swsieber

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by swsieber 8y ago
I'd take it one step further: At Facebook scale, performance gains have huge returns (adding typing can improve pefromance), so they try to improve all parts of their infrastructure, not just PHP. For example, Facebook's bolt f
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by swsieber 8y ago
Yes, and I think they meant to. Node isn't one of those. Edit: partially because of design decisions around package permissions.
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by swsieber 8y ago
Amazon should know - can't it munge peoples shopping records to spot patterns. Like mentioned in a sibling comment, I bet Amazon could very easily deduce that toner is sold a lot more often than actual printers.
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Sanderson’s First Law(brandonsanderson.com)
3 points by swsieber 8y ago|0 comments
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by swsieber 8y ago
For a hard magic system[0] in the fantasy genre, I'd heartily suggest any of Brandon Sanderson's novels. My favorites are the second set of the Mistborn series (Wax and Wayne), the Stormlight Archives and the Rithmatist. [0] http
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Ask HN: Do you start an LLC when launching a side-project?
8 points by swsieber 8y ago|5 comments
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by swsieber 8y ago
And is Safari based on iOS
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by swsieber 8y ago
Those are both Safari based on iOS. Specifically, they can't use their real rendering engine - they have to use the safari one.
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by swsieber 8y ago
Thank you for the advice. I hadn't considered launching without billing. I don't think a free trial for my product could be very long (since it involves sending lots of SMS which would cost me quite a bit if I get a big user spike
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by swsieber 8y ago
I have already cut features - I was going to launch with multiple integrations, but I decided to just do one. The difficulty is carving out time, and being painfully aware that anything I go to do could give me a grief and cost me lots of t
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by swsieber 8y ago
Integrating SMS (Twilio/Plivo) with Google Spreadsheets for Budgeting purposes. Basically allows people with custom budgets to get an easier form of transaction recording. I had been using warp, but I wanted to write a custom middlewar
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by swsieber 8y ago
I'm about halfway to launching a side project (I seem to be close than 50%, but there's always the 90-10 rule). It's been fun. I've been writing the backend in rust, using squire for storage, and actix-web for the server
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by swsieber 8y ago
Anybody have recommendations for fitness/sleep trackers that respect privacy (e.g. keep data local, doesn't need the cloud)?
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Ask HN: Privacy Respecting Fitness/Sleep Tracker Recommendations?
3 points by swsieber 8y ago|1 comments
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by swsieber 8y ago
From what I know, the gui rendering has to happen on the main thread, not another spawed thread on OSX. I'd guess that's a contributing factor.
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by swsieber 8y ago
So... are people more angry at hearing this than if Google had never announced an end to forced arbitration in the first place?
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by swsieber 8y ago
Zebra mussels are a big problem where I grew up. The bay of Green Bay is very unfriendly to the barefoot swimmer because of them (they leave sharp little shells behind). I can't really think of a way to get rid of them short of makin
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by swsieber 8y ago
And failure to do that can result in unhealthy, unweathly, and still dead. Generally the things that help you grow old also help your quality of life.
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by swsieber 8y ago
You are correct. Though things that are harmful without benefit tend to die out over time. So while tradition doesn't make something magically useful, many traditional things are useful, often in unobvious ways. Of course, many do not.
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by swsieber 8y ago
Airplanes were once worthy of investigation but practical. As were automobiles. Generally, the fact that something works isn't a compelling argument that something else won't succeed. I do aggree that it's pretty high bar in
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by swsieber 8y ago
It's not the money that makes bad reporting - its the direct tying of eyeballs to monetary reward. That incentivizes creating of very clickbaity, meme-like reporting.
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by swsieber 8y ago
Fake news is a symtpom, not a cause. To fight fake news, we'd have to go to the sources (note: this is mostly off the top of my head): * Fight partisanship/polarization. Not sure how to do this. But taking a big step back and tryi
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by swsieber 8y ago
A bigger difference is that Amazons brands are stealth brands. In every big shopping store, I know which brands are the store brands. Not so with amazon.
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by swsieber 8y ago
Becuasw generally we are bad at probabilities at scale. For this however, probably because of followup studies. 1) injecting mice woth cancerous cells and controlling their sleep. In sleep restricted mice it hit faster and harder 2) Sleep i
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by swsieber 8y ago
So, you're saying Zonszein is wrong because you have an anecdotal experience that contradicts the hypothesis? I'd venture a guess that if Zonsein is right it wouldn't be a uniform effect. The study does have a bad setup thoug
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by swsieber 8y ago
A picture is worth a thousand words, or in your case, an example.
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by swsieber 8y ago
Being outside your comfort zone is good, even if only for a time. (I'd rather not live outside my comfort zone, but my best experiences have come from being outside it).
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by swsieber 8y ago
The technical underpinnings arent unimportant though, because most abstractions are leaky. So, something built on something approachable is more approachable when something breaks. So its not strange the underpinnigs are mentioned. I do agr
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by swsieber 8y ago
There's still about 20% who live in rural areas. 1 in 5 people: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-210...
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by swsieber 8y ago
What qualifies as unstructured data? Would you consider text content to be structured or unstructured? (e.g. for classification of documents)

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