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by karamazov 6y ago
Academics are not, and don't need to be, good software engineers, because the tools and skills one person needs to build a proof-of-concept are different from the skills a large team needs to build production code. Functional code and
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by karamazov 6y ago
From the hn guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellec
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by karamazov 6y ago
The proliferation risk of nuclear fuel is overblown. Reactors don’t use weapons-grade fuel, and purifying it to weapons-grade material is harder than making the fuel to begin with; if you can take fuel and refine it into a weapon, you might
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by karamazov 6y ago
They wanted a controlled explosion.
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by karamazov 6y ago
You're right, let's go back to punchcards.
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by karamazov 6y ago
Practice! Go back and rework older documents - it’s hard to edit something you just wrote. Time between writing and editing will give you perspective, and help you understand what to do better in the future. Reading about writing will help
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Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
385 points by karamazov 6y ago|514 comments
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by karamazov 6y ago
Yes. Any reasonably good programmer can get a job at a FANG company with three months of serious study; any reasonably intelligent person can become a good entry-level programmer with 1-2 years of serious study. The demand for engineers far
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by karamazov 7y ago
Thanks! Much appreciated
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by karamazov 7y ago
Thank you for sharing!
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Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home(comedyfromhome.com)
65 points by karamazov 7y ago|39 comments
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by karamazov 7y ago
Do you not consider yourself a liberal? You’re proposing a socialist redistribution of land, which is far to the left of any major political party. (I’m pointing out an inconsistency in your political labeling, not commenting on your sugges
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by karamazov 10y ago
It's a non-negative number.
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by karamazov 10y ago
One month isn't unreasonable. To speed up the process, try getting more warm intros: those work much better than handing out resume (even if it didn't work out for you the first time). These can be low-level connections, e.g., rea
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Concord – High Performance Stream Processing with C++ and Mesos(concord.io)
59 points by karamazov 10y ago|26 comments
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A Data Scientist Dissects the 2016 NFL Draft(wsj.com)
2 points by karamazov 10y ago|0 comments
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by karamazov 10y ago
Does anyone know how large the codebase is?
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by karamazov 11y ago
The answer is, Kyle was entirely comfortable granting 50% equity because it was subject to standard vesting, and everyone involved understood that Jeremy would own no part of the company if he left in the first year.
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by karamazov 11y ago
Here's a non-paywalled link to the ratchet explanation: https://www.cooley.com/files/TechIPOsTriggeringMore'Ratchets...
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An Overview of Quantum Computing(blog.caffeinatedanalytics.com)
9 points by karamazov 11y ago|0 comments
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by karamazov 11y ago
My guess: train operators are probably a much lower percentage of the total cost of running a train than drivers are for trucks or cabs, removing the incentive for automation.
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by karamazov 11y ago
That's dedication. I wonder why they're going around aggravating mailboxes, though.
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by karamazov 11y ago
Garry, thank you for everything!
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by karamazov 11y ago
My goal was to make the paper more approachable for people not comfortable with formal mathematics. I think the insight comes from understanding the paper directly. Do you have an example of a comment, on this or another paper, that you fou
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by karamazov 11y ago
I had a chance to add the first few annotations. Happy to answer questions on the paper as best I can.
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by karamazov 11y ago
I just finished "So Good They Can't Ignore You" and "Little Bets", both of which were great.
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Ask HN: What's the most impactful business book you've read?
5 points by karamazov 11y ago|11 comments
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by karamazov 11y ago
Banks make keeping track of the money in your account intentionally difficult. You can't just check your balance and assume that you can spend what's there. Instead, your balance includes only processed transactions, whereas your
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by karamazov 11y ago
I've only used TAOCP for reference. Working through it is on my to-do list, but I'm not sure when I'll get there. The problems are ranked by difficulty, so you might be able to work your way up to the harder ones.
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by karamazov 11y ago
I try to work through hard technical material. Personally, I enjoy both technical books and MIT OCW lectures. There were a number of courses in school that I was interested in and didn't have time for, so I've been looking at the

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