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by pdog 6y ago
Counterargument: build systems that any idiot can run, because eventually an idiot will be running it.
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by pdog 6y ago
Don't worry. Fiddling with your one free parameter to make your model look good is as quintessential to statistics as Student's t-distribution.
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by pdog 6y ago
Even in more mundane settings, the status of computer scientists is usually negative. For example, if a random acquaintance asks what you do, you'd be better off telling them you're homeless or unemployed than to admit you're
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by pdog 6y ago
The golden age of web app development was 2012-2013. The state of the art in the browser was jQuery and ES5. CoffeeScript was mature and stable. The Express framework and Node.js 0.8 were perfect for server-side JavaScript. It was blazing f
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by pdog 6y ago
If Apple charges a 30% fee, the total price would have to be $141.43 to get back $99 for the subscription.
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by pdog 6y ago
I thought maybe you were being overly critical and the writing wouldn't be so bad... then I read halfway through this sentence: On a cold morning this winter, Rogulja leaned over a tablet in her office, her close-cropped dark hair fra
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by pdog 6y ago
There a huge battle going on between hydroxychloroquine (the Republican therapy of choice when combined with a zinc supplement) and remdesivir (the antiviral drug by Gilead that's preferred by anti-Trump liberals). To answer your quest
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by pdog 6y ago
Can you update the title? The vital parts are being recycled (battery, motor).
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by pdog 6y ago
A lot of nutrients (e.g., caffeine, vitamin D3, the fiber in raw carrots) are the closest thing we have to a "free lunch" because the evolutionary pressures that limited access to these nutrients are gone. Our brains used to comp
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by pdog 6y ago
Shopify is an insanely huge e-commerce platform (and a $100B company). I'd say their developers are pretty productive with Ruby on Rails.
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by pdog 6y ago
The website that accounts for a huge chunk of global internet traffic censoring 5G videos feels a little too on the nose to me.
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by pdog 6y ago
It sounds like NY didn't do their job. NY pays millions of dollars to these companies and none of them deliver any ventilators because NY didn't do any due diligence. This one guy gets called out because a NY state official claims
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by pdog 6y ago
You're wrong. Of course, anyone is entitled to think it's crazy to spend a lot of money on coffee at Starbucks. But it's also perfectly valid to respond that it's easy to enjoy a delicious cup of hot coffee for not a lot
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by pdog 6y ago
The reason for this: the hardware is many years ahead of the software. The potential of the physical device is far ahead of its software capabilities, but you can't install your own OS or run your own applications.
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by pdog 6y ago
When you factor in the health and productivity benefits, coffee is likely the highest ROI of all your investments.
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by pdog 6y ago
It sounds like you're actually glad you didn't hop on the Starbucks / coffee shop consumption bandwagon. A hot cup of coffee at home is an affordable and delightful treat.
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by pdog 6y ago
Since when is caffeine routinely served to children? I didn't have my first cup of coffee until I was an adult.
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by pdog 6y ago
The challenge is surviving long enough to score a meaningful payoff.
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by pdog 6y ago
Capital allocation is hugely important for a modern economy. Without financial markets, intelligent people would barely have any idea what to build (let alone raise capital necessary to finance their innovations).
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Fed will inject $1.5T in short-term lending markets over next two days(newyorkfed.org)
2 points by pdog 7y ago|2 comments
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Behind Amazon’s HQ2 fiasco(bloomberg.com)
149 points by pdog 7y ago|170 comments
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by pdog 7y ago
> Eich (inventor of JavaScript, for the record) was ousted over a private political contribution to a cause that a near-majority of Californians supported just a few years earlier. Minor correction: Prop 8 was supported by the majority
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by pdog 7y ago
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by pdog 7y ago
Doesn't Facebook already prohibit all content (not just ads) that incites violence against groups? https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/hate_speech
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by pdog 7y ago
Mark Twain invested in all sorts of crazy startups. If he was alive today, he'd probably be a billionaire, but he was way ahead of his time. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-mark-twain-t...
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Four Years in Startups(newyorker.com)
191 points by pdog 7y ago|82 comments
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by pdog 7y ago
The site was created in Webflow. https://webflow.com/
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Notion raises $10M at an $800M valuation(businessinsider.com)
2 points by pdog 7y ago|1 comments
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by pdog 7y ago
Why are dollar stores so popular in low-income neighborhoods? Maybe instead of banning them, we should figure why they're so prevalent in the first place. Shopping for everyday necessities at a grocery store or supermarket is incredibl
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China's Father of Electric Cars Thinks Hydrogen Is the Future(bloomberg.com)
3 points by pdog 7y ago|1 comments

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