mgalka

Been on reddit or Youtube lately?

People have a tendency to forget that famous public figures are people and feel comfortable saying mean things without thought. I think Few's experience of Twitter is probably an amplified version of what most of us know.

I still like Twitter. Compared to other online forums, it still has the most thoughtful discourse I know of (except for HN). Even if it means tolerating a bunch of unpleasant garbage along the way.

Agree, there seems to be a standard path that startups are "supposed" to follow. Though in this case, I imagine it is probably just because any other measure of success would be difficult to measure.

Surprising. I would have expected the success of YC startups to have increased with time -- more selective program, higher prestige value, bigger network of fellow YC startups to work with.

What exactly does this NSA tool do? Every story I've seen glosses over how it works.

Really great idea, and very practically useful! Thanks for sharing.

Maybe it's just because I'm used to it, but I would say it is an elegant language. Either way, it's always under development. And any problems with the syntax can be changed in a future version, easier solution than establishing a new front standard.

It also has NPM, React and other frameworks, V8. Any challenger has a lot to overcome before people will consider switching.

What about quantum effects? I thought at that scale it would be a qbit.

Thanks for pointing it out. What operating system are you using? Firefox works OK for me on Windows 10.

How does the speed compare to MondoDB?

There seems to be so much potential in alternative computing technologies. Why is nobody setting out to build one? (with the obvious exception of quantum computing)

Sounds intriguing. But how does storing the objects as blobs perform better than storing them as standard file types?

Great explainer. Though I'm still not sure what the relation is between abstract algebra and regular algebra, other than the application of higher dimensional equations.

Seems weird to question Uber's sustainabiliy based on it's costs being too high. If it stopped investing in growth, I'm not rven sure it would have any costs. It's just a routing app that earns a cut from the drivers.

That Ryanair example is outrageous, and not at all surprising

I think it's a great idea. Will this be posted publicly somewhere so people who did not see this post will know not to submit political stories?

Associated repo https://github.com/ft-interactive/visual-vocabulary

Awesome! I'm surprised Google hasn't come up with a way of preventing this.

Btw - anyone know how to adjust the volume?

Other side of the country. Later on, he also ended up bringing on a developer friend of his, who became a 3rd cofounder.

I've have a few massive traffic surges from Reddit in the past, as much as a few 100k visitors, and have been wondering the same. Usually it amounts to just a handful of opt ins, fewer than I get from about 1k of organic traffic.

My impression is that people are most just interested in taking a peek before returning to reddit, so unlikely there is much you can do. I think the real value from scoring well on these sites comes not from the traffic, but from journalists and bloggers who monitor reddit for things to write about. I've found a high scoring link on reddit often leads to several secondary backlinks, which bring more engaged visitors.

Hired him as a temporary consultant with industry experience to help me build my startup. Things went well and at some point it became clear I had a cofounder.

The other day someone was telling me they used to run a website called CyberHomes. All I could think of was how weird that would sound today.

Other than the anachronistic name (thought "cyber" wend out in the 90's), I'm extremely impressed to see such an awesome tool come out of the public sector. Kudos to GCHQ!

Awesome resource. I've spent a lot of time looking for CSS image effects and found the info out there to be really lacking. Thanks for putting this together.

Would like to know more about why they chose to visualize it in this way. Either way, looks like it will at least be fun to play around with.

> - Conditional breakpoints!

Awesome!

> - Ctrl+p for fuzzy finding loaded resources.

This too

Yes, you're right. Should have said English. I lived in London.

What country are you from? In my experience Americas fall somewhere in the middle in terms of directness, compared to European countries.

I lived in the UK for a few years and found Brits very hard to read / resistant to confrontation. On the other hand, I'm married to a Spaniard, and when I'm over there, it's sometimes a bit uncomfortable how direct and open people are.

Yahoo's home page explains so much about the company -- unable to maintain even the simplest and most basic features of their site. I'm still on Yahoo mail, and there were a few months this year where the basic search functionality didn't work.

Yahoo would probably make a great case study in corporate culture gone wrong.

I've wondered the same thing. My guess is that it's because node is still pretty new, whereas most other popular languages have been around for a while and the "right" way to do things has already reached some consensus.