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by pdq 11y ago
What happens with these driverless cars at four way stop signs? With humans, generally someone waves to the other driver signaling either to take right of way or that they will go first. I presume the car doesn't understand hand gestu
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by pdq 11y ago
Uber spends a ton of money on three areas: R&D, new customer and driver acquisition (including marketing too), and legal/lobbying. These areas may taper down in growth in the future, but it's unlikely to shrink. Also there is
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Inside NYC’s impossibly small 100-square-foot apartment(nypost.com)
2 points by pdq 11y ago|1 comments
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by pdq 11y ago
Agreed, considering this was a major rewrite of the core compiler in converting for C to Go, I don't understand why they rushed from release candidate (August 6) to release (August 20) in 2 weeks. I'm all for schedules, but in th
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by pdq 11y ago
I use Emacs in full screen mode on OSX. Then I split into usually 3 or 4 panes and launch a terminal in one of them. Then I have a todo list in another and the code I'm editing in another. Works great for my use.
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by pdq 11y ago
I ran a quick year-over-year comparison on your data, for Jan 2015 -- June 2015 (compared to Jan 2014 -- June 2014), and the average reduction is -7.8% of revenue and -9.7% of trips. IMO, that's quite significant for a 1 year drop.
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by pdq 11y ago
Found me; very nice. I wouldn't have guessed how you did it without the explanation about GitHub. I wonder if this means we should be rotating keys periodically? I know most companies require users to rotate their password every X da
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by pdq 11y ago
The problem I have with brokers and realtors is that they should charge either a flat hourly rate or a transaction rate. Lawyers, consultants, and software developers virtually all work on that model. But brokers and realtors have conditio
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by pdq 11y ago
I'm in agreement he should use more test cases, but it looks like he used the same as Golang's compression tests [1]. Note he has other test cases in the subdirectories (also the same as Go) [2]. However I believe even better tes
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by pdq 11y ago
This reminds me of Airpnp [1] from 2014. [1] http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/03/04/airpnp-its-like-airbnb...
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by pdq 11y ago
Are there command-line apps for these rain and white noise generators? I'd love to use them without internet access and outside a browser. Edit: I see discardorama asked the same question.
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by pdq 11y ago
Lots of these lessons are missing the bigger point. The original investor rejections had it right on the business model, except missed the determination of the founders. Sleeping on airbeds and having hosts serve breakfast is a niche mark
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by pdq 11y ago
> Where are the VCs getting all their money? Are mainstream banks exposed? Hedge funds? Corporations? Retirement funds? It all eventually comes back to the Federal Reserve. Interest rates are at record lows (much below a "market&qu
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by pdq 11y ago
Even though you are cherry picking a peak value, I don't follow your logic. $100 worth of gold bought at $850/ounce buys 0.117 ounces of gold. Today that gold (at $1181/ounce) is worth $138.90. Your cash is worth $100.
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Self-hosting C compiler written in 10 hours(github.com)
3 points by pdq 11y ago|0 comments
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by pdq 11y ago
Did they really trademark Sprite™? Doesn't Coca Cola own that?
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by pdq 11y ago
The difference is that in parsers, errors are almost certainly fatal. As opposed to a runtime SQL error, where it could be a user error, value error, or other database error, which can be recovered from. Panic/recover are usually mean
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by pdq 11y ago
No, panic/recover is a major hack. Rob Pike has written ideas here on how to clean up error handling if-blocks: http://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values
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by pdq 12y ago
I believe tup [1] uses a similar technique for compile dependency tracking. [1] http://gittup.org/tup/ex_dependencies.html
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by pdq 12y ago
(2013)
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by pdq 12y ago
One other dependency often forgotten is on the Makefile itself. This way if the Makefile changes, everything gets rebuilt: DEPS = Makefile %.o: %.c $(DEPS) $(CC) $(CCFLAGS) -o $@ -c $<
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by pdq 12y ago
As the Alex cartoon posted by mauricemir points out, the majority of companies doing stock buybacks are not doing it from profits. They are taking on additional debt through bonds to buy their own stock. This may look good in the short ter
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by pdq 12y ago
While vacationing last year in New Orleans, they had a Belt Manlift used by the parking attendants at the Omni Hotel garage. It was scary as heck looking, but the valets seemed quite confident on it. It's basically a continual ladder
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by pdq 12y ago
Proposition 3: The current YC Winter 2015 batch—currently worth something that rounds down to $0—will be worth at least $3B on Jan 1st, 2020. This is a clever way of wording to the VCs: "You should invest in the wh
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by pdq 12y ago
When I saw the trademark, I immediately thought the same: Brisket™ And since I live in Austin, I feel especially offended for Yankees trademarking deliciousness.
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IceStorm – Lattice FPGA bitstream reverse engineered(clifford.at)
3 points by pdq 12y ago|0 comments
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by pdq 12y ago
For anyone wanting to see the background of these "design by committee" government projects, watch The Pentagon Wars [1]. It's a comedic insight as to how groups design a product that's too late, too large, too expensiv
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Computer Color is Broken(youtube.com)
14 points by pdq 12y ago|0 comments
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by pdq 12y ago
I'm interested to see the next evolutionary step in transit. I would have gone with the "dollar van" model would be a better entry. Cargo vans are less expensive to own/maintain than busses, more nimble, and use less fu
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by pdq 12y ago
Posted 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9171722

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