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Tell HN: Pay me to think of a domain name for you
7 points by astrofinch 14y ago|7 comments
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Not sure what to make of this: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=dogster
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Learning something and applying what you've learned are fundamentally different tasks. When you're a kid learning to read, reading is tough. But once you've got enough practice, it becomes easy. Coding is the same way--it's difficult for
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by astrofinch 14y ago
"i just bugged the hell out of my friend until i found out what commands did what." That works great when you have a friend to bug. And nowadays, you can Google for solutions, so this kind of "I'll learn it when I need it" strategy works r
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by astrofinch 14y ago
I think from a harm minimization perspective, it makes sense to treat complaints of sexism from the minority faction more seriously than complaints of sexism from the majority faction. Also, I disagree that people would complain if the same
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Morale management for entrepreneurs(lesswrong.com)
1 points by astrofinch 14y ago|0 comments
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by astrofinch 14y ago
See also: http://80000hours.org/blog/12-salary-or-startup-how-do-goode...
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Social Interventions Gone Wrong(80000hours.org)
1 points by astrofinch 14y ago|0 comments
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by astrofinch 14y ago
This doesn't seem quite right to me. Yes, if you're going to succeed big, it helps to have a startup idea that everyone else thinks is bad. But this seems like only one of many factors that goes in to succeeding big. I'm inclined to agre
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by astrofinch 14y ago
IMO, too much money is being spent attacking the proximate causes of death (cancer, heart disease, etc.) but not enough is being spent attacking the root cause: aging. Yeah, if we cure cancer then life expectancy will go up some. But thos
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Aaron vs Aaron: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/easywayout
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Here's a shitty (no CSS) mirror of the actual AMA page: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3235979/I%20am%20Barack%20Obama%2C%2...
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Great post. Whenever I remember, I try to thank people who criticize me, so they'll be willing to do it again. They really are taking a risk.
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Yep, people tend to assume that everyone knows what they know by default. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_dista...
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80,000 Hours(vimeo.com)
2 points by astrofinch 14y ago|0 comments
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Looks like they don't have much in the way of security yet, but they're working on it: http://meteor.com/faq/does-meteor-have-an-authentication-sys...
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Your comment was bad and you should feel bad! :P
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by astrofinch 14y ago
There's obvious sampling bias here. The companies in CrunchBase are not chosen according to objective criteria. They're chosen because someone visited the CrunchBase website and added them. It's not a big surprise that the only semiconduc
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Give the guy a break. He's clearly trying really hard to be friendly and not offend anyone... and self-deprecation is a good way to do this.
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Malaysia may not constitute good evidence for it being a cultural thing. Reason: a young male social outcast in Malaysia can't teach himself computer programming the way a young male social outcast in the United States can. So all programme
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Agreed. If anyone politely asks you to stop what you're doing, you should seriously reconsider it, period. Women complaining about behavior they find creepy is just a special case of this general rule.
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by astrofinch 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that "re-factoring" could've been accomplished equally fast with the mouse. In most editors, you can double-click to select a token and triple-click to select a line. So the mouse version would be: double-click 10, copy, dou
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Okay, so why don't you put your money where your mouth is and actually link to this competitor of yours you're talking about?
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Agreed. This system rewards getting attention from the public, not necessarily adding lots of valuable features.
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by astrofinch 14y ago
Society's stereotype is that straight white men have it easy, but I haven't seen any careful analysis supporting this conclusion. For example, I would guess that gay men have an easier time getting laid. Was that factored in? See also "fema
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by astrofinch 14y ago
How much of this could be due to the fact that Americans got all their genetic material from immigrants?
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by astrofinch 14y ago
It seems possible that the task of optimizing when to ask for ratings is nontrivial. In any case, I'd be more interested if the rating widget looked better.
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by astrofinch 14y ago
The CEO of Stratfor wrote a book called "The Coming War with Japan" in 1991: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedman After I told him this a few months ago when we were talking about this article, my dad read it a little more critica
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by astrofinch 14y ago
>if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary. I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of
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by astrofinch 14y ago
My question is what industries these dysfunctional enterprise companies who buy terrible software are in and whether those industries could be disrupted.

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