lmartel

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by lmartel 12y ago
I think the most important data point here is the average of 12-14 hours spent studying per week, including "academic" socializing. Of course you're not going to accomplish much in that time; most employers would fire someone
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by lmartel 12y ago
How about when the hash is found, all currently active miners get X% of the payoff, where X is their contribution to the total hashrate?
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by lmartel 12y ago
Hopefully someone innocent wouldn't aim a handgun at a police officer.
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by lmartel 12y ago
A great statistical point--but assuming they're marketing this to (local/small town) doctors rather than laypeople, is that worse than they'd do by "eyeballing" it?
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by lmartel 12y ago
Assuming you're in the US, there are very strict federal laws about what an unpaid intern is allowed to do (from [1]): 1. Interns cannot displace regular employees. 2. Interns are not guaranteed a job at the end of the internship. 3. T
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by lmartel 12y ago
Why did you flag this as NSFW? I really hope that reading the word "sex" in a [thoroughly unsexy] hacker news comment wouldn't get anyone fired.
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by lmartel 13y ago
Honest question: why is Python so dramatically more popular than Ruby for scientific computing?
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by lmartel 13y ago
Alright, defend it: >Nest time you see a black man over 20 and under 50 years of age, try calling him "boy". See how he reacts. But before you do, write that last will and testament Still can't see it? Yes you can. >Nex
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Adjective order in English(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lmartel 13y ago
Stanford's recruiting schedule seems to move earlier every year. There was a major intern-focused career fair at the beginning of October.
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by lmartel 13y ago
>An invitation to YC's intern conference That sounds neat. Will interns working at YC companies but not placed through this program be invited?
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Origin of the term HTTP "referer"(en.wikipedia.org)
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Show HN: RTFA, a Chrome extension to hide HN comments until you read the article(chrome.google.com)
44 points by lmartel 13y ago|22 comments
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by lmartel 13y ago
This is very cool! One interesting reaction I had: things loaded so fast that I didn't notice one of the page changes and thought it was stuck. For sites like this one where different pages look very similar, maybe it could be worth ex
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by lmartel 13y ago
This is a far more interesting point than the article's! I wonder if we'll see a shift in the writing and flow of TV shows now that marketers can't get millions of people worked up on social media over cliffhangers anymore.
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by lmartel 13y ago
> it rarely says anything of import about the world That's a pretty bold statement to make. Do you feel the same way about books? Movies? Stage plays? If you're trying to say that "[art] says nothing of import" I thin
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by lmartel 13y ago
> Their pitch to us was: "Build Branch at Facebook scale!" Or was it closer to: "Want $15M?"
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by lmartel 13y ago
Perhaps that's why you're not a lawyer :)
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by lmartel 13y ago
As a side note: never interview in C++. For these types of problems java is just so much easier to work with, and it's easy to learn enough java to interview with in a weekend from a C++ base. In my experience, interviewers always pref
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by lmartel 13y ago
I like the idea, but I agree that there's sort of an odd mix of topics in here. "Betterment of mankind" + "human-readable code" + "ask a coworker for help" = ???
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by lmartel 13y ago
If this post is representative I want to read as little of your writing as possible..
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by lmartel 13y ago
Super irrelevant--unless you're trying to say that employees should never strike their options, which is probably not good advice.
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by lmartel 13y ago
> The best government is the least government is not actually a fact, though you stated it like one.
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by lmartel 13y ago
Some good points made, but the part about many people in open source getting paid to do it is a stretch. Lots of google insiders have talked about the fall of 20% time (and most 20% time projects weren't open source), and few-to-no oth
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by lmartel 13y ago
His point is more "own the domain you use for email" and less "first@last.me," I think.
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by lmartel 13y ago
They're worse because they're not human-readable. It's easier to trick someone into scanning the wrong QR code than it is to trick someone into sending money to the wrong url, email address, phone number, etc.
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MBAs in Startups(seanmeverett.quora.com)
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by lmartel 13y ago
I recently interviewed at Twitter, and one of the engineers I spoke to kept talking about Twitter+TV. It's something they're actively pushing for, as strange as that may sound.
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by lmartel 13y ago
It's entirely within our technological grasp to automatically grade high school English papers, but a big part of paper writing in high school (in theory) is getting feedback and improving as a writer and thinker. Getting accurate, cle
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by lmartel 13y ago
As a current Stanford student I agree that Stanford has great financial aid, but "bar none" isn't true. The same paperwork got me substantially better (need-based) financial aid offers from a few Ivies than I got from Stanf

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