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by shrimpx 5y ago
In short, the reason you wouldn’t buy it right now, despite believing its outlook is rosy, is because you think it’ll go lower in the short to medium term. Which is more or less what all the analysts are predicting about tech stocks broadly
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I think Paul Graham overestimates Musk’s social media influence. He’s powerful on Twitter in large part due to Twitter. Same with Trump, btw. If it were so easy for Musk to recreate the network, why spend 43B on some infrastructure? Musk kn
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by shrimpx 5y ago
It's true that this is "PEBKAC" but it's also true that this is a UX/system design failure on GitHub's part.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
BBEdit is the first programmer's editor I used. It was 1998 and I got a job at a Portland design agency who ran Linux on servers and macOS 9 on desktop. BBEdit's powerful search and replace function was also my first encounter wit
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by shrimpx 5y ago
This seems analogous to the weights in a neural network. In training, essential information about the training set is stored in weights and the rest is discarded. You can’t recover a training sample from a trained network.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Critics seem to rate movies on a global scale. How can I give this movie 9/10 when Citizen Kane is a 9/10? On that scale, this movie is at most a 6. Unsurprisingly, popular genres get trashed on that scale. Normal folks rate movie
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I mostly agree about the buzzwordy description of the company. But it’s critical to learn about the team’s internal process and tools.
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The best possible hires don’t go through this interview nonsense anyway.
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It’s the same situation with leetcode questions. The only difference with leetcode is that you don’t know the exact questions in advance but you roughly have the total set of questions that could be asked. Complete with solutions, YouTube t
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I would say there are 3 tiers: a) Your condition prevents you from being a functioning adult in society. You have to be in someone's care in order to function at a basic level. b) You're a functioning adult in society but you (or
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Both, but burning fossil fuels is a holdover, not a long term strategy.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I like your analysis. Tangent: what do you think about $FB, which currently sits at a P/E of 14?
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by shrimpx 5y ago
This is true, especially Germany and Italy, and Germany in particular. Even now they're in the process of shutting down more nuclear power, to become even more dependent on Russian gas. It's idiotic and pathetic, really. I hope Sc
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Maybe he could grow a mustache and buy a coffee farm in South America. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II_after...
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Also how inconsistent the look and behavior is from browser to browser. If you want to achieve uniformity across chrome/safari/ff, you basically have to go custom.
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Your opinion being that you should not use exceptions in that type of case. In which cases should you use exceptions?
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by shrimpx 5y ago
The problem is that in many practical situations you don’t know which situation is “exceptional”. If you write a jpeg-processing service, it’s intuitive to raise an exception on a malformed jpeg, but there’s no guarantee that only 1% of the
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I guess Eric Raymond never wanted to talk random banter about sports games on Reddit without his employers knowing about it.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I guess the vision is to have SQLive hooked up to Skip hooked up to React. Then your website is a pure function of your database, and clicks in the UI just mutate the DB, and all the views updates seamlessly.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Although !x mean "not x" pretty universally.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
The claim in this headline is almost as trivial to guess as "100% investors are in the green" when bitcoin is at ATH.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
The core assumption of stacks like htmx is that you don't need fine-grained client-side interactions implemented in custom Javascript; that when you need the UI to change, it's ok to go through the server. An example edge case whe
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Something similar happened in the WSB/GameStop fiasco where Citadel and Point72 bailed out Melvin Capital and its investors.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Yeah, the concept of "high-tech" has been conceptually bundled with the electric engine type. I for one hope those get disentangled because the limit for "high-tech" cars looks like a shitty idiocratic dystopia.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
"Data-driven UI design" can easily be myopic and sometimes disastrous. If you blindly follow the frequency of UI actions, you may hide seldom-used actions that are critical for safety in rare moments; or you may overly optimize fo
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by shrimpx 5y ago
It's funny how much Elon trashes US regulatory agencies for interfering, when in fact that they let him do whatever he wants.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
It's crazy that "electric cars" == "buttons are replaced by touch screens". VW makes non-electric cars that have a lot more knobs, but in their electric offerings they have to flock with Tesla with an all-glass UI,
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Could third party manufacturers release products that replace the massive LCD screen with an interface that has the same physical footprint but is like, half glass and half knobs?
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by shrimpx 5y ago
It'd be awesome if it supported chords so you could firehose multiple letters simultaneously.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I know Les and I was also skeptical as to the truth of the story due to the creative style of writing. A bunch of computer nerds are into fiction writing.

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