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by diego 14y ago
Latine loquor. Inutilis id est, sed iucundus. My brother and I had six years of Latin in school. He's a biologist, and used to put it in his resume for kicks.
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by diego 14y ago
Small nitpick: it irks me to see "yerba mate" spelled as "yerba maté." I wonder where the hell that came from. I suspect it's about not confusing it with mate as in pal or buddy.
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by diego 14y ago
The concept of Oscar-style awards for startups makes as much sense as Toddlers and Tiaras. No, make that Embryos and Tiaras. I am appalled to see this on the front page of HN.
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by diego 14y ago
Ok, it's not a problem that doesn't exist. It exists, but it's insignificant. I think that working on the "email noise problem" when you could be building a profitable business helping people prevent or cure life-threatening conditions is a
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by diego 14y ago
This is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. In the meantime, real unsexy problems are ignored. It reminds me of this post: http://raganwald.posterous.com/why-the-fuck I meet too many startups in SV working on questionable incremen
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by diego 14y ago
That is a terrible, terrible headline. Prediction without commitment. They might as well write "We have absolutely no idea where the Mac is going."
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by diego 14y ago
All you ever wanted to know and more: http://www.twoweekwait.com/articles/what-no-one-told-you-abo... (from www.reddit.com/r/infertility )
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by diego 14y ago
I've done everything you can think of and more. We actually conceived once, it was a miscarriage. Edit: if you really want to know, we fertilized a total of 19 embryos in 4 attempts over the years. Only two of those were deemed implantable
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by diego 14y ago
As someone who spent six years trying to conceive and failed, reading this post makes me feel really bad. I'd point out that it's not Hacker News, but I'd have to do that for 50% of the posts on the front page at any given time.
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by diego 14y ago
He does. This was pretty nasty. http://shutupmauro.com/
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by diego 14y ago
Are you sure it's configured properly? A typical http server can serve thousands of requests for static pages per second even on low-end hardware. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
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by diego 14y ago
Install WP Super Cache. It should be able to handle HN's traffic even if it's running on an iPhone 3.
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by diego 14y ago
Michael Arrington has written his share of trollish articles, but this is just mean spirited. I have a hard time remembering anything so hypocritical and hindsight-biased written after someone's death. I will do my best to avoid reading any
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by diego 14y ago
Did you read the whole article? "With the time people waste reading a newspaper every day, they could have read an entire book about most subjects covered and thereby learned about it with far more detail and far more impact than the daily
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by diego 14y ago
Citation? What funds are better at picking winners consistently year after year?
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by diego 14y ago
Anecdotal evidence + overgeneralization + bad usage of statistics. For example: "If we use wealth as a measure of success, Forbes’ January 2012 edition reveals that about 85% of America’s 400 Richest People (shown left) do, in fact, have a
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Ask HN: What set your hair on fire in 2012?
48 points by diego 14y ago|56 comments
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by diego 14y ago
That line is unfortunate, however he does make some good points in the article. My experience is that private universities tend to cater more to the individual than to the needs of society at large. Countries with free college education are
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by diego 14y ago
That's more than 1% of Facebook's users. At the time, Facebook was worth 100B.
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by diego 14y ago
I said basically the same thing in a blog post when this article came out almost a year ago. http://diegobasch.com/the-seven-habits-of-awesome-dolphins
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by diego 14y ago
It was an Expedia vacation package (Flight + Hotel + Car) and the confirmation email said "24-hour counter." I had that conversation with the agents, that's what they said they'd refund the rental. They wouldn't bother to verify that the co
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by diego 14y ago
When I was a teenager I wanted to be a world-class runner. I trained as hard and as methodically as I could for three years. I could never break a five-minute mile. I was mediocre, and slower than guys who barely trained but had bodies more
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by diego 14y ago
Here's a list of books that I read this year and liked. My favorite was Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. The rest are all worth reading. I hesitated to put "The Joy of Clojure" on that list because it's too narrow, but it's one o
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by diego 14y ago
Have you heard of the Lindy effect? "The longer a technology has been around, the longer it’s likely to stay around." Writing code by typing has been around for decades, so you'd expect it to be around decades from now. Likewise, I expect l
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The Lindy Effect and Technology Survival Patterns(architects.dzone.com)
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by diego 14y ago
Something similar happened to me once. I rented a car with Alamo through Expedia at Chicago ORD, pick up around 11:30 pm. My flight was a bit late, and when I got there the Alamo counter was closed. It turned out they closed at midnight. It
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by diego 14y ago
The idea is that the evolution of engineering systems is antifragile because they benefit from trial and error. Computers keep getting better over time because of how the industry identifies and fixes issues. An obvious (but not the best) e
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by diego 14y ago
That is an unnecessarily aggressive comment. What makes you think you're racing against me? "Practice makes perfect" is a platitude, not something obvious. Like another commenter said, I could practice infinitely and never be any good at ba
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by diego 14y ago
I was going to post something similar earlier. I was put off by what I perceived as a very condescending tone in the essay. I got the impression that the author envisioned his audience as children, or unintelligent adults.
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by diego 14y ago
Remember that you're looking at survivors. The obvious question is how many people studied, practiced, and never became great. You'd have to look at the initial pool.

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