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Re:So you want to buy a farm? on Thursday November 05, 2020 @06:12AM (#24997271)
How much land does one need? Tolstoï wrote a short story with this title on this topic: https://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/
Re:SaaS Financial Model on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:27AM (#24598663)
Hi ! Thanks for sharing, it looks very comprehensive. This seems great, but quite overwhelming for very small companies. Do I need all of that between 0 and 100k ARR ? Do I need any of that in fact ? It seem all the official documents (cash flow statement, profit and loss) are made by the accountant when they are needed.
Re:Visual Explanation of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:50AM (#24479173)
Thanks ! Are there other great math papers or articles with a similar "without the agonizing pain" approach, for other topics that might be interesting ?
Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files? on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:40AM (#24361680)
Ouch, I understand that it demoes their solution, but with the autoplay that's very insensitive.
Re:A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @12:04PM (#23760588)
Well, I have to create a new account every time I join a new group, so I'd say yes.
Re:Curve Detecting Neurons on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @05:17AM (#23688215)
All the authors are part of OpenAI, and the very first sentence talks about computer vision and a parallel with real neurons. So "This isn't immediately clear" should be read as "I only read the title and didn't even try to understand what the article is about".
Re:Ideas That Changed My Life on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:58AM (#23447802)
You can tidy your room and the mess (that they mistake for entropy) would be reduced. The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that in an isolated system the entropy is always increasing (or at best constant), so the room analogy does not work.
Re:PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures on Saturday April 25, 2020 @08:24AM (#22977568)
Thanks!
Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far on Friday March 06, 2020 @03:35PM (#22507073)
I agree with the "tell the story as if you were telling it over beers at a pub" part but please don't make your page 9Mb like in the first example ;)
Re:I Learned French in 12 Months on Sunday February 16, 2020 @03:03PM (#22343452)
Interesting points! Thanks. I didn't know "inscrire" is a transitive verb, so indeed "s'inscrire à" is grammatically incorrect. As often with french it raises the question of "does this rule make sense regarding usage". A quick google search for "s'inscrire à une salle de sport" shows a lot of results, even from people specializing in sport. And many native speakers were fooled by this rule.

As for the "crédit", the dictionnary definition seem to state it is correct (even though "bon" would be a bit better). https://larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/cr%c3%a9dit/20314... Crédit: Autorisation de dépenses accordée par les autorités qui établissent, votent ou règlent les budgets ; somme ainsi allouée : La bibliothèque dispose d'un crédit de dix mille euros.

Re:Writing a Polyglot Script on Saturday January 25, 2020 @05:29PM (#22149008)
On a similar topic, PoC||GTFO [0] features files that are valid with multiple file formats. Issue 19 [1], for instance, "is valid as a PDF document, a ZIP archive, and a HTMLpage. It is also available as a Windows PE executable, a PNG image and an MP4 video" (see "technical note"). They are made by Ange Albertini [2] who has a great talk [3] on how he does this kind of things

[0] https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ [1] https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo19.pdf [2] https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9WnnMJ0RKg

product-market fit can never be achieved using this algorithm, since a product is never found: in achieveProductMarketFit.ks, _uncertainty is set to 1.0. It needs to go below the 0.8 threshold in order to get out of the loop, but _uncertainty is never updated anywhere so it can never happen. So achieveProductMarketFit won't ever return any product. QED ;)
well… you should read the paper, or maybe a summary like this one[0], before jumping to comment.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20897565

Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:16PM (#18667369)
Thanks for the work, I enjoyed trying it and loved the fact that indeed, 200 words is really achievable. I even did it twice ;) Do you have any plan for the possibility to publish "privately"? I'd like to write, but I don't want/feel the need to be read. I guess we could consider the drafts are private, but they seem like second-class citizens regarding streaks and so on.
Re:The Game Engine Black Book: Doom on Sunday December 09, 2018 @08:14AM (#18640709)
Some people like to share knowledge more than they like (or need, seeing the numbers) to make money.
I had to google that as well. It seems to be an agile practice [0] that consist in gathering a developer, a product owner and a QA tester in order to produce acceptance tests using the format given/when/then.

[0] http://jonkruger.com/blog/2012/01/04/the-three-amigos/

Re:The Corpus Christi Prime on Sunday September 10, 2017 @04:53AM (#15211405)
The first paragraph of the articles says "The top left corner encodes my initials, JRH, in ASCII. The bottom right corner is my date of birth."
Re:How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @02:04PM (#15177640)
The interesting thing being that he didn't do any of the things he says he would do (so, maybe despite all his best undercover efforts, things would fail !), yet people listen as if the messiah was talking.
Re:Ask HN: Is TDD or BDD used in AAA gaming industry? on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:00AM (#14802628)
A high proportion of web development is done using somehow "off-the-shelf" web frameworks, and yet people write unit test/functional tests for the application logic and features. Despite how stable the base this code is written against.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2017) on Monday July 03, 2017 @12:34PM (#14689533)
SEEKING WORK (CONTRACT) – Based in Paris, FR

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My email on https://www.keiruaprod.fr (in french only right now).

I’m an experienced (5 years professionally) full-stack web developer. I've in particular worked with PHP/Symfony, for startups and big companies. Experience with scaling issues, microservices, continuous integration

I also like to use Postgres, Python, AngularJS/React, Varnish, Redis, Nginx...