solresol

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by solresol 5y ago
I'm somewhat introverted (my children say "dad doesn't talk much"), but I can walk into a room full of strangers and be still there three hours later still connecting with new people. I think it's practice and/
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by solresol 5y ago
There's nothing wrong with what you, by the way. You are forging your own path and you will find some obscure niche that no-one cares about which turns out to be lucrative enough to keep you occupied. It will all work out in the end. Y
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by solresol 6y ago
I think the name for what you are offering is called "Business Intelligence". Now you need to be able to handle objections. What does this offer (me the CEO/CTO) that isn't done with Tableau or PowerBI? Those tools get m
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by solresol 6y ago
Yes, this happened to me when I joined google. I think there was a mixup with someone hired at the same time with the same name. So I was told I was being hired at L5 but was in the system as L3. I raised it as a problem and tried to resolv
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by solresol 6y ago
> Since all debt that matters is denominated in USD, Actually, most major economies borrow in either their own currency or in Euros (if they are in Europe).
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by solresol 6y ago
It's called the year of jubilee. It's not insane, and it has been applied to developing nation debt. A lot of thinking has gone into what wide-scale debt forgiveness might look like.
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by solresol 6y ago
This being HN... where are the poets writing about Silicon Valley, about rationalism meetups, about starting one day too late for the IPO, about the feeling of finally debugging something that's been a recurring problem since before yo
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by solresol 6y ago
Both China and the USA think that any invasion into their territories will inevitably fail because of the strength of their armies and because of the long supply chains that their enemy would need to maintain to hold a position. Both sides
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by solresol 6y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but revenue per employee doesn't seem to be rising, which is what I would expect to see out of a successful startup that has found product market fit and is beginning to gain economies of scale. All I
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by solresol 6y ago
> module Main where > input = "aaaabbbcca" > r :: String -> (Char,Int) -> [(String, Int)] > r [] (c,n) = [([c],n)] > r (x:xs) (c,n) > | c == x = r xs (c,n+1) > | otherwise = (([c],n): r xs (x,1)) >
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by solresol 6y ago
The way it works where I live is that if the tax office has to refund you some money (or the government wants to give you stimulus money, or whatever) is that by default it gets deposited to the bank account that was last used to pay any ta
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by solresol 6y ago
I can't offer a citation, but I can observe that electricity prices in wholesale markets regularly go negative during times when renewables are operating at peak output. Since people overprovision solar to have enough power at non-peak
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by solresol 6y ago
We just had the Chinese government telling us (essentially) to shut down free speech and eliminate the multi-party system. Now it's the corporate world's turn to tell us what to do.
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by solresol 6y ago
Or you mandate that the insurers can only rate on certain variables (e.g. zip code) and/or you mandate a pooling system so that insurers who have many low risk people on their books subsidise insurers who have many high risk people.
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by solresol 6y ago
I'd like to talk to you about this, but you don't have any contact details in your profile. You can find me email address in my profile.
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by solresol 6y ago
Why doesn't annotating these functions with @functools.lru_cache(10000000) work?
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by solresol 6y ago
La Sagadra Familia. I had seen a bunch of other Gaudi buildings, and wasn't all that impressed. The outside of La Sagadra Famailia just seemed tedious. I went inside and ... words fail me to describe the experience.
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by solresol 6y ago
I remember my Microbee starting up from floppy disk in substantially less time than that.
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by solresol 6y ago
Of course, I wouldn't dream of saying that spelchek.pas (as I think I called it because 11-year-old me thought that was hilarious) was state of the art at the time, nor would it be sufficient for any purpose today. But it solved the co
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by solresol 6y ago
I don't want to brag, but it wasn't that hard to write a spellchecker in 256KB in 1984. I was in primary school (age 11) and we had a Microbee at home with 64KB of RAM and a copy of Turbo Pascal. My sister is/was dyslexic so
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by solresol 6y ago
Isn't there a bigger Ponzi scheme in tech? The one where you sell a product at a screaming loss, double your revenue each year (without ever showing a profit), and then each year raise capital at double the previous year's valuat
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by solresol 6y ago
Mid-market insurance has a sort-of-a use case, but I've not quite been able to make it work (yet). If you are a large-ish business, you will talk to your insurance broker to insure it. This will probably turn into a multi-thousand page
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by solresol 6y ago
A lot changes in Ada-95; the Ada-83 concurrency model was indeed very limited (which is what that article talked about).
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Something funny is about to happen to some prices(blog.ifost.org.au)
105 points by solresol 6y ago|98 comments
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by solresol 6y ago
Creepiest thing I've read for a while. Is Alex Danco really condoning founder dishonesty? Personally, I walk away from working with founders who consistently fudge and exaggerate; if they can lie to their investors and customers, they
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by solresol 6y ago
Fusiontables was part of G Suite until it was terminated.
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by solresol 6y ago
No, it started as a purchase of where2 and has had full time staff ever since google bought it.
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by solresol 6y ago
The wishlist reminds me a lot of VMS clusters. He forgot to add that he wanted version control built into the filesystem, and then it would read like the OpenVMS product sales training. But VMS clusters were much smaller, so the complexity
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by solresol 6y ago
- Being able to deploy an update for a program while the program is running, without shutting the process down. Your code-compile-debug-fix cycle is very, very fast, so you end up very productive. - With threads, one thread can take the oth
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by solresol 6y ago
As one of the other commenters mentioned, university in Australia is relatively affordable. The government subsidises most of it, and the bit that's left over is deducted from your salary by your employer until it's paid off. The

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