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Ask HN: Given popularity of adblockers, is Google Analytics still accurate?
2 points by litzer 7y ago|1 comments
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by litzer 7y ago
I’m a meat eater and want to replace meat. It’s not just vegetarians. The factory farming of animals doesn’t sit well ethically with me, but meat has been a staple of my diet my entire life. If there were a viable plant based alternative th
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by litzer 9y ago
Most people would consider software that "does software engineering" AI.
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by litzer 9y ago
> Software engineering is uniquely multiplicative because it's possible for a software engineer to create software that does software engineering. I think you misunderstood the O-ring explanation by citing that idea as an example. I
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Ask HN: What's something I can do with a spare, modern laptop?
9 points by litzer 9y ago|13 comments
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by litzer 9y ago
Notice that none of these images are zooming in on pixels to get the comparison. The fight for quality among high end DSLR's is nearing the description of unnoticeable difference, but phone cameras are benefitting immensely from new te
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by litzer 9y ago
For anyone else like me who was overwhelmed by all the information and just looking for summaries: "In one sentence, how does it work? Payment Request API enables a user to complete a transaction more easily by reusing information stor
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by litzer 9y ago
You have a number of comments that advertise this but never offer any reason alongside it.
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by litzer 9y ago
It seems to be a mistake on the author's part to allow himself to be exploited at first (working without having any of the promises in legal writing). It's unethical but not uncommon and alone wouldn't produce the outrage for
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by litzer 9y ago
This is a common thought: https://xkcd.com/927/ You could point to frameworks which have had majority usage at any given point and say those were the "right" ways at the time. But ideas evolve, which isn&#x27
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by litzer 9y ago
Not sure about in general, but it seems like their residency program [0] gives a good shot at landing on the team afterwards and is accessible to "normal" people passionate about ML [0] https://research.google.com/
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by litzer 9y ago
The FAQ answers this: " What background knowledge is necessary? Programming (expected): intermediate Python programming skills: work effectively with loops, control flows, data structures, files, functions and OO programming. Prior exp
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by litzer 9y ago
Right, but I'd consider that falling closer to the realm of general software engineering -- similar to tasks of collecting analytics of users or building infrastructure to get data from point A to point B. Maybe that currently is some
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by litzer 9y ago
As somebody who's recently starting to learn more about ML, a lot of the work of an ML engineer does seem to be automate-able (not doing research or pushing boundaries but just applying ML to some product need). For example, choosing h
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by litzer 9y ago
I can't imagine that restricting disclosing which other companies he's worked for. I'm curious if it's a recruiting strategy he's trying.
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by litzer 9y ago
Out of curiosity, how come you seem to hide which companies you've worked for? In both here, your website, and LinkedIn, you only present a vague description.
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by litzer 9y ago
https://github.com/alixander/Ceruleum I had built this with the intention to sell it on the app store but ended up not wanting to bother with marketing and signing up. But idk, maybe it can garner some buys as a paid d
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by litzer 9y ago
Any suggestions on finding small/local tech conferences other than Meetup.com?
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Ask HN: How do you start giving tech talks?
222 points by litzer 9y ago|89 comments
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Ask HN: What's the best way to talk to an expert directly for advice?
2 points by litzer 9y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Stanchion – Add priorities to your web app's network requests(github.com)
1 points by litzer 9y ago|0 comments
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by litzer 9y ago
Hi, just wanted to share this app I made to address a personal need. When I was working on a large feature, I'd sometimes upload to repo just to get the diffing UI and get an overview of my changes. The problems with that is the delays
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Show HN: Ceruleum – Track changes to your code going towards your next commit(github.com)
8 points by litzer 9y ago|3 comments
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by litzer 9y ago
> Turn Returns Into Repurchases That slogan took multiple passes to grok. The fact that the word after 'turn' is 're-turn' makes my mind go to the usual purpose of prefixing words with 're': to do again. Tha
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by litzer 9y ago
> One can use built-in constructs like for loops in vanilla JS to update multiple DOM nodes at once That's not the kind of use case that'd require React. I think we're on the same page that for the majority of apps, that s
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by litzer 9y ago
Not the OP but my answer to that is because something has to be complex in a large web app. Complexity can be avoided until the number of features reaches some threshold (I don't think there's any debate that it's impossibl
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Show HN: Stanchion.js – JavaScript library for managing network requests(github.com)
3 points by litzer 9y ago|0 comments
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by litzer 10y ago
The links are 404
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by litzer 10y ago
This article is all about how the "evidence" is around us in the stores we shop at and restaurants we go to.
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by litzer 10y ago
Baffling that an organization that regularly pioneers new web standards makes my back button useless upon entering the website

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