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by strlen 11y ago
> I get that this is aimed at the startup crowd, but I've always felt that this sentiment is pretty privileged. We, the elite, get to cherry pick our work and do what we like. But I bet 9/10 people will never feel they have thi
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by strlen 12y ago
Thank you for posting that, I omitted the link. They did indeed ditch their custom hardware: the appliances were excellent, but not really a competitive proposition compared to "buy a cluster of commodity hardware and if one JVM instan
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by strlen 12y ago
There's an interesting conversation between several Lisp machine folks (including the late Dan Weinreb) and Azul's Cliff Click. This was at a time when Azul shipped custom hardware. Very interesting, re: hardware support for garba
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by strlen 12y ago
Few things: Google and Facebook have offices in New York (in the case of Facebook, there's a team available for most any engineering role in the NY office; I can't speak for Google, but I believe Spanner is out of the NY office),
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by strlen 12y ago
> Right, PG's advice is not useful for all founders, just the 1 out of every 10 that makes it big. The others are supposed to nut up and get over it. Quite contrary, the opposite is true: the "1 out of every 10" companies
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by strlen 12y ago
Yes, I joined a company fairly late in its history (just two years before its IPO), ended up in the lower end of that range, despite doing nearly everything wrong from financial POV: stayed for roughly 3 years (didn't fully vest the in
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by strlen 12y ago
For what it's worth, I believe the original specifications for 9mm NATO involve a higher pressure than standard commercial 9mm (effectively +P, i.e., probably not something to fire a C&R WWI Luger, but again not quite a .357 magnum
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by strlen 12y ago
6mm rounds seemed to be common in pre-War II era: Swedish Mauser, Arisaka, Carcano (aka "JFK assassination rifle"). Interestingly enough, the Fedorov Avtomat -- the first select fire rifle -- used the 6.5 mm Arisaka round (from th
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by strlen 12y ago
Yes: this is one key point, avoiding car ownership (and making do with zipcar et al for weekend trips) is pretty much the only way to make SF affordable. (Background: I'm deep in South Bay, but that's taste and preference not an a
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by strlen 12y ago
Ellen was also an EE major as an undergrad (at Princeton, which is known for its hard sciences, IAS et al...), a partner at a firm that has invested into many other consumer audience startups (i.e., I'd think she knows very well the di
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by strlen 12y ago
s/but completely meaninglessly/but _NOT_ completely meaninglessly/ oops.
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by strlen 12y ago
Let me put it this way: I found Caltrain to be reliable on average, but the 75th percentile to be terrible. Major delays are going to happen multiple times a month.
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by strlen 12y ago
I think the conflict is more cultural than people realize: an office in Daly City is tremendously easier to reach and if you're coming from South Bay -- essentially you exit the freeway and park. On the other hand, getting to a point i
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by strlen 12y ago
Slightly off-topic, if someone is interested in works of MacLeod, what's a good starting spot?
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by strlen 12y ago
I (who submitted of this article to HN) have this problem as well: on one hand, it's great that he's gotten rid of the tired trope of AI as and technology as a pathway to dystopia or of too-overt celebration of warfare that exists
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A Few Questions About the Culture: An Interview with Iain Banks(strangehorizons.com)
154 points by strlen 12y ago|86 comments
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Starflight: Near-Term Prospects(centauri-dreams.org)
8 points by strlen 12y ago|0 comments
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by strlen 12y ago
Distributed systems that span tens and hundreds of thousands of nodes and provide excellent reliability characteristics. A multi-year C++ project being built by a small/medium sized team. Those are just a few example (stated deliberate
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by strlen 12y ago
Interesting answer, thank you for writing it. As an armchair quarterback I'm a bit surprised about what you've said about "folks with a dev background" (if I didn't focus on distributed systems, I'd likely focu
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by strlen 12y ago
That circles back to the same problem, then, doesn't it? One would is now essentially looking for less ambitious, bootstrap-able ideas, as opposed to doing interesting things and seeing what comes out -- whether or not it's bootst
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by strlen 12y ago
Getting university and government grants requires a great deal of gaming the system. I'd say governments and academia also attract gamers of the system moreso than startup world (indeed, that is a point that pg makes). I can't spe
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by strlen 12y ago
Refusing to change your mind in light of contradicting evidence is not a virtue :-) For the record, I do recall that YC changed their policy on this rather early-on its history (explicitly advising undergrads against applying) and pg has re
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by strlen 12y ago
How do you bootstrap a company that requires significant R&D before an MVP can be shipped? Or for that matter one that has initial infrastructure costs, or one would only be affordable if there's an economy of scale? This is armcha
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by strlen 12y ago
> He goes and learns a bunch of stuff to the cutting edge. Some of my best work and graduate school assignments had started off by being handed an RFC (or a language, or a third party library, or a paper, etc...), asked to become an expe
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by strlen 12y ago
Can this advice be generalized to other creative endeavors in general? There's an interesting article by Scott Alexander, "Negative Creativity" http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/05/negative-crea
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by strlen 12y ago
Very good point: while it is common sense and true that exercise reduces ADHD, it is also common sense (but not true!) to say that sun revolves around the earth or that, in a vacuum, a feather will hit the ground after a large ball of lead.
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by strlen 12y ago
Here's an interesting discussion results about near-term studies on inducing hypothermia was a way to save gun shot victims from brain death: The article -- http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129623.000-gunsh
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by strlen 12y ago
FWIW You don't need to very good (or even write any code) to use travisci, it's very easy to do. You can start with just running basic compilation/lint checks: http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/getting-start
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by strlen 12y ago
Really looking forward to a reply here! Pg did write a bit about what he has learned from tlb: http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html (see the "Recognition" paragraph)
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by strlen 12y ago
Holy Occam, you've managed to say more with a single sentence what I was struggling to put in several paragraph (all while I still working on the first draft my comment)! OP needs to learn and the way to do is not just doing, but by lo

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