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by yomly 10y ago
The thread macro is really a treat and allows for more expressive functional piping of data. A lot like dot chaining in your python/scala/rubys or cascading in Javascript - get a lot done with minimal boilerplate
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by yomly 10y ago
Godspeed Niantic dev-team!!! Really despise the negative press you're getting. Don't think anyone in their wildest dreams would have thought PoGo would have taken off as well as it has and now they are stuck between a rock and a h
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by yomly 10y ago
Ah, that's disappointing - I did think that was unique to Amazon. I don't suppose other companies call their product classifiers browse nodes and call their most granular classifiers leaf nodes...?
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by yomly 10y ago
We all talk about Google and Facebook's rich data source for human behaviour. We talk less about Amazon's rich data source on consumer behaviour. As Google themselves once said Amazon is a search engine for products/shopping.
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by yomly 10y ago
I say it to all my friends all the time - Amazon is a tech company that happens to do retail, not a retail company that does tech. It's no coincidence that Amazon calls a unit of storage space in its FCs a "bin" and also happ
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by yomly 10y ago
MIT OCW Maths for CS does the proof for this here[0] Think the key takeaway really is to frame your question precisely and draw the right conclusions. That you always perceive your friends to be more popular than you, or that surveys of num
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by yomly 10y ago
Because my friends code in python and JavaScript whilst I code in lisp and try to get everyone to convert to functional programming?
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by yomly 10y ago
> On the other hand I remember a particularly tedious passage in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea where several pages passed describing various molluscs found at the bottom of the sea. This reminds me of the passage in The Picture of Dorian
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by yomly 10y ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a rockstar, some people enjoy fame, others don't. Chopin and Schubert were comparatively reticent as composers, for example. The connotation within the space is that the rockstar is not
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by yomly 10y ago
A really interesting character, it's easy to assume the trope of him being a superficial virtuosic performer / rockstar but that is to miss the man who was deeply committed to music. He would regularly champion Chopin's music
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by yomly 10y ago
The Chinese probably think the same thing about the companies that are failing on their home turf...
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by yomly 10y ago
Spot on - ubers in China were easily 70% cheaper for me (coming from the UK). I don't think the volumes were appropriately bigger. Also seemed like Uber were going wild at the time - Easter weekend was totally free for all riders all w
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by yomly 10y ago
>With[out] AWS This is such a moot point. That Amazon a "retail" company was able to roll out Kindle and popularise E readers (while handling distribution)... That Amazon were able to roll out AWS, a highly profitable cloud pla
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by yomly 10y ago
I hesitate to comment on topics like this for fear of coming across as ignorant, but I find myself very conflicted over this subject. I am a huge advocate for privacy and am strongly against unnecessary surveillance by governments and compa
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by yomly 10y ago
The thing is, that Amazon/Facebook/Google are in the unique position of having too many applicants, not too few. This is by no means vindicating their process, merely shedding some light on it. A bit like case studies and consulti
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by yomly 10y ago
> I believed people valued coming up with the solution on the spot. So I 100% agree with this. Being intuitively clever and being able to apply what you know is intrinsically valuable: Think of the extreme, imagine someone who is unable
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by yomly 10y ago
A completely fair and pretty objective analysis from my perspective. On the other hand, everyone has a calling or personal interests. These may be formed under any number of formative life experiences which shape an individual's person
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by yomly 10y ago
I'm pretty sure you can do this with graph analysis without needing sentiment analysis. I don't have the source to hand anymore but Facebook started doing a lot of research into the different types of 'likes' may have ap
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by yomly 10y ago
>I recently heard someone make the argument that while a lot of the Google AI tech is impressive, they haven't really been able to build something that feels that useful as a product in the real world. It's an impressive tech d
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by yomly 10y ago
Articles like this for me tend to vindicate Google's notorious hiring processes. While it is true that for most people will not need to be able to whiteboard a binary tree inversion in their day to day, it seems like they expect their
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by yomly 10y ago
From that comparison, it is quite apparent that while Facebook may have a stronghold on your hours per day, and have richer personal data on the individual, Google has access to a far more diverse dataset from its users. For example, there
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by yomly 10y ago
That's pretty awful. Out of interest, what did the CEO do? Sounds like a pretty bold thing for the other employee to say in front of the CEO. What was the context? Could that employee have equally said something as vile to another man
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by yomly 10y ago
Doesn't a checksum verify that the file you have is the same one the distributor intends you to have?
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by yomly 10y ago
The final straw that pushed me to delete the app - thanks! Had already been living 95% free of Facebook by turning off push notifications anyway
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by yomly 10y ago
I can only imagine the hell some team must be experiencing right now. Godspeed, Amazon site reliability team...
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by yomly 10y ago
So from a brief look at the paper [0], the molecular submarine is just over 1,000g/mol For reference the haemoglobin A protein unit is about 64,000g/mol [1]. Molecules above about 500g/mol struggle to pass through the blood b
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by yomly 10y ago
I'm a big fan of saving history - trying to remember all the shell based commands we use is a nightmare! If you're using zsh, a tip I picked up from [0] was to alias all your common commands like 'cd', 'ls&#x2
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by yomly 10y ago
That really sucks! Without anything else to go by, something that strikes me is that you are sending out a huge number of resumes and your conversion from resume to interview is low. As most resumes are screened initially by an HR person, y
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by yomly 10y ago
Interesting coincidence for me that this hits the front page of HN today as I recently read this article [0]. The author thinks we should move away using the database purely to persist the data, while handling all logic/validation in t
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by yomly 10y ago
Agreed, JS is more verbose than Ruby and Python and vanilla JS is a strange language for newcomers what with its prototypal object system and functional composition. It doesn't help that a lot of intro materials will try to shoehorn it

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