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by edw519 14y ago
Wow. I had no idea. I have been to college and have had many great times since then with all sorts of artificial stimulation. To this day, I really look forward to weekends and can't imagine a world without (my drug of choice) beer. But I h
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by edw519 14y ago
Good points, but I really don't agree with the analogy of Andy's predicament and a startup... You have no idea how deep the wall is. Then find out. Google "lean startup", "Eric Ries", "Steve Blank", or "Rob Walling". There is a strong ac
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I don't think we should encourage anyone to do anything. We should discourage them. Let me explain... I take my example from this traditional practice of Rabbis: never accept a convert until they have been turned away twice before. Make t
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by edw519 14y ago
On the way to a sales call, a salesman, a project manager, and a programmer were kidnapped. When their employer refused to pay the ransom, the kidnappers granted each a last wish before killing them. The salesman said, "I still want to make
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by edw519 14y ago
I never left. I love Hacker News. And I'm not proud of grandparent comment, but I couldn't resist. I'll try to revert to making comments that provide value to my fellow hackers.
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It’ll end by me bending over at some point. Karma for this: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-asking-for-hel...
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I may or may not have something to say about this, but not here, and not now. Can we please just let the family grieve? We are the family.
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by edw519 14y ago
Aaron Swartz is what I wish I was. Please don't compare yourself to anyone else. It's pointless, disempowering, and generally a waste of time. Your "best you" is what I wish you wished you were. I am a bright technologist... You are not
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...it requires a great deal of honesty and openness...An interview is a place for none of those things. Wrong. It's exactly the place for both of those things. For every instance in the class QuestionsAskedToMe, including "What is your gr
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TLDR: Write like Hemingway, not like Faulkner.
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Thank you, Cory. This wonderful post will bring understanding (and maybe even comfort) to many of us who are sad and confused today. It will also probably save some lives.
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OH NO! Stunned & heartbroken.
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This is the opposite of what I do. My TODO list has exactly one item on it: the most important thing. Once that's done, I will then pick the new most important thing and it will become the only item on my TODO list. I do this for 2 main rea
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by edw519 14y ago
Sure I do. You don't need to cook food. We eat better than most people I know who do cook. Come on over the next time you're in Miami and we'll show you. :-)
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Sure. We prefer healthy & delicious, so "heavy on the stomach" doesn't work. Close to midtown, off the top of my head: Morgan's, Michael's, Best Friends, Lost & Found, Uva, Books & Books Cafe. There's even lot's of cheap, light,
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by edw519 14y ago
One mans' MVK = another mans' WTF. My MVK? A refrigerator, a knife, and a cutting board. A little background... 90% of what we eat = raw produce. So it's pretty straightforward. We just eat produce at home and an occasional hot meal out. Ev
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by edw519 14y ago
Any limit to the number of projects you'll fund per person? I'll just write an MVP generator and spit 'em out as fast as I can think them up. At one per day (a walk in the park), I'd earn $2,920,000 per year and you'd have enough stuck on t
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Nothing that Watson learned from the Urban Dictionary could possibly be any dirtier than what I hear from enterprise people all the time: "We use our deep subject matter expertise to deliver value through actionable advice that enables our
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I’d be happy if 37signals is the last place I work. I've had this exact same attitude at every company (many!) I've ever worked at. Until someone or something completely outside my control fucked it up. Then I took my positive attitude an
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A lot of software is sold prior to existing at numbers substantially higher than $50. And a lot of software that is already paid for is never delivered. Or delivered late. Or delivered, but not as expected. Don't. Do. This. Please don't m
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Slightly off-topic, but not really... That design is gorgeous. Maybe not the most practical, but I couldn't stop clicking the arrow to see more. I don't remember being this excited about eye candy since the first time I saw Flash. Is this a
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by edw519 14y ago
This is great advice as long as you know the difference between a detail and an issue. They are often easy to confuse. Detail: What font should we use on the payment page? Issue: Should the customer's credit limit be for our division or for
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Cool, beautiful, clever, engrossing, and yet something about it bothered me. It took me a while, but then it hit me: This is a beautiful display of inputs . Where are the outputs? Where is the gorgeous dashboard that shows the results of a
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But the human brain is very good at talking about specifics. Questions like "can you walk me through what you do everyday" or "are there any repetitive tasks that you do day-to-day" will lead you down a much more interesting path. You’ll f
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Working for the Long Term(justinmares.com)
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I grew up in a house where abundant praise was given for completion of the most mundane of tasks. Failures were justified and assigned an appropriate cause that absolved me of any wrongdoing. Exactly the opposite of my experience. My fath
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Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system...I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. That was probably your first mistake. Neither of your heroes succeeded by being first wit
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Go to college. Take science to discover something you're good at. Take humanities to discover something you may love. Take at least one art or music class. Take at least one advanced math class. Join a fraternity. Learn how to
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From Line 42536 of the 2008 CSV file: 20090201_PIT@ARI,2,30,18,ARI,PIT,1,1,1,(:18) (Shotgun) K.Warner pass short middle intended for A.Boldin INTERCEPTED by J.Harrison at PIT 0. J.Harrison for 100 yards TOUCHDOWN. Super Bowl Record longest

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