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by mtrimpe 13y ago
For SaaS laws that force vendors to offer the ability to export (and delete) a user's data seem inevitable in the long run though. Given that the EU has already started on the 'right to be forgotten' issue I'd be surpris
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
It's difficult to predict what the future bread-and-butter markets will be. Let's say that IT will account for 20% of a post-recovery economy. In that case replace my enumeration of a few markets by 'whatever makes up the oth
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
It seems like this is not a bubble but a storm surge, with the 'wind' being the massive amount of liquidity looking for a positive return on investment. It's disproportionately being moved into IT because it's one of the
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Sheryl Sandberg wrote a very influential book about (her perspective on) being a woman in today's workplace called Lean In. She's often described as the emotional heart of Facebook and is one of the few truly powerful women in tec
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
You're correct. I should have limited myself to saying that at least there are stereotypes (and a few key public role-models) of well-adjusted, successful Asian and Indian entrepreneurs. The point I was trying to make, staying with the
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
PG either failed to grasp or completely ignored the point the article made and immediately went on to reiterate how SV is nearly as much of a meritocracy as his perception of a near perfect meritocracy (math.) By doing so he gave an almost
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
And what if it's only moderately meritocratic? Or even below average? I'd love for PG to run an analysis once of what words occur most frequently in flagged posts and their comments. I don't think you could get a better repre
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Way to miss the point and exemplify it in the same breath. The article is about how SV thinks it's more meritocratic than it actually is and how this false pride is a problem in and of it's own. P.S. P.G. When this thread started
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
It's about taking traits that occur more frequently in men (whether they're due to nature or nurture is irrelevant) and then using them as the scales on which to evaluate entrepreneurs. There's no reason why entrepreneurs sho
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
It says enough that when thinking of what would overcome the obstacles of being black, female and gay you come up with a "sure-thing 1 billion dollar deal."
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
The point of the article was that we're pretending it's an almost pure meritocracy though; which itself is hampering efforts to improve on the current situation. More than anything else it's about the tech industry being in d
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
When I typed "It's" it corrected it to "said" and selected it, meaning that typing "It's " (with space) got me ending up with nothing but a single space.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I think it's the other way around. Because the economy is so crappy money is flowing into the one area which still has the (perceived) possibility of a significant positive return on investment. Unfortunately, like markets tend to do,
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
>ALL of my (highly-skilled) French friends do not plan to return in the foreseeable future. You are aware that there might be a tiny hint of selection bias at play there... right? ;)
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
TheSOB88, you've been hell banned for almost half a year by now.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Unique across all other services the user has accounts at? If you did that it would be both creepy and impressive. :)
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Not really: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ram1024
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
It's also an excellent new benchmark for JavaScript VMs. If we can get near-native performance on this it'll enable a whole new class of application.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
It might not be truly embarrassingly parallel anymore but H264 and VP8, the web's bread-and-butter codecs, both support multithreaded encoding and will comfortably max out all your cores.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I said I thought it was fun! I probably should've made up and added /!s after all :)
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
That doesn't work with Emscriptem though because web workers don't support shared state. [1] If they manage to move FFMPEG encoding into multiple web workers I'd love to read their writeup though! [1] https://githu
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
So we took a performance-sensitive embarrasingly-parallel problem and made it run on a slow single-threaded language? Sounds like fun ;)
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
For what it's worth, the Netherlands was well knowm for a long time because we defaulted to midwife supervised hone birth with effective escalation in case of complications. Up until I think 10 or so years ago we had one of Europe&#x2
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I once heard that described as "Trust is a common good," which really rang true to me. I'd go as far as to say that the first world's biggest asset is the collective trust it has accrued over the centuries.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Pinterest's demographic is women who are looking for stuff to buy or making mood boards to get inspiration for what to buy. I'd say they should be able to monetize that quite well.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Does anybody know why (variations on copies of) leokun's comment are automatically marked as dead? The comment seems perfectly valid so I can't figure out why that would happen...
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
And what about wildcard certificates?
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I've read cletus' comment and while I respect and understand his world view; in mine this is about as good for the web as Internet Explorer's VBScript and ActiveX integration. I'm a bit more civil about it than others bu
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
> A lot of hipsters that hunt and jump on the latest tech bandwagon > people who jumped on the Angular JS platform are quite fond of just that -- jumping on the latest technology .... They will be hipsters who are still drinking Pabst
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
This article is (probably) posted in response to AngularDart being released recently [1], which was seen by some as an attempt by Google to push fragmented web standards. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6677481

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