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by jarek 13y ago
And to compete with the Chinese state, which has always made an enormous effort to get its subjects to speak a common language. But iPhone!
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by jarek 13y ago
"[I]t came down to storing lots of binary attachments that could be easily shared with other applications in the CMS. That was the main reason for the move." Yeah this is a non-story. A better headline would be "Why a small a
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by jarek 13y ago
Should go a lot better than for-profit credit-rating agencies, right?
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by jarek 13y ago
But inventing a big number is exactly what this "functionality" is doing. Think of it as a crowdsourced RNG.
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by jarek 13y ago
tldr: we are special snowflakes
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by jarek 13y ago
lol
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by jarek 13y ago
I know this comment is a couple of days old, but neither Uber nor self-driving cars in general will come close to completely disrupting mass transit. It might disrupt suburbia, where you get a bus every 30 minutes with 10 people on it - and
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by jarek 13y ago
Claims made by OP that had been backed up: - "My name is ___" (ID) - "Until two days ago I lived at NYU" (NYU ID) - "Previously, I lived at $address" (ID) Thousands of people in the U.S. fly without business ca
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by jarek 13y ago
> Uber, Groupon, and the other spoilage / sharing successes are amazing, world changing businesses. So are Modo, City Carshare, and numerous bikeshare implementations. Except not businesses. > Exclusivity - Everybody can own the
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by jarek 13y ago
Does setting up 100,000 communes count?
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by jarek 13y ago
It's not in SF or NYC or Boston, which means hardly anyone on HN or in VCland knows about it.
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by jarek 13y ago
Most people use their computers a lot more frequently than their power drills, even now when power drills are cheap.
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by jarek 13y ago
It'd have a beautiful flat-design iOS app, delighting users.
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by jarek 13y ago
This can and has been done, non-commercially. http://vancouvertoollibrary.com/ is just one example.
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by jarek 13y ago
By this logic I bettered the world today by coming into work. BRB HN front page
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by jarek 13y ago
True, but if you have any pipes with standing water you might be unpleasantly surprised in the morning.
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by jarek 13y ago
I do not think moving within 10 days of taking a flight is an "odd" story, but I don't think any further discussion will go anywhere.
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by jarek 13y ago
"id" means identification. Your identity doesn't change just because you move. He had "id" just fine. It just didn't have his two-day-old address on it.
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by jarek 13y ago
My favourite was a CBP asking me "what do you do for work" (lovely unspecific question, that) then pretending to get upset with me for not telling him I was unemployed at the moment. I resisted telling him I personally don't
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by jarek 13y ago
> I got an open ended problem that would take a measure of forever to solve: Specifically to write a program (in your favorite language!) that would do natural language processing and discern emotions and feelings about subjects from tex
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by jarek 13y ago
> If I have two candidates and the only signals are (resume, portfolio), then I will select the highest signal. I am sorry, but I can't in conscience decide to take someone without proven work over someone with proven work without
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by jarek 13y ago
Qz is another new site that's horrible for just reading text out of the box. Half the time I get redirected to some other article or the front page (!?) while scrolling down or just having the page open in a background tab and not doin
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by jarek 13y ago
Reinventing ways to display plain text has been a good chunk of activity on the web for well over a decade now. But hey, slide-out comments.
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by jarek 13y ago
Here's the story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Eriksson#Car_crash
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by jarek 13y ago
> 20% weeks (where engineers without 20% projects, or who prefer time-boxed commitments, take a week once a quarter to work on stuff) Wouldn't that be 8% weeks?
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by jarek 13y ago
> electrify transport. Oh good, maybe you can show Europeans and Asians how to get around their countries without internal combustion engines.
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by jarek 13y ago
> Engineering degree in what? Software engineering.
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by jarek 13y ago
Some people who can do a wider range of tasks are useful, and at some companies necessary, but division of labour was set up for a reason.
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by jarek 13y ago
I'd expect Javascript programmers dwarf Lua programmers by a couple of orders of magnitude. At least one OOM if you want to limit to people who only know the language "well."
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by jarek 13y ago
Because a lot of people know Javascript and C/C++.

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