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by c1sc0 16y ago
Some would welcome an existential threat to humanity as an opportunity to innovate our way out of this mess. Right now, we lack a common goal & survival tends to be a strong motivator. We can't go back to the woods, but maybe we can bui
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I reviewed 11 places in maybe 10 minutes or so. The UI is simple, intelligent & addictive. Brilliant approach to quickly catch up with the qypes, yelps & foursquares of this world.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
So, who else noticed that the form actually works and applied?
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by c1sc0 16y ago
export restrictions easily circumvented by getting a US credit card, just like you need one for Amazon Mechanical Turk
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by c1sc0 16y ago
"I'd rather take my chances on the bomb." I wish more people, especially politicians, were mature enough to accept this. Not gonna happen in current western political systems though.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I think you'll find lots of technical founders are willing & able to pick up those skills along the way. Programming is perpetual self-education. This means that for a large subset of entrepreneurial programmers picking up business skil
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I miss that in Europe too. I guess unions & high labor cost are to blame. At least in the US you can go shopping on sunday while in most of Western Europe everything is closed. When I come back from Asia I'm always amazed at what a lazy
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Why? I've come to appreciate having a single machine & not having to worry about syncing stuff between machines, maintaining multiple development environments, etc ... While I'm impressed by the sheer amount of hardware in his household
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Have no doubts & just do it. I left my homecountry on a whim to follow a girl & it has been the best decision I've ever made. Countries & people are different, even if it's only 'the country next door'. You can learn a lot by si
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by c1sc0 16y ago
1. Python is Free (Free as in Freedom vs. free as in beer debate) 2. Python teaches you the importance of whitespace 3. Python forces clarity in your coding 4. Python is blackboard-compatible, it's a great pseudo-language. 5. Python has a g
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I'm pretty sure Facebook would then remove the href on the link & tell people to copy/paste it into their browser.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Can't repeat this enough: the main reason I develop on appengine is that it removes server admin headaches completely from the equation. Ok, you get other headaches in return, but most of the time it's stuff I can deal with.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Make that 40-man design shops & Biotech labs that don't have the manpower to maintain a decent analysis pipeline. I saw a bio Xserve setup a few years ago & was blown away by ... how 'shiny' the setup was. But that was about it: Xse
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I don't even have a vote in this matter, but yes. legalization + regulation is the answer here.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
It's not the lone Starbucks hacker with a laptop you need to be worried about. It's the wardrivers & honeypotters & people sophisticated enough to do a coordinated automatic harvesting effort.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Doesn't surprise me all that much since most 'normal' people absolutely don't care about security. Passwords are meant to be written on sticky notes. Identity theft is too complicated for them to care about. And credit card fraud is easily
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by c1sc0 16y ago
ok, in a previous life I solved this in the following way: fire up a terminal, download lynx, set up a scary color scheme, then consume the web from the command line. This has 2 great effects: 1) You won't be looking at all those stupid pic
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Your last word worries me, because I've seen insomnia and it's a killer. Like you I often have trouble shutting off my mind, causing me to continue working on problems in my mind while I'm supposed to sleep. Sometimes productive, but you wi
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Having a partner is amazing. Whenever I feel down or just too tired to get things done, I go & talk to my partner to get myself fired up again. If you don't have a business partner, maybe you can find someone who works in the same field
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by c1sc0 16y ago
This phenomenon has everything to do with intrinsic motivation. When you can decide yourself what to work on, you can be orders of magnitude more motivated & productive. Dan Pink's Drive is a good book to learn more about this stuff.
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Damnit Amex, Give Me A Credit Card(techcrunch.com)
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I can't speak for Jacques, but as a fellow european, the single one thing stopping me from using WePay is: (lack of) international payments. I've just integrated PayPal in my startup against my own better judgement, but as soon as we pull i
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I think you're onto something.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
http://pitchpower.appspot.com
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I think Apple could absolutely make a killing if they'd allow people to pay for other things with their iTunes account.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Work: sports-related startup. Perso: trying to swim (not just float around) in open water every day all year round, essentially hacking my mind (meditation) & body (gasp reflex) to withstand the cold temperatures. Currently 12 deg C.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
The most interesting consequence of operating in china is simply the massive scaling ability required of even the simplest of websites. I expect some interesting technologies to come out of china in the next few years because of this.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
My impression is that this is a recent thing. I remember about one year ago youku & tudou were very 'copyright-friendly'. PPStream is still quite good, but it uses a windows-only client.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Anonymity vs. Real Identity is a very influential variable in online communities. While I used to be a big fan of anonymity I've come to review that opinion in the last year or so. Maybe it's time for HN to start rewarding people who put th
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Well, in all geekiness, pg could release the structure of 'the list' without revealing the actual data & put an end to all of this structured vs. unstructured speculation. Just sayin'.

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