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by eleusive 4y ago
Folks who found this article interesting will also appreciate Nathan Altice's book "I AM ERROR" which looks at how the NES's various technical decisions and limitations influenced the NES's lasting cultural legacy.
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Ask HN: Book recommendations about “early days” stories outside of tech
14 points by eleusive 5y ago|3 comments
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by eleusive 6y ago
Given the current state of the world, perhaps it's not a good thing that philosophical thinking has taken a backseat.
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by eleusive 6y ago
For something more accessible, also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TlTaTHgzo
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Using statistical analysis to catch a cheating Minecraft speedrunner [pdf](mcspeedrun.com)
1 points by eleusive 6y ago|1 comments
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by eleusive 9y ago
So how do you hire effectively as a CEO? There are too many areas for you to be knowledgeable, yet you need to be able to hire top talent across a variety of areas.
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by eleusive 9y ago
Indeed - you can even extend this idea to only identify factors less than or equal to the square root - all factors greater than this have a matching factor less than the square root.
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by eleusive 10y ago
It's particularly interesting that Slack's CEO upvoted that answer - I wonder if that's because the answer was accurate or he was just amused.
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by eleusive 11y ago
Like others have mentioned, I'm very interested in how the author arrived at the ratio of '3'. At the very least this ratio doesn't take into account how capital intensive a company is, since fixed costs seem to be what
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by eleusive 11y ago
The person leading this effort is literally the second Justin.tv hire from many years ago.
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by eleusive 11y ago
I know of one interesting story here. Early on in (what would eventually become a very successful) tech company's life, they acquired some collocated space for free thanks to a friend (call him Brad) of an early employee. Eventually B
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by eleusive 11y ago
This is an existing team who has already shown they can work and accomplish things together. Buying the best individual labor on the free market may not create as strong a whole as just hiring a team outright - this seems like a pretty goo
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by eleusive 11y ago
That's NOT what adverse selection is. It's absolutely an adverse selection problem - insurance companies, as you say, can't necessarily price based on your existing health condition (not only because of regulations, but als
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by eleusive 11y ago
For one, it reduces the effects of adverse selection[1]. The idea is that everyone reaps economic benefits through such programs, as an average company will have a pool of workers, some who are "healthy" although others may have
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by eleusive 11y ago
How am I supposed to know, before I click on a link, if the ads supporting the site I'm about to visit are "bad" or not? A possible solution would be to develop an adblock product which whitelisted "good" ad network
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by eleusive 12y ago
Advertisers also love to serve video ads on a flash platform because it lets them perform custom analytics, logic, etc.
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[LIVE] Twitch Plays Pokemon: An Adventure in Twitch Chat Engineering(twitch.tv)
5 points by eleusive 12y ago|0 comments
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Engineering chat improvements at Twitch(blog.twitch.tv)
3 points by eleusive 12y ago|1 comments
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by eleusive 15y ago
What if a coalition of California-based companies sent emails to their employees informing them of the potential harm this bill could do to their company (and thus each employee's livelihood) with an appeal to send a snail-mail or phone up
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by eleusive 15y ago
It looks like the most commonly-used adjective to describe Jobs was "great" - I wonder how many of those instances were actually "insanely great".
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by eleusive 15y ago
This series of articles[1] goes into some depth in explaining why certain countries (and ethnicities) dominate various sports - this includes an in-depth discussion of why Kenyans are so good at distance running. The author focuses on gene
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by eleusive 15y ago
Not very easy if they want to maintain compatibility with existing clients (especially considering they haven't updated their linux client for years now).
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by eleusive 16y ago
(Disclaimer, I'm not an expert, but I can squat well over 1.5x my weight for several reps) For squats, you should make sure to go parallel and "sit back" at the bottom of the movement, while pushing your knees out to the sides as you go dow
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by eleusive 16y ago
How many of those 25k employees actually handle any of the infrastructure scaling?
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by eleusive 16y ago
"If it makes me feel good just after waking up for an hour or so, then is it really that useful?" If I retain my daytime alertness, I think so :) Morning grogginess is pretty much the worst part of my day and I think $60 to make it go away
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by eleusive 16y ago
Students interested in one day becoming founders may enjoy the software design contest. I did this contest when I was a freshman in college, and I loved it. My friend and I decided to register about 5 days before the competition. In those
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by eleusive 16y ago
Based on their engineering puzzles[1], I'd maybe expect problems geared more towards approximation/heuristics. The GCJ problems always require exact answers. [1] http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php
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by eleusive 16y ago
You'd be surprised at how often a cleverly chosen data structure or algorithm can improve a web app. For instance, where I work our frontend code uses tries, heaps, and other data structures (and using these makes the user experience notic
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by eleusive 16y ago
In particular, a good hash table implementation will have O(1) amortized complexity [1] (i.e. average complexity over a worst-case sequence of operations). Since in the Real World we deal with sequences of operations rather than single one
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by eleusive 16y ago
I'll take it to mean that (given the 1 in 30 million estimate and that there are well over 250 million outgoing airplane seats filled per year by U.S. airlines), the expected number of scans which will cause cancer is nearly 10. That's 10

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