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by yaseer 4y ago
This feels like "a couple years" to me too, but games like Gears Of War which epitomised that brown 360/PS3 palette are now pushing 16 years ago!
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by yaseer 4y ago
(Applied twice, got in second time) Don't hide anything. Applying again is not a problem, from what I have seen. One thing you'll see in Paul Graham's writing is that persistence/resilience is the most important attribu
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I also didn't know how to apply the concepts at the time, it seemed more academic than practical, but I had a different level of enjoyment. Having been a script kiddie teenager, just hacking together stuff that worked, functional progr
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by yaseer 4y ago
Cool project! I always thought SML was a great language for teaching computer science and functional programming. A lot more fun than learning Java. With ML, you got glimpses of aesthetic beauty in code.
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by yaseer 4y ago
There's a popular misconception on HN that YC is all about VC funding. I used to think this too, before doing YC and realising YC emphasise funding as a tool, not as a goal. You raise as much as you need to achieve your goals. Zapier r
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https://web.archive.org/web/20220728183340/https://www.forbe...
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Google geofence warrant could help sentence murder suspects to death(forbes.com)
4 points by yaseer 4y ago|1 comments
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by yaseer 4y ago
It's possible this post may be a significant embellishment of the truth, rather than being entirely true or made up. He could well be a spammer, perhaps a small time one, that romanticises being the big-fish criminal living an implausi
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by yaseer 4y ago
For the record, I don't think crypto is useless, I just don't think it's hitting that bar for a transformative technology. It's proponents certainly do describe it as potentially transformative or revolutionary. Yes, I&#
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I'm reminded of the pictures of New York in 1900 and 1913. Within those 13 years, the car had changed the world. https://www.businessinsider.com/5th-ave-1900-vs-1913-2011-3?... The iPhone and smartphone revolution clea
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by yaseer 4y ago
My experience correlates - Google ads for early stage startups and SMEs is a terrible product. Clearly, it has been optimised for businesses with significant ad budget. But I do wonder - are they not leaving significant SME money on the tab
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by yaseer 4y ago
This would have been true when GBP was strong, but it's now trading at 1.18 USD. The glory days of 2.05 USD from 2007 are long gone, sadly! Even in Kensington and Chelsea, average rent of £2.5K or even £3K GBP is only $3K-$3.5K USD the
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> instantly erase someone from your perception in person to person interaction. As easily as you can block a message, so too can abuser create a new account. Online harassment can be as persistent as in-person harassment - there's c
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by yaseer 4y ago
> An adult getting abused online is like getting third degree burns because you laid your hand on a hot burner and refused to take it off This analogy is broken on quite a few levels. When did the internet become a hot burner? The inte
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If it exists, there's porn of it. And a relevant xkcd.
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Technically, programmers search, copy and modify code all the time. One might argue copilot puts into software an algorithm that humans are already doing. Software like that is usually inevitable. Still, it sucks there's no benefit for
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Comparisons to competition are just a way to map out the market, and where you may fit.
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by yaseer 4y ago
If it's hard to tell the difference, it'll be hard to sell the difference. (Cheesy rhyme intentional) But seriously, you could probably do some research to work out your solution's strengths, relative to existing solutions. W
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by yaseer 4y ago
Can you articulate why this is different to other text summarising solutions? It may be that yours is easier to integrate than using AWS APIs[1], or performs better than what's available on say, npm[2]. It may be that your algorithm is
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by yaseer 4y ago
This reads more like a generic SEO page, stating platitudes, rather than a novel analysis by one of the largest, most influential companies in the world. If Google considers this quality content, is it really surprising their search results
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by yaseer 4y ago
Microsoft's leadership and strategy has evolved under Nadella, at least enough to produce quality products like VSCode, and 'good enough' products like WSL. I say this as someone who has historically been very anti-Microsoft,
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by yaseer 4y ago
You have to sift out a lot of junk from this article, to get at the useful points. It would benefit from some editing. > “It’s usually easier to make something 10x better than it is to make it 10% better" This is not 'usually&#
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by yaseer 4y ago
> This seems like something you could build over a weekend I think you've succinctly illustrated why software estimation is notoriously unreliable. Those estimating do not yet understand the problem.
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by yaseer 4y ago
This is really cool! If you do what you say you do, this is a lot of value to be had relative to the costs. We're coming to the end of our cloud credits and I was thinking about next steps - definitely giving this a shot.
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Ask HN: What's your experience with the Steam Deck?
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by yaseer 4y ago
I wasn't aware that ahrefs was supporting Ocaml projects. Jane Street obviously comes first to mind. Good to see more companies develop the ecosystem. It used to be a very niche, esoteric language. I discovered Ocaml whilst learning Is
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by yaseer 4y ago
Seconded. It shall bring you down emotionally, then build you up again - but stronger.
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> If the idea / product is any good, it'll probably catch on quickly and sales will be easy. I would respectfully disagree with this. There are a few startups (e.g. Facebook), whose market timing is so perfect, that it's a
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by yaseer 4y ago
Funnily enough, my own dad had a quirky idiolect where he referred to every family member with 'the' definite article: 'The wife', 'The son', 'The daughter' etc. Your mistyping sent me down memory lan
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by yaseer 4y ago
Exactly - machine-formulated ATP often ends up like machine-code, very similar to the proofs of Russell's Principia Mathematica. Extremely low-level formalisms great for procedural reasoning, but poor for human understanding. I would s

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