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by moxious 9y ago
Later stage ideas always get more money, this is rational and should stay that way. Later stage companies are bigger and more complex, and having de-risked the basics, are more apt to build huge things like new factories. They'll hav
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by moxious 9y ago
The ACLU always gets attacked when they defend reprehensible free speech. The trouble with free speech of course is that it doesn't need defending when it's popular and accepted. So naturally they're going to take some heat
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by moxious 9y ago
Machine learning is getting a bit out of hand. not in the sense of AI and replacing humans (that's not happening) but in terms of hype and over-application. This API may represent an attempted technological solution to a social proble
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by moxious 9y ago
Yes, it's a testament to how strange the financial environment is that people would lend such money speculatively at low interest. Those are the prevailing rates but I think the bond holders are getting a lousy deal considering tesla&#
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by moxious 9y ago
Shortness in a function is correlated with quality in design, but it doesn't cause quality in the design. When we simply follow formulaic advice (keep all of your functions short) we lose sight of the wisdom behind why this was wanted
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by moxious 9y ago
Hold on now, picking individual celebrity examples has some serious survivorship bias on its own. We don't hear from the ones who did experience early mortality. Cannabis is a hard topic for Americans to talk about, because it's
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by moxious 9y ago
The poster is a bit making fun of this mindset; more employees isn't obviously better. But the "growth at all costs" mindset is real, and in that worldview rapid growth is a sign of success because you're building capac
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by moxious 9y ago
Granted. To this point, I'd say this: more than half the internet read his memo and understood "women can't code". At some point, it doesn't matter if that's not what he said. The impact of his work is how
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by moxious 9y ago
The original post that started all of this is here: http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-div... Some useful ideas in that post which were buried: Google itself has unexamined biases; There's real f
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by moxious 9y ago
This guy touched a nerve, and now he is the latest football in a really toxic culture war being waged right now. All of the various culture warriors on both sides are now going to be lining up to take their 15 minutes in the spotlight, to
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by moxious 9y ago
I found this entire row to be just depressing. Earlier today there's a medium post about a guy who won't read the memo -- absolutely refuses -- because he doesn't want this "anti-diversity" message polluting him.
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by moxious 9y ago
Yes, hat was rather my point, I guess I was just trying to put it more delicately
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by moxious 9y ago
"Charming and unbelievably intelligent" are definitely fair descriptors for this man, just please bear in mind that these terms probably describe many other people who are also guilty of fraud. Sure he has his side. And yes he&
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by moxious 9y ago
That muscle memory must have taken quite some time to develop. Here's to a future where the legions of programmers coming down the pike don't have to spend that investment to get the same or better result.
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by moxious 9y ago
Transpilation is wonderful but it does add a lot of complexity to the build chain. I'm with you the language features are worth it but it's just a quirk of developing for browsers that they don't move as fast as JS itself an
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by moxious 9y ago
As someone who works with this every day, I'd say this is pretty solid advice. The "use a more functional approach" and "take advantage of ES6" are by far the biggest for me. ES6 added so much good stuff, I wouldn&#
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by moxious 9y ago
TeX is great for very complicated situations, which doesn't describe what most people do.
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by moxious 9y ago
No metrics are perfect, this is a good one I think for trying to get at developer mindshare. Actual API usage (number of calls) I think is not useful at all. If heavy volume is concentrated in a declining number of apps using the Faceboo
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by moxious 9y ago
Most will argue that categorizing out of the default is still hiding content. You can go to reddit and browse the negative posts but who does? It's really a battle for default display under the correct assumption that the user base
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by moxious 9y ago
Sounds right if they stick around long enough for you to get your content back in a few years. Don't forget to price in that risk.
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by moxious 9y ago
If you included skyscrapers I bet you'd have the same list no changes. Most of these mountains are > 2km tall.
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by moxious 9y ago
Well...yes to what you're saying. But there aren't neat lines between our professional technical lives and our personal ones, in particular because we spend a lot of time hanging out with people who share our interests. Social me
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by moxious 9y ago
Well the fundamental chosen limitations of the service seem to make it a bad choice for detailed technical arguments. But ultimately social networks are just about who is there. We talk about technical topics on twitter not because it'
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by moxious 9y ago
Car culture forms a positive feedback loop and perpetuates itself just like many other things. Everyone has a car. So you build a lot of parking and don't worry if campus is miles away and not connected to transit. So everyone has to
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by moxious 9y ago
No amount of checklisting and best practices substitutes for hiring someone smart to break your stuff and tell you how they did it. You can check all the boxes and still get pwned. You can learn and run automated tools for 6 months and end
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by moxious 9y ago
Totally not a gitter platform issue, but these platforms aren't really distinguishable from their user communities at the end of the day. If Facebook only had 2-3 of your friends on it, no one would be impressed by the features and sop
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by moxious 9y ago
I think it's about visual parsing. They may be greater in number in C derived languages but it's not idiomatic or considered clean by anyone to write it as you did, where it's typical to see things like )))))) in lisp. If th
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by moxious 9y ago
People want to want to ditch the smartphone. Very few actually want to. Proof: sales in the hundreds of millions. It sucks when capitalism shows people what they really want because sometimes it pierces people's bubbles of who they t
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by moxious 9y ago
If there had been concrete examples and such, rational argument (hopefully) would have ensued, and HN would not have been notified about a completely normal engineering discussion down in the weeds. But seeing condemnation and drama works
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by moxious 9y ago
"Days of our lives" Linux kernel edition. Do many people have a taste for kernel drama and Linus antics? I mostly just want the software.

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