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by jraines 9y ago
Take the good parts, discard the bad. And there are definitely both in this video. And even on this point, it's not all bad when you consider how design/architecture studios operate. I probably would've been better off as a
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by jraines 9y ago
A lot of the ICO "whitepapers" are comedy gold
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by jraines 9y ago
Free, probably. It doesn't take much. I imagine this gets flagkilled pretty soon. (And just to be clear, my wink above is just b/c I thought it was kind of funny, not b/c I have anything to do with it)
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by jraines 9y ago
Congrats to them for front-paging this ;) I've heard some people say that most ICOs wouldn't stand a chance at getting VC funding. So, investors of HN, what say you of this one? To me, the first question is why does this need its
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by jraines 9y ago
I can't believe there's still not an equivalent in the Bay Area
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by jraines 9y ago
Bittrex.com is the best I've found.
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by jraines 9y ago
I'll offer up this explanation from arch-conservative James Burnham (so please don't downvote the messenger) just for consideration on the idea that the "doing something about this", as SF tries so mightily, can make the
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by jraines 9y ago
He sold himself just on whatever is said on Bloomberg etc. And he views it about like laying $$$ on the Georgia Bulldogs to cover against Alabama, so I'm not going to put up a fight.
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by jraines 9y ago
The ICO mania definitely contributes to this, but so does the worry about a Bitcoin split. I've read a lot about it and could not give you a coherent answer of what is likely to happen and what would be the impact if it does or does n
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by jraines 9y ago
NYC anecdata: a couple years ago my girlfriend at the time split a $2700, 400sq ft 2 bedroom on a 7th floor (!) walkup in Chinatown. Unrelated, but she's an architect and pointed out illegal parts of nearly every residential building
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by jraines 9y ago
Well, before my latest attempt to quit Twitter, it seemed like a widespread opinion among kool kids from both the left & right that liking DFW was middlebrow posing. Just my definitely skewed impression.
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by jraines 9y ago
If anyone is daunted by Infinite Jest but undaunted by the fad of hating DFW, definitely start with his books of essays & journalism. IMO they're a lot more rewarding and enjoyable than his novels. I think E Unibus Pluram: Televi
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by jraines 9y ago
Well, it seems like a more practical billionaire project than yet another flying car.
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by jraines 9y ago
A happy medium IMO is to give the function resulting from `partial` or `comp` a name in a let binding. If it takes one arg, great; if it doesn't then the #() form with the named fn inside still a little shorter & easier to parse.
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by jraines 9y ago
At Stylitics, we use Clojure & ClojureScript to automate building outfits from retailers' product catalogs, arranging them in a visually appealing collage image, serving those to their product pages and track engagement & other
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by jraines 9y ago
Google Earth VR is incredible, as one non-game example.
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by jraines 9y ago
I didn't vote for Trump and have never owned a handgun. It's interesting that you go straight to tarring me as a racist for merely speculating on what I find to be an amusing hypothetical application of California's gun law a
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by jraines 9y ago
I wonder if commuting by BART constitutes a "good cause" w/r/t California's concealed-carry law. I doubt it, but it'd be kind of funny to hear a court say out loud that in Alameda County, "exposure to ris
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by jraines 10y ago
A few favorite quotes from "The Dream Machine" The idea began to dominate my thinking and for the next two evenings I went out after dinner and walked the streets in the dark thinking about it -Jay Forrester, on the idea of magn
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by jraines 10y ago
As someone who doesn't care too much about the health aspect (if it was all greasy blobs, I'd care) of it -- just taste and convenience, with some price sensitivity -- I'm a fan of Blue Apron. It seems like the quality has
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by jraines 10y ago
No language I've used is exempt from the possibility of people writing bad code evoking those questions. In fact I've had these reactions at various times to code in every language I've worked in (including Clojure, to be sur
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by jraines 10y ago
More as an inspiration, though. You don't have to define a spec with om.next queries, for example. Walmart Labs just released a library about a week ago that does actual GraphQL, and there are libraries for the front-end but they ar
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by jraines 10y ago
I'm a big fan of both and I recently loved Diaspora by Greg Egan. It's a bit more heavy on math/physics references but it's still amazing writing and an epic piece of world (and universe) building.
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by jraines 10y ago
"Why don't you all just f-f-fade away / and don't try 'n dig what we all say"
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by jraines 10y ago
The premise behind their big investment round was that they would take their annotation tech to the rest of the web. The only place I've personally seen it used is for people to snarkily mark-up political op-eds. It's a cool visio
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by jraines 10y ago
How would every last human die? I mean, sure, millions or even billions . . . but not one human surviving with all the resources and resourcefulness we have at our disposal?
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by jraines 10y ago
Hangouts is completely broken for me right now when trying to join a hangout via link. As far as I can tell, it's always trying to join calls with the wrong Google Account, and the control that used to be there for switching accounts
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by jraines 10y ago
I think my list does address #3, at least somewhat. I don't have answers for #1 and #2, except hoping that if #3 is addressed people will give it another try.
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by jraines 10y ago
A fair point, and you might be right. But I'm an engineer & product person, so the more CEO-type change of vision moves are harder for me to evaluate. What I really want is a global, public messaging protocol with Twitter-like pub
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by jraines 10y ago
- Get rid of modals for everything. Especially: when clicking on a tweet to view replies, open a new page with better threading of replies, pagination, and no reordering (or optional "quality" reordering). Twitter is a forum on

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