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by webmasterraj 10y ago
Yes, this. I'm self taught -- half the time I'm coding, I don't even know what a "good" approach should be. So I just get started on something, since there's no perfectionist ideal I'm visualizing that I n
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Why pandas users should be excited about Apache Arrow – Wes McKinney(wesmckinney.com)
1 points by webmasterraj 11y ago|0 comments
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
Maybe. Search is a resource-intensive algorithmic problem. So you need one of two things to beat Google: more resources or a much better algorithm. You're not going to get the first unless you're Facebook or Amazon or God, but m
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
Oh HN and unsolicited startup advice. A blog post and 2 minutes and you've pattern matched your way to a solution. Bravo. Dear OP, please ignore all this sage advice from people in cushy tech jobs telling you what you should do with yo
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
I hope 2016 is cheerier for you. Fwiw, when I've been burnt out, what's gotten me excited again has more often tended to be finding new interesting people to work with, rather than finding interesting projects. I think both can wo
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
Make sure you guys get a daily newsletter going out asap. I don't have inside information, but I'd guess it drives a ton of PH's daily returnee traffic. I for one know I won't be checking this every day, but I would re
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
One person can build something that starts a revolution. See Woz/Apple. The real issue here is that self-driving cars are probably the wrong place for that to happen in AI. At best, a solo project creates a crappy prototype where there
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
> Everyone is a private contractor, they are free to make their own choices and work (or not work) for a company. I don't know if Sprig hires cooks as contractors but that doesn't necessarily mean they have the same freedom c
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
This is the tldr of the whole thing
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
I was thinking of something maybe even simpler - a place for people to post projects they're actually interested in maintaining as open source projects. A subreddit could be the mvp. Or go the other way, and train a searching algorithm
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
> an even bigger problem is that once you have a startup you have to hurry to come up with an idea, and because it’s already an official company the idea can’t be too crazy. You end up with plausible sounding but derivative ideas. This
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
There's a tangential problem I've been thinking about a lot recently: the long tail of open source projects on GitHub. There are 20M+ repos on there. Which leads to a serious discoverability + signal/noise problem around &#x2
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
This explains half the comments I see these days on HN. More concerned with defending their point and criticizing people who disagree, than a genuine attempt at finding something actually true.
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
I gave him money, and I didn't think he had a chance to win. I just wanted to see what happens. Even though it failed, it was an interesting experiment (exhibit a, number of upvotes and comments here). Definitely worth my $20.
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
This is a really good point, and explains why later-stage investing seems so wacky vs early and mid stage. The decisions to invest in later-stage startups, eg Uber, seem more influenced by other investors and the fear of missing out, while
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
The major difference between what's going on now and what happened in 2000 is transparency. Not with what's happening at companies, but what investors are thinking. That's important, because investor sentiment is the proximat
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Tesla Autopilot prevents a head-on collision [video](electrek.co)
1 points by webmasterraj 11y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: GaSiProMo – Finish a side project in November(codelympics.io)
3 points by webmasterraj 11y ago|0 comments
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
Because I've seen lots of other handwriting, even if in another language. I have very strong priors. The problem is that a computer comes in without knowing anything about tangential phenomenon. So it needs lots of data to catch up to
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Show HN: GaSiProMo - build a side project in 30 days
1 points by webmasterraj 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What's the best way to keep a project log or journal?
8 points by webmasterraj 11y ago|11 comments
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
> Theranos presented the facts to this reporter to prove the accuracy and reliability of its tests and to directly refute these false allegations, including more than 1,000 pages of statements and documents. Disappointingly, the Journal
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
I like hack (1) a lot. But at least for me, it's hard to stop my brain when it's in the middle of something, I have this rush to get it done, which is why I like working on my own stuff of the side. But maybe stopping at a reasona
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Ask HN: How do you quickly get back into a side project after several days?
7 points by webmasterraj 11y ago|6 comments
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
This atrocious bill is yet another example of how the biggest unicorns are facing a kind of challenge they aren't built to solve: the political one. Until now, the rise and of tech companies has been determined by the double-edged blad
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
A post about the 2 year cat and mouse game of vpns and gfc is something I'd love to read.
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Ask HN: Installing Linux on a Mac. Fedora or Ubuntu?
2 points by webmasterraj 11y ago|2 comments
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
I have a counter that greets me on a new Chrome window that tells me how much time I've been alive to the hundred-billionth of a second. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/motivation/ofdgfpc... Pe
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by webmasterraj 11y ago
Given their cost economics, open layouts are probably not going anywhere in a world of rising office rents. That's not necessarily a bad thing, since spontaneous conversation encourages creativity. The real problem is signaling what st
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Rankings of programming languages by Stack Overflow + GitHub stats(redmonk.com)
2 points by webmasterraj 11y ago|0 comments

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