mattlanger

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by mattlanger 15y ago
For Dr. Everitt, who joined the Gravity Probe experiment in 1962 as a young postdoctoral fellow and has worked on nothing else since, the announcement on Wednesday capped a career-long journey. There's something so profound about that. To
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by mattlanger 16y ago
You're selling yourself short though--at the lowest it's actually free, just like, you know, every other freemium model on the web.
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Agreed, I was just trying to jocularly comment on the Things That Don't Exactly Belong On Hacker News aspect of it by pointing out that those conversations always end up in the same place.
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Godwin's Law, HackerNews edition: as a non-tech policy discussion grows longer, the probability of a comment thread devolving into an argument between competing ideas of libertarian vs. interventionist market theologies approaches 1.
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by mattlanger 16y ago
As Merlin Mann so brilliantly put it, "Yelp.com: Explore Where Local Illiterates Have Recently Stopped Eating.™" http://twitter.com/#!/hotdogsladies/status/1453581139
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Amazing! I run a coworking space for entrepreneurs in Brooklyn, which means every month I'm running around gathering up a dozen or so checks from tenants--so this the most exciting tool I've seen in a long time. Thanks, oojacoboo. You're a
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by mattlanger 16y ago
TL;DR: http://blog.mattlanger.com/post/1516687187
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by mattlanger 16y ago
The website is still intermittent, but as of now command line access seems to be fully operational.
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by mattlanger 16y ago
You're right, Paul, there's no evidence of any of this at all. There's no evidence of pharma companies lobbying for more lax FDA regulations. There's no evidence of the automative industry lobbying against higher CAFE standards. There's no
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My (unofficial) Startup Quote(blog.mattlanger.com)
2 points by mattlanger 16y ago|0 comments
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Regarding your first point: since you already stated you're sometimes in favor of publicly subsidizing things like vaccinations and criminal incarcerations, your opposition to publicly funded education must result from this distinction yo
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Consider as a counterpoint Aristotle's Politics, Vii.2: "It is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily."
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by mattlanger 16y ago
His project reminds me of this great passage from Colson Whitehead's Colossus of New York : "No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Loung
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Memory and recall are not matters of direct lookup; our brains are not key-value stores. We usually don't request a memory by timestamp, but rather, memories more often than not make themselves known to us--absent any request or interventio
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by mattlanger 16y ago
If the supposed billion dollars Facebook is allegedly pulling in this year was happening at anywhere a decent margin, they wouldn’t have needed a series E round of $120 million from Elevation Partners just three months ago. It's actually
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by mattlanger 16y ago
In what way was this a tutorial? Seemed more like a parable meant to drive home the line about how "When they have questions, they ask the mailing list or read the faq again." Each problem poses different challenges, and it doesn't seem fai
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by mattlanger 16y ago
I have no idea how old the systems are behind this data point but it seems relevant nonetheless: there are apparently 200-300 billion lines of COBOL still in production : http://www.enterpriseinnovation.net/content/how-should-gover... Th
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The Makery: an early-stage startup coworking space in Brooklyn(blog.mattlanger.com)
4 points by mattlanger 16y ago|0 comments
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Preamble: I'm not being negative! I always appreciate any effort to elucidate complicating matters--especially those on matters I happen to have a vested interest in--but seeing as this is A Really Challenging Engineering Problem That Lot's
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Tagging! If only! That's one of the features I've long wanted, a one-to-many relationship between feeds and categories, as opposed to the inverse we get with folders. What if I want to categorize something as "must read" in addition to "tec
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Got definite plans for this in the pipeline, in addition to filtering out dupes.
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by mattlanger 16y ago
What I've been realizing more and more lately is how much I would appreciate a reader without any concept of an unread item count. I assume this feature made its way into the genre as a legacy from the traditional email clients that seem to
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Heads next to the Ninth Circuit, which will doubtlessly uphold the ruling. Then it'll be on to the SCOTUS, which is a very different court from the '03 bench that ruled on Lawrence v. Texas.
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by mattlanger 16y ago
I guess I don't see this being a problem "all the time" the way you do. Sure, every so often you start seeing lots of articles about the same contentious debate happening in a pretty tight echo chamber (or sometimes you start seeing nothing
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by mattlanger 16y ago
But downvotes just as often (or more often, I'd argue) create exactly the tribalism you describe. Restrict users to only a positive input mechanism and you'll drastically reduce bullying and other gang behavior.
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Whatta week! Like the startup gods put out an RFC for the SF/NYC rivalry!
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by mattlanger 16y ago
This is a truly valuable contribution to the startup community--as inspiring as it is devastating. We should all aspire to such courage, motivation, and good intentions in the work we do ourselves.
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Baader-Meinhof alert: just yesterday I was googling around about fair use with regard to logos and insignias when I came upon this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Logos Considering how impressively thorough their policies and guid
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by mattlanger 16y ago
I'm curious why people link to a summary of an article that actually resides elsewhere--a similar example was just submitted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1568011 . In both cases the summary bore a headline which significantly alt
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Actually, I should amend this in the interest of not being a hypocrite, seeing as I'm building out a side project right now on top of Cassandra, which is arguably much slower to get out of the gate with than SQL. But in this case I know fro

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