gabyar

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by gabyar 3y ago
My first job was at a tech company with a union. Boeing. It was ridiculously bad. I've never worked with less talented people. One of my coworkers did nothing, at all, for 2 years. But with 17 years of experience, he couldn't be f
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by gabyar 4y ago
Burry is a hedge fund manager. The most important part of his job is to scare people away from the S&P and entice them to put money into his fund. It's generally a mistake to trust the financial advice of any hedge fund manager, an
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by gabyar 5y ago
Anyone in the country who buys gas benefits from lower gas prices. That includes a lot of poor people. My mom lives in upstate New York, in a low income area. People there are very negatively impacted by the increase gas prices right now.
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by gabyar 5y ago
Not a proof. But a useful anecdote. No one is doing large scales studies of how many people meet their partner on FB, so anecdote is all we have for that. Most of the criticisms are also anecdotes, but you seem fine with those.
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by gabyar 7y ago
The amazing thing here is that rats are intelligent enough to learn to drive, albeit a simple vehicle. That alone is newsworthy, without the experiment on stress reduction.
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by gabyar 7y ago
It's not "literally impossible". The socialized healthcare system could be corrupt, poorly run, or have other serious problems.
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by gabyar 10y ago
You don't understand correctly. That's not even remotely what the article said.
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by gabyar 14y ago
This article significantly misconstrues Buffets investment style. He does invest for value. But he doesn't even think whether a stock has "bottomed in the market price". Predicting when a stock has "bottomed" is not possible as it's depende
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by gabyar 14y ago
This is beautiful. Well done. This is the first comment I've made in a year - it's that cool looking.
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by gabyar 14y ago
This is very useful, and to call it disappointing is rude to the creator of the tool. Why would you say something so negative just because it's not perfect? This is the problem with Hacker News these days - people can't wait to say someth
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by gabyar 15y ago
Is Stacker a proprietary 37 Signals thing? It doesn't seem to pop up after several search attempts.
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by gabyar 15y ago
Nope, fast fuzzy search is closer to find than grep since it looks for files. But it requires less keystrokes and precision, allow you to be lazier. It's a much more fluid experience. I still use grep a lot while using ST2, but I use it f
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by gabyar 15y ago
The number of lines of codes, in this case, speaks to the amount of features in the framework. Rails is harder to fully understand than Sinatra because there are many, many more features, and it's possible for a beginner to get lost in
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by gabyar 15y ago
Steve Jobs had an extremely rare form of pancreatic cancer that has a very good 5-yr survival rate if caught and treated early. The article is likely accurate.
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by gabyar 15y ago
Just like all things, both nature and nurture are strong factors. Certainly genetics play a factor in IQ, just as they do with other personality traits such as extroversion, or physical traits, such as height. Set in stone would be a huge
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by gabyar 15y ago
I was going to say that Firefox's lack of innovation and quality in the last couple of years, as compared to Chrome, could be due to lack of funding. But it turns out their revenue is well over $100 million annually, which should be enough
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by gabyar 15y ago
Wow, indistinguishable from java. Statically typed and uses generics. Are you kidding me. Dear Google: seriously? :(
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by gabyar 15y ago
I'm glad to see an outstandingly helpful member of the rails community earn income from what has been a mostly altruistic task that must take a lot of time every week.
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by gabyar 15y ago
What are you talking about? The cost is shown in several areas of the page, and "pro" usually means the pay version.
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by gabyar 15y ago
Not true. If you have investors and two cofounders, both cofounders will have less than 50% even with an even split. And a cofounder coming on after a lot of work has been done doesn't deserve a full equity split.
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by gabyar 15y ago
I know Joe personally and he is not condescending or an asshole. He's an extremely nice, personable guy who happens to have done some amazing things that have changed the web (like start FireFox for instance). Perhaps you should think a li
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by gabyar 15y ago
About 80%. Perhaps we're more vigorous with resume screening. Over the last 4 years of interviewing, I've become very good at resume screening.
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by gabyar 15y ago
Rewriting the spec for a feature takes a lot less time than rewriting the code.
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by gabyar 15y ago
Code completion, syntax validation, and built-in API documentation are useful features. To say they're things that only beginners or bad programmers use is absurd. I have much better things to do with my time than memorize the exact name
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by gabyar 15y ago
Regardless of possible testing or analysis concerns, it's pretty clear that Safari 5 has a higher error rate than Safari 4 or 3. Safari is the only browser to go down in quality over time. This appears to be further evidence that Apple is
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by gabyar 15y ago
It's a pretty big oversight that the author didn't include or link to the actual script. This is the unfortunate issue with CoffeScript thuogh; you can't see it in the page, or copy it, because coffescript is compiled into JavaScript before