Aloisius

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by Aloisius 16y ago
The bay area has a huge number of early adopters that can get an product to critical mass. It is incredibly useful to someone who doesn't have a platform or serious marketing dollars.
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by Aloisius 16y ago
I'm pretty sure with 600+ million users, he's in the majority. Heck, he's in the majority of people on the Internet that don't have a Facebook account.
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by Aloisius 16y ago
I find the competing trends going on in the valley very interesting. It seems that there are still far more engineering-driven startups than product or customer. Just last week I was visiting a startup where the lead engineer expressed outr
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by Aloisius 16y ago
Has anyone tried always waking up with the sunrise? I sleep in a house with a full eastern exposure, so I think it would be pretty easy for me to do it. Sure it would require going to bed at different times every night in order to get my 8
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by Aloisius 16y ago
It sounds like they've institutionalized the herding of cats as a project management system.
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by Aloisius 16y ago
I've deleted my Facebook account. And you know what? It didn't impact my life in the slightest. I was never a huge voyeur, so I never really got a lot of value out of Facebook anyway.
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by Aloisius 16y ago
Does anyone know what percentage of Google's products that originated from companies they purchased? I know Wave and Android were purchases, but it is always good to keep in mind the difference between Google built products and Google purch
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by Aloisius 16y ago
I am actually sensitive to MSG and I still eat the stuff. In large doses that it causes my lips/tongue/throat to numb. It took me years to figure it out since it would only happen after eating at certain restaurants or foods and I could nev
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by Aloisius 16y ago
Pfft. Anyone who has spent 15 minutes around Bio and Chem girls knows that they can be hardcore geeks. :)
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by Aloisius 16y ago
Some people are going to say intelligence (pshaw), but... The only acceptable professions to Jewish mothers are doctor, lawyer and maybe investment banker. On top of that, there are extreme social pressures to succeed. Add a tight knit comm
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by Aloisius 16y ago
What matters to me is that code never relies on one person or a small group of people to maintain/improve it. If a senior Python/C++/Java developer can open up the source code to some Erlang program that is having problems and fix a bug, th
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by Aloisius 16y ago
Not all PhDs are the same. They vary in duration and difficulty from country to country, school to school and field to field. For instance, you are not guaranteed a PhD in Chemistry from Berkeley even if you go for 8 years. You don't get on
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by Aloisius 16y ago
Risk adverse people aren't generally successful at founding startups.
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by Aloisius 16y ago
Speaking as a high school drop out, I wouldn't recommend it for the vast majority of people. College is useful for the people you meet as much as the education you receive. That said, in Silicon Valley, a few companies on your résumé, a sin
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by Aloisius 16y ago
He did get one thing right. Google starves the valley of engineers (as does Facebook). Their starting salaries are now so high for even straight-out-of-college grads that it actually harms startups.
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by Aloisius 16y ago
I'm confused as to why one would build a service in a language that is so difficult to hire engineers for.
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by Aloisius 16y ago
This is an idea that Reid Hoffman has advocated for a while now and that I fully support. It is also the reason why I think sites like Facebook and LinkedIn can never meet - your professional brand is something you want to control completel
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by Aloisius 16y ago
How about using soap on half your body and objectively observing the difference? A lot of these self-run experiments run into confirmation bias.
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by Aloisius 16y ago
That MO sounds familiar. I had no idea there were so many Mossad operations in south central LA.
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by Aloisius 16y ago
I'm confused. Why would you use BitTorrent? A DHT sure, but the whole BitTorrent protocol? Seems silly for transferring less than 100 bytes of data.
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by Aloisius 16y ago
I'm a little confused as to why people think dumping cables from American embassies would show the US in a negative light or contain some sort of revelation that the US is engaged in anything illegal. These are cables from the American poin
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by Aloisius 16y ago
Yes, because I'm sure professionals would find it so very difficult to make it look like an accident, self-inflicted or frame someone
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by Aloisius 16y ago
The brilliance of this tactic is that if you repeat some outrageous number, the only way to defend it is to produce the real number which is bound to still be quite large. You can't respond with, "It is only $5 million/day!" because that is