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by ggwicz 15y ago
Just watched a guy talk about countries who are using practices like this. He says "the Internet is working just fine there". One of these places is Turkey. A guy got arrested there for talking about a Chuck Palahniuk novel there on some so
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Please just stop. The people/bands I download are not ones I'd pay for right out of the gate. For example: Pink Floyd. I hear a lot about them, but don't know if I'd like them. So I downloaded some of their popular albums for free and gave
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Ususally the types of founders who want to build massive ginormous companies (that's a technical term) are different: they a) fail and/or b) don't make things; they're "idea guys" to steal a line from Signal vs. Noise.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Yes. A painter's gotta paint. Because he enjoys it. Not necessarily because he thinks his art will change the planet. But art collectively has a huge impact. So if people built businesses because they like to do something and found out
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Why do you need to build a "world-changing" company in the first place?
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Nice work!
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by ggwicz 15y ago
I'm in high school. I'm not knocking education, I'm very thankful for it.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
"People fright at the concept of losing their money, yet they slave away their time without a second thought." -Seneca the Younger, from Letters from a Stoic (highly recommended) I think slaving away doing something you hate is far more har
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Brilliant! Scalable and modular CSS is a great read. Some good practices for anything where you're structuring files period, not even just CSS. Great list.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Why don't we wait for official comment before speculating on the cause of his death. The last thing his family/friends/coworkers need is false rumors. Not saying they're necessarily false or correct, I just think we should wait out of court
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by ggwicz 15y ago
So sad. Rest in peace.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
No, it's not. The diminishing returns dwindle similarly as exponential functions grow, and I figured that getting too technical wasn't necessary just to make a point. Downvotes unnecessary.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Assuming that innovation truly is dwindling (not saying it is, just saying it is for this argument), maybe it's just because of exponential growth. Think of the graph of the square root of X[1]; as x increases rapidly, the change in Y gradu
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by ggwicz 15y ago
"In these war times it is not always easy to think constructively about the peace that is to follow." Wow. Oppenheimer and many of the other top scientists (then and now) also happen to be great writers. Brilliant, brilliant people.
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Fuck TechCrunch
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by ggwicz 15y ago
Asimov is fucking brilliant. So are his sideburns. +9,000