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by jhancock 17y ago
inspiration? or motivation? I find that inspiration mostly makes me daydream of all the wonderful things I'm "going to do". I find I usually need motivation to get them done. I find that precursors to motivation, for me, are be happy and g
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by jhancock 17y ago
That's more motivation or responsibility than inspiration. But I use that technique too and it does work in many cases.
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by jhancock 17y ago
sysadmin duties is not always a full-time job. I have a single server in production (4 cores, 8GB, RAID-1). I own it and pay a reasonably-low monthly fee to run it at a good data center through a small provider that has solid skills to ba
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by jhancock 17y ago
Focusing on "SQL" being a problem is misguided. The amount of SQL knowledge needed to achieve basic CRUD/REST behavior takes about an hour to learn. More advanced SQL takes much longer but most of these new DBs don't allow for queries tha
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by jhancock 17y ago
They certainly did not make politically difficult decisions over the last decade, which would have been to cool off the growth. They generally only make these difficult decisions in hard times, not good times.
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by jhancock 17y ago
cool, then all these foreign property holders can pay the taxes that support our schools and other social services. Ownership does come at a cost ;).
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by jhancock 17y ago
The quotes from Cheng Siwei come across just fine. I read it as pretty honest with a tinge of political cover. There is nothing in these quotes that is incorrect. They played a game that had this as its only outcome. Both the U.S. and C
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by jhancock 17y ago
nope, I don't believe them. If the debt bubble were limited to subprime loans, its a big correction to take on, but we could get through it...real estate would be cheap for a couple of decades; cool, there is actually some value in that.
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by jhancock 17y ago
I agree. However, your leaving out a large part of the debt structure. Well, you point to it a bit "They then made bad economic decisions based on the false idea that it was real". If it were only values of homes that dropped, it wouldn'
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by jhancock 17y ago
Perhaps a bilingual Chinese person could weigh in on this. For this exercise, we are concerned with the language in their head, not what they say when they talk to another. I'm guessing they think in terms of math notation with word-numbe
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by jhancock 17y ago
"it’s the reason that U.S. phone numbers have seven digits" I used to believe these sorts of things until living in China and noticing cell numbers are 11 in length and Chinese don't have a problem remembering loads of them. I saw an artic
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by jhancock 17y ago
who cares. this is between their lawyers and Apple's.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Its interesting to see consumption so low. Its my understanding there is a "last mile" problem with providing solar to homes and small business. There are not enough companies making it easy for the small adopter. Its certainly not at th
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by jhancock 17y ago
1 - dreamhost for blogs and random stuff to help out friends. 2 - dedicated server managed by a small hosting company in a solid IDC for my money focused projects. Since I bought the server 4 years ago, I'll stick with it until it dies. T
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by jhancock 17y ago
I've been very happy with dreamhost. Their control panel handles wordpress backups and upgrades seamlessly. I just backed up and upgraded three wp sites, it took less than 5 minutes.
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by jhancock 17y ago
I'm sure his educational background is useful. His experience in running Novel and fighting Microsoft is most likely what helps most. I've seen tech companies run by very smart PHD's and not run well. I'm not sure there's a correlation.
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by jhancock 17y ago
yes, that was my point. He wasn't a founder and has done a great job. My point was simply that I disagree with Andressen in that your job as a founder and to investors is to keep an open mind. If you have what it takes to be CEO, do it.
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by jhancock 17y ago
You think Eric Schmidt has done a bad job leading Google? You really think two guys with zero experience even working for, much less leading, a company wouldn't have slipped up by now? I think it very wise Larry and Serge enabled Schmidt
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by jhancock 17y ago
There is a market of at least 1, me, for a graphics editor that a smart (I understand the nature of graphics files), but non-trained (in photoshop) person can use. I've tried pixelmator a few times, but I have absolutely no idea how to use
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by jhancock 17y ago
I can't think of a single reason to pay credit card level interest. If you get free interest for a limited period and manage that extremely well, I suppose that's a cool trick. Any other use is a fools game.
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by jhancock 17y ago
If economists ever expect us to view them even remotely in the same league as scientists, they may want to start by dropping the approach of trying to "persuade" and move on towards "proof". Krugman's not bad, he writes good mainstream stuf
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by jhancock 17y ago
In U.S. patent law, it already is a crime to file a patent whereby you know you are not the inventor or know there is prior art. I have not heard of a case where such a violation was punished. Any legal experts on here no of one? Probably
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by jhancock 17y ago
Most people savvy enough to make international investments have setup structures that ensure they don't pay any tax at all. Forcing the issue and making everyone pay where the value is generated would be a win for each country. The U.S. h
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by jhancock 17y ago
I think by that time, China and India will be well embroiled in trying to overtax as well. Do not assume the U.S. position is unique in that somehow the water here makes our brains fuzzy. It is simply a case of position relative to others
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by jhancock 17y ago
I like part of your idea, but really, just go ahead and let anyone sign in and sort introductions based on where you are if that's your point. Why the exclusionary school thing? Isn't your point to enable people to find each other based on
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by jhancock 17y ago
I don't mean regret having "not" done it. I'm talking about regrets from doing things and "failing" or fear of that happening.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Just based on the title, I'd have to say "more probable than any other state". I should probably have flagged this article, but 'eh.
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by jhancock 17y ago
thats what I assumed...you got momma to back you up, she's not gonna let her child starve ;). go for it!!
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by jhancock 17y ago
So long as you have someone to stay with and feed you to recuperate after its all over, you should go for it. The only thing that should stop you is knowing that you would actually be living on the street when its over and have little way
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by jhancock 17y ago
The problem is you do not know if its something you regret until you have the regret. From my experience, the more regrets you accumulate, the more you learn to not have them and enjoy the process of life.

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