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by jphackworth 15y ago
This is interesting timing because of the Amit Gupta social media attempt to get a donor. Now, Amit is allowed to offer money for the bone marrow.
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Donors of bone marrow can now be paid(reuters.com)
55 points by jphackworth 15y ago|35 comments
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Do you spend all day scheming ways to exploit people? Fuck no, get over it already. This is true, but a bit misleading. As an engineer at Zynga, you spend your time developing to spec, not scheming. The game designers are the ones that ac
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by jphackworth 15y ago
All things being equal, there is a 2/3 chance that that next Google won't be happening in the US. In this case, all things are not equal. Being located in the US and specifically in Silicon Valley makes a lot of venture-backed startup l
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Instead of saying "no" to their idea, try to say "yes" to something else. Ask yourself, what could they do that would prove it's a good idea? For example, maybe they could line up a customer who would pay for it, or an investors would would
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by jphackworth 15y ago
This article seems to bury the main point: we're currently getting about 30M hits a month on our API If you're getting a million API requests a day, you can probably handle that load with a single machine. Indeed, it looks like they are u
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by jphackworth 15y ago
It depends on the situation. Sometimes pivoting is easy, because you've been struggling with a crappy product, everyone knows you need to change something, and you're getting an incredible response for a landing page you threw up on a whim
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by jphackworth 15y ago
If you're pushing changes to production many times a day, you can use realtime metrics to notice if anything goes awry, and know when you should roll back. It won't give you the same nuances as an A/B test over a month, but it's a great way
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by jphackworth 15y ago
“What needs to be obvious?” is a better question to ask than “What’s high priority?” I don't think one is better than the other. They are both critical and serve a different purpose. "What needs to be obvious?" is a design question. It's
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Another area where fuzzy string search is really useful is computational biology. You often have a particular DNA or RNA sequence and you want to figure out what it is. However, the version on file can be different by a few mutations. For t
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I feel like what makes a "dream job" is so often the people you're working with, rather than your job title or the product. I'd rather be working with smart people who respected my work on a normal piece of software, than working on, say, a
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I wish my startup was so embarassed as to have merely a market cap of $9.7 billion.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
It's great to hear that Django is moving to GitHub. It seems like the Python community has been slow to adopt git, perhaps because Bazaar and Mercurial are written in Python, and perhaps because GitHub uses Ruby. That said, it seems like gi
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Saying their "entire business model is under fire" seems too extreme. From the article: The EC is planning to ban such activity unless users themselves specifically agree to it. Okay, so, at worst Facebook just has to make users specifica
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Keep in mind that if any subtype of the population is growing exponentially, then the whole population will also grow exponentially in the asymptote. I'd be hesitant to disagree with Hawking on this.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
One feature of Emacs that I wish IDEs would or could adopt is macros. It really enables a larger set of refactorings when you can repeat any text transformation. You really need non-popup find-this-string, though.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Node was created to provide an event-based web server programming model This is not true, and it's probably why the author seems confused. Node was not primarily designed to be a web server, nor is it particularly good at that. It is mu
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Space exploration is like selling off your stocks during a tech bubble: it's obvious it needs to happen sometime, but it's really hard to figure out when the right time is. Unfortunately, that means for-profit organizations underinvest. Thi
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by jphackworth 15y ago
This is really neat. Although, one thing that makes it easier to map this program from Python to Clojure is that the original program was written in a pretty functional style. It would be interesting to see if a more imperative sample progr
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by jphackworth 15y ago
At my company, we're hiring mobile developers. We have received over 100 resumes. 2 of them were from women. I wish we could hire a more diverse group, but it's pretty obvious that changing our selection process isn't enough.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I love Instapaper, but it's especially interesting that Marco has been able to compete against larger groups like Readability and Apple's Reading List. I'm afraid it might be inevitable that he gets swamped by a constant stream of competiti
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Why didn't they use LaunchRock to launch LaunchRock?
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by jphackworth 15y ago
Really interesting. A couple of physics things I did not know that Neil mentions: 1) The fact that an electron has no known size -- it's smaller than the smallest measurement we have ever made of anything. 2) That Quarks come only in pai
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by jphackworth 15y ago
It seems like Scala has the potential to be the next language widely used in large organizations. The JVM means you can fall back to Java if you really need to, and overall development with Scala is more developer-friendly. It'll be excitin
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by jphackworth 15y ago
There's no big secret why Bill Nguyen can raise money. Once you have sold one company for $850 mil, you aren't going to have trouble raising money in the future.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I'll believe Flash is dead when there's no Flash running on Kongregate any more.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
As opposed to Goldman Sachs, which would never expose investors to swindles? Give me a break. The powers that be oppose crowdfunding because the financial industry jealously defends their legal barriers to competition, not because they're l
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by jphackworth 15y ago
From the article: Is Adobe still committed to Flex? Yes. Seems like putting "Flex is dead" in the title is too much editorializing.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
It seems inevitable that all public information about people will become organized, and you just won't be able to keep secrets like this any more. Better than it be available to everyone than only to sneaky governmental agencies.
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by jphackworth 15y ago
I just wish you could speed up the animation for switching between workspaces. Being used to Gnome some of the whizzier OS X animations just seem like a waste of time.

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