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by itmag 15y ago
Yeah, they were productive. At mayhem and conquest :)
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by itmag 15y ago
This is not really true. Only 100-70 years ago Sweden was a very classist society with quite severe internal conflicts (workers were gunned down by the military in an incident in the 30s for instance). In the 17th century Sweden was an impe
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by itmag 15y ago
I would say that 30% of Facebook's engineers are top notch, and 70% are just average php and javascript developers. Pet peeve of mine: why is the word "engineer" thrown around so much on HN? Is it meant to distinguish a certain class of p
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by itmag 15y ago
A lot of people can be very creative and able to execute projects, but still not have what it takes to run a startup. Consider all the regular Joes and Janes being highly creative and structured in leading World of Warcraft guilds, for inst
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by itmag 15y ago
Most were primarily visual thinkers. Some were also kinesthetic. Speaking of visual-kinesthetic thinkers, this is kinda interesting: http://www.nlplive.com/nlp/tim-ferriss-mind-hack-by-mr-twent...
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by itmag 15y ago
Required reading for young people: http://tynan.com/youngpeople
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by itmag 15y ago
Might as well take the chance to go slightly off-topic: anyone here a skill acquisition nerd? What methods do you utilize to gain more "I know Kung Fu" moments in life? :)
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by itmag 15y ago
Intellisense. Not a huge fan of C# but that part is awesome.
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by itmag 15y ago
What does a cabbie do if the customer wants to be driven somewhere outside of London? Do they fall back to GPS in that case? Anyone know?
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by itmag 15y ago
Thanks, that was it.
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by itmag 15y ago
One strategy I've used is what I call a social honeypot. Ie create a project (in my case a magazine) which attracts a passive "income" of new acquaintances who are automatically selected (because they bothered to contact you) for compatibil
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by itmag 15y ago
Related: holon theory. http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/05... Holons are more ineffective than streamlined processes (eg JIT inventory) but they are much more resilient and adaptable.
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by itmag 15y ago
True. Relations and community were much important in the Ancient world. Consider that the word "idiot" originally meant someone who didn't see the point of politics. Also consider the system of patrons and clients that existed in Ancient Ro
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by itmag 15y ago
If those older workers and others are equally or more skilled than the younger ones implied by your question, smart companies will realize the discrepancy and hire them. The invisible hand of self-interest only works if smarter contenders
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by itmag 15y ago
So I asked him an even simpler question: Given a binary search tree, write code to find a particular value. If you can't find the value, then return me the next smallest value. For example, if the tree contains 1, 2, 3, and 5, and I ask fo
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by itmag 15y ago
I just got a mental image of Eliezer Yudkowski and Linda Hamilton assaulting IBM headquarters at night with the help of a buff Austrian combat cyborg.
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by itmag 15y ago
Is there some way to use this for personal gain? Ie I don't want to become a London cabbie but I do want to improve my brain.
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Dude, I am very interested in this. When are you launching?
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by itmag 15y ago
According to a podcast I listened to once (can't remember the source but my best guess is Mixergy), the best way to utilize Groupon is to have a plan for customer retention and upselling. Not just attract a bunch of coupon-hunters who just
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by itmag 15y ago
I find this kind of embodied cognition fascinating. Feng shui, anyone? What are some good reading tips in this area?
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by itmag 15y ago
I tend to think that socialized medicine is a great cost hedge Of course, for this to work, there has to be a lot, possibly the majority, of super-payers who pay more into the health care system via their taxes than they receive back. So,
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by itmag 15y ago
I tend to think that socialized medicine is a great cost hedge for the individual citizen (ie even in Scandinavia we do pay for health care, so it's not 100% free like some people believe, but the cost is predictable and it can't ever get s
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by itmag 15y ago
Comments here seem to be about the importance of demonstrating competence. While this is of course important, I feel that it's equally important to make sure you actually want to work in an organization. This means fitting in, tolerating
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by itmag 15y ago
Does this mean a person can potentially get tested for this, and find out that they have a free pass to smoke as much as they want?
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by itmag 15y ago
It was just a remark on poor health in general.
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by itmag 15y ago
I look around at my colleagues and see apparent misuse of the body. Carbs and fat for lunch every day, smoking, no exercise, sitting in a chair all day long, buckets of coffee, stress, poor posture and body alignment, doing the same shit ev
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by itmag 15y ago
Ouch. It stings me 'cause it's true. I am always thinking up ideas but I realize now that I lack domain knowledge for most of them. See here: http://ideashower.posterous.com/ The area where I do have a lot of domain knowledge would be per
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Startup idea: web-based news TV channel with experts reporting on stuff (with votes).
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It's not like the bullshitters think they are telling the truth either. They've just accepted a toxic environment and decided to become callous and hard. I don't this is always a clear-cut choice. Sure, one can decice to say "fuck 'em" and
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Partly it's humility. The more I learn, the more I learn how much I don't know. The more people I meet, the more I realize how awesome people are. Self-promotion in this context feels false. Heh, as long as you think this, you paradoxical

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