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by xianshou 12y ago
At its core, this piece claims "no life without death, no love without war" - and that there is no more intense experience of all of these than in the midst of war. This is one of the great paradoxes of progress. In the most peace
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by xianshou 12y ago
The world, pre-Google, abounded in serendipitous quests to find one piece of information offline. The world, post-Google, abounds in serendipitous quests to find many pieces of information online, such as starting at a given book on Amazon
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by xianshou 12y ago
I play Go and chess, and I think of it this way: the best players may have won more than others, but they have also lost more than others, because they have simply played more games. Frequent loss or rejection is a necessary step to goodnes
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by xianshou 12y ago
But all their CHF accounts just got 15% more valuable. I'd consider that excellent news!
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by xianshou 12y ago
As the article points out, this is essentially the only viable move for Charlie Hebdo. To have so often depicted Muhammad in the past, have most of their staff killed for it, become the focus of a worldwide movement that promises not to be
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by xianshou 12y ago
Radix sort, with time as the buckets...stylish.
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by xianshou 12y ago
Good point, although this particular metaphor is originally derived from racial segregation - the authors cite a landmark study on racial segregation in US cities as their motivation for the site.
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by xianshou 12y ago
100% of epsilon is still epsilon.
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by xianshou 12y ago
Nomen est Omen indeed. His Chinese name is Wu Qingyuan, and it just turns out that "Go" is how you pronounce his last name in Japanese.
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by xianshou 12y ago
For a fascinating dramatic depiction of Go's life, not only as the best professional of the era but as a Chinese man in Japanese society, watch The Go Master. Here's a good scene to give you the flavor: https://www.yout
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by xianshou 12y ago
Was this Addepar? I think I remember the match.
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by xianshou 12y ago
Fascinating - this is essentially the backstory to Breaking Bad in real life. If Prasher goes bald, time to worry.
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by xianshou 12y ago
The exact same thing happened to me - startup, acquihire, quitting the acquirer, and joining a less sexy company, though in my case I got the bonus of moving to Switzerland. You mention the desire and the ability to do great things, but not
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by xianshou 12y ago
The hard part is living a lifestyle consistent with being the right weight. Most people fail to keep their weight down because they do something until they lose the weight, then forget about it. The real strategy is to do something sustai
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by xianshou 12y ago
So, Amazon Parse? Looks like the big four (Apple, Google, Amazon, FB) all have to ahem ...back(end) it up now.
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by xianshou 12y ago
Interestingly, this analogy works very much at the company level, but reverses at the country level. For companies, patents represent weapons in an arsenal, in which MAD prevents offensive action, as you've said. For countries, the rev
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by xianshou 13y ago
Acquihires are pretty much the default hiring method these days, so "victory" now requires keeping the product active after acquisition. A toast, then, to Hackpad. Well done.
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by xianshou 13y ago
Can we just agree that evaluating anonymized work samples the way orchestras evaluate blind auditions would make things simpler and easier? http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/b...
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by xianshou 13y ago
I'm sure Matthew Deiters really appreciates the pun. http://pitchbox.com/ That said, even though this would have been a great April Fools' joke, it's also part of a developing trend to provide hyper-liquidity
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by xianshou 13y ago
If this really works, I would love to see it replace the hellish jumble of team-editable documentation. I've seen Confluence, PBWiki, Google Sites, and a smattering of others used to no good ends...can we please switch to this now?
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The Dark Power of Fraternities (Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic)(acculturated.com)
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by xianshou 13y ago
A/B's completely fine on iOS - just see the way that Facebook runs their tests: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/09/airlock-facebook/
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by xianshou 13y ago
Who knows you better than your mom ? From this marketing, I'd answer...Big Brother.
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by xianshou 13y ago
This will never succeed, because having too many cards to keep track of is a $100 problem for only a small percentage of the population. Also, I just bought one.
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by xianshou 13y ago
Thank you for a refreshing dose of the truth! When you shut down the product, an acquisition is no good for the users, plain and simple. It may or may not be a personal success, but no matter what, it is the end of the vision that you and y
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by xianshou 13y ago
I've interviewed a lot of Ph.D. candidates for software engineering jobs at startups, and have only ever encountered two problems: (1) lack of ability to code, and (2) mismatched expectations. Poor coding skill accounts for perhaps 80%
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by xianshou 13y ago
Thanks. info@ is fixed, so you can send messages there now. Please send the leaks and we'll plug them.
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by xianshou 13y ago
Thanks for the critiques, and yes, it's not an easy problem. There are countermeasures. For instance, who said we'll let you see the whole question bank? And if you type a close enough approximation, out come the plagiarism checke
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>< Thanks. Will be fixed.
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I'm one of the co-founders and I'm still saving that quote. As for the answer to the implicit question...the best people are passed by reference when they're already recognized. We're aiming to help people show that th

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