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Yudkowsky Ambition Scale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509934 How Do I Start Being a Consultant? https:/
by barry-cotter 8y ago
Yudkowsky Ambition Scale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509934
How Do I Start Being a Consultant?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245960
Bane's rule, you don't understand a distributed computing problem until you can get it to fit on a single machine first.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739
Edit: Thanks detaro for telling me how to link to individual comments.
- WAthrowaway 8y agoI wonder which startup PG is referring to in the first link... Also, wow, all those comments of people plugging their level 3 and above startups did NOT age well
- pjc50 8y agoThe first is an amazing hubris detector. The "going deep" post reminds me of the "programmer-archaeologist" role from the Vernor Vinge novels, where a long-running spacefaring civilisation has built up a very large amount of code on which their magic nanotech runs. This provides opportunities to dig for long-forgotten things .. or exploits.
- barry-cotter 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4511950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4511950 > That reminds me of Peter Thiel's Venn diagram of 'Sounds like a bad idea' and 'Is a good idea'. It's a pretty slim area in the middle and the 'Sounds like' part means it's hard to know until you do it.
- detaro 8y ago> Also, how do I link to individual comments Click on the timestamp next to the username
- mike_io 8y agoDirect link to Bane's rule post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739