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not sure why the downvotes unless you assumed I was sarcastic? I assure you I honestly want to know. As a programmer I only really understand one way to create screen output. Any o…

How did he create those demos, did he actually write a windows manager that wraps existing OS functions into his format? The amount of code that would take to give all of the funct…

Real computers are finite precision. There are very real issues with numerical stability where you are running along fine for many many cases, and then there is a catastrophic canc…

I am a little lost, I am able to add things to the bar by clicking, and I can change the node growth rules by selecting the menu of shapes on the side, but what is the use case? Wh…

You are missing the point about advocating for change. Of course I am aware that mods allow pay-walled articles, I believe I saw the discussion was on the front page a month or so …

Its not idea farming, it karma farming, and theaktu is not a real person, just a deep neural net that will get some lucky undergrad an A this semester. edit: see how it is improvin…

IDEs really are much better at this than grep or ack. My experience has always need something that can perform symbol resolution, and something more powerful than grep or ack wins …

This is absolutely the way to go. Another great feature of getting a new hire on your time is that the goals of your team were already allocated with the old bucket of developer ho…

You have to speak up, although it is a chorus of voices that is the will of the community, each voice is necessary. Do not be afraid of speaking your opinion for fear of loosing a …

Eh, in my mind the value of professional managers is to provide a bullshit buffer between the stars. Managing is not as much about steering the vessel as choosing when and where to…

Usually because I continue googling until I find something that is helpful. Its a tautology, however if you could demonstrate/tell more about how your system is faster than googlin…

Correction: 80 hrs/wk available for the unpaid CTO. You are thinking like an employee would by speaking of a 40 hour work week. To the OP: choose the startup if it is your life, yo…

Yes that is true, bribery is illegal and this kind of conspiracy is bad. But if you spread it out and do not put anything in writing, it will be hell for the IRS to prove this. And…

This buying the government is terrifyingly real. In university I once went to a dinner/seminar hosted by one of the top three law firms in DC, where we were instructed on how exact…

As I mentioned above, we are some weeks out from having an MVP. Our current sprint is actually building a frontend for the search engine. If you are still interested, please send m…

If you are willing to wait 8 weeks, my budding company is building a search engine for explanations of things that could help you find what you are looking for. I too have had this…

When someone sees a market inefficiency that everyone else was ignoring, and then solves it, they are in position to collect economic rents until others catch up. The problem that …

Fair enough. I am not sure myself what exactly people with a PhD in Literature or Social Justice go through to be anointed Dr.

I came away from the article feeling that the author missed the point of a PhD completely, at least for the hard sciences. When you complete a PhD, you have by definition extended …

Yes, Notice how the US strings along the Palestine problem, while not really moving forward towards a resolution, while at the same time Israel does not move in with their superior…

Or you know, the board might not be a dick. Some of us founders are less outright hostile to employees and we are definitely on the board (usually with majority when the first 20-5…

This is exactly what I was looking for. As a first time founder at a small private business I was looking for a nicer way to compensate the employees other than sticking them with …