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811.
by ovi256 12y ago
There's been a boom in France as well in crowdfunded equity. A startup I did some work for did it, and were happy with the results.
812.
by ovi256 12y ago
A dark filter of some kind ? Can be as simple as smoked glass. The ones manufactured for modern photography are called Neutral Density filters, and they're available in a variety of f-stops, but the intensity reduction is insufficient
813.
by ovi256 12y ago
I guess they did very well to lay off the people who thought of it as a science project, because it's obviously an engineering project! All the science needed to make it work already exists, it's just a question of hammering it to
814.
by ovi256 12y ago
I wonder if it could be made into a hackintosh. Probably not if it doesn't have the exact same hardware as some Macbook.
815.
by ovi256 12y ago
Another Parisian here. Email's in profile info, don't be afraid to write or add me on LinkedIn. Cheers.
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by ovi256 12y ago
Retransmits and congestion are not bad by nature - they're a symptom that the network is being heavily used. Edit: never mind, misread the test, his tools clearly show goodput (good, desirable throughput) going down in congestion. Lowe
817.
by ovi256 12y ago
Yes, but not of our universe. Amazing book, by the way. I would also highly recommend the whole Baroque cycle.
818.
by ovi256 12y ago
Is it irony or something else that a system of supposed vast computing power and learning (and certain real world power via its distribution of search riches) is broken by a tiny thing like this fix for a missing slash ?
819.
by ovi256 12y ago
Yes. Pose a simple question, get a simple answer. What is so surprising about this assertion ?
820.
by ovi256 12y ago
Yes, but how many (American) football fields is that ?
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by ovi256 12y ago
Fasting for three days is not a safe, low barrier to entry, way. A healthy person with no critical commitments or delicate work can do it safely, but lots of people would not. Note that one side effect observed during the protocol was faint
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by ovi256 12y ago
Off topic, but the second comment from Jason is pure gold. He's calling Philip Greenspun (of Greenspun's tenth law fame), a "Harvard Lawyer of unknown programming provenance". I can see how blog hostnames can confuse peo
823.
by ovi256 12y ago
And the whole thing is about 340 lines of code ... Lisp power again.
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by ovi256 12y ago
What do you mean by real time delivery ? Instant delivery ? Real time delivery tracking ? For Amazon Prime users, I could very well see returns piggybacking on deliveries - the delivery courier would simply pick up the return.
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by ovi256 12y ago
Those programmers were arguably 10x or 100x programmers, not run-of-the-mill. They made a choice to work on new technology, solving a hard problem. And then put in the effort, probably with little handholding, and managing the uncertainty.
826.
by ovi256 12y ago
Frequent error with App Store links.
827.
by ovi256 12y ago
I'm afraid everyone giving robber barons and their ilk as counter-examples is misreading the essay. PG states that he works on the premise that a new non-zero-sum game of wealth creation is afoot, as exemplified by tech startups. In th
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by ovi256 12y ago
So, if the classes are online, how long until the material leaks ? I for one would love to look and try my hand at it.
829.
by ovi256 12y ago
Which is in turn neutralized by the loss of productivity at said startups due to their reading HN compulsively. So it's done for the community after all!
830.
by ovi256 12y ago
School is not just for teaching, it also accomplishes the task of keeping the kids safe - and everyone else safe from the kids - while the parents are working. Given that both parents are working in developed countries, this is very importa
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by ovi256 12y ago
The answer is very simple: when they'll need to develop large scale systems or machine learning algos more than AngularJS frontends or node backends. For the vaaast majority of companies, that will be never.
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by ovi256 12y ago
People do high weight, low rep workouts indeed, but that's bodybuilding or olympic weightlifting. Crossfit is more a middle weight / middle rep style, looking to develop power more than force. Even endurance is emphasised more tha
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by ovi256 12y ago
For the best test, check out Martin Seligman's work on using optimism as a proxy for sales success. He wrote about it in his book Learned Optimism. He started this work when consulting for a large company that wanted to improve their s
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by ovi256 12y ago
Sounds a lot like a dark pattern! If not dark, at least gray.
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by ovi256 12y ago
That sounds a lot like automatic memory management! To a C dev, that's the same as communism to a US Republican.
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by ovi256 12y ago
I thought you were going to say "Most HNers could, if they thought through it carefully, create one" and I judged it over-optimistic. How over-optimistic I was!
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by ovi256 12y ago
This is looking very good and it could lower the pain of developping mobile apps, especially for independent studios. Looking forward to learn more about the details of data syncing.
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by ovi256 12y ago
If you put the Israeli pilots in the MIGs and the Middle Eastern pilots in the F-15s, the result would probably not change. Hardware is sexy but sexy doesn't win battles.
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by ovi256 12y ago
I'm pretty sure anyone that speaks a Romance language may recognize 'variola' as smallpox. I guess the original label used the Latin name. Also, in a CDC laboratory, I'd bet dollars vs pennies there's already a prot
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by ovi256 12y ago
Intuitively, I chose two for connections and one for social skills. The results are exactly as expected, great: "You drop out of highschool. You have enough social skills to make people think you are in the know when you are in the no

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