallel ones.
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It guesses what key you'll hit next. It has a naive assumption of when I will hit it next. (Eventually)
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Only privileged white people think Jezebel represents feminism. Let me know when they give full-time coverage of the challenges of poverty that routinely face WoC instead of hyperventilating about how sexist a handful of pixels are. Or are
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Gawker Media is a Cayman Island corporation founded by a foreign national. It does not engage in journalism. It is a blog designed to shift the Overton Window for Jon Stewart's fanbase into normalizing extreme political agendas. Are
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I have found people are frequently ready to kill one another to protect THEI specific brands of the disempowered of choice, often at the expense of the disempowered brand they despize.
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News organizations classify themselves as social networks to bypass FCC regulations, blogs at 11.
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Is there a way to place a bet on the sentiment analysis rating of HN in the event of Facebook being caught pushing Hilary to trending instead Sanders and/or preventing Sanders from trending? My gamble is that it would be the complete o
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Stand up against whom?
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> "Strong evidence where written by whom?" > "What the world needs to do, what Europe needs to do, is stand up on its two feet" Advocating ultra-nationalist, anti-internationalist policies is, precisely, what leads
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Projects die all the time. Even languages can (mostly) die. The death of a project is a valid part of a project lifecycle and knowing how it dies can affect how you deal with previous project phases. Agile never assumes project death is a
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by emblem21 10y ago
"Converts characters into yellow/gold N'ko, a modern unifier of the Manding languages spoken by mansas throughout medieval North Africa." https://www.npmjs.com/package/goldmansachs
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Raising liquidity for future bail-ins to be compliant with Basel III.
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Comparing Reddit, a community where specialists can setup a little fiefdoms and generalists can cheery pick from whatever fiefdom they can find, with HackerNews, a singular monoculture that just happens to attract people with a huge diversi
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"Our great and noble intentions accidentally wiped out a bunch of people... but we swear we are the good guys!!!!" I've seen hundreds of marketing types and executives prefer to chase their greed over recognizing the importan
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Godel's incompleteness will explain some of the problems of finite regarding set theory.
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“Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
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> “It is an enormous challenge,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who described the clashes between U.S.-supported groups as “a fairly new phenomenon.” > “It is part of the three
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Create gold chars used by mansas in medieval Africa. (npm install goldmansachs)(npmjs.com)
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