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by salt-licker 8y ago
In general, computers are stateful (they use RAM) and execute instructions one-by-one, in order. Even when programming in a higher level imperative language like C++ or Python, we can guess with reasonable accuracy about our program’s time
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by salt-licker 8y ago
I don’t disagree with the article, I believe Blank accurately describes the current vc mindset. I just think he missed an opportunity to point out its pitfalls and in doing so implicitly endorsed overfunding. My argument is that even as a v
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by salt-licker 8y ago
Good point, I forgot to mention that "race to IPO and cash out" is a viable business strategy, though a sad product strategy. See A123 Systems, Desktop Metal's founder's previous company that went bankrupt. Also the Ener
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by salt-licker 8y ago
Overfunding is an existential risk for startups. Scaling a team before finding PMF seems like a blunder in most circumstances. Instead of setting your best engineers to work creating the best product, they're busy recruiting and dealin
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by salt-licker 9y ago
Sometimes I want to take a subset of the commits out of a coworker's merge on staging to push to production, and then put all non-pushed commits on top of the production branch to form a new staging branch. I find having a linear histo
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by salt-licker 9y ago
- Roger Wicker asks whether Facebook can track browsing activity even when a user is logged out of Facebook. Zuckerberg responds that he's not aware and he'll have his staff follow up, then later admits that cookies exist. They ob
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by salt-licker 9y ago
I've used TrackJS in the past - they have context on the user session surrounding front-end exceptions, e.g. what the user clicked on beforehand. Is a video replay really that much more useful?
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by salt-licker 9y ago
When I read "Who owns the future" three years ago I thought his diagnosis of the Internet's issues was spot on but his solution of compensating online creators with micropayments was outlandish and technically impossible. How
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by salt-licker 9y ago
This write-up overlooks that hardware integration is neither free nor easy. Tesla has a huge advantage over an 'autonomy in a box' model because 1. It only has to support 2 or 3 car models and 2. It has full control over all desig