purplelobster

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by purplelobster 13y ago
It makes sense to compare China to Europe instead of single European countries because they can both be considered civilizations. The difference being that China has always been striving for unification (although throughout much of it'
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Sorry, I'm aware of Chinese, Indian and Islamic mathematics. By "originating" I don't necessarily mean first in everything, but it's hard to argue that Chinese mathematics had as much of an impact. While I don'
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I'm not an expert, but to me it seems that every recent account of west vs. east vastly overestimates how awesome China was, just for shock value. This article seems to claim that Europe didn't surpass China until the 1800s. Why t
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I don't know about Amazon, but big companies usually have standard compensation including relocation that they can't easily depart from, except for "stars" or upper management.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Spaced repetition at work. Works great for me too, whenever I actually remember to do that, but sometimes I'm just caught off guard and instantly forget their names, but I'm not too embarrassed to ask again if I think I'll ru
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I have not yet created a sustainable business, but I know for sure that if I had tried without reading HN, articles and books every day for 2 years I would have had to learn those things "on the job", by creating failed start-ups.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
That's in charity organizations, doubt that's true for government. Anyone have actual numbers on typical government overhead?
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I used to be a serious CS player and when I use analog sticks I just feel physically handicapped. I don't like that feeling. I've tried and tried but reached a plateau on my analog skill that just I can't get past. It takes t
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Basically, give it to a professional players for a week, then record them playing at his best. If they have any chance against another team, then I'd consider that a success.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Looks like what I expected. When it comes to FPS games, it's difficult to know his skill level, but it's probably not something you'd use competitively. Many times better than an analog stick though, so I'd use it for ca
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by purplelobster 13y ago
It's amazing that the culture can be so different. Going to college in a European country, I never did an internship. I barely even worked summer jobs, I did maybe one summer's worth of work spread out over a few years, just to ge
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Swedish here. I just hate the way things are set up, so that in the winter you practically don't get any sunlight at all. You go to work in the dark, work inside (not necessarily by a window) and then you go home in the dark. I would m
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Ok, that's it, if this controller works then I'm in. I played Portal with my wife, and she loved it, but she's too afraid of the whole mouse+keyboard control system so in the end she let me play while she just watched. I thin
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I decided not to go with AngularJS, mainly because I want to reuse as much client side logic as possible in future native apps and Angular seemed very tightly coupled to browser apps and the DOM. With Backbone find it easier to separate the
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Ironically, you're close enough to the truth. The only thing that stands in the way of dignified living for everybody is people like you. There is enough resources in this world (especially the US). Why should kids everywhere live in p
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by purplelobster 13y ago
The tech industry might not be big in comparison to the US, but per capita I would think it is. Sweden's prosperity was built largely on technology, engineering, natural resources and heavy industry. The economy is pretty diversified n
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by purplelobster 13y ago
When I was showing my wife around Stockholm, it started pouring down, and we quickly went into a small coffee shop on a touristy street. I tried to buy a coffee ($5 mind you) and they wouldn't let me. Not without buying something else
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Agree, so much of the advice on HN is for B2B. I get that the success rate for B2B is higher, but some B2C advice would be very welcome.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Or perhaps something that can clearly save them money?
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I'm starting to wonder if I'm completely doomed selling to consumers. Consumers seems so fickle, they won't pay for anything software related it seems, even if it helps them a lot. Like they'll put down hundreds of dolla
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by purplelobster 13y ago
As a Swede who's been in the US for 5 years, what you say is true, but it's more nuanced than that. If you're poor, Sweden is so much better than the US, not even in the same league. As a software developer though, you'l
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Yes, I see having to pull an all-nighter as a big failure on my part. I did once or twice, but I noticed it's just counter productive. I was adding negative value at 2-6am, it would have been better to sleep and continue the next morni
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Just like to say that I love this concept.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I did that and I'm born in the mid 80s (not the US). Today I don't ever see kids going anywhere by themselves.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
You seriously had CPS called on you? By neighbors?
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I don't agree at all. Care-giving for elderly is definitely a growth industry. It's not easy building a marketplace, but I think this one has potential.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
This is commonly "known", but actually, I don't agree. It's all about exposure. I learned English in class, but most of my learning came from watching TV/movies and reading books in English, and posting on online fo
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Just as a curiosity, do these patent trolls mainly target US companies? What is the environment like for patents and trolls in the EU for instance?
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by purplelobster 13y ago
The most accurate prediction is to predict that most things will stay the same.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
My prediction is that data can replace empathy, just as Watson can beat human competitors most of the time. Students struggle with new concepts, but do they all struggle in uniquely different ways? Aren't there patterns? I think the da

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