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by reso 14y ago
Chomsky's work has been cited by many papers in both fields.
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by reso 14y ago
Comparing the acquisitions of two companies in different industries fallaciously assumes there is an objective measure of the "value" of a company. Acquisition value != societal value. Instagram wasn't worth $1 billion to society, it was wo
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by reso 14y ago
I understand your sentiment, but I think you're choosing your examples too carefully. Other singularity-era technology could let us breathe underwater, or increase our muscle and bone-density ten-fold, giving us superhero like strength. I t
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by reso 14y ago
>On average, these [violin] masters practiced in 90-minute spurts, three times a week There must be a lot of context missing from this statistic, or it is simply untrue. The suggestion that one can master a classical instrument with onl
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by reso 14y ago
The author of the criticism is the founder of a for-profit start-up competing with Khan Academy. Khan Academy itself is a non-profit. These incentives should frame everything we hear about this exchange.
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by reso 14y ago
I think he's well within reason. If you were assaulted by a cashier at McDonald's, would you just ignore it and continue on? I'm pretty sure I would try and get the perpetrators fired and possibly charged, and have the company pay for any d
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by reso 14y ago
Non-competes are effectively illegal in California.
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Code Style Guide for the English Language, by William Strunk Jr.(bartleby.com)
4 points by reso 14y ago|0 comments
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by reso 14y ago
Actually, it was written a year ago, 04.21.11.
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by reso 14y ago
It's exactly this. Let's not forget the quality of techcrunch comments improved by an order of magnitude as soon as they switched to Facebook's comment system, which has the best spam/troll detection I've ever seen. A tiny number of false p
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by reso 14y ago
This is from 2006. I'm sure their fake name detection is much more sophisticated by now.
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by reso 14y ago
We're using this right now to prepare for our interview. Nice work guys!
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by reso 15y ago
The intent of the "learn to code" sentiment is not actually to turn business people into 95th-percentile engineers, but rather to acquaint them with the particular challenges of the discipline. This helps them understand the engineers they
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by reso 15y ago
Thanks for the great feedback. The tone of the site is meant to be lighthearted, so as to appeal to a comedian. We're not aiming this at a corporation wanting to entrust us with their millions, but a particular person with a good sense of h
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by reso 15y ago
Sorry that the asterisk wasn't clear, I've changed the language. I don't think you're our target market, the people we're going after don't know how to set up their own EC2 clusters and build a custom video player, so we handle the hosting.
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by reso 15y ago
Yeah, I took it out. Its not really his brand of humour, anyway.
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by reso 15y ago
Apologies if we offended, it is supposed to be humorous.
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Dear Jim Gaffigan, Louis C.K. paid $35k for his website. We'll do yours for $0.(dearjimgaffigan.com)
65 points by reso 15y ago|38 comments
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by reso 15y ago
I'll add that if you do multiple internships, do them at multiple places. At this point in your career, getting breadth of experience is far more valuable than depth.
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by reso 15y ago
There is a difference. Google and Facebook are not media organizations and are clearly stating that SOPA will hurt them. People go to media companies for news, and when they see op-eds like the one in the WSJ, are less likely to consider th
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by reso 15y ago
Actually, I said the same thing after I wrote it. Initially, I tried to convey the anecdote in prose, but I couldn't decide what the "message" was. I was reading GEB at the time, which inspired me to try a more indirect approach, in the sty
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by reso 15y ago
Of those four goals, I hit one of them in a month, then hit another two months after that. I still consider it the high-point of my career thusfar.
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A Koan: Anecdote from my time at Facebook(blog.garethmacleod.com)
17 points by reso 15y ago|5 comments
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by reso 15y ago
This is true, but they're usually local angels, not VCs.
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Ask HN: Have you ever had Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? How did you deal with it?
8 points by reso 15y ago|9 comments
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by reso 15y ago
I disagree entirely. The author conflates "making technology easier to use" with "making people dumber". He decries the invention of the typewriter because it ended calligraphy, and the printing press because we no longer have to memorize b
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by reso 15y ago
Canadian VCs suck, no question. That's why most good Canadian start-ups have investors from the valley.
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by reso 15y ago
My error, I believe this was true at one point, however. We do account for the majority, however. Fraser's post below me gives a near comprehensive list.
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by reso 15y ago
In my opinion, the engine of Waterloo's success is the university's unique co-op program. UW operates on a four-month rotating co-op system, each student does four months of school, then four months of internships, repeat for the duration o
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by reso 15y ago
The TechCrunch crew has a long history of "calling out" major companies on their product decisions, in the absence of any of the data or context in which such complex decisions are made. P.S. I love how Tom has turned into the elder statesm

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