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by necubi 14y ago
Bitcoins are just special numbers--there's no inherent value in them. If everybody decides tomorrow to use a different blockchain they will become completely worthless numbers. A tulip looks pretty in your garden, (many) internet companies
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by necubi 14y ago
The real question: when is support for <blink> coming back?
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by necubi 14y ago
Protobufs are awesomely useful, and this seems like a great enhancement. However, I'm disappointed that there's no map representation. That's a been major issue for us with protobufs compared with thrift or json. While you can represent map
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by necubi 14y ago
That's sort of my point. People without a computer science education often lack the awareness of the gaps in their knowledge. So they don't set out to write a "parser," because they don't know that word. They're faced with the problem of pa
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by necubi 14y ago
You don't learn to code in college, or at least not in class. Good coders almost universally learn outside the classroom. This is true for people who go to college and those that forgo it. So if you don't go to college to learn to code, why
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by necubi 14y ago
The problem is, as I said, easy access to handguns. While Chicago has stringent gun laws, one need only step over into Indiana where gun shows or private "collectors" can sell unlimited numbers of guns to just about anybody. Effectively,
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by necubi 14y ago
Come on now. The odds of being hit by a meteor (actually meteorite) are effectively nil [0]. Are you claiming that the 88 people shot in mass shooting last year [1] were all suicidal or criminals? And really, while mass shootings get all th
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Goodbye Groupon: Andrew Mason's dance with the devil(theverge.com)
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by necubi 14y ago
As a meta-note, check out http://hnhiring.me for a nicer interface for viewing these monthly posts.
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by necubi 14y ago
jashkenas is being humble. He's actually the creator of underscore (and backbone, and coffeescript, and docco...).
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by necubi 14y ago
If anybody is interested in doing more of these sorts of analyses, I have the corpus of who's hiring posts since January 2012 in JSON format available at http://hnhiring.me/data/comments-{thread-id}.json . The thread ids for fulltime/freel
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by necubi 14y ago
I rather doubt that, as it would be a big security problem. If phones auto-connected to open APs, anybody could run a rogue one and collect passwords, sessions, etc.
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by necubi 14y ago
You really can't compare profit margins between a retailer and a software company. Amazon books the full price of the products it sells as revenue, but must pay most of that to its suppliers, whereas the marginal cost of most of Google's pr
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by necubi 14y ago
And K isn't nearly as bad as its predecessor APL [0], which makes extensive use of non-ASCII characters to bring even greater compactness. For example, the Game of Life in APL is life←{↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵} [0] http:
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by necubi 14y ago
Since the main thread here is a gripe about compilation speed, here's something more constructive. I've been working with 2.10 for a few months now, and there's a lot that's really exciting. The biggest addition is macro support, which allo
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by necubi 14y ago
Oops, yeah, the map function above composes its argument with return, giving it the type M a -> (a -> b) -> M b, making it equivalent to the Haskell `liftm` function.
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by necubi 14y ago
Copied from a comment of mine from a couple of years ago: "I've recently finished reading Learn You A Haskell For Great Good!, and I think the author's approach to monads works well. I'd read various metaphorical explanations that only serv
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by necubi 14y ago
No, they are banned because of concerns about interference with avionics. Unfortunately for the FAA, this has been repeatedly demonstrated to be more or less impossible, leading to this sort of ridiculous post hoc rationalization. Any sort
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by necubi 14y ago
It was great getting to work with you at Twilio. Good luck with everything in your future!
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Wow, got one of the last spots after only 47 minutes. Maybe a larger venue is warranted?
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by necubi 14y ago
Those guidelines only apply to hardware and product design projects, not games.
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by necubi 14y ago
It comes from the financial industry, and means a million. M stands not for million or mega, but for mille, which is Latin for a thousand. So it is in fact 1000*1000 = 1,000,000.
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by necubi 14y ago
It's working for me.
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This can have some amusing results when the input isn't as Google expects. For example, in my office the conference rooms are named after streets, some of which are also cities. So when I have a 2pm meeting in Folsom, I get a notification a
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Quantcast Open Sources Hadoop Distributed File System Alternative(techcrunch.com)
5 points by necubi 14y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 14y ago
This is a flagrant simplification of economics and it's unfortunate that this is often allowed to stand on HN. A sure sign someone is making something up in economics: using "QED." Economics is about the real world, and the real world is me
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by necubi 14y ago
Lyft's marketing has been pretty impressive to watch. Just this morning on my MUNI train I overheard a conversation where a guy was excitedly describing the service to another passenger, describing it as "way cheaper than uber". And the mus
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by necubi 14y ago
Actually, 9gag does release their numbers, via Quantcast[0]. According to those, they have a long ways to catch up to Reddit, which even in 2010 [1] had more than double the visitors (3mm vs 8mm "people" monthly). Incidentally, the 65mm vis
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by necubi 14y ago
You seem to have a very myopic viewpoint, unable to see that just because you may not have a use for this, it couldn't possibly solve an actual problem. If you live in the city and don't have a car, getting packages can be a huge pain. I li
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Florida political attack ad takes issue with self-driving vehicles(theverge.com)
2 points by necubi 14y ago|1 comments

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