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by noahlt 11y ago
Go's package manager, `go get`, also downloads from GitHub. I don't know the details of how `go get` and CocoaPods work, but I would be interested in learning why one is unscalable and the other seems to work.
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by noahlt 11y ago
I agree. If "Write your music scores online" is not enough for you to understand the product, then you are probably not a target user. Similarly, lots of ad tech and dev tools landing pages are unintelligible to people who probabl
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by noahlt 11y ago
It's dated 2014, which explains the omission of Seveneves.
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by noahlt 11y ago
I would add: Conjectures and Refutations, by Karl Popper.
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by noahlt 11y ago
I've always wondered this about the pizza-delivery story: how did they know the address where Kyle was staying?
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This awesome logging machine looks like something from a Transformers movie(youtube.com)
1 points by noahlt 11y ago|0 comments
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by noahlt 11y ago
My family tells a story about a distant great^n uncle of mine, who married a Cherokee woman. She had grown up without tables and chairs, as you might imagine, and was more comfortable squatting than sitting. Of course, my uncle wanted his
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by noahlt 11y ago
This is funny and ironic, but really it's no different than implementing Lisp in C. Naturally, the implementation language will not be as nice as the implemented language.
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Aquarium Corals of Anchorage Poison Humans, Dogs, and Cat(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
50 points by noahlt 11y ago|10 comments
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by noahlt 11y ago
Anyone have recommendations for learning meditation in San Francisco?
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by noahlt 11y ago
It's easy to blame the homeless for not having a job, but it seems hard to get a job without having a home.
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by noahlt 11y ago
"Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true." —Steinbeck (East of Eden)
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by noahlt 11y ago
As someone who hasn't worked with Ruby in a while, I'm curious to hear if anyone has opinions on how Sequel compares to DataMapper.
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by noahlt 11y ago
> we need a way for engineers and scientists to feel accountable for the outcomes of their work, and to straight out refuse working on such projects. One difficulty, not just here but with pacifism in general, is the asymmetry of violenc
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by noahlt 11y ago
Ah, thanks for pointing out my error. My point still stands, though with a little less rhetorical flourish.
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by noahlt 11y ago
At the time of writing this comment, there is just one comment on this thread complaining about the amount of alcohol in company outings. That comment has been downvoted and is now marked [dead]. The question isn't about each individu
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by noahlt 11y ago
The English Scrabble championships have also included a few Thai winners who barely speak English.
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by noahlt 11y ago
Your opening potshot at MBAs detracts from the meat of your comment, which contains at least two important insights: (1) the Reddit "product" and community are inseparable; (2) to manage a community you must understand the communi
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by noahlt 11y ago
Reminds me of this scene from Star Trek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0qGXPDJ19c&feature=youtu.be... where the characters try to recreate their memories using the Holodeck. When I first saw it I thought that scene w
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by noahlt 11y ago
> The culprit turned out to be JSON strings containing zillions of backslashes. My guess is that there was a feedback loop somewhere, with the JSON output of a process being fed into the same process as input, adding extra backslashes ea
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by noahlt 12y ago
Your recent stats blog post told us that 32 YC companies are worth more than $100 million. How many YC companies, including those acquired, are worth more than $10 million?
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by noahlt 12y ago
"Beware that an expert at X is not necessarily an expert about becoming an expert at X." - Peter Seibel https://twitter.com/peterseibel/status/471664135990566912
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by noahlt 12y ago
When I was 18 I knew Python, HTML/CSS, and a little bit of Django. I cold-emailed every Python shop in my city (San Diego) asking for an internship, met with a few of them, and ended up with a summer internship. It paid just above mi
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by noahlt 12y ago
Other closed platorms, probably doomed: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Google Maps, YouTube, Uber, iPhone.
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Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site(nytimes.com)
76 points by noahlt 13y ago|108 comments
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by noahlt 14y ago
My father used to give me similar advice when I struggled with physics problems: "Keep your pencil moving." Along similar lines, John Carmack once said: "If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works bett
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by noahlt 14y ago
A brief glance at their previous work shows that spreading hoaxes via social media seems to be their modus operandi.
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by noahlt 14y ago
Related: this bookmarklet turns the page into a game of Asteroids. http://kickassapp.com/
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by noahlt 14y ago
Another name for "no touch sales process" is "self service".
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by noahlt 14y ago
My prediction: it'll have a positive effect on sign ups, but retention will be lower.

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