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ablerman··on Learning Is Slower Than You Think
Has the medium become the message?
ablerman··on [dead]
Did you intentionally leave out the rest?

"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

ablerman··on Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
It's worse than that, they reconsolidated but BellLabs was shut down in the process. So, they got the same control they previously had except they weren't spending on research. IMO, they should have been prevented from reconsolidating.
ablerman··on GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models
It's mandatory tracking of your vehicle with remote disable. It's not just a walkie-talkie.
ablerman··on GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website
You can host whatever the fuck you want. So can GoDaddy.
ablerman··on U.S. Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will ‘Engineer the Fabric of Reality’
Obvious how? Can you give examples?
ablerman··on Ask HN: Is there any way to purchase PPO health insurance as an individual?
Not that I have seen. Apparently all the health insurers in New York got scared away from PPO plans.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/17/3934087...

ablerman··on Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts
Who gets to decide which groups "should be ignored". The pig farmers certainly don't agree. The whole point of competitive districts is that the groups who should be ignored will be eliminated by competition. Your whole premise seems to set up all districts with functional lifetime appointments rather than elections.
ablerman··on Lawyer Explains How Meat and Dairy Industries Cost U.S. Taxpayer $414B a Year
Is the China study adequate evidence for you? It was a 20 year study about the link between consuming animal products and chronic illness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study

ablerman··on Show HN: Sound visualisation, better than FFT (iOS)
I'm curious how this differs from wavelet analysis? Is this a wavelet application with the wavelet function optimized by AI?
ablerman··on Ask HN: Can I get some help for a potential options financing product
You're asking for a lot of sensitive data. It's pretty much all company confidential. Sorry, I can't help.
ablerman··on Ask HN: Is a Recession Coming?
This time it's different.
ablerman··on Update on AB5
Sure it does, it just doesn't sell it to you. You are not the purchaser of the information, you are providing the information that's being sold.
ablerman··on Should you buy your stock options when you quit?
The early exercise avoids the AMT exposure.
ablerman··on Ask HN: Why would Human Interest (YC SC15) make such arrogant statement?
I think it needs to be taken in the context of the twitter backlash against the 10x engineer tweet. The tweet was largely interpreted as "10x engineers are brilliant jerks". People have been writing about toxic environments created by brilliant jerks for years and I think Human Interest is just trying to avoid creating an environment like that.

If that's not how you want to work, that's alright, but casting is as discrimination feels like a stretch.

ablerman··on Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light?
Someone please correct me if I misunderstand, but it might be more useful to phrase it as, "the speed through time is a function of the speed through space"
ablerman··on Django 2.2
I find this comment interesting because my experience is the exact opposite. (I won't bore you or tempt the trolls with details) I don't mean to downplay your experience at all. My working theory is that you just think the way the rails devs do and I think the way the Django devs do.
ablerman··on Ask HN: Best way to put a database on the web?
Something like indexDB our one of the layers on top if it are probably good solutions.

CSV is probably easier to work with, if you're having trouble converting from xlsx to csv, DM me and I can help out.

My email is in my profile.

ablerman··on Ask HN: How to learn to write a compiler and interpreter?
Robert Nystrom has been putting an online book together. I’ve found it really clear so far.

http://craftinginterpreters.com/

ablerman··on Ask HN: Think GPS like system but local
Differential GPS will get you 10cm accuracy. Getting into the mm range is a whole other thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS

ablerman··on Ask HN: Is it a bad practice to keep different versions in one build?
In similar situations, I've left the old api as is and created a singleton to contain each version.

  Plugin.getInstance('<version_number>')
Over time move people to that construct and eventually deprecate the old api.
ablerman··on Ask HN: Is there a hire by “values match” site?
It may not be exactly what you want, but check out KeyValues. https://www.keyvalues.com
ablerman··on Why Aren't Donald Trump's Epic Conflicts of Interest Illegal?
Having his family take over the business isn't a blind trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_trust
ablerman··on Ask HN: Is it possible to share screens without downloading anything?
If you're using chrome, you can share your screen using WebRTC to other browsers that support it. Right now, that's just Firefox and Chrome.

Check out talky for an example. https://talky.io

ablerman··on Ask HN: Salaries for remote depend on location?
Absolutely, that's why I hire someone in the midwest instead of in town.
ablerman··on Ask HN: Should a CTO be expected to be the last out of the office?
It sounds like your peers level of commitment is not inline with yours. This can turn into a pretty significant problem.

IMO, one of the roles of an early stage leader is to set an example for the work ethic expected. Those long hours aren't sustainable forever, so when it's time to throttle back, it's the leaders job to set that expectation as well.

For us that has generally meant that the leaders needed to take time off and also encourage others to do so.

ablerman··on Ask HN: Now that my site is live, how do I make changes to the source code?
Ah, I was unclear. When I said restart your web server, I didn't mean to reboot the machine. Just restart the web server process. Nginx or Apache or whichever you're using.
ablerman··on Ask HN: Now that my site is live, how do I make changes to the source code?
Here are a few thoughts, some people may disagree with me, but you're new, so you don't get to be one of them.

1) Use git. Go create an account on github and use that. If you don't know how to use git, there's a tutorial at http://try.github.io/

2) Do all of your development on your local machine. That means that your local machine should be able to run your site.

3) Try to make your deployment process as simple as possible. Since it sounds like your site is small, you can probably get away with pulling the new code and restarting your web server. Total downtime should only be a few seconds. You can make it more complex as you get your feet under you.

ablerman··on Ask HN: Going the cloud way - Linode or DigitalOcean?
Can you give some specifics about the security issues you saw at Linode?
ablerman··on Do early employees ever receive actual equity as opposed to mere options?
For dilution information, smartasset has a decent calculator that lets you play with it. https://www.smartasset.com/infographic/startup
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