hacknat

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   by hacknat 12y ago

   I agree with you. Fortunately we already have a system that lets only the exceptional talent in. It's called the "American" Higher Education System, and it's pretty good at bringing the top talent to the U.S. already. Pe
2. 782.▲
   by hacknat 12y ago

   Everyone talks about the great network-effect from going to a good school. As someone who went to one of these supposedly great "network-effect-ey" schools I say it's bullshit. As a thought experiment, think of your own colle
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   by hacknat 12y ago

   What a cute little story you've told. It sounds nice, but it just rings hollow with common experience. I consider myself a fairly social person, I went to one of the best Universities in the world. At least at this point, none of the p
4. 784.▲
   by hacknat 12y ago

   not even a little bit impressed?
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   by hacknat 12y ago

   Nice catch, is that from Knuth's book?
6. 786.▲
   by hacknat 12y ago

   fair enough.
7. 787.▲
   by hacknat 12y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_e... If ever there was a way to impress an interviewer it is to bust out this baby when asked to make a fibonacci function.
8. 788.▲
   by hacknat 12y ago

   This: http://blog.faroo.com/2012/06/07/improved-edit-distance-base... is an interesting attempt at fast spellchecking, for anyone that's interested.
9. 789.▲
   by hacknat 12y ago

   There is pleasure to be found in even the most mundane tasks by taking the opportunity to do it the best, most efficient, most beautiful way possible. I still get annoyed when I feel a task is beneath me, but I've been trying hard to f
10. 790.▲
    by hacknat 12y ago

    I don't have a spare $100k
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    by hacknat 12y ago

    I was wondering about Y Combinator. Do think they're going to be interested in an idea that is so limited?
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    Ask HN: How to fund a small idea

    2 points by hacknat 12y ago|5 comments
13. 793.▲
    by hacknat 12y ago

    Love this man.
14. 794.▲
    by hacknat 12y ago

    It seems spotty. I think AWS is fritzy in the West Coast of the US right now.
15. 795.▲
    by hacknat 12y ago

    Forget Chaos Monkey, who's using Chaos Kong? That's what I want to know ;)
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    by hacknat 12y ago

    I know a lot of people will side with Cook on this one, and I'm by no means a fan of Facebook (though I haven't used Facebook since 2005), but I think Zuckerberg is rightly frustrated by this. While it may be true that customers a
17. 797.▲
    by hacknat 12y ago

    >For each resume, I had a pretty good idea of how strong the engineer in question was, and I split resumes into two strength-based groups. To make this judgment call, I drew on my personal experience — most of the resumes came from candi
18. 798.▲
    by hacknat 12y ago

    John Hempton shorted Subsys earlier this year: http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2014/05/insys-therapeutics... Seems like news of their shenanigans are finally seeing the light. Literally, "Someone's goi
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    by hacknat 12y ago

    All she had to talk about was scripting. It is super convenient to be coding in your language, have another window that is open beside your code that automatically does your searches on a certain website based on what you have open in the o
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    by hacknat 12y ago

    I love this model of working, but I think it's a lot more common in engineering teams than people realize. My company isn't anything special, and certainly most of the rest of the company doesn't work open allocation, but the
21. 801.▲
    by hacknat 12y ago

    Mark left? How did you find that out? This must have been super recent.
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    Ask HN: Does anyone have experience creating free, community programming classes?

    1 points by hacknat 12y ago|0 comments
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    by hacknat 12y ago

    I agree with you that he's overstating the case a bit. There is obviously a correlation between a degree in CS and good Engineers, but it's important to realize that there are great Engineers who don't have one as well. I thi
24. 804.▲
    by hacknat 12y ago

    14% advantage over helium makes it seem like it's not worthwhile. Am I missing something?
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    by hacknat 12y ago

    Why is the burden always on the individual to not "burn the bridge"? I'd say that this startup has burnt this bridge pretty well. It would have been perfectly reasonable for him to tell us who they were and for us to avoid th
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    by hacknat 12y ago

    I prefer "on the spectrum", because, let's be honest, everyone is.
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    by hacknat 12y ago

    I agree completely. When people talk about the fridge idea I've always scratched my head about it. First of all a good chunk of my food never sees the inside of the fridge. I would also add that the vast majority of items we "run
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    by hacknat 12y ago

    American lawyers, once they are barred, can immediately go to the any court they are barred in. In England, it seems like it is quite the process before you are allowed to court. I assume that overall both Americans and Brits end up being s
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    by hacknat 12y ago

    Reminds me of a dailybeast article from a while back: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/14/how-being-a... The article doesn't specifically cite boredom (that I remember) as a cause of un
30. 810.▲
    by hacknat 12y ago

    I'm sitting on the floor by my window in my top floor apartment in Seattle, which is not air-conditioned. I've lived in Seattle for over 5 years, and I've noticed the summers getting hotter. Air conditioning used to be a rare