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by gomox 11y ago
Here's how to do a hangout quickly: 1) Put https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/ on your web browser bookmark bar 2) Upon need, click on that, wait for URL to change, and then send resulting URL over $IM_SYSTEM
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by gomox 13y ago
Here you go: http://news.rapgenius.com/Sam-altman-the-new-deal-annotated Feel free to comment (it's not very intensive in terms of VC deal terminology, but I wanted to give RG a spin).
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by gomox 13y ago
It doesn't seem to be the same league of problem. Because you are going to blur the stuff in the background anyway, you can be agressive with the masking and the blurring will make it imperceptible. With blue/green screens you are
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by gomox 13y ago
An f/1.8 lens on a DSLR has much shallower depth of field than your actual eyes though.
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by gomox 13y ago
Yes! It shouldn't be too hard to implement either, compared to depth detection.
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by gomox 13y ago
You are right about lock-in, but there is a significant convenience factor. I mean network effects as in eBay (more buyers, therefore more sellers, GOTO 10), not like Facebook (i.e friends). If Uber has the largest fleet it really makes it
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by gomox 13y ago
Hey, I don't really get the app. Can you provide a quick introduction on what it does?
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by gomox 13y ago
Interesting - like most new marketplaces this seems to be a "winner take all" situation. The online marketplaces really tend to converge into huge monopolies by virtue of network power.
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by gomox 13y ago
Well, that's a lot! I didn't expect it to be significant compared to the bitcoin pool. Do you know how that came to be? i.e how did they convince everyone to start mining namecoin? Or was it just good timing WRT bitcoin?
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by gomox 13y ago
Maybe I've misunderstood it, but how does merge mining create an incentive to mine namecoins? I figured all it did was make it "cheaper" to mine namecoins by "reusing" work done for the bitcoin blockchain. In order
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by gomox 13y ago
The blockchain is only used as an authoritative source. You don't really look up names in the blockchain, you use a vanilla cache for it.
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by gomox 13y ago
I have been looking at *coins for a while and the implications of the blockchain-based concensus system are interesting. The system really maps the real world onto computers very well, in that it reduces what used to be technical issues to
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by gomox 13y ago
I think with the market being what it is, you can probably get a great job that matches your expectations without creating a 6-month-runway-no-retirement-funds stress inducer machine for yourself. Unemployment is a great new job's wors
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by gomox 13y ago
I don't think anyone would want a placeholder in their resume, but I agree that this being an online version, not having a picture is mostly an annoyance (you can easily find someones picture online).
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by gomox 13y ago
I guess it really depends on the companies, but from my experience with an HR system targeting larger hiring organizations (think several hundreds to thousands of hires per year), "better batch printout" functionality is a common
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by gomox 13y ago
See my comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7532126
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by gomox 13y ago
IMHO LaTeX is better than an ASCII resume, but it really isn't very good for the task. Resumes, because of their length and size constraints, really benefit from some careful massaging of layout. Not that fancy engineer resumes are nee
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by gomox 13y ago
I think you can use mostly anything that will do proper text kerning and spacing. The rest is up to the person doing the design. InDesign is "the right tool for the job" (TM) but there is a learning curve. This said, resumes are t
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by gomox 13y ago
Even for average guys, the picture is a welcome visual element in resumes. US-centric resumes tend to be very wall-of-texty because of the "ALL RESUMES SHOULD BE X PAGES LONG" (X in {1,2}) policy forbidding the use of "wastef
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by gomox 13y ago
This is really a cultural issue. In the US, pictures are a big no-no but in my experience with LATAM and European companies, pictures are common if not expected. Design wise, the picture is a good opportunity for visual appeal.
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by gomox 13y ago
> Always hire the best people… who are willing to live in San Francisco ... and are allowed to do so.
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by gomox 13y ago
In essence, they vaguely measure communication skills (the title summarizes this as "intelligence"): "Our first measure of intelligence is a 10-word vocabulary test in which the respondent is asked to identify which of five p
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by gomox 13y ago
Good question, I wondered about this as well. Channel switching would certainly create issues on data model changes in the underlying store.
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by gomox 13y ago
Another thought: Some indication of a "trade volume" equivalent might be useful as well (and probably a good input for a "hotness" score, as more popular games will probably get more bets). I don't know if that info
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by gomox 13y ago
Wow, very cool. The jumps in the odds are so clear you could probably cross that with a live video feed (or a Twitter stream) to automatically summarize the milestones in a game (goals, penalty kicks, injuries). PS: Football in Argentina a
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by gomox 13y ago
Great stuff. Very entertaining read. This said, I am a bit skeptical about the asessment of "game hotness". Of course games that are tied or close near the end exhibit significant agitation at that stage (and "boring 1st halv
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by gomox 13y ago
I think it makes for a bad desk. Looks bad design-wise, plants block all the light on the working area and it feels cramped. I love the idea though, might be better suited for living spaces in the form of coffee tables or "plant shelve
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by gomox 13y ago
My server just came back up - 4h30 down. A lot of fail in this one, with status pages only reflecting issues 50 minutes later than my monitoring system, and phone techs claiming "no official information but huge call volume" after
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by gomox 13y ago
Like past AWS outages, two physical locations (Dallas and Chicago) going down at once. Even if it were feasible to set up async replication to the London location, those servers are on a different platform altogether (not workable through t
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US based Rackspace cloud down for the last hour (next gen)(status.rackspace.com)
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