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by repsilat 8y ago
> giving most of it to Google or whoever More common to over-hire, I think. Server costs tend to scale well with your customer base.
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by repsilat 8y ago
I don't think it'll happen. If you're from New York or Canada or Europe etc, the advice is "Come to SV for the incubator, start an American company, and run it from back home in the long run if you don't/can&#x
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by repsilat 8y ago
As someone who prefers Python to Ruby, Ruby is better for this job because there are so many more methods on Array/Enumerable than on Python list (or Python's global functions.) And them all being methods makes life simpler too.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Hmm, I think it's a legal thing to get the right money to the right people (by affecting taxes or liquidation preferences or...) If Facebook buys the company's IP but not the company itself, and the company pays out that cash in d
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by repsilat 8y ago
It has a clear and fixed definition, but that definition isn't the numeric constant 1. Associating it with a numeric value is a convenience, and different choices give different conveniences. In physics "c" is a constant. In
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by repsilat 8y ago
My intuition wants to say, "If a town can spring up around a company, can't the town wind down if the company shuts down?" Two reasons why that's wrong come to mind (maybe one reason, they're closely related): - The
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by repsilat 8y ago
> is has been < 12 months since For clarification, do you mean that after more time - the hotel will forget about the shooting, - shootings will become less likely, or - secret privacy invasions that people were never meant to know ab
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by repsilat 8y ago
Hmm, I guess it would have worked if a radian was defined as 1/(2pi) instead of 1. On the downside, you'd have to redefine things like `sin` to take multiples of "whole rotations" to make `sin(2pi radians)` (i.e., `sin(1
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by repsilat 8y ago
> offline-first development, where concurrent timelines don’t really have any limit on the length of their diverging histories Is there really great utility in automatically merging wildly divergent documents? Being able to send your que
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by repsilat 8y ago
It works for me. Note that `|` is a bitwise-or (not that it really matters, it just removes a branch) const True = -1 const False = 0 const ternary = (condition, left, right) => \ (condition & left) | (~condition
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by repsilat 8y ago
The paper is pretty coy about what they mean by "network", "congestion" and "latency". It doesn't just apply to computer networking -- the original motivating example for this kind of model was road networ
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by repsilat 8y ago
An upside to SAAS, I guess -- if the user data lives on your servers in a reasonably structured format you can try to migrate it, and your migrations don't have to work across too many versions if that's difficult (unlike file for
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by repsilat 8y ago
Ah, of course. Still, this definition gets you to something stricter still -- the "things that normal people think of as numbers" are closed under those operations. (Depending on what happens for overflow and 0/0, I guess.)
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by repsilat 8y ago
> correctly state the undefined nature of 1/0 Erm, when we say it's "undefined" we mean it literally -- standard mathematical systems of arithmetic do not define a value for that division. If you make another system o
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by repsilat 8y ago
Imagine the situation were reversed -- when people broke up they didn't get heartbroken, but you could take a pill to make yourself probably feel like crap for months or years after. Imagine how difficult it would be to convince peop
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by repsilat 8y ago
And what a turnaround for the CLR. People used to say, "Sure, C# is a better Java, but Microsoft and closed-source etc..." Or, "Sure F# looks cool, pity about..." Microsoft's reputation isn't what Sun's wa
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by repsilat 8y ago
I didn't look closely enough, could it have been dog poop? People walking dogs often carry plastic bags, and I bet some of them dislike the scooters enough to vandalize them.
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by repsilat 8y ago
From the "About" page[1]: > You must submit at least 9 out of your 10 weekly updates and attend 9 out of 10 group office hour sessions. 1: https://www.startupschool.org/about
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by repsilat 8y ago
Singaporeans at least have the right to leave. Chinese people aren't even free to migrate internally. Singaporean internet access is significantly freer than Chinese. Singapore has freer markets, more rule of law. They don't have
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by repsilat 8y ago
I agree with the sibling comment that it won't be the eventual solution because charging will be good enough. That said, the battery thing just isn't a problem with the right market setup. Battery deterioration over a fleet is pre
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by repsilat 8y ago
I know this was just an example of how they're different, but this particular feature should make EV chargers easier for the market to supply relative to gas stations.
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by repsilat 8y ago
Well, thanks. I built it with react and redux starting with the "create react app" package. There are probably frameworks that will help a bit more, but I'm not too familiar with the front-end world so I went with what they
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by repsilat 8y ago
Hi Ralston! I'm building a spreadsheet program myself at the moment (demo and product link at https://6gu.nz ). There are two major parts to a spreadsheet app, in my view: 1. A UI to change sheet layout and formulas, and to
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by repsilat 8y ago
Aside from the difficulty of changing, can you give a couple of sentences on the pros/cons? Are "moving GCs" mostly good for reducing fragmentation? I guess you'd get fewer annoying "holes" if you can compact m
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by repsilat 8y ago
> returning cash to shareholders Just to emphasise this point more: to first order, a buyback of $n of stock reduces Apple's market cap by $n. Apple would have hit a trillion much sooner had it not bought back so much stock. Thi
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by repsilat 8y ago
> Frankenstein stories Funnily enough, this idea -- the meme of "Frankenstein" being about the perils of science or technology -- is totally at odds with the book itself. Popular culture has obviously not had much contact wit
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by repsilat 8y ago
Erm, that's a little abstract for me, but I guess you're saying that aesthetic judgements of programs aren't worth much from a theoretical perspective? If so, I'd say, - It didn't really seem like anyone in the comm
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by repsilat 8y ago
> network effect It's not so bad (or maybe wouldn't be if cars themselves weren't so expensive.) Assuming some even distribution of avaialable vehicles in an area, time-to-pickup scales like (area/vehicles), so the re
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by repsilat 8y ago
Uber lobbying for increased regulation as a barrier to competition would be the highest of ironies. I want to believe they would know how bad it would look and stay away, but I think the more likely reason it won't happen is that they&
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by repsilat 8y ago
Invalid JSON parsing as `null` would be an exciting API decision, haha. One thing I think I like about JS over Python is that empty containers are "truthy". This, combined with non-raising missed lookups, tends to be pretty ergono

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