giles_bowkett

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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
It's official. This site has completely jumped the shark. Even if it is a weekend, which is the opposite of prime time for a site like this, the fact that this link appears in the top ten, it means Hacker News is OVER. Easily one of the stu
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
It worked for me. I kinda wanted to work on something different, didn't know what though, and found out what when I stopped working on the stuff I didn't want to work on. I believe you've got it exactly backwards. The advice comes from exac
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I do what I can.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Yes. Because it's about which town is number one. It's not about the fact that any town can produce great tech today, with or without startups. Nor is it about the fact that today's abundance of great free tech enables many towns to simulta
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I told him that if he wants to love what he does, he should do what he loves. And you call that utter insanity.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
yes. I will tell you, because my existing response is not yet enough of a threadjack.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
well, they're overdue. the man's gotten very lazy preaching to the converted.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
dammit, I misspelled Edinburgh.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
The thing is, any reasoning that assumes Silicon Valley is where it's at ignores all the TechCrunch articles about "the crisis in venture capital" and the inability of the VCs to find companies that need their money to lift off at all in th
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I didn't pollute my mind by reading this - I only saw it because of some bug in my TechCrunch-links-screening script - but what on earth could make somebody think that Microsoft crossing the line could be news? That's all they ever do.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
(I should also mention there are employers with 0% suit-monkey DNA, and building cool things for their own sake draws out these employers as well.)
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Dude, quit your job, work at a coffee shop, and build things because you want to build them. Your skill will return, the light will return to your eyes, and your career will improve. I'm not even kidding. Take a few years away. You'll build
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
because we can do math.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Intellectual laziness. Study disputes Long Tail theory.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
This is NOT Chris Anderson. This is Berkeley researchers from the mid EIGHTIES and a lawyer in 1913, for the love of God. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_Networks#History This is like if somebody finds P Diddy's version of "Every Br
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Addiction.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
No, coward. You have no chance. Hide in your basement and weep. Seriously dude just do it. You're young, fuck it. Asking if you can do it is foolish; people have no idea what you're capable of until you do something.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
What a load of sexist bullshit. I've worked with several women coders. Some were better than others. It's only possible to make this kind of ridiculous blanket statement because so few women coders exist in the first place. Small sample siz
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I like the pretty colors. Also, Blogger is fucking evil, and it eats the > from quoting e-mails, which sometimes is a very time-consuming bug. By the way mad apologies but I'm actually banning my own blog from my view of Hacker News, us
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Clay Shirky.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Yes, very good point there. Because I came here to win a popularity contest. So it matters to me when people downmod me. It matters a great deal.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Yes, I know that, and I'm insulted by your misinterpretation. My point still stands. The article is tautological fluff. "If we explore the most obvious implications of a known phenomenon, and pad it with numbers, people will know we were aw
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
The answer is neither one. You are on automatic pilot. "I am in the process of looking for an office space to move my business so that I can hire some employees." It is 2008. Hire your employees. Where they work is not your problem any more
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
PLEASE ban TechCrunch links. And the people who post them.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Girls who go to all-girls schools do better in math. If I ever have a daughter I'll send her to an all-girls school. Boys are going to find her either way, and I'd prefer her "wanting" to do X or Y to be based on her skills and brains, not
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I use TextMate but frequently threaten to switch back to vi, or learn emacs. command-line emacs and vi come pre-installed on OS X boxes, and you can download excellent GUI versions free (MacVim and Aquamacs). On the general topic what I wou
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Love. Read "Pirate's Dilemma." Pirates are good for capitalism, good for society, good for the world. Anyone who stands in their way must die.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I would get a Pimsleur CD course on a language you've always wanted to learn. The complete box set, 14 CDs or whatever, $250. You'll be conversational a few days later, and it requires you to listen actively rather than passively, so you're
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Google Appliance is ass. You can't do a thing with it, you have to depend on Google support to do things for you via remote login, and they won't even do the things that you've asked them to do, because they don't bother to listen. This is
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Arrington hates everything he doesn't own and at least half of what he does.

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