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by plinkplonk 7y ago
For anyone confused about what Ultimate Go is (I was, I first thought it was a book that taught you Go the game, then after reading some comments thought it was a book that taught Go the Language, with exercises) it is a (paid) video course
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
This. + 100. If it is any comfort, it isn't personal. Everyone in the system is just reacting to their incentives. Just learn datastructures and algorithms and whatever hackerrank tricks you need. This is much easier for a student than
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
The business model is, initially, selling human labeling services to owners of data (like Uber or Google), using third world cheap labor to keep costs low. This is very much like a call center service. Once a sufficiently large corpus of hu
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
and which magazine 'worth millions of dollars' is this exactly? EDIT: see edit in the GP post. I think 'magazine' means 'blog'.
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
How exactly does he make money? (sorry if I missed this in the article). As far as I could make out he is some kind of productivity guru? Great story, but the writing has a very new age, 'will a new reality into existence' Tim Fer
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
+ 100. I can't upvote this enough. Programmers have spent countless hours practising programming to the point where they have forgotten how difficult it was in the beginning. A non programmer might think of programming as "memoriz
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
"constant hum" is quite the understatement. It is often close to a dull roar (from personal experience with "pair all the time in an all-agile open office environment". I quit and went on to better things).
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
and in which philosophical systems (that you studied) did monks and sages justify stealing from others? (in any period, in any culture). genuinely curious.
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
Why is this newsworthy? Genuine question. The article (I did read it!) doesn't seem to articulate why exactly this is a problem. I think (happy to be convinced otherwise) it is ok for a company to have more temps than employees or vi
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
These are awesome. Thanks for posting.
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
+ 100. the idea that sustained practice till you become fluent in the use of specific mental models is missing in much of the literature. Just like learning any other skillset, using mental models effectively takes a lot of work. This
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
Uber still has a stake in Grab iirc. That might work out better than competing directly in SE Asia.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
" its because they know exactly 1 language ," which language is this? I'm guessing Python.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"Emperors Of The Peacock Throne" by Abraham Eraly "Rebel Sultans" by Manu Pillai is a great complement, focusing on the Deccan, with a lot of material on how Iranian culture and politics influenced Indian history.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
fwiw, if you challenge this, twitter will restore your account.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
India doesn't do this yet, but it is set to be launched in a couple of years.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"I would consider India to be South Asia, not SE Asia" ok. that's fair. Do you consider Japan to be part of SE Asia? Taiwan? (Due disclosure, I've never lived either country - only transited through them - and don't
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
> There are no democracies in SE Asia. I wonder if you consider India to be in SE Asia. If not, please ignore the following. Last I looked there were regular elections happening there, with "strong leaders" being voted out of p
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
yes, but the Ola app (last I checked) required access to all your emails and SMS messages and didn't function if these are not granted. When one of my friends contacted customer support he was told " but all your data is safe with
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
jasim is the person who posted the article to HN. Not the author of the article.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
" they said that for those who use Prolog in production it is a real competitive advantage that they don't want to announce to the world;" with due respect to prolog (which is a mindbending language), the proponents of every
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
Sahil, thanks for writing this article. very useful to me (as someone working on iteration 2 of a company). (If you see this, could you please fix the paypal integration. In India, we don't have any protection if credit card data gets
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
Easy to be a fan when all the harm falls on other people on the other side of the world.
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Welcome to Surge, a rapid scale-up program for startups in India and SE Asia(surgeahead.com)
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
Intuit (and others, I assume) lobbies strongly against this, and spends a lot of money to prevent this happening.
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
"Stealth, space supremacy, global surveillance, carrier groups, strike wings, nuclear arsenals, reaper drones and all the other crazy battlefield robot tech in service or development can cut to pieces any obsolete nation state military
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
>OCaml actually has excellent tooling — among the best I don't think even the core OCaml devs would claim this. Rust (and Java and Microsoft) toolchains are examples of excellent tooling. OCaml, not so much. That said, the tooling s
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
I agree with everything you said. I'd just like to add that the world is full of fascinating (yes, even tech/math/cs heavy) problems. If you find your problem (as distinct from the tech stack or whatever) boring, you could al
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
(Tangential) What I'd really like to see is a competitor to Google's TPU that I can actually buy (vs rent on the cloud)
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by plinkplonk 8y ago
I have a question - Is founder vesting standard outside the valley/software startups? If I and my partner set out to build (say) a restaurant franchise in Texas, do 4 year vesting schedules, cliffs, etc make their way into incorporatio

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