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by jeromec 17y ago
I agree fundamentally with a lean startup approach. I think the only thing to be careful of is shortchanging yourself. I think there has to be enough put out to test and get feedback on. It will be different for every project. Some can be b
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by jeromec 17y ago
I'm mostly an information addict when I'm coding in long stretches. What works for me is taking breaks from focusing on logic, just any sort of different mental direction. That's where HN comes in really handy, and as a matter of fact it's
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by jeromec 17y ago
Unlike many of its neighbors, Texas has state laws that prohibited consumers from using home-equity lines of credit to increase borrowing to more than 80 percent of the value of their homes This certainly would fight inflationary/bubbly p
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More Than Goldman Sachs In SEC Gun Sight(forbes.com)
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by jeromec 17y ago
I have to say I'm impressed with the turnaround time to have hnhackers.com up rbitar. Sure it's a simple straightforward site, but it looks good. The original link was posted less than 24 hours ago . The domain name shouldn't have even pro
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by jeromec 17y ago
This is fantastic. I met a client a while ago and we took to each other warmly from the start. I found out she had MS. This is right up her alley, as she was explaining alternative treatments she tried which helped, although not yet endorse
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by jeromec 17y ago
I agree, but not because every participant wants in to YC. PG is the guiding anchor for the site. It's similar to how people speculate Digg would be different without Kevin Rose. These site creators are hosts. It's like going to someone's h
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by jeromec 17y ago
>most of us are perfectly capable of getting into nasty arguments on the internet. Perhaps more so than average people I agree, and I think that's what TheAmazingIdiot means by outliers. The intelligent thinkers that frequent HN have su
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by jeromec 17y ago
I could see that happening, namely with cars, which is why I think it's important to have a strong car manufacturing industry (and another reason to save GM). However, one caveat I think is we need to place higher importance on quality, not
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by jeromec 17y ago
I completely agree. I don't know where many jobs would come from, if not created by consumer demand. Even with a weakened dollar American workers will not be on par with Chinese workers, and there won't be enough high paying jobs to go arou
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by jeromec 17y ago
It's true that I tend to take a narrow economic view of exported 'service', but that's because the kinds of people displaced by this recession, and the ones likely left out of finding work in a transformed economy would not be the ones that
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by jeromec 17y ago
That's a good point. I suppose we could man some phone banks, and provide digital services as well (although this poses a challenge of learning the host customer's language, instead of expecting everything to be English). However, I still t
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by jeromec 17y ago
As that first link notes under Manufacturing: A total of 3.2 million -- one in six U.S. factory jobs -- have disappeared since the start of 2000. So, I think this trend would need to reverse. This recession alone has displaced 8 million.
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by jeromec 17y ago
Yes, but you can't export [many services]. So, I'm guessing we should prepare to welcome our new overlords here? Edited: to clarify "service" since people seem intent on downvoting. I wish people would make a counter comment rather than iss
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by jeromec 17y ago
I think what they are saying is that it can go from having properties of Newtonian fluid (like water) to something as stiff as a board under magnetic influence.
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by jeromec 17y ago
Watch the first video starting at about 1:10. From my understanding the material could have two properties -- being both soft and pliable, but also becoming hard as a board instantly upon impact as from a bullet.
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by jeromec 17y ago
After an hour, the strips were removed from the solution and baked in at oven at more than 1,000 degrees Celsius Am I the only one that thinks this would not be out of place in a comic book describing a hero making his costume?
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by jeromec 17y ago
I thought about the topic before posting, but I thought it was a dangerous sort of hacking.
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by jeromec 17y ago
The allegations were initially based on a classified document the government accidentally mailed to the former Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation lawyers. The classified document saw the light of day by accident. There was also a whistle blow
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One more try to modernize US surveillance laws for the Internet age(betanews.com)
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by jeromec 17y ago
My point is more about being good at something naturally. For example, I think Michael Arrington was always a natural to write Techcrunch, even if he never started it. Tiger Woods seems to be natural at golf (not that he didn't work hard, b
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by jeromec 17y ago
I mean VCs should invest in a higher number of startups, even if it's done by allowing less money per startup. At the very least they should have a simpler application process, with a clear decision time frame. These improvements would be h
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by jeromec 17y ago
> 172 startups is several times the number a VC partner would deal with in his career. I wish VCs would take note.
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by jeromec 17y ago
And to think Paul Graham initially resisted investing. He seems to know this stuff so well it seems natural.
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by jeromec 17y ago
I admit to not knowing who Ben Folds was until a few years ago when I stumbled onto an entertaining site called improveverywhere.com which did a prank imitating him, which of course somehow drew the attention of the real Ben Folds, and the
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by jeromec 17y ago
I didn't say anything about which language should be spoken on HN. I think the sticking point is the word "valid", and my opinion on that is that location does have bearing. Take my island example above. Would you argue that the meaning I a
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by jeromec 17y ago
Indian English is generally as valid as American English Perhaps when I'm in India. However, if you're in an English class in Britain or America I don't believe any instructor would say "everyone doesn't want to be an entrepreneur" is val
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by jeromec 17y ago
True. It's about specialization. You could also ask if programmers make good database administrators. Highly capable/experienced programmers that develop for the Web (like many on HN) will have some level of knowledge of all facets of the n
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by jeromec 17y ago
Discounting relativistic mass, yes. I'm not sure what the author's specific thoughts on that are; I was only pointing out my view, but your "debt is a hole in the wallet" is actually similar to what I'm proposing. The key is the object does
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by jeromec 17y ago
Yes, I think it has merit.

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