paul

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by paul 6mo ago
One of my favorite quotes: “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencie
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by paul 2y ago
Agreed! Wonderful museum. They also have some original codices along with translations that are interesting to look at https://photos.app.goo.gl/zeo3Hn2Q8v81cidX9
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by paul 3y ago
To be clear, minification was absolutely a key feature/motivation for the compiler. Runtime performance was more important than code size, but as usual the key to improving runtime performance is writing better code -- there's not
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by paul 3y ago
Interesting read. I wrote the original compiler back in 2002/2003, but a lot changed by the time it was open sourced (including the confusing name -- I just called it a javascript compiler). One detail this story gets wrong though is t
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by paul 4y ago
It’s both a novel virus and a novel vaccine. Without clinical trials we really don’t know if the boosters are helping or hurting. Also, we should be doing clinical trials on flu shots as well. New drugs, even if they are only slightly diffe
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by paul 4y ago
Comparing global fuel consumption with global electricity production is a good approach. It’s clearly substantial, but doable, especially since fuel production can utilize “unreliable” renewables (make gas when the sun shines).
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by paul 4y ago
Show your math. Unless those nukes are very small, your claim seems way off.
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by paul 6y ago
She’s also one of the best founders I’ve ever worked with. Her talks at yc are my favorite — incredibly honest, personal, and insightful.
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by paul 7y ago
I’m more disturbed by the fact that they can also edit or remove books that I’ve already purchased. How long until Amazon is forced to “deplatform” something offensive? Those old books contain a lot of words and ideas that have no place in
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by paul 8y ago
The denial is strong. Reminds me of how cell phone makers responded to the iPhone: “The development of mobile phones will be similar in PCs. Even with the Mac, Apple has attracted much attention at first, but they have still remained a nich
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by paul 8y ago
CMGI and the other “incubators” of that era were nothing like YC. The label “accelerator” was applied to YC years after it was started because of the need for a generic term to describe YC and all of the clones. Whether or not that label wa
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by paul 9y ago
This may interest you: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/08/curing-the-incurable/
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by paul 9y ago
Slashdot is where I first encountered both Google ('98 / early '99) and YC (the Summer Founders Program). So pretty valuable personally. Thanks for that :) I miss the enthusiasm of that community.
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by paul 9y ago
It always surprises me that people find the concept of the brain being connected to the body to be "woo-woo". The objections are very unscientific. Biology is incredibly complex, and our understanding of it is very shallow, yet pe
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by paul 9y ago
This is a very poor metric. Companies running out of money and doing a small exit counts as "good" ("conversion") while a successful and growing company is interpreted as something negative (no exit).
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by paul 9y ago
"If you look at companies that have made a lot of people rich, like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, almost none of the employees who became rich had an instrumental role in the company’s success. " 100% false.
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by paul 10y ago
It's really not that hard to understand how these notes convert and how much you are diluting if you spend just a few minutes modeling it out with https://angelcalc.com Of course it's still possible to get more dilutio
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How Many Startups Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by paul 10y ago|0 comments
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Cruise Shows Off Level 4 Skills in SF, Passing Uber and Maybe Waymo(driverless.id)
371 points by paul 10y ago|143 comments
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by paul 10y ago
So awesome. And maybe the tunnels will only allow self-driving electric cars :)
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by paul 10y ago
Just two days ago I watched "The Last Man on the Moon" with my son (on Netflix). Good documentary, but sad to see him pass. Those Apollo astronauts were truly remarkable people.
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by paul 10y ago
This is awesome. I especially like the practice of removing negative constructions -- that seems like it would be life changing over the long term.
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by paul 10y ago
That's how I ended up learning vi. In 1993, my 386 didn't have enough disk space for emacs, so I had to learn vi (which is lucky because I probably wouldn't have done it otherwise).
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by paul 10y ago
" A leader in space technology, S3 aims to make space more accessible by creating low-cost, reusable satellite launchers, a development not welcomed by all in the industry. Last year the company’s base in Payerne was broken into and eq
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by paul 10y ago
That would be a good motivational poster :)
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by paul 10y ago
This is a great list of all the things you shouldn't do. It's all ego and no substance.
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by paul 10y ago
Not at all. All of these companies have the potential to be worth billions of dollars or else we would not have funded them. Of course it's not always easy for people reading a short summary on a blog to see that potential, as you can
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by paul 10y ago
You can't think of a startup started in the last 3 years that has really "made it" because it takes years for a startup to "really make it"! If you disagree, please find the 5 year old hn thread where people say tha
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by paul 10y ago
Facebook didn't have that much dilution.
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by paul 10y ago
Facebook is worth $350B, so $100M is only 0.03% equity. He likely had more than that, but the article is old so the number today could be more like $500M.

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