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by szx 10y ago
You have a point there, but I do wonder if this is inevitable, or if (1) the language does make a difference in that regard and (2) the community can help steer newcomers in the right direction and establish best practices, standards of qua
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by szx 11y ago
Algorithmic complexity is certainly important. Intuition and knowledge of (or ability to research) the pros and cons of existing algorithms are essential. However, I don't think you need to see a single line of code (on a whiteboard or
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by szx 11y ago
The funny thing is that Asana is possibly the worst performing web app out of all the ones I use on a regular basis. I have a strong suspicion there's at least one or two O(n^2) algorithms hiding there that could use the same kind of a
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by szx 11y ago
This might be a naive question, but what would happen if a hobby drone collided with a jet? As long as it doesn't hit the engines, wouldn't the damage be negligible?
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Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos(graphics.stanford.edu)
3 points by szx 11y ago|0 comments
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An Ode to the Rice Cooker(fivethirtyeight.com)
74 points by szx 11y ago|88 comments
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by szx 11y ago
What I was trying to imply (and obviously failed) is the traditional (interview based) hiring process would remain an option for those candidates.
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by szx 11y ago
Can you suggest a better alternative? Then again, maybe it's time to stop looking for a one size fits all solution and acknowledge that (in an ideal world) we might want to have different processes for different candidates, depending o
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by szx 11y ago
I'd be curious to hear some criticism, negative experiences, downsides from people with deeper experience. This thread is 100% positivity and praise, which is highly unusual for HN (New Year's afterglow??) To be clear, my occasion
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by szx 11y ago
I recommend Citymapper. It's been super reliable and pretty accurate (although my impression may be colored by how bad the experience had been in previous years).
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by szx 11y ago
It is a plugin.
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Bobby Calderwood – From REST to CQRS with Clojure, Kafka, and Datomic(youtube.com)
2 points by szx 11y ago|0 comments
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by szx 11y ago
Interesting. But what if it's both? Or maybe there's an interaction (expanding on "taste")? That is, some languages are more expressive and/or powerful than others. Your great programmers will tend to gravitate towa
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What Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts(nytimes.com)
53 points by szx 11y ago|55 comments
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Relay Episode IV: Joe Savona [video](youtube.com)
1 points by szx 11y ago|0 comments
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On Propositions as Types [video](paperswelove.org)
59 points by szx 11y ago|3 comments
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by szx 11y ago
Since the app already bundles web views and resources, I'm curious to hear if they considered making it an Electron app, and if they did - why they decided to go with multiple native apps instead. (I realize at least the OSX version pr
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by szx 11y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to implement something similar on the JVM (e.g. for Clojure games) or in games/graphic apps that embed V8. The tricky part seems to be estimating how long garbage collection will take and/or the abili
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Getting Garbage Collection for Free(v8project.blogspot.com)
70 points by szx 11y ago|9 comments
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by szx 11y ago
While I generally agree with your point, it seems to me like that specific scenario could be solved with a dead man's switch contract. Not ideal, but still better than other cases. I got the impression that the answer you'd get fr
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by szx 11y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear... I do agree with you - if anything I'm more skeptical :)
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by szx 11y ago
Hold on, are we talking employee or contractor? If it's the latter, I'd consider at least the following two points: 1. $20k/month every month ? Unlikely. 2. Self-employment taxes + other business expenses. edit: formatting
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by szx 11y ago
Uh, no - this is a completely different situation. Whereas gay marriage has little to no effect on most Americans' lives, the results of this vote will affect each and every Greek citizen for years (decades?) to come. Moving abroad (as
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by szx 11y ago
Incidentally, I just found out yesterday that Straight Talk (AT&T MVNO) keeps their online passwords in plaintext. Restoring your password actually sends you the password by email. I'm glad I never reuse a password.
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by szx 12y ago
I imagine the idea behind this was to avoid having to roll an in-browser IDE with the advantage of letting users use (and learn) the actual tooling that comes with that language. I personally liked using my own editor, but the CLI didn&#x27
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by szx 12y ago
That's actually a pretty common study size in neuro-imaging/fMRI studies. You may still disagree with the statistical validity of the findings, but there's nothing unusual about this specific study in that regard.
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In Europe, a Resolution to Break Up Google(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
13 points by szx 12y ago|1 comments
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by szx 12y ago
This might be a stupid question, but is there a way to leverage object annotations [1] for runtime checks of data coming from e.g. an API or FFI call (node.js module calling C++ code)? [1] http://flowtype.org/docs/react
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by szx 12y ago
Awesome. FYI, the Language Reference Next/Back links don't match the order in the left navbar.
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by szx 12y ago
I've switched to http://hn.premii.com/ on mobile. Give it a try.

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