izaidi

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by izaidi 18y ago
Murder is usually an act of weakness, not courage.
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by izaidi 18y ago
It's pretty elegant in principle, but you might lose whatever usability points you gain with the multi-use form by having to explain to the user that it's meant for both signup and login. I can't think of a really simple way to do that.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Point taken. I suppose for some it's a matter of degrees -- determination doesn't imply being an asshole, but sometimes really pushing yourself can lead you to take energy from the things you'd be doing to make the people around you happy a
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by izaidi 18y ago
Thanks for finding that. I thought this was interesting: "I used to be really easy, always happy and always laid back as an 8-5'er working for the 'man,' but now I realize I have actually become sort of an asshole. Unfortunately, the realit
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by izaidi 18y ago
Mind if we see it, if it's still around?
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by izaidi 18y ago
I suppose I didn't explicitly say that "young pg" would be into hero worship, but I didn't mean to imply the opposite -- I just thought it was a silly thing to be talking about. I was trying to reframe the argument and I guess I didn't succ
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by izaidi 18y ago
I don't agree with him -- I have a ton of respect for pg (and I happen to really like this word cloud), but I'm relatively new here and I didn't want to act like I was speaking for people who've been following his work longer and more close
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by izaidi 18y ago
I'm not really one of the people to whom the question is being posed, but my guess is 23-year-old pg would be too busy working on his startup to care about, let alone get "sick" about, what complete strangers choose to spend their time bein
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by izaidi 18y ago
It's not really the same, because everyone is exposed to design all the time, whereas only coders ever look at code. It's more like being able to tell if music is good -- most people have a decent sense for it, but a musician's taste is a l
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by izaidi 18y ago
SearchYC.com provides a feed of each user's comments: http://searchyc.com/user/kirubakaran?only=comments&sort=...
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by izaidi 18y ago
I would use this. It'd be cool if the blog posts are voteable so that the really interesting ones can bubble up to the front page as actual news.yc entries.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I use Crucial ( http://crucial.com ). Usually pretty cheap and the service is terrific.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Quickly building up a portfolio and applying for gigs worked well for me. One thing I noticed was that small companies and startups are impressed if you've built one or two cool apps whereas larger companies are more interested in the size
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by izaidi 18y ago
That's good to hear -- I ran a paper in college and it was an awesome experience. This is such a hugely transformational period in publishing that knowing the ins and outs of the business makes you aware of how many opportunities there are
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by izaidi 18y ago
Get heavily involved in a campus organization that suits your interests. If such an organization doesn't exist, start one.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I don't think the article makes enough sense to be called socialism. It sounds more like what would happen if you gave a 12-year-old a copy of Google's mission statement and a Wikipedia article about Joseph Schumpeter and said, "Misundersta
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by izaidi 18y ago
"I'm really, really insecure about my intellect."
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by izaidi 18y ago
Maybe the pitch was from the inventor of Bulletball. The guy does have the same first name.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I'd pay $20 per month for FFFFOUND, because of the high quality of the community.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I was thinking the same thing. It wasn't too long ago that the only mainstream coverage of this stuff was the occasional Kurzweil-centric fluff piece along the lines of "Hey, this crazy guy says we'll live forever soon." I wonder if the sin
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by izaidi 18y ago
It's wrong to say technology is making thought more shallow. What's happening is the digestion of information is becoming a heavily collaborative process instead of a strictly personal one.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Effectiveness is the ability to get stuff done without screwing up. It doesn't really need to be more complicated than that.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I'd recommend a listing on the 37signals Job Board ( http://jobs.37signals.com/ ). It costs $300 for a 30-day job listing or $100 for a gig listing, but it'll get you by far the highest quality crop of applicants.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I really like the idea, but are you sure you'd be able to sell enough milk and cookies to make up for the cost of running the place? Seems like the only way to make it work would be to sell "gourmet" cookies and overprice them, and that kin
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by izaidi 18y ago
Its interface is what I find most impressive about it, but functionality-wise the commenting and reviewing features are really nice -- there's a floating icon that lets you nestle comments into the margin and if you click on a comment it sp
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Buzzword, Adobe's slick new online text editor(buzzword.acrobat.com)
3 points by izaidi 18y ago|4 comments
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by izaidi 18y ago
That's what the "less" implies, though, isn't it? "n times less" always means 1/n times as much (i.e., smaller by a factor of n).
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by izaidi 18y ago
Oh, neat. I didn't know you'd implemented RSS feeds.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I started making a simple app that scrapes your (or any other user's) HN activity and turns it into an RSS feed, but I didn't finish it, partly because I don't post here much. Following multiple users is a cool idea that didn't occur to me,
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by izaidi 18y ago
Yes. Fractions, dude.

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