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by nandemo 14y ago
Well, why not organize one over there? It doesn't have to start a big, just find 2 other HNers who can meet on a Friday night, set the location and then announce it on your blog/HN/meetup.com.
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by nandemo 14y ago
For a moment I thought it was. "Look, here in SF even homeless people are hipper than you (they know this designer you've never heard of)!". But after reading the comments here, it's clear OP is legit and means it seriously.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> for example, I could directly my car for something else valuable far more easily than I could directly trade bitcoins and cars aren't a very meaningful medium of exchange today. Are you sure about that? Bitcoins are easily divisible,
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by nandemo 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166472
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by nandemo 14y ago
Interesting. I speak Japanese and know the word 矛盾, but I had never paid attention to the meaning of its constituent kanjis (I don't think I've ever studied those characters separately).
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by nandemo 14y ago
I asked her out once. She blew me off saying I was "too eager" and "not her type".
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by nandemo 14y ago
In my opinion it's because 1) generally speaking, politics is not considered a good topic on HN, 2) people often bring up the Palestinian-Israeli conflict even when it has little or no relevance to the article in question, 3) it usually com
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by nandemo 14y ago
I think GP comment mentioned the r/games vs. r/gaming example to emphasize the effect of moderation. For most topics, though, there's only 1 major subreddit so a recommendation system would be pretty much pointless.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> No, not even at entry-level. 90% maintenance is a disaster. 60 to 75 percent might be typical for entry-level programmers, and that's bad, but 90 is abysmal. In my experience and from what I've gathered from friends and coworkers over
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by nandemo 14y ago
But how come you accept the claim they're "stupid"? Are you saying that SAT is not a good measure of intelligence but Kahneman's tests are?
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by nandemo 14y ago
It's called "delivery fee", not "delivery cost". It makes no sense to require a business to charge fees solely based on variable costs.
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by nandemo 14y ago
I'm not knowledgeable on Python and Redis, but very likely you're doing something wrong with either of them. Parsing fixed-length fields should take no time at all, so the bulk of the time should be taken by reading the file and inserting t
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by nandemo 14y ago
Anyone knows why Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, etc, don't even appear? Were they not included in the study? And if so, can the study still be considered meaningful?
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by nandemo 14y ago
That sounds pretty bad if true. Is there a point of working for a startup if there's no financial upside, only the downside? Not being in the US, I'm curious if people getting laid-off from funded startups get severance packages.
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by nandemo 14y ago
I wouldn't bet either way. Just because people will be buying x in the future, it doesn't mean that today's top x companies will still be around in 50 years. The computer market is now much bigger than 50 years ago, but many computer co
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by nandemo 14y ago
I think GP comment is worth of discussion if you mentally replace "S&P" with "Fortune". No reason to downvote it.
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by nandemo 14y ago
FWIW: there's something fishy about the "random subway station". Jiro's place is currently located in Ginza, a rather upscale neighbourhood in Tokyo.
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by nandemo 14y ago
You're looking at Jiro charging $600 a head (looking at his website, the course starts at $350 but let's assume an average $600 for the sake of the argument), but for every Jiro there are other 50 sushi masters out there who are probably as
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by nandemo 14y ago
Well, in that case refurb's comment is as confusing as the statement in the guide book...
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by nandemo 14y ago
They just have to make something like a proof-of-concept. That's a far cry from shipping a product / selling a service, let alone starting a company from scratch do it. Also, it's riskless, since they're getting paid whether the product wor
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by nandemo 14y ago
Generally speaking, many English learners aren't able or willing to communicate in English, and that's especially true in Japan (I suppose you are not in Japan?). Note that most English-learning products in Japan are marketed using Japanese
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by nandemo 14y ago
It is well known that low weight, high reps lead to an increase in endurance, while heavy weights and low reps (as in 4~6 repetitions leading to exhaustion) lead to hypertrophy i.e. muscle growth.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Thomas, have you seen Netflix' memo about their values and corporate culture? I think it does fit in your description. Since I'm not an insider I have no opinion on whether their team is improved by it, but I believe it does the job of at
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by nandemo 14y ago
> FB may be many things but average is certainly not one of them. Do you mean the assumption of 212% growth over 5 years is lowish? If so, I agree. As for the average return: the author is fixing a price at T+5years, so if you assume a
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by nandemo 14y ago
> It's well known housing pretty much follows inflation I'm curious why you claim that while providing a reference that clearly contradicts you: a reference house cost $100k in 1890, went down to under 70k in the 1920s and then up to ov
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by nandemo 14y ago
I don´t think OP is bothered that the founders cashed out. Saying that company Foo got a $40M investment usually means the company got that much extra capital. If most of the money is just going to buy existing shares, then it´s misleading
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by nandemo 14y ago
They said 82 million shares were traded. That doesn't mean 82M trades. A trade often has a quantity higher than 1 share. It could be (say) 82 thousand trades with an average quantity of 1000 shares. As far as system performance is concerned
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by nandemo 14y ago
Lexarius' answer is great, but if you want to read more about it just look up "corporate raid[ing]" or "leveraged buyout", e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_raid
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by nandemo 14y ago
The interviewer cannot guess what's in your brain. Part of being a good communicator is being able to actually spell out your thoughts when necessary. Besides, if you had said "then I search the number online" then it's plausible the interv
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by nandemo 14y ago
Hackruiter especializes in startups: http://hackruiter.com I also know of a recruiting agency in Japan that specializes in startups. Some companies have the too-many-resumes problem, but many startups have the converse problem. If nobod

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