norseboar

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by norseboar 12y ago
All this advice looks excellent for running a startup, succeeding at it, and pitching to investors. However, Y-combinator's partners in particular have a habit of advertising "we don't care as much about your idea as about yo
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by norseboar 12y ago
I've got a muse, and it works wonderfully (at least, compared to Neurosky sets). The most frustrating bit is that there's no API -- meditation is good and all, but I'd really like a sensor of that quality that one could hack
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Uber and Lyft Have Become Indistinguishable Commodities(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
11 points by norseboar 12y ago|6 comments
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by norseboar 12y ago
I hope more research like this catches on in the mainstream to help dismantle the idea of a fixed "IQ" altogether. While it's convenient to score people on intelligence, and nice to believe there's a simple scalar rankin
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by norseboar 12y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but does "bringing in 'real' programmers" to clean up the mess really work? In my 1-2 years of experience (which isn't much), it seems like time onboarding into a big system (like Twitter
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by norseboar 12y ago
There seems to be a connotation that asking a question "just to see if the candidate has seen the problem before" is bad, for some reason (apologies if this connotation wasn't there). This is actually a very important thing t
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by norseboar 12y ago
While the link focuses on Ruby, I think there's a more general reason (which also explains why more languages don't support a lisp-like macro): cooperative development. When you're writing code in a vacuum, you can fill it wi
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by norseboar 12y ago
Man, I hope it's still written in CL...