brianlash

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by brianlash 15y ago
Because it's one line and because its implications are that important: For quantities you can count (windows, money, people...), the word is "fewer." For quantities you can't, the word is "less" The pledge should read: No first use of softw
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by brianlash 15y ago
and VistaPrint.
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by brianlash 15y ago
Interesting but the problem with this, at least as far as AdWords is concerned, is that low CTR means low Quality Score means higher minimum bid required for the same positioning. So it is costing you more in the long run. If you're doing a
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by brianlash 16y ago
Of course it is. I'm saying that maybe the guy investing his time hacking the long run would be more gratified giving his all in the 10k or half marathon. What about that (innocuous?) piece of advice unnerves you so much?
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by brianlash 16y ago
Q: What's an easy way to bench 1,000 pounds? A: Lift 100 pounds 10 times. There's nothing wrong with taking it easy, and in fact I think you should if you're just starting out. But at some point you have to ask yourself whether you're in
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by brianlash 16y ago
I was never into running but until this past summer when I logged around 25 miles/wk. I ran my first 'official' 5k at the end and curiously felt like I was being dragged through it (for all the reasons runners much more experienced than me
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by brianlash 16y ago
There's another principle at play. Colleges aim to maximize their yield, or the percentage of students who are offered admission that ultimately matriculate. Nothing against CMU - it's a fantastic school in nearly every regard - but these p
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by brianlash 16y ago
I bet you said the same thing about Facebook when it rejected that $1B Yahoo bid 4 years ago.
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by brianlash 16y ago
Yeah, you're right and I agree. Thanks for helping me rethink my position.
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by brianlash 16y ago
Of course. I never claimed we don't have an egregious error on our hands.
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by brianlash 16y ago
I think Michael Williams (third comment) has the right idea when he says "I’m sure you can find plenty of physicists saying spectacularly naive things about medicine...". Of course OP's discovery is amusing - even alarming - but approaching
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by brianlash 16y ago
Only mentioning because a few have repeated the error: it's de facto, 2 words. But I agree that's the right interpretation of what's going on.
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by brianlash 16y ago
"Quits Job" is really misleading. Steve didn't work for Cisco or Apple. He was the technical side of a 2-man team which became the doll of AlphaLab and earned the respect (and money) of one of Pittsburgh's most admired angels. Most of HN wi
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by brianlash 16y ago
I wonder if this is one of those things that's more effective when no one knows about it in advance. Otherwise it works like marketing to new hires which - at least it seems - might somewhat defeat the purpose.
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by brianlash 16y ago
I think the page is gorgeous, and as jjcm put it, very engaging. I understand where a few are coming from with the "tries too hard" objection but isn't "doesn't try hard enough" a greater offense? At least these guys give us something to ta
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by brianlash 16y ago
You picked a bad time to post as it's after 2am on the east coast. I know the HN community spans the globe but your project has an North American bent. I bet you'll get more feedback if you repost in an evening before 8pm here/5pm west coas
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by brianlash 16y ago
I knew that comment was asking for downvotes. I'm sorry, I just disagree. The number tells us to expect a list. That's information. Then it tells us that it's a long list, which in turn rules out the likelihood that it's one of those 3-poin
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by brianlash 16y ago
I think it does. The former tells us to expect a curated list of more than 29 but fewer than 31 eye-catching designs, at least in OPs eyes. The latter is just bleh , like a statement on a resume that reads "I managed a lot of money when I
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by brianlash 16y ago
Years ago I bought Stephen King's On Writing and it looks like he echoes a lot of its points here. Missing is his hatred of adverbs; To King's mind "He screamed angrily" is a terrible sentence because it uses the -ly construction to say wha
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by brianlash 16y ago
Very cool. Where are you located?
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by brianlash 16y ago
I'm not a programmer but I feel like it would be straightforward enough to make the tab key yield a space in this instance, so that either the tab or the space key would work.
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by brianlash 16y ago
Sure. The act of running creates waste, typically in the form of dead blood cells and lactic acid. It's natural, but if the muscle cells are ill-prepared to properly dispose of the waste it can create inefficiencies in the form of poorer p
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by brianlash 16y ago
If I could solve a technical problem in my head while exercising then either the problem is really easy or I'm not getting very much exercise. Remember that walking is technically exercise. 5 miles walking is 5 miles jogging is 5 miles ru
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by brianlash 16y ago
If you're married to the TextMate UX you should look at BBedit. If you're open to trying an all-in-one I'd add Espresso from macrabbit and Coda from panic to my short list. Between the two I think most consider it a toss-up, although I slig
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by brianlash 16y ago
Shit, I'm sorry. I meant to vote Craigslist up but instead gave your comment the fat-fingered iPad treatment.
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by brianlash 16y ago
I won't disagree with any of that, nor on the face of it do I disagree with Patrick. My only issue with his comment is that he's challenged an argument on the basis of a faulty assumption (that charities do good) by introducing a new assump
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by brianlash 16y ago
You need to give a few examples, else you make a full-stop assumption of the opposite nature. Also, I think you mean a priori .
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by brianlash 16y ago
Tell him or her to spell words out. No need for the snark.
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by brianlash 16y ago
He was involved with Edgeio during TC which was "an effort to build a fully distributed advertising platform for the Internet." I know it went through an identity crisis and even spent a bizarre period in the digital download space before a
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by brianlash 16y ago
Nassim Taleb makes exactly that point in Fooled by Randomness, which is a terrific read incidentally.

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