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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Hear hear. If I can give 1,000 people an additional 15 minutes of pleasure a day -- or 15 minutes less of stress & self-recrimination -- then that is 250 hours of additional happiness added to the world. Or 3,800 days of additional happ
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
I have almost never met a "lifestyle business founder" who fits this description: "The thing that is wrong with the lifestyle business though is that at some point the founders intend on stopping their value creation beyond what they need t
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
There's no absolute truth about whether the "work gap" or whatever will affect you. It's all about who you approach and how you spin it. Theoretically, when I got my first job at 21, the fact that I'd never worked for anyone else, never had
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
"Explorers" don't usually set out for actual certain death. If the story is true, then he went up in a space vessel that he knew would not survive because he knew it was poorly built. And he told them it was poorly built. And nobody fixed
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Tech journalism has ALWAYS been this way. Ever hear of John C Dvorak?
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Let's take a look at the difference between my writing and his: 1. I don't tell people what to do. 2. I don't tell people that they should do what I say -- FOR THE GOOD OF THE WORLD -- because doing what makes them happy is "not living up t
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Oh, I'll absolutely benefit from this. No doubt about it. But this is not how I would have picked to gain exposure. I like al3x.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Very good points. To which I'd add, happiness is a social contagion. Happy people make people around them happier. They are nicer, more generous... they give more to charity. Etc. etc. etc. But woe be unto the selfish, lazy person who seeks
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Thanks, Erik. But: Lots of people get scared about their launches without trying to slander other people's work, you know what I'm saying?
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Does he derive happiness from writing sanctimonious blog posts telling other people what to do?
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
There is a big difference between people who tell you what you CAN do, and people who try to tell you what you SHOULD do. I can't decide which is more aggravating -- that somebody many people respect is out there, in public, trying to shame
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
This article is not sensational. It does not tell you what you should do with your life. It does not say VCs are evil. It doesn't say funded companies are a waste of time. The "if every developer" line is clearly just as much grandstanding
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Pretty sure that if your boss tells you he's going to spend 30 minutes trying to get you in his bed, that's sexual harassment. Apparently there are "laws designed to protect you from sexual harassment": http://www.google.com/search?client=
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Yes. In the interest of preserving history, he wrote and later deleted a line that went like: "duping credulous customers into paying for [something something] time tracking styled with the latest CSS design site trends" I was not directly
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Calling someone a "stupid worthless cunt" is viciously sexist. Hitting on someone is not "viciously sexist." Nor is telling someone you intend to hit on them for half an hour, later. Saying you'd like to see someone in your bed is not vicio
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Let's see -- are we actually comparing legal, systematized repression vs a couple dudes being rude dogs? When, if that dude was a boss and not a potential investor, said rude behavior would in fact be illegal? Straw man, my friend. They are
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Einstein, then. I have heard no tails of the biggest physics brain being a jerk, in public or private. Have you? If Einstein can be nice, some sadsack .Net developer (or Erlang developer) can be, too.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Oh please. Occasionally running into a rude man? THE HORROR! THE HORROR SPECIFIC TO TECH! I found it interesting that the women didn't just walk out of these situations. Why were they willing to submit themselves to such indignities? Surely
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
This sounds like a good argument until you realize that the people the geeks most love are all level-headed and good-natured, people who promote the good of all. Often these are men/women who inspired the geeks to be geeks to start with. Ex
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
They should learn it themselves. There are books & training courses on the subject. But people rarely seek these out because they are so defensive about their deficiencies that they turn even those into a contention -- they say "this i
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
How can you get out of the building when you're stuck on a bus?
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Of course it's a straw man argument. Again, I never said that the solution was to force children to fend for themselves from 12 years old, or your latest number, 13. What I said was: "What's evolutionarily normal is to have children who are
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Straw man argument. I never said "stop supervising kids at 10 years old" or "12 year olds should leave home." Neither did I say that kids from impoverished homes fare better on cognitive tests. Ludicrous.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
ardit33, there is NO PROOF whatsoever that these cognitive differences are a result of age and not experience. The brain is plastic; it's shaped directly by experiences. If you never speak to a child from birth to 4 years old, it will be un
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
It is unnatural that kids are segregated by age into "peer groups" - in school and outside school (like at lessons). What's evolutionarily normal is to have children who are surrounded by, and interact mostly, with adults, in a group where
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Your examples don't make sense because they are not set in Providence. There's no indication that "rubber rooms" are a problem in Providence, either. The rest (and OP) is just supposition as to motives which remain unknown.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
This is an incredibly important point. Perhaps more importantly, African American (or Black, at that time) community leader. To the semi-OP: Don't look at what the government fails to explain and do their work for them. Don't take what th
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Naw. What they REALLY meant was, "We're adult children who are afraid of life, afraid to take risks, and because we don't bother to know who you really are, daughter, we're going to project our brokenness on you and destroy your dreams like
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
There's a huge difference about being "into" composting... and enjoying talking about composting, teaching composting, selling people on composting equipment/techniques, writing about composting, etc. This is an important distinction. If yo
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Totally. Do it. Living well is the best revenge and haters are universal, so there's lots of opportunity to get the best revenge ;) My parents, circa 1999 when I was dropping out of high school to teach myself: "You'll end up working at 7-1

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