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by pyb 3y ago
A self-contradicting statement indeed. We can safely imply from "I can safely say I was the smartest person in the room" that he was not.
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YC hires Head of Public Policy(twitter.com)
3 points by pyb 3y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 3y ago
Surprising/doubtful, never heard of AMO physics being marginalised anywhere.
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by pyb 3y ago
Actually, all 8 have left
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7 of 8 authors of Transformers paper have since left Google(twitter.com)
3 points by pyb 3y ago|1 comments
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by pyb 3y ago
They know who these A players are but are afraid to hire them.
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by pyb 3y ago
Agile detractors like myself may find this amusing : "agile doesn’t fit in the context of this particular project, because the client changes priorities very frequently."
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by pyb 3y ago
A few of these startups are copycats of successful tools. Open source helps them be a 'virtuous' copycat.
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by pyb 3y ago
Physics and maths papers are published everyday, claiming to have solved this or that long-standing problem. I think Twitter/HN is getting excited about this particular paper for no particularl reason, it's just random the amplifi
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by pyb 3y ago
Agreed, this is a must-read, very well-written paper. Even though it turned out the world didn't really need cryptocurrencies.
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by pyb 3y ago
All the supplier catalogues: rswww, farnell, mcmaster in the US, etc.
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by pyb 3y ago
Interesting. The OpenGL team used to be one of the most prominent driver teams at IMG, and now it's outsourced. They explain the (market) reasons in the post.
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by pyb 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32724564
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by pyb 3y ago
Regarding 2., in the 1950-70s, these comics used to be published in weekly magazines first, and only published as albums a bit later.
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by pyb 3y ago
It will suddenly become their business if that Prigozhin thug seizes nuclear weapons.
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by pyb 3y ago
Yes, but then the experiment kinda proves the opposite of the point it was trying to prove. As it were, people largely agree with each other as to what's reasonable and what is not.
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by pyb 3y ago
Yes. Tyler conveninently ignores one of the central points of the book.
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by pyb 3y ago
Am I the only one who finds sequence diagrams hard to read?
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by pyb 3y ago
Pretty much stopped asking any questions on web forums because of this. Some people tend to "XY" you whenever they don't immediately know the answer to a complex question.
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by pyb 3y ago
Great exhibitions, great location, great rooftop... But you'll never be able to please everybody I guess.
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by pyb 3y ago
As a freelancer, you want your clients to recoup their investment in you many times over. Generally, 4x is the very minimum you should aim for, give the friction and effort in hiring you in the first place. So I don't think you should&
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by pyb 3y ago
Never heard of Neeva before. That is probably part of the problem...
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by pyb 3y ago
People get into incredible mental contorsions to justify helping one customer who should really be able to find alternatives, over helping 1000+ customers who cannot.
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by pyb 3y ago
I still can't make sense of his decision to favour SME customers. Someone who needs 3000 units a year is more likely to have the resources to redesign around a different SBC, than someone who orders a couple RPis a year.
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by pyb 3y ago
Gen Z will be one of the most practical generations in history, thanks to Youtube.
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by pyb 4y ago
I don't think the average user would understand the nuance, though. (I don't think I do)
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by pyb 4y ago
Pichai got promoted from CEO of Google to CEO of Alphabet some time ago. Therefore, as strange as it is, Larry and Sergey are fully on board with whatever it is that he's doing.
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by pyb 4y ago
There was a time in the 60s when letters to "Daniel, Paris" went to Daniel Filipacchi.
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by pyb 4y ago
Not to mention the extra costs to the healthcare system. These things are not safe!
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by pyb 4y ago
Wild to see how VCs are trying to fully deflect the consequences of their exuberance on the founders.

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