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by gxs 13y ago
This was awesome, thanks for sharing. I was a math major in college and this brought back great memories. I don't know remember much, but I so remember the problem solving skills in general. Start with a smaller more palatable example.
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by gxs 13y ago
I did a well known beginner's program called starting strength where you add 5 to 10 lbs per week depending on the week doing it once or twice a week. Then I did crossfit for almost a year and went back to starting strength. By the tim
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by gxs 13y ago
This is great and certainly don't want to discourage anyone. Some people need extreme transformations like this to be successful. Most people, however, don't. You'll have a much higher success rate if you're patient and
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by gxs 13y ago
I agree. When I first started looking into medications like Aderall, it was surprising to find how little we actually know about how medicine works. Take the above example - we really don't know how it works. We measure the amount of d
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by gxs 13y ago
To be honest with you, don't let money be the deciding factor, at least with the offers you've presented. A worthy developer, even at a startup, should be making 70-80k a year easy + equity. If I were you and really wanted to move
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by gxs 13y ago
Amazing, perspective is everything. I don't deny that college kids are being taken advantage of. Graduating from a small liberal arts college in South Dakota that no one's ever heard of with a degree is Culture Studies and 80k in
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by gxs 13y ago
Interestingly, the converse is also true. I was always into computers and tech but never really programming. I was a math major in college, however, and after graduating I started programming. The transition was almost seamless, I picked up
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by gxs 13y ago
Thanks - ordered this as well. I've been on a self-help book binge. I shudder to think the ads I'll be seeing from google and amazon.
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by gxs 13y ago
Came here to post this as well. In the end, he decided it might be irresponsible to leave the app on the market and encourage people to throw around their shiny new expensive phones.
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by gxs 13y ago
Seconding your request!
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by gxs 13y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation. Ordered this on Amazon. This was my problem all growing up. I did well on the first exam, then fizzled out every exam after. I wouldn't study out of fear that I wouldn't do as well again. Anyway
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by gxs 13y ago
Wow this is great advice thank you. By all means, if time permits please keep going. As as an aside, I've always suffered from a lack of "intrinsic" motivation for things - hence my desire for an audience to keep me honest so
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by gxs 13y ago
Interesting idea, thanks.
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Ask HN: Topics for writing
7 points by gxs 13y ago|6 comments
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by gxs 14y ago
Where would you recommend one look for a collection of this wisdom? Brooks is one example, what are others? Where would one look to find a cannon of this type of thing?
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Ask HN: How do you make the leap to software development?
2 points by gxs 14y ago|3 comments
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by gxs 14y ago
I don't even care about the cause behind this. But the fact that this was yanked off the front page is fucking despicable.
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by gxs 14y ago
It may be refreshing, but people aren't drawn to it. It's the same idea as to why people are drawn to assholes, why people respect someone who speaks their mind more than someone who is a poeple pleaser etc. You speak like this for long eno
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Ask HN: A source for "regular" news
3 points by gxs 14y ago|1 comments
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by gxs 14y ago
You know, things don't exist in a vacuum. I don't have time to get into specifics, but there is a REASON why channel sales exist. There is a reason you may sometimes want to outsource this to people who specialize in marketing, customer ser
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by gxs 14y ago
>> Similarly, demand for slots in the top programmes is extraordinarily competitive This is something I picked out from the article in a quick skim. And sums it up pretty well. If you can get into a top 10 business school, the conse
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by gxs 14y ago
Not to get too political on HN, but why increase taxes by nearly 3k on someone making 70k a year? Given the way the apples and googles of the world hoard money offshore, and the wealthiest people in the country sitting on billions of dollar
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by gxs 14y ago
I have to agree here. By the author's own admission, he does most of his shopping online - which tells me he lacks practice in dealing with salesmen. I worked as a bartender/server at a corporate restaurant when I was in college. You would
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by gxs 14y ago
That's great news, it really is. But I'm always curious as to the direction of causation. I would love to sleep more - sure. If only it were that easy. I cannot get a good night sleep for the life of me. Eliminating legumes and gluten, alon
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by gxs 14y ago
Given the forum this was presented in, I couldn't help but notice the string of successful companies this guy formed. Sure, he may have had advantages, sometimes huge, that others don't, but at the end of the day it still takes hard work to
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by gxs 14y ago
This reminds me of when veteran professional poker players play complete novices. They often say that beating a brand new player is harder than beating a mediocre player, since a novice player will do things that make no sense seemingly ran
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by gxs 14y ago
Not trolling here, genuinely curious: I thought that our 19 cents/gallon tax on gasoline is what is used for road repairs etc. Is this not the case?
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by gxs 14y ago
Interestingly, people usually complain about people who can't pull their weight technical skills wise, yet in my experience, I've found it way more frustrating picking up the slack for other people's lack of employee skills so I'm happy to
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by gxs 14y ago
It's really interesting how people corner themselves into false dichotomies. Why limit yourself to one thing when you can have it all? Why not go to college, get your degree, then go all in with a startup? No one says you can't go to a stat
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by gxs 14y ago
Having customers is a necessary, but not sufficient condition.

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