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natmaster··on FBI Statement on Clinton Email System
Only cosmetic. It's nowhere on any actual page.
natmaster··on FBI Statement on Clinton Email System
One can only assume, but PG is a big supporter of Hillary, and so is @dang.
natmaster··on D3 v4.0.0 released
You might try http://web.horde.org/reactd3.org/

It mostly uses React to interface with DOM and d3 v4.0 for the math, etc.

natmaster··on Learn React.js in a weekend
My brain simply absorbs information at a faster rate with video/audio than reading.
natmaster··on Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
Geocities is 1998. If you want 2005 try digg.com
natmaster··on Flow vs. Typescript
Flow is not a superset of any form of javascript. It is another language.

See: https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/825

natmaster··on Judge sends two to prison for 7 years for H-1B fraud
Why is America the only place to live in the world? Are you saying the rest of the world is terrible?
natmaster··on The Laws Underlying the Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood
As far as bikes go, they're designed to stay upright by automatically turning the front wheel when it is tipped in any direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAc5t2lkvo

natmaster··on Free React.js Fundamentals Course
It's like if you've been programming in C all your life and suddenly discover python
natmaster··on Austin: No Place to Go but Up
Ahaha, that's bad, but nothing compared to Silicon Valley's terrible zoning laws.
natmaster··on Visual Turing Test
Same here. The first one was hard, I spent a long time and ended up getting that as the only wrong one. They mostly looked like real photos with a filter applied, which gave it away pretty easy.
natmaster··on Why Zapier Doesn't Use Gevent Yet
"accessing a global variable"

Um. What? Why do you have global variables for your celery tasks? They should be idempotent and small.

Also, even your http requests should be globally stateless as that is the nature of http.

natmaster··on Shut Up, Paul Graham: The Simplified Version
"This seems akin to suggesting that skin cancer is not bad per se, because it’s caused by the sun, and the sun is good. Where would we be without the sun? Attacking the sun is a bad idea. So stop trying to fight sun-related skin cancer. Also, I own a large share of the sun."

The author's right. Communism is bad. It results in mass poverty among many other atrocities.

In the real world, everyone isn't an altruistic completely selfless person. Therefore, communism has never worked and never will. The entire premise of it is founded on an assumption that, if true, would render the entire need for forceful conscription mute.

natmaster··on Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era
Who's at fault, the druggie or drug dealer? The fed is the enabler
natmaster··on Firefox 43 released with 64-bit version for Windows, better Private Browsing
Firefox's design dev tools are waaaay better. CSS, animations, etc. For JavaScript it's better for Chrome in some ways and better for Firefox in others. I end up using both kind of randomly for dev even though I'm 100% Firefox for normal browsing.
natmaster··on YC Open Office Hours
Thanks for having a general session. It's really hard for me coming from a poor white family with no history of entrepreneurship to enter this space.
natmaster··on Who Y Combinator Companies Want
Why does this contradict the myth that silicon valley is ageist and only wants to hire fresh college grads?
natmaster··on Mapping Student Debt
Where's the data on the student's major and whether the university was accredited or a hoax university?
natmaster··on Splitting Equity Among Founders
The big takeaway for me is the last sentence, "If you aren’t willing to give your partner an equal share, then perhaps you are choosing the wrong partner."
natmaster··on Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates Join Forces to Invest in Clean Energy Technology
Senators, 'dellow felegates', in response to this direct threat to the Republic, Mesa propose that the Senate give immediately emergency powers to the Supreme Chancellor.
natmaster··on Behind Rising Inequality: More Unequal Companies
The whole premises of this article is incredibly disturbing. That people are actually mad that a company is able to produce so much new value that it dramatically increases the living standards of even its lowest paid employees.

Are people so delirious with envy that they want everyone to go back to the dark ages?

natmaster··on Why 5 x 3 = 5 and 5 and 5 Was Marked Wrong
Multiplication is commutative. I don't care if you can rewrite the definition on wikipedia, this is a fundamental truth of math. Far more important than your semantic nonsense.
natmaster··on What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech
Female students are more interested in enrolling in CS if they think it doesn't involve computers or science... maybe instead of trying to trick them encourage them to like computers and science? If you think solving problems by looking pretty rather than thinking is 'being female' then you don't think being a Computer Scientist is very 'female'.

(Obviously I think being female is orthogonal to such concerns.)

natmaster··on The White Man in That Photo
Such blatant institutional racism in Australia in 2000! So sad :(
natmaster··on Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
I'm genuinely curious why I haven't seen any uproar about the numerous majors where men are in minority.
natmaster··on New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
Dell XPS laptops are amazing. What flaw did you find that noone else did? I would even go as far as to say the hardware is better (obviously many here will disagree about software side). I mean, they are carbon-fiber, lighter, smaller, with better build quality.
natmaster··on Edwardsnowden.com
"But I've sort of tongue-in-cheek said that if I had the choice, I'd put Clapper and Snowden in the same jail cell for about the same period of time. That's not a serious question, but I think it'd be an interesting debate they might have about liberty versus security."

"Snowden has said he would have tried official channels to reveal this to someone officially, but that the whistleblower statute doesn't apply to contractors. So I [Rand Paul] actually have an amendment that would try to make that so. So if you're a contractor doing business with an intelligence agency and you find that they're breaking the law—and interestingly, the courts have now said the NSA is breaking the law. " - https://reason.com/reasontv/2015/06/04/rand-paul-on-edward-s...

- https://theintercept.com/2015/05/21/edward-snowden-cheers-ra...

I don't think 'tongue-in-cheek' counts as policy.

natmaster··on It’s expensive to be poor
When I visited London and withdrew money from my US bank account the London bank charged me a lot, but my US bank charged me nothing.
natmaster··on Applications for YC Winter 2016 are now open
Damn, that first line is so obvious why it's needed. I feel like the rest of the app doesn't matter at that point, so I dunno how to factor it in :P.

Good job anyways. :)

natmaster··on Bernie Sanders' 404 page
It's called propaganda.
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