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by xiaoma 11y ago
> Of course, that document was written by another VC who likes to run his mouth on Twitter. So there's a legitimate discussion to be had about whether that document is poisoning the well of criticism. This comment itself is further
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Twitter is an amazing machine of outrage, misunderstanding and hatred. It allows the benign comment to be taken as an offense and it amplifies genuine offensiveness, bullying, witch-hunting and harassment. There are some wonderful things Tw
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This is a web page. (2013)(justinjackson.ca)
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The long term trends have been overwhelmingly in the direction of more support for gun rights, not fewer. This is one of those topics where US preferences and those of HN (which has drawn a more and more international audience over the year
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by xiaoma 11y ago
They do and they don't. Flashcards and SRS are great for very discrete bits of information. They're a pretty good for things like getting a faster start with the most commonly used 500 nouns, remembering verb tables or memorizing
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by xiaoma 11y ago
> "Digital advertising is becoming a rather simple proposition: Facebook, Google, or don’t bother." This is true only for the worst marketers. Due to the law of shitty returns, the ROI of any given advertising channel declines
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Adult Neurogenesis May Be Increased by Sustained Aerobic Exercise(neurosciencenews.com)
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Other than your time, how much did you spend on making the apps? (e.g. graphic assets, marketing, etc)
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I applaud both the athlete and the research so please forgive this ignorant question. Even if he can handle the waves, isn't he at a huge risk of being eaten by a shark or other predator as he does a 6 month swim across the Pacific?
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Pinyin is just fine (or zhuyin in my case), but the parent is right about one thing. Structure based inputs like Cangjie and Wubi are really fast. Fewer strokes per character and zero need to select from a list mean more speed.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I lived in Taiwan for the largest portion of my adults life and also spent some time in Beijing working at a tech start-up (as hire #5). It's absolutely maddening seeing people who clearly have so little understanding of China or Chine
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by xiaoma 11y ago
> "(The social impact team) are trying to control culture, interviewing and firing. Scary times at the company without a seasoned leader. While their efforts are admirable it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white
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by xiaoma 11y ago
It needs to be able to do video editing on dual 4k monitors and run AAA games, too. This is the future we're talking about.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Interesting. I want a phone that basically turns into a full desktop when you plug it into a docking station. It wouldn't work for it to be iOS, though. It's got to have an accessible file system and a way to install (or even buil
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I like this line of thought. If you are an idea machine , you're actually a lot less likely to be tied to any one idea and ride it down to the bitter end. Instead, you'd realize that most ideas aren't that great and it would
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by xiaoma 11y ago
> This is a misleading, bait-y title. This is buzzfeed.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
This is pretty stark contrast to James Altucher's "idea machine" concept. That's where you push yourself to come up with 10 ideas daily in order to build your "idea muscle" concept. Some days he'd come up
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The creepy "public personal" style of complaint writing is something I wish got banned from social media.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Gentiles didn't have be be discriminated against in order for Jewish students to start doing very well in Harvard a few generations ago. The distributions flipped pretty much as soon as entrenched barriers such as quotas were removed.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Both of those factors are Amazon's choice. I really don't see how Amazon would be any more "screwed" by not getting H1-B employees they won't pay a competitive salary to than they are in not getting US citizens they
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Interesting. Comprehensions are probably the main thing I miss. I liked the automatic returns and the @ shorthand, but whenever I find myself using Python for whatever odd reason, having comprehensions again is like encountering a long lost
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Facebook makes it really easy to track your cost per conversion (e.g. subscribe, signup or sale), and if you report revenue data back to them you can track and optimize for revenue. The only excuse for loosing money on FB in the long-term i
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by xiaoma 11y ago
This is incorrect. The single major demographic trait most likely to lead to arrest, higher conviction rates and stricter sentencing for the same crime is to be male. Being black (or to a lesser extent, Latino) is also a huge factor, as is
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by xiaoma 11y ago
It's not about brand name. It's about being proven in production use. This is why Google's brand doesn't mean much in Angular's case (since most of their own products do not use Angular).
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by xiaoma 11y ago
> next shiny new view-model library to ride the hype train. If widespread use in production by Facebook isn't real world enough for you, then perhaps it's best to find a slower-moving part of the stack.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Interestingly, two of the three private copyright acts in America prior to the Copyright Act of 1790 I was referring to were for 7 years. I'm sure if you try, you can find a more recent book. This is just some more food for thought. Wh
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by xiaoma 11y ago
And it's good for the world that this is the case. While the original term of 14 years may have struck a good balance between motivating creators and moving their creations into the public domain, copyright laws have gone mad in the pa
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I found hugely inspiring/interesting things written by pg, spolsky, pmarca, zedshaw, AndrewWarner, dhh and others. None of them comment here much these days. This is natural as HN has become a much, much larger and more mainstream site
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Yeah and Jeff Atwood is a 1000000x engineer because he wrote some blog posts that made other programmers more productive and then built Stack Overflow and made even more programmers more productive.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
or any major sports titles.

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