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by mapgrep 14y ago
>"we're now in a world (convexity) where capital is scarce in comparison to the talent that can do something with it." Is this really a new condition? >"The new currency... will be some proof-of-work model related to technical talen
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Adding to your advice to look in Berkeley, that's especially wise as housing prices drop a lot during the summer since most UC Berkeley students (who rent a huge percentage of the apartments) are away on internships or breaks of their own.
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Or he was attempting what hu-mans refer to as "humor" :-)
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Jeff Atwood comes on your podcast and this is the thanks he gets?? :-)
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by mapgrep 14y ago
The docs really are lacking in this case; I expected the Test::Unit docs would document what's being stubbed and not in MiniTest but there's nothing there on that as near as I can tell. As a rule, I miss the thoroughness of CPAN/Perl docs.
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by mapgrep 14y ago
>I am dreading the technical debt I have in test-unit, and meanwhile the (Rails) world is moving on to Minitest Minitest and Test::Unit are part of the same package since 1.9, with Test::Unit implemented as a simple compatibility layer
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by mapgrep 14y ago
He outright says Google ruined the market: "I remember back when RSS was amazing and something you paid for. I also remember when Google Reader showed up and very quickly started taking over. It was free. It was Google (back before we were
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Not true. When I bookmark a page I'm never asked what format I want the bookmark in, or which page I'm trying to bookmark. Click a browser's feed icon and you'd better be prepared to choose between RSS and Atom, all content or top content,
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Funny how when unsustainable startups threaten old line industries - newspapers, taxis, hotels, music - with free or rock bottom pricing it's innovation. But when internet companies do this to one another it's the end of the world (litera
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Trello is a free-form tool for making lists. The lists can be shared (for reading and writing). You make as many as you want. When this gets unwieldy, you can start a new "board" - a board is a collection of lists. If you want, you can add
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Had no idea about the white label 100, I bet that's even better for derby juleps :) I will defer to the dirt farmers here. I come from a line of Texas circus performers, I don't think they knew much about cocktails because they tended to pu
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by mapgrep 14y ago
1. 42% ABV (where Maker's was headed) is fine for a mint julep. Here, Eric Felten of the WSJ gives an appropriately glowing review to Evan Wiliams based juleps. Evan Williams is 43% ABV. (Maker's is 45%.) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12
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by mapgrep 14y ago
>`JSON.load` should never be given input from unknown sources. If you are processing JSON from an unknown source, always use `JSON.parse`. This seems like poor method naming; I would not intuitively understand that "load" is far mo
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Affirmative action is not when you fire someone to make way for a privileged class. We _have_ affirmative action because of these more extreme forms of discrimination.
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by mapgrep 14y ago
You're putting words in OP's mouth he never said. He wrote these articles because he thought they'd be useful, submitted them to HN, and was happy to learn later that, even with zero upvotes, they'd been read by dozens of people. He explain
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Indeed. I presume this is why Perl's package repository CPAN is actually a network of repositories ("Comprehensive Perl Archive Network"); Wikipedia says CPAN "is mirrored worldwide at more than 200 locations." Does anyone know why rubygems
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by mapgrep 14y ago
This is coming up fast (just over two months away) - Any idea when the speaker list/agenda might be nailed down?
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by mapgrep 14y ago
I actually didn't realize (or mean to imply) Paul was a direct investor. I just knew you guys were YC and knew Paul was a general partner in YC, so there was a real but indirect and not huge financial connection. Obviously the case for disc
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by mapgrep 14y ago
This looks really cool. A small respectful note: As a consumer, if I didn't know about Paul's financial connection to HelloSign, I'd have liked to seen it disclosed in connection with his prominent endorsement. I hope this comment isn't tak
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by mapgrep 14y ago
>It seems they're explicitly avoiding the "dating" route Actually one of the examples shown today was a dating example, one of the Facebook managers who oversaw the product trying to set his wife's cousin up with someone: "friends of pe
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by mapgrep 14y ago
This seems to be due to the sudden combination of 1. budget cuts and 2. a big tech boom. So there were suddenly significantly more riders just as service was taking a hit. Bad combo. Last year I started commuting into SF again from the East
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Nice, but there should be 1. Some stemming/normalizing such that "créme" and "creme" (as in, say, creme de menthe) are not two distinct result sets. (To your credit, whisky/whiskey appear normalized) 2. A list of sources available apart fro
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Interesting that Apple allows this, not just on Macs but on iOS devices. When Adobe wanted to cross-compile Flash for iOS, here is what Steve Jobs wrote: "We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come bet
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by mapgrep 14y ago
It's perverse to put people in a collaborative open plan office and make them be quiet. Quiet, focused employees do not need to be there; they can work from home or a closed office. And they should absolutely be empowered to do so. This sme
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Damien Katz had said the document-like Lotus Notes db inspired him to create CouchDB. He talked about this in a 2009 podcast: "You can think of Damien Katz' CouchDB project as the distilled 'good stuff' from Lotus Notes. Wait! Why are you r
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Ah, good point!
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by mapgrep 14y ago
COBRA coverage ends after 18 months, which makes it risky even when it's cheaper -- if you come down with a chronic illness (cancer, diabetes) in the meantime it will be much harder to find follow on coverage because now you have a precondi
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by mapgrep 14y ago
This is empty madness. It is, very literally, a celebration of total materialism. What is ultimately important in life are people -- messy, filthy, bacteria-and-disease-laden, imperfect, emotional, sweating shitting cursing crying screaming
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by mapgrep 14y ago
This is exactly my point - the quotas are monthly not daily, but he's doing the wrong kind of work. He's putting his data into a daily format and then trying to extrapolate monthly information. The right way to solve this problem is to find
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by mapgrep 14y ago
I don't understand all the gymnastics to correct for the fact that months end on different days (30, 31, etc.) and all the effort put into dealing with days by number. For a given month, you can determine the last day. You can also determin

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