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by zck 13y ago
It was also run somewhere in print: http://www.flickr.com/photos/martindavidsson/96160482/ . Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=75776
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by zck 13y ago
>(incf (elt vector 2)) ..versus.. ++vector[2] One reason I like Lisp is that I don't have to think about operator precedence.
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Sexism and Tech and Love(loveandvoid.com)
82 points by zck 13y ago|106 comments
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by zck 13y ago
Have you negotiated the startup one? Tell them that you'd rather work with them, but you have another offer on the table for more money. Read Patrick McKenzie's article about negotiation: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2
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by zck 13y ago
The common advice for this and many similar issues with hn is to email pg and ask him to delete your account, unban you, or give you a pony. Whether you consider this an acceptable solution is another question.
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by zck 13y ago
>I really wish the IRS would concern itself with USD only... This wouldn't work at all. If that happens, why wouldn't people switch to using Euros? Certainly there would be difficulties with convincing other people to take Euro
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by zck 13y ago
It's also an incentive for the company to fire all of those 15 employees.
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by zck 13y ago
I'm not the author, but the point here is that Apple does a lot to eliminate extra space in its circuit boards. The more space eliminated, the smaller the device can be. Of the three designs shown, Apple has removed the most space. Loo
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by zck 13y ago
Units, people! If you have $626.4 / (server month), how do you get to $172,800 / month? You need to multiply by servers. But what are our units on the 276 number you use? $3.99 = 276 server minutes. or 1 = $3.99 / (276 server
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by zck 13y ago
I think what will come first is driverless subway cars. They've already had this in some places ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains ), but they're just replacing a regularly-scheduled hu
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by zck 13y ago
>Its the old tradeoff between using long-winded existing constructs or paying a complexity cost and forcing the reader to learn a new abstraction or DSL. Yeah, that's definitely true. When macros are used to add to the language, you
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by zck 13y ago
Sure, you can do it that way -- but isn't it ugly? Isn't it harder to read? One thing I recently did that required a lot of macros was writing a unit test framework for Arc, the Lisp Hacker News is written in. (framework, with exa
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by zck 13y ago
In context, Chase Adam said something like "The worst part about being a non-profit: everybody is like 'yeah, this is really cool', but they don't write a check. Nobody says 'NO'."
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by zck 13y ago
>Apart from missing a good meal I felt pretty good, lost some weight and didn’t even feel hungry. Emphasis added. I wish people wouldn't treat this universally as a good thing, when talking about food replacements. The goal in con
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by zck 13y ago
I love this idea, but I've struggled with what to replace it with. "Tell me about yourself" is the best thing I've come up with, but it sounds like an interview. "What are you interested in?" is another option,
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by zck 13y ago
Let's assume, for the second, that both the law and Delta rules state that you can't have animals on board the plane. Then, is it okay to treat this person as she says she was treated? You can tell someone something they don'
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by zck 13y ago
Of course, food companies have some incentives encouraging them to keep the dates early and confusing: * If some food is beyond a date printed on the box, and someone gets sick, the person eating it thinks it's their fault for eating i
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by zck 13y ago
I bet if you a/b tested this sign vs a smartphone app, people using the sign would miss fewer buses. If you want to know when the next train is with the app: 1. Where's my phone? It's not in my pocket, so maybe I left it on t
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by zck 13y ago
Sure, salting definitely helps. A little. It's like telling someone being shot at to stand sideways, because their profile is smaller that way. The right thing to tell them is to get the hell off the firing range . The problem with sa
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by zck 13y ago
One reason, iirc, is to prevent stealth companies from being outed.
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by zck 13y ago
That's the thing, though -- languages aren't just changes of syntax. Writing in an object-oriented style is very different from writing in a functional programming style, even within the same language. Alternately, new libraries a
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by zck 13y ago
This article really needs more evidence supporting its views. Just restating the claims of the report isn't enough. For example, the third claim is that MIT claims no one cared until aaronsw's suicide. Citing protests by students,
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A beekeeper, 80,000 bees, and 3D printing(itsnicethat.com)
1 points by zck 13y ago|0 comments
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by zck 13y ago
They're saying it's a networking issue ( http://status.bitbucket.org/ ). It's possibly (probably?) related to the datacenter migration yesterday: http://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/07/02&#
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by zck 13y ago
HN is released to the public as part of the Arc language. This github account is a big deal because the last version of Arc was released in August 2009 ( http://arclanguage.com/item?id=10254 ).
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by zck 13y ago
When I posted my comment, it was Brain's .
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by zck 13y ago
"Brains".
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by zck 13y ago
Part of the benefit is that setting aside time to talk about what you can do better forces you to think about what you can do better. Sure, some people will think about that without needing prompting, but having a set time to do so is benef
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Ant engineering captured in slow motion detail(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by zck 13y ago|1 comments
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by zck 13y ago
This article surprised me; normally you see advice that suggests only building products for profit centers. Thinking of different techniques for the two domains is a great idea.

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