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by jgord 10y ago
Im a developer, but also paint seriously in bursts when I have chunks of free time between projects and the urge takes me - some of my work on : theartispainting.com I can say firstly that making a reasonable copy of a face or old master pa
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by jgord 10y ago
Indeed, I think a text mode button is a needed and worthy UI addition in FF and chrome.
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..because the fact that your _paying_ them, along with the general morality, is in itself not enough of an inducement.
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complete waste of time - even if you do all that, you'll be back next year or two and do it all again.
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by jgord 10y ago
I just want to personally thank Slava for his exceptional work over the past few years - at every step him and his team have been classy and professional, and brought real creativity and intelligence to the world of databases and startups.
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by jgord 10y ago
Can you describe a use case where postgres performs badly, or why you prefer XYZ ? In my experience, on commercial projects, using 9.4+ postgres GIN tag/keyword search index is very fast over data on the order of 30 to 100 million reco
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by jgord 10y ago
Surely measurable ? perhaps github stats are indicative - http://githut.info/ Anecdotally I would have expected Javascript to be near the top of hours being used.
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by jgord 10y ago
Definitely look around beyond the Big4 hype, find a funded startup where you could be a larger fish in a smaller pond. You should be able to find a better culture fit - nice work, nice people, value life after work etc. Don't believe
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by jgord 10y ago
When my son was 5 or 6 I had a great discussion about salt containers - the little one you have on the table, the big packet in the pantry, the pallet that gets delivered to the supermarket, the vast piles of salt at the salt mine, and all
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by jgord 10y ago
Another way to get this point across is - The overall growth rate is ~2%, but if you happen to be very wealthy, the growth rate you experience [ on capital ] is ~6% to ~10%.
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Should we make it a policy not to link paywall urls ?
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Capital in the 21C - Thomas Piketty Because it changes the way you see the world.
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by jgord 10y ago
Piketty argues, from extensive historical data, that the hi growth of the 1950s-1970s was unusual, and low growth is the norm. So we might want to look at another aspect, such as how wealth is distributed - the low growth rate tends to acce
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by jgord 10y ago
wow.. that seems unduly aggressive and unnecessary, almost spiteful. If its not illegal, then perhaps it should be.
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sure, but I would recommend to keep reading in any case - Stallman is perhaps more 'pure' or 'left' than most of us on software rights, but I think his worldview is interesting and he does raise worthy points. It could b
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by jgord 11y ago
au contraire, the problem is windows thinks it owns the machine I bought for the sole purpose of running linux.
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by jgord 11y ago
But isn't this largely a social / psychological problem - I assume around 70% of people who commute spend 70% of their time in front of a computer.. so could work from home 3 days per week, if it was socially acceptable to do that
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by jgord 11y ago
I think we should find a way to take the best content from Math Circles and get that to far more students in a digestible format. Drilling down even further, if the Question is "what is the _single_ most useful thing that can be done t
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by jgord 11y ago
I think when 3D printing can print electronics and metals embedded with plastics at good resolution, then we will see most consumer goods 3D printed whole, rather than being assembled, reducing their cost substantially. This is more short t
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by jgord 11y ago
I can barely begin to imagine what you've been thru, I was evicted from a flat once and that was incredibly stressful - but we had a support network and were helped out and got back on our feet. This is one of the reasons I feel visce
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by jgord 11y ago
> What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone? I agree with the fundamental dogma that startups are the best way we know to create good technology, which in turn benefits everyone. ie. the big wealth creators are discoverin
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by jgord 11y ago
I genuinely don't know how a couple could raise one child on $30k/yr - is rent cheap where you live ? If you had have asked me what a couple needs to raise a kid in the US, I would have guessed 80k.. maybe 60k if they are very car
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by jgord 11y ago
Its possible the internet has solved some of that benefit of closeness, but that socially we haven't yet caught up, but will gradually. eg. Having good broadband plus good VR goggles and cameras might make remote working much more imme
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by jgord 11y ago
I think the packaging is incredibly important - negative income / social welfare are packaged in a way that telegraphs dependency and low self-worth. [ I would also be really interested in seeing an economic analysis of how much money
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by jgord 11y ago
There are some forms of work that are useful to society and rewarding, which don't pay enough to live on - volunteering in a hospice or school for example. In this case the person doing the work might both derive self-worth and view th
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by jgord 11y ago
I wonder that even if these (talented but poor) people have internet access, they just wouldn't be thinking of even looking for these kinds of opportunities - I assume they would be spending all their time hunting for more traditional
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by jgord 11y ago
no, no I didnt mean they were excluding them - I just assume that those people are not spending their time on HN, and are unaware of YC [ and other funding / investment / scholarships generally ] due to their surrounding environme
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by jgord 11y ago
As a practical experiment in Inequality, I invite YC to expand your incredible program into a third group : invite some college graduates from the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in america, fund them to work in small teams on their
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by jgord 11y ago
yes PG, but .. Inequality is a pretty good proxy for all the 'evils' we really want to address - If we could turn one knob to fix things, we would turn down the big one marked "Inequality". I think the high emotion aroun
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by jgord 11y ago
I'm more than skeptical towards M$, I have a deep deep aversion to anything they are associated with - based on decades of using their products and wrangling their apis as a developer. Every time I use firefox or libre-office or linux

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