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by IsaacL 15y ago
Agreed. I'm really struggling to see how people here can be so negative. The whole idea of Milk was to try lots of things and see which stuck. People are saying "you need to stick things out to build a business" -- but Milk is sticking to t
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I'm curious -- it looks like there is nowhere on the application form to describe your idea. That is, you're not just letting people apply without an idea, you're stopping them from applying with an idea. Is that intentional?
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I feel your pain. I had something similar happen to me -- though not to the same degree. Recently I was selling posters based on a meme unique to my campus -- the designs were our own (so we had the copyright), but the original concept the
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Learning Curves(blog.i.saac.me)
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I read the comments first, then read the article, and was confused since I thought this comment was referring to a different article. I found it strange that the author is a fool who makes your blood boil solely because he said (in one sent
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I learned more from selling posters than 4 years of business books(blog.i.saac.me)
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Please, Someone, Disrupt Education(blog.i.saac.me)
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Notewagon's "Uni Memes" contest goes viral, spreads to UK(blog.i.saac.me)
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Ask HN: What do you think about Smart TVs?
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Surprised no-one here is talking about programming/startup jobs in China. I know there is a small Chinese-based hacker set on HN, so maybe they'll show up later to chime in with more expert opinions. Basically I've been planning for a few y
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"Even though banks, train tickets, and anything requiring an ID (for instance, internet cafes) can be a complete bureaucratic nightmare, day to day life has a certain peacefulness to it. Perhaps that peacefulness stems from the acceptance t
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by IsaacL 15y ago
I submitted my application for this a few days ago. Basically, it's a bit like YCombinator with no funding - you still get support, advice and mentoring, but they're a non-profit and don't invest or take a stake of your business. What does
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I'm applying for the Entrepreneur First scheme. What do you think of it?(entrepreneurfirst.org.uk)
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From the action deletion discussion: "The result was delete. As far as I can tell, the numbers are split about 7-6 in favour of delete. That's not normally going to lead to a consensus to delete unless there are unusual circumstances, such
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by IsaacL 15y ago
It's because IE6 was the last IE release before the end of the first browser war. Previously, Microsoft had been releasing browsers every year, but they stopped after Netscape died. It wasn't until Firefox started to gain market share, almo
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by IsaacL 15y ago
I think Mills and Boons titles are probably generated by a very simple grammar: The [Nationality] [High-powered Profession]'s [Asdjective for Sexy] [Synonym for Lover]. Eg The Turkish Millionaire's Sultry Mistress, The North Korean Cadre's
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by IsaacL 15y ago
Sometimes groups of very individualistic people can be especially prone to groupthink - the fact they believe they are not susceptible is what makes them more vulnerable. Example: "Randroids".
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by IsaacL 15y ago
Maybe it doesn't apply so much for visual design, but I often find that a negative reaction to a new concept or piece of software is better than a "meh" reaction. One example: I made a browser game a few years back, one of the early players
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by IsaacL 15y ago
When I lived it HK I noticed it was generally very easy to tell locals from mainland Chinese from ABCs from internationally-schooled locals. I think I've noticed the same thing with people of African descent - however, in both cases I thoug
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by IsaacL 15y ago
This is a greatest story of how the hacker mindset evolves over time. I wish I had more cool stories like that from my teenage years - I had a friend who was always thinking up crazy moneymaking schemes or trying to hack the school's comput
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by IsaacL 15y ago
"Google Mail. Google's gmail app UI is awesome." Sigh, I can't use the default GMail app and instead have to use Samsung's inferior "Email" app. Why? Google for some reason will not let me add mutliple GMail accounts, and so I'm stuck with
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by IsaacL 15y ago
Note: This has been posted before. I know the guy who wrote this from university, very smart guy and capable developer. He's graduated now and working on his own startup: https://www.ep.io/ .
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It's funny, I had a similar idea before reading either of these stories, and wrote my own version: http://i.saac.me/reincarnation.txt I'd like to know what people think, since I haven't shown it to anyone before. I don't write fiction oft
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by IsaacL 15y ago
The most common methods are using web proxies and VPNs. Web proxies usually get blocked fairly quickly, whereas VPNs normally cost money. I don't know what you mean by "tech-savvy" but both are widely used by ordinary citizens.
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IIRC many political figures in Latin America are doctors.
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by IsaacL 15y ago
International law is something I'm trying to improve my knowledge of. Can someone explain why it is that a judge in the Netherlands can block the sales of the Samsung Galaxy throughout Europe?
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Malapropism.
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I agree. Google became a verb because the search engine was successful, not the other way around. Furthermore: - Microsoft spent pots of cash trying to verbify their search engine with their "bing and decide" commercials. As far as I know,
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It's not blocked everywhere in China, I can access it fine here (Chengdu).
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by IsaacL 15y ago
My Galaxy has this "feature". For some reason it's recently started to occasionally call or text a different person to the one I selected. Hilarity ensues. I call it the "iPhone Shuffle".

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