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by gsk 16y ago
As you would have noticed from other comments, habit-forming is key. I am not sure where I first read this, anyhow, here it is: It takes 14 days to form a habit. I acknowledge this is unscientific and the number is arbitrary. Nevertheless,
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by gsk 16y ago
Excellent execution. I'd certainly be interested in the paid service when it comes out. The 100% opensource idea is probably a distraction you can do without at the moment. I want the paid service to be great. I won't care if it is opensour
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by gsk 16y ago
>function well in society You are giving undeserved credit to Facebook by equating it to infrastructure. If facebook disappears tomorrow, people may miss it but they are not going to stop functioning well in society.
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by gsk 16y ago
Must have been? Like it escaped after being born and is now out in the wild? To me, these sort of papers seem to be exercises in futile epistemology. It's not even wrong.
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by gsk 16y ago
:-) Wow. This is hysterical and wildly inaccurate. Dawkins has numerous academic papers. 'The Selfish Gene' (which was praised by W D Hamilton--one the great biologists of our times) is a great introduction to genetics, a wonderful and pro
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by gsk 16y ago
You're probably aware of this. In 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' Nietzsche's speaks of Übermensch as being the goal to strive for (Übermensch has been roughly translated as Beyond Man or overcoming the shackles of being human).
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by gsk 16y ago
Interesting. An idea must still have some sort of execution, no? In mathematics, I would have thought that proof is the execution of a purely mathematical idea. Obviously, I do agree with you that some ideas are precious (to take a non-math
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by gsk 16y ago
Have compassion. Without compassion, I would not have saved someone very close to me from debilitating alcoholism, I would not have worked my life around to be able to work on a startup for the past six months (and know I will have the supp
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by gsk 16y ago
Yes, that will probably be the case. But note that the usefulness of said data diminishes as time goes by. Eventually your data dies too.
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by gsk 16y ago
"Product-market fit cures many sins of management." Great insight.
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by gsk 17y ago
A friend of mine who may identify with your situation recently quit his job and has gone to volunteer full-time to help recreate a forest in the Pondicherry, India (Sadhana forest). Cliché but absolutely true: The world is a big and excitin
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by gsk 17y ago
>but let's not turn them into more than what they are Speak for yourself. I happen to agree with Cory and am sure I am not alone.
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by gsk 17y ago
Listen to rm-rf. Way back when (2003-2004), I was involved in Walmart's supply chain managament software. I recall a few million rows to be optimized every day (before noon, so the hundreds of trucks plying the road can move things around e
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by gsk 17y ago
Father of a 2 year old here. It is really about still-face. Daughter won't allow me to change her nappy still-faced (notice this often when I have something else on my mind and try to do a quick nappy change expressionless). I have to ackno
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by gsk 17y ago
Denis Brian relates this incident in the book 'Einstein, a life', if my memory serves right. I believe it is true.
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by gsk 17y ago
It seems you misread Dijkstra. He uses 'making money' within the context of financial 'industry' and questions the legitimacy of that 'industry' which does not produce any goods, thereby pointing out one of the many euphemisms adopted by fi
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by gsk 17y ago
You may be wrong. I was at the Intelligence Squared debate on Atheism [ http://events.intelligencesquared.com/past-events.php?event=... ] yesterday in which Dawkins debated. The vote was overwhelmingly in support of Dawkins' position (whi
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by gsk 17y ago
Being a Genius in Mathematics does not necessarily mean being a genius in everything else (including bringing an exciting future forward in time). Galois, another mathematical genius from France (1800s), died at twenty because he fought a d
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by gsk 17y ago
Read both the books when I was a teenager. I have read other great books but as two most favorite books, these will stay. A Story About a Real Man by Boris Polevoi. A wartime russian novel about love and courage told in a simple and endeari
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by gsk 17y ago
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. Always a delight, the two prefaces for the collection written decades apart are a must read (Amazon Look Inside hasn't got it. Don't know why.).
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by gsk 17y ago
Wittgenstein's position. I agree.
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by gsk 17y ago
A few months ago, I was in a similar situation. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=502641 Once I started insisting on a fair stake things didn't work out and I walked away finally. I don't regret it (building a different product now,
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by gsk 17y ago
The author emphasises: "Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed." This is one of those sentences that seem to make sense but don't. It's a oversimplifica
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by gsk 18y ago
Thank you, pg. He is a pragmatic person. Hopefully, we should move forward with an arrangement such as this.
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Seeking advice: How to manage IP conflicts in a Startup?
6 points by gsk 18y ago|4 comments