jluan

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Ask HN: TextMate-style files pane in Emacs
8 points by jluan 15y ago|4 comments
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by jluan 15y ago
Market forces aren't good enough for them :P
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by jluan 15y ago
Find a big problem, identify a basis for its vector space, and build that basis. My opinion is that all "small problems with simple solutions" that have become successful were actually cases of big problems masquerading as small ones.
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by jluan 15y ago
To my cranky old self, the overbearing similarity between this product (aimed at productivity) and services like Twitter and Facebook (aimed at fun), combined with the overly cheery, flippant color scheme, make it difficult for me to take m
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by jluan 15y ago
Post-PC? Post-Web? Wired, what do those terms actually, practically mean? Companies and articles that bring up these artificial distinctions promote a hipster cooler-than-thou that is based only on perception...
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by jluan 15y ago
This is incredible in terms of helping push the technology envelope further, but I'm afraid it's just going to be used in the short term by Android handset OEMs as another selling point to tout in the spec wars. I wish that they would focus
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by jluan 15y ago
Non-sequitur.
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by jluan 15y ago
I have to disagree on this one -- Yale's policy actually really sucks. I am currently taking time off, and was told that not only must I take course credits from an outside school to get readmitted from a personal withdrawal, but also have
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by jluan 15y ago
Were you guys onstage for Office Hours at Startup School?
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by jluan 15y ago
If this actually works as a cap, somebody should build a guitar amp out of it.
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by jluan 15y ago
This is somewhat unrelated, but speaking of UBS, this video came to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx4poQw1mZo It depicts the Ivy League finance-jobs-at-all-costs mentality very well.
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by jluan 15y ago
This game was one of the exercises my book made me do when I was starting to learn to program. The title of this post had me intrigued!
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by jluan 15y ago
I don't understand -- it says 1.6 out of 5000 are deuterium. Why are we looking for meteorites and comets with precisely that ratio? Why couldn't it have been that the distribution of all comets to impact the earth yielded an average deuter