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by jayunit 7y ago
Minerva Project | Software Engineer, UX Designer | Remote or San Francisco, CA | Full-Time Come help build the Minerva Forum: push the boundaries of WebRTC and dynamic real time web applications in order to create a compelling education env
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by jayunit 7y ago
Minerva Project | Software Engineer, UX Designer | Remote or San Francisco, CA | Full-Time Come help build the Minerva Forum: push the boundaries of WebRTC and dynamic real time web applications in order to create a compelling education env
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by jayunit 7y ago
Minerva Project | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Remote or San Francisco, CA | Full-Time Come help build the Minerva Forum: push the boundaries of WebRTC and dynamic real time web applications in order to create a compelling education envir
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by jayunit 8y ago
Very cool! I assume this primarily supports testing one browser's rendering against itself, but do you see value in comparing snapshots across browsers? E.g. to surface a rendering inconsistency between Firefox and Chrome.
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by jayunit 9y ago
Cool project! Thanks for publishing and sharing it. It'd be interesting to know what topic terms it produces for each of my repos. It looks like it's taking all the repo descriptions, producing a topic model over that corpus with
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by jayunit 9y ago
Any thoughts on what role novelty search might play? ("Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective" by Kenneth Stanley)
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by jayunit 11y ago
Using OpsWorks. Got several deploys timing out as "unreachable" between 2h ago and now.
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by jayunit 12y ago
http://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol.html
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by jayunit 12y ago
If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend Mikito Takada's "Distributed systems for fun and profit" http://book.mixu.net/distsys The "Partition-tolerant consensus algorithms: Paxos, Raft, ZAB" section
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by jayunit 13y ago
related: https://twitter.com/0x56/status/437055270942826496
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by jayunit 13y ago
Awesome! Boy, this graph highlights why my evening commute (SoMa to Noe) is killer in comparison to the morning commute. PS My wife is in Hackbright as well, it is an exciting time in the program (for other HNers, it's the last week of the
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by jayunit 14y ago
Not to speak for Mek, but one hope I have is that these small personal notes automatically make their way onto places like OpenJournal and start to seed conversations. Something like a cross between ScienceBlogs and Twitter, with enough mi
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by jayunit 14y ago
Mek, this is great. Thanks for sharing & open-sourcing it. I love the idea of bringing together paper discussions online - whether post-publication peer review like f1000research.com or more casual discussion like r/science. One chall
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by jayunit 14y ago
CLAHub is a side project I put together a few months ago, and just got around to releasing. It's open source. It's not finished per se, but I'd love to hear what you think. Questions from the blog post: Do you use a CLA for your project(s
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Show HN: CLAHub - Easy contributor license agreements with GitHub (jayunit.net)
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by jayunit 14y ago
> It's patently ridiculous for a person to spend half their life not working Why is this ridiculous? The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In England, in the early nineteenth century, fif
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by jayunit 14y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/a/3195446 - just set this up on a project the other day to have an "all" origin push to github and heroku.
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by jayunit 14y ago
Developer interested in edtech here. This looks fantastic! I'm in the Bay Area, and planning to attend the SLC Camp this weekend [1] [2]. A coupla questions: * As someone who's been a student and taught informally before, I have some und
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Process Partitioning in Distributed Systems - Miyagi(miyagi.herokuapp.com)
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by jayunit 14y ago
Ah.. yes.... the ever-reliable windows upgrade offer dot com. Why, I think I shall plug my CC into whatever app it downloads.
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by jayunit 14y ago
Reminds me of http://www.foundersfund.com/the-future
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by jayunit 14y ago
Do it! I commented elsewhere in the thread, but for my wife & I together we spend 3500USD/mo and are quite comfortable. Travel's a blast. I found I really prefer contiguous blocks of work (several-week chunks) so work and travel don'
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by jayunit 14y ago
I'm on month 7 of 12 of doing just this, really enjoying it. About $3500/mo expenses on average (includes my wife and I), mostly in south/southeast Asia (lower cost) but housesitting is making Europe doable on the same budget. Current hou
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by jayunit 14y ago
not exactly that, but related: http://stereopsis.com/flux/
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by jayunit 14y ago
> Does anyone have any good ideas on how we might mitigate the negative consequences of this technology? (...) The genie is definitely already out of the bottle so I guess the only solution is better defences. Agreed. Rob Carlson [1] a
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by jayunit 15y ago
https://www.breakoutlabs.org/about-us.html looks like an interesting entrant into funding early stage research outside academia. Any thoughts on them?
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by jayunit 15y ago
Do you have to pay customs/duty?
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by jayunit 15y ago
I'm one of the authors of another Backbone ebook (more Rails integration focus), and I heartily recommend Nick & Chris's book. Great content, well-written, and applicable. One of my personal principles is that I value educational conte
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by jayunit 15y ago
The "vim hero" idea you mentioned - similar to this? http://vimgolf.com/
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by jayunit 15y ago
A great question that I don't fully know the answer to. I've never lived on the west coast, so I can't specifically speak to the benefit of starting in SV. I think there are a few factors at play. What do you need for your startup to succe

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