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by ronilan 7y ago
Q: > You're investing time in the same company you're asking them to invest money in. If it's not a good investment, why are you even doing it? A: Because you and them don’t have the same circumstances, and thus don’t hav
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by ronilan 7y ago
Copyright is not as important to society as Silicon Valley wants everyone to believe. It a property issue and not even a critical one. Most of the problems around it can be solved with money. The collateral damage caused by this lawyer infu
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by ronilan 7y ago
I think you meant drivel. And here is a fine example of how to dribble (via twitter): https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/120241814211214540...
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Ilya Zhitomirskiy(en.wikipedia.org)
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To the stranger who left me feedback with an astute observation (but no email). The box Abe is building won't work. He's got it wired wrong. And if they fix that I’ll start actually taking pieces out of it. It's just a gimmi
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by ronilan 7y ago
I’ve been following Buy Me A Coffee since it publicly launched (not today) and it’s great to see that a side project can get support from YC. It’s not an easy space. I work winters as a snowboard instructor. Over a typical winter I’d teach
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by ronilan 7y ago
Yes. Toaster is smart. But toaster has no hands. No money to buy a candle. No access to Apollo computer. And the author somehow thinks it’s the toaster’s fault that it fails.
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by ronilan 7y ago
> "With the debut of AI in Go games, I've realized that I'm not at the top even if I become the number one through frantic efforts,” There is something sad about this comment. It’s as if, even while standing at the peak,
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by ronilan 7y ago
Correct. Senators are required, since the installation of dial phones in the Capitol, to perform the duties of telephone operators And also seems that it was more than UX that bothered them...
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The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial (2017)(ribbonfarm.com)
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> Protocol buffers also known as Protobuf Classic SEO.
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by ronilan 7y ago
Disclaimer: I don't work for Amazon. They didn't want to hire me. > I’m not sure what the official goals of Go are but I always thought it was to remove friction during checkout. I visited the Seattle store one evening in Apr
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Jake Burton, founder of Burton Snowboards and industry pioneer dies at 65(wwd.com)
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Here is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ryjjeNc5k
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by ronilan 7y ago
sprite.addTo(stage); stage.addSprite(sprite); Are both ok. First is more intuitive cause everything else is of shape sprite.doThing In Scratch the IDE does the creation/association. So the design choice here is - should a S
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by ronilan 7y ago
woof.js is great. It feels similar to how Khan Academy do their intro to JS which in turn is very like Processing.js and other Canvas based libs. This gives it a clear progression path which is an advantage. BlockLike has a slightly differe
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by ronilan 7y ago
I agree that "this" may be hard to explain (especially, say if you find yourself interviewing at AMZN and some middle manager shouts at you over video to explain what "this" means) but in BlockLike it is, by design, pret
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by ronilan 7y ago
> in that vein it would be nice if blocklike had an import function to load scratch projects. I actually played with a basic React app to do that and I scraped it for two reasons: 1) Practically Scratch projects are very visual beyond
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by ronilan 7y ago
As well as the relatively new MakeCode from Microsoft[1], multiple projects based on Google's Blockly[2] and obviously everyones goto: Code.org With the above, and with Scratch 3.0 finally ditching Flash, I think the absolute-beginner-
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Show HN: Blocklike.js Educational Library – So kids can level up from Scratch(github.com)
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List of people who have declined Knighthood etc.(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ronilan 7y ago
Indeed. But it’s up to them to decide what they want to do with their life and liberty and how they’d like to pursue their happiness. Shoes on or off, excluding specific placements, should not be a factor. Neither, me, you nor loony, father
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by ronilan 7y ago
How many people live on this planet is not a matter of personal preference. Neither individual nor collective. I thought that was obvious.
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In part two is an 11 steps plan: 11. A global population strategy to enable a smooth descent to the two to three billion that could live comfortably indefinitely within the biophysical means of nature. Another anti-humanist Malthusian loo
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by ronilan 7y ago
A side note: for anyone not aware (or confused by Silicon Valley tradition on constantly rewriting origin stories), TripAdvisor started in the dot com bubble as a B2B site. They clearly stated their business model was to provide reviews to
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Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is, to die well.
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“Any institution (employer, academic, etc) requiring candidates to submit a video recording as part of the application process, should provide the applicant with a reciprocal video of anyone watching their submission.”
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YouTube New Ideas Week, 'YouTube for Kids', & the Quest for the Cup (2011)(techcrunch.com)
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