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by petard 8y ago
I wonder how such technology develops since it is not something you discover by accident. Like 'Hey let's dig a whole there and see what happens?'
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by petard 8y ago
Let the fox guard the henhouse
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by petard 8y ago
Maybe not so much outside the HN bubble but I don't understand what makes this article different from the other zillion agile articles either.
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by petard 8y ago
Working in this area the biggest challenge is getting the details right. Small difference like cut-outs on a dress make a huge difference in terms of end-user relevance. Same for colors, millennial orange comes in many shades. Deep Learning
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by petard 8y ago
One driver was the huge popularity of jailbroken apps. I think whether Apple wanted or not that they had to put a official AppStore out. The demand for 3rd party apps was insane.
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by petard 8y ago
Does this affect only touch-bar MBPs or every post 2016 model?
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by petard 8y ago
I know OP asked for it but how do you suggest a web stack without evening knowing what the use case is? "Wanted to quickly put together a simple website", sounds like html / css might be enough.
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by petard 8y ago
Would love to see stats on building lifetimes across cohorts, e.g. do buildings from 80s, 90s etc have similar life span or are they demolished sooner.
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by petard 8y ago
Every now and then a article pops-up claiming bananas are dead, a break-through in battery capacity or some new revolutionary storage technology.
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by petard 8y ago
This sounds like a tomb raider's dream come true
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by petard 8y ago
It feels like if a person can't find a job they are to blame, if a company can't find people the "market" is to blame.
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by petard 8y ago
Somehow it very much resembles German's Stuka WWII fighter plane, both in appearance and role.
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by petard 8y ago
Interesting, will read up on these. There's ten years difference between early Apple and late Apple Jobs so maybe things were different for Carmack. In the end, Jobs must have been doing something right given his track record.
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by petard 8y ago
I found the anecdotes from John Carmack about working with Jobs really interesting in this regard. Apart from being probably very smart Jobs did care a lot about the things they were building, and willing to throw everything overboard if yo
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by petard 9y ago
Latest commit on the Github is from Aug 2017, doesn't seem that well maintained.
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by petard 9y ago
I've been in a similar situation (choice between Scala / Python / Go), the first person I hired was a Go guy so that became the default. We ended up using Go for APIs / web stuff and Python for data science and modelling
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by petard 9y ago
My guess is owning the user time, e.g if you read article via AMP you don't even visit the original website anymore. Same with providing answers directly in the search results.
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The accuracy, fairness, and limits of predicting recidivism(advances.sciencemag.org)
1 points by petard 9y ago|0 comments
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by petard 9y ago
I wonder how the lack of human social interaction will impact the the well being of the ones taken care of.
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by petard 9y ago
I couldn't find any info on the list what makes the people awesome speakers or criteria for being included on the list. Don't mean to sound negative, but anybody can put up repo with random people names and call them awesome.
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by petard 9y ago
What's saddening is that topics that really affect people's daily lives like rising income inequality got completely sidelined in upcoming elections.
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by petard 9y ago
Can someone point me to studies that model the effect of replacing all fuel-based vehicles with electric counterparts on availability of things like rare earth metals? I'm all for electric cars and such but have been wondering about th
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by petard 9y ago
I wonder if potential aliens be like 'oh great, valuable metals - let's go and scrape that planet.'
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by petard 9y ago
Networking at events where you are customers are can be the start of a sales funnel.
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by petard 9y ago
on 1) Recent touch-based CC terminals are really fast, and often don't require a PIN if the amount is less than 10€. I've stopped using cash since with these terminals CC are faster than paying in cash.
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by petard 9y ago
every time somebody uses the word 'terrorist' a kitten dies
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by petard 9y ago
Curious what the downsides / trade-off is to having twenty copies of this gene.
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Amazon Research Awards(ara.amazon-ml.com)
3 points by petard 9y ago|0 comments
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Theranos 2006 pitch deck(axios.com)
2 points by petard 9y ago|0 comments
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by petard 9y ago
Also can't remember Steve Jobs looking at the "teleprompter" that much.

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