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by lincolnq 11y ago
Yes. I actually do accept this, and it's OK with me. Prime has saved me so much time -- and, arguably more valuable, attention -- obtaining objects I need. I literally do not care about the price difference between a $1 and a $5 roll
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by lincolnq 11y ago
"Perl Compatible Regex" (pcre.org) is a popular regex library. The name PIRE is presumably a reference to that.
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by lincolnq 11y ago
Hmm, that's not really fair. Programmer time is a major consideration. We live in a time where a complicated, interesting visualization like this can be built in a day or two, and appear as #3 on hacker news. Less than 10 years ago it
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by lincolnq 11y ago
Obviously worth it if it enables you to work - e.g., lots of people pay for lattes etc.
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by lincolnq 12y ago
I see it as white/gold. The background is lit so brightly that it seems backlit, and the dress is in shadow. The shadow has a bluish tinge, and my eye is also correcting for the shot which appears to be white balanced to the background
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by lincolnq 12y ago
So... I've been interested in this model for startups. But it doesn't make sense, right? Because startups already give equity to employees as part of their compensation package. But nobody would call Google a "worker coop&quo
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by lincolnq 12y ago
I think social apps are harder than crazy ambitious ideas. It's easier to see how one would work on them, that's for sure. But precisely for that reason we see many many social apps. But few are trying to build spacex or similar,
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by lincolnq 12y ago
Yes, but with 4k monitors, we no longer need subpixel antialiasing. Just disable it!
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by lincolnq 12y ago
I use vim with alternate layouts. The only keys that don't make sense are hjkl, but I never really learned those ones anyway -- to get around the file, I use search, 'w' and 'b', 'A' and 'I' most
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by lincolnq 12y ago
I've been using dvorak (and qwerty) since around 2002 or 2003. Currently I type Dvorak on my kinesis keyboard which is hardware reprogrammable, and I type qwerty on "normal" keyboards. It was a huge boon for my wrists when I
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by lincolnq 12y ago
I suspect they did a "conservative estimate" that pops out "almost certainly at least this many people will die due to effects we understand pretty well. Other, largely independent effects could be lurking that we don't
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by lincolnq 12y ago
It depends on your risk/reward curve, and your probability estimates. Malaria is unlikely to get much WORSE than it is now. But if you think that global warming has a chance to cause catastrophic damage, two or three orders of magnitud
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by lincolnq 12y ago
Rust seems to me much more like Haskell than C or C++. Try thinking about it that way and see if it makes more sense.
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by lincolnq 12y ago
I guess it depends on your credibility thresholds. I take vitamin D because some studies say it's good for you, none say it's bad, and some people on the internet report subjective cognitive & mood enhancement. It costs me aro
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by lincolnq 12y ago
Startups create strong incentives to implement a simple solution to a severe problem. "incentives" - because the founders can get rich if they succeed. "implement" - because customers don't care about theoretical wo
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by lincolnq 12y ago
The state of nutrition science is pathetic. The science is conflicted over a simple question of fact -- whether or not a trivially measurable short-term effect occurs when you eat one of the most common food additives in the world. If we ca
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by lincolnq 12y ago
Something with the Oculus VR tech. I think there's massive, exciting options opening up with the Gear VR or similar, and anyone starting now will have a substantial first mover advantage. I have two specific applications for VR: the me
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by lincolnq 12y ago
Yeah - more specifically, it's a nonprofit whose mission statement includes the mission to eventually restore to health all its patients. So, if you believe that nonprofits are generally going to at least try to achieve the thing they
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by lincolnq 12y ago
I love this idea, but I can't help but wonder if the very first habit it will instill will be an aversion to wearing the wristband. That would be a negative result, I think.
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by lincolnq 12y ago
I think that always happens - it seems impossible to write down the things you actually value as a company without getting "buzzwordy" as you say. I would note that once you see past the buzzwords there's quite a bit of uniqu
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by lincolnq 12y ago
Check out "The Motivation Hacker" by Nick Winter ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Motivation-Hacker-Nick-Winter-eboo... - $3 ebook) for some reasons why commitment contracts might help - not everyone is that strongly se
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by lincolnq 12y ago
There's a fairly healthy ecosystem of commitment contract sites. I associate Stickk with one particular format which is contracts with money on the line by a specific date. It looks like DependaPal is more along the lines of checking i
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by lincolnq 13y ago
This is awesome. I'm sad that CryptoCat is getting slammed for this for being one of the brave few to post this online. I am sure there are an infinite number of "security-critical" apps which would fail an audit like this, b
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Another recommendation I would make (either to get to zero or get yourself to stay there) is to pre-commit to your goal using Beeminder ( http://www.beeminder.com ), which will make you pay money if you don't hit a target eac
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by lincolnq 13y ago
I'm similar to you in the to-do list inbox, and I also never check "check later" folders. Instead, I use Mailbox app (Boomerang also works for this) to "bounce" emails back into my inbox when I don't need them
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by lincolnq 13y ago
It's weird to say that and still count written proofs. There's still the question of whether neurons always work in the way we believe...
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Most game developers are not this good -- I spent some time in the game industry (coming from a webdev background) and it was important for me to know C++, but I didn't really have much graphics experience and I was still really useful
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by lincolnq 13y ago
According to their FAQ [1], Zidisha is a charity, not a place to put your money if you want to get a return. (It would be interesting to compare social-impact-per-dollar of Zidisha versus, e.g. GiveDirectly [2], one of the best-known ways o
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by lincolnq 13y ago
No - I've done a number of FP projects, but certainly spent less time with it than imperative languages. Here are some FP projects I've done -- * Compiler for a scheme-like language in Haskell * simple webapp in Haskell
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by lincolnq 13y ago
I've tried using Erlang once or twice. I inherited an open source project written in it, wanted to maintain it a bit but I couldn't make head nor tail of it, and I'm a good programmer (but very busy with other things). There

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