pbiggar

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by pbiggar 9y ago
I think most countries are corrupt, but the amount that it's normalized in America is certainly unique. People in most countries act like corruption is a blight, here it's not even commented on.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
It's funny how each time a scandal comes out in America, it's treated as if it's new and separate. The truth is that there is one solid pattern in every single American scandal, and that is corruption. America is built on cor
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by pbiggar 9y ago
As soon as I saw the headline I thought "I bet she's black". And it turns out she is.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I have the same problem, so it's not just you.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Here: http://ellenandpaulsnewstartup.com/careers/ :)
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I saw the same at CircleCI with clojure. People want to use functional langs in real systems - we had a lot of Haskell lovers apply because "close enough". Way easier than hiring rails devs. One of the reasons I'm using OCaml
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by pbiggar 9y ago
> "That’s when you get in trouble politically in our society, when you’re all in one side" Funny they don't mention that Thiel is all-in on the other side. He's a massively regressive conservative. The dude hangs out
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by pbiggar 9y ago
You've hit the nail on the head with "button B can only be pushed at night". If we set up society such that it's riskier for one group to access good earning potential, basically the definition of systemic bias. To be mo
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by pbiggar 9y ago
You are letting my point sail over you. How do women come to those "powerfully different preferences"? Do we think that all women got together and decided to only drive at less valuable times? Or is it more likely that there are s
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by pbiggar 9y ago
So the service can be unbiased, but the society/system it exists in will still be biased.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
The problem I have with your statement is that you are attributing something to somebody about which you know nothing, based on almost no information. A less asshole-y phrasing would be "I wonder if he had reduced his ambitions somewha
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by pbiggar 9y ago
By "general space" I meant "rethinking programming to a certain extent". Our particular version is at http://ellenandpaulsnewstartup.com . A good way to think about it is "build instagram in an afternoon&
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by pbiggar 9y ago
As someone making something in the same general space as Eve, very sad to see this happen. Thanks for taking a shot and proving that there are other ways of thinking about programming! Looking forward to the writeup.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Congrats, this looks awesome! Love the inline graphs and realtime updates!
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Can you explain how you chose land as the equivalent asset class? That doesn't even seem close to the ETH situation.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I agree conceptually: if both sides consider the transaction to in ethereum-denominated currency, then there is a logical argument to what you said. But legally, ETH is not a currency. If they take this to court, the court will award the or
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Good point. Yet another reason to stay the fuck away from this space.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
If that's the case, then yeah, they got ripped off, and they can and should go to court to get it back. Do you know where this was posted? I'd love to read the wording.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
"Purchased using" is not the same as "price tag in". If I'm in the US, and I buy something from the UK, I would have paid GBP. My refund would be expected in GBP and they are not responsible for the currency fluctua
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I agree. But is explicitly not that. Often your currency is backed by nothing at all, with no potential for it to even be worth anything.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
What was the price tag in? If the price tag was $1, they owe $1. If the price tag was 1 eth, they owe 1 eth. [edit: I've changed my mind. They bought an asset for $x in USD, they are owed $x in USD]
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I consider every ICO to be a scam and that this sort of thing will become par for the course, with basically every speculator in the space losing money - except those who manage to trick main street investors to cash them out. However, this
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by pbiggar 9y ago
CircleCI supports android, iOS, and web. https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/testing-ios/ https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/language-android/ [disclaimer: founder of circleci, though I d
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Similarly, the moral values of the left (especially the social justice movement) aligns deeply with the teachings of Jesus.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I wrote something a few years ago about why docker matters: https://circleci.com/blog/it-really-is-the-future/ (excuse the slightly flippant tone). I think the answer to why it succeeded instead of the others is t
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I agree with all of this (caveat, downplay the "interviewing" angle a bit), and let me add some more things I found helpful in my recent cofounder search: - the most important thing for an early stage startup is that they can val
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by pbiggar 9y ago
There's a bunch of inaccuracies in the data. For my batch (w2010): - ChromaOm - became Creative Market, acquired by AutoDesk - Cue - acquired my Apple - Browsarity - became Cue - Embedly - acquired by Medium - Homejoy - not W10
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by pbiggar 9y ago
You can set a keyboard shortcut for it.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I did, but it didn't work all that well for me. I just tried it a minute ago. However, I found that macvim was way better for me, once I figured out how to make it look as pretty.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Yes, absolutely. I'm running vim in iterm2, and I haven't had time to figure out why it's slow. Things that are really slow in vim are scroll speed, a 1s-ish pause when ALE fills the quickfix window, and an undiagnosed merlin

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