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by David 16y ago
I recently put something very like BookShout on my idea list... basically just shareable, public, user-created lists of reference materials (books, websites, whatever). Looks like I don't have to build it anymore. =P (My personal pain point
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by David 16y ago
http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html I don't exactly disagree with the (implied) point, but your argument is... lacking.
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by David 16y ago
Out of curiosity and unfamiliarity with word perfect, what was that feature, exactly?
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by David 16y ago
Probably, those 20 people think the author is making three good points. The actual phrasing of said points is not fantastic; particularly #2 has some grammatical and possibly logical issues. ("The bottom line is: If you are finding yourself
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by David 16y ago
The headings speak for themselves: "Avoid the obvious content" "Take the less usual side" "Slip out of abstraction" "Get rid of obvious padding" "Call a fool a fool" "Beware of pat expressions" "Colorful words" "Colored words" "Colorless wo
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by David 16y ago
That's what makes the game hard, and also what makes it worth it. The key is that repeated exposure leads to desensitization. Fear of rejection is no different from other irrational (or at least maladaptive) fears -- and those often _are_ t
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by David 16y ago
That's the goal, anyway. Some of us aren't there yet. Rejection of any kind, even for something that wasn't expected in the first place, can be painful.
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by David 16y ago
It's not about being rejected every single day . It's about learning to accept rejection more easily, which it sounds like you're doing fine on with part-time canvasing. (Or perhaps you could cope easily before that.) I'd take a bet that y
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by David 16y ago
At the same time, on an individual level, you'd still expect players to play hard and be focused, right? I think that's where this applies. While the players on the field might not be the best players, they're still gonna play their best.
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by David 16y ago
The quality of any martial arts training will depend much more on the teacher than the art being taught. A bad teacher can ruin any art, but a good one will teach you important things about yourself (your limits, your strengths and weakness
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by David 16y ago
I have a friend through Karate (he's my age, 18/19) who went to boy scout camp a couple years ago and was screwing around with some friends. They were free-climbing a cliff. He fell from around 40 feet up. He broke many of the bones in the
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by David 16y ago
For reference, I'm 19 and a freshman in college. From my perspective, college has a lot to offer. Research, the chance to meet important people in the field, the chance to meet interesting people out of the field. These influenced my decisi
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by David 16y ago
From the end of the article: "There are many ways of coordinating an attack without using a mobile phone," says Aurélie Branchereau-Giles of OnAir, a company based in Geneva, Switzerland, that Airbus is backing as a maker of in-flight cellp
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by David 16y ago
For previous discussion about the hand: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836462
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by David 16y ago
That's basically where I'm at (speaking of redundancy). I'm usually afraid to say something wrong, since I know that there are always experts on the topic of the post. It makes more sense to me to let said experts explain a particular topic
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by David 16y ago
Awesome! I should have known to google it... xD
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by David 16y ago
From the FAQ page: "8) Your logo is upside down: Why is the light source obviously below the image? It looks quite unnatural... The logo is simply a scan of my hand, from a flatbed scanner converted to black and white. The "back" in the pic
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by David 16y ago
Oh, the contradiction: “politics in full sentences” a) not a full sentence. b) _definitely_ a soundbite. OTOH, that could certainly be the article taking his words out of their (grammatically) proper context.
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by David 16y ago
...which usually leads to a change in understanding or explanation to rectify the conflict. In this case, the cognitive dissonance, paying a large amount of money (by necessity) for a service of unknown quality, is resolved by commitment to
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by David 16y ago
I think the author has some good points about working your idea even if you don't make YC, though he seems to be making the argument that shooting for YC at all is a bad idea. "A lot of people who applied to YCombinator are probably hacks w
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by David 16y ago
Had an exam earlier... hasn't done well for my brainpower. Of course they already have the data, and as you mention, exporting it is fantastically easy from their end. My line of thinking probably evolved from the ease with which Facebook c
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by David 16y ago
...That... _does_ makes sense. Color me embarassed.
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by David 16y ago
Question for you all. A bit ago, I posted the following, which was in minutes at -5 and counting: ----------------------------------- This is disturbing. Yes, Facebook was sharing your information before -- it was the source of all their ad
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by David 16y ago
As a recent HS grad, these suggestions disgust me. I would have learned absolutely nothing all four years if these guidelines were followed. As it is, I could make it through a multiple choice/free response test (with 4 or 5 choices, and op
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by David 16y ago
Instead of the environment in which they'll be living?
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by David 16y ago
Visiting woot.com might clarify things. Woot's business (from their FAQ page: http://woot.com/WhatIsWoot.aspx ) is about selling one item a day, at a really good price. The Sennheiser headphones are today's item... and in that space where
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by David 16y ago
Why? For what reasons is finishing high school better than dropping out? Not that they don't exist, but you've dismissed his argument without listing any.
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by David 16y ago
Only one paragraph ties reviews to revenue, and I'm still looking for the evidence in here: "As we’ve watched Amazon customers make purchases on the site, we can clearly see that promoting the most helpful reviews has increased sales in the
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by David 16y ago
The article talks about using a ferromagnetic liquid and magnetic fields to make adjustments to the surface of the mirror, so a magnetic liquid mirror is possible. Use the magnetic field to keep the mirror on the desired surface. No atmosph
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by David 16y ago
A very nice touch. About a month ago, I got an alert that my account had been accessed from China... Never would have known I was at risk otherwise.

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