OldSchool

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by OldSchool 14y ago
Contrived desperation?? I don't think it's possible. If you're going to be genuinely desperate you can't have any choices. Desperation involves a lot more than money. You can't fake yourself into fear, hurt, depression, anger yet these
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by OldSchool 14y ago
So a little good news: It seems there must still be a pocket of objectivity somewhere between the provincial foolishness of a jury and the largely political decisions made by the Supreme Court.
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Or just use this recipe: Be dumb enough to try but smart enough and dedicated enough to make it happen. Throw in a dash of luck. If you're successful, know when to quit. If you're not successful know when to quit.
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by OldSchool 14y ago
How much of this speculated artifact wouldn't be there if The Great Computer was for example analog, and used polar coordinates to simulate our universe?
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Real question: Where's the best place to incorporate and host your site outside of the USA in order to sell software products globally with minimized hazard of becoming a target by patent trolls? No need for it to be some kind of claimed ta
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Somewhere interruptions tie into productivity in a big way yet are rarely addressed. A one-minute interruption doesn't only delay you by a minute, it takes you some time to collect yourself and continue where you left off. Work in an offi
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Nice to hear such an optimistic viewpoint. I find some comfortable truths in this essay, but he kind of glosses over some major things. The moving targets that are the latest fads in languages (every six years a new "generation" does the s
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by OldSchool 14y ago
The van thing should resonate with a lot of entrepreneurs. As a bootstrapped 20-something entrepreneur I couldn't help but secretly think "live in a van" was my backup no matter how well things were going.
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by OldSchool 14y ago
That's definitely a valid approach. Ideally in maturity you reach a state where you're always 100% honest with yourself and counseling can lead you there too. Many times both approaches are used. There are lots of off-patent medications t
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by OldSchool 14y ago
That statement implies that you're currently not medicated and also depressed. If that's the case, you really should meet with a psychiatrist; there's no reason to suffer. The hyper-rational type of people here are more likely to believe i
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Agreed. Treating mental illness and preventing self-medication is the only approach I can think of that would actually constitute a legitimate effort to reduce demand for actual dangerous substances. Yes, some of those that are illegal are
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Yep. I believe it's the only reasonable approach to IP protection for software.
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Sure, in a perfect world the patent application for software would consist of submitting all the lines of your source code. It would be granted automatically as long as it was not a copy itself. The source code would not have to be disclo
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by OldSchool 14y ago
I didn't think anyone had covered the small leap from "disconnected ground" to a "get a difference signal" as presented in other comments. Glad to hear there are a lot of EE's here!
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by OldSchool 14y ago
I think everyone knows that there's only one correct answer and that's phase cancellation because the dry vocal track is typically dead center in the mix. Here it happens because when the earphones' ground connection is disconnected from th
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Wow, we can certainly conclude that conformity is the lowest acute energy state of this system in motion. An apt metaphor for mass social behavior; it eventually sounds frighteningly like soldiers marching.
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Nest is cool and stylish and I hope they dismantle Honeywell's trolling effort completely. That said, a couple of 3M Filtrete WiFi radiothermostat devices do the job for my house. They don't have the DWELL Magazine look of the Nest, but t
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by OldSchool 14y ago
I don't claim to have originated this concise explanation myself but I really like it: The problem is not a lack of skilled American workers. It is a lack of skilled American workers willing to work for what these companies want to pay for
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Hmm, just playing devil's advocate here but I'll bet that a huge list of successful people topped by the obvious like Gates, Zuckerberg, and even the humble Wozniak have used all of these elements some or most of the time in their developme
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by OldSchool 14y ago
I've only ever lurked on slashdot for many years. For me it's gotten too much political/legal and mega-corporation love/hate content. HN is very new to me, but I like the content since it's mostly technical and without much if any religiou
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by OldSchool 14y ago
I tend to agree - $25K is only about the cost of a very average new vehicle. Don't ruin your 20's obsessing on that amount of money. (I'm aware that "new" cars provide less utility for your money than 3-5 y/o cars.) Bottom line is that k
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Yeah, it's more about how easy it is to get the credit. Applying for a business credit line tends to be a relatively formal process and often requires a personal guarantee anyway so there's often no liability advantage for a business credi
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by OldSchool 14y ago
By all means do your heavy startup/entrepreneur stuff when you're as young as possible. In your 20's you can work hard and play hard. Most people have little or nothing to lose at that age. It's easy to end up in an ordinary job with a b
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Cant' blame Amazon for taking advantage of an opportunity to lend money at 13% but I question the need for anyone with a truly self-sustaining business to borrow funds at such a high rate. If your margins are low and you need the capital t
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Software patents with troll owners have long been the Sword of Damocles for the bootstrapped startup. This one is probably of no consequence but overall they represent a barrier to entry that has no basis in natural law. I really doubt we
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Bad title for the article in my opinion. Anyone who is brilliant should be smart enough to not be a jerk - it's in his or her best interest to be perceived positively. Valuable jerk? sure. Now that sounds like a dilemma.
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by OldSchool 14y ago
Best advice I ever received, and it was from multiple entrepreneurs I interviewed at a key time: if you don't HAVE TO take on investors - don't. That includes becoming an OTC/likely eventual pink-sheets traded stock. If you're already mak
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by OldSchool 14y ago
You're dead-on in terms of the value of recurring monthly income, hopefully -passive- monthly income! In today's zero-interest-rate environment it is very difficult to generate risk-free income from capital alone. Instinctively it would see