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by nandemo 13y ago
That's subjective. My (first edition) Kindle doesn't make for a good experience to me. It's hard to browse the pages, searching is a pain (no real keyboard), the screen contrast isn't so good, etc. However, the size, por
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by nandemo 13y ago
OP is organizing something that might end up helping (or even saving) many Syrians. You're just bikeshedding. This is HN, it's only natural to focus on programming. There are many here with the authority to hire programmers, not m
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by nandemo 13y ago
I see there are no engineering openings in Tokyo. Any chance that you would hire people in Tokyo to work remotely with one of the engineering teams?
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by nandemo 13y ago
Did you have to serve, though?
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by nandemo 13y ago
There's some info about behaviour detection here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_profiling It's been used by Israeli airport security and, if done properly, isn't based on ethnics or appearanc
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by nandemo 13y ago
It looks like you haven't read the article at all. The people involved in GiveDirectly never claim that their grants will "solve all their recipients' problems". Besides, the Kenyans that are getting those grants aren&#x
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by nandemo 13y ago
I read this blog post by an Argentinian guy who teaches programming to elementary school students. Maybe not exactly what you're looking for since it's primarily about programming and not computer science in general, but it might
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by nandemo 13y ago
If you're doing typical e-commerce -- as opposed to, say, SaaS -- the cost of payment processing seems especially important, since it might eat into your (typically low) margins. Why would you recommend Stripe over an established, chea
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by nandemo 13y ago
AFAIK all big investment banks pay their interns. Are you saying there are big commercial banks that offer unpaid internships? What are they?
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by nandemo 13y ago
Devil's advocate: if you're a businessman and you have to pay U$15 per hour to fast food workers, perhaps you might instead run a software business where you can outsource the bulk of the work to programmers living abroad, who dem
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by nandemo 13y ago
Good list. From my point of view, it's also a good source of questions for an employee to ask the founders when interviewing at a startup . I don't get this, though: > Watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi, then do marketing that way. Pi
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by nandemo 13y ago
No, it is not. The first item on the list is about profitability. Being profitable isn't the same thing as having positive cash flow: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/01/110701.asp
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by nandemo 13y ago
I upvoted you because of your first paragraph. But OP's suggestion isn't absurd. One might still offer coupons while not making the option obvious to people who don't have one. > How is it bad customer service when a user
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by nandemo 13y ago
Understandable mistake, since fibonacci is the helloworld of functional programming. You might want to suggest something with the Sterling formula instead, but that would be trickier (it's an approximation, not an exact formula).
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by nandemo 13y ago
I don't know if the tritone in the ring grandparent comment mentions is a melodic (2 notes in sequence) or harmonic interval (2 notes at the same time). In any case here is how a tritone interval sounds: https://www.youtube.
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by nandemo 13y ago
A related idea is expressed by philosopher and mystic Paul Brunton's motto: Study everything, join nothing. Discussed here by Bill Vallicella: http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/..
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by nandemo 13y ago
Glad to see a Brazilian startup getting accepted at YC.
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by nandemo 13y ago
I don't think it's sleazy at all. It's simply enthusiastic.
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by nandemo 13y ago
The Korean orthography is indeed very regular, but that's irrelevant: reading for 15-year-olds doesn't mean deciphering spelling, but rather reading comprehension. Also note that no. 1 is Shanghai (why not "China", I won
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by nandemo 13y ago
I must be missing something. So Joe works as an employee at Somethingly earning 150k and won't jump ship to Yahoo for a pay rise. But after Yahoo acquires Somethingly -- and likely shuts down its product -- Joe will choose to keep work
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by nandemo 13y ago
Fair enough, but I'm not exactly assuming "malice", I'm just saying that such "lack of imagination" wouldn't happen if foreigners were considered an important target for the banks.
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by nandemo 13y ago
I think the problem you ran into wasn't so much a user interface problem, but a "gaijin aren't our target clientele" thing. 10 years ago a lot of Japanese banks regarded "gaijin without permanent residence" as
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by nandemo 13y ago
You probably don't need 40% of protein for building muscle. The known evidence points to 1.5g per kg of body mass (~=.75g/lb) being more than enough. In my case that works out to about 20%. I doubt that it would reach 40% unless y
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by nandemo 13y ago
Er, no. If you're interested in Haskell, pick up one of the 2 mainstream Haskell books (listed in ekm2's comment) and GHC, then learn it. SICP might be a great book, but there's a long way road from it to Haskell. If you are
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by nandemo 13y ago
In the first case, what if we're running a service in a cluster that starts instances automatically?
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by nandemo 13y ago
> Formal grammars (and specifically in our case a context free grammar) are a set of rules that define the structure of a string. Note that a regular expression is a formal grammar too.
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by nandemo 13y ago
I don't think you need to be particularly cynical to assume that Russia might eventually send him away without calling it an extradition. After all, it doesn't look like Russia is interested in actively protecting Snowden. And if
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by nandemo 13y ago
I take it that you haven't been in the position of having to enter the US as a visitor? You might be required to prove you have enough money to cover your stay just to get a tourist visa (or even a transit one). For a permanent visa, r
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by nandemo 13y ago
> Yes, but sane CFOs have to evaluate "what's the best use for this money?" and trade off share buy-backs (or overt dividend declarations) against other investments the company could make. Sure. That means they decide betw
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by nandemo 13y ago
?? A stock buy back doesn't make any money. It's just an alternative to dividends. It distributes money that the company has made.

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