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by noahlt 6y ago
FWIW, the vast majority of YC founders I've met have told me "It was good when I did it, but I don't know if I'd do it today. The batches are so big!" I chalk it up to a pretty typical nostalgia. Everybody is biase
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by noahlt 7y ago
If this team member is as key as you say, your relationship with them is probably just as important to the future of your career as anything they might be able to do on your current team.
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by noahlt 7y ago
Related: US average marathon times have fallen in the past 20ish years, as more people run marathons. It's a good thing.
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by noahlt 7y ago
Incidentally, this is why UNIX uses zero for "success" and nonzero for errors.
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by noahlt 8y ago
Empirically, this seems not to have happened with my account.
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by noahlt 8y ago
I’ve heard that early versions of the Dropbox client allowed engineers to remotely open a Python shell on users’ computers, for debugging purposes.
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by noahlt 8y ago
My favorite is to read Plato as a set of advertisements for the Academy. "Come to the Academy," they say, "and partake in conversations like this!" (This is why Phaedrus ends with Socrates arguing that you cannot learn
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by noahlt 8y ago
Unfortunately, you've been beaten to the punch by Ian Betteridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by noahlt 9y ago
You have to account for the fact that before modern filtration civilizations developed other ways to make water safe to drink, like brewing beer and boiling water for tea.
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by noahlt 9y ago
The authors of SICP draw a distinction between declarative knowledge (facts about the world) and procedural knowledge (instructions for how to do things). Programming, they say, is a way to precisely communicate procedural knowledge. Most i
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by noahlt 10y ago
It's not.
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by noahlt 10y ago
This is dated Dec 15—I'm surprised that I haven't heard of this before today.
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by noahlt 10y ago
Fortunately, the election's just around the corner, and if you'd like to help solve these problems, you can do so with your ballot. http://www.sfyimby.org/endorsements-nov-2016 Is a good pro-housing voter guide fo
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by noahlt 10y ago
Right, but that money might be better spent other ways—for instance, by selling them twice as many tickets, in the hopes of retaining more audience members, some of whom may one day become high-rolling donors.
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by noahlt 10y ago
The fact that arbitrage is happening is obviously bad for the Opera, but I want to point out that every opera ticket is sold at a loss. Selling opera tickets just at break-even would drive down attendance significantly (and it's alread
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by noahlt 10y ago
At every company, for any given candidate, there exists a set of interviewers who will always fail you for an interview. There is no company with >1000 employees at which you could interview with a 100% success rate. I think you will re
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by noahlt 10y ago
Keep in mind that Einstein still went to grad school for physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kleiner
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by noahlt 10y ago
"In computer terms, Smalltalk is a recursion on the notion of computer itself. Instead of dividing "computer stuff" into things each less strong than the whole—like data structures, procedures, and functions which are the usu
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by noahlt 10y ago
A friend of mine feels that the H1-B system is rigged, that the big companies will get as many H1-Bs as they ask for and that smaller companies essentially don't have the same degree of access to that labor pool. My impression is that
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Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic employees(gamesindustry.biz)
152 points by noahlt 10y ago|237 comments
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Do “all Java type checkers have bugs”?(composition.al)
3 points by noahlt 10y ago|0 comments
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by noahlt 10y ago
The author, qntm, recently posted a follow-up article entitled "To Destroy the Earth", which looks at the problem from a different perspective: https://qntm.org/destro
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by noahlt 10y ago
I think it was written to be accessible to a very broad audience.
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by noahlt 10y ago
> Of course free money is better than no free money! That's all this will prove and few will debate that. The real questions are: 1) is it worth the cost, and 2) is it better than alternatives? I think the majority of dissent in the
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by noahlt 10y ago
Plato had additional metaphysical beliefs, such as that "reality" consists of ideas, and is not spatiotemporal.
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by noahlt 10y ago
The way you say this makes it sounds like you have examples of times when evolutionary arguments have been used in the past. I'd love to hear some examples.
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by noahlt 10y ago
What about Flow?
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by noahlt 10y ago
Noah from Kite here. We're prototyping various keyboard shortcut schemes; we're excited to ship whatever we settle on.
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by noahlt 11y ago
The wording of "doubled in Q1" is quite misleading. It actually doubled between Q1 2015 and Q1 2016. You could say that it doubled in the past year.
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by noahlt 11y ago
Comparing entire-home AirBnB rentals to hotel room costs seems like an unfair comparison. Renting out an entire home on AirBnB seems much more akin to getting a hotel suite, which is more expensive than a single room.

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