anewkid

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by anewkid 17y ago
Saying "I shouldn't bother with trying X because of reasons XYZ" is indeed a bad idea, but I try not to do that, and I think I've been decently successful. Is there anything that I should do for any of these projects, which I haven't been d
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by anewkid 17y ago
True, thanks for the advice. Sorry if I got upset, I had just finished reading some other comments which seem to say that the only things worth doing in life are getting wasted and partying and banging chicks, and that if I'm not doing thos
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by anewkid 17y ago
"You'll be disabused of this implicit notion that you are always right at some point." Please tell me where I have ever said or implied that I was always right, or even right most of the time. EDIT: I see you edited your post to say this tw
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by anewkid 17y ago
Tinkering with wheels is indeed fun (I have done some tinkering with existing OSs). A hundred world-class minds over six decades really is a lot.
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by anewkid 17y ago
I get along with other people (I'm not a social outcast or anything), I just don't do very much with most of them because we're not interested in the same things. Is that wrong? Should I feel terribly guilty about it? If so, why shouldn't t
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by anewkid 17y ago
"Sorry, but you're not going to be able to get a finance internship and a research internship and a coding internship at the same time, while also becoming a writer." Of course not. I apply for all of these internships at once so that, if o
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by anewkid 17y ago
"Stop trying to look smart." Look smart to who? I studiously avoid mentioning any of this to anyone at my school for fear of seeming arrogant. "It has the intellectual content of a whiffle ball, and the only reason to do it is to collect mo
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by anewkid 17y ago
I don't get why, but it seems that few people here are interested in any of the same things I am. It's not like my interests are narrow; indeed, people criticize me for being too much of a dabbler (I am interested in math, physics, chemistr
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by anewkid 17y ago
I think "give it time" is good advice if you have a project which is not very successful now but is on the ground running and is growing quickly, but I can't think of anything I'm doing that falls into that category.
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Ask HN: I've tried lots of things but haven't finished any.
49 points by anewkid 17y ago|86 comments