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by fnid 17y ago
Wow, that's amazing to watch. You can really feel it. Notice what happens around 3rd quarter 2005 when hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans! And look at the border crossing cities of El Paso and McAllen. Those two and Baton Rouge are the
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by fnid 17y ago
In college I drove a van between different campuses so students could travel between them easily. On one of my stops, a passenger got on board and, obviously displeased, said, "You left early last time! I saw you drive off while I was com
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by fnid 17y ago
You should qualify, "Type safety is vastly overrated -- today." There was a time when type safety was very valuable to the performance and functionality of programming. Computers are so fast now that the performance hit is almost negligib
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by fnid 17y ago
Too clever is not determined by some property of the code, but rather the audience who reads it.
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by fnid 17y ago
And when it gets cold, you can burn them for warmth. Unfortunately, I realized this after renting my house to some freeloaders who burned my library of college books, encyclopedias, work books, car repair manuals, home remodeling books... I
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by fnid 17y ago
How many planned to return to India? I was shocked to see more than three-quarters of the audience raise their hands. Does this mean permanently? It could mean for vacation.
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by fnid 17y ago
What does this mean? We are moving 5 times faster? We are almost through it? We still have much worse times ahead? This will last at least 5 times as long?
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by fnid 17y ago
It's interesting you suggest that considering the credit card holder bankruptcy legislation the banks pushed through preventing this very thing for consumers of their products.
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by fnid 17y ago
where did he apologize? Link?
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by fnid 17y ago
One of the previous items in the thread also mentions customer development: Useful, sure, but for those of use way before those steps, there was nothing about customer development. http://groups.google.com/group/lean-startup-circle/tree/
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by fnid 17y ago
On the contrary side, it is interesting that this opinion is held of hackers, but would be ridiculous to consider for other fields. Imagine expecting an admin assistant to do personal admin assistant projects at home, or a bus driver to dr
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by fnid 17y ago
The illusion here is that simple/less complex apps are better. But the reality is that more simple apps with fewer features means the end user needs more apps to manage their business or their lives. Your invoicing app may be simple and le
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HN a Green Certified Site?
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by fnid 17y ago
"Over" reported is yet to be seen. Perhaps the ease of reporting today makes this one seem more pronounced than others, but I think it is also worse than any since the great depression and we still don't know if it won't be worse. Some real
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by fnid 17y ago
I suggest it may also have, possibly, more reason to do with the autism, which is an interesting topic of mind which has a lot of interest at Hacker News. Also, there are lots of cases of autism in and around silicon valley which raises c
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by fnid 17y ago
A person should not be deemed a criminal unless that person "crossed over that line knowing what he or she was doing." We used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse for the law." The situation now though, is that there are so many laws and reg
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by fnid 17y ago
The only shocking thing: Nearly every Republican has signed on, but the Democratic leadership is unwilling to cede control over when bills are brought to the floor for votes and are discouraging their rank and file from signing the petitio
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by fnid 17y ago
What is the difference? Laws are created by men and women.
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by fnid 17y ago
The output of a system and the system itself are two different things. It doesn't matter if the code powering that government website is open or not, you can't access that code. You're arguing two different things here.
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by fnid 17y ago
I think you underestimate the significance of the term polymath . Polymaths don't just read about a lot of topics, they produce in a lot of topics. Brilliant minds like Da Vinci who painted, sculpted, wrote, experimented, philosophized
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by fnid 17y ago
Lot's of comments here are saying fundable is dead, but I don't think so. The web is big. Lots of bad things have happened to plenty of sites and they remain up and viable. I think we over-estimate the memory of the average internet user.
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by fnid 17y ago
I have found that people who think the idea is worth half the company are usually so irrational that they make really bad decisions about their contributions to the firm later on. Companies like this can't thrive if the scales are not balan
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by fnid 17y ago
Capitalism is one of the few social constructs that encourages negative traits. Who is to say that selfishness is better than altruism? Altruism seems to be a human trait as well -- we do act altruistically on occassion. Is it impossible
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by fnid 17y ago
The problems you mention aren't unique to software. How many mechanical engineers look at a device and think it is obvious? Or they read a patent and think, "This is unreadable, unenlightening, obvious garbage?" Lots I'm sure. To answer
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by fnid 17y ago
Patents for software do not save time and money, nor do they make things run more efficiently, nor do they improve life for countless individuals. This is simply not the case. I didn't say patents do that, I said software does that. I
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by fnid 17y ago
Learning is about the future. You want to take knowledge you have gained and use it to make the future more like what you want the future to be. So then, when you perceive something, ask yourself, "How will additional events like this one
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by fnid 17y ago
I agree with you. I think it is a fine question. Why are people so defensive about it? One of the arguments is that people can prepare for it. Okay, prepare for it. You can tell if someone has prepared for the question or not by how much
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by fnid 17y ago
What is the difference between software as a tool and something mechanical as a tool? Mechanical devices, for which there are many patents, take a state of matter and change it to another state of matter. Why should you be able to patent
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by fnid 17y ago
I agree with that arrogant part. I think also though, it does get annoying when people know full well what you are talking about, but then interject with some clarification or correction or disambiguation that really wasn't necessary. The
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by fnid 17y ago
There's pretty near unanimous support among people who care about the issue at all. It's extremely illogical to equate not supporting the founder visa to not caring at all about the issue. I care about the issue and I don't support a fou

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