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by oskarth 11y ago
Shady business tactics, but nonetheless the app seems kind of intriguing (not linking to avoid promoting it).
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by oskarth 11y ago
More links: https://twitter.com/gwern/status/595641266664275968 https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/34mw6c/comp... https://www.reddit.com/r/Da
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Bitcoin giant Coinbase accused of spying on a Dark Net researcher(dailydot.com)
10 points by oskarth 11y ago|2 comments
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Simplify: move code into database functions(sivers.org)
81 points by oskarth 11y ago|74 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
Why would you buy a book on something like GNU Make if you didn't already know what it is and how to (kind of) use it?
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by oskarth 11y ago
(a) Money isn't everything. (b) Over a long time horizon, selling a product is more profitable. EDIT: It's non-trivial to go from consulting to product development as part of the same business. It's often easier to use the mo
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The Watsi Experiment(experiments.oskarth.com)
1 points by oskarth 11y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
Using code generation.
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by oskarth 12y ago
It's frightening how many people don't understand the arguments against GMOs. Read this: http://fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf and before making arguments, make sure your argument hasn't already been responde
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Rarely Reversible(brandonbloom.name)
2 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 12y ago
I agree. Note that the Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn links are wrong. A bit odd for a company that has been around for 3 years, isn't it? In its current form, I wouldn't trust this one bit. EDIT: I see from an above comment that
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by oskarth 12y ago
This is interesting, but the hours are vastly overestimated, at least compared to similar metrics (e.g. from the deliberate practice and expertise literature): If we figure a 40-hour work week... it wasn't my only activity. Let's
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by oskarth 12y ago
At my last job we used a micro-service architecture on AWS (EC2 and RDS). Using Ansible playbooks for various types of servers and roles for each service, we created a new server instance every deploy. All servers were running FreeBSD and u
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by oskarth 12y ago
Have you ever worked at a remote company? If so, the benefits for group chat solution would be obvious. On the other hand, you could just use IRC (IRCCloud is $5/month and has support for embedded gists etc) and a private chat server.
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Getting to simple (2013)(alarmingdevelopment.org)
17 points by oskarth 12y ago|3 comments
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by oskarth 12y ago
Since when is having a moral compass a platitude?
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Easier Than Fizz Buzz – Why Can't Programmers Print 100 to 1?(thousandtyone.com)
35 points by oskarth 12y ago|40 comments
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by oskarth 12y ago
I am currently reading Skiena, Algorithm Design Manual and Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War . Next up is Cipolla, Clocks and Culture and Chiusano and Bjarnason, Functional Programming in Scala .
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by oskarth 12y ago
> It looks like a common industry pattern of segmentation whether it's books, video, or songs: the old stuff can be packaged into cheap subscriptions but the new stuff will command a separate premium. It's a good thing that mos
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by oskarth 12y ago
> The fixed exchange rate 4,20 DM == 1$ in the 1950s is usually cited as helping German exports during the 1950s. During later decades the Deutsche Mark was exceptionally strong, in theory harming German exports. ...which Varoufakis talk
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by oskarth 12y ago
How do you define cheating? There's lots of cliques of people that hang around some product or community or service X. Someone tweets/emails/taps-you-on-the-shoulder and says: look at this cool thing that just happened! Being
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by oskarth 12y ago
In general these things tend to follow a logistic curve. It's a useful meta-skill to know when investing more time has marginal utility. I think your examples are great, if you just change deadlift 400 pounds to maybe ~500-600 pound, (
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by oskarth 12y ago
It's still a positive predictor in general. It just means that, beyond a certain point, it's a negative predictor. Just like a GPA of 3.5+ is probably positively correlated with getting tenure, but maybe getting 4.0 is worse than
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by oskarth 12y ago
Great work! It's amazing just how many arguments reduce to nothing if you discard those that don't apply the principle of charity.
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by oskarth 12y ago
At least this points to a profitable (albeit illegal, but what's legal on Wall Street anyway?) strategy in daytrading: 1. Buy stocks in X. 2. Hack X's blog (Hello Wordpress). 3. Put out a fake product announcement.
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by oskarth 12y ago
That's absolutely ridiculous. I assume the same didn't happen for Citizen Four (which was actually a real movie as opposed to a thinly disguised hit piece). You should name and shame the company, even if you do so anonymously.
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by oskarth 12y ago
Set up a straw man, then knock it down with graphics (pathos, "I've seen it") and links (logos, "it's researched, and true"). Oh and ethos too, because it's a response to a villain with "arguments&quo
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by oskarth 12y ago
I'm Oskar on that testimonials page. Nick asked me (and the other people there) before updating the string "Hacker School" with "the Recurse Center". It's a direct quote with a minor approved edit.
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by oskarth 12y ago
Did it ever occur to people that less can be more in terms of features? There might be a reason why people like Torvalds (Linux and de Raadt (OpenBSD, OpenSSH) specifically don't use the stock Emacs. Here are some other data points: Hi
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by oskarth 12y ago
What is your advice for people who don't have co-founder material friends (mostly non-technical/non-sales people, or conservative) and are out of college? I've experience starting companies with acquaintances, something that,

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