grmarcil

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by grmarcil 11y ago
Can you provide a firm definition of parlor trick? Not saying I agree or disagree with you, but without a real definition of parlor trick you have a wide open no-true-Scotsman defense.
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by grmarcil 11y ago
This is actually a still from this also-fantastic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf3bjKwwlMM TL;DW: A lap of the infamous Nurburgring Nordschleife in Kim Dotcom's fleet of three Mercedes Benz CLK DTMs. The driv
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by grmarcil 11y ago
> What I never understood is why in these days we are not able to have a product that would be spread on the teeth (let's say a yearly application) to protect them from most of the major aggressions. If I understand what you're
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by grmarcil 11y ago
A PhD program basically produces a researcher who is the world's expert in a very very narrow area of a subfield. As a job candidate, a PhD holder could offer, in descending order of "putting their degree to use", A) their su
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by grmarcil 11y ago
Not being able to zoom on Instagram is maybe the #1 most baffling UX decision I've ever encountered. You're a photosharing app but all I can see is a 2" square thumbnail image???
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by grmarcil 11y ago
This is an absolutely bare-bones feature for HN. It would make the site so much more usable in general. The big case for collapsible comments relative to HN is stories where the top voted comment is only semi-related to the article (usual s
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by grmarcil 11y ago
This is incorrect. Compare the definition of a complete protein [1] and the amino acid composition of, for example, beef [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein [2]: http://www.hammernutriti
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by grmarcil 11y ago
Keep in mind, Atom was NIH at Facebook too.
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by grmarcil 11y ago
I'm curious - what industry are you in? I've never heard of a company providing perks for car and house purchasing.
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by grmarcil 11y ago
Or option 3, be a goliath sized company (eg Microsoft) and run the app as a loss leader to consolidate/establish a position as a market leader in mobile.
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by grmarcil 11y ago
Wanted to put in a word of support for this point about looking back in 5 years. I nearing my fifth year out of college and the difference between now and then is huge. It doesn't always feel that way because we often are comparing our
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by grmarcil 12y ago
The model is from the perspective of fund managers. If you believe his model, then from the other side of the board, as an investor, your conclusion has to be that managed funds are a bad deal, or a break even at best if you find a manager
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by grmarcil 12y ago
The public market funds outperformed their passively managed benchmarks, even considering the management feeds paid. To continue your mortgage comparison, New York is paying a real estate professional a certain percentage of money to find t
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by grmarcil 12y ago
The line between "upvote for good point" and "upvote for agreement" can be blurry, same for downvoting. In either case, both are accepted uses. PG has said as much: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11
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by grmarcil 12y ago
This bears repeating in any Apple Watch discussion: watches are socially approved jewelry for culturally Western males. The classic and luxury appeal of jewelry is at odds with many parts of tech (eg elegance vs nerdiness, timeless heirloom
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by grmarcil 12y ago
What does the midwest have to do with your 55 year old lawyer example? Not asking this as a hostile defense of the midwest, just genuinely curious how you meant that to add to the example. - an east coaster
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Could anyone at RealScout comment on why you started committing directly to master? This point seemed under-examined in your blog post, despite being a very unconventional git strategy.
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by grmarcil 12y ago
As far as I know, that is an artifact of the hardware. The network compatibility of early (all?) iPhone 5s was divided across three models. Some can work on other networks, but not in other networks' LTE bands. Depends on your particul
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Blanket disclaimer: the opinions below are from a stranger on the internet, filter according to your own judgement * The colored bits and the typesetting of your name are on the whimsical side of resume style. Probably okay if you're a
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by grmarcil 12y ago
To reinforce your point about HN being not so different than the club, especially in context of the author's observations about men spending their time condescending to one another: fully 1/3 of the replies to this very well-writt
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by grmarcil 12y ago
I'm most surprised by "Also thinking of having an annual student Hyperloop pod racer competition, like Formula SAE". FSAE teams can run out of a spare room in an engineering dept's basement with a 5- to low-6-figure budg
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by grmarcil 12y ago
I have no idea about the cockroach's muscle:body ratio relative to commonly eaten animals. But again, this is following an absurdist line of argument. Our culture will produce many food science innovations before we get around to engin
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by grmarcil 12y ago
This is an absurd comparison in the context of food. When it comes to eating animals, we (Westerners) are used to eating muscle tissue. Cows and lobsters have large, edible muscles that can be separated from the rest of the body for consump
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Cool sounding NFC setup - have you written anywhere about that? Or do you mind describing what the NFC points trigger on your phone here?
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by grmarcil 12y ago
You can also remap Esc to jj by adding the following to your vimrc inoremap jj <Esc> The hjkl thing feels weird for a long time but it becomes natural after a while. I used Sublime for a long time with the Vintage plugin (vim like mov
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by grmarcil 12y ago
I hate to make a "what he said" comment, but this is really excellent advice for beginners with git. Just learning the very basic actions will get you up and running to gain experience. I have found that many nuances of git are di
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by grmarcil 12y ago
Honestly, I came across Square Cash first, liked it, and have stuck with it. I've since taken a look at Venmo, and I prefer the fact that Square Cash has the absolute minimum of features. No Square Cash Balance (all payments go directl
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by grmarcil 12y ago
It's insanely easy to use and is one of my favorite apps. Splitting rent, utilities, etc with a roommate, settling a debt with an out of town friend, etc. Basically any time you write a check to another individual, Square Cash turns th
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by grmarcil 12y ago
One of the commenters on his site mentioned bioluminescence. It seems unlikely to me that such an effect could produce the intensity of light required to project the pattern he saw onto clouds at 30k+ feet though.
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by grmarcil 12y ago
I find Bret Victor's comparison between the internet and the LOC a little weird. I've always thought of the internet as a publishing/sharing medium, not an archive. There are plenty of books that go out of print within ten ye

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