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by wppick 10y ago
I feel like many books (especially non-fiction) have this predisposition of making their books much longer than it needs to be. In essence, unless it's highly technical/informational, their book is usually making some sort of an a
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by wppick 10y ago
At first I thought the pricing model was backwards, but then I considered that for each logo that was purchased there is an increase of social validation which makes it more tempting for other to buy. I also immediately thought that he mark
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by wppick 10y ago
The browser is an extremely well designed platform/environment. Web applications run on pretty much ever modern device: Windows, Mac, Linux, game consoles, smartphones. It's an awesome distributed system that allows for deploying
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by wppick 10y ago
Tell? I'm sorry, but that's a disrespectful way to phrase your statement -- he isn't even a Canadian citizen. Where do you get your entitlement from?
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by wppick 10y ago
Not in the US, but Waterloo, Canada is a pretty great spot for tech. Housing is still cheap and potentially could have good growth in the future. The summers are nice, and there are a bunch of freshwater beaches all within 1 - 3 hours drive
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by wppick 10y ago
In general the interview process for hiring develops is terrible. The usual flow looks like this: 1. Non technical recruiter screens resumes for keywords or similar job titles for previous jobs. 2. Basic CS questions that can be memorized (
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by wppick 10y ago
What I find interesting is that the person who would design the game dynamics for a new sport and the game dynamics for a new video game, like call of duty, essentially have the same job description. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by wppick 11y ago
An easy way to structure the code with immutable data is to made it essentially read only. Anything can read the data state and that can be shared throughout an application, but to write, you need an explicit function call or event
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by wppick 11y ago
I love the direction that this project is going in. I think a future where you can monitor your body in real time and use that data to make decision about what to eat, treat medical conditions in their very stages, maximize energy, etc. I t
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by wppick 11y ago
When I read the title I got excited because I thought that Apple had implemented some battery abstraction for iOS that gives a virtual battery to each application. Now I'm curious to know if there would be any benefit to something like
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by wppick 11y ago
Looks similar to sequelize http://docs.sequelizejs.com/en/latest/
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by wppick 11y ago
https://youtu.be/5SMYognL2t4
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by wppick 11y ago
So what I did was wrote out all 16 possible outcomes in an excel spreadsheet. I used T and F for tails and heads, because I'm used to reasoning in true or false. http://i.imgur.com/jKYSo3P.png . Then I noticed the two e
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by wppick 11y ago
Can someone explain the isNaN part of this slide: http://brendaneich.github.io/ModernWeb.tw-2015/#46 I would expect isNaN("LOL") to be true. Why does he put "true?!", and why does Number.isNaN(&quot
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by wppick 11y ago
This is a great insight, and describes some of the projects I've worked on exactly. I think a fix to these two problems is to hire great developers that you can trust, and give them much bigger tasks. I find that the management breaks
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by wppick 11y ago
I was hoping for "Microsoft Browser" or something like that
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by wppick 11y ago
Does this have an impact on writing concurrent software?
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by wppick 11y ago
Teachers have much less money to spend on lawyers. If you steal/scam/cheat billions of dollars you can then afford a great team of lawyers
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by wppick 11y ago
Don't most computer have separate processors for network, hard drive, etc. So, even if you have a single core processor, you are still running a multi-processor environment? Can anyone give me details on this? Someone told me something
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by wppick 11y ago
I wouldn't compare it to sex out of wedlock. I'd compare it to someone instead of saying "I want to be in great shape", saying "I want to be so muscular that I can't physically scratch my own chin".
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by wppick 11y ago
I think one of the problems in the world, and maybe this is contributing to the high income inequality, is that people want to be billionaires. There's too many people trying to line their own pockets, over payed CEOs, hedge funders do
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by wppick 11y ago
Can we just get rid of grass lawns already... replace it with something that looks good and doesn't need water and weekly cutting
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by wppick 12y ago
That's not what I was saying. All I was saying is that people 1000 years ago were innately as smart logically as you are today. I'm not talking about a posteriori knowledge.
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by wppick 12y ago
We are insignificantly smarter today than we were 1000 years ago. Take a baby from 1000 years ago and bring him to the year 2015, and he will probably be able to fit into modern society perfectly fine.
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by wppick 12y ago
At the beginning of civilization, the research budget for the invention of fire was zero, while the benefits of fire were incalculable. Compare this to the development costs of the next generation of Boeing aircraft relative to the small im
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by wppick 12y ago
They should build a giant desalination plant somewhere between LA and SF like Santa Maria area which can supply LA, SF and Las Vegas through a pipeline. Each city should try and clean and recycle as much water as possible and the pipelines
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by wppick 12y ago
Coming from a software engineer paradigm I find stuff like this really interesting. I think the worlds of biology and software should move closer together. Learning the basics about genetics and complexity theory in animals has made me cons