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by strlen 13y ago
You weren't, but other commenters did call Mountain View a suburb. I was just calling attention to your example (25 minutes to get anywhere) as it's a better example of an average suburb than Mountain View.
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by strlen 13y ago
Indeed -- there's some very good craft brewers or other speciality places, but in terms of bars and cocktail lounges, SF is hard to beat even compared to other cities (except perhaps Portland and NYC!) That said Bay Area in general is
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by strlen 13y ago
By most Americans' definition of suburb, Mountain View doesn't exactly qualify. My apartment was within 15 minute bike ride of Walmart, 10 minute bike ride of downtown (including commuter rail), walking distance of YCombinator
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by strlen 13y ago
Historically this isn't true. There's a much less flashy reason for why so many startups are flocking to SF -- there isn't much space available at reasonable prices in Palo Alto or Mountain View that that's suitable for
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by strlen 13y ago
The "My girlfriend and I" part -- SF is great if you're living willing to live with ~2-3 rommates, which makes things very awkward for couples who want to cohabit. It's also great if you work in the city, spend most of y
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by strlen 13y ago
While data is not the plural of anecdote, I've found the same things with friends who have taken MooCs or previously have followed along MIT OCW -- for some it has worked out very well, for others they fell prey to procrastination and
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by strlen 13y ago
Very interesting post. I often took "product sense" to be magic, I did not really understand what was it that made iPhone soar in sales when it introduced very little over a Nokia S-series I had at the time and didn't even ha
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by strlen 13y ago
I trust tor to do what tor does: in fact -- as do US intelligence agencies who use it for anonymous open source intelligence. I don't, however, trust it to do anything else: namely, I don't think of it as a security panacea. Goals
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by strlen 13y ago
This works if physical contact is available and parties are trusted (even the weakest literal reading of fourth amendment says "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search
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by strlen 13y ago
> If you were going to change one thing about the way you decrypted in the wake of today's "new information", make it be that you abandon RSA. For the purposes of exchanging symmetric keys, what would you recommend as a
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by strlen 13y ago
As far as I understand, they've been doing grid computing since the mid-90s at Acxiom (the person I talked to joined in 1996/1997, afaik).
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by strlen 13y ago
I've worked with somebody who came from Acxiom's grid computing division -- who has left after they were sold of to EMC. Essentially they had a fairly advanced grid computing infrastructure (comparable to Map/Reduce or other
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by strlen 13y ago
Interesting tidbit: when I describe my Soviet and early post-Soviet childhood to Americans, Americans of my age are surprised that their fears of Soviet nuclear attack, civil defense training ("duck and cover"), were not unique. &
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by strlen 13y ago
Well, their (and your!) English is much better than my Swedish, but your point is salient. Improper spelling and grammar in communications has much the same effect as broken windows in houses or uncollected garbage on city streets ( http:&
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by strlen 13y ago
That person exists and he works for Microsoft, he is Qi Lu. He took on Google in many fronts in a short amount of time: technology, product, infrastructure, and people. Was it the right thing for Microsoft to do? Who knows, but he successfu
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by strlen 13y ago
> consider myself a relatively poor interviewer and I usually decline to do them unless they intersect my subject area (compilers, GWT, etc) First, given you understand your limitations as an interview, you're probably a better in
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by strlen 13y ago
My high school (in Cupertino, CA -- 45 miles south of SF) did require an economics course and the one I took (AP Micro Econ for part of the course, regular macro econ for remainder) used rent control as an example of policies with unintende
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by strlen 13y ago
I should elaborate a bit on RPC issues: RPC is somewhat of a misnomer, it's a fallacy ("fallacy of distributed computing") to think that a remote method call is the exact same thing as a local method call (anyone who has buil
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by strlen 13y ago
I attended a talk at CUFP (Commercial Users of Functional Programming) by a compiler team at Intel on why they were using SML (which -- like caml -- not lazy by default and allows I/O and mutability without having to isolate them ala I
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by strlen 13y ago
When I flew Lufthansa, I was granted an honorary Ph.D. My official name is "Aleksandr Feinberg" -- it's transliterated from Cyrillics (hence the "ks") and Russian version of "Alexander" does not put an e b
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by strlen 13y ago
Malaysia also has numerous treaties and strong ties with the United States (including security cooperation). Given the Snowden situation, it is quite possible that US would simply refuse to grant asylum (by claiming the charges aren't
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by strlen 13y ago
If the OP was facing jail for insulting gay people or "females" (I "love" the implicit denigration of women as lesser you're performing here) in in the US, there would be a _huge_ fund out to defend them, outpoor of
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by strlen 13y ago
As a Russian Jew who immigrated for the United States, hearing your story upset me a lot: there are many parallels between how Russia/USSR (both under tzar and communists, fortunately less so after fall of USSR) has treated Jews and ho
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by strlen 13y ago
What I find is that people consider "saying anything offensive" to be an ad-hominem attack, but completely omit very common forms of ad-hominem attacks such as attacks on supposed ideology or bringing or other views and arguing th
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by strlen 13y ago
It's not entirely clear whether or not they're counting contractors and those in traditionally high turnover roles like support and commissions-based remote sales. If the turn over for technical staff is indeed greater than indust
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by strlen 13y ago
Except the actual folks around the Golden Gate Park area do beat up, stab, shoot, and often kill people. These people aren't hippies in any sense of the word. They're low-grade gangsters. War on drugs[1] is a cure far worse than
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by strlen 13y ago
The right way to get her voted out isn't via a Republican challenger (at senate level, California is a single party state), it's through a combination of a primary challenger and intense pressure on her donors. DiFi's support
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by strlen 13y ago
Alternatively, this is why Java needs a real namespace mechanism. "package" doesn't cut it. See: namespaces in C# or C++, or alternately modules in ML. One thing I like about DI implemented in a language itself is that is tha
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by strlen 13y ago
The cost of water (which we steal from the other states, of course) to wash the chalk away is much lower than the cost of the lawyer. I wonder if there's a public choice/political economy theory on prosecutorial overreach and how
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by strlen 13y ago
The Citizens United decision was fairly narrow in scope: many kinds of campaign finance regulations are allowed to stand, except for restrictions on political speech by corporations and unions. However, I just find it silly that many HNer

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