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by icey 6y ago
If I were Palantir I'd be worried about the funding from my primary customers (defense, law enforcement, ICE) in the likely coming very Democratic federal government. There's been a lot of noise made about changing how much money
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by icey 6y ago
I can't wait for the James Webb Space Telescope to launch -- really excited to see what we've been blind to so far. Sadly, it's been delayed again due to COVID-19 (it was most recently scheduled for March of next year), but _
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by icey 6y ago
It's pretty cool to see something get launched here and have the founder come back TEN YEARS LATER to talk about it. That's crazy rare. HN was a little smaller then, so it's fun to see names you haven't seen in awhile ta
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by icey 6y ago
GitHub + Netlify makes a really nice combo as well, since Netlify helps with simple form handling (and a bunch of other niceties)
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by icey 6y ago
There was someone working on LaTeX support a few years ago, but iirc it was very difficult to secure it enough to feel comfortable letting it run server-side for rendering. Source: I worked there when they were working on it.
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Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development environments(devblogs.microsoft.com)
16 points by icey 6y ago|1 comments
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by icey 7y ago
This is a great company with an awesome engineering culture — you should talk to them if this connects with you at all. (I spent some time with this team in 2018 and only have amazing things to say about them)
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by icey 7y ago
So much frontend JS has been packed and minified now that I’m not sure it will make that much difference. Reviewing Open Source code is still a far superior way to understand how code works, imo.
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by icey 7y ago
It's not just the number of cars causing issues; the number of roads with ad hoc lane closures due to ride sharing pick-ups and dropoffs makes a huge difference. Many three lane streets get choked down to one lane if a delivery truck b
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by icey 8y ago
Cool, and I use some of those too; but there have been cases _for me_ where BTC has been a lot easier.
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by icey 8y ago
Sometimes it's nicer to send money than it is to authorize someone to take money from an account, especially if you're unsure of the recipient's ability or desire to protect that account information (credit card number, bank
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by icey 8y ago
Synapse 19 here and love it 3 years in
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by icey 8y ago
Hmm. I'm at my second a16z funded startup and they have been tremendously helpful at both. Their briefing program is unique and genuinely helpful, and the firm has been very useful with introductions and helping find executive hires. I
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by icey 8y ago
Instabase | Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, NYC, Boston, Bangalore | on-site | full-time Founded in 2015, Instabase is a cross-cloud operating system with a powerful suite of data processing applications. We have taken $23M Seri
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Starting the .NET Open Source Revolution(medium.com)
3 points by icey 8y ago|0 comments
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by icey 8y ago
Having spent some time with this team, I can vouch for how great they are. Something not mentioned that's pretty cool is that the engineering team gets to work a lot with their customers, who include companies like npm, Travis, and Has
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The Early Days of GitHub – Interview with Tom Preston-Werner(heavybit.com)
111 points by icey 8y ago|25 comments
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by icey 8y ago
To add to this, if you don't know how your product is sold, your first salesperson is going to have a much harder time doing it since you won't be able to share anything about what resonates with customers and what doesn't. M
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by icey 8y ago
When does the timer start? Microsoft started open sourcing a lot of its core technology over four years ago (.NET Core being one example).
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by icey 8y ago
This is about a feature of the Datomic database called Ions, which appear to be analogous to stored procedures (e.g. running Clojure functions in the db). From reading https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/ions/ions.html
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by icey 8y ago
Wow, they got an eye-popping performance improvement from this change.
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Abolish Performance Reviews(medium.com)
2 points by icey 8y ago|1 comments
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by icey 8y ago
I live near a fire station in SF, and see them practicing raising a huge 20+ foot ladder monthly out front of the station. They're pretty impressive ladders, and it looks like it takes quite a lot of coordination to raise them up.
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by icey 8y ago
For me it's either been emacs with a lisp (SBCL or Clojure), or C# with Visual Studio. In both cases the reasons were similar -- deep editor integration with the language. Having an editor that understands how the language works and is
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by icey 8y ago
I'm not sure, but it's been a little surprising to me as well. For the past month any time I've had a conversation with someone who had an opinion about politics and policies in SF, I've asked them if they have voted yet
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by icey 8y ago
> The Economist is ignoring the fact that the city administration in San Francisco is now extremely busy, and I mean 24/7 busy, cracking down on electric scooters that - unlike needles, human excrements, tents and substance abuse -
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by icey 8y ago
I've been doing a similar thing for year with the gmail feature that lets you add "+anything" to the end of your email address. If someone starts spamming myrealemail+thethingIusedforthatsite@gmail.com, it's easy to crea
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by icey 8y ago
To add some information about the technical sales roles here -- these are ideal for anyone who is currently in an engineering role but wants to transition to something more customer-facing (especially if you're interested in going into
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GDPR: A guide to reading the full text(enterpriseready.io)
13 points by icey 8y ago|1 comments
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Datomic: Look at all the things I'm not doing(augustl.com)
138 points by icey 8y ago|43 comments

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