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by h34t 18y ago
Wow, was he ever over-paying. But the story reminds me of my first searches on Alibaba: "What? you mean I can buy cigarette lighters for THREE CENTS EACH???" (Of course, the MOQ was a million. What would I do with a $30k sea container of li
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by h34t 18y ago
That's an interesting perspective. So... if I think along the lines of "some ideas and actions are much better than others" instead of "some people are much better than others" ... I can retain my ability to differentiate from good/bad
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by h34t 18y ago
> people who appreciate themselves and other people and the universe around them as the mystery they are, yet who still try to make inroads of understanding I like this sentence. Accepting and appreciating mystery seems to be a real k
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by h34t 18y ago
I agree. The whole idea of 'humility' needs to be unpacked (anyone know of a good essay or book on the subject?). It's one of the most frequently mentioned values in this thread, so obviously it's important to people (and to me)... but it c
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by h34t 18y ago
Hmm. How do you draw a line between respect for standing up for morals vs. pragmatic action that drives results? I'm not criticizing the Tiananmen Square students -- I just spent a year in Beijing and I sympathize with their plight as much
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by h34t 18y ago
"Regardless of what this reveals about my personality, it's true." Interesting. One thing I've seen in my personality -- something I didn't consciously choose to do, but I've observed enough times to know it's a part of me -- is that I am
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by h34t 18y ago
"All of the people I've known that I consider brilliant have also had an amazing amount of humility about what they didn't know, and have been fast to praise the achievements of others." I agree. I think this has something to do with the
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by h34t 18y ago
Interesting. So if a guy can learn how to do something quite inconsequential but extremely well -- is that a faster path to respect than doing a more difficult task in an average manner? Reminds me of a study I read some time ago about ho
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by h34t 18y ago
It sounds like he might have some great talents, but they're obviously not in the areas the startup hired him for (so he's misrepresenting himself?). I once worked with an amazingly talented, ambitious young guy who ended up causing extreme
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by h34t 18y ago
How do you define competence? Competence seems like a word that can mean anything, just as long as the job is done. Do you respect certain kinds of competence (ie. coding) more than others (ie. political maneuvering)? For a politician, bein
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by h34t 18y ago
Hmm. Do you try and respect everyone purely for personal happiness reasons, or do you really believe that everybody should be respected, no matter what kind of person they are?
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Ask HN: Who do you respect, and why?
17 points by h34t 18y ago|51 comments
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by h34t 18y ago
It's not a pitch, it's an ice-breaker. A signal of intent. The equivalent of cracking a smart joke to the girl next to you at the bar: You both know what you're after, but neither of you can know whether you want to be with each other until
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by h34t 18y ago
Many a marriage has started with an offhand comment about the weather, just to break the ice.
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by h34t 18y ago
Yup, stopped after I quit the app. Intel chip, 10.5.4, Macbook Pro.
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by h34t 18y ago
That was my bad. I typed in # characters in place of 'a''s.
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by h34t 18y ago
Somehow your #pp h#s t#ken over my keybo#rd. Every time I try #nd type #n "#" (# being pronounced "eh"), your #pp comes to the foreground. It is very #nnoying.
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by h34t 18y ago
Update... Evoca 'web voicemail': $30/year for individuals/businesses/bloggers who are OK with Evoca branding on everything and are limited to 180 minutes of recording storage. I don't know if there's a business here (though Snapvine raised
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by h34t 18y ago
Thanks.. (the link was down earlier)
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How to accept voicemail on your blog?
1 points by h34t 18y ago|1 comments
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by h34t 18y ago
"We have determined that this application is of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod touch user community, and will not be published to the App Store." That's like Amazon saying "we won't sell your book, because it isn't of interest
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by h34t 18y ago
Anyone know what a "from-scratch" learning path would look like, to build a simple web app in Cappuccino? (ie. what are the 'knowledge prerequisites'?) I'm wondering whether only desktop developers will use this, or if it will be reasonable
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by h34t 18y ago
148-day-later-update: I may have been misguided here. There's a difference between being wrong, and being dishonest. Dishonesty implies deception -- intentionally misleading people. The pastor in my example misled people with wrong argument
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by h34t 18y ago
The short answer is yes -- you're missing profit . Doesn't matter how big a market is if you can't make money. The long answer: Let's both start businesses selling Miracle Fruit. Assume they cost $1 to produce no matter how many we buy, an
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by h34t 18y ago
I agree -- I'm just finishing up helping design a retail store for a new brand here in Calgary. With the right product/market mix, a retail store can be very profitable. (Which is why it's good that Blockbuster is trying to change their ret
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by h34t 18y ago
There's a good lesson in here -- if one moves beyond knee-jerk criticism of the CEO for blindness/idiocy. To him, Netflix is a marginal player lurking in a "tiny" $5.6b, while Blockbuster is the giant, going after the $27.2b. From this po
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by h34t 18y ago
I had to wait in line because I'd just gotten back from Asia and wasn't about to sign a 3-year BlackBerry contract when I could wait a couple weeks for the iPhone -- so by the time it arrived, I needed a phone badly. In front of me were a c
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by h34t 18y ago
Missing the point. This is not about how important your project is to "society" or how much risk there is of other people dying. This is about what goes on inside your head. When your brain decides how fast to make your heart pump, or how f
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by h34t 18y ago
Four parts ridiculous, one part true. 1. Young and inexperienced? That's the point . This is how you gain experience. Impressionable? Another word for "quick learners". 2. Sacrificing happiness? Not if it feels good to work on something yo
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by h34t 18y ago
Why do you think starting a company is less demanding than being a member of the Manhattan Project or Apollo teams? "Scale" is exactly the right word -- Apollo didn't happen because one person worked more insanely hard than anyone else had

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