chiffonade

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by chiffonade 17y ago
Journalists are paid to promote and spin, not to get things right.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
I'm guessing a zombie'd process won't respond either. Which is good if you are checking for validity of a process and not just the mere presence of a pid in the process list.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
> If someone is willing to buy your equity it's as good as cash. Which means it isn't cash.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
For fuck's sake, equity is not cash, stop using and thinking about it like cash. And what kind of landlord would even go for this? Mortgages can't be paid in equity, either.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
Because part of being in school is being around other people. Plus you need all the right software.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
So... he concludes that CPU bound tasks are CPU bound, and that parallelizing compilation (technically it would be the dispatch of compilation) is better? Every time I read this guy I fail to get what his allure to developers is.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
> suffered major destruction and were rebuilt after the invention of the car. Really? Pretty much every single major city with 10M or more inhabitants in China (of which there are dozens, if not hundreds) was destroyed in WW2 and rebui
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by chiffonade 17y ago
You have to fail 3 or 4 times before you learn what to look for in a partner. Startups are difficult.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
> but later people start to get tired of it. I assure you this is not the case in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Berlin, anywhere that car culture is the culture. Once a place grows up with car culture, it very rarely loses it. That's the point
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by chiffonade 17y ago
> "Print This Page". Cute. I am so not clicking through half a dozen pages on this slow-loading iPhone. Clicking six times on an iPhone is way easier than typing that long-winded sentence with full punctuation and capitalization on an i
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by chiffonade 17y ago
The only commercial maglev running right now is in China, not Japan.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
Were there American airbases in Russia, or China?
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by chiffonade 17y ago
That architecture diagram makes no sense.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
> Of course, he himself uses a VPN to dial out. Sounds like class warfare. Same shit, different country.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
> It always makes me wonder why. This doesn't make me wonder at all. The US and China were the two biggest allies in World War 2, became economically unified during the cold war to defeat the Soviet Union (remember the Soviet Union?),
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by chiffonade 17y ago
> Compare a four year degree to two years of travel and two years work experience in your chosen field. Which do you think has the edge? With the right school, you can do all 3.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
> What establishes a right to be at Stanford? Stanford does.
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by chiffonade 17y ago
Because a company the size of Verisign isn't just one guy at a shell prompt generating keys for customers. Trust is expensive. It's probably the most expensive thing you can buy in modern society. A thousand bucks is a deal, if you ask me
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by chiffonade 17y ago
> 3-4 of the best years of your life is a hefty price to pay Those 3-4 aren't really going to be the best unless you're in an environment with young girls, beer, drugs, and class, where you get to meet new people. What are you going to
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by chiffonade 17y ago
This guy Tim Ferriss is a master BS artist.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
I'm talking about the users who deem it a major event in their lives that their social portal changed layouts, not the entrepreneurial hackers discussing how this has implications for future profits for their own projects. Think more meta,
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by chiffonade 18y ago
The real question is: who has nothing else better going on in their life that they must complain about a FB redesign?
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> But, I doubt most people think of Google in that way, including engineers You can bet the people calling the shots at Google are thinking of it that way.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
These designers who went to work for google strike me as incredibly naive. Google was founded by two computer scientists, helmed by a former electrical engineer, and stacked to the rafters with mathematicians and statisticians. Their origi
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by chiffonade 18y ago
You were cheap and you've been had. Learn two lessons and move on.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> Asian cultures. Oh my god dude. You mean all the people from Asia who came to the US for the explicit reason to bust their ass and get rich. Go to Asia, if you've never been (I'm guessing not). You're going to find plenty of lazy pe
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by chiffonade 18y ago
This whole "model minority" concept is so incredibly degrading and haughty. It's a bunch of white people thinking they are doing a group of people a favor by applying a label to them. Oh you should be so proud - you're not like how most ot
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by chiffonade 18y ago
The article states this is a third fund owned by Sequoia and managed by YC. More than likely some of Sequoia's investors got intrigued and wanted to get into the YC game, but didn't feel like taking their money elsewhere because Sequoia ha
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by chiffonade 18y ago
Vitamins aren't the only reason I eat fruits and vegetables. They aren't pills or medicine.
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by chiffonade 18y ago
> Which products contain corn syrup? Every packaged food in the US comes with an ingredient label. More than likely up until lately you thought only hippies would be interested in knowing what's in their food.

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