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691.
by leif 16y ago
change "tastiness" to "tasty"
692.
by leif 16y ago
Can you speak to why the applicant age distribution is so skewed? I'd wager that older founders have more anchoring commitments, so while you can draw on a large (geographical) pool of young founders, you can only draw from the few older fo
693.
by leif 16y ago
Most people know what's fair, somewhere deep down. You know it, and they know it. Go to them confidently, tell them "You didn't pay me. I know your company's having problems, but that doesn't get you out of your debt to me, we both know t
694.
by leif 16y ago
socat is a little closer to what you really want than netcat: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
695.
by leif 16y ago
#2 is kind of a defining characteristic of YC-funded companies.
696.
by leif 16y ago
It's standard. Actually pretty good here. It's meant to grow too, in most cases. Does UK PTO get bigger the more you work?
697.
This is the best "we're hiring" image ever drawn(dropbox.com)
166 points by leif 16y ago|89 comments
698.
by leif 16y ago
I don't like it either, but people are used to it and it serves its purpose. You can put it after 'mono' if you like.
699.
by leif 16y ago
There are lots of links, and a lot of them are crap (for example, most suggest garamond and helvetica). Here are my suggestions: sans: "font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;" serif: "font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Rom
700.
by leif 16y ago
13pt font at 72dpi is actually a pretty decent body font size, and helvetica renders not altogether horribly with these settings, so it's a reasonable choice for designers testing only on macs. That said, yes world, please don't use Helveti
701.
by leif 16y ago
http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/
702.
by leif 16y ago
Yeah, basically I found it funny juxtaposing the announcement of such a magnificent result (should it end up proving true) with such a mundane, utilitarian comment.
703.
by leif 16y ago
Somewhere, deep in a dark corner of my heart, I hope and pray that this paper is correct, just so we can keep and revere the immortal words "I am pleased to announce a proof that P is not equal to NP, which is attached in 10pt and 12pt fon
704.
by leif 16y ago
Because they were started by, and are still mostly (unless I'm gravely mistaken) developed only by the same people that develop for Ubuntu. If they were more autonomous, I'd be more willing to consider them "upstream".
705.
by leif 16y ago
To be fair, citing upstart, launchpad, and bazaar as "upstream" is pretty disingenuous.
706.
by leif 16y ago
math/cs double, emphasis topology, knot theory, geometry, some analysis and dynamics, also systems (mostly unix) esp. disk data structures and kernel dev, functional programming, security currently seattle at MS, stony brook university come
707.
by leif 16y ago
Yes. I was saying something about the post I replied to, I wanted to point out that it's easier to ease into emacs without sacrificing the chance to learn about it for familiarity.
708.
by leif 16y ago
C-g is quit. :) The difference is (full disclosure, I pray at the altar of emacs now, after many years of vi), much of vim's functionality is hidden if you stay in insert mode, while in emacs, you always have everything available to you (an
709.
by leif 16y ago
For those not running Apple software, http://cream.sourceforge.net/ is a good beginners' "flavor" of vim. It gives you some familiarisms to work with until you find their more powerful counterparts.
710.
by leif 16y ago
"Campaign contributions would be eliminated because all campaigns would happen on the Internet so that running for office would cost next to nothing." I doubt it. Competition between better and worse campaigns would ensure that everyone
711.
by leif 16y ago
False. An evented server (at least, until they get a lot fancier and make you program with locks and such) only gets to use one of the cores, while a threaded server gets all four. Using a single core just means that the threaded server doe
712.
by leif 16y ago
The SQLite numbers are borked, and I'm tempted to say their "Threaded I/O" is too. Even so, it's a year-old benchmark.
713.
by leif 16y ago
Rather than tell you how fast I code, I'll hopefully provide some insight in to how to become someone who codes quickly: 1. Coding environment. Part of this is the physical space around you, distractions, mental state, etc., but you can pr
714.
by leif 16y ago
I almost didn't catch the typo: > To get performance that is acceptable to Rich Clojure, data structures are not implemented using purely immutable data structures (Okasaki style) from the Java side. For the record, I think that is ado
715.
by leif 16y ago
I am excite!
716.
by leif 16y ago
downvote machine initializing... http://filmsmell.com/wp-content/uploads/xzibit-2974.jpg
717.
by leif 16y ago
I disagree. If you write ten benchmarks, and they finish in the same order on all platforms, the median really doesn't give you any information apart from how the middle one did. At least the mean will be changed if the slowest benchmark
718.
by leif 16y ago
Well, I suppose it's just the logical continuation of the "rockstar programmer" trend. I expect all future "we're hiring at my startup" posts to request pornstar programmers.
719.
by leif 16y ago
My advice is to start simple. Simpler than you'd think at first. The point is not to see if they can come up with something that looks good, but to see if they can build a reasonably-sized project to absolute completion, and leave it in a
720.
by leif 16y ago
Means and (especially) medians mean little to nothing when you're doing them over entirely different benchmarks. Why bother? A 3D plot would be a lot clearer.

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