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by idiopathic 16y ago
Paul, thank you for adding your point of view, and I understand that it was a bad surprise to hear the bad news to late. But if I understood correctly: 1. he was not planning on applying to YC, you asked him to 2. he had a good living situa
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by idiopathic 16y ago
His one-liner was "ideas are worthless", and "great ideas are worth their weight in gold". I interpreted the latter as "great ideas are worth zero". So unless I misinterpreted the last part, his comment was the first with witty put downs. G
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by idiopathic 16y ago
People who say ideas are worthless have never had a worthwhile idea.
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by idiopathic 16y ago
This starts off well but then he damns them with faint praise. What is wrong with thinking the weak are right because they are weak? It is far better than everyone else's heuristic that might right. And if covering the viewpoints of those w
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by idiopathic 16y ago
No, it's because they were given a huge budget and told to spend it to hire and resource the best journalists. This started with the exodus of Arab journalists from the BBC world service, who downsized (Blair should have severely regretted
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by idiopathic 16y ago
You know Al Jazeera is reporting the truth because every side is complaining it is against them. Every Arab country - including my own, Bahrain, has thrown out Al Jazeera at one point or another, for being "anti". For the record, for the Is
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by idiopathic 16y ago
I think the original comentor meant that - beyond Egyptian government's own Twitter / social media blocking - the US government will not allow the Egyptian government to fall as it is a big supporter of regime. I agree with this assessment,
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Ask HN: Is there private iPaper-like tool?
1 points by idiopathic 16y ago|0 comments
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by idiopathic 16y ago
If someone has "what it takes to be a success in America", they should spend their time and talent on being a success at home rather than trying to convince US government officials that 1) they are not taking Americans' jobs, and for us Ara
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by idiopathic 16y ago
If they are anything like me, they are taking notes. Not only is this better than paper for taking down everything, but taking down everything helps me remember.
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by idiopathic 16y ago
You might be right that government can not do better than business, but this particular story is an example of where they can. If there really "are plenty of companies that are not selling insulin, so they would be interested to be able to
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by idiopathic 16y ago
We are hiring. We want people with either backend J2EE and EJB expertise, or front-end expertise in Struts 2. We love developers who know hot work remotely. Drop me a line on mohammad@patientsknowbest.com.
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by idiopathic 16y ago
The founders at our company are all remote, with developers spread across India, UK and USA. We are doing well, having won Seedcamp last year. It still amazes me the visceral reaction people have against remote working. This would be fine a
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by idiopathic 16y ago
As an acaedmic and an entrepreneur, I find it disappointing when people keep on saying that "ideas do not matter, only execution does". In my experience, it takes a long time and a lot of effort to do the research that generates a good idea
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by idiopathic 17y ago
I agree, the devil's advocates irritate me the most. It's not just the combative nature of the questioning (does no one know about the other five hats of de Bono!?), it's the underlying assumption by the "advocate" that they are doing me a
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by idiopathic 17y ago
With the (welcome) move to web architecture, free software is not as important as free data, i.e. the freedom to move your data to another provider. We may all be slaves, but we should have the freedom to choose our master. Like you, I woul
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by idiopathic 17y ago
I have heard many people say this. But to me it means one of two things: either the VCs are very good at taking credit for work done by the entrepreneur, or the entrepreneur is failing at their job. As a founder, it is my job to be the best
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by idiopathic 17y ago
What about using the other investors to blackmail management and then selling out these investors when management paid him off? When someone is this smart, the responsibility to be good is even more pressing and the condemnation for being b
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by idiopathic 17y ago
> Americans have become accustomed to cheap product, and gas, while at the same time turning a nose up at menial jobs I understand that cheap gas is bad for environment, but why are the other items in your list bad? Everyone who is doin
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Ask HN: should we be publishing screenshots?
6 points by idiopathic 17y ago|3 comments
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by idiopathic 17y ago
I don't know their reasoning for this awesome offer, but I do know that the company's founders are regularly invited as speakers because the company is an exemplar for recruiting and retaining good people. This seems like another innovative
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by idiopathic 17y ago
I don't understand the value of failing students in this way. At medical school I failed some exams but was allowed to retake them, and received coaching for one of the re-takes. (Relax, I had to prove I'd learned the material before I coul
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by idiopathic 17y ago
Exactly. The real distinction is republished with permission, and republished without permission. The beauty of GPL is that you explicitly give permission. On a wider rant, the open source movement is not for people who want to ignore copyr
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by idiopathic 17y ago
Posting your content in RSS means you allow anyone to read it. It does not mean you have granted permission for it to be copied and reposted - as the copyright holder, others have to ask you for the right to copy the content. The fact that
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by idiopathic 17y ago
Er... do these lawyers still exist? Fortunately I never met one, and if I did, I could never afford their inefficiency. Every lawyer I ever worked with used Microsoft Word for all their documents.
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by idiopathic 17y ago
They understand revision control because it is built into Word... But my previous lawyer would send the document to me and to my CFO, each of us would make changes and I would talk to the lawyer on the phone. Soon there were three versions
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Teach your lawyer to sign contracts electronically(blog.patientsknowbest.com)
17 points by idiopathic 17y ago|7 comments
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by idiopathic 17y ago
Exactly, I thought the allegations were not that they made up the numbers but that they swapped around one candidate's votes for another. Very cool law though, it will come in useful in the future.
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by idiopathic 17y ago
Thank you for this list - I liked reading The Knack so will explore the others. I disagree with you about your examples of exceptional circumstances. Anyone can raise 350k or be stuck in a lift with Jeff Bezos if they do the hard around it.
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by idiopathic 17y ago
I think it's supposed to be Gregor Mendel, the Belgian monk who did experiments on peas to identify heritable traits. Pair a tall bean with another tall bean, you get a long offspring bean. This is where the phrase mendelian genetics comes

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