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by balsam 15y ago
Guess who. Ok, when it was still in NY. "I went to Princeton to do graduate work, and in the spring I went once again to the Bell Labs in New York to apply for a summer job. I loved to tour the Bell Labs. Bill Shockley the guy who invented
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by balsam 15y ago
Do you mean trying to impress the wrong people? What kinds of people should be the target of your impressions, besides potential cofounders?
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by balsam 15y ago
I first heard of UX when I was looking for information on the secret society that maintains this quirky building in paris where Louis XVI used to hide. Anybody knows of this other secret society? P.S. Both are fascinating to me because of r
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by balsam 15y ago
>There's no real system that helps individuals who want to cut out the middle man effectively convince strangers to watch their content (afaik). Reddit. Ok, I understand, you meant: long form content =P That one is not afraid to cuddl
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by balsam 15y ago
Nope. He was "chief cook and bottle washer". Went as far as soldering some resistors, though. http://vodpod.com/watch/15750006-founder-stories-how-michael...
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by balsam 15y ago
Anybody knows if there will be a chance to make apps for the nano in the next half-year?
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Ask PG: What metrics are you looking at to improve HN?
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by balsam 15y ago
It's (well) known that learning by teaching beats learning by doing which in turn beats learning by listening (Something Confucius might have said. Modern citations welcome.) The fact that lectures still exist must somehow be due to economi
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by balsam 15y ago
In that quoted article PG said Sam had already succeeded. Making it an interesting question of what exactly is PG's definition of success, because he's been making it seem all along that a runaway nuclear reaction was a necessary ingredient
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by balsam 15y ago
Tech focussed startups fighting for the prize of consumer attention.
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by balsam 15y ago
My impression, will someone please assure me (--are there any good antonyms of "assure" in this context?--), is that Apple is slowly switching to TI for the parts that Samsung is now supplying.
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by balsam 15y ago
Greg Wilson cited a "Barnes and Phillips 2002" study saying that true power is always concentrated in shadow committees. @1:00:40 http://vimeo.com/9270320 Anybody has a link to the paper?
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by balsam 15y ago
I always felt that the Dafoe vehicle "The Last Temptation of Christ" was scifi-ish in some obscure way. Thank you, the thing to do was to replace "Heaven" with "Outer Space". Everything goes back into its skin.
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by balsam 15y ago
Desingineers who are willing not to be founders could still be mythical. (And I think that's what the article was talking about)
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by balsam 15y ago
Mark Kac and Stanislaw Ulam explained these concepts pretty intuitively in their beautiful book Mathematics and Logic. But, who was the first person who thought that mathematics could be explained without diagrams? Or equations? Edit: In pa
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by balsam 15y ago
Roy Walford "proved" that calorie restriction with nutrient supplementation does nothing for ALS. So I'd want to look at the details.
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by balsam 15y ago
i'd like to see these tagged. (seriously) anybody knows what they are drinking in that last pic? The bottle looks interesting.
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by balsam 15y ago
no, it's a means to encourage those above the karma threshold to be more austere about their downvotes. and only those below the karma threshold for downvoting should be able to see who downvoted them. this deals with the problem of grudges
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by balsam 15y ago
it should be interesting to us, for you and only you to be able to see who downvoted you.
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by balsam 15y ago
"Do you think in 50 years, 100 years, the world will be any different? It'll always be kings, Mom, even if we don't call them that." 8:27 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZMWoR4oIc8 Just give us another 100 years, you'll see. :)
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by balsam 15y ago
I venture that PG knows at some level that he'll be best remembered for the creation of YC rather than for the creation of Arc.
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by balsam 15y ago
I was thinking more of AI-as-a-Service for software companies that wish to contract with Governments. Traditionally, this could be known as a "lawyer". Does Palantir consider this too silly, for instance.
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by balsam 15y ago
Looks to me like there's room for someone to come in and make a buck off "AIs" that can handle the regulations, reports and meetings efficiently.
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by balsam 15y ago
One might define a meritocracy as one in which the coolness signalling aspect of money is no different from the resource gathering aspect. You also raise the interesting point about the granularity of money: if IBM makes more money than the
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by balsam 15y ago
Why not describe YC as more of a nonlinear amplifier? In this case nonlinear effects (feedback loops, etc) may have to be considered. (For example, potential applicants see that they are very unlike successful YC applicants, and so decide n
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by balsam 15y ago
One thing I've always wanted to ask PG is: does he think that helping smart people to get rich flipping companies (usually not by doing the "coolest thing") is cooler than making a great Lisp? One answer to why not, is: "No money".
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by balsam 15y ago
I speculate that long term working memory (if there's such a thing) may be more interesting to look at. There was a Q&A session in which Jobs said something to the effect of "the problem with the naysayers is that they are right." The u
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by balsam 15y ago
I don't know, man. I would rather give shares to someone who can keep my teammates and I on the brink of starvation. Does nobody remember the motto "stay hungry, stay foolish"?
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by balsam 15y ago
X for Xerox? When can I expect futuristic visualizations from Google Design?
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by balsam 15y ago
Selling is only a means for "Generation Sell". This fan of David Brooks is off the mark, mefeels. Millennials are not Mad Men. They want to create culture. (He mentions it offhand, in the article, though, so he knows it at some -- probably

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