lukejduncan

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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Dumb question -- but what exactly is an audio programming language? Google seems to be failing me. I can make some guesses by looking at the example in OPs link. But what is the primary goal of an audio programming language? Who's usin
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. This is a fair comment.
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by lukejduncan 8y ago
This math feels off. It’s hard to imagine employee #20 making “only $1m” when there are engineers at Lyft getting $1m+ equity packages as offers today. Maybe their initial grant would be worth that much but for sure there would be a large n
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by lukejduncan 8y ago
AirBnB did this at least 3-4 years ago? If you watched the network traffic their HTTP headers included the email address for an engineering manager there. I stumbled on this while debugging something I wanted to file a bug report for. I did
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by lukejduncan 8y ago
Definitely agree. I remember a long time ago Facebook profile pictures used to be private. And then one day without notice they became public. For some reason, I can't find any news articles about when this happened. Maybe I'm cra
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by lukejduncan 8y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Whether or not you agree with the conclusions, there are very real concerns about the externalities of self gene-editing.
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by lukejduncan 8y ago
Agreed. The pic looks more like a university resource center / library / computer lab.
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by lukejduncan 8y ago
source: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/09/21/494927147/epis...
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by lukejduncan 8y ago
I've noticed in SF at least Cruise seems to have removed branding from their cars (or I believe they are their cars). I'm curious what that implies -- either about the sentiment of self driving cars or future branding partnerships
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by lukejduncan 8y ago
> “So we are resigning. We are not retiring, we are resigning,” she wrote. “No parties please.” I don't know how academia works, but what is the implication of "resigning" vs "retiring"? Does that change what hap
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by lukejduncan 8y ago
Streisand Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
I have to say, Spotify recommendations is one of their biggest weaknesses. Discover weekly was just bad and most of the discover page seems to be podcasts and non music content. Just may single data point, but after 2 years as a subscriber
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
But wouldn't you expect it to work the other way around? Say, if I search for "Detroit, MI" it would expand the search query to the surrounding area. But this takes "Dearborn, MI" expands the search query and gives
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
As an example, if you search for Dearborn, MI on AirBnB it takes you to Detroit instead https://www.airbnb.com/s/Dearborn--MI--United-States/homes?p... That's an interesting choice. I wonder if this is even i
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
I’m not sure I understand how this is a bribe. I think of a bribe as an individual personally taking a cut or kick back to influence the decisions of an organization. Two organizations agreeing to buy from each other exclusively for some pe
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
As a home buyer, why is it a negative? It seems like it would represent such a small % of the purchase price and could be easily included in the negotiation as needing to be removed by the owner before you move in.
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
Replace wsj.com with fullwsj.com in the url
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
Great idea, absolutely horrible implementation even as an MVP. Never in a million years would I trust that kind of data residing on Facebooks servers even fleetingly. Years back, Facebook allowed you to have private profile photos. My then-
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
I wonder how this compares to Planet Labs dataset.
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
That's pretty nice!
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
I lived in Downtown Detroit for a two years. Unless things have changed since 2011, there aren't many streets outside of a narrow strip of Mid Town where the city actually plows the streets. I'm curious how examples of government
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
Not as odd, but there's also the Michigan Left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_left
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Levandowski started an AI religion non-profit in 2015(theguardian.com)
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
For what it's worth, when Stephenson does readings he always reads passages of the book that won't give spoilers. He made a statement when reading seven eves "let me tell you now. The moon blows up. That's not a spoiler,
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
The interesting thing about this sentiment and reasoning is that it could equally be said of data brokers in general. Changes here could have big impacts on the ads ecosystem. I don't know my opinion here, but between things like GDPR
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
The authors point is still valid with that argument though -- the people with the greatest risk from participation with credit bureaus aren't their customers and don't have a right to decline participation. It's a lopsided ma
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
Matt Levine of Bloomberg has a newsletter called Money Stuff that talks about this concern a lot. There are certainly many serious people who take are worried that too much index based investing will / is leading to inefficiencies.
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
Anyone else get a pop up that says "congratulations! You're visitor X and winner of..."? Pretty bad for Reuters if someone can inject JavaScript into their site.
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
That sounds right
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
When Katrina hit, I remember finding the blog of a guy who had a company doing custom websites in New Orleans on the front page of hacker news. He stayed there through the storm and after, and I remember sitting in the undergraduate library

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