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Spendar89 | 9 years ago | on: The Toronto Raptors are using IBM’s Watson in the draft

ESPN introduced a stat called real plus-minus in 2014, which adjusts for teammates and opponents. It also takes both offensive and defense plus-minus into account. The top two players in RPM this past season were Lebron James and Draymond Green, followed by Chris Paul and Steph Curry [1]. It was received with a lot of skepticism back when it was introduced, but that shouldn't surprise anyone.

1. http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM

Spendar89 | 10 years ago | on: My Friend Had Achor In MVP For Too Long

The title should say _Anchor_.

Spendar89 | 10 years ago | on: GitHub down?

Didn't this just happen?

Spendar89 | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Am I ridiculous for finding 8 hours of work as a coder, ridiculous?

I'd work on being more humble, and open-minded, especially considering your lack of experience. This is one of the more ridiculous posts I've read on HN.

Spendar89 | 10 years ago | on: You’re good. Way too good to be on UpWork

Based on the link in his HN profile, I think he's referring to himself: $110/hr, 5,337 hours worked. Those are impressive numbers.

Spendar89 | 10 years ago | on: Om Next – David Nolen [video]

And for anyone who'd like to jump right in:

https://github.com/Day8/re-frame-template

Includes Figwheel, and (optionally) Secretary.

Spendar89 | 10 years ago | on: Om Next – David Nolen [video]

I imagine you would trigger something like a datomic transaction, which returns a new version of the database.

Spendar89 | 10 years ago | on: Om Next – David Nolen [video]

Swannodette never disappoints. If you're interested in this approach, you should check out re-frame: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame. The README is a great resource, regardless of whether or not you intend to use the framework.

Spendar89 | 10 years ago | on: Cardinals Face F.B.I. Inquiry in Hacking of Astros’ Network

Filming sidelines was all they were punished for. But they almost certainly were filming opponents' practices, including the St. Lous Rams' "walkthrough practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI"[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_England_Patriots_vide...

Spendar89 | 11 years ago | on: YC Portfolio Stats

Another commenter posted this link: http://yclist.com/

According to it, 46 companies are "dead", 52 are "exited" and 445 are "active".

Spendar89 | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: P4K Prowler - A Pitchfork Reviews Scraper built in Meteor.js

Nice work. I think Pitchfork throws way too much content at the user, so this is definitely something I could see myself using. Is there a particular reason you chose Meteor over other Node frameworks/libraries? Were you just intrigued by it and wanted to try it out?

Spendar89 | 11 years ago | on: Ceylon: Quick introduction

> The world is very much mutable

This depends on your definition of "the world". If time and memory are taken into account, you could easily make the case that the world is very much immutable. For example, if your friend changes his email address, its not as if his old address no longer exists. Even if it only exists in memory, it still exists somewhere, and you're still able to reference it.

If you're interested in this topic, I highly recommend Rich Hickey's talk "The Value of Values"[1].

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values.

Spendar89 | 11 years ago | on: Moving Atom to React

I think its important to note that React does not encourage two way data binding. Quite the opposite, actually. Data is supposed to flow one-way, from parent to child.

That being said, there's an extension that adds two way bindings, called ReactLink. You can read more about it here: http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/two-way-binding-helpers...

Spendar89 | 11 years ago | on: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today

"I therefore find it difficult to see individuals who could focus their time and effort solving these problems, instead put their efforts into something like Yo."

Since when is this stuff zero-sum? Yo allegedly took 8 hours to build. Sure, during those 8 hours, Moshe Hogeg wasn't out solving the "big" problems, but in that day alone, he had 16 other hours, to do things the OP might deem worthy of his time.

Spendar89 | 11 years ago | on: Hacking the Job Hunt: How I landed 15 interviews in 30 minutes

I think this is a decent strategy for an aspiring marketer, since it shows off actual marketing skills.

For a software dev, however, not so much. I think it could come off as insincere and/or spammy.

If I'm emailing a company about a job, its because I'm particularly interested in working there. Therefore, I really try to be as personal and specific as I can when reaching out to the company. Especially in the initial email.

Otherwise I'd risk misrepresenting myself.

Spendar89 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: The best way to find remote job

> I have all except github as all I do is actually on my own repos

I would suggest making one or more of your repos public. Even if you're the only one contributing, potential employers will still get a sense of your ability and/or experience. Another idea is to make a repo of just code samples. Nothing demonstrates how you code better than your actual code.

Spendar89 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are you selling, holding, or buying your Bitcoins? Why?

Holding, but growing skeptical that this sort of growth is sustainable. It currently makes no sense to purchase anything with Bitcoins, when one will certainly be worth more tomorrow than it is worth today.

Spendar89 | 13 years ago | on: Making Cents – the meager royalties paid out to bands by streaming services

I think a relevant issue that is the direct result of spotify/pandora/itunes is that we no longer consume albums, but rather individual tracks. Artists used to (and many still do) value producing a collection of songs that when listened sequentially meant something much more than listening to each song individually. Therefore, albums should theoretically be worth significantly more than the sum of the value of each individual track, but today's services have essentially destroyed this model. Don't get me wrong, there are obvious benefits of being able to consume only the tracks you like most, and I understand that we can still choose to listen to albums in their entirety, but the vast majority of people do not. A serious consequence of this is that consumers value music and the music industry as a whole significantly less than they once did. I also think there is an opportunity within the music-tech space to recreate the album-listening experience in an elegant way.