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by kornish 9y ago
Could be a browser cache thing. Try accessing from Twitter in incognito.
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How would the robbers know he lives below his means? All they see is that he's making 2x his neighbors.
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Your comment reminds me of the Feynman Algorithm [0], which is pure gold: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write down the solution. "The Feynman algorithm was facetiously suggested by Murray Gell-Mann, a colleague of F
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Wow.
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To reiterate, seems like the business you're describing fits a pretty narrow profile: free bootstrapped site making money from ad revenue and growing by word of mouth and organic SEO (to minimize marketing spend). That is a phenomenal
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It was one of them. However, given the other writing/talks Facebook has put out about their usage of Haskell and Haxl, Go is probably not a good fit for their use case due to language expressivity concerns (not declarative enough, not
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Haha, didn't see that you beat me to it. It's worth including the third saying on the page just for completeness: "There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messa
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"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
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> Why? Because the associated computing is now so cheap and, for a Web site with a lot of traffic, revenue from ad networks is so easy to get. Obviously this is only true if the company makes money from ad revenue. Most startups* don&#x2
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Indeed. Hopefully the founders and employees were somewhat reasonably compensated for their risk and trouble.
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Semiotic: data viz React.js framework from Netflex(emeeks.github.io)
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To play devil's advocate, maybe he was using it for the first time since January and found that it didn't work.
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Unless, of course, the company declares bankruptcy, sells off assets, then most of the team is hired immediately with retention bonuses going to them instead of towards the purchase of stock. That scenario is far from unheard of.
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The running joke that I've heard is that Elon operates on Mars years – if you multiply his projections by 1.88x, that's frequently closer to the mark. :)
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Absolutely. Thanks for posting!
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For context, this was almost certainly submitted because of a recent submission about data structures for use in text editors. If anyone wants to check out the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15381886 .
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There was a thread on HN about Flexport the other day, and about how branding as "unsexy" was actually a selling point because customers appreciated the authenticity – they'd rather you be reliable than sexy as a logistics co
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Didn't know. Thanks!
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I was wondering if it was a portmanteau of "wallaby" and "kangaroo".
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Trust No One: An Introduction to Large Codebases for New Engineers(hackernoon.com)
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(Disclaimers: I don't have much experience using Python to build data science products; potentially silly questions) In industry, does Pandas tend to power the application layer, or does it find more use as an exploratory data tool? If
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The Kingmaker in the Background: Kathryn Gould (2015)(strictlyvc.com)
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Is that better than the alternative, though, which is not designing data structures? Essential complexity [1] is still complexity. It has to exist somewhere; you just get to choose how to move it around. [1]: http://wiki.c2.com
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I'm just saying that you're hijacking the point (that using a single editor, rather than switching between IDEs, is useful) and replacing it with a competition for size and speed. Yes, vim and emacs are lighter. Does that devalue
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That's not false – but it ignores the point the grandparent was making, which is that minimizing switch cost is valuable to some.
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For anyone who doesn't want to listen to/read the whole thing (though you should; it's great), here's the quote to which the title alludes: > Yes, absolutely. I actually think repeat founders are actually at a disadva
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I apologize for not being clearer – I'm not claiming that they're fundamentally different. My original comment, to that point, agrees with the original article's author: compilers are just mappings to and from programs. re: t
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Not the OP, but Ron Chernow's Titan is a phenomenal chronicle of Rockefeller.
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Googling "what is a compiler" returns this: "a program that converts instructions into a machine-code or lower-level form so that they can be read and executed by a computer." So, that's something. It's hard to
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Favorite quote: > There’s a wealth of tutorials, courses, books, and the like about how to write compilers. But if somebody believes that writing a transpiler isn’t fundamentally the same thing as writing a compiler, it may not occur to

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