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largely pseudo-intellectual entrepreneur Seriously, wtf. What does this even mean when talking about a person, and not a particular essay? Do you honestly not think that Paul Graham embodies a life of the intellect?
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I didn't identify the gender, because I didn't want that to affect anyone's evaluation. It was a choice. Relation to OCD, zero. And really, small talk is well understood, and it's something everyone does sometimes. I fee
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This thread seems like a good place to vent anonymously about something that's been eating me. I want to see if anyone can relate or will even have any idea what I'm trying to say. I have this friend. We've been friends for a
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Please explain what sense it would make for a gargantuan liquid fund not to try to invest profitably?
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So, the best lyric site by a mile no longer shows up in ordinary Google lyric searches. As a music fanatic, searching lyrics is something I do all day long every day, by the way - and when I search lyrics in Google, I really want to go
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Are you saying that songwriters deserve to be paid whenever I simply want to know what the lyrics of a song are ? That doesn't make any sense to me.
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The Microsoft experience varies a lot throughout the organization. I was on a workaholic team for a year and it was a nightmare. The other four years, though, my typical day was from 10:30-4:00, and whenever I didn't feel like going in
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I can only just barely imagine the things you're talking about as real things that really happen. Surely they can only happen to other people - to another class of people. My parents didn't put any of us through college. I don&#x2
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This trope is so tired. Yes, I live better than a medieval peasant, and I have access to more computing power than ever. Yet, the standard of living across my entire family and most people I know is blatantly lower, in terms of human basics
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I cannot upvote you enough. The way I usually put it is that if you're putting those blinders on, focusing just on you and your family, and living large, you're like a person a dinner who gets up, fetches the ice cream and cake, a
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No. I have the urge to tag every post of his with 'Congratulations on talking so pretty," but I don't want to be banned.
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Now, hold on there. These "anyone who" statements chafe me; like the junior dev who exclaimed "anyone who doesn't write unit tests shouldn't call themselves an engineer" in a meeting filled with people 15 years
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I don't ask this too hard, because not only do I know ahead of time that I probably won't like the answer too much, I don't have much reason to suppose I'll get it 'right' next time, either. Without any one all
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Surely mappings onto programming concepts can provide a different kind of understanding to programmers than biology textbooks. I'm kind of appalled by the anti-cross-disciplinary attitude displayed on HN sometimes. (Like the recent
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I think, working on the type of code I tend to write on my own time: delightful, exciting fun. Working on things assigned by any employers I ever had: somebody kill me already.
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I could have written this comment about myself verbatim. The way I see it, there is so much variation in brains and personalities. You can find in the distribution people who exhibit what look like discipline and constancy. There's als
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It's a really, really good time to be a programmer. I don't know how long it's going to last, but it's really good right now. I recently took 2.5 years off (during which I worked on my own technical projects, which helpe
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Crowds are so funny. I swear there was one HN thread recently where the majority of comments declared the Oculus a mere substitute for ipecac syrup. In this thread, it's the coming of the New Earth. As someone who luckily doesn't
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Nobody contributes nothing to society. Even if nothing else, the wretched of the earth offer those better off an opportunity to practice not being fuckfaces. In many philosophical traditions, that's a pretty big deal.
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About half of my friends post every move they make throughout the day, photo-illustrated, to Facebook. They also have numerous short conversations with their friends, that are clearly just between the two of them and would normally be of no
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This is the second time in as many days that I've seen a position reduced to "You're like a kid, and I'm like a grown-up." Cool argument. edit: I hereby coin The Argument From Maturity - of which the simplest protot
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I would really, really like to see more HN readers asking their young children, and posting the results.
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This is begging for a flash mob.
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I weep for the rampant explosion of the use of the word "creepy" in the last decade. Someone leering at your ass, or asking if you want to go back to their room to watch fetish porn, is not the same thing as being socially awkwa
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I have to think that it's always been this way in civilization. Some people figure out how to position themselves at the top where all the money and control is, a bunch of others can't figure out how to squeeze up there, but do fi
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Go ahead and make the axes orthogonal instead of collinear. Just don't be surprised when most actual people fall close to the axes, rather than out in the middle of the graph.
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Nothing that people do could possibly be a meritocracy, because people are fucks. In fact, every social problem is easily explained by the fact that people are fucks. Q.E.D.
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I have a theory that I'd be super upbeat if I had achieved massive, world-class success doing something I love, that was game-changing, in about as pure a form as it gets.
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"Cause fuck him, that's why" is from Good Will Hunting. 1997.
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I don't care about emotionally manipulative film for its own sake. However, if this did actually do anything significant to improve Indian/Pakistani relations, I really would forgive Google for its asinine product design decisions

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