maxgiraldo

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by maxgiraldo 25d ago
My understanding is that collusion among competitors is illegal (although I’m not a lawyer). I was referring instead to the prisoner’s dilemma that Bruce Greenwald discusses in Competition Demystified . In theory, competitors, like prisone
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by maxgiraldo 25d ago
OpenAI could still have a significant moat. ChatGPT occupies most consumers’ minds when they think about AI and has become a household name. Google won because search became a habit-forming product people grew accustomed to using. Bing was
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by maxgiraldo 25d ago
I'm making an assumption here, but I think paulg is implying that "learning LLMs" today is like the equivalent of "learning computers" in the earlier days. We could even divide civilization into two eras: Before Tra
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by maxgiraldo 25d ago
I watch Khan Academy videos because they explain topics like mathematics in an easy-to-understand way. But it's just one tool in a student's arsenal. Khan Academy is by no means the one-stop-shop for education and should not stop
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Show HN: Sidequests(getsidequests.com)
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by maxgiraldo 5y ago
If anyone is looking to brush up on their Algebra fundamentals, I built an app for that and it's free to use: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pensend/id1571322730 . I had a similar problem where I didn&#x27
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Warby Parker Launches Contacts(bloomberg.com)
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by maxgiraldo 7y ago
IMHO Javascript is "unusable" because you can mutate state (among other things). Rich Hickey has a few other arguments against static typing and OO such as names dominating semantics and "types are an anti-pattern for program
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by maxgiraldo 7y ago
Hours spent at the office do not equate to hours worked.
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by maxgiraldo 7y ago
Regarding take-home assignments, if you do decide to incorporate this into your hiring process, I think pulling a page out of Aaron Swartz's "How I Hire Programmers" [1] is a good place to start. Important points being to kee
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by maxgiraldo 7y ago
I'm still under the impression that if you gave the same set of companies to every VC in the world and had each of them bet on the winners, that you wouldn't see that much of a difference in portfolio performance from the very wor
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by maxgiraldo 7y ago
I can't speak about lein or maven, but it is in no way a requirement to use emacs as your editor. In fact, there is really interesting work going on in other editors like Atom with proto-repl[1]. For the web, you can spin up a Gorilla
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by maxgiraldo 7y ago
> To be perfectly honest, Clojure's biggest mistake, from my point of view, was to be so heavily JVM-dependent. With Clojure being a hosted language, there's nothing stopping it from adopting a new platform or expanding to othe
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by maxgiraldo 7y ago
Could you speak more on the use of macros and bottom-up programming as well as REPL-driven development at Walmart Labs (if applicable)? Would be interested to know if those lisp-like attributes play as important a role as functional program
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by maxgiraldo 7y ago
The docs for the API, especially for a company whose primary users are software developers, is a core part of the product offering. Just look at the investments that AWS, Twilio, and Stripe make in their docs. This stuff matters.
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Esports Company Cloud9 Raises $50M in Series B Funding(forbes.com)
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China to block more than 120 offshore cryptocurrency exchanges(scmp.com)
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Why Bitcoin(slideshare.net)
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by maxgiraldo 8y ago
Why not plant trees? https://forestsnews.cifor.org/10316/make-it-rain-planting-fo...
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by maxgiraldo 9y ago
Chief Architect of Warby Parker Robert Lefkowitz's presentation on technical debt and his proposition for a microservice architecture called the von Neumann. Some interesting ideas include: 1. Remove dependencies. 2. Store data in the
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Technical debt and microservices presentation by chief architect of Warby Parker [pdf](cdn.oreillystatic.com)
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Google ends first click free policy(digiday.com)
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Behavioral design algorithms look to transform job recruitment processes(nytimes.com)
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Streaming services cannot match television viewership for sports, yet(thedrum.com)
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by maxgiraldo 9y ago
Agreed. One of the core tenets of bitcoin, in my opinion, is that it's borderless --or international as you say-- and not centralized in any way. National cryptocurrencies won't work (IMO) because they violate the principals of de
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Governments are testing their own cryptocurrencies(technologyreview.com)
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Satya Nadella on falling behind Amazon in cloud services business(qz.com)
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