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by ng12 11y ago
How crazy -- I'm vaguely familiar with Curtis' work, and would have never known (or cared) about his political views until the people looking to "no platform" him gave him a platform. Streisand effect, people.
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by ng12 11y ago
> Prop 13 is a tax issue, not a housing supply problem If it's a tax issue that impacts the housing supply, isn't it both?
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by ng12 11y ago
I feel like the author completely misunderstood why AlphaGo is exciting. It's about advancements in technology and soft AI, Go has almost nothing to do with it.
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by ng12 11y ago
That is virtually unmaintainable. What happens when Joe Hacker moves on to greener pastures? The new guy gets stuck with a framework that he can't Google. This is where the author lost me: > You've to ask for expert help, wait
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by ng12 11y ago
This is where I think clojurescript (particularly with React) really shines. Pure functional is the default, and you have to actually do work to make things stateful. The main pitfall of almost-functional languages/frameworks is that i
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by ng12 11y ago
> Square also thought Starbucks would help Square launch new customer-facing products It was obvious that this was never going to happen from the beginning. Square neutered Wallet for the Starbucks deal, turning it into a less compelling
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by ng12 11y ago
I have a feeling Palo Alto's going to find the answer to this very soon. The entire peninsula is unaffordable for low-income workers. Crossing the Dumbarton bridge is a ~30m commute in itself and costs $5/day. Downtown Palo Alto j
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by ng12 12y ago
I would argue there are at least a few orders of magnitude between someone with morning sickness and someone who will almost definitely die of Ebola or T1 Diabetes. It's a calculated risk, sure, but I don't think the Thalidomide e
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by ng12 12y ago
That's one of the interesting things. Statistically HR has a similar gender ratio as engineering, only reversed -- 72% of all HR professionals are women ( http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf ).
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by ng12 13y ago
Square's value comes from their customers. They've cultivated a customer base that is very valuable (small and micro-businesses) and very loyal. In particular, a lot of the brick-and-mortar businesses that use Square are very tren
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by ng12 13y ago
It's supposed to be kind of stupid. The guy used to write sketches for Demetri Martin's show to give you a sense of his comedy style. If you don't think it's funny, that's fine, but it's not supposed to be &quo
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by ng12 13y ago
Which is another reason why the H1-B needs to be reworked, not ramped up. It's too catch-all, and too often abused.
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by ng12 13y ago
I don't understand why the presentations in question were sexist/mysoginistic. Immature? Yes. Crude? Yes. Probably shouldn't have made it on stage? Yes. Sexist? I'm unconvinced. I also don't understand why they were
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by ng12 13y ago
What do you mean? What is there to CS besides node.js and Ruby?
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by ng12 13y ago
That's not how Palantir works. Palantir is a platform, if it were part of Prism the government would still be the one collecting and storing the data. They may have had a hand in setting the system up so that it integrates with that da
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by ng12 13y ago
Being in graduate school has nothing to do with being the best in the field. Very few American-educated STEM majors (or, at least in CS) go on to grad school since they can easily get the same job with a BSc as a foreign student with a MS.
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by ng12 13y ago
True, but I think this deserves reconsideration considering the recent debate about H1-B visas -- especially since the fact that there are (relatively) few US-born PhD's is one of the major justifications for increasing the number of visas