jVinc

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by jVinc 8y ago
I'm curious why only survey female founders? It seems like an odd data damaging move which is based on an inherent assumption which is ironically now not backed by data. And it would have been easy to just send the same survey out to s
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This isn't a story about Google+, it's a story about a disgruntled employees failing at a job as told through his own glasses filled with illusions of grandjour and sense of superiority. That said it's still an incredibly int
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by jVinc 8y ago
Yes... volunteer work already exists. Suggesting that it could be organized through Trello or Jira doesn't really add any revolutionary element. And many volunteer organisations already have planning solutions.
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Your opinion of this would change if it was a case against someone who broke into your home and stole all your laptop/phone/tv etc. "Not exactly rape" either, and really not that much total damage but still the reason th
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by jVinc 8y ago
Well of cause. People don't dismiss "religious things" like singing, gathering together or confiding in others. They dismiss the religious part of those things. And the assumption that wearing spaghetti strainers or turning o
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by jVinc 8y ago
Yes, and so are "rockstars". The thing is that not everyone who plays a guitar is a rockstar and not everyone who posts on instagram is an influencer. For the large majority there is no money to be had, but for few lucky individua
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by jVinc 8y ago
Sounds a lot like the CEO gauging the company growth and employee pay in order to build up enough cash to push out investors, get a majority so he could "provide liquidity" for himself. I can't say if this is close to the mar
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by jVinc 8y ago
It's amazing that at the same age Steven Wolfram himself had written his first 100 page book "concise directory of physics) and at just one year older wrote his first book on quantum physics.
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> not a good course of action IMO How so? They've just got 5% of Tesla and he's talking about taking it private at +15%. It seems like instant profit to them just from the reaction to them buying it.
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by jVinc 8y ago
What about Spotify? Seems like a cheaper company that is beating Apple at a game they want to win.
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Yes "editors", those are people who will write you back "article does not conform with spec"(honestly though I think that's just a bot using their emails) until you fix the formatting yourself. And will send you the
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by jVinc 8y ago
Looking for Rockstar developer. Entry level position, must have 5 years experience developing in Rockstar.
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Curious, what is your WPM at currently?
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I feel like she's trying to set up a stawman here, arguing that sex is hard to commodify, when in fact it's not. It's the oldest commodity there is. If she spent 10 minutes with a prosititue she would know the exact value of
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by jVinc 8y ago
All this over a god damn bikeshed that no one will care one way or the other about 6 months after its implemented. He didn't loose faith after the 2->3 transitioner but but a goddamn assignment operator that works just like so many
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> Can it be the case that the constant fear of being fired is not an ideal environment for a teacher? The study shows that the envirnment where they were under constant fear of being fired was no worse measured in student performance tha
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by jVinc 8y ago
That's not the story at all. They meassured actual performance and fired teachers who showed bad performance, and rewarded those showing good performance. This was not just a test of dangling money in front of teachers and expecting th
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by jVinc 8y ago
> whether you personally need it or not. The point of basic income is that everyone needs it to be there. You personally may not need the added income as the head of a multinational hugely successful electronics company selling luxury mo
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by jVinc 8y ago
> then you'll probably see power-users slowly trending to it Think of it like this. If you have the choice between a regular mouse with 3 buttons, and a mouse with 22 buttons that randomly flies off to some direction for 3 seconds e
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by jVinc 8y ago
My experience working with EEG headsets is that you can create a few cool demos where you show people how you can control this or that very restricted interface, but only after you spend ages calibrating the system for you specifically and
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by jVinc 8y ago
"But the reals? Well they are invented purely so we can take the square root of two. " To follow on you previous run: ... because we can cut things into pieces and count the pieces. We know real numbers are real because we can cu
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by jVinc 8y ago
Honestly I would too be disappointed if a company planning high growth goes out and says "whoops we lost a backer, now we're selling" It definitely makes it seem like the company is knowingly misledning investors in an attemp
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by jVinc 8y ago
Most companies would have a hard time finding that many people to fire because they weren't that big. Most companies would have no problem finding 1 in 10 to fire in a downsizing.
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What a delightful read. Thank you for sharing it.
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> How can you even compare a luxury item to getting an education? A car can be a necessity, in that case a Tesla is a luxury. An education is not a necessity in any case, but for the sake of argument lest pretend that it was, a that you
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> This isn't an attitude of "no" - it's an attitude of "yes" to other things. You are literally bringing an attitude of "no" to the question of whether you are being an attitude of "no" t
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I always find this an odd reason to be against usable features. I have inherited codebases in extremely confined languages as have I inherited codebases in very permitting high-level languages Python, and never have I though "Thank goo
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by jVinc 9y ago
I really hate the whole Tesla angle of "technically we are not lying but we know people are going to mis-remember and misrepresent what we are writing". Take for instance: > The driver had received several visual and one audibl
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by jVinc 9y ago
I fully agree that too many people believe in the "vision of Elon" but the thing is that I can get reliable fully electrical vehicles from Nissan, volkswagen or Hundai. And while it used to be that the only "cool" electr
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by jVinc 9y ago
While some might feel that it is unfair for the market to decide who gets billions and who gets nil, democracy isn't perfect either. Frankly I feel more comfortable having Bill Gates picking what causes are just than Donald Trump.

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