CallMeV

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Ask HN: A Venture Capital Primer For Total Newbies?
3 points by CallMeV 16y ago|0 comments
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I rely on both, plus a generous helping of muscle memory, sense memory and random chance - I sometimes roll a die and go by the result.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Transcendental infinities and infinitesimals - many different types of infinity exist, both countable and uncountable. Most people tend to stop at the standard infinity that lies at the top end of the real number line - "bigger than the big
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Ask HN: When did this life suddenly click for you?
3 points by CallMeV 16y ago|5 comments
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An Optimal Life
2 points by CallMeV 16y ago|1 comments
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Only /a bit/ mad?
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I think he'd have appreciated this site.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
So the Beeb reports that the boffins believe that pupils retain more data if they have to read it in Comic Sans. Perhaps the subjects retain more data if presented to them in a horrible font because they believe that if they pass this test
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Sweet. I haven't been to this site in a while, but I still have two dead tree copies - an IllumiNet Press 1991 printing and a Steve Jackson Games 1994 printing. Hail Eris. All Hail Discordia.
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Shadowrun only feels fun when you know it's a game of fantasy. When cyberpunk concepts previously only seen in the pages of a William Gibson book start erupting into this mundane, boring world of the daily commute and the weekly shop, unfol
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by CallMeV 16y ago
That's not fun. That's smoking, drinking and having sex - adult activities, not the regressive infantilism one usually associates with "workplace fun." If you smoke at your desk, someone will complain about catching secondary lung cancer or
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Might I point out that if this has happened to other users in the same neighbourhood, the cops will become aware of the emerging pattern. If the thief and his fence start repeating their behaviour, the cops will gather more data and evidenc
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Cops. Cops, then the bank, then the insurance firm (you did take out contents insurance on the laptop, didn't you?), and then anybody else you have data on stored in your computer. Ignore anybody telling you that they're going to tell the a
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Firms haven't started to realise it yet, but by excluding the trainable people, by insisting on this glass ceiling of "two years' experience," they aren't doing themselves any favours. The lucky handful of geeks with "two years' experience"
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by CallMeV 16y ago
That was the last day I ever used my old pager. I'd had that pager since 1996, and I hadn't actually used it for anything for a good few months. That morning, I listened to my instincts and put it on. I was at a New Age store buying incense
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Forget about you. Set aside your skills, your intelligence, the money you earn or the prospects you have. Pick up on a different kind of intelligence. Social intelligence. Emotional intelligence. Learn body language. Train yourself to obser
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by CallMeV 16y ago
You become happy through a combination of factors. First, resolving not to do anything beyond a level that you would recognise as "hard work." You set the bar on what level of work you would call "hard" and stick to that level. Second, know
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by CallMeV 16y ago
In short, the same way a musician in NY finds his way to Carnegie Hall. Practice.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Fascinating article. But how can a company possibly stay alive for very long if, rather than confining itself to lying to its rivals to keep ahead in the competitive marketplace, it starts lying to itself and its own? If your company's inte