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901.
by herval 7y ago
True. Rio used to be the capital, and the many revolts were one if the reasons. The middle of the country was also very unpopulated, so the location was chosen more or less as a “middle of the road” to incentivize development
902.
by herval 7y ago
That’s not what the flexible rate is either? You won’t pay for a ride 6 months after it, you’ll pay per mile, like Taxis
903.
by herval 7y ago
There’s absolutely nothing in CA law preventing upfront pricing!
904.
by herval 7y ago
Yes. They A/B tested and the flat fee model was more popular. The new directive is to increase margins, and the variable model is better at that. I can’t name sources, but it should be pretty evident just based on the new CEO public me
905.
by herval 7y ago
They’ll most likely expand the model everywhere, while still blaming “regulation”. Then push the narrative that it’s better for the drivers. They need to turn a profit any way possible, and this is a good way to skim a couple dollars per ri
906.
by herval 7y ago
First idea I opened actually got implemented: https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/anti_20enron_20policy#108023...
907.
by herval 7y ago
Every other week, someone releases a version of spreadsheet-as-database on Product Hunt. This is one of those “sounds great for engineers” memes, that’s actually not that high demand IRL source: I made one myself (and know the founders of o
908.
by herval 7y ago
Path?
909.
by herval 7y ago
2 “FAANG” companies and another one of the top big tech ones. One had a recruiter calling and literally listing all the questions they “could ask”, coding, architecture and all. They asked all of them.
910.
by herval 7y ago
The new trend in SF/bay area seems to be companies you’re applying to preparing you _specifically_ for the questions they’ll ask. People realized no one memorizes one specific search algorithm or puzzle, so they now tell you, before t
911.
by herval 7y ago
the problem I see with 4 is that the best VR experience (Oculus) is pretty much closed and kept in tight grip by Facebook. So if anyone ever starts to make any progress on a Social Presence app, it's unlikely Facebook will just "l
912.
by herval 7y ago
Get a slower-paced job? I'm assuming you're in the Bay Area by the mention to world's most expensive market - there's plenty of very high paying jobs here where you don't exactly have to worry much, and it isn'
913.
by herval 7y ago
For every successful product, there's at least 10 free tools that do the same thing (or something similar). It's not crazy at all - people (in particular larger companies) need support, assurances the product will still exist&#x2F
914.
by herval 7y ago
my response was to your comment that "having a directory tree that goes like "projectname/cmd/projectlibrary" seems super weird and non-idiomatic to me"
915.
by herval 7y ago
pkg/cmd or just /cmd are rather popular in a lot of projects ( https://github.com/grafana/grafana/tree/master/pkg/cmd / https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus&#x
916.
by herval 7y ago
Doesn’t it depend on the size and variety of your dataset? I can see “random” performing well in a set of <1000 videos, all on similar subject spaces (eg “memes”, or “python”), but recommending relevant stuff gets much harder as the amou
917.
Browser-based interface for the new Deezer’s audio separation engine(moises.ai)
21 points by herval 7y ago|5 comments
918.
by herval 7y ago
This sort of judgmental classicist helps no one. Plenty of people work in tech (or in any other area) primarily to pay the bills, and they don’t make anyone around then “miserable”.
919.
by herval 7y ago
This analogy makes _zero_ sense. You can make a living working exclusively with PHP, JS or RoR, for example, and the barrier of entry is nowhere near becoming a surgeon (and getting lower every day). Plenty of people switch careers as adult
920.
by herval 7y ago
No, not at all. There’s plenty of places with more economic freedom - less regulation, lower taxes, simpler rules. The US simply has more _opportunities_ and (particularly in tech/sciences) and pays _much_ more money for the same job.
921.
by herval 7y ago
Do you have any source showing the US is “one of the most free countries”? It figures as just moderate/mostly free in all lists I could find. Also, immigrants don’t come to the US for “freedom”. _Maybe_ in the past, but definitely not
922.
by herval 7y ago
Not OP, but I’d imagine because there’s no path for greencard on TN
923.
by herval 7y ago
QR Codes for payment are absolutely _huge_ in China & a few other countries. So is QR Codes for authentication (WeChat & WhatsApp use them) and a few other uses.
924.
by herval 7y ago
I have a Twitter bot that reads text from random Project Gutenberg books and spits out book passages: https://twitter.com/markovian_lit In general, it’s a bit all over the place and convoluted, but sometimes it generates tr
925.
by herval 8y ago
> If your failures aren't isolated and your APIs aren't well-made, you're just building a monolith with request glue instead of code glue. That’s pretty much every single microservice architecture I’ve ever seen, and I’ve
926.
by herval 8y ago
At least on messaging, we mostly swung back to private protocols and centralization (Whatsapp, Slack, Messenger, etc) - maybe email is the big exception and walled gardens always somehow “win”...
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Scala with explicit Nulls(gist.github.com)
2 points by herval 8y ago|0 comments
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by herval 8y ago
Legalize Meth? Some of the most utilized “gateway drugs” are already legal (opiods et al). The police rarely arrests homeless drug users, and there’s plenty of foundations to supoort them. I don’t think the issue has to do with legalization
929.
by herval 8y ago
It’s in the article... (and also what they’re expanding into)
930.
by herval 8y ago
Netflix is the only company of the “FAANG” that does all-cash offers. The comp in all others includes a fair amount of stock/bonuses/etc + base salary

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