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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
I'm pretty sure he uses his own software that he wrote in python to do it all.
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
So, I went to highschool with the guy that makes these videos. Not only is he brilliant, he is particularly good at making advanced topics more accessible to people without a heavy math background.
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New bill looks to save smartphone encryption from state bans(theverge.com)
3 points by wesleyfsmith 11y ago|0 comments
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
As a meteorjs dev, I feel like web dev is the easiest it's ever been.
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In a world first, UK scientists just got approval to edit human embryos(vox.com)
1 points by wesleyfsmith 11y ago|0 comments
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
Isn't this the nature of abstraction though? As the high level tools get increasingly powerful at solving common problems people will invest less in learning their underlying implementations. I'm sure all the assembly programmers
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
I taught at a bootcamp for a while and always covered big O. It's pretty important for interviewing. Bootcamp kids know more CS than you might think...
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
I have to say that I didn't really understand the perspective the writer was coming from. It kind of felt like he just wanted to finger wag at SF. > Everything is too expensive. Just normal supply and demand economics. This happens
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
I have to disagree. The inherent nature of open source is forking projects just to make some small change that you really want. Sometimes those changes make it back into the original project and improve it. Code diversity is far more import
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
Must have been really hard shutting down your baby. Do you wonder what could have happened if you hadn't sold?
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
I had the exact same thought.
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
So I take it then that working remote with founders was actually much more successful than the folks at YC originally thought it would be? Because I remember sama saying that he was very skeptical the remote thing would work.
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
If you don't feel compelled to code outside of work, it's probably because you don't love what you are working on enough. I find that programming itself is not enough for me to want to work constantly--I have to legitimately
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
From the evidence I've read, it does sound like a lot of these colleges are promising jobs and pushing students into extremely expensive loans in a predatory fashion. I just hope that ultimately these schools have to foot the bill and
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
As someone who recently started integrating with Plaid in my app, I can verify that the extra information they give you access to is extraordinarily beneficial to better understanding your user. Also, asking for account and routing numbers
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
Making this system integrate with Plaid out of the box was a smart move. Plaid is so much better for users' than having to manually enter bank account and routing numbers.
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
I am trying to build a lending platform where we by definition cannot afford to lose 3% on each transaction. I'm am thrilled to see this. We have had to hand jam our current system with a local credit union (where we literally have to
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by wesleyfsmith 11y ago
I remember my lifeguard training. I used to play water polo so I pretty comfortable with picking the bricks up off the bottom, but some of the other guards that got certified scared the hell out me.
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by wesleyfsmith 12y ago
I think the linux comparison is quite apt. Even now, there are multiple distros that all use the same package format, deb or rpm. They are different forks of linux, but they've made a point to still have interoperable packages with one
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by wesleyfsmith 12y ago
Thank you! I'm glad we were able to share a brain wave. I'm loving the term 'forkophobia', and the comparison to Berlin. Freedom to choose means that people will gravitate to the best ideas. At the end of the day, everyo