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by vram22 6y ago
That has been happening for quite a while now, and has even been a topic on HN for some years now. PG started YC partly because of that, in fact. See his early essays, including one called something like "A theory of VC suckage".
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by vram22 6y ago
>This seems to be good for YC, bad for companies in YC. If it is bad for those companies, isn't it bad for YC too? Those companies are how YC makes its money, right?
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, I agree. Also (with the big caveat that I am not even a little bit of a language designer / implementer / lawyer, just a guy interested in these PL topics from early in my career), the use of comments, which are meant to be
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by vram22 6y ago
Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, as well as Chin State in Myanmar, have a huge rat problem every N years, related to a bamboo species flowering and fruiting. Extra food, they breed more, flowers/fruits gone, they starve, they raid granarie
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by vram22 6y ago
I knew the former but not the latter. Got it now.
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by vram22 6y ago
Thanks.
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by vram22 6y ago
Both understandings are needed for best results.
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by vram22 6y ago
Can you explain "flat footed approach"?
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, I would like to know too.
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by vram22 6y ago
Had read it, IIRC. He has written a few others too. Don't remember the names. The South Pacific may be one.
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by vram22 6y ago
There is also scsh, the Scheme shell.
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by vram22 6y ago
>SaaS is all over. Yes. By its very nature. Plus, SaaS is more like a horizontal niche (though I would really call it a layer, with, e.g. shrink-wrapped software being another horizontal layer), while fintech, healthcare etc. are vertica
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by vram22 6y ago
Any regions focusing on e-learning (other than Boston (education, which has some overlap)?
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by vram22 6y ago
Nit: With some companies paying below average, too, by the very definition of the term 'average', and also because the sizeable handful of FAANG companies skews the average even higher.
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by vram22 6y ago
> Funny that rain is part of the sounds Ireland. Rainy country. That's why, I guess.
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by vram22 6y ago
Ha ha, yes. So streamlined.
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by vram22 6y ago
SQL itself was huge compared to ISAM-type programming for data apps. Though I suppose it still has its place. Something like the difference between how and what, or procedural vs. declarative. Edit: to make it more clear: >how and what
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by vram22 6y ago
> using Google for search in 2000 and being amazed at how much better the results were than AltaVista and Yahoo Search. Aaahhh. The year Google launched, a friend and I were sitting next to each other, at our PCs. Both of us were techie
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by vram22 6y ago
You could say I pun ted.
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by vram22 6y ago
Bug-parity. Not even odd parity.
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by vram22 6y ago
> When you say North Indian to which part specifically you're referring to? In this context (veg thalis), I used "North Indian" as a loose generic term to refer to the kind of veg thalis that you get in literally the Nort
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by vram22 6y ago
Thanks for those links. Interesting. Yes, you're right. I learned that only recently. But IMO my original point still holds true if a person eats a mainly cereal- or mainly pulse-based diet (even if it includes other items like vegeta
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, some of the beans develop that color when ripe.
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by vram22 6y ago
Saw the point while reading an article about the beans, I think in Wikipedia. Posting it to see if there is any interesting discussion about it, or if anyone knows if it is being researched more as a possible preventer of those diseases.
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Protein from Lablab Beans Blocks Infections of Influenza Viruses and SARS-CoV-2 (2020)(sciencedirect.com)
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by vram22 6y ago
>I'm generally apprehensive any time someone says "there ought to be a law", but the article lays out a well-sourced case. The economy and big business are directly opposed, and having a distributed economy is much more im
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by vram22 6y ago
>The sambal you are may be from that origin. Damn, autocorrect. It changed "ate" to "are" in above sentence. It even autocorrects the same thing (wrongly, again) after you edit its previous wrongly autocorrected word
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by vram22 6y ago
>whoops, got my culinary knowledge put in place. Ha ha. No, to be clear, I didn't mean it in a critical sense. We all make mistakes and don't know a lot of things that some others do. It was in that spirit that I was sharing st
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by vram22 6y ago
Some of them do, actually. Like with a tiny crocodile image on a Crocodile-brand t-shirt, or I guess even subtler signs, at the higher end, like no brand name or logo at all - but some way of signalling the (expensive) brand, to those i
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by vram22 6y ago
A couple of points :) 1. The yellow lentil dish is not usually called a curry (google the word 'curry', it is a much abused omnibus term for many Indian dishes). It is called a dal, as in "dal fry" or "dal tadka&qu

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