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Category Theory for the Working Hacker(youtube.com)
2 points by lettersdigits 9y ago|0 comments
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by lettersdigits 9y ago
> "Most of my friends at Google work four hours a day. They are senior engineers and don't work hard. They know the Google system, know when to kick into gear. They are engineers, so they optimized the performance cycles of the
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Elon Musk Interview – July 2017(youtube.com)
2 points by lettersdigits 9y ago|0 comments
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From first line of code to frontpage of Reddit: the story of Hoodmaps (draft)(levels.io)
1 points by lettersdigits 9y ago|0 comments
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Imaging the Future of Internet Search Technology (1995)(youtube.com)
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NYC Man-On-The-Street Interviews–1979(youtube.com)
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Why Amazon’s Whole Foods Deal Is Terrifying Food Makers(fortune.com)
2 points by lettersdigits 9y ago|1 comments
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by lettersdigits 9y ago
prediction: this post will have 300+ comments and 300+ votes.
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by lettersdigits 9y ago
"Instead, my ‘moderate success’ story is closer to one of hard work, and slow, steady progress"
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Watching Lightning Strike a Building in Super Slow Motion Is Freaky as Hell(gizmodo.com)
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When Schools Meet Trauma with Understanding, Not Discipline(npr.org)
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Earliest evidence for dog breeding found on remote Siberian island(sciencemag.org)
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Two Different Approaches to Saving Bees(npr.org)
79 points by lettersdigits 9y ago|32 comments
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by lettersdigits 9y ago
Survivorship bias is by far my favorite bias
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by lettersdigits 9y ago
My favorite quote from the article: > Imagine two plants growing side by side. Each day they will compete for sunlight and soil. If one plant can grow just a little bit faster than the other, then it can stretch taller, catch more sunlig
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by lettersdigits 9y ago
> What is the hardest technical problem you have run into? I never seem to find a quick good answer for this. Maybe I just almost never work on REAL hard things. So my question to you, HNers, is : What is the hardest technical problem YO
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
:) it is probably something like : 1. go to upwork 2. find a 2-3 hours task (eg: scrape entire site [sitename].com, design a logo etc. etc. 3. give the same task to 5 different candidates 4. choose the best one 5. make profit and gain upwor
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
> I was once asked to basically create a clone of Yelp in a week That's just unfair, inconsiderate and unsustainable, and is also a red flag (ie: I would not go to that company). Giving up a week of your life for an interview ? and
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
> Hours spent talking: 224 > Hours doing homeworks: 33 I would prefer this to be the opposite: more homework, less talking . That's what the job is going to be like, anyway .. (edit:Formatting)
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
> you just have to expect the competitors to be too incompetent/short-sighted Same probably goes to %99.9 of all investors as well, otherwise those %99.9 would have been rich from buying Google after their IPO. Being short sighted i
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
> I feel like this is the best short ever 'feeling like' is not a good way to convincing me to short something. nor long. nor anything ;) > ..., but I feel like the multiplied probabilities of both make it as clear a bet as
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
if there's enough space for an expanded search bar - there's no point, in my opinion. But for example - on map based apps I would personally prefer to have the map with as little distractions (icons, buttons,text inputs, labels) a
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
> Please. don't. do. this. Don't do what specifically ? and why not ? and what should I do instead ? All of these answers are missing in your comment. WhatsApp is doing something quite similar - displaying a small search icon.
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Australian wave energy project sets a new world record with 14k operating hours(inhabitat.com)
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Google’s AMP now accounts for 7 percent of traffic to big US publishers(theverge.com)
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
> This bug is subject to a 90 day disclosure deadline. If 90 days elapse without a broadly available patch, then the bug report will automatically become visible to the public. Is this a common pattern in the bugs world ? publicizing a c
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
you can let him use the full-length search bar for more than once before you minimize it. for example : show him the full-length for the first 5 times, and only then start showing the little one. Also, every time (for the first 5 times) tha
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
I have another tip: divide your use cases into two: a: first x visits (or first visits until the first click on the search box, which means the user now knows it's there) b. all the rest of the visits after he tried it for the first ti
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
My opinion and current way of working is: * if the reducers/actions/action creators/action types/sagas are UNIQUE to the component and are not being used elsewhere then it should sit together in the same folder . * if th
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by lettersdigits 10y ago
> https://github.com/KELiON/cerebro/blob/master/app/AppUpdater... : > export default class AppUpdater { ...... why is this a class ? just so it can auto-exececute without being called ? i woul

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