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by uola 10y ago
While I agree with most of this I think it's somewhat too strict. For many people their twenties is the only time they will have time, money and vigour. If you get the chance you should take advantage of that.
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by uola 10y ago
Why not use git?
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by uola 10y ago
It would be more interesting if people could reply why they disagree. I'm not the first one to come to this conclusion, hemlis is a public example. You simply can't compete with large companies several years after the fact without
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by uola 10y ago
A feature like this doesn't really matter in the context of competing with mainstream messaging services because their value is to a large extent in things like brand and network effect. The notion that you're just one feature awa
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by uola 10y ago
History shows us that you can't compete by being a lesser version of something else. There's nothing wrong with trying to make the application more attractive, but at the same time trying to shoehorn in features rather than doing
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by uola 10y ago
I personally don't think the sentiment of "8 Christmases", as presented in the essay, is that helpful. The solution to scarcity isn't to rely on a few moments, nor necessarily to "prune bullshit", it's to
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by uola 10y ago
Sort of expected a better interview when I heard "The National Press Club". This is mostly "What do you think about x? I think this and that" read from notes.
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by uola 10y ago
"Tech", as the article uses it, tend to be less Donald Knuth and more Woody Allen in the sense that "80 percent of life is showing up". The "best of the best" is mostly busy being the best. Cities usually fail
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by uola 10y ago
Yeah, while I can appreciate the question (curiosity is a good things) I don't think anyone with experience of software should be surprised. When you consider things like passwords, credit cards, wifi login and e-mail addresses the que
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by uola 10y ago
Hondas response to 34 questions was 22 pages long, plus presumably supporting documents. https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/communications/pdf/Honda-r...
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by uola 10y ago
Yangshuo, China would be my guess.
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by uola 10y ago
> Our digital world is built on tech developed largely for free by people rich enough to be able to afford this unpaid labour. Citation needed. As far as I know most Internet infrastructure was developed by government funded or commercia
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by uola 10y ago
Socioeconomic status is an important factor in how we behave. The argument here is that people with more money are less kind because having more money makes them less kind. Unless you're making a specific argument were someones skin co
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by uola 10y ago
It's much harder to have a killer app when the technology isn't universally appealing yet. When (if) you can get 8k high frame rate displays, gigabit+ internet connection and better graphics card at a price that will make enough p
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by uola 10y ago
Sure, or if you find a way to find certain vulnerabilities quicker. A bug with 5 year life span that you can find in 1 month doesn't require you to find them too frequently and more projects that fixes such bugs in 1 year will also be
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by uola 10y ago
I wouldn't say "all projects". The statement is based on that they introduce and remove vulnerabilities at a certain rate. A project that introduces less vulnerabilities or finds them faster would be less likely to have priva
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by uola 10y ago
> [...] but he provided ample explanations for his actions anyway. As far as I know he hasn't provided any explanation for what people are actually concerned about. > Is it me or you feel like you can decide who is part of the co
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by uola 10y ago
> No, that's not what I am arguing. What I am arguing is demanding that people will be purged from the community and everybody cuts ties with them because they views do not agree with yours is not a good thing. You can disagree with
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by uola 10y ago
As far as I know, freedom of speech protects you from the government. Since YC is not the government freedom of speech isn't applicable, but anti-discrimination or employment law could be. In fact if the government would limit YCs free
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by uola 10y ago
I actually think it's easier to be ambitious in Europe. Both in absolute terms, since it's easier to access good education education and working environment, and in relative terms, since there's more room to work harder than
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by uola 10y ago
> And I think that this is the heart of the issue here. That you want to punish people for holding certain beliefs. Just because you disagree doesn't mean their opinion is less valid. Because an opinion is political doesn't mea
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by uola 10y ago
Regardless if I agree or not I can understand your opinions about Thiel being free to support Trump politically. What I can't understand is why he should be able to continue his association with YC without even answering questions. YC
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by uola 10y ago
If you look it up few founders of social networks have an extensive CS background including Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Snapchat.
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by uola 10y ago
These type of lists have nothing to do with efficient learning. In the information age we have more available information than time. Knowing how to learn is the multiplication factor. If you do your due diligence these lists quickly becomes
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by uola 10y ago
> But not enough to shell out 6kEUR or so for the next step up in EDA tools (which would be Altium Designer, and I'm not even mentioning the maintenance fees, just the initial payment). These days Altium have both CircuitMaker, whic
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by uola 10y ago
I don't think one should mix validation and safety as such since it risks becoming non-obvious. When the validation criteria changes six month later someone might rewrite the validation without considering that it's also a safety
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by uola 10y ago
As implied by jdietrich, they (seemingly) stencil the chip rather than the board. https://youtu.be/Iu0pd6OsNF4?t=235 https://youtu.be/2bGb5AOwp44?t=109
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by uola 10y ago
I almost can't believe I'm saying this, but there nothing wrong with the look as such. The, maybe controversial, problem is that the substance isn't there. Things you expect, or strive for, in modern application development l
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by uola 10y ago
I don't know if this improves your view of the world or not, but filling punching bags with used clothes (or fabric scraps) is actually common practice.
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by uola 10y ago
> In other languages you can't get that without using a standard library that will escape the values by default Not sure what you mean by that. (As far as I know) you can do the same thing in e.g. Python with Flask: cursor.exe

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