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by asdflkj 19y ago
I don't know if this thread is a good idea, but the timing is certainly good for me. Yesterday, I got modded down to -7 for suggesting that a company like 37signals isn't a startup. A startup is a business whose primary aim is growth. If yo
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by asdflkj 19y ago
"37signals/DHH style" companies--in other words, not startups? This is interesting, because his advocacy of non-startups is an oblique way of saying "don't start startups". I wonder, did PG and others even know what the talk was gonna be ab
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by asdflkj 19y ago
What makes you think that "software that will actually make a difference" is non-web software? A lot of web-based fluff is being churned out these days, but that doesn't change the fact that almost everything that has made a difference late
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by asdflkj 19y ago
"Flipper ethics"? Yikes. There is a special flavor of bile that comes from bootstrapping types. I wonder if it's caused by dread of their own lack of connections to investors, or of their lack of expertise in this area, or what. There are a
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by asdflkj 19y ago
He does a great job of outlining the problem, but the only solution he suggests is spectacularly wrong. He says that redistribution of income will make us (those with "too much" income) happier because it will narrow our choices. But it won
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by asdflkj 19y ago
People often say that what they design ends up looking like crap. But that's like saying that your program "ends up" working like crap. If it's not good enough, all it means is it's unfinished.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
It's lousy, but not for the reasons you've listed. A good weekly magazine would be "just current events". But The Economist offers opinions, which are as misguided as those in other publications (such as Newsweek), despite the impressive-
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by asdflkj 19y ago
It's a good idea to manage tasks, not time. Which is what GTD aims to do, isn't it? And only the chores should be managed--things that you wouldn't spend your time doing if you had the choice. Real work should be enjoyable, and when you try
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by asdflkj 19y ago
If you think you're reading too slowly, the solution is to read less crap. If you're enjoying your book, you don't wish it would end sooner. This would be like wishing your delicious meal would end sooner. And if you're not enjoying it, why
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by asdflkj 19y ago
If nothing on the page I linked seems suspect to you, I don't think anything I say will help, either. And this isn't the place to talk about politics, anyway. I just thought many fans of The Economist here would be shocked to see that a wri
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by asdflkj 19y ago
The Economist's coverage of Eastern Europe is worthless, at best. Their Eastern Europe correspondent, Edward Lucas, also writes for The Daily Mail. You can see his work here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmsearch/overture.html?in_p...
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by asdflkj 19y ago
He was probably posting from a computer at YC HQ that nickb used before him. You people are like children.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Perhaps because easter eggs are a symptom of stifled creativity, which isn't as much of a problem with startups?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
The answer to all of your questions is "No, but that's irrelevant". If you had made your points in the form of statements and not questions, you'd see that they don't actually contradict what I said. As one poster has pointed out, there's n
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by asdflkj 19y ago
It seems perfectly reasonable to me to think that pg works with startups because he thinks they'd be better because he works with them. You know what else would be better if PG worked with it? Potholes in the street. So why doesn't PG wor
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Evolution, at its core, strives for only one thing: propagation of the species. No, actually. The one thing it strives for is propagation of the genes, not the species. Read The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins. It will make things cleare
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by asdflkj 19y ago
This is wrong, but being a civil argument, at least there are concrete things to refute. One problem with direct observation is that it's hard to get a representative sample. It can be done, but you have to make it a deliberate project and
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by asdflkj 19y ago
This is getting ridiculous. I don't think I've ever seen so much self-congratulatory navel-gazing in any online community. Am I the only one for whom wading through stuff like this is as bad as wading through tasers & lolcats?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
This is a non-issue. 30 year old Russian scientists do science just like anywhere else. They just aren't called a particular word ("учёный") that the 50 year olds are. It has connotations of wisdom and experience, and this is probably why.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I said "complex information". This is vague, but you can see the truth of this in a following way: take any topic, such as maps, which you mentioned. What's more complex, a map, or knowing how to make a map? The former will be a picture, bu
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by asdflkj 19y ago
It's the same reason we aren't showing each other pictures or playing each other music right now. Written word is the best way to convey almost all kinds of complex information. If you have the time, that is.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Depends on what you mean by "the best way to disagree". If you are preaching to the choir (and most disagreements on the web fall into this category), then mocking is the best way, because it entertains, whereas the alternative does nothing
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by asdflkj 19y ago
The desirability of knowing the father's identity is a point against promiscuity, not polygamy. And indeed, people are less promiscuous in polygamous societies (that I know of), so it should be the other way around. No?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Only the real world is not a race and there is no prize money. If you own a big factory, you get richer not because God gives you a prize for having a bigger factory than everyone else, but because your factory creates wealth, out of nothin
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I edited my post without realizing you had already replied. See above.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Your criticism of PG's metaphor applies to all metaphors. P.S.: The role of metaphor isn't to build an argument. It's to make it more vivid and easier to understand. (Bad writers use metaphors to try to build arguments, but PG didn't in thi
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by asdflkj 19y ago
This is not a "naturalistic fallacy" (more properly called an appeal to nature), because PG uses "natural" in the very narrow sense of "evolutionarily optimal". PG must have thought his target audience is discerning enough to dereference su
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by asdflkj 19y ago
He was sued by the SEC in 2003 for making false claims about his product (among other things). Considering he has been working on it for 40 years, it's probably all a scheme to relieve investors of their money.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Maybe not negatively rated, but disregarded. Which is why I mostly refrain from giving advice, and instead stick to arguments.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Advice of this type is generally not logical or scientific, so it's hard to separate bad advice from good. And being original or catchy doesn't make it good, either. So, one way is to look at who gave it, and whether you admire that person

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