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by lolcraft 14y ago
Narcissists with skill sometimes seem to be good founders. Look at Howard Hughes, Steve Jobs, Julian Assange...
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by lolcraft 14y ago
> He didn't look at the Internet and say, "gee, I want to be an entrepreneur, what company can I start here?" By your own quoting, he did exactly that. Maybe rephrased slightly, so as to frame "I wanna be an entrepreneur" as "I saw an o
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by lolcraft 14y ago
I understood the article said that SPDY would be the next version of HTTP 2.0, just standarized and not in control of Google (in theory). Which makes a lot of sense, for both server and browser implementors, and Google. I guess they wouldn'
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Early Google was an experience. It gave you a few links in a very minimal layout, and that was it. Yahoo and Altavista gave you incredibly big portals with lots of features that didn't really go to bed together. They lost, because theirs we
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Well, at least users have to add them to the dropbox list manually. The cool thing of Google Docs, for me, was that it didn't allow many options, to avoid the mismash of informal, unchecked styles that happens in Word. With this Office-ific
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Facebook was implemented in PHP, and still is (though now compiled, whatever). Google was, at a time, implemented in Python. Twitter was built on Rails, probably even ran on MRI. Maybe they switched to Java, who knows. Hardly hardcore-opti
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by lolcraft 14y ago
TLDR seems to be: we may pay a much lower tax on profits than most individuals do on income, but at least we have so much profit that we still pay a lot. Also, it's technically legal, so it must be ethical. And we donate to charity and stuf
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by lolcraft 14y ago
OT: I find very funny that 80K Hours singles out "banker" as a positively socially impacting career. I guess all those people that were evicted after the housing bubble collapsed don't count :)
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by lolcraft 14y ago
This is probably the best summary of functional programming, written by the best "pragmatical" programmer of the world. I wonder how much Haskell code Carmack must have written to reach this kind of knowledge... and whether it is open sourc
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by lolcraft 14y ago
Iran is under an international embargo on military supplies, thought. The GP might be overstating the case or trolling, but I suppose getting the materials to build a replica, communication gear and fuel will be difficult for the iranians.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
And they would've had bigger profits and a solid business model, as well!
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by lolcraft 15y ago
As a showoff hack it might do, but I have the feeling that this system has combined the conciseness of assembler with the ease of manipulation of Minecraft blocks...
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by lolcraft 15y ago
The NOT gate might be difficult to build ;)
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by lolcraft 15y ago
The same thing that gives any person the right to do whatever they want with their money. Contrary to popular belief, companies don't have the obligation to restrict themselves to a particular business nor do profitable things. They can don
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by lolcraft 15y ago
The first Fortran compiler's creation took 18 person-years. Now there are C compilers which were written from scratch in person-weeks , like TCC.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
The question that the article is trying to answer is: why did Facebook pay 1 billion dollars for Instagram? We can't, of course, argue that, since Facebook paid 1 billion USD for Instagram, Instagram is worth 1 billion. Simple circular argu
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by lolcraft 15y ago
Not very convincing. According to this logic, everyone is a bisexual who wants to have sex with all of their friends, or either need to redefine 'man'/'woman' in this (all?) contexts. Unless assuming essentialism as related to sexuality, wh
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by lolcraft 15y ago
Sorry, but no. This is OKCupid, or whatever, for fax machines. Which is weird, you know. Taking the "corporateness" and Extreme Seriousness connotations of fax, and the sexy fun vibe for dating, and mixing them... Sort of funny, if you aske
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by lolcraft 15y ago
Of course they are not a bad thing. It's just that Go has character. It doesn't have generics or C++-style classes just because every other language has them. I respect that.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
I have written a bit of Go. It strikes me as sort of the Unix of programming languages. It's very opinionated, takes some overarching concepts, mostly channels and interfaces, then proceeds to thoroughly not care what you think about it: re
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by lolcraft 15y ago
View > Document view > Compact Yeah, Google made a mistake in changing the default to Paginated. Still, Docs is light years ahead of Word + trying to emulate git's CVS via file names and mental notes.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
You should need to know whether you require the lambda you're accepting to return some value or not, and its type.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
This looks like a insanely juicy target for pirates and drug lords. Incredibly easy target to take hostage, with lots of cash, rich people, passwords, intel, hardware, and lots and lots of real state to grow coca or poppy. Static, big, prot
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by lolcraft 15y ago
First, please don't force your ideology down my throat. Specially, not through guilt. You are better than a Viagra salesman or a priest. Second, please don't dismiss my own fucking problems as ``first world'', as if you know shit about othe
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by lolcraft 15y ago
If my work's performance requirements were so tight as to make that an issue, I would use C. Or numpy. CPython is slow . CPython is so mind-numbingly slow, for many many reasons, that each numeric variable could be a bigfloat and it would
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by lolcraft 15y ago
In regards to 3: I can tell you want to succeed. And I can tell you've never had depression, confidence 95%. Maybe you live in some kind of posh suburbia, where pseudo-"depression" is cool, whatever, and thought that depression and demotiva
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by lolcraft 15y ago
> RealDolls are fine, mechanized RealDolls are fine, but as soon as they start resembling humans too much to your untrained eye, they must get rights? Yes. That's the point of Turing's test.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
The argument makes a lot of sense economically: patronage of banking vs resource reallocation. This tells us, of course, that bankers didn't add (enough marginal) value. Which was probably true, given that they defaulted. Iceland profits fr
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by lolcraft 15y ago
Um. So, I've read the article. My TL;DR: There is no scientific research on the adequacy of the current working schedule, as it was adopted arbitrarily by managers. Furthermore, it was established by men for men, without asking women for in
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by lolcraft 15y ago
Not to mention the sheer bigotry of blaming piracy on "foreign criminals", which makes this the pure nuts. Is the average US pirate kind of tanned, has a really tacky foreign accent, or conveys in any other way a vaguely menacing ethnicity?

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