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by abhinai 8y ago
I cannot see blind faith mentioned anywhere in these essays. I can also not see it mentioned anywhere that you should not spend any time questioning your idea in the initial stages. It is likely that you misunderstood PG. He is merely say
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Which pg essays?
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by abhinai 8y ago
Being aspirational does not imply lack of homework on Elon Musk's part. In fact I would respect Elon Musk a lot less if he did not do his due diligence before starting to work on all of his companies. Faith is tested deeply during most
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by abhinai 8y ago
Sounds like a great idea though I must admit I thought we were past the Uber for X phase of startup ideas.
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by abhinai 8y ago
Not speculating. Also, this is the strategy I have seen most experienced entrepreneurs around me use.
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by abhinai 8y ago
Have you or someone you know successfully ran a company for 5 years on an idea that you/they simply had a blind trust on? My goal is not to insult your intelligence. I merely want to point out that this is the strategy I have seen mo
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by abhinai 8y ago
The key to building an idea seems to be blind faith. Blind faith is a bad idea. You want to start with an idea and become its biggest enemy for a few weeks. You need to attack it from all angles, talk to potential customers and try to fin
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by abhinai 8y ago
Correct. A large part of this arrangement is an implicit be an adult understanding. So if such a scenario came up, I'd work out an arrangement with the other person where we could overlap some time as frequently as we need to.
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by abhinai 8y ago
Can someone with team lead/management responsibilities optimize for 'job done' this aggressively? I will have an answer for you in a month because I am going to start trying this strategy out in my current job starting this
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by abhinai 8y ago
There will always be something to do and you just have to draw a line somewhere. In my experience once you have successfully delivered a few projects with high efficiency and people trust/respect you, they stop asking questions.
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Deep welfare losses, along with effects on labor supply, health care spending, and asset accumulation indicate that this large population segment has not enjoyed the fruits of broad economic health. It feels we need to do a better job qua
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by abhinai 8y ago
I love the API but something about the developers doesn't look right. One of the developers has their twitter account suspended while the other has their github account not working. The activity on the project itself seems to be fairly
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by abhinai 8y ago
Can someone please explain why this is happening only now and why the species isn't already extinct? From the way this article is written, it seems the main culprit is the animals biting each other. However, they must have done this fo
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I completely understand and respect the author's sentiments. However, it is unfair to compare RSS to Twitter. Twitter is a place where anyone and everyone can express their opinions while RSS is a technology and a mechanism to get an u
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by abhinai 8y ago
In the best job I ever had in my life, my boss basically told me that she didn't care about the hours I kept or how long I worked every day as long as I got my job done. I usually showed up to work at 12pm and left around 4pm. It ended
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by abhinai 8y ago
So international criticism was a potent enough deterrent in this case that forced Japan to change their policy. It then makes me wonder why Japan hasn't made similar changes in their whaling policy after all the international criticism
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by abhinai 8y ago
I think we all owe a lot to Debian. I know there are a lot of high quality distros out there but most silicon valley companies I know use either Debian or Ubuntu which is ultimately based on Debian. It is just that one never consciously thi
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by abhinai 8y ago
Smell represents an entirely new approach to medical diagnosis and in the next decade god knows how many tests we'd be able to develop using this approach. I am truly excited!
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So many algorithms, data structures and patterns in computer sciences were based on the idea that hard disks are slow and their seek times are especially slow. However, the introduction of solid state drives has changed this. There days I h
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The story of this guy is very inspiring. Unlike silicon valley engineers who tend to work hard in anticipation of big payouts, this guy has been working hard for years for his seemingly true passion of paleontology. We need more people like
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by abhinai 8y ago
There was a time when everyone I knew was on Yahoo or MSN messenger. Then suddenly everyone stopped using messengers. The biggest problem with messengers was synchronous communication. Once someone started talking to you, you pretty much
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by abhinai 8y ago
We have been talking a lot about the problem but not about the solution. It is time to come up with ideas. People of hacker news, how would you solve this problem if you were in charge of solving it?
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Can some kind soul please explain to me why popping on the first day is considered to be a good thing? Isn't the company leaving the money on the table for investment banks and their rich clients if they do not sell their shares at a
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by abhinai 8y ago
This is absolutely fascinating. I think the world has come a full circle! While HTML5 and Javascript are great tools, I remember how back in the day you had a wide choice of which language you wanted to use to build an app. The world would
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by abhinai 8y ago
Fascinating! Would it be too much to hope that some day Stanford university would make a hi-res version of this map available on the internet? I would absolutely love to study it in detail!
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Early on in my career, like most novice programmers, I thought that custom written C programs could be much faster than unix tools if written well and for a specific purpose. However, I could not beat the speed of unix tools like grep , c
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by abhinai 8y ago
OCaml is a beautiful language but I haven't seen any big non language projects written in OCaml. Does any one know why? OR do such projects exist and it is only that I am not aware of them?
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Several such stories imply that if we are ever able to build machines that can smell things, we might open up an entirely new world of diagnostic tools for medical sciences. Though I am not sure how well we understand how smell works an
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by abhinai 8y ago
The name is a bit confusing. Cartography sounds like something related to maps. Perhaps the authors should consider renaming this otherwise really awesome project?
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by abhinai 8y ago
This post is a great reminder of just how much we need to respect the people who write or have written system libraries. Even simple things can be so complicated when you have to factor for all eventualities. A rocket could blow up because

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