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by wimagguc 10y ago
One way I use Stackoverflow’s dev stats is to make educated guesses about the easiness of finding developers in 2-3 years time to maintain now-greenfield projects. Does Ruby seem to go down while Python is in steady growth? Let's move
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I know it's too much to ask really, but I'd love to see the history of the individual commits. I'd be curious to see where it all started (is it all greenfield or is it built on top of a previous game concept perhaps?), and w
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Strong laws that aim to protect labour seem to end up being contra-productive. I've seen it in Germany, for example, where it's pretty difficult to fire full-time employees. Berlin startups therefore either force their workforce t
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There's only one thing no vending machine or robotic barista can do: justify the cost of a $5 cappuccino.
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by wimagguc 10y ago
I'd be surprised if this wasn't what most creatives do. I think it was B.J. Novak (from The Office) I've heard in an interview where he explained that he keeps a notebook to keep track of every idea he encounters during the d
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by wimagguc 10y ago
Some 15 years ago I implemented a rule to avoid going down the interesting-links-in-emails rabbit hole: I could only open URLs that I listed the day before. The list could be as long as it needed to be, the stupid links from emails could al
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by wimagguc 10y ago
Bottomline is, always protect the downside. Startups do offer a shot at becoming rich, but they are more likely to fail than not, so in the event of the business going down you still want to show something for the years spent. Basically: ma
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by wimagguc 10y ago
Robots come with high up-front payments and low salaries, humans are cheaper to hire and more expensive to "run" - in economic terms, the choice between employing humans vs robots is a trade-off between capital and operational exp
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DeepMind: Give an AI a working memory, and it solves puzzles in a human-like way(technologyreview.com)
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Sharing the Road with Bicycles by Uber(youtube.com)
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by wimagguc 10y ago
Previous discussion on the same topic (different article but might be based on the same press release, the 3D renders are suspiciously similar): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12190537 Safety was the first to pop in m
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In rather abstract evolution mechanics, this isn't much different from requiring male and female counterparts to procreate. All that happens here is that smaller entities are a better fit for the environment, while only a combination o
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Both use cases could justify calling an API at every keystroke, where you send out either the user's identifier in the one case (to extract the timing info), or the password(-prefix) in the other (to check for typing errors). Linking t
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by wimagguc 10y ago
> there are some reasons behind our current solutions but I wouldn’t be able to give you more details on it. I'd be curious to know if anyone here can come up with a good enough reason for sending out the user's email & t
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Show HN: Daily Email Reports with Serverless and Node.js(github.com)
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by wimagguc 10y ago
Right on, that's important: 1-2 were terrible actually. 3-4 are up to par.
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by wimagguc 10y ago
Am I the only person here who loves the iOS app? Agreed, on desktop Worms Armageddon is the top, but the iPad is just the perfect device for Worms in 2016.
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by wimagguc 10y ago
A good gateway drug to Douglas Adams, if you're into talks, may be this great piece of his titled 'Parrots the Universe and Everything' (available on Ted: http://www.ted.com/talks/douglas_adams_parrots_th
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by wimagguc 10y ago
Open-sourcing side projects is fun only if you care about those or until they become more popular. One of the tiny libraries I developed some time ago has 1000+ stars as of today, and though I have no interest in developing it any further,
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by wimagguc 10y ago
Look what happened to Mt. Everest: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/02/travel/feat-mount-everest-... -- there's no "small enough" or "difficult enough to scale" (or "protected
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by wimagguc 10y ago
Fun fact, New York City's subway started out with a similar system (between 1870 and 1873, called the Beach Pneumatic Transit): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit
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by wimagguc 10y ago
I ended up searching for AP Stylebook, and I'm very glad I did: https://twitter.com/APStylebook , http://www.apstylebook.com/ Plenty help if you want to be a journalist (or even better, write a journali
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by wimagguc 10y ago
It's a difficult situation for the family though: all they want is for you to be happy, but the core assumption is that you're happier with a crap but safe job , than with no runway left and no job at all.
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How long till the journalist-AI that writes click bait news? Then the whole internet will be like Twitter: 99% written by robots & consumed by robots.
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The paper this article references has not much to do with listening to podcasts while commuting. It's about how "the meaning of language is represented in regions [of the brain]" . Wonder if the post would have received the
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by wimagguc 10y ago
All types of costly mistakes happen in non-bitcoin land too: Deutsche Bank accidentally transfers $6bn to hedge fund client ( http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/20/deutsche-ban... ) ...as long
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by wimagguc 10y ago
There is always a good debate on HN about hiring, but it feels like we really are comparing apples to oranges here. Hiring tactics depend heavily on the size of the organisation. They have to: for a 3-people startup you want someone who wil
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by wimagguc 10y ago
Writing in your non-native language: * Czech-born Milan Kundera started to write in French after having moved to France. * Jack Kerouac was born to French-Canadian parents and brought up speaking French; yet, he wrote in English. "Fre
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An earlier Freakonomics episode [1] discusses whether early retirement is bad for the health. According to the show it actually might be: "one additional year of early retirement causes an increase in the risk of premature death of 2.
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After reading through the comments, there is one more thing to throw in the mix: software can only be as good as the tools you develop them with. I'm building the same app for Android and iOS, and the latter is ways quicker. Even with

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