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by knughit 11y ago
Where is the ridiculous part? Aside from aspect that many national governments were expanding and conquering, as they are wont to do.
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by knughit 11y ago
Note that the $100m was a gift to the government , overseen by thr governor of NJ, so it is hard to say that was a failure of private philanthropy vs government.
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by knughit 11y ago
Articles that lead with a headline "Why", instead of just stating their thesis, are clickbait garbage.
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by knughit 11y ago
Kansas City has gigabit, yet Silicon Valley still exists, so inter et connectivity isn't the major factor.
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by knughit 11y ago
There must be ways to deal with people you don't like, without killing them.
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by knughit 11y ago
C-Onan, the C package manager written to scratch the author's own itch?
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by knughit 11y ago
He makes it feel understandable, but does it communicate anything meaningful?
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by knughit 11y ago
Chaotic functions of continuous real variables are not computable. Computable physics assumes a discrete lattice, which the universe is not proven to be.
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by knughit 11y ago
Ugh. Scientific journals are for archiving information, not embargoing news.
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by knughit 11y ago
That quote is annoying to spam in general, more so when it isn't even relevant.
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by knughit 11y ago
Non-anonymous philanthropy is important because it establishes a culture that encourages others to donate as well.
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by knughit 11y ago
Unfortunately, alQaeda/Daesh is a philanthropic program in House of Saud's point of view.
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by knughit 11y ago
Better to register your own domain name, and give every website a different address. And if you don't need to have a relationship, use throwaway account like mailinator..
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by knughit 11y ago
This is a strong of BS PR items from a single company promoting itself by getting past-their-prime big companies to let it use their name, in exchange for them appearing to be trendsetters in hopes of attracting talent getting vacuumed up b
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by knughit 11y ago
IIRC, OT was considered too complex in practice , and products like Google Docs ended up just using fast networks to make collaborative editing effectively synchronous. Similar in spirit to how they solved the problem of eventual consistenc
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by knughit 11y ago
Considering the eye test is pictures of actors , not real people, you may have simply remembers the answers, or watched more movies.
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by knughit 11y ago
Your edit is not HN-worthy. Private school parents pay taxes yet don't consume public school resources, effectively donating the cost of their public education back to the state / public school children
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by knughit 11y ago
People like to slag religious groups, but they really are a great place to meet friends. Anti-religious intellectuals tend to throw baby out with bathwater
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by knughit 11y ago
Note: that headline number seems absurdly low, because it is only counting British men.
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by knughit 11y ago
Paid leave is actually just a life insurance plan, similar to health insurance. It exists because we don't have government programs in USA, and the economy depends on general social stability and continuity. Social Security is a simila
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by knughit 11y ago
Ah, 2007, when casually mocking nerds was still cool, before they became the new billionaire class. How quickly pundits forget how they were bullies.
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by knughit 11y ago
Yes, these are mutation tests. Riddler or some such for java. It modifies a part of your code and then if your tests that cover that code still pass, that's a clue that the test is not effective
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by knughit 11y ago
Try weird thing is the more you test, the larger fraction of your time is needed from testing, because testing avoid the blowups of investigations and bugfixes and workarounds.
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by knughit 11y ago
What about the other 20% of your bugs? They don't matter?
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by knughit 11y ago
This is a silly argument. Good schools have fun, zoos are informative, and schools don't have surprise baboon battles.
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by knughit 11y ago
Startups can't fix the tax system.
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by knughit 11y ago
It is strange and suspicious that you felt that "gay" was relevant to your analysis.
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by knughit 11y ago
If you are the eng or sales lead at a startup, you can blog and tweet and sprinkle the magic founder dust on yourself. There is no Office of Dust Control .
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by knughit 11y ago
It is crazy that this stuff that was well down and discussed on HN itself over the years was somehow unknown to YC. When I was a startup employee noob five years ago I learned all the advice of this article, from reading HN.
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by knughit 11y ago
So, the process worked. The company finds people who have the most interest in the company's success, within the set of hirable candidates

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