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by urs2102 7y ago
One of my favorite classes with Bjarne from college was Bjarne telling us the story of a ten year-old who wrote him asking if it was too late to start programming and what he should learn so he can work as a programmer (to get started so he
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by urs2102 7y ago
Okay, you got me: """tech company""". I think it's probably a financial engineering company over everything else, but I mean "tech company" insofar as this post is going to the top of HN in a way
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by urs2102 7y ago
Additionally, I think this is great to think about as far as the entire story of IPOing a big tech company in 2019. You start with the story the bankers sell you. They all want to tell you you're going to be bigger than you ever though
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by urs2102 7y ago
It's been incredible watching each part of this unfold exactly as Matt Levine called it each week prior.
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by urs2102 7y ago
Any information on the state of the patient’s vision both pre and post-op? If you’re going from, let’s assume, blindness, to now full vision: how does your visual cortex move from dormant to active? Is it jarring?
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by urs2102 7y ago
The rise in the popularity of self-checkout is shown to also spike incidents of shop lifting from people who were unlikely to shop lift given that defrauding a machine can feel quite different to defrauding... well, a person. With all the d
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Do We Create Shoplifters?(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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by urs2102 7y ago
This is fantastic, I think for first time founders there’s a little bit of a gap between how they see their business (primarily product focused) and how an investor sees their business (primarily market focused). Obviously as companies matu
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by urs2102 7y ago
From a blog I discovered earlier today, I felt like the content was apt for Hacker News bringing a sort of Girardian narrative to the startup world. Saw no comments, so thought people here would like it!
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A Midsummer Night's Term Sheet(alexdanco.com)
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Collaboration App Notion Labs Hits $800M Valuation in New Funding(theinformation.com)
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Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters(basecamp.com)
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by urs2102 7y ago
Great piece! For reference, here’s the comment thread the first time posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13562968
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Paul Romer's Tax That Could Fix Big Tech(nytimes.com)
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by urs2102 7y ago
I’ve seen discussion about this all over Twitter and thought it would be interesting to share regarding if the experiment is more correlatory than causal or vice-versa.
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Contribution of cannabis use to variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder(thelancet.com)
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by urs2102 8y ago
Probably the least stressful major version bump I've seen. Props to the team for solving the 4.4.x problem and pushing this out. Took a few minutes to update and now everything is great!
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by urs2102 8y ago
Congratulations on your launch! I think this space is going to be super interesting and allowing companies to build products like this by simply adding an API to their pipeline is awesome. I had a question, how would you point out the diffe
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Our Highest Office, My Deepest Obligation(bloomberg.com)
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by urs2102 8y ago
I'd really like to improve my intuition around linear algebra. It's been a little while since college, but sometimes I find that my natural understanding isn't as rock solid as I'd like. I guess its a matter of where to
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by urs2102 8y ago
Haven't seen any discussion for this on HN, but came across Schmidt Futures. Seems like Eric and Wendy Schmidt's version of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, but wanted to see if the challenges were of interest to anyone or
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Schmidt Futures Challenges: Eric Schmidt foundation to improve societal outcomes(schmidtfutures.com)
3 points by urs2102 8y ago|3 comments
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What Tennis Can Teach Us About Technology(jonahlehrer.com)
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One Mesh to Rule Them All(unrealengine.com)
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GTA 5 estimated to be the most profitable entertainment product of all time(pcgamer.com)
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by urs2102 8y ago
I love the frontend markup in Lisp. Honestly, it's exciting to see a developed web application in Lisp outside of a standard web framework (granted these are all just files without context). I feel that the syntaxlessness of the Lisp m
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by urs2102 9y ago
I remember guestbooks! This is awesome, I remember making my Guestbook in fifth grade to take song and music video requests I would embed on a separate page. All you're missing is an animated mouse and a hit counter. This really made m
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by urs2102 9y ago
Firstly, this is super cool. Writing loading this easily based on different connections is going to be awesome. The suspense stuff is great. Secondly, Dan has to be one of the nicest people on the internet. If you don't follow him on T
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‘Reason Is Non-Negotiable’: Steven Pinker on the Enlightenment(theguardian.com)
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The wealth of Sapiens(dpegan.com)
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