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by freyir 10y ago
Swift, XCode, and Apple software in general don't scream reliability to me. No doubt Lattner is a smart guy, but I'd be more comfortable with a smart guy from NASA or somewhere similar with experience developing survival-critical
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by freyir 10y ago
> not even sure who runs it Lawrence Kestenbaum, attorney, politician, and the creator and webmaster of The Political Graveyard website.
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by freyir 10y ago
I deleted my Facebook account. I'm happier.
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by freyir 10y ago
I was thinking about doing something similar this year. I settled on one project per quarter, which would let me take on things slightly more ambitious. But in a way, I like the extreme constraints set by one project per month, which will l
485.
by freyir 10y ago
On what grounds?
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by freyir 10y ago
The tools and results are now freely available to the masses. But talent isn't democratized.
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by freyir 10y ago
Yes. Researchers like to publish their research because their publication record the metric they're evaluated on by the outside world. If you can't publish your research, that will significantly reduce your ability to get hired by
488.
by freyir 10y ago
It's a slippery slope. If we censor articles indiscriminately, what's the point of censoring them at all?
489.
by freyir 10y ago
Perhaps they could simply censor Jared Friedman's choice of "Strangers in Their Own Land" for the remainder of the week. A book that's "very helpful for understanding the other half of the country" doesn't
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by freyir 10y ago
> It will never catch up to Sublime...because a ton of the work that went into Sublime was writing custom systems for fast text editing. Why couldn't the creators of VSCode and the open source community catch up to Sublime's
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by freyir 10y ago
It's normal to live with your parents into your 30s in many countries. Italy, for example. People often wait until they can buy their own house to move out.
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by freyir 10y ago
I wouldn't say these tactics are good, but they're understandable. The issue is cultural differences, where the pressure to succeed and a different value system leads to people to gaming the system to succeed. The alternative is h
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by freyir 10y ago
That might be my favorite thing I've read on HN.
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by freyir 10y ago
A 2 bedroom in my building dropped from $3950 to $3250 over the past few weeks. The landlord can't unload it. And today I got a notice that they're raising my rent. Shortsighted -- they'll have another vacant apartment on the
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by freyir 10y ago
Mathworks/Matlab is heavily entrenched in the engineering departments of most US universities. So students get free Matlab access in the computer labs and heavily discounted student versions (or pirated copies) on their personal comput
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by freyir 10y ago
All the posted sites (so far) include a reference to a relevant news article.
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by freyir 10y ago
Google is entering dinosaur territory. Big and impactful, but as a consequence, slow to change and laden with decades of preexisting infrastructure. I wouldn't expect them to be using Python 3.
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by freyir 10y ago
I don't know if it's because I'm using an iOS ad blocker or the sites are misconfigured, but many AMO sites simply fail to load on my iPhone. AMP has been an awful experience for me, as an end user.
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by freyir 10y ago
If they didn't buy the ad, someone else's ad would be at the top. Many people don't distinguish between the top search result and the ad.
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by freyir 10y ago
Sunnyvale seems much closer to the true "center of gravity" of Bay Area tech jobs than SF. SF has startup jobs, but those are staffed mostly by 20-somethings who can't afford houses anyway.
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by freyir 10y ago
So which is it? Were they displaced by high rents, or already homeless somewhere else? And let's not sugar coat it. Some are mentally ill, but many others have serious drug/alcohol addictions. You only need to stroll through the T
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by freyir 10y ago
Harambe's at the center of the zeitgeist. You wouldn't invest in Harambe.
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by freyir 10y ago
> But 500 years? What else in human history has taken that long to figure out? Calculus took a few thousand years to figure out.
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by freyir 10y ago
And couldn't we exploit economies of scale?
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by freyir 10y ago
We can't divert money away from the war machine.
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by freyir 10y ago
As I see it, the only acceptable outcome for Uber at this point is gaining a huge lead in the establishment of an autonomous driving fleet. I don't see any way its current businesses (e.g. app-based taxi service, food delivery, etc.) j
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by freyir 10y ago
Good old Ben. Ben Horiwitz of Andreessen Horowitz if anyone was wondering, like I was.
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by freyir 10y ago
> No. That time has already passed. If we see signs that the star will go nova "in one year", we have one year, not 1481. He specifically referred to something traveling at half of the speed of light, in which case it would arr
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by freyir 10y ago
Because East Asians and Indians, like whites, are overrepresented in U.S. tech companies? And blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented?
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by freyir 10y ago
NCLB set minimum performance requirements for basic skills. It tied school's funding directly to the performance of its lowest achieving students. In my personal experience, teachers regularly stopped their regular curriculum and focu

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