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by F_J_H 16y ago
Good post. I have had similar thoughts lately, but have never taken the time to articulate them. The analogy to the writing industry is a very good one. I once heard that the people who did best during the gold rushes of previous centurie
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Maybe instead of a dream job, the question should be "what is your dream life?" Found this on "BetterExplained" a while back. It's about 3 minutes and well worth it: http://www.neticons.net/music_life/ I love the last line...
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Google is relentless...(arstechnica.com)
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by F_J_H 17y ago
I'm Canadian actually. More power to you bud. You are preaching to the choir.
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by F_J_H 17y ago
My wife and I had a baby girl 5 weeks ago; I never imagined I could feel as much love for someone or something as I feel for her. I easily would give my life for her. Having just experience my daughter’s birth, the soldier’s description in
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Sorry, I read your comment several times and I can't really figure you out what you are asking. Are referring to peforming R & D type work?
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by F_J_H 17y ago
I have hired a lot of contractors over the years, and I must say that if one of them pitched this to me I would likely walk away. Not only does it give the appearance of someone being unsophisticated, naïve and lacking confidence, it puts t
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Influencing others can be a big challenge for hackers. How good are you?(influenceatwork.com)
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Robert Cialdini's "Influence: Science and Practice." is great. I heard him speak in person once and it was amazing material, and he presented it very well. Unfortunately, some find his book to be a bit dry and a bit of a tough slog, but a
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by F_J_H 17y ago
"As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good," he said. That is one of the best ways I have ever seen someone say volumes by saying so little. M
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Ask HN: Can we finish with the Apple 3.3.1 Policy submissions?
28 points by F_J_H 17y ago|9 comments
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by F_J_H 17y ago
"This story is written with a wonderful naivete." Exactly. Another case of idealism colliding with reality. It's refreshing and makes me sigh at the same time.
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Get some partners – you will need them. One thing I learned with our startup is that so little of it is about the technology (i.e. “the app”) and the idea, but instead it is all about getting your idea to market. To do that, you need peopl
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Interesting - yes. Informative - yes. "Genius" though?
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Yeah, great point. With so many bright minds out there, and the technology knowledge threshold becoming so much lower, it seems that all bases have been covered a few times. But, there are many examples of companies that were not first, bu
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Yeah, when I read that, I couldn't help but think of a crowd of people marching from an office building pumping the goat's head sign above their heads with Twisted Sister's "We're not gonna take it!" blaring in the background. (probably sho
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Ask HN: Blog on Interview question re: side projects.
2 points by F_J_H 17y ago|1 comments
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by F_J_H 17y ago
I understand your argument, the basic gist of which seems to be that we shouldn’t feel sorry for, or help people who have fallen on hard times due to their own irresponsible behavior. They should have to live with the consequences, and espe
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by F_J_H 17y ago
You know, I don’t normally get into these types of debates, but the heartlessness of your comment really bothers for some reason. It reminds me of the fable of the ant and grasshopper (circulated by the teabaggers lately), which basically
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by F_J_H 17y ago
I'm curious. Do you own or rent?
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Exactly my point. The submission's title states that.
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Featuring the Flaw(blogs.hbr.org)
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Is saying someone is confused about something the same as calling a person "confused"? I think I would be offended if when I was confused about a new feature someone said I was a "confused" person...
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by F_J_H 17y ago
"In this house we will obey the laws of physics!" -Homer Simpson to Lisa when she invented a perpetual motion machine or something like that for her science project.
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Interesting. Although not the point of the article, it led me to think that if the "normals" don't understand your business, maybe that should tell you something...
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by F_J_H 17y ago
"Chance favours the prepared mind." (Can't remember who said it, but it is the crux of this article in many ways.)
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by F_J_H 17y ago
And what about Sun's VirtualBox? It's free and pretty good from what I hear.
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Awesome! I did something similar over the past 2 years - I bought a couple of motor bikes (one off-road and one dual sport) and decided to get back into riding since I enjoyed it so much as a kid. Just got back from a trip in the Baja an
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by F_J_H 17y ago
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack." - George Patton
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by F_J_H 17y ago
Reminds me of "Instantes" by Jorge Luis Borges: If I were able to live my life anew, In the next I would try to commit more errors. I would not try to be so perfect, I would relax more. I would be more foolish than I've been, In fact, I wou

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