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The positive effects of ditching a crappy project
2 points by boggled 12y ago|0 comments
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by boggled 12y ago
The author laments the rate at which lesser math students leave mathematics, because they are behind the very best. One of the most painful aspects of teaching mathematics is seeing my students damaged by the cult of the genius. That
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by boggled 13y ago
Negative effects? How so? It might be discovered? It is true that focusing on negatives can be counterproductive, and some negative emotions are better off unexpressed. However, I am following the advice of a Harvard business school profess
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by boggled 13y ago
Three times the average age of the typical HN wunderkind.
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by boggled 13y ago
It's venting. I'm assuming that a measure zero but nonempty subset of the HN community operates as a support group. The rest is either neutral or actively and gratuitously hostile. Incidentally, you could not "know" that
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Gave up on rude cofounder
3 points by boggled 13y ago|7 comments
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by boggled 13y ago
Great. Airlift them all out of NYC. It won't make a difference to me--I might as well be living in SF at this rate. Of course I'll contribute.
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by boggled 13y ago
The portions of the project that are exclusively mine are under version control. I may have to do version control for both of us. Perhaps if he sees the advantages or if it saves him from trouble, he might be motivated to use it, at least m
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by boggled 13y ago
It sounds like the bigger problem you're facing is being able to successfully argue with each other. That's what you have to figure out. I have gotten better at it. I find arguing and this aggressive attachment to ideas that are
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by boggled 13y ago
Sure, I'm just as capable of seeing things from another point of view as anyone [perhaps this is the voice of Dunning-Kruger]. I have to say that this perspective is limiting and is exacerbated by my co-founder's somewhat desperat
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Ask HN: technical cofounder won't use version control and dismisses refactoring
2 points by boggled 13y ago|7 comments