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by sp527 9y ago
Framework adoption is likely power law distributed and therefore exponentially greater mindshare and ecosystem development (e.g. supporting libraries, learning material, best practices, blog posts, etc) accrue to the first place contender.
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by sp527 9y ago
This is a really naive view of public company obligations. Corporations should always be acting in the interest of shareholder return, full stop. That’s not something PE firms invented. That’s the expectation that has fundamentally driven c
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by sp527 9y ago
Share of new projects being spun up in Angular is probably on a serious decline as well. I don’t see too much future potential there. React will probably dominate for the immediate future.
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by sp527 9y ago
I think sometimes developers just have trouble conceptualizing ‘performance tiers’ at the low to mid end. One example is thinking that horizontal scalability of the persistence layer is necessary before you get to even perhaps Series C&#x2F
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Ask HN: What Are Good Resources for Improving Dev Agility?
1 points by sp527 9y ago|0 comments
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by sp527 9y ago
Wait are you trying to say there’s no way to record audio on a smartphone app? And also, why are you calling it “disk”? Smartphones use flash memory for storage.
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by sp527 9y ago
Why would any rational human being search ‘Fruit Loops shake’ on Facebook? Let’s also assume for the sake of argument that I only associate with rational people.
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Ask HN: Why is Plaid.com intaking bank login credentials?
1 points by sp527 9y ago|0 comments
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by sp527 9y ago
Presuming Facebook has some sort of totally encompassing omniscience is a little foolhardy in light of e.g. the Russia issues, isn’t it? I tacitly admitted they may at worst suspect but not know that third parties are targeting in this way.
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by sp527 9y ago
After Obama’s comments on the NSA surveillance program back when sh*t was hitting the fan, I’m always keenly parsing these kinds of statements for word play. There’s usually a way out of accountability and liability through evasive rhetoric
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by sp527 9y ago
It wasn’t an ad for the shake though. It was for Fruit Loops cereal.
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by sp527 9y ago
Why would audio have to be transcribed locally on battery power? You could do that server-side and/or keep the data stored locally as audio until the device is charging and on WiFi.
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by sp527 9y ago
We were going through the drive-thru and saw a sign. It seemed so magnificently revolting, I wondered at the time if it was a red herring to drive word of mouth.
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by sp527 9y ago
Once happened while remarking on the Fruit Loops shake at Burger King. Opened Facebook minutes later and got a Fruit Loops ad. I assure you I don’t message, post, or in any other way remotely suggest an affinity for Fruit Loops. Commenting
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by sp527 9y ago
Most interview questions are ridiculous and don’t test for the knowledge a candidate should have. When I interview, I ask a system design problem that involves using an inverted index, a bst, understanding how to normalize data, and then be
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Ask HN: Researching an Uncommon Medical Issue
2 points by sp527 9y ago|1 comments
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by sp527 9y ago
You seem to be someone who’s not aware of how thin the liquidity is in crypto markets.
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by sp527 9y ago
Active investing isn’t a great idea unless you’re committing a lot of time and resources to the effort. And even then, it’s usually still a bad idea. The vast majority of professional funds underperform the market. It really is better in th
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by sp527 9y ago
Umm what? Did you stop and read over what you just wrote? If transaction costs hit $10K, 0.08 BTC will be worth the same as 21M BTC: $0.
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by sp527 9y ago
So they’re still monetizing peoples’ attention? I suppose it’s more noble to pass proportionate value back to the creators, but that’s not a system Facebook et al couldn’t quite easily adopt if market pressure forced their hands.
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by sp527 9y ago
You’re not imagining it. With 8 hours of sleep and a 9 hour work day plus all the other things that are effectively ‘required’, we are left with about 4 free hrs per weekday in a very optimistic scenario (commute is 30 minutes each way, you
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by sp527 9y ago
Loss aversion is a human bias that has fairly obvious evolutionary origins: fear is a stronger behavioral motivator than risk-seeking tendency because it confers a survival advantage (‘you only die once’).
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by sp527 9y ago
Amazon has developed a public reputation for being an intense environment where employees are generally overworked [0]. Unsurprisingly, (based on conversations with engineers I know there) it varies depending on your team and even geographi
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Ask HN: Checklist of Good/Healthy Habits?
1 points by sp527 9y ago|1 comments
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by sp527 9y ago
‘Dark’ coins like Monero. They provide the highest utility for their most obvious use case: money laundering and illicit, untraceable transactions.
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by sp527 9y ago
A lot of things ‘provide real value’. What matters is the magnitude of said value. And before you can get there, you need a way to quantify it. I would posit that Bitcoin creates a lot less real (and particularly marginal real) value than p
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by sp527 9y ago
If you think 90%+ of its current value isn't driven by behaviorial psychology rather than fundamentals, you either haven't been paying attention or don't understand markets.
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by sp527 9y ago
Umm anyone who has studied distributed systems understands a fully distributed system cannot scale past a certain limited point. That's not controversial. That's just reality. LN, for example, is adding degrees of centralization t
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by sp527 9y ago
Craigslist is a great example of exercising exactly the right amount of restraint in the cost-benefit equation. Most SV startups are subsidized (with attendant inflated expectations) to the point that they can't possibly live up to the
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by sp527 9y ago
That's no longer true. The Patriot Act enables government behavior that's functionally equivalent to this incident in the U.K.

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