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Goodreads vs Twitter: The Benefits of Asymmetric Follow(radar.oreilly.com)
1 points by agrinshtein 17y ago|0 comments
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by agrinshtein 17y ago
I get so engrossed in this site and it is turning out to be a major time waster. There are a lot of interesting articles but I really need to more productive and reading HN isn't helping with that. Perhaps a solution. I would like to have
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by agrinshtein 17y ago
Just to put a little twist on this discussion. I never understood alternate theories of how the world came into being. I never understood the theory of Evolution, nor the Big Bang Theory. My logic has always led me to conclude that there m
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by agrinshtein 17y ago
Totally agree.
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by agrinshtein 17y ago
Agreed. People are still human even though that they may try to follow a principled life. Think about yourself. You have certain principles which in moments of weakness are violated. I, in principle, go to sleep early. Here I am posting
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by agrinshtein 17y ago
I like the provocation! You have gotten people thinking. Personally, from the writings and essays of Paul Graham I don't think his goal is to make money. He is a visionary with the intent of creating more value in the world for people. He
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by agrinshtein 17y ago
That would be a really useful thing. Keep us posted when that goes live.
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by agrinshtein 17y ago
Thanks! Great pointers. I especially liked your first one. "Getting the publicity links your business to the idea" -- also a great point.
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Ask HN: Presenting a company at TechCrunch50. Virtue/Vice?
6 points by agrinshtein 17y ago|4 comments
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by agrinshtein 17y ago
Ditto. There is bountiful opportunity in the world for those who just open their eyes. In the words of a sage, "Time is short, work is great, workers are lazy, the reward is great and the master is pressing." In the world there is a high d
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Ask HN: Submitting to TC50. Vice/Virtue?
2 points by agrinshtein 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Dividing up a company amongst startup team.
5 points by agrinshtein 17y ago|2 comments
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Why money messes with your mind(newscientist.com)
14 points by agrinshtein 18y ago|1 comments
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Opinion: The Normalization of Evil(online.wsj.com)
1 points by agrinshtein 18y ago|1 comments
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WSJ.com : President Obama's Inaugural Address(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by agrinshtein 18y ago|0 comments
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Dan Benjamin - Is Flickr Still "The Place" For Online Photos?(danbenjamin.com)
1 points by agrinshtein 18y ago|0 comments
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by agrinshtein 18y ago
okay...would you mind if I keep you up to date as per how it goes? if you dont mind and would be okay helping out a newbie in his first project than follow me on twitter and I will keep you posted. twitter name:arongrinshtein Same for you p
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by agrinshtein 18y ago
Have you had experience with RoR? it seems like people are really touting it. How would you compare that with python and django? "You should be able to build an app like newsYC in a week or so." -- WOW is it that simple? thanks again for yo
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by agrinshtein 18y ago
Thanks for that. Unclear...you recommend Python and DJango? "But most important, learn by doing. Start building something, no matter how unsignificant it may appear, right now. You will learn on the fly ;)" That is exactly what I want to do
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by agrinshtein 18y ago
pclark, I just figured out that XCODE is on the installer CD, it doesnt ship as a separate one. Woops, that should have been obvious. Again, thanks for pitching in to help a newbie to the programming world. Aron
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by agrinshtein 18y ago
Hey Pclark, thanks! I recently purchased an upgrade to Leopard and I never got a cd with XCODE, I would love to download it however being from a country with capped internet it is a significant amount of bandwidth. I don't think I have it
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by agrinshtein 18y ago
So you think I would be able to build a site like this merely through learning RoR? I was playing around with RoR with Agile Rails by D.H. Hansson etc... Was having problems upgrading my Ruby on my Mac through the command line. I have pla
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ASK HN: (click on link to view question, duh!) Learn web development?
4 points by agrinshtein 18y ago|15 comments
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by agrinshtein 18y ago
Posterous is great simply because... 1) They took a market which is too complex and made it dead simple...they still have ways to make it even simpler, I have already suggested them to them and they are working on it. 2) They are GREAT comm
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Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles(radar.oreilly.com)
107 points by agrinshtein 18y ago|20 comments
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by agrinshtein 18y ago
That's quite an amazing feat that he accomplished. The message rings true. Find something people need, and provide it.
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Scott Adams Blog: Sign of the End Time 01/06/2009(dilbert.com)
1 points by agrinshtein 18y ago|0 comments