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by keating 18y ago
> Your kids need animal protein right up until their brains are done developing. It doesn't have to be very much animal protein, as little as a teaspoon a day does the trick This is utter nonsense on multiple levels. 1. Biochemically
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by keating 18y ago
The irony of being a prodigy is that it is indeed a facade, because it's not that the achievements are new, just that the achiever is. This is why it feels empty. Because although you did something a few years earlier than other people, lo
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by keating 18y ago
Alas that our minds learn by trial and error and not taking advice. In fact, the brightest people tend to be the ones who have a driving need to find out for themselves and not listen to what other people say about it.
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by keating 18y ago
"Would the top 1k most visited sites take a cool $1mm each, plus a committment from MicroSoft or Yahoo to drive traffic through their search engines to more than make up for the lost Google Traffic. After all, once consumers realized that G
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by keating 18y ago
The downmodding is for conflating grades with "deservedness" re: interning at your startup. First, if someone does the work, they should get the pay/equity, regardless of age. I say forget grades and jumping through other people's hoops. I
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by keating 18y ago
Over. Scheduled. On the flip side I think we should front-load education because kids hardly learn anything from jr. high onward, thanks to the hormone fairy. There are a few exceptions, of course.
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by keating 18y ago
Strange they haven't heard of antialiasing. And they're using ASP? I guess it's pretty clear that whatever advice they are giving you, it's not going to be technical; and that's underscored by their "guru"/speaker list of management types i
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by keating 18y ago
Good golly, that sounds like a lot more Angel money will soon be flittering about Mountain View and Seattle.
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by keating 18y ago
> The point is, what's going to happen under likely circumstances? In high-demand areas, it's likely housing prices will see another bubble. > it's not guaranteed that your home is going to double in value in five years. We're a
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by keating 18y ago
I concur. I see all these startups where I know I can do much better on the technical side, but I'm just not enthusiastic enough about the subject matter to actually put the time in to do it. It seems like a lot of these start-ups are th
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by keating 18y ago
> For instance, there's no guarantee a 400k house in Sacramento will be worth 800k in five years Sure, but based on historical events with housing in "great" areas, this can and does happen. If you buy right before a bubble, it can eve
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by keating 18y ago
Some items the article is glossing over: First, the rental value doesn't take into account inflation. House payments are fixed, which means it gets effectively cheaper every year. Meanwhile, rents keep increasing. This means that while y
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by keating 18y ago
I actually did this in 1997 IIRC. I tried using an animated GIF but it was too dithered and grainy, so I switched to JS and showing JPEG frames with a timeout so I could get 24-bit color instead of 8-bit.
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by keating 18y ago
Unfortunately the limit is going to be in the chipsets for that DDR2-667 RAM. PC2 5300 -- that is not a wide bus, 5.3 GB/s. That's the bottleneck.
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by keating 18y ago
It kind of reminds me of a salary history where a company wants to pay you according to how other companies value you, instead of making their own determination. It's like they don't know what to ask, so they went with what you came up with
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by keating 18y ago
With the load going up so much (causing the crashes) it also means the links expire faster. I would guess in under 10 minutes sometimes, maybe under 5.
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by keating 18y ago
The theoretical processor bandwidth is one thing; the actual throughput on motherboards with existing slow memory chips (DDR2-667 according to the specs page) is quite a different matter. This becomes a pretty big deal when you have that ma
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by keating 18y ago
This is kind of pointless without commensurate memory bandwidth. Those CPUs are just going to be waiting around doing nothing.
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by keating 18y ago
The trick is what to grow it on. Previous lab meat experiments used fetal calf serum. Engineering meat directly on a large scale is probably going to happen before a significant percentage of people ethically convert to animal-free lifestyl
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by keating 18y ago
I wouldn't call wanting to be able to get at your own data a "political" reason.
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by keating 18y ago
Mark Pilgrim (of Dive Into Python fame): http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-b... http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/26/essentials-2006 Cory Doctorow (of Mac tattoo on bicep fame): http://www.boingboing.net
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by keating 18y ago
Next: To get into that YC clone in India. You know, the one with armed guards that make sure you don't leave your cubicle before midnight. (Shamelessly copied from the real YC.)
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by keating 18y ago
Except the article states many "pretty good" groups were pushed out by "stellar" ones. That certainly indicates something can be improved, in the opinion of YC. Important distinction between "nothing wrong" (below threshold) and "nothing t
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by keating 18y ago
> keeping up with current events is wrong. Don't try to keep up. To the contrary, keeping up with events online gives you the ability to be proactive about acquiring knowledge, rather than waiting for what makes it though the filter o
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by keating 18y ago
You can reduce inequality by bringing one group up, or the other group down. Star Wars chose option B to bring balance to the force. Goodbye Jedi.
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by keating 18y ago
> and some were just a rung above you That's not necessarily the case. For some proposals, "[we] didn't understand the problem domain well enough to judge them" . Or didn't have the time to look at stuff you've done; or your demo.
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by keating 18y ago
> because them having written no code I'm curious as to how it was determined they were one of the best when they hadn't written anything yet. It seems a lot of proposals with code and demos got declined (not even looked at in some c
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by keating 19y ago
> "the only common factor in all your failed relationships is you" Yeah but that goes for everyone else too! And when you look at most of the people you have known for any length of time...
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by keating 19y ago
> If it doesn't sound compelling enough after the first sentence then you probably need to work on your pitch. How compelling do these sound... "Search engine" (Google) "Computer languages" (MS) "Directory of stuff on the web" (Yahoo)
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by keating 19y ago
> I don't have to worry about moving to Boston. I really dig SF =) If you're already there then you're pretty well off and with some networking your chances are good. The Boston groups move to SV afterward anyway because the investor

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