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1. 16531.▲
   by api 16y ago

   Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. A patent is a tool for doing 1% of the work and then waiting for someone else to do the other 99% so you can sue. I'm being a bit extreme there... I think there should be something like a paten
2. 16532.▲
   by api 16y ago

   Wow... that's worse than I thought. I've often wondered if part of the problem with mismanagement and corruption in government is that politicians are actually underpaid. Anyone really good wants to go into business or marketing, fields tha
3. 16533.▲
   by api 16y ago

   Every vocation has its stereotypes. Politicians, marketers, and other "people professions" are slimy and superficial fast-talkers. Businessmen are sociopaths. Neither of those is any more flattering than "engineers are autistic."
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   by api 16y ago

   "We need the loudest and most opinionated voices among us to not be the ones..." Aren't the loudest voices always the ones that represent any group? Look at religion... most religious folks do not agree with hate-mongering fundamentalists o
5. 16535.▲
   by api 16y ago

   Hmm... let's see... Politics is a field that is underpaid and consists of mainly putting out fires, being beat on the head by numerous (often very slimy) special interests, trying to convince fickle people to vote for you, and being blamed
6. 16536.▲
   by api 16y ago

   Yawn. Another "OMG programmers can't handle multicore!" bullshit article. I do threads all the time, and there are lots of things out there like various MapReduce toolkits that make it even easier than dealing directly with threads if you w
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   by api 16y ago

   Frameworks are like crack. At first they make things feel great and quick and easy, but eventually the framework forces you to work around it and adds layers of complexity. It invades your application and forces you to do elaborate dances
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   by api 16y ago

   What you say about Java's verbosity is sort of flawed in the same way that attacks on C++ about its template metaprogramming madness are flawed. Don't confuse a language with what people write in it. There is a point though. C++ encourages
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   by api 16y ago

   I think there's a part II to that piece of advice. The full version would be: Have a clearly defined leader that is not an idiot. Having a clearly defined leader that is an idiot has the opposite effect. The order of excellence in companies
10. 16540.▲
    by api 16y ago

    Why is it that Hacker News linked blog posts and comments and such are so full of "you are not X" and "don't try to be as good as X because you are not, take the safe route and be safely mediocre" type stuff? You guys are harshing my mellow
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    by api 16y ago

    "Don’t Design By Committee: Another interesting tidbit from the most recent D Conference was Steve Jobs’ comment that Apple was the largest startup on the planet and that there were no committee. Apple puts the company first and foremost, n
12. 16542.▲
    by api 16y ago

    After having lived on the coast for a while, I can say that people are not on average that much smarter or hard working there than in a number of other places. They might be a little bit, but that's because of the "brain drain to the coasts
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    by api 17y ago

    Have you ever lived in a city like New York, San Francisco, Boston, etc? You could list a catbox on Craigslist and get over $1000/month for it. You wouldn't even have to empty the dirty litter first. What he's saying really is that cities a
14. 16544.▲
    by api 17y ago

    I agree about that. I grew up in Cincinnati. The city core is gorgeous but neglected, and is surrounded by hideously ugly suburbs. It's starting to get revived a bit though. Last time I was there it was getting nicer, and more young people
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    by api 17y ago

    I'm quite aware of that. I just think it's too bad that the majority of America is a vomit of worthless and aggressively ugly sprawl full of lazy slobs that drive away any talent.
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    by api 17y ago

    The hyperinflation of coastal real estate and the super-concentration of talent in these places is getting absurd and insane.
17. 16547.▲
    by api 17y ago

    I wish more people got this. Regulations, especially complex and expensive ones, always favor large incumbents in a market over smaller or newer competitors. Expensive regulatory requirements are a regressive tax within the business world.
18. 16548.▲
    by api 17y ago

    You're right, but there's a bit more to it than that. What this article is really about is how people misinterpret the "premature optimization is the root of all evil" quote to mean "never worry about performance at all."
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    by api 17y ago

    I agree. I actually prefer Toughbooks for that reason. The biggest thing I dislike about Apple's hardware is that you have to treat it like a family heirloom. It is more durable than cheap PC hardware though, which is why I called it middle
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    by api 17y ago

    You need the crazy dictator's ego to suppress the formation of the normal corporate culture of stupid bosses and committees. MBAs and marketing droids are like mosquitoes on a warm summer night near a swamp, and you need eternal vigilance
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    The fallacy of premature optimization(acm.org)

    6 points by api 17y ago|2 comments
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    by api 17y ago

    I can't get past the blue "ThinkVantage" key. It's like a big pimple that says "a douchebag designed this." It also has no purpose once you install a real operating system, since the software that it invokes only runs on that crummy OS they
23. 16553.▲
    by api 17y ago

    Windows 7 is an improvement, but I still don't like it. I suppose some of it is personal taste. I also still consider it ugly from an aesthetic point of view. It's not clean. It's cluttered and counterintuitive. There's something else too..
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    by api 17y ago

    Words cannot describe how right he is. Apple is becoming an 8000 pound gorilla because nobody else can design a user interface! Windows is crap committee-ware, and open source UIs insist on imitating Windows (look at Gnome, KDE) which mea
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    by api 17y ago

    I've used Papers for a while and it's great.
26. 16556.▲
    by api 17y ago

    "The ability of markets to defy gravity exceeds your ability to short them."
27. 16557.▲
    by api 17y ago

    I feel your pain, man. I was involved years ago with a group of individuals in a different industry. We were working on some advanced machine learning stuff. It was really cool, and the tech was going somewhere. We were getting market inter
28. 16558.▲
    by api 17y ago

    Unfortunately, it is only for software dev creativity. Nobody else can really use Linux. (I say that as a long time Linux user... I would never give Linux to a non-techie.)
29. 16559.▲
    by api 17y ago

    Don't get me wrong... I used to totally buy the open source idealistic worldview. Then I actually got involved in business. You don't understand what a brawl business can be. People almost never collaborate to sell! You want the custome
30. 16560.▲
    by api 17y ago

    So if one person goes through a long and complex expensive process to yield a complex solution to a problem, and then I do a bit of work and spend far less capital and come up with a simpler and less expensive solution, I should get paid le