paulvorobyev

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by paulvorobyev 4y ago
On and off, but yes. I do this namely because I: enjoy collecting them, prefer reading them physically, and like to appreciate the design elements found in a good magazine layout. IMO the "reading experience delta" for physical vs
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by paulvorobyev 4y ago
Doesn't Google Forms roughly do this? It outputs responses to a spreadsheet
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by paulvorobyev 5y ago
I commented this on an HN post about FB 2 years ago in response to a comment much like yours. Pasting it here: I don't understand accusations of whataboutism. They oftentimes seem hypocritical: accusing someone of whataboutism is as re
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by paulvorobyev 5y ago
>It's much better not to do dumb things than to do dumb things and then try to fix it. Yes, it's good to fix one's mistakes, but that doesn't mean we should be celebrating those mistakes. But nobody was celebrating th
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by paulvorobyev 5y ago
Adding to this list: * https://catala-lang.org/ -- DSL for translating/annotating legal texts * https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07966.pdf -- A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code * https:/&#
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by paulvorobyev 6y ago
>Do you have some examples? Genuinely curious. To my knowledge, most of the major FAANG apps are single-binary. Worked on iOS app size at a FAANG for a couple of years -- this is untrue. At the very least there are different binaries for
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by paulvorobyev 6y ago
After grappling with phone addiction for quite some time I found that reducing my phone time just shifted my procrastination habits to my computer. These procrastination habits are then worsened by the fact that I am, like many HN users, mo
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by paulvorobyev 6y ago
Do you plan on open-sourcing it, or do you have any recommendations for similar projects/research? Very excited about the computational law space.
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by paulvorobyev 6y ago
>IMO, there's a multibillion dollar company waiting to be founded to provide authenticity verification services for humans online. The US government does authentication in real life via social security numbers. Of course, they are n
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by paulvorobyev 6y ago
>I am a Linux guy and I hate it when co-workers are too stupid for utf8 encoding. You sound like a jerk. Team-mates not understand something is not an excuse to call them stupid. If you truly love something then usually you'd want t
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by paulvorobyev 6y ago
>Apple’s biggest competition right now is the web. More and more “apps” are just thin, non-native veneers on top of web sites (cf Zoom, Slack, Steam, etc). The issue for Apple is, why would anyone choose Apple devices if the exact same a
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by paulvorobyev 6y ago
It's almost as if pedagogy is a deep and rich field and you can't as easily absorb information without the guidance of a knowledgeable mentor. Who would have thought?
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by paulvorobyev 6y ago
Can a US citizen apply to work in Amsterdam?
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by paulvorobyev 7y ago
>orthogonal ergonomic?
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by paulvorobyev 7y ago
>Ah yes, the old "No one thinks for themselves except people like me" argument. This is almost everything that PG writes.
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by paulvorobyev 7y ago
There are tons of applications! The thesis behind AR is that your phone (or some other device) can be a passport to accessing a digital world around you. Some ideas, in no particular order: * Tourism of any kind (think AR museum or city tou
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by paulvorobyev 7y ago
Vine is a video app -- those tend to work pretty poorly without sound
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by paulvorobyev 7y ago
Gen Z Social Network -> Creation does not imply that Creation -> Gen Z Social Network
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by paulvorobyev 7y ago
What are you lexing?
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by paulvorobyev 7y ago
>And no, running a separate type checking tool is not the answer. Especially since no such tool exists that's production grade and in sync with the language. What does "production grade" mean w/r/t such a tool?
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by paulvorobyev 8y ago
I don't understand accusations of whataboutism. They oftentimes seem hypocritical: accusing someone of whataboutism is as relevant (and therefore, by its own logic, as rhetorically valid) as the thing it seeks to criticize. Why is expo
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by paulvorobyev 8y ago
>The clusters look strange to me as well - I don’t see any expected names aside from Plato and Aristotle for classics. What names did you expect? A lot of them look part for the course.
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by paulvorobyev 8y ago
I don't necessarily agree with your expectations bullet point. I feel that human beings are inherently focused on results/value. Instead of not caring about the result, I consider what the result is (or what it could be). In a les
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by paulvorobyev 8y ago
I think you misunderstood what he was saying. Magic Leap, as of now, has received $2.3B in the comments[1]. This is mentioned in the article's subtitle. [1]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap
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by paulvorobyev 8y ago
The thing is that pretty much all reporting has bias. Interpretation is inextricable from observation. Bias in and of itself is not a bad thing -- it provides a framework for meaningful discourse. IMO the real issue is being unaware of thes