hackaflocka

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by hackaflocka 10y ago
His "Unmournable Bodies" essay in New Yorker shook me to my core.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
This has to be good news for Twitter. Twitter suffered enormously under his leadership. It lost users, potential revenue, potential profits, and people. He seemed to not care about all the trolling and abuse problems. This is good news.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
And I spotted the fire retardant.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
A 300 point drop in the Dow is an "almost normal" day. 700 point is nothing to worry about.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Via Twitter I have asked clarificatory questions to some of the top authors (Taleb was one), journalists and programmers in the world. Most of them responded.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
When I was unhappy I was always unhappy (eventually). Whether it was by myself or with other people. Smallco or Bigco. IMHO, 5 things are essential. Everything else is secondary: - Sleep / resting the body-mind - Exercise / moving
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Depends on the definition of TV. YouTube is the new TV. And that's 1000x the number of "traditional" channels.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Exactly this. People are trying to sway the discussion with "single mother" and "mexican" implying that "people of color who make unfortunate choices" should somehow be exempt from the uniform and fair applicat
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
> It can also be redundant, since the USDA’s organic label already excludes GMOs Quick, what's the logical fallacy here?
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Exactly this. If stuxnet is possible, a voting machine should be a piece of cake.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
> I built and sold tech businesses in the UK, US and Brazil. It's always intriguing when people write that without mentioning the names of any businesses.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Yglesias is brown?
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Back a couple of decades ago in India. I was working for an American telecoms co. I grew pally with an HR manager. He showed me the background on a new hire. The new hire was the son of a mid-level government official cum career civil serva
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Thanks.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Surprised it's that low. I read somewhere that 50% of women are on anti depressants.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
It's at least usable on desktop. Try going to mobile.twitter.com on a phone... it's shockingly slow.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Sadly, their search doesn't work very well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646580
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
I think it used to be impressive when they created Bootstrap. Twitter's website currently is not Responsive. The web interface looks different on every platform (mobile, tablet, desktop). And on mobile, the website is terribly slow.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
They said Google won't make a bid. But Alphabet ($GOOG) can absolutely make a bid.
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“Nassim Taleb” Twitter search quickresults yield only fakes, not verified one(imgur.com)
3 points by hackaflocka 10y ago|0 comments
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Paul Buchheit - Startup School Europe 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5w-0H-hq6E Anjana Vakil: Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript - JSUnconf 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-5obm1G_F
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Is this potentially an open-source self-hosted alternative to Twilio?
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
So I've been feverishly researching both topics, and how to learn them. I've decided to take these 2 courses from Coursera (starting soon, in Oct 2016). Both are free, and for the ML course, one can pay after completing it and get
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
RIP Steve.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Makes sense. An advantage with us Old Geeks is we don't like to re-invent the wheel ;-)
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
I initially thought it was an egg being broken because of the reference to "egghead.io".
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Ask HN: Pmarca's advice – BitCoin/BlockChain and AI/ML in 2 hours a day
2 points by hackaflocka 10y ago|2 comments
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
It lacks integration with SMS though. GText will integrate SMS and all in-house Google instant-messaging/texting modalities.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
For starters, iCloud has a 5GB limit (free tier). And that limit has been used up by lots of other things in addition to iMessages. iCloud backups are also known to fail. Someone I know just can't get the backup to work on their iPhone
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
This could be a legitimate concern of his. But I would guess that even if he were to delete everything, Twitter would still have permanently archived undeleted copies (Facebook does that apparently).

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