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by codex 13y ago
In many cases, success comes from experience, and experience comes from failure. When you succeed, you don't really know why, exactly (luck plays a huge role and can mask many mistakes)--but when you fail you can at least guess why, becaus
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by codex 13y ago
Job creation is the wrong metric. One could employ a million people digging ditches and then filling them up again, and ultimately nothing will have been accomplished save for some wealth redistribution. Wealth creation is the key metric.
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by codex 13y ago
TL;DR: One design is better than another because the photo "looks better" to the modern eye. I guess form doesn't follow function in this case. The author then generalizes to language design with no supporting evidence, and omits various co
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by codex 13y ago
Perl and the human genome are almost perfectly matched; both are almost incomprehensible, with no central design, accreted haphazardly over a long time.
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by codex 13y ago
Not at all--the leasing company (a separate shell entity or a bank) takes the tax credit because they bought the car. This is how both of my electric vechicle leases have worked. The leasing company then passes on the savings in the form
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by codex 13y ago
It could explain why we haven't encountered aliens despite the advanced age of the Earth. The Earth has been around for roughly 1/3rd the age of the universe, but because space time is expanding exponentially, only a fraction of the univer
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by codex 13y ago
The number of people who have sold more than $100M in options (as opposed to founders' stock) is likely quite small, no? The poll is now up to 38.
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by codex 13y ago
The improvement in the monthly payment is achieved by stretching out the loan period to be greater than five years. How much greater than five years, they don't say. Seven years? Ten years? How much extra interest does one pay on such a
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by codex 13y ago
Because space-time is expanding at an extraordinary rate, such that vast portions of the universe are forever inaccessible? "For example there are stars which may be expanding away from us (or each other) faster than the speed of light, and
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by codex 13y ago
More than twelve users have sold stock options for more than $100M? Hello Larry, Sergey, Eric, and Tim! I would have suspected you were too busy to read HN.
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by codex 13y ago
You seem to have substituted your own guesstimates over examples in the article. You claim that "the odds of a company that's looking at a $100M offer failing are probably more like 10% for real "failure"" yet the article cites four example
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by codex 13y ago
This is why joining a startup as an early employee may not be a good idea. The founders' goals and your goals may be divergent. At some point, the founders are already rich, or are guaranteed to be rich, and are looking for self-actualizat
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by codex 13y ago
Now that font rendering technology on displays has reached that of print thanks to "retina" class displays, how can we improve readability even further? We're no longer constrained by the limitations of the printing press. What if every vo
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by codex 13y ago
The beauty of evolution is that it not only produces a wide variety of human offspring (via sexual reproduction and sexual selection) but also a _homo_ _sapien_ family unit in which each individual (male + female(s), usually) has different
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by codex 13y ago
This is why I love Steve Jobs' commencement address at Stanford. He was brutally honest. I love how he attributes much of his success to not having a college degree.
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by codex 13y ago
It's been my experience that Ubuntu's default font rendering is good--but this seems to be because Ubuntu is using fonts which have been explicitly designed to render well in the Linux font stack. I find that using mainstream TTF and OTF f
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by codex 13y ago
There appears to be no attempt to correct for survivorship bias in this study, making it at best highly suspect and at worst, worthless. For all we know, people who are good at getting karma on Stack Overflow stay on the site simply because
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by codex 13y ago
No. Two reasons: A. Poverty is always relatively defined. There will always be a bottom n percent in the population. B. A high bar for immigration acts as a filter to select the hardest working, most intelligent, most willing to take risk
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by codex 13y ago
In my experience it's nicer than DSM on the Mac.
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by codex 13y ago
No Pragmata or Akkurat Mono? Amateurs.
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by codex 13y ago
This article seems to gloss over the hypothesis that aliens evolved under evolutionary pressure, and are thus likely to want to reproduce and expand. So no matter how advanced they may become technologically, they might still want our reso
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by codex 13y ago
I don't think that's a fallacy at all. I think that's a valid argument for the modification of copyright law.
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by codex 13y ago
I think that could well be the case in reality--but you wouldn't know it from most discussions on the topic, and I don't think that's how people people form their initial views, or why they continue to maintain logically incorrect arguments
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by codex 13y ago
I love the intention of this site, which is to clarify when something is placed into the public domain, even though their carefree approach is legally risky for anyone to depend on. However, I've never seen cognitive dissonance on such as s
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by codex 13y ago
Perhaps HN is what's keeping you young at heart!
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by codex 13y ago
I think that for the majority of people, neuroplasticity decreases with age, which is attributed to a decline in physiology [1]. I think your personal experiences can be explained be fact that learning a new technology does not really invo
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by codex 13y ago
My own impression of the tech industry are that young programmers are like stem cells--stick them anywhere and they'll differentiate into what they need to be. However, mature, differentiated developers often find it very hard to adapt to
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by codex 13y ago
The HN reaction to ageism is interesting--the comments are extremely skeptical, but of course, HN suffers from survivor bias. Those who wash out of software development in their 30s and 40s don't read or comment on HN. In fact, wasting ti
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by codex 13y ago
Like many animals which hunt in packs (e.g. wolves) humans obey a dominance hierarchy. The leader is at the top of the pyramid and is entitled to most of the spoils of the kill, while those beneath the alpha settle for relative scraps. Th
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by codex 13y ago
Usually they do. The founder that forgoes a salary is a myth.

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