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by go1979 11y ago
I did see someone pooping once. The train car cleared out pretty fast. I also got threatened twice during rush hour. When I first moved to NY, I tried talking to the good people at the counter ... never made that mistake again. After a bit,
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by go1979 11y ago
I was at SOSP until earlier today. During the Q&A of the Chaos graph processing system, there was discussion of a previous exchange between Frank McSherry and the authors of the work ... what was REALLY cool was that parts of the origin
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by go1979 11y ago
Will scientists at YC Research continue the common pattern of academic research/publications? Or are there some grander plans to disrupt traditional research?
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by go1979 11y ago
I am a professional scientist and I have to disagree. 10 million is just seed cash that I'm sure will be magnified. But do not underestimate the cost of research. While a particular project that pays off seems (and is) a great return,
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by go1979 11y ago
I had to look this up so pasting what I found here: AOT = head of time compilation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahead-of-time_compilation Erlang's HiPE compiler is apparently AOT. The challenge seems to be dynam
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by go1979 11y ago
I got a USB dongle that seems to work under 1GhZ. I was really interested in analyzing zigbee. I think that's in the 2.4GhZ ISM. Any suggestions? I'm also curious ... are these cheap USB dongles just receivers? Or do they have one
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by go1979 11y ago
The recent run up in property prices in most major western cities makes me think the home owning class isn't in too bad of a shape. If you own a house in Vancouver, the Bay area, Toronto, London etc. you basically won the lottery. If y
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by go1979 11y ago
Very much a personal opinion from someone coding for 15 years+. I'm new to Elixir but I found it to be a joyful language to work with so far. Java is a language you code in to pay the bills. Go is not bad at all but while I've hea
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by go1979 11y ago
Thanks. Another point is that in Erlang/Elixir, if you have many actors, you will have less garbage per actor. Which means faster GC overall. The best known example for Erlang/Beam "http throughput" is WhatsApp's 3
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by go1979 11y ago
I've coded in Python and Go (which has compile time type safety and does inference to avoid verbosity) code professionally, and am loving Elixir. I build distributed systems and I while I love Python, I don't think it is the right
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by go1979 11y ago
I'm surprised about the drug trial bit. I thought generics didn't need to have new trials .. they just need to have the exact same formulation. The oddness is that they need to "reverse engineer" the formulation themselv
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by go1979 11y ago
I think so too. Guess real-estate prices will keep going up, up, up :( Not sure how this craziness will play out.
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by go1979 11y ago
Top echelon PhDs don't get paid as much as lawyers or doctors of similar caliber btw.
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by go1979 11y ago
Toronto != Downtown Toronto. Part of the reason everyone wants to live in the core is the horrible public transit system. I used to live uptown but near the TTC - almost every weekend in the summer, we had to use shuttle buses because of tr
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by go1979 11y ago
Britain is hardly alone in this. Prices in Vancouver and Toronto are absolutely insane when one considers incomes in the region. Sensible minds have been claiming a crash for years but property prices continue to go up. Funny thing is that
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by go1979 11y ago
My strong suggestion is never false report anything. It is a rabbit hole that you don't want to go into. I think the odds that you will get fired for taking too long on tasks is EXTREMELY low. When you are young, you think everyone has
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by go1979 11y ago
Hmm ... I am very skeptical when people report numbers of 350-400K. Apart from Netflix, which claims it pays at the top of the market, I didn't think other companies paid this much in base salary to mid-level tech employees. Glassdoor,
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by go1979 11y ago
I am so confused ... don't the Chinese want a devalued Yuan? It helps their economy, right? Did they shift course in the past week???
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by go1979 11y ago
I got a new job in SV in 2008 as well. People were congratulating me that I managed to get "an" offer. Lots of places had hiring freezes back then. When did things change in the valley? Was it Q4 2010? Q1 2011? I'm genuinely
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by go1979 11y ago
I sat on cash since 2008 and don't feel particularly smart.
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by go1979 11y ago
I am pretty certain the median home owner in the desirable Bay area cities could not afford their homes at their income level. The rise in home prices relative to incomes is pervasive in almost every city with good jobs. We live in crazy ti
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by go1979 11y ago
Housing prices and student loans are the bane of my generation (mid 30s atm). I just moved to the Bay area .. feel like I'll always be a renter. While a lender will give me money to buy a million dollar condo, I'd be one misfortun
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Ask HN: Reasonable places to live near Mountain View
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by go1979 11y ago
Consider Toronto as a counter example. That city tore down parks to build condos. That didn't rein in prices. Now, the affluent foreigners have 3-4 condos to go along with that Maserati.
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by go1979 11y ago
I fully believe the capital outflow link to the rise in western real estate prices. As someone unlucky enough to be caught without any property, I am perplexed by the reasonable response. Friends have responded by taking insane loans (since
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by go1979 11y ago
Last time I was in the Bay area, I took cabs. Oh what horrible experiences!! I finally took the plunge and used Uber. I was very satisfied until I encountered "surge pricing" when going to the airport at 5am. I'm still a fan
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by go1979 11y ago
What about the person(s) who invented the Page rank algorithm?
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by go1979 11y ago
Motorola had J2ME-based programmable phones around the year 2000. I believe that was the first smartphone in the US. Back in the day, I developed a few apps and tried to release them for free. I was asked a few grand for the apps to be &quo
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by go1979 11y ago
As someone who doesn't eat pork or drink beer, I almost starved in Germany. I survived on Doner and Chinese food the whole time I was there. But hey .. to each their own :D
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by go1979 11y ago
There are quite a few lurkers on HN who don't post or who have multiple accounts with varying karma. Having some kind of arbitrary karma threshold would be a turnoff IMHO.

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