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by ssalazar 10y ago
I had the opposite reaction, that the poster was implying the HN zeitgeist should be raking these companies over the coals also.
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> So you should have the ability to force other people how to use the house they paid for? This already happens. In much of the US you can't use your house as a storefront for a retail business or for heavy manufacturing, for insta
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> for all meats, even fish, the ratio is above 1 (it takes more food than is produced) That seems like basic physics(?) How could it possibly be below 1 for anything that doesn't photosynthesize?
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ESPNs bread and butter is not so much live sports but highlights, commentary, and analysis. These are replaceable with online sources like Bleacher Report, SB Nation, and even social media. In the US, watching live sports on TV generally s
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Its not bizarre when you consider that what is called "socialism" today encompasses a range of attitudes towards economic policy. Its not bizarre when you consider that the drive towards efficiency and concentration of wealth des
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Yeah this. I believe a huge reason college education is already so expensive is that so much "easy" money can flow from the government to cover tuition costs through students (and their parents) who don't always understand t
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> Earning a high level of income in general already signifies that a person is contributing to society in a meaningful way. Their income is reflective of the service provided to others. Yeahhh no, income is a laughable measure of one&#x2
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It sounds like in some cases its not succeeding at either.
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? Thats a pretty negative/limited view. Tons of open source projects could benefit from additional roles/resources aside from programmers: project management, graphic design, UI/UX, technical writing, QA engineering. Addit
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Loads instantly, + for Mac/iOS docs it is way more stable and usable than Xcode's docs browser.
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> Because, like it or not, Facebook has become a trusted news source. Because of that, they have a duty to accurately report the news. What other trusted news source has this "duty?" What other trusted news source does not hav
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Its pretty bad for on-the-go audio people. Many good/common/popular audio interfaces are still firewire-based, and I havent seen a solution that involves fewer than 2 dongles.
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> You must admit that there is an underlying aggressive theme in these games. The visuals show clear resemblance of people being killed by projectiles and by other war technology. An AI doesn't know or care about any of this. Liter
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So thats why people need more than 16GB of memory on their MacBook Pro.
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> As I once said to my wife "why don't people ask about redheads in engineering?" Is there evidence that redheads are under-represented (proportional to their representation in overall society) in technical roles in the so
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Maybe for visual content. The music technology classes I teach are a sea of MacBooks.
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Jobs/quality of life/commute. E.g. Denver is better at all of these than Modesto or Stockton.
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JavaScript beats those out because a.) it integrates with the DOM b.) its the only one that works on every platform today (people seem to forget that before the iPhone, web apps were heavily Flash-based). These features are powerful, but d
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Worse in regards to travel time, for one individual. Its still better for that one individual in terms of effort, and in terms of ability to do something besides driving (read, watch tv, etc.) And each person taking the bus is on average
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> To me the funny thing is the small companies with 2-3 developers hiring like they are google with interviews over the course of weeks, with google/amazon-like gauntlets. Hmm. Arguably small operations need to be more stringent if
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Definitely. I would be interested to know of any good statistics on data size of real-world non-European language webpages in UTF-8 vs. UTF-16 and also with/without compression. Much of the markup will be smaller in UTF-8 but actual
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The hobbyist/non-technical market can get on board better with Linux. For one it has a GUI. Also you don't have to write firmware and you dont have to cobble all the pieces together from scratch or from a miscellany of out-of-dat
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Indeed! No IRs have been released that Im aware of.
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Sort of related, Stanford's Icons of Sound[1] project has digitally reconstructed the acoustics of the Hagia Sophia (present day) as basically the world's most grandiose reverb plugin. You can hear an example here [2] (need to sk
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I read on an earlier discussion that the issue is caused by the positive/negative battery contacts pressing together and short-circuiting as a result of mechanical distress, so the fundamental issue would be due to how the battery is s
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>> I still come up with a maximum of 200 engineers for Uber. But Uber has 2000 engineers > There's two ways to interpret this: 1) Uber is overstaffed by an order of magnitude. 2) You are underestimating the complexity of Uber
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> Are they paid not to screw up? Thats an interesting insight; there isn't anything inherently wrong with this. DevOps and security are two critical technical roles that work similarly: if they're doing their job right, the ma
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I don't have a mathematically rigorous understanding of it but the number of dimensions is basically the number of freely varying inputs to the corresponding functional representation. In a 2d image, x position and y position are mapp
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Spectrogram is 2D (plot of amplitude given time and frequency). Its interesting to think about it for a spectrogram because "similarity" is different in each dimension (freq vs. time). Frequency is also perceived logarithmically,
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> Or you can represent the music as instructions to performers or synthesizers (ie notation) and you've got as many dimensions as you want. These are just multiple signals in a single dimension (time).

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