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by eob 13y ago
I'm pretty sure you are replying with the assumption that maaku was making a statement about who should be recognized as "China". I believe he was actually making a statement about the legitimacy of the Taiwanese claim to sov
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by eob 13y ago
"Taiwan is a self-governed sovereignty by most accounts" Sincere question, even though this sounds rhetorical: can you provide a piece of data which suggests Taiwan is not self-governed?
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by eob 13y ago
I used to do R&D for the US defense industry. Three years back I was catching up with a friend from that industry and asked what they're up to these days. Her answer? Hacking into connected appliances (furnace, video games, espress
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by eob 13y ago
I'm typing on a 11" Samsung Chromebook right now and love it, though I never would have expected to be reporting that a year ago. At $140 for a refurbished model, I can take it on trips and not worry about theft. The biggest trade
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by eob 13y ago
.. but where are the ads? I don't see any. EDIT: Oops. I've had an ad blocker installed so long I forgot it even existed. :-) Leaving my comment up though to save this discussion thread in my history. Nice site!
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by eob 13y ago
This is great :)
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by eob 13y ago
As someone who interviewed PhDs in a prior life, and is now getting a PhD, this is an excellent summary of the situation in the CS realm. I would add, though, that a lot of people in industry mistakenly believe that what the PhD provides is
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by eob 13y ago
Hey, moot! 10% of people posting is actually exactly what you should expect in a thriving community. Several studies of web communities have confirmed the "90:9:1" ratio of Lurkers:Contributors:Creators. Lurkers just read. Con
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by eob 13y ago
Sure -- no argument there: for any population, there will exist individuals who can market themselves at extraordinary rates. I was interpreting the post as a statement of the average market rate, which is something else entirely.
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by eob 13y ago
Thanks for the reply. Very interesting numbers. I wonder if pulp is the most popular option because Amazon provides better shelf space than your self-hosted web site or because tech book purchasers prefer having a physical object to refer t
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by eob 13y ago
120€/hr in Germany for a 1st year uni student? I find that hard to believe..
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by eob 13y ago
Does it sell more as a PDF (via web site), Kindle, or paper book on Amazon? I've done the traditional publishing route before, too, and agree that the advance is nice but the percentage cut of sales is miserable.
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by eob 13y ago
It takes time to vet, test, and build things, especially when representative government and massive land usage planning is involved. Much of the tech in modern airplanes is still from the 1950s and 1960s. The tech developed in the 2020s and
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by eob 13y ago
Thanks for this exchange, Jason and Steven. It's rare to get to see, paired tightly together, such a vivid example of what's going on inside the heads of two participants in an otherwise ordinary and well-meaning conversation (ev
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GoDaddy acquires local search startup Locu for $70M(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by eob 13y ago|0 comments
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by eob 13y ago
As someone who has come around to Javascript after many years avoiding it, I think I can answer you: people like Javascript for a similar reason to why people like Python. As long as you stick to a strict set of conventions, Javascript is a
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by eob 13y ago
First off, this is cool. It is tremendously exciting to see the bar for hardware hacking getting lower and lower. To the people complaining "Why JS? C is fine!", remember that once the complaint was "Why C? ASM is fine!"
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by eob 13y ago
Why "OK Google Now" instead of just "OK Google"? That seems like too much sub branding, which is something I usually associate with Microsoft (every Microsoft product is called Microsoft+SomethingElse). They certainly wa
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by eob 13y ago
For the vim -> Sumblime switchers out there on HN, what caused you to switch? I use vim exclusively but I'm not a religious zealot about technology. I've noticed all my students are using Sublime these days. Is it just the late
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by eob 13y ago
I think reality is more like the startup world: there exist a people who pull it off, but there are a lot of people who also end up with a living room full of half-finished crummy web apps. What most of these Passive Income blogs and podcas
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by eob 13y ago
Congratulations, Geoffrey. Been a fan since you originally launched the site way back when, and learned a lot from the videos I purchased.
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by eob 13y ago
Very cool! Side comment: one problem with modern web apps is JavaScript bloat. And one pressure on libraries is to keep growing. These two things seem to be at odds. It would be nice if someone created some kind of { CSS, js, HTML } build s
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by eob 13y ago
I think one reason Kendall rents aren't a topic of discussion is also because the Boston/Cambridge area has lower rent areas that are close by and accessible via public transportation. While it's nice to live right where thin
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by eob 13y ago
And flipping the suffix to "a b" causes a debugging console to appear
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by eob 13y ago
Two elements of the government rhetoric surrounding this issue really bug me. First, they use phrasing like "listen to calls" which is nonsensical in the modern world. If a computer observes all packets traveling across a fiber l
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by eob 13y ago
The 20M project could well be a number of things not involving the companies direct participation * An interface to fuse data received by court order from each site. * A scraping tool to pull in open source data, possibly with seed accoun
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by eob 13y ago
Not really a HN-worthy comment, but I just wanted to point out the humor in his first piece of unsolicited advice to the internet at large: "Try not to give unsolicited advice". :)
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The N=1 Guide to Grad School: Advice for Aspiring PhDs(marcua.net)
124 points by eob 13y ago|39 comments
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by eob 13y ago
Nicely put. I think that you've really captured what about his writing and persona are so special to the community. I think the sense of sensitivity you feel through his writing adds to that, too. If he's making a joke of you, it's a gentle
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by eob 14y ago
I don't think the port is a viable location for a thriving community, unless Boston is willing to dedicate more than tax credits to stimulate growth. You have to take a bus! (silver line) And then walk past warehouse after warehouse!

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