lmartel

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by lmartel 12y ago
Funnily enough, this is the least realistic of all these suggestions :)
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by lmartel 12y ago
I can't comment on the numbers because I'm not familiar with the economics of those countries, but I have a few thoughts: 1) "Human capital" sounds really icky. Think of a new buzzword. 2) "Lifetime income" aga
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by lmartel 12y ago
You absolutely can get away with jeans and a tshirt at an interview in SV; it's what I usually wear, and (anecdotally) what seems to be the norm. "SV culture" weirdness aside, dressed-down interviews for non-client-facing wor
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by lmartel 12y ago
I'm reposting a comment from `suckystartup` below that got tor-killed because I think it illustrates your point well. From the 42Floors blog posts that pop up so often on HN, they sometimes give the impression that they care more about
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by lmartel 12y ago
Last year when I was looking for internships I interviewed with Khan Academy. They pay about as much as Google does (for dev interns, anyway).
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by lmartel 12y ago
A couple things bother me about this article. First, in the author's story about her project she mocks "Ms. Red Dress" but seems to provide no more value herself. I guess the author brought extension cords and snacks? What di
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by lmartel 12y ago
Could you answer a few of the parent's questions, though? We know that the article is about your issues, but we're curious to hear why these seemingly insignificant issues mattered to you.
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by lmartel 12y ago
In line with many comments on the article you mentioned, though, the "1099 Economy" is mostly just wallpaper over high unemployment (nobody will hire me, might as well try something on my own) and companies like Uber and Postmates
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by lmartel 12y ago
More worrying (to me, anyway) than the potential to run out of money is the Wayback Machine's policy of permanent, retroactive exclusions. A copyright holder, rogue admin or anyone who buys a used domain can immediately destroy the ent
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by lmartel 12y ago
Does that last sentence contribute anything? "Neat, I did something similar here: [link]" communicates the same information. If it's not newsworthy it'll fall off the front page and that'll be that. I'm sure yo
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by lmartel 12y ago
Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha are developed by the same company, if you weren't aware.
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by lmartel 12y ago
I think one factor encouraging centralization in SV is that average tech job tenure is so short--if I quit, get fired, or my company folds, I want to be confident that I can get a (good) new job without having to move.
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by lmartel 12y ago
I have to agree with the sibling comment here, I still have no idea what you're getting at with the Blade Runner stuff or how it ties into the rest of your point.
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by lmartel 12y ago
From his phrasing ("firm where I work right now") it sounds like he was :)
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by lmartel 12y ago
Prop stands for "proprietary," it means that they trade their own money.
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by lmartel 12y ago
You're correct. The point of O(f(n)) notation is asymptotic complexity. Intuitively, this measures how the runtime grows as the input grows--whether the solution does one pass or two over the input, doubling the input will double the
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by lmartel 12y ago
The undergrad core (and degree) is 90% Java, C, and algorithms. To be fair, though, many undergrads take graduate classes and the department encourages it--the only difference is a 2XX course number instead of 1XX, and sometimes a bit more
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by lmartel 12y ago
FWIW, CS 101 isn't a required (or popular) Stanford course, and isn't part of the CS major. The intro series is 106A/106B/107, which are taught in Java, C++, and C respectively. There are plans to switch out Java for Pyt
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by lmartel 12y ago
This is the sort of advice that, imo, sounds great (especially to HN readers and PG fans) but isn't actually helpful or correct. Learning is important but life isn't that simple--earning money is mostly leverage and negotiation, p
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by lmartel 12y ago
This feeling is an extension of the "HN complex", I think. You see when people post amazing things on Show HN, but you don't see when people are sitting around watching House of Cards. It's the developer version of &qu
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by lmartel 12y ago
No one's forcing you to go to college, y'know.
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by lmartel 12y ago
There will always be intermediaries taking a few percent--from the consumer's point of view, bitcoin's incompatibility with chargebacks is a bug, not a feature.
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by lmartel 12y ago
The point about challenges over tweaks is great, but I don't understand the headline. From the green button example: > A great designer can change the UI elements on a Photoshop document in about an hour. You have a one-hour meeting
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by lmartel 12y ago
Everything you wrote could describe Venmo as well, which has been around for a while and has a lot of traction (at least in my social groups). Is there any reason you prefer Square Cash?
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by lmartel 12y ago
It was the winky face.
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by lmartel 12y ago
My favorite of these: I've worked with a few people who used "huh" for the coffeescript `?` operator.
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by lmartel 12y ago
It seems significant that the ExitIntent site doesn't use ExitIntent, aside from in the demo. Is it because they know deep down it's annoying and spammy?
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by lmartel 12y ago
Well, proof that someone has a lot of stellars. He could be gaming the Facebook promotion, or buying them, or stealing them, or _____
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by lmartel 12y ago
'Religion is bad' is no more or less civil a comment than 'religion is good.' I agree with the second point, though.
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by lmartel 12y ago
* Smart enough to build your product * Stupid enough to take a huge pay cut for someone else's dream/payday

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