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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
What a wonderful name for a programming book.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Where is Richard Stallman when you need him? This thread seems indefensibly void of "free" vs. "open-source" software ranting. (Seriously though, the restrictive license on this is really a bummer.)
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
I would happily pay a consultant $300 an hour to do the CSS for my websites. I imagine someone who specialized in CSS could do in 10 minutes what would take me several hours of googling and hair-pulling frustration.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Facebook content used to be two things: photos of your friends, and "status updates" on what they were doing. Photos have been taken over by Snapchat and Instagram, and discussions/ witty updates seem to be more concentrated
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Am I the only one for whom the link isn't working? I'm getting a 404 error.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
It doesn't really matter very much where you start. Pick something and dive in. Once you feel very comfortable with that, add another skill. Personally, I'd suggest learning a programming language first: Python, Javascript, and Ru
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Just throwing in another reason why programmer unions don't make a lot of sense: licensing. It makes sense to license electricians, crane operators, doctors, lawyers, and many other professions who do safety-critical work. Only a very
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
The problem is that cities don't want buildings torn down every 10 years because it's cheaper for the buyer to just rebuild from the ground up than to fight what essentially amounts to a heap of technical debt. Well-constructed bu
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
It's actually a series of 4 courses, 5 if you include the "capstone project." I've watched a few of the videos-- it's pretty decent, but intended for those who don't have much experience with functional program
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
There are substantial differences in how people and computers play chess, at least with current algorithms (stockfish included.) If you want to learn to play chess against people, computer opponents can help in your training, over-the-board
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
For someone whose goal is to program websites, his first goal should almost certainly be to learn how to program in javascript. Eloquent Javascript by Marijn Haverbeke is an excellent introduction to programming. It's freely available
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
I'm struggling to remember the old Facebook, before it morphed into a (social) "news" aggregator. A few years ago, my news feed was mostly clever status updates and photos of some old high-school crush from last weekend. Now
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
You're spot on re: the water quality. An investigation at DFW a few years ago found hazardous levels of e.coli in the potable water tanks used to refill aircraft. I wonder why the airlines aren't doing anything about this. I'
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Early stage startups are definitely not for everyone. If you're not prepared for the long hours, etc..., then it probably won't be a good fit, and you're likely going to be miserable there no matter what. There's nothi
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Put less brusquely, though, it sounds like what most early-stage startups (fairly) expect. At that stage, working long hours is usually part of the deal, and you're probably getting big equity and a substantial chunk of their last roun
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
This could be the next IBM PC license if Waymo owns the tech that all driverless cars need to operate. They don't need to make much money off Uber, they need to get their tech out there into production so they can refine it before thei
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
It seems more likely that GV would get additional equity in exchange for the license.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
I'm actually really curious about the officer handling the DUI on his own. Those cases are often simple, but are also often very complex and involve defense counsel and evidentiary disputes. Which state do you live in?
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
From my limited experience working with them, the general aviation insurance industry seems ripe for startups. Data science is a huge deal in insurance, but the companies insuring Cessnas and Pipers don't seem to have fully caught on.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
The better way to make people wear their seatbelts would be to standardize a really annoying seatbelt alarm in every car. I have a Subaru Forrester, and if I unbuckle my belt for 10s in my driveway, it goes crazy. Fun fact: At the police de
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
The truly cool application of technology to traffic enforcement is the speed camera lottery in Stockholm. I have very mixed feelings on automatic license plate readers: rules for what can and can't be done with the data they produce do
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
I think it would be a very hard problem. Take a look at some pictures of cars in traffic-- the seatbelt is extremely hard to see. If it were doable, it would probably take more optics engineers than ML scientists; glare and lack of contra
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
It's possible, but in my experience the stats NHTSA looked at were compiled by the police department, not the court. (They cared about how many tickets we wrote, not how many convictions were obtained.) A more likely explanation is the
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
It varies based on state law. The federal DOT can't pass its own traffic laws or regulations for constitutional reasons, so they incentivise states to implement what they think is a good idea by offering them financial incentives. The
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/faq/#q8 Q: Will you fund multiple startups working on the same idea? A: Yes. If you fund as many companies as we do it's unavoidable you'll end up with some overlap. Even if you tr
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
"For most startups the model should be grad student, not law firm. Aim for cool and cheap, not expensive and impressive. For us the test of whether a startup understood this was whether they had Aeron chairs. The Aeron came out during
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
I'm not Michael, but I think I can answer that. Moving to CA for the 3-months of YCombinator has traditionally been non-negotiable. After the 3 months is up, you can move wherever you like, and many do. The only exception to this I&#x2
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
That's exactly what the $120k is for. From the YC FAQs: "Half (maybe more) of the startups we fund don't need the money. And in fact the money is a only a small part of what YC does. The money we invest works more like fina
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
I'm also curious about this.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
At what stage have solo founders generally hired their first employees? I imagine a solo-founder startup would probably require the same amount of manpower, but the leadership structure would just be a little less flat.

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