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by psadri 13y ago
Why would anyone want multiple inheritance? Composition > class hierarchies
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by psadri 13y ago
How many Moore law doublings before it is real time? Seems like ~23 generations or ~35 years. Of course, if you leave out the bits constantly thinking about sex, we might get there a lot faster :)
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by psadri 13y ago
This sad story demonstrates the importance of owning your ideas and directly benefiting from them (financially, public recognition, etc.), instead of giving them away to people who will like you one minute and forget you the next.
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by psadri 13y ago
Polyvore removes the backgrounds from millions of product images in its index. This post explains how were able to use Potrace to clean up the jagged edges of the objects in these images.
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Using Potrace for cleaner image masks(engblog.polyvore.com)
6 points by psadri 13y ago|2 comments
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by psadri 14y ago
It is great that you have realized your time is precious. This realization can be paralyzing -- you might start over-thinking everything trying to make up for lost time. Don't do this. Sometimes there are no shortcuts in life. And trying
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by psadri 14y ago
... orientated around “visions rather than goals” and “funded people, not projects” being exclusively goal oriented constrains the originality of the high level ideas that are produced. on the other hand, being constrained by specific goals
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by psadri 14y ago
I have definitely noticed my attention span reduced over the years. I first noticed ... <pause> what were we talking about?
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by psadri 14y ago
text input is important because today's computers are dumb and we have to type a lot of text to get basic stuff done. What if the computer was much more intelligent so you could express yourself more concisely. Also, what about contexts whe
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Firefox 19
1 points by psadri 14y ago|1 comments
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by psadri 14y ago
Moneyball for the NBA anyone?
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by psadri 14y ago
anyone guess what the ... might be? iWatch?
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by psadri 14y ago
I agree. In 5 years, very few people will be using anything with a keyboard. main frames -> mini computers -> desktops -> laptops -> tablets / phones -> ... -> ambient computing.
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by psadri 14y ago
Not sure what amazon's cookie duration is. But to get enough cookie coverage, a lot of people would have to be clicking out on the links. I simply think that 10% conversion is just way to high. If it was so easy to make a $1 ARPU from a b
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by psadri 14y ago
I was referring to the conversion to sales. What % of people clicking on a link to amazon actually buy a book. What you are referring to is the rev share %: how much of the the sale price amazon shares with the publisher. 10-15% is correc
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by psadri 14y ago
I agree with the main point of the article. However, I can tell you that your $1M in affiliate revenue on 1.2M UV for a literary blog is way off. Your assumption of 10% conversion is off by at least an order of magnitude. The more likely r
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by psadri 14y ago
I agree with your bet on JS and Go.
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by psadri 14y ago
Perl unfortunately has a bad image vs its true reality. I think Perl / Python are interchangeable as a language choice for web scale projects. If your biggest problem is whether to use Python vs Perl vs X, then I say good luck to you -- yo
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by psadri 14y ago
In other words, Quora is trapped in a local maxima.
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by psadri 14y ago
Recruiting is a market place. You need both candidates and positions. How do they get potential prospects to their service?
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by psadri 14y ago
I encourage everyone to read the Quora answer. It is quite extensive and well thought out.
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Ask HN: What is a better recruiting strategy, casting a wide net or targeted?
3 points by psadri 14y ago|10 comments
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by psadri 14y ago
In addition to good content, you have to be controversial.
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by psadri 14y ago
There are starters and there are finishers. There are people who are both, but they are rare. Finishing is usually much harder. The last 20% usually take 80% of the effort. But as the post says, things aren't really done until they are D
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by psadri 14y ago
The internet is already doing brick and mortar stores in. Perhaps on-demand manufacturing (for example, but not necessarily, 3D printing) will also contribute.
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by psadri 14y ago
Most likely for a startup: The equity vests monthly over 4 years with a 1 year cliff. This means that you don't vest anything for the first year (if you leave, you don't get anything). At 1 year, you get 1/4 of the equity vested. Every m
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by psadri 14y ago
This is really cool. Out of curiosity, how does the GA perform when you throw in more functions / constants into the available pool of genes? Can you run a meta GA that mutates those parameters as well?
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by psadri 14y ago
I tend to agree. This document sounds really great but does not match up with the reality, at least based on the few samples that I am aware of. Big companies constantly try to portray themselves as the enlightened place to work in order t
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by psadri 14y ago
This is a very legitimate addition to CSS. I bet we will see it in a future release. It makes a lot of sense for headings. I hope it will not get abused for other text blocks (but I am sure it will).
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by psadri 14y ago
This is a brilliant insight. In the developing world, all our time is already used up by something. Products/services are playing a zero-sum game. This is why entirely new platforms create gold rush land grabs. The game becomes non-zero

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