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by ritchiea 13y ago
I'm really interested in this kind of sentiment. Why do you feel so certain SV is a meritocracy?
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I think the author's greater point is correct but you're right, those two are terrible choices. I also think most people would not stop and question whether Jobs & Zuck are "white" and that says something about how w
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Dr. Who Google Doodle(google.co.nz)
6 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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Using Bees to Detect Cancer in Humans(susanasoares.com)
2 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 13y ago
How much of your company would you have to sell for it to become a deterrent to demo day investors?
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The Anatomy of a High Converting Landing Page(quicksprout.com)
1 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 13y ago
> a contract is only good if the dollar amount is enough to get a lawyer involved as far as filing and pursuing any legal action I disagree, contracts are much better than an email trail for keeping both parties on the same page. Email
728.
by ritchiea 13y ago
Question for other freelancers: how do you handle changes in a spec? I've been nervous about this lately because I'm doing freelance work and the contract outlined a spec that we've now deviated from greatly. I'm not inc
729.
by ritchiea 13y ago
Agreed, a computer doesn't have intentions. Playing against a real human player you can disrupt their intentions and/or surprise them. That's obviously not possible with a computer.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I actually found playing against a computer to be extremely frustrating from the perspective of trying to learn & better my game. Computers simply do not play chess in a style that's comparable to human chess players. Human chess p
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Hold on there. Realism isn't ideological. One person's realism may be turning to conservatism, another person's realism may be pushing to systematically address failures in government to prevent them in future cases.
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Have you been smoking pot? Denver Police can tell with the Nasal Ranger(alternet.org)
2 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Thank you so much for posting this. I developed a bad habit of avoiding admissions of ignorance at the very start of my career because I felt shunned or slighted when I was honest about my lack of knowledge. It was terrible. For a long tim
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by ritchiea 13y ago
What do you mean by "a real git repository"? Github does not disable reflogs.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
It's implicit in most of our work arrangements that we have to learn new technologies to excel at our jobs to greatest degree possible. If your employer does not realize this that's a problem. Realistically if you are at your job
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by ritchiea 13y ago
They are also similarly priced, there was a discussion of this earlier this year on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5806006
737.
by ritchiea 13y ago
This is a huge bummer. Whenever I don't have anything to read on the subway I grab the latest Onion.
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A community driven taco repo(github.com)
1 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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Google Apps drop support for IE9(googlesystem.blogspot.com)
251 points by ritchiea 13y ago|179 comments
740.
by ritchiea 13y ago
But dude your app still swears at me when I tell it I drink Sixpoint beers, Sweet Action too.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
It told me to go fuck myself when I entered Sixpoint Crisp, what's wrong with Sixpoint?
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Looking forward to reading about a Somali YC for early stage pirate groups.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I am happy for you. It sounds like you've worked hard and done some great stuff. That said I have no idea what your reply has to do with my comment. The anecdote in the parent is a story about an ex-IDEO employee encountering a big nam
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Great story. That's really the right way to get a new job, tell the CEO of a company exactly how you can help her/his company. And smart of the Uber CEO to listen to her. That said it really helps if you're already hanging ar
745.
by ritchiea 13y ago
The problem is that "tech journalists" tend to actually be business journalists. They aren't investigative journalists looking to uncover the workings and untrue assumptions of society increasingly dependent on tech. Most of
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by ritchiea 13y ago
As a New Yorker looking for an apartment I've really come to despise Airbnb. Housing has obviously always been expensive here, but it's reached new heights this year. I'm looking in Brooklyn and not only are the rents higher
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification. My experience with system level IO calls is limited. I formed my answer from my experience and the Bert Belder talk I linked to above. He actually describes libev as a wrapper around select, and says that selec
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Generate Haikus from the NSA keyword watchlist(nsahaiku.net)
3 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 13y ago
It's a C library to handle asynchronous IO. The library it replaced, libev, is essentially a wrapper around select which is a unix system call that looks for file descriptors that are ready for reading or writing (for more info you can
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Given how short the video is, how bad can a bad one be?

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