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by EricDeb 14y ago
It's interesting to think about people who clearly have experienced extreme highs and extreme lows like this guy has
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by EricDeb 14y ago
Agreed. It's not that these weren't legitimate business expenses but if you are trying to start a company on a shoe-string budget you should really spend considerable time trying to get the best deal possible and limit all expenses to the
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by EricDeb 14y ago
Are there really that many of these "brogrammer" start ups around? I find it hard to believe that they plague the culture as much as some articles have you believe. At least, it's nothing compared to actual college, where bros own the soc
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by EricDeb 14y ago
I would agree with you that "naming and shaming" at this point is not in his best interest, however there is no question his employer should pay him in an ideal world.
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by EricDeb 14y ago
I agree. I think a business person would either tell his boss or find a way to start a business associated with automating similar data entry. A person who doesn't say anything and tries to "get theirs in the short run" will eventually lo
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by EricDeb 14y ago
That's one thing thing you can count on on HN: brutal honesty! BTW I think this is a killer idea, though I am more in the bachelor stage.... maybe we need a social network for guys on the prowl!
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by EricDeb 14y ago
I know!! I kept thinking that throughout the interview. It's implying his wealth is much greater than it actually is (not that it isn't great already)
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by EricDeb 14y ago
I thought the firing aspect was the one new thread in the entire 5 page article. The rest was simply a rehash.
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by EricDeb 14y ago
+1 for hilarious analogy
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by EricDeb 14y ago
I think it's a fine idea. In my experience the start up mindset is something some people have and is not necessarily tied to a particular idea. Also, programmers aren't usually the best at networking. So why not let YC do it for them and
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by EricDeb 14y ago
This is absolutely true. People are prone to think that if you start a company and it is "for the wrong reasons," three years later you will be bankrupt and want to kill yourself. Likely, if you start a company for the wrong reasons, you w
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by EricDeb 14y ago
How can there be a "last great American genius." Assuming genius is a statistical percentage of the population born every year, wouldn't there be just as many if not more currently than in the past?
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by EricDeb 14y ago
I admittedly have a poor understanding of corporate taxation and offshore avoidance, but this example makes sense to me. Though government is not a family, and it is safe to say all parties will act selfishly. This may further his argumen
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by EricDeb 14y ago
In the same way one could argue that a person like Kevin Rose has almost a 99% chance of succeeding in a startup he founds.
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by EricDeb 14y ago
This sounds like MBA advice and is good, general business practice, however highly intelligent people capable of extraordinary things often do not act in accordance with these rules (likely because they are PHDs and not MBA students). I im
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by EricDeb 14y ago
very good insight. I too have noticed that intelligent people often consciously chose a character or archetype to adopt.
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by EricDeb 14y ago
Agree. If you've ever seen Curb your Enthusiasm Larry David demonstrates this perfectly. He just always pushes it too far. Being weird is actually totally acceptable if you are confident and respond to basic social cues.
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by EricDeb 14y ago
Strongly agree
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by EricDeb 14y ago
I think LaTeX is built for perfectionist, pedantic academics. That is not to say I don't secretly love it, but after spending hours battling the program trying to get it to look right, I usually end up asking myself what's the point?
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by EricDeb 14y ago
I completely agree. I would go so far as to say that for many engineers, programming-at least the type they do for work-is not their first passion, but is an activity they enjoy to some degree and it pays well. Hopefully this will allow t
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by EricDeb 14y ago
My issue with politics is the lack of control. If I am engineering a pet project or even a module for work, I have a large degree of control over its construction. With politics, it seems like you fight and fight and nothing ever changes-a
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by EricDeb 15y ago
I agree. As an "underdeveloped" (ie no impending plans to escape to the suburbs with a newly betrothed spouse) 22 year old I have no desire to be in the suburbs because they seem boring and lack the nightlife and women that currently int
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by EricDeb 15y ago
A key element of the chinese room experiment though, is that it excludes the biochemical properties of the brain, which Searle strongly believes is the foundation of human consciousness. Searle's main point: A deterministic, symbol-manipula
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by EricDeb 15y ago
kids can be mean no doubt
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by EricDeb 15y ago
Like all celebrities, Facebook is a bit insecure and likely overly paranoid about losing its choke hold on social/sharing. Obviously this was only a factor, but probably is the factor that pushed Instagram's value over the top.
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by EricDeb 15y ago
Ooh if it's a subsequence I am not aware of the solution. For a substring though, you can just concatenate S and its reverse , find the suffix array and corresponding height array in O(n), and parse through the suffix array looking for suf
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by EricDeb 15y ago
site is down? I hope this isn't just an O(N) algorithm using Suffix Arrays
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by EricDeb 15y ago
On the flip side, wouldn't one round of "getting rich with a stock market" allow you to totally fund the business you want to on your own terms?
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by EricDeb 15y ago
I think as intelligent men (I'm assuming most people on this forum are intelligent men) we struggle with the issue of participating in society and thus being exposed some opportunity to meet women, and avoiding society and pursuing our acad
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by EricDeb 15y ago
Disagree... Mainly because I could easily envision a society in which this argument snowballs, careening down a slippery slope until all comedy (South park, family guy, etc) is seen as harmful to society and made illegal or highly censored.

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