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by klochner 13y ago
This is just sensationalism piled on top of the original discussion ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211514 )
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Why bitcoin won’t disrupt digital transactions(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by klochner 13y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 13y ago
Too bad Twitter can't issue RSUs to pay for server costs as well, they could take their expenses down to zero.
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by klochner 13y ago
It's neither necessary nor sufficient, unless your definition of "smart" is "not severely learning disabled". Many many people get rich on their own without having a ton of smarts.
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by klochner 13y ago
I also dropped in to call bullshit on that claim. If I had to guess, I'd say the better students (top 30%) end up at mid-tier tech companies, with salaries in the $60-$80k range.
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by klochner 13y ago
And a non-linkbait title for the post would be: The Ramanujan sum of all positive numbers up to infinity is -1/12 Which is not sensational, exciting, or even that interesting.
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by klochner 13y ago
Founders get so much equity because they started the company, and they can offer as little or as much to others as they want. Non-founding employee equity is driven by market dynamics, where "taking on risk" only explains how they
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by klochner 13y ago
A little older but similar idea (and fun to watch) - remaking of The Prodigy's "smack my bitch up": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI
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React vs Angular(skulbuny.com)
3 points by klochner 13y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 13y ago
ThePoint was like kickstarter. I wasn't trying to slander crowdtilt, just found it interesting.
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by klochner 13y ago
This is the original Groupon business model, interesting that it ended up being successful. It started as ThePoint.com, a site launched in November 2007 that lets you start a campaign asking people to give money or do something as a group-
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by klochner 13y ago
To put things in perspective: taking the (presumably) wildly optimistic forecast of the Wilklevii, the total future bitcoin appreciation will be approximately equal to the year-to-date performance. So in an optimistic scenario, the bulk of
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by klochner 13y ago
I understand your sentiment, but you misinterpreted this example - he meant that the job-hopper was smart in having a system (continually get a better job) rather than a specific goal (get XX job). Despite having landed a job with high sati
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by klochner 13y ago
This is about a year late to the "pinterest clone for shopping" party. Referly pivoted into something similar before shutting down, and I think Fancy is the major player in the space. Could be successful, but not terribly innovati
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by klochner 13y ago
It's not typically used that way -- bcc is used to prevent disclosing all recipient emails, and it also prevents spamming all recipients on replies: to: sender_address@domain.com bcc: recipient1@, recipient2@, . . . Ever
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by klochner 13y ago
The successful PMs listed from google are more lead developer than product manager, and they are strong engineers.
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by klochner 13y ago
If you read the article, he argues that the essential cost is high given the services provided: housing, healthcare, education, etc. Imagine you're going on vacation for four years. How much would that cost? Right, if you compare tha
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Server-generated JavaScript Responses(37signals.com)
2 points by klochner 13y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 13y ago
From the original leaked email, great observation on the need to dig into library code: . . . engineers need to have an accurate mental model of how these libraries work or they shift into cargo-culting snippets of code as ma
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by klochner 13y ago
The original transaction was likely made at a discount to someone willing to peddle the smaller bundles.
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by klochner 13y ago
Is there really an exponential growth in transactions per day? The last I heard it has been constant for months: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions [edit] I see he's excluding the 100 most popular add
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by klochner 13y ago
I'm pretty sure everyone already knew the PM was an a-hole.
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Learning to make a profit - and a difference(sfgate.com)
2 points by klochner 13y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 13y ago
dominant ERB use surprised me, I would have guessed it much lower. Have people been moving back?
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by klochner 13y ago
I'm embarrassed that I even know this, but she used a standard pickup tactic[1,2], popularized by the book "the game". [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neg [2] http://www.newstate
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by klochner 13y ago
. . . but the quantity of all crypto-currencies is unlimited.
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by klochner 13y ago
The article presents that caveat straightforwardly: The popular view of America's upper class is that of an ossified aristocracy. But research from the National Bureau of Economic Research shakes up this view, at least am
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by klochner 13y ago
They're getting no value from popovers on mobile devices, so it is either incompetence or insufficient bandwidth to design well for mobile.
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by klochner 13y ago
... or you broadside a minivan
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by klochner 13y ago
I kind of agree with you (see my edits), but it is harder to decelerate on a bike than in a car, especially going downhill - you run the risk of going over the handlebars.

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