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by namuol 9y ago
> an average of Does this exclude outliers? What's the median duration?
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by namuol 9y ago
I don't see this being mentioned anywhere, but the biggest reason I'd be wary of _any_ consumer vehicle manufacturer's high stock price is that the demand for cars will decline in the following decades as self-driving vehicle
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by namuol 9y ago
I'd love something like this for personal finance, especially catering to these two things: - Paying off debt (especially student loans) - Saving for retirement
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by namuol 9y ago
The main benefit of TDD: It strongly encourages you to think of your code as several input/output problems. When you apply this model of thinking at scale it tends to lead to a much simpler (read: less-complex) codebase.
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by namuol 9y ago
Funny, I have an old (unfinished) HTML5 space-exploration game by the same name: https://github.com/namuol/muniverse If I had more time I'd submit a PR to integrate it...
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by namuol 9y ago
Indeed. Once, some unknown underground electronic musician released an album as an "Aphex Twin leaked album". The album got downloaded and listened to tens of thousands of times before people realized it was a hoax. People really
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by namuol 9y ago
Pet-peeve from a Javascript Apologist: The `map(parseInt)` example is an obscure strawman that exists solely due to historical purposes; it's very difficult to change this sort of thing in a language because it would involve one of two
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by namuol 9y ago
The problem with the mutations isn't the direct DOM access; it's that mutation is an unscalable approach to representing UI. A lot more needs to be "kept track of".
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by namuol 9y ago
> Easy to learn: There is NO API to learn. True, but how useful is it? > Easy to reuse: Everything is powered by stateless functions instead of classes and objects, making it extremely modular. Maybe it's all stateless functions
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by namuol 9y ago
> why would you care about solving a class of problems with NNs when that class of problems already has much better solutions? > NNs are like magic. They solve the problem for you so you don't have to learn how to solve it yourse
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by namuol 9y ago
It's hard to say what's going wrong without looking at actual code, but here are a few anti patterns to look out for: DON'T use actions like methods or setters. DO try to think of actions as simple events. DON'T describe
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by namuol 9y ago
> With Redux, you are encouraged to do a lot of the app heavy-lifting in action creators. I've seen/learned quite the opposite: do as much of the heavy lifting in your _reducers_ as possible. Lighter actions (that more closely
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by namuol 9y ago
I love Apple's commitment to privacy, but the notion that privacy precludes powerful AI strikes me as a false dichotomy, and a cop-out. There must be some middle-ground.
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by namuol 9y ago
I imagine the gas flows in circles as if the poles were always perpendicular to the line between the star and the planet's center. In other words, the gas on the dark side stays on the dark side, and vice versa, roughly.
555.
by namuol 9y ago
Have you considered asking for a raise? How about switching your full-time job elsewhere that pays you more?
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by namuol 9y ago
Startup idea: fashionable hats that block EM waves. Edit: Misread the abstract. Thought this involved _indirect_ EM radiation (i.e. "contact-free" deep brain stimulation).
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by namuol 9y ago
> I’m sorry no matter how good your idea is fuck you I won’t help you and Facebook kill the open web. This is not how you win hearts and minds.
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by namuol 9y ago
First rule: Your job is to solve their problems, not to build software. Software is just sometimes a viable solution. 1. List all the problems the business wants to solve 2. Consider non-software solutions, especially anything that would e
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by namuol 9y ago
If you find this sort of discussion interesting, I strongly recommend checking out Time Well Spent: http://www.timewellspent.io/
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by namuol 9y ago
> Google has no respect for [iOS Safari]. It’s a deliberate effort by Google to break the open web. I could make the same argument that Apple cripples iOS Safari's implementations of emerging standards that aim to bring the web expe
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by namuol 9y ago
> As incredible as it is, Ryzen has buggy VME implementation; specifically, the INT instruction is known to misbehave in V86 mode with VME enabled when the given vector is redirected It's much more incredible to me that our computer
562.
by namuol 9y ago
Related: Babel transform to load SVGs as React components: https://github.com/jhamlet/svg-react-loader
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by namuol 10y ago
Are there any efforts to use computation to discover possible enzymes to solve problems like this?
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by namuol 10y ago
Ha! I met Scotty (the man featured in this video) in Bali, Indonesia about 1.5 years ago. We wound up crossing paths a few more times at a hackerspace after I moved to SF. As you can imagine, he's an incredibly focused but personable g
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by namuol 10y ago
> [...] you treat a non-flattering language as me being frustrated [...] You're right; I was being presumptuous about your emotional state. I apologize. -_- Let me try to clarify: Companies like Slack and Nylas and Spotify understan
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by namuol 10y ago
> [...] oblivious as you are to the real issues [...] I understand that you're frustrated, but this kind of language does not foster productive discourse. As I understand it, Nylas (grinich's OSS Email product/platform) wo
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by namuol 10y ago
For those who want the best of both worlds: https://codemix.github.io/flow-runtime
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by namuol 10y ago
I implore you to spend an hour consuming public media and then another hour consuming "regular" commercial broadcasting. There's an unmistakable difference between the commercials employed in commercial broadcasts vs public b
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by namuol 10y ago
Do you have any examples of prior art? Sounds really interesting.
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by namuol 10y ago
Be honest about your abilities and experience level. Companies worth working for have learned to mistrust overconfident developers from one or more previous bad hires.

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