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by itmag 15y ago
It may be an old saw but I sure never heard it before. Thanks. I'm curious about anarchist thought on libraries, mind telling me more?
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Yeah, it's better to write "remarkable", which is an analog property.
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That would be like Gmail requiring a $10 fee / year. Much less appealing than free(mium). Sure, public libraries are obviously not zero-cost, just as someone (most likely people who buy ads) pays for Gmail at some point, but they both fe
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by itmag 15y ago
Hipster.com obviously used this tool: http://bplan.lensu.com/?plan=7BfKD Any ideas on how to leverage mobile and ubiquitize pivotal synergy in value-added hipsterspace? I believe clownsourced NoSQL might hold the key to scaling idiosyncra
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Can startups solve this problem somehow? After all, there is a market need for libraries, it just might not be obvious since it's somewhat hidden by the taxation model. What would a free-market public library look like? And I'm not thinki
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I wonder if YC would take a porn startup?
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by itmag 15y ago
Yes, exactly: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3583136 I think the optimum thing would be to have utter Certainty in localized settings, whilst retaining a good check on sanity on the global level. While trying to woo a lady, you don't
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Is there a good "algorithm" for discovering these needs? Is it mostly CRUD software or are there more exciting opportunities? (Much of the draw of the startup dream for me is the chance to work on sexy non-CRUDdy stuff).
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by itmag 15y ago
My take on honesty: I'm not comfortable being incongruent (ie having a mismatch between my inner state and outer communication). Even a relatively small amount of incongruence (ie minor sucking-up to unworthy bosses, things of that nature)
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The people who get things done in this world are often, but not always, cocksure bastards who never second-guess themselves. They may live their entire lives in epistemological error but they don't give a rat's ass since they succeed at lay
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Some things that hammered home this understanding for me (in order of reputability): LessWrong.com, Myers-Briggs Type Indicators, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, PUA. These days, I mostly understand that there are always many perspectives and
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by itmag 15y ago
Yeah, there's a lot of cached thoughts in UI design. Someone should start an open source lab that sets out to explore and test new design patterns in that space, without any preconceived notions of what should and should not work.
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by itmag 15y ago
John Robb has been on a drone trip lately: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02... http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02... http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02...
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by itmag 15y ago
Tell me more!
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Very cool. Let's say I wanted to create something like this with 10 of my friends. What would it cost, ballpark-wise?
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What if it preloads illegal content and you get busted for it?
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Would be interesting to hear how you scale a semi-automated business like that?
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There's a lot of different ones of course... off the top of my head: No more Mr Nice Guy by Robert Glover. I also like Personal development for smart people by Steve Pavlina. Tom Butler-Bowdon has a series of books that summarize all the ma
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by itmag 15y ago
Reading self help materials has been one of the major turning points in my life. Without self-help materials I would still have been a somewhat gifted kid but also a total mess of a human being. Thanks to self help I am becoming more and mo
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by itmag 15y ago
I'm very interested in the metaphysics of wealth. Does anyone have any tips on that? I have a copy of Georg Simmel's "The philosophy of money", which is supposed to be about that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Simmel#The_Philosophy_of
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by itmag 15y ago
Well, I think I could swing it. What kills me right now is not my meager salary, but rather that it takes so much damn time to acquire it. And most of that is unnecessary time. Working hard and playing hard is more my melody, I dislike the
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by itmag 15y ago
I use todo lists too. I just don't consider them important areas to tweak/optimize. One productivity product that I did like: The time of your life, by Tony Robbins. But it's very different from GTD type stuff, as it focuses more on figurin
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Programming ability == quality of mental model, IMHO. A mental model is essentially a map, and there are many types of maps. More on this: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=316
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by itmag 15y ago
Thanks, great feedback. What are some highly specialized niches that I could look into for consulting? I actually don't care that much about money, in absolute terms. I care about maximizing my free time and maintaining a somewhat decent st
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by itmag 15y ago
I would say I'm close to 7, with a lot of peeking ahead toward levels 8 and 9. It's an interesting way to look at prowess. Instead of looking at specific languages/technologies, we look at the progression of understanding. Ie how rich, effi
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Personally, I'm very bitter/blasé toward any talk of todo systems, because the problem most often does not exist at that level. The main thing for my productivity has been figuring out what I want and don't want in life. That's a big rabbit
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I think there is a big psychological difference between hackers and "normals": the former see the data as just as a placeholder for the code to grab on to, whereas the latter see the data as important and the code as the ancillary thing. I
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by itmag 15y ago
The bitches who got offended over this are drama queens who should get the sand out of their vaginas and redirect their attention to something worthier than petty trifles and smallminded grudgebearing.
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by itmag 15y ago
I wonder if the part about removing critical thoughts and going into flow would be good for people with poor social skills? Perhaps it would be a way to "get into state", as it's known in the PUA world.
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by itmag 15y ago
Someone, please make some kits for this and sell online. :)

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