jmzachary

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   by jmzachary 19y ago

   PG missed a couple of points in this essay. First, the proliferation of PODS and self-strorage businesses (at least in my part of the country) is further evidence that people have too much stuff. In my neighborhood, folks with two car garag
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   by jmzachary 19y ago

   In case nobody tells you today, this is a damn good post.
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   by jmzachary 19y ago

   Geezus, the guy is entitled to an opinion about a technology that he has used to deploy a website. You must really care because you bothered to post some dickish response.
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   by jmzachary 20y ago

   I'm wondering if this reply is a joke because none of those areas are still in their infancy, especially parallel processing and speech processing. If you really meant to say that their potential hasn't been realized, then is it possible th
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   by jmzachary 20y ago

   What is left that is interesting to do in CS? Why is it "completely ridiculous" to suggest that everything interesting in CS has been done? Disprove it by example.
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   by jmzachary 20y ago

   What is Phil Mickelson doing there on a Segwell?
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   by jmzachary 20y ago

   37 and smarter than you little snot-nosed whipper-snapper holligans! And turn the music down!
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   by jmzachary 20y ago

   It's great how each generation re-discovers the wisdom of Franklin. Unfortunately, it's sad how they fail to follow it.
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   by jmzachary 20y ago

   Jessica captured great material and didn't get in the way doing it. Each chapter was clearly focused on the target story, not Jessica's agenda. She did a great job facilitating the QA. This makes the book useful and enjoyable, and n
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    by jmzachary 20y ago

    This book and "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" by Baltasar Gracian (http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/aww/) are my two favorite books I've read repeatedly for over 20 years. It sounds very cheesy, but they are both like a road map for my l
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    by jmzachary 20y ago

    I saw this on reddit earlier. It's an omen.
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    by jmzachary 20y ago

    Have you discovered an upper bound? The commonly held belief is that people over X (where 30 < X 35?) can't start startups because they have kids and a mortgage, or they just aren't in-tune with what's hip. Curiously, that excludes peop
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    by jmzachary 20y ago

    There's risk and then there's prudent risk. Taking a 12 month sabbatical to focus on the startup would be a prudent risk. And, it's going all the way, just for 12 months. If you don't know in 12 months if the business will succeed, it proba
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    by jmzachary 20y ago

    Please don't. I vote for the simple, straightforward design you currently have.
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    by jmzachary 20y ago

    Absolutely! Creativity is as important, if not more so, than technical skill.
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    by jmzachary 20y ago

    Couldn't you have taken a sabbatical? I mean, did you just totally walk away from it? I took a sabbatical for a year from a PhD in CS to pursue some medical science ideas, then went back when they didn't go far enough to make a living on. N
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    by jmzachary 20y ago

    Yes, really. That's not to say I'm uninterested in the role that news.ycombinator will play in their application process, too. Once word gets out, it will be very interesting to see what kind of traffic is posted and how the signal/noise ra
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    by jmzachary 20y ago

    I don't know if it's the best, but it's the only one I use. It's simple interface is what I find most useful about it. If I need more (which is rare), I use the GIMP.
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    by jmzachary 20y ago

    Thanks for the rationale. I'm most interested in the ARC aspect of the site.