bovik

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by bovik 8y ago
there is a bug if you try to change direction by rolling over left and right at the same time or up and down at the same time. hitting uo/down together and left/right together when changing direction has a weird pause effect.
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by bovik 8y ago
It's just jargon. I really don't know why the title isn't just "Conversations with a six-year-old on functions" and "f(x) = x - 3." You lose nothing, increase your audience 100fold, and it's more in
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by bovik 8y ago
This is really just a conversation about functions...
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by bovik 9y ago
I imagine if they started at wildly different speeds it would still converge but the convergence would take longer.
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by bovik 10y ago
how does that make more drivers come to a specific place/time where demand is outstripping supply?
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by bovik 11y ago
Aren't all serious Math and CS papers free on the arXiv anyway?
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by bovik 11y ago
For this purpose mathematicians use OEIS (oeis.org). Check it out.
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by bovik 14y ago
PG, I'm glad to see you're at least willing to engage in the discussion. The main point was not what end-point you're aiming (large exits, which btw, are yet to be realized for either airbnb or dropbox) or merely progressively higher valua
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by bovik 14y ago
I won't give out specific names of course. The brainwashing is mostly around the cult of personality around pg. Everything he writes or espouses becomes gospel. Now, we all know he can write intelligently and with research on some things he
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by bovik 14y ago
Just read Parts I and II of that article. Really interesting perspective. I've been talking to some recent YC "grads" in the valley and the amount of brainwashing they seem to have undergone is just shocking. And yet, so many more keep floc
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by bovik 14y ago
If you're actually willing to engage in this discussion, then here's your answer. YC and (other "incubators" like it) are basically opportunistically exploiting cheap/free labor of thousands of naive (mostly) young developers to play the lo
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by bovik 14y ago
"Ok, may I humbly ask..." "with great respect, may I ask you.." "With all due respect PG..." "While I don't want to second-guess your judgement..." And these are the comments disagreeing with pg ! Wow. Either internet ain't what it used t
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by bovik 14y ago
I have no doubt that pg doesn't like the article Here's a quote "...smart young people have been conned into thinking that starting a company is akin to buying a lottery ticket or rolling dice at Las Vegas -- the odds are long but you
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by bovik 14y ago
"one helped me out without intending to by talking about why one feature probably wouldn't work without a tweak because they found out it doesn't work without X." Didn't you just disprove your whole point there. Your competitor revealed his
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by bovik 14y ago
That's a weird dude. That's all.
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by bovik 14y ago
"Scalia was joined in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito." Big f ing surprise.
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by bovik 14y ago
I'm disappointed. Ars is usually pretty good about these things but in this case it sounds like a techcrunch'y over-sensationalized headline as a result of over parsing some casual statements from Eric Schmidt. Not having submitted the app
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by bovik 14y ago
The basic decision to not require account creation (and hence no login/password) is a key design decision that makes the app onboarding experience so pleasant. Now given that as a product requirement, what exactly would you use as encryptio
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by bovik 14y ago
Is Paul Graham the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln ?
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by bovik 14y ago
Is this the right thread ?
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by bovik 14y ago
To reduce round trips and ease of use for the ultimate consumer. A typical whatsapp consumer is decidedly not the geek/hipster hanging out on HN. Out of the 100+ million installs they have, I doubt any more than about 0.1% care about encryp
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by bovik 14y ago
Heh... fanboy much ?
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by bovik 14y ago
Bah... I'll wait until Apple invents this technology about five years from now. I never buy non-apple product or technologies because I'm creative.
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by bovik 14y ago
"What makes me angry about the AdBlock plugin is that the author – while happy to destroy our revenue stream – is also profiteering from the very same free content model by asking for PayPal donations when the plugin is installed. Talk abou
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by bovik 14y ago
The extra USD 200 for the 4G model are not all about hardware you know. I doubt 4G chipset and the 32GB flash chips are costing that much.
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by bovik 14y ago
That's a strange kind of argument for favoring something "as a techie". Wouldn't you be more excited by the two extra cores (not to mention the additional "phantom" core) that tegra 3 provides.
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by bovik 14y ago
How's not being based on quad-core tegra3 is a plus? As for battery life, the new Fire obviously doesn't have any hands-on reviews yet but nexus 7 battery life has been very solid according to all reviews.
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by bovik 14y ago
"Native Americans"... you keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.