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by xiaoma 10y ago
There is absolutely nothing objectionable in the content of this article. It's also aimed squarely at "hackers" and entrepreneurs. Flagging privileges have been abused, too.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It's too bad to see the thread steered away from the entreprenurial topics covered by the article and into a tired political flamewar. Whatever political disagreements we might have with the author, that's no reason to cheat ourse
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by xiaoma 10y ago
This seems like a pretty empty, flamewar-inducing comment. The news isn't even about the US and Japan has been dominant in high-end solar panels for well over a decade (as China has been the high volume producer). Why bring the US and
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "I agree that Go makes programming simple, in a matter of less than 6months, I learned how to write a webapp in Go just by using the standard library" I've met non-technical people who were able to make a webapp in PHP
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by xiaoma 10y ago
How so? At least in my experience, Swagger doesn't have anything equivalent to traits so there's no way to DRY out your docs. If you have 50 endpoints with pagination, you have to document how that works 50 times. If you change ho
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Yes, RAML is great. I find it a lot more concise and don't see any advantage to using Swagger, despite that it's older and more widely used.
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With this scheme if you do even 15 projects, you're already into multi-year time frames and your 25th project will take 200 years. Fibonacci numbers grow quickly!
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by xiaoma 10y ago
When the goal is marketing or communication it's rational to use the more popular ecosystem. The huge ecosystem gives you a huge advantage in getting things done and there are no bonus points for being right in advance. This is as tr
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by xiaoma 10y ago
This is a solved problem. Use WordPress. It's insanely customizable, has a huge ecosystem and now runs 27% of the sites on the web.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Hi, Michael. Thanks for taking the time to do an AMA. Where do you fall on the spectrum of looking for high probability wins vs black swan hunting? To put it another way, how high of a failure percentage would you accept so long as it maxim
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Thanks!
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Yes. A chess AI defeating Kasparov also always comes up as an example of Moore's law, but creating an AI capable of using bruteforce to examine all plausible moves dozens of plies deep into tree of potential games is not the same as cr
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I was always curious about 2nd life but never tried it and I'm not sure why. What year was your store's peak revenue? Where do you think most 2nd lifers went? Is there a viable successor these days, maybe in its early stages?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I read Kurzweil's earlier book, The Age of Intelligent Machines" as a boy and remember how fantastical it seemed. At the time I felt like he laid out a strong case for his predictions but every adult I knew, including my teacher
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I'd say he put himself through hell.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "Netflix deck and Netflix Glassdoor reviews don't match." And which of the two more closely matches the 4,536% increase in Netflix's stock price over the past 10 years?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Perhaps, but how many copies of your book Authority have you sold? 50 success stories is a tiny fraction compared to the number who have bought a high-price book targeted at ebook authors. Then, when you consider the hundreds of thousands
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "You're effectively fucking middle America into relocating both their people and businesses." I haven't taken anyone's job, I'm sensitive to wage disparities, I support companies letting people work remot
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Higher wages definitely influence graduating STEM students who are choosing between SV and finance. They also cause bootcamps to pop up all over the country and bring people from other industries into tech. In general the market will follow
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "What I don't get is why they don't just raise the minimum pay for H1-B visas." That was a key part of Trump's proposed bill. IRRC, the proposal is to increase the minimum from $60k to $130k. Interestingly $60
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> " It's not an inevitability" It's ironic you use this word given that Kevin Kelly's new bestseller which focuses on this and two other trends is called, The Inevitable . https://www.amazon.com&#x2F
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I've taught English to thousands of students who learned it as a foreign language, built and run a school with two partners and I'm the one who was in charge of the curriculum and teaching side. I'm positive that 2,000 words
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One reason is that there's a variety of research showing that learning a foreign language is one of the few practices that can increase your intelligence and delay dementia. Another reason would be to have an experience that is a basic
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by xiaoma 10y ago
2,000 words isn't even close to enough. When learning Chinese, I still had large gaps after learning 2,000 characters and closer to 20,000 words. Note: we each just used three words not in the first 2,000 and that didn't count v
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Over the longer term, privacy is dead. Sensors are proliferating at a rate web servers were 20 years ago and a state of continual recorded surveillance is where we are headed over the next 20 years. The main question is, how equitable will
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by xiaoma 10y ago
She lost some of her expected bonuses due to the repeated security breaches that compromised user accounts. http://www.recode.net/2017/3/1/14783686/yahoos-lawyer-ousted...
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "I have to chuckle at this question. Do you think..." This is kind of rude and condescending and I don't see how prepending it to your comment improves the discussion.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I've been going through notebooks (both lined and plain), doodling and journaling on and off for a long time but I've never owned a moleskine. I generally just go with whatever notebooks they have in stationary stores or Daiso. Wh
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"use strict" will save you from some of the foot guns but not all of them. E.g. it still allows the double equal comparisons I mentioned above, which have been the source of some frustrating debugging sessions ever. If you want a
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There was another thing that CoffeeScript provides that I still missed a couple of years ago when moving to ES6/7 only projects. While ES6 provided a lot of conveniences from CS, like destructured params and a terser function syntax, i

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