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by xiaoma 11y ago
genetics != merit
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The iPad Pro is in no way comparable to a Wacom Cintiq 2. That would be like comparing a butter knife to a laser scalpel. It's more comparable to a Surface.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
As someone who loves Apple products and a happy buyer of an iMac, Macbook Air, iPad mini and iPhone, I don't think the iPad Pro is a winner. The problem is the OS. A Surface Pro is not only a great machine for not only web browsing and
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Did you read the article? It said a major issue was the enforcement of copyright claims against GPL violators. The foundation has had a lax approach to this, but one of the community members planning to run for election has a much stricter
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by xiaoma 11y ago
> "If you're not picking the JVM in 2016 to build your core services and web applications then you're making a mistake that is going to cost you time and money either upfront in building things that already exist or later
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Apples mobile revenue lead has accelerated further ahead of Google's this past year according to App Annie's newest report. http://photos.appleinsidercdn.com/gallery/15636-12047-Screen...
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Just counting the number of weeks is pretty misleading too. Some schools are only 9am to 4pm or even just evenings five days a week. Others, such as Hack Reactor are 11+ hours per day, six days a week.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The biggest problem I see in Singapore is that regulations are directed at making startups hire locals. Aside from strict quotas, there are also rules about not being able to underpay or overpay foreign talent. This means paying 5k/m
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by xiaoma 11y ago
If you click the link titled "web" under the title, it will do that for you.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
If the game is more equitable the tall centers or the driven founders will do better. If bribing the ref/lawmakers is an option then this is less true.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
A lot of people make a lot of money from writing terrible PHP applications that solve a particular business need. Sometimes it's shocking to me to be honest!
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by xiaoma 11y ago
All NBA centers are tall. This doesn't mean that all people who aren't NBA centers are short.
883.
by xiaoma 11y ago
He's providing incredible value/wealth to the startups he advises and invests in. I'd also argue that his essays are a great deal of wealth given to the world.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Rent collecting or rent-seeking behavior has a special meaning in economics. It's different from investing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking A an example of rent collecting would be if he used his wealth
885.
by xiaoma 11y ago
> "His argument was that technology is the creator of inequality and it can't be stopped." Not quite. The argument was that technology is a lever that multiplies the differences in productivity between us, not that it i
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by xiaoma 11y ago
And how many more years will you wait before you do that? How many more years can you wait and still be able to make a difference?
887.
by xiaoma 11y ago
How is the idea that variation in productivity leads to a variation in income a "breathtaking misunderstanding of poverty"? It's absolutely true that variation in productivity leads to a variation in income and it's also
888.
by xiaoma 11y ago
He doesn't have a "bully pulpit" because he's hyper rich. He's been writing fantastic essays that have been widely shared for much longer than YC has existed (including one responsible for modern spam filters which
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by xiaoma 11y ago
No. They tend to be blocked completely.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Thanks for backing up your claim with a citation to directly relevant research. I wish others in contentious threads could to the same.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I don't think the author's suggestion of hiring people to "just sit there and watch/talk with (senior devs)" for 30k/year makes much economic sense. Also the explicit discrimination based up on how represented
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by xiaoma 11y ago
> We represent ourselves as front-end devs instead of INTJ devs This is a good thing. INTJ and other Meyers-Briggs types have no basis in science and they aren't related to what work a person can do for a business.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Seeing this reminds me of how there is never an exciting story to publish for the far greater of number who suffer great illness or death because of regulators being too cautious about allowing trials of new treatments.
894.
by xiaoma 11y ago
With the notable lack of "click through to definition"!
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Origin systems and Id Software did for years, Plenty of Fish had one dev, Minecraft, Stack Overflow, Instagram, Flappy Bird... there have been a lot, and it's probably getting more common in recent years. It's kind of hard to get
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Does anyone here do C# work on a Mac outside of Unity? If so, what kind of project is it?
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by xiaoma 11y ago
He certainly wasn't able to pay what the author considers "a good engineer's salary" or even what HP was paying Woz as an entry level engineer. It was sweat equity—exactly what the author complains about. The same was tr
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Don't you ever take notes? A lot of people still write. I mean pens are still sold at pretty much every convenience store in every country I've lived in. Learning cursive is so easy it's kind of amazing to me that some people
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Fortunately for the world, Woz did not subscribe to this point of view.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I would love to see a Twitch stream of the end of the world (of warcraft).

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