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by koide 14y ago
I wonder if the other parameters were controlled in this experiment, like time and type of day of posting, amount of votes of other articles in front page, etc.
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by koide 14y ago
True silence for long periods of time makes you insane. For a minute or two it's awesome how you start hearing "the sound of silence".
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by koide 14y ago
In fact, true silence is so rare, it is perceived as noise.
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by koide 14y ago
Force silence upon oneself is to shut up the mind as soon as it starts blabbering. There are means to ease this up, like counting or looking at things and focusing on their characteristics (green jacket, yellow leave, noisy car) or feeling
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by koide 14y ago
No, if the proportion of 2 people vs 1 person startup is skewed, which is very likely. Also, the amount of founders could be neutral to the success, in such case neither is countering their own success, and again just a matter of samples. C
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by koide 14y ago
I wonder what I did wrong on my testing. How did you test and against what version? Do you have a public version of your app or tests?
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by koide 14y ago
I think there are (at least) two parameters needing concrete definition: 1) What is success? 2) What's the ratio of solo startups that achieve the level defined in 1). As has been mentioned, either an exit of a few million or a stream of a
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by koide 14y ago
LWN is, rather obviously, (highly) Linux biased. The people there tend to make mistakes when talking about other operating systems. I guess that's what those comments are about.
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by koide 14y ago
flot is nice, at least for real time updates on charts. I'm building a websockets enabled realtime dashboard with flot, left it running last weekend, did not leak a bit.
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by koide 14y ago
I loved how the spokesman turned around the negativity in one swoop. From "Amazon's losing money" to "it's right that Prime Instant Video is an amazing value for customers."
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by koide 14y ago
If the problems on iOS being criticized are real, I don't see a problem. Can't you judge for yourself the content you are reading?
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by koide 14y ago
True, you'd be left with "do the app like we tell you to" option, like offering an API where's mandatory to show the sponsored content in specific, Twitter approved ways. It would probably be a nightmare to implement well. A pity.
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by koide 14y ago
I wonder why something like "If you want more than 100k usernames, either pay us $x per username or use our advertisement API and put whatever tweets/ads we push where we tell you to" is not an option. It would be refreshingly honest and fo
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Debunking the node.js gish gallop(unlimitednovelty.com)
1 points by koide 14y ago|0 comments
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by koide 14y ago
Do some of your contacts offer green cards or is this a geographically restricted offer?
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by koide 14y ago
I'm divided. Smartphones will probably always be much less secure than specially designed one time password provider hardware. On the other hand your smartphone can get more secure with updates and your token provider will surely be much ha
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by koide 14y ago
I was referring only to this quote on the parent: > it is ugly Python, boring Python, without any hint of elegance it could be. No list-set-dict comprehensions, which is what makes Python interesting I disagree that list-set-dict comps
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Simon Peyton Jones - On the usefulness of languages(youtube.com)
1 points by koide 14y ago|0 comments
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by koide 14y ago
On a tangent, it's not only list-set-dict comps what makes Python interesting. The very simple and powerful approach to metaprogramming is very interesting as well (all the magic __whatever__ methods, for example)
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by koide 14y ago
AFAICT taxes in Singapore only create a welfare state that relieves somewhat poverty. A noble and worthy goal, but there are still poor people in Singapore. What about cancer cures and immortailty research, are they big there? And now for t
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by koide 14y ago
And how on earth seeing suffering/poor people convinces you that the solution is to grab from the rich and give it to the government ? That's one of the less efficient ways to solve most problems, even after discounting corruption.
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by koide 14y ago
Ignoring all the problems like: who gets to decide; how are the decisions made; how often is success measured; what corrective measures are allowed; what is the best way to help the poor; what is the best way to redistribute the wealth; how
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by koide 14y ago
He should keep doing whatever he wants to do. You could propose him a venture on life supporting devices and see what he tells you. There's a (tiny) chance he hasn't gotten into life supporting devices because the opportunity hasn't shown i
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by koide 14y ago
marshallp needs to get off his pony. DHH's is not gloating about the piles of cash he surely has on this essay. He's talking about the unprecedented and amazing opportunities unregulated internet gives businesses. And about your career coun
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by koide 14y ago
Again, why? I presume you could design to prevent these pitfalls. Or at the very least change insecure default values!
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by koide 14y ago
I have a different question. Why all these trivially breakable modes still exist on the third party libraries? I expect there're other reasons than backwards compatibility or standard's compliance.
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by koide 14y ago
On the other hand the lack of due process is significant, what good will it be for you when your domain/machines are seized for months before you can prove you are legit?
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by koide 14y ago
FWIW: There's a Chilean comedian whose weapon of choice is to deliver mostly black humor in stoic deadpan. The result is hilarious. Probably because you know he's a comedian.
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Kinect-Style Control To The Next Level: MS Research’s Adventures In Movement (thenextweb.com)
1 points by koide 14y ago|0 comments
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by koide 14y ago
On the other hand, being able to trust on the things you have and having the proper, trusty tools for the things you like to do is indeed something valuable. It's not filling a black hole, but satisfying a concrete need. The key point is no

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