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Good to know. I'll never work for Amazon no matter what the pay is.

I want to start using HackerNews again.

Is there anything OCaml can do that no other language can do?

MemSQL and Smalltalk generate C at runtime.

Algorithm interviews underestimate how long it takes to flesh out good ideas to hard problems.

For better security, you may want to update the SSL cert on your website. It's expired.

The most effective method I know of is to buy 10 Litecoins, because they'll be worth $100k+ each within 3 years. Then you're set.

What are the five kinds of lists you need?

> Did anything Wave-like developed subsequently turn into a big market?

Slack.

Trello.

I used to believe the same thing. Then I came across these two posts that made me realize one can make a more by day trading:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60501.0

https://forum.gekko.wizb.it/thread-100.html

I know it's not there yet but how far from "best thing available" is crypto?

If one has the ability to trade when the price moves, one makes more by selling Nvidia in the beginning of a dip and buying it on the uptrend.

Wall Street not understanding tech that much isn't as important if Wall Street can react to the price change.

I'm curious, why is it impossible? I don't know much about mining.

It's not worth it. You'll have other, more valuable ideas. Let it go.

Odds are the company won't understand this, or that only you could make this idea work (in a sense ideas choose people, not the other way around), and the patent may end up being useless to them. It's ok. Let it go.

"To survive the decades-long process"

It's not a decades-long process. I've seen it be closer to 2 years.

I liked the idea of increasing the amount of time a spammer expends over their email.

I didn't like the idea of having to manually forward the email, manually remove personal information from the body of the email, and sucking the recipient into watching the conversation unfold live. Because it increases the amount of time a recipient expends over a spam email.

I love tab completion.

I hate that the terminal and the browser are two different applications.

HN seems to also treat connections from Tor differently. If I visit HN from Tor and click on "login" HN pretends it takes forever to establish a connection. But if I first click on an existing HN link and then login, then pages load ok. HN could do better to protect the privacy of its users.

I'd pay %20 for a tool that will let others pay for what they say they want before I go build it for them, to prove that they actually want it instead of just talk.

Why would thought leaders and well-known VCs want to do that?

> "Well, I'm sorry about that. Going public was the best thing that ever happened to this company."

I'd be curious to learn Fred Wilson's explanation why going public was the best thing that ever happened to Etsy.

I'd like to know more about how it works.

"The private key is generated on the client side". Does this mean it gets generated with Javascript sent from the server? What if the server gets hacked?

I'm curious, what makes the ML families different than Algol?

From the paper:

"the one and only system that almost all members of the Institute for Computer Systems (including the secretary!) used on a daily basis for all their computing tasks"

Even the fonts were designed in-house.

I'm going through the paper on "slim binaries". They compress the abstract syntax tree at a semantic level and are smaller than compressed source code.

ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/cis700/public_html/papers/Franz97.pdf

I don't know much about Swift. Has anyone written in it something they can demo? Can it write gui and web apps? What's the biggest problem it solves and how do you like the language?

Does anyone know what the broken link in the essay used to link to?

http://www.paulgraham.com/piraha.html