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by 13ren 18y ago
um investing in a better server? goog cache: http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool....
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by 13ren 18y ago
bet there are some Generation Z here (probably > silents or boomers)
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The market has got everything on special - whatever you do, DON'T BUY! ...unless you want to end up like Warren Buffett - who loves downturns because that's when he can stock up on his favourites, at discount prices. He hates booms, because
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by 13ren 18y ago
Regarding interesting open source projects, can anyone recommend an open source project that contributing to would teach me about real-life, effective usage of: (1). git source control (2). maintaining a medium sized/complexity Java project
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That's fantastic! Thanks. <vader>impressive</vader> My esteem for Joel just went up a notch.
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by 13ren 18y ago
From the WSJ article Matt is rebutting: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455219391652725.html?mod=... "They want to be CEO tomorrow," "I deserve favors from others" "I know that I have more natural talents than most." expect read
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by 13ren 18y ago
Sounds like neoteny (rapid learning and childishness) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny#In_humans I wonder if the ability to absorb new technology has driven neoteny in us, since our beginning? Maybe the next generation is always evolu
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by 13ren 18y ago
A young man sets out to seek his fortune... Yes, it's the beginning of a fairly tale, a standard mythological motif - by which I don't mean it is fictional or trivial, but that it is universal. BTW: Matt does acknowledge that the next gener
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by 13ren 18y ago
I jumped into the middle of this discussion, so I'm not commenting on whether the Bulverism is applicable here. But I really wanted to thank you for pointing it out. I've recently become more aware of how easily my own thinking can get knot
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by 13ren 18y ago
This differential pricing helps satisfy demand (like student movie tickets). Most of the poor students/startups could not afford to buy anyway, so you lose little by giving it away. But you gain potential customers, like MacDonalds targetti
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by 13ren 18y ago
My guess at the one thing: Aim at the use, not the truth. Think about what it's supposed to do . This is helpful at all scales, from code snippet to a whole business. It's similar to finding the right question, before finding the right ans
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by 13ren 18y ago
11. http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/04/28/... PS: I think I need to get a pipe.
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by 13ren 18y ago
I know what you're saying, but those quotes also describe deliberate practice... look how hard Gates worked at 11 yo, and in what way. If (and I don't know if he did or not) Bill Gates had been practicing those skills since the age of 3 or
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by 13ren 18y ago
if luck is "success against the odds", the odds are dramatically improved by making several attempts, and making adjustments after each one. In these circumstances, I'm inclined to say that luck is inevitable. The harder I work, the luckie
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by 13ren 18y ago
From this one talent springs all. But this "talent", to make effort in a specific way, seems more a moral "talent" - like courage or kindness - than anything else. These qualities can be cultivated, and are a necessary part of being human t
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by 13ren 18y ago
It is by logic we prove, it is by intuition that we invent. — Henri Poincare [to the tiny minority of fellow 40+ HWers] Intuition comes from being open to it, which comes from doing new things. I'm sure that as we get older, there is some
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by 13ren 18y ago
What's the PhD part? What I like about Google's story is the PhD-technology-research that went into it (tho Woz wasn't a PhD student, I'd put the Apple story in a similar category). Creating a $60B co from nothing is an astonishing achievem
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by 13ren 18y ago
> they have a great intuition about which frustrations are worth pushing through I agree that keeping a global view while working on the local is a great ability to have, and a lack of it will create nightmarish frustrations as projects
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by 13ren 18y ago
and I bet we have the same Cisco routers that China has, and so it would be trivial to switch on, in terms of technology.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Absolutely agreed! But do any such "great hackers" exist? Examples please. A countervailing force is if it's easy, let's try something new.
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by 13ren 18y ago
The article has no discussion of "disruption", when HDD vs. SDD looks like a classic case of it. The key empirical data of "The Innovators Dilemma" (which coined the term "disruptive technology") was on the evolution of the HDD market. The
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by 13ren 18y ago
It's difficult to create something simple. And then people say "but that's simple". :| High effort/low reward: not an attractive proposition. It doesn't attract many folks. You need a way to demonstrate that it wasn't obvious; and (I think)
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by 13ren 18y ago
...because it's an email harvester.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Yes; arguably, the goal of initiative in startups is to reduce the need for it. Like programming.
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Meaningful innovation: We are the technology company that invents the useful and the significant. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/corpobj.html Less true of HP today, but they arguably started this silicon valley thing, Woz wanted to wo
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Another constraint on institutional investors is short-term profitability: they need to report annually, to compete for customers; whereas an individual is free to invest for the long-term.
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by 13ren 18y ago
sleep - exercise - happiness - kindness
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by 13ren 18y ago
I have this feeling too. However, I've just started using git, and one nice thing is the sense of closure when you "commit" something, it's a milestone, a bit like a release. It's also nice to have a log of changes, with a short comment abo
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by 13ren 18y ago
One's beliefs about whether intelligence is fixed or malleable is a factor that affects how much effort one makes, according to these studies: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-sm...
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by 13ren 18y ago
thanks, now I see a price attached makes a difference; else it's not "shopping", so won't show up in a shopping comparison. Yes, just making it shareware would fix that. I'd guess they'd want to keep it open source: they could dual license

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