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by hyp0 13y ago
Into these winds of change, I'd like to again toss my suggestion that never takes off: Divide HN into two "sub-HNs", one for "intellectual curiosity", the other for everything else (e.g. startup news, web frameworks
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see also http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff's_theory_of_induct...
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love Musk's posts, esp "peace of mind", free retrofit, and that amazing crash that was walked away from. but although there's "ballistic" grade alumimium, titanium that's usually found in "military&qu
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Not a direct answer, but it's not just GPUs: on ARM "System on a Chip", you can get all sorts of components: audio, hardware codecs, networking, radio, and low-power companion cores (littlebig). So, your vision of general-com
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more C-style while( (bytesRead=System.in.read(buffer)) != -1 )
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...this question comes up so often you'd think they'd just figure out that the chaining of streams is somewhat difficult and either make helpers to create various combinations or rethink the whole thing http:/&#x
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On the stock android browser (4.2.2), holding a link opens a context menu, within which you can choose to open it in a background tab. There's a settings options to not switch to that tab yet (under Advanced ). Also, a setting to prel
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Yes. Two parts of business: engineering and marketing. Two parts of marketing: promotion and meeting needs. The key "marketing" of DO was: Existing providers offered pricing plans that were too complicated and platforms that
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yes, if it increased income. but it still reduces admin cost
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> a sovereign state to experiment with? some scandinavian countries are close to this, in some respects. some oil countries too some native peoples, within nations, also (tho other issues complicate it)
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I was hoping this would be something like "lessons learned" on how to build a better startup, perhaps some that just happened to be from female founders, and perhaps others that come from the different perspective/approaches.
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Agreed. His hard work actually fits the article's concept of a non-genius pretty well. He had a very strong constitution. One thing is a little misleading though: he established a laboratory, with a group of inventors. I believe this
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Do you know if other languages have static null checking i.e. your null annotation/propagation (apart from Haskell's Maybe union type etc)? I'm intrigued, because it's such a good idea (especially when null's origin
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wow, love the volumetric water (in video)!
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Voxels, pretty much? Like minecraft, but 10 or 1,000 or 1,000,000 times smaller than the objects/characters in the world. It might look pretty blocky at lower resolutions, but considering the enduring appeal of "pixel art" (a
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such pleasure to read Musk. he's got that evangelial air... of course, it helps that he's in the right. I wonder if he'll end up Emperor of Mars?
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These are all good ideas, but will NOT be adopted. Trailing commas are especially appealing: it simplifies outputting JSON from "(A , ) * A" to "(A , ) * ". In fact, in this respect, XML is easier to output than JSON. Bu
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> stress is created when people aren't in control. I think the "Serenity Prayer" is spot on, even though it reads like a 3-part joke with a punchline (paraphrased): Don't try to change what you can't change
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by hyp0 13y ago
SO has changed the web. It's a wikipedia-calibre resource - at least, for programmers - and its various spreading incantations in every direction seem destined to displace every other forum vehicle. It is truly a victory for humanity.
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Academic funding is just like venture funding in that you need to convince someone. And because they don't know what will work, they mostly follow trends and fads. You can see this if you look back over the publication history of the a
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advice is opinion, experience fact
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JSON’s Eight Year Convergence With XML (catching up in popularity)(reddit.com)
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> The only word for it is a f∗∗∗ up of major proportions. Everyone was f-ing and blinding when they realised what had happened. It's certainly more fuck up than farce, but what does what does "f-ing" and "blinding&quo
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He knew it was solvable because duct tape was on the spacecraft(en.wikipedia.org)
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> building things that people enjoy Knowing what people will enjoy is part of marketing. "Marketing" is commonly thought of as "advertising", but the full meaning includes choosing what to build - what do people need?
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Related: static typing is itself documentation (low-cost, machine-checked documentation).
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And the update to the article says they were competing with Google, Facebook, Baidu... could be google was getting rid of the competition for talent; and gaining ability to attract more talent. Though if they're expected to do wonderfu
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The stated problem is pretty easy to solve: jot down just enough information to trigger the idea. Don't explore it. Don't try to articulate it or communicate it or define it. The idea will remain safely in your head - the only dan
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Ed Catmull said the best thing Jobs did for Pixar was stay out of the way. Literally, not interfering and instead letting Catmull and Lasseter get on with it; yet providing support when needed (via introductions and so one). He was more VC
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I find speaking aloud does result in a better flowing essay. But I wonder which effects are due to the speaking; and which to how speaking reminds you that you are trying to communicate to someone, and give them something of value? Consider

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