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I submitted this to see the thread of whomever already did. Apparently I'm the first. Another weird coincidence is that I'd never seen this before, and it's re
by DaniFong 18y ago
I submitted this to see the thread of whomever already did. Apparently I'm the first.
Another weird coincidence is that I'd never seen this before, and it's really good. Possibly one of the best essays I've read. Or at least one of the most informative.
"Startup founders are naturally optimistic. They wouldn't do it otherwise. But you should treat your optimism the way you'd treat the core of a nuclear reactor: as a source of power that's also very dangerous. You have to build a shield around it, or it will fry you."
- dkokelley 18y agoWow. Congratulations. This is the second old PG essay that hasn't made it up here yet that I've seen in about 2 weeks. I guess this is like a HN sport now. :P
- eb 18y agoIt looks like it was submitted a long time ago, before this site was even announced. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13
- DaniFong 18y agoI guess the prefix www. isn't stemmed for the collision detection algorithm, then...
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