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It doesn't look like it's trying to be a startup at all, just showing an idea to HN- but I guess you're saying it should be more of an "ask for early feedback on HN" instead of "Sh…

True, but that's my point- it's a backend issue, not a front-end "help the user" issue.

An email address isn't a document though, it's a routing command. I don't mean sanitization in the sense of inserting backslashes. I mean sanitization in the sense of "we don't all…

Back when SMTP servers still had remnants of UUCP etc.- where the address could actually contain characters that specify intermediate servers to route to, I would have argued that …

I always assumed it was more a sanitization issue for security's sake. By allowing only a simple subset ("common") email address type, you can be ambivalent about what email server…

I know the one. http://boxcar2d.com/ is similar (possibly based on the one you're referring to but it looks like it's been updated). Also this: http://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/

Replying to myself- too late to edit. Some other comments in here lead me to believe there would be experience-related questions ideally these days. Again, my experience was a few …

This sounds like a huge improvement from when I talked with them a few years ago.

I agree with you, but it's still easier to fire someone than to un-not-hire someone ;-)

Makes sense for google. And it's not that I didn't appreciate doing all that (and I did do well), it just struck me how they knew nothing else about me afterward except that I coul…

I interviewed @ google several years ago as part of some due-diligence they were doing to decide if they wanted to acquire the startup I was working at, [redacted]. It was several …

I was very excited to learn about recursive neural networks and how they are different from recurrent neural networks. I began imagining self-similar fractal topologies and automat…

Quick fix, in nim: foo_bar = fooBar Foo_bar = FooBar foo_bar != FooBar That is, it's case sensitive with the first character of the identity. I've mentioned elsewhere that this one…

Comment voting ala hackernews / reddit would be useful but in this case so would some attached polls. The +1, -1 was from "back in the day" when it was a useful way for the active …

In addition to ignoring the big picture economics, it makes rather silly claims such as "And with that [the elimination of the need to own cars], the elimination of entire industri…

For posterity: The paper is here- and is very readable: http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal=o... The pdf: http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?…

Fun fact- Nimrod means mighty hunter. The negative connotation came from early Bugs Bunny cartoons where he applies the name sarcastically to Elmer Fudd.

This is my least favorite "feature" of Nim as well and almost killed my interest in it. But it hasn't come up in practice yet for me.

Fun to try with code (mildly). Here's the geekiest I could do that's worth sharing :-) http://i.imgur.com/IBaLCn4.png - based on the first stanza from the following: Tiger got to h…

I was thinking the same thing. Best I could find was the developer email listed for his calculator app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.projectfan... [Edit] Which…

I enjoyed that far, far more than I expected. His intro from the index: "So I was me and I was in math class watching paint dry it was starting to crack when suddenly I realized th…

Thanks for the thoughtful response- it didn't come across as combative at all to me. The true, provable safety of Rust was what drew me to it as well. I've always hated having to c…

I actually coded a predecessor to the system under development a few years ago and have used Erlang and more recently Elixir a lot, but in the end it just wasn't low-level enough, …

In my experience it's very responsive and rational. It benefits as a language from being opinionated which is sure to ruffle feathers from time-to-time. Obviously not as big of a c…