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by ellyagg 17y ago
I'm in favor of that pricing model.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
While I'm fairly sympathetic to your overall perspective, your last point is simply not persuasive at all. As a former SEO, I'd have had no problem comfortably answering that question, and any squirming would be entirely in your own smug im
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by ellyagg 17y ago
He walked into that one, but the fact is, there are many sites that DO get most of their traffic from search engines, and they make a lot of money off of it. (Spoken as a former SEO who could prove his clients' ROI was well in excess of his
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I wish they wouldn't. I always missed that feature from icq and I've never felt self-conscious about missteps and corrections. That is, after all, how talking works.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's funny how Erlang in particular attracts this type of comment, the one that qualifies its awesomeness. If an Erlang thread springs up, I can count on some variation of this comment within 2 or 3 posts. I'm an Erlang fanboy with no misgi
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by ellyagg 17y ago
There are two issues here: What you should tell yourself and what actually is. I read a sports psychology textbook which quoted a study or studies showing that folks who concentrated on improving themselves and not worrying about the compet
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by ellyagg 17y ago
So, two people of equal intelligence, insight about automation, wealth, etc. are in a field...who is more successful? The one who works 10 hours a week or the one who works 70? As I've pointed out elsewhere, the stories of great things bein
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Yep, I'm pretty sure it's not exactly 10,000 in all cases. Your complaint is a "gotcha", not a real argument. Unevidenced? Did you not read the rest of the comments in this thread? Actually, you're being curiously specific about the strengt
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I've never read the Gladwell you refer to, although I know who he is. Over the last several years, I believe several studies have come out claiming it takes 10 years to build up expertise. Just a couple years ago there was a survey study th
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Perhaps words are confusing things. Instead of "working harder" let's say "working more". For some people what they're doing is not work. There are plenty of people who can work on something they enjoy almost every waking hour for 10 years
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Everyone tries to work a smart as they can. You can't get an advantage over your competitors by working smarter if they're smarter than you are. If you truly believe that working harder, while still working as smart as you can, doesn't sign
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Sorry, dude, I don't know why you're getting all the defensive responses in this forum. Your advice is obviously inarguably correct. If you want to achieve goals that normally are only available to smarter and richer people, working harder
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Working harder does not mean being stupid. I don't understand why people keep pretending working harder is somehow how inversely related to the quality of your decisions. Your IQ stays the same, you just work harder. Let's take your example
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's only hard to know where to begin because you're seriously expanding the topic. Let's take point 5: "You are the ONLY vested participant in the game [...]" The point of the post was that working harder is one of the few resources under
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by ellyagg 17y ago
These are not alternatives to working harder. These are strategies to make your efforts more efficient. If you outsource some work, there is other work you can be doing. Presumably your competition will be automating, outsourcing, and avoid
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by ellyagg 17y ago
He was talking about factors under your control. So I guess you have to decide whether you think you can get significantly smarter, which I don't. You can learn more, but that takes time and should be considered part of working, of course.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Obviously, working on the right thing is the best choice. The problem is that knowing the right thing is probably a function of mental abilities of one sort or another, and you may be deficient in that area with respect to your competition,
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by ellyagg 17y ago
You are not in the minority, and I find it breathtakingly hard to believe that you think you are in the minority. Virtually everyone in the circles I run in (reddit, hackernews, etc.) believe the same as you. If you want a true minority opi
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by ellyagg 17y ago
You're forgetting they'd have a bunch more 9 year customers with this discount structure. Edit: Sorry for being direct? Let me be more cautious: It's plausible that, under the proposed pricing regime, the 9 year retention rate for customers
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Sorry, maybe other folks around here know you...what have you done similar in scale to John Carmack?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Parent has the worst vote count/relevance score I've ever seen. JWZ didn't write Netscape 4.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Tornado failing at high levels was a secondary point. The main point was the performance. I have serious doubts as to whether epoll would make a significant difference there, but I'd love to see someone making the claim prove it.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
No one (yes, this includes you) can apprehend what's true and make decisions only by reason and observation. We use heuristics, such as giving extra weight to the opinions of other smart people. In the olden days, they called it respect. Al
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Silly. First of all, pg virtually never writes anything pointless. Even if he does, a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. At any rate, pg is a recursive input to the hn community. Part of this community is pg. Part
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I originally read a reference to it in Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. Actually, looking it up again made me interested to know if a collection of Franklin's letters has been released in a mainstream volume, too. His Autobiogr
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Heh. I don't think so. I'd rather be having sex than doing, too, but I'm not buying a bus ticket to San Fernando Valley.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
That reminds me of a portion of a letter Ben Franklin wrote to Peter Collinson: "The proneness of human Nature to a life of ease, of freedom from care and labour appear strongly in the heretofore little success that has attended every attem
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Yeah, for some people, the advice in this article will lead to disaster. For example, I would rather be reading than doing, all the time. Reading is pure candy for me, instant gratification. To become (reasonably) successful, I had to stop
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Because Ellison demands perfection from his engineers or because then they'll know why Oracle software costs so much?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I feel the urge to correct an underlying misapprehension running through this post. Being competitive is not anti-social. It may not be for you. It may not be for me. But competitive behavior is a staple of human (and other animal) social b

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