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by freyr 11y ago
For anyone interested in learning more, Lawerence in Arabia by Scott Anderson is a pretty good book.
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by freyr 11y ago
Best options are probably Thors, missle turrets, photon cannons or void rays. Eventually war will be teenagers sitting at computers moving swarms of autonomous machines on a virtual map, and South Korea will take over the world.
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by freyr 11y ago
> However, as coding becomes more commonplace, particularly in developing nations like India, we find a lot of that work is being assigned piecemeal by computerized services such as Upwork to low-paid workers in digital sweatshops. In
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by freyr 11y ago
Looks pretty cool!
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by freyr 11y ago
These may be great products that have advanced the state-of-the-art, but how is Wechat novel? It appears to be a pretty generic chat app similar to WhatsApp, which debuted a year earlier. Of course, almost all western products (including w
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by freyr 11y ago
Users will need to demand it -- but I wonder if many users know enough to ask. Gmail (at least free Gmail for individuals) won't have end-to-end encryption because their business model is to scan your email and serve you relevant ads.
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by freyr 11y ago
> I think you're reading this completely wrong. It may be the wrong opinion, but it's the popular opinion among many people I've spoken to. Namely, they think Apple has egg on its face and isn't as good at securit
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by freyr 11y ago
We've seen huge investments over the past five years into start-ups, apps, services, etc., that VCs hoped would turn into the next Uber/Facebook/Snapchat/Twitter/whatever. Now we're seeing VCs and the economy s
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by freyr 11y ago
> Is there a compelling reason for me to even learn Go? ... Should I take the time to learn it? One thing to consider is that the language is purposefully small, and you can learn the basics very quickly. Spend a day with it, and you&#
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by freyr 11y ago
$90k household income is too 29%. Top 5% household income is $220k. As of the 2014 census.
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by freyr 11y ago
The value is in Amazon's voice services and speech recognition platform, not in the Echo device itself. As machine learning improves, voice and speech may play a bigger part in user interaction, and Amazon wants to be out in front of t
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by freyr 11y ago
> No regular person used a chat client until MSN Messenger and Skype came along. Nobody. AIM?
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by freyr 11y ago
Go is really great for "workflow," but I find it completely lacking for "scientific." Have you attempted this latter part of the project yet? I don't see many examples in your project that attempt scientific or nume
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by freyr 11y ago
When giving or seeking career advice, people want to frame things in terms of absolutes. There are many paths to a successful business. Some successful people sacrificed their families, health, relationships, etc., and others didn't. S
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by freyr 11y ago
> What makes you think it's a problem with social awkwardness. I'm using "social awkwardness" (perhaps incorrectly) as an antonym of charisma. If things are biased in favor of charismatic people, then presumably the
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by freyr 11y ago
> A popular criticism of Silicon Valley, usually levied by people not building anything at all themselves, is that no one is working on or funding “hard technology”. I'm not critical of Silicon Valley . Silicon Valley includes ma
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by freyr 11y ago
You're claiming that VCs select for charisma as a general heuristic today. You also claim that you're a special case, and that you're project doesn't require that you interact with many people. Fine. But if you want VC m
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by freyr 11y ago
It's a bad way to respond to an argument, because it subtly undermines everyone who is critical of Silicon Valley. They either don't build things (and they're unqualified to have an opinion) or they do build things (but the
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by freyr 11y ago
Lyft Line does the same. As far as cars not being empty, during non-peak hours the streets of San Francisco are filled with Uber cars driving around with no passengers. I guess Uber Eats or whatever is supposed to fix this. No passenger? St
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by freyr 11y ago
It's strict equality in JavaScript. 17 == "17" // TRUE 17 === "17" // FALSE
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by freyr 11y ago
> unless it's a "network effect" situation like a social network, you probably don't need to grow fast. Uber seems like a weird example of this. It was said (and remains said) that they're operating in a winner
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by freyr 11y ago
> meh, there isn't (still) any reason to really jump onboard python 3, 2.7 is good enough for me You're siding with a shrinking ecosystem (Python 2) over a growing ecosystem. Depending on your use case, this could range from
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by freyr 11y ago
Lync? Oh, Skype for Business. I use Skype for Business on OS X (Oh wait, it's still called Lync on OS X, because they haven't bothered to update their client), and it's borderline unusable. At the moment, Slack and Skype for
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by freyr 11y ago
Dean just changed his user photo. It no longer matches.
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by freyr 11y ago
If you look at the YouTube user thumbnail, it's actually producer Mike Dean who's logged in. Kanye and Dean work closely together, and it very well might be a photo of Dean's computer. Speculative and sensationalist reporting
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by freyr 11y ago
Anybody who paid attention during their undergraduate math class would know that mathematicians value clear, unambiguous language. "1.6X faster" might be obvious in the context (or not), but "1X faster" becomes a little
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by freyr 11y ago
I believe SF has a much better straight male to female ratio than the rest of SV. A lot of single women want to live in the city.
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by freyr 11y ago
A 6 bedroom house for $1.2 in SV? Good luck. It would be in disrepair or in a bad neighborhood at that price.
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by freyr 11y ago
Sure, but do you have excrement-covered sidewalks, belligerent panhandlers, and cockroach-infested restaurants?
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by freyr 11y ago
> "If the job you're applying for relies heavily on data structures and algorithms" JustSomeNobody figured that if the interviewer is quizzing you on data structures and algorithms, surely the job you're applying fo

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