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by ljw1001 11y ago
This is cool, I'm kinda fascinated by golang. Tablesaw's not out of core either: too much of a pain (for me) to work with variable width columns like text that way.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
I'm working on a dataframe for Java for large datasets: https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw . It's not ready for prime time, but: Time to sum 1,000,000,000 floats: 1.5 seconds Time to sort 1,000,000,000 floa
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by ljw1001 11y ago
A lot of companies founded by young people, hire other young people and believe the best tech is what they learned in college: Command-line python, javascript. They don't realize that teachers teach python because it's easy to tea
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by ljw1001 11y ago
consider adjusting your resume. could just be presentation. :) Specifically, if it doesn't say AWS in the first sentence, you're doing it wrong.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
I don't mean to be hurtful, but you sound like you've exactly the same biases the original post is about, and you're rationalizing. Seriously, not all good hackers fit any cookie-cutter definition of a hacker.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
He's done a lot of good work over the years, but I wasn't too impressed by this lecture. ymmv
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by ljw1001 11y ago
If slack is worth $8 billion.... Sorry, There's no way to complete that sentence. How about, Slack is worth about as much as Basecamp.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
why would anyone tell you this when you say nothing about yourself?
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by ljw1001 11y ago
well, that's something ;)
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by ljw1001 11y ago
There's no such thing as "anticompetitive poaching". Not recruiting the best people you can is anti-competitive
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by ljw1001 11y ago
being evil, it's more of a calling than a job.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
If the big issue is querying the data, consider redshift (expensive) or a self-hosted column-store database. Data will need to be loaded in a batch for this. Column stores will reduce iops through compression, and selective data loading, an
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by ljw1001 11y ago
If your business partner is homeless and 23 years older than you, is there any reason to believe he knows much about business?
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by ljw1001 11y ago
Oh man, I still remember the last time I was smart-sized. Ouch.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
A techie is someone who's into star wars and artisan-roasted coffee
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by ljw1001 11y ago
Here's a few things I found myself, if anyone is interested: Book: MacLellan's Principles of Programming Languages. The principles are listed here: http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/06/24/bruce-j-
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by ljw1001 11y ago
Checkout GiveWell ( http://www.givewell.org/ ). They are ex-hedge-fund guys who wanted to apply quantitative methods to this very question. Also, from a personal standpoint, I try to give in accordance with Peter Singer'
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Ask HN: Host for SaaS app that handles subscription, payments
6 points by ljw1001 11y ago|4 comments
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by ljw1001 11y ago
For the average employee, the main benefits of working for a tech giant are what management theorists call 'hygiene' factors: Pay, benefits, prestige. What makes a job good or bad, though, is intrinsic to the work itself, and the
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Ask HN: What are the best references on language design
4 points by ljw1001 11y ago|3 comments
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by ljw1001 11y ago
Not sure any startup can fix the fundamental problem that technology moves too fast for evolution. Came from a long line of big, strong, not-too-bright people? You're kind of screwed. Not much call for that anymore.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
Reminds of the talk where a Github guy says, basically, we just push, push, push, and if something breaks we hear about it on twitter.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
they want to be a 'unicorn' in VC speak
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by ljw1001 11y ago
same
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by ljw1001 11y ago
Some insights perhaps, but the claim that this is "Why big companies keep failing" is way overblown
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by ljw1001 11y ago
I assume you also 'know' that the founders of Etsy are 75% less smart now that the market valuation of Etsy is 25% of its high. Market valuation measures nothing but what someone will pay for something today. It doesn't meas
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by ljw1001 11y ago
In that case, I support it entirely. The Olympics was a much bigger fiasco.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
You're assuming these companies create a lot of jobs, but in fact they create far fewer jobs than they did 30 years ago. As Intel founder Andy Grove said (of companies like Apple): "plowing capital into young companies that build
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by ljw1001 11y ago
Because it sounds better to say job creators are being hunted than to say I want to keep my sweetheart tax breaks.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
I have a lot of the books on his shelf, but his do cover a lot of dense material that I avoid through sloth. But seriously, he's _very_ good at what he does.

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