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by eric-hu 14y ago
Those concerns are valid, but I disagree with you about college grads lacking that resilience. By your own admission you've been through some start ups. Could you handle it? What does it mean to not be able to handle it? I think this tou
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by eric-hu 14y ago
> To be successful (which I am not, don't get me wrong) you have to be very smart and technical, but you also need luck, good timing, and (most importantly) persistence. Do you mean that you need these things be a cofounder in a success
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by eric-hu 14y ago
It sounds like a metric that would satisfy the parent post more is some sort of consumer price index in Bitcoins? Perhaps that would be useful to have side-by-side with a Bitcoin-to-USD metric.
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Do you think the recent "Inappropriate comments at Pycon 2013 called out" thread contributed to that mixed bag in a good way? I worded that carefully. I don't want to draw out sides on that thread topic, just whether it contributed to an e
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by eric-hu 14y ago
I wondered the same thing. As a follow-up to wazoox's comment, I looked into the mortality rates of the areas for the studies. I couldn't find the infant mortality rates of Petrozavodsk, so I went to region (Republic of Karelia) instead: I
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by eric-hu 14y ago
You mind if I ask what 3.2 features will make 4.0 migration easier? I haven't kept up with the 4.0 changes
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If you have a large application, upgrading it will not be trivial. Suppose your company spent several months developing their app on Rails 3.1.x. Rails 3.2.x comes out and some gems you're using break when you try the upgrade. Your compa
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by eric-hu 14y ago
> You need to do something crazily different. I just want to chime in here. I graduated with a CS and math double major and Chinese Minor in 06. I backed out of a programming job offer and instea ended up working for my uncle as an RF
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by eric-hu 14y ago
To add on to the spirit of your comment, this could be the first of many major films funded through Kickstarter. In this case, the intellectual rights are already owned by Warner Brothers. In the next film, perhaps Joss Whedon wants to cre
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by eric-hu 14y ago
If you use Firefox, I highly recommend ItsAllText. It lets me right click on a textarea and open the contents with my editor of choice. When I save the file, whatever I wrote is automatically copied back over to the textarea. Bulk indenta
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by eric-hu 14y ago
It depends on the kind of mathematician. Can you use a computer to demonstrate Russel's paradox? Clipped from Wikipedia: > Let us call a set "abnormal" if it is a member of itself, and "normal" otherwise. > Now we consider the set
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by eric-hu 14y ago
> In other words, it is a violation of your privacy. The fact that it is a common practice on the web does not somehow make it less of a violation. So...the web at large violates people's privacy. I can agree to that, but I prefer a wo
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Status Code, Javascript Weekly, and Ruby Weekly have similar layouts. They might be worth checking out for curating-inspiration as well. Both Javascript weekly and Ruby weekly periodically cover idioms of their respective languages, I like
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What editor do you use? With vim I think I've always been able to select comments and "gq" them to autoformat them to whatever the linewidth is set to.
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"CSS parsing is the same, though. Slurping up your CSS and turning it into CSSOM’s pretty standard. Yeah, though Chrome accepts just the -webkit- prefix whereas Apple and other ports accept legacy prefixes like -khtml- and -apple-." Using t
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by eric-hu 14y ago
> HN is for brutally honest feedback HN is for civil discussion: " The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: both civil and substantial." http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.h
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by eric-hu 14y ago
What are legitimate uses of third party cookies? Not trying to be snarky or sarcastic, I'm just unaware.
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by eric-hu 14y ago
I think trait-looking-explore-<hobby/profession> groups will always exist. It's easier to bond with strangers when you have 2 things in common instead of 1, all else equal. I am not saying tech doesn't have gender discrimination.
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by eric-hu 14y ago
I agree with you about human happiness. I'm well aware that being born in America puts me among the global top 10% by wealth. If I could play the devil's advocate for this story--we've only seen the founder's side. In this blog post, I se
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by eric-hu 14y ago
How do you know when you've found those people? Some people seem completely friendly and level-headed until things go awry.
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by eric-hu 14y ago
If I may ask, what do you code on each platform? I've got my vim files set up to be mostly cross compatible between OS X and Ubuntu, but I recently borfed my build process on Ubuntu (12.04) by upgrading vim to a newer version on a custom PP
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Mono-nitrogen oxides, aka NOx, are a regulated byproduct of diesel and gasoline engines. They're produced especially at high combustion temperatures and are a component of acid rain. NOx itself is pretty toxic to humans too. Normal modern
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Can you explain the physics behind why it's more efficient to have larger rotors than multiple rotors?
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This is my reaction too, but I think this is a good sign. Strong polar responses are better than a mildly positive consensus, as pg describes is the case for "sitcom" business ideas ( http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html ) For fur
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Happiness seemed appropriate there to me. It's an emotion, which necessarily makes it hard to define. Happiness usually seems like some static combination of relationships, hobbies and work. This balance can change, though. It's mostly
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by eric-hu 14y ago
I was thinking of doing the same since I used to track all my finances manually. I switched to Mint for 2012 but their UI isn't to my liking, specifically the part around tagging and categorization. Do you mind sharing how your finance ma
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by eric-hu 14y ago
It sounds like your family has problems that are easily automate-able. As suggested elsewhere in the thread, listen for problems, then look for a way to build a solution.
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by eric-hu 14y ago
Something my devout Buddhist uncle told me in our religious debates: "I'm not claiming Buddhism and meditation are the only way to enlightenment, just that they are one way." That's had a profound impact on my acceptance of people from diff
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by eric-hu 14y ago
I added a contact email to my profile. I'd like to talk if you want to sub out work. I can provide links to my Stackoverflow and Github accounts (my open source contributions are sparse though)
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