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by rankam 9y ago
Why do you believe there should be a desire to distance oneself from a graph database? Graph databases are great when used correctly.
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by rankam 9y ago
Google created Golang and then created a tool to convert Python2 -> Go. https://github.com/google/grumpy
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by rankam 9y ago
Software developers aren't considered in the same league as doctors, lawyers, civil engineers, or architects. Software developers are viewed as construction workers by most people and businesses.
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by rankam 9y ago
Taxi apps like these are prevalent in Europe and have been around for 5-7 years. MyTaxi/Hailo is owned by Daimler and is Europe's largest taxi app. Gett Taxi is a large player - Volkswagen invested $300 million in them in 2016. Ho
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by rankam 9y ago
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who considers winning a silver medal to be failing - but yes, failure is subjective. The original premise was about a person who tries being "better than" someone who doesn't
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by rankam 9y ago
I agree with your statement - my point is that there seems to be this prevailing idea that you can't learn unless you try to build something by yourself which ignores reality. Sure, if you try to start a business/project/idea
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by rankam 9y ago
Sure, but this implies that you don't learn things while "not trying". Of course you learn things while "not trying", albeit different things.
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by rankam 9y ago
Do you believe that people are equal in regards to everything or just creativity?
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by rankam 9y ago
I don't know, doesn't the outcome matter? Trying is admirable, but if a person tries and fails and I never try; at the end of the day we're both in the same place, no?
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by rankam 9y ago
Awesome, makes sense - thanks for your help!
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by rankam 9y ago
Thanks, and just so I understand correctly, these pending orders are waiting within the blockchain to be executed, similar(ish) to a task queue?
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by rankam 9y ago
How does this impact buy/sell orders? If I place a buy order at t = 0 where btc = 10, but the order isn't processed until t + 3hours where btc = 15, do I pay 10 or 15?
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by rankam 9y ago
Typically, when referring to college in the US, people mean university. Universities are made up of colleges (College of Business, College of Arts & Science, College of Fine Arts, etc). Colleges within universities can have their own ad
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by rankam 9y ago
Some schools have an interdisciplinary degree which is close, I think. If I recall, you essentially have an advisor that oversees the classes you take and makes sure that you have "enough" credits in each subject (STEM, literature
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by rankam 9y ago
I don't know anything about the regulation and just skimmed the Wikipedia article for a minute, but isn't this regulation unenforceable in practice? If I have a website, how am I supposed to know if a visitor is a citizen of the E
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by rankam 9y ago
What are your thoughts on alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical companies that make money from addicted users?
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by rankam 9y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but if you are, please know that my comment wasn't meant to minimize your accomplishment of building and releasing an app. I honestly want you to succeed and think it would be sad if th
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by rankam 9y ago
The landing page copy is still really bad - "Whenever Audrey do not understand your request, you can teach it so that it can understand you the next time." How am I supposed to trust that you are capable of building an AI when you
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by rankam 10y ago
Sorry for hijacking, but is there an issue with Cloud SQL right now? I keep getting authentication issues from the GCP dashboard even though I've logged in with 2FA multiple times and when I try to visit my Cloud SQL instances, it just
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by rankam 10y ago
I think the author is trying to point out that mean, median, and mode are things that people think they understand because they know how to calculate them - any one of them is trivial for the majority of the high school educated population
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by rankam 10y ago
Genuinely appreciate your response, but not everyone with a different opinion than you is a hater :)
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by rankam 10y ago
I didn't think of it that way - I was thinking os UI, but I think you have a valid point regarding hardware features :)
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by rankam 10y ago
Wow - I never thought I'd see the day when someone said I need a mac to use Excel :) I understand your point - Calc is great for opening spreadsheets and doing minor spreadsheet stuff, but can be a major pain for anything more.
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by rankam 10y ago
It makes me curious - do we (mac users) like our hardware, do we like our UI, do we like a combo of both or is it something else? Regardless, cool to hear you got elementary running on a mac!
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by rankam 10y ago
Hackintosh-ing sounds fantastic, but I've read so many horror stories about upgrades that it frightens me
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by rankam 10y ago
I hadn't seen that xkcd yet, but how absolutely true :)
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by rankam 10y ago
If you don't mind me asking, which linux distro did you go with for the switch?
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Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?
55 points by rankam 10y ago|109 comments
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Ask HN: Does anyone know how to get access to Google Cloud Functions Alpha?
3 points by rankam 10y ago|0 comments
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by rankam 10y ago
Curious, could I ask the country? I've lived in both the US & UK and would say that the vast majority of companies I've been involved with (via employment or simply interviewing) haven't cared about my degrees, but instea

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