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by klunger 12y ago
This phenomenon was identified in the academic literature on entrepreneurship some time ago. It is called "effectuation". This site has a decent explanation of why and how it occurs: http://effectuation.org/
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by klunger 12y ago
Yes, that is a great point, I should have been more clear. I am tired of this narrative in the mainstream media. From a brief glance at the study, it looked like it took a more nuanced and scientific view.
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by klunger 12y ago
I'm getting tired of this "nerds" vs "cool kids" narrative. It is a false dichotomy. Kids fall all over the map in terms of behavior and social groups as they grow up. Case in point: I was a quiet "nerd" a
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by klunger 12y ago
A version of this which focused on drink ingredients could be a (perhaps more easily manageable) implementation of this idea.
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Chris Nolan’s Interstellar and the irresistible pull of out there(arstechnica.com)
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The day I left my son in the car(salon.com)
108 points by klunger 12y ago|218 comments
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by klunger 12y ago
This was a great article. I just wanted to add the logical extension: the need to be flexible and a willingness to "pivot." The process of getting your product out there manually can give really focused user feedback that will hel
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by klunger 12y ago
You said basically what I was thinking. I just want to add the importance of _experience_ in differentiating the two. With more experience, I think you can become a better software engineer/developer. With computer science, it seems to
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by klunger 12y ago
Right you are. There is so much cultural cross-over that I forget that sometimes.
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by klunger 12y ago
I've had the same experience in Norway. Maybe it is a Northern European thing? Edited: Scandinavian -> Norther Europe
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by klunger 12y ago
Wow. I am not sure what all the downvotes are about. I am an American who is married to a Norwegian and have lived in Norway for a few years now. I never used the phrase when I lived in the US, but picked it up here. "Ufda" is a p
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by klunger 12y ago
Ufda.
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In Norway: http://www.ssb.no/en
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by klunger 12y ago
When I was a kid, my parents took me to Disney World. It was a long time ago, childhood amnesia and so on, so forgive the fuzzy details here... But basically, they had a very early version of virtual reality (a headset a la Oculus Rift). Th
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by klunger 12y ago
I have one humanities degree (Japanese Studies) and one STEM degree (Aerospace Engineering), both from good schools in those respective domains. So, I feel in a unique position to comment on this. I enrolled in the engineering program secon
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Ask HN: Who is hiring remote workers?
2 points by klunger 12y ago|1 comments
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by klunger 12y ago
"If you want to know what the price of freedom looks like, go to a V.A. waiting room — wheelchairs, missing limbs, walking wounded, you get all of the above." That quote just really drove it home for me.
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by klunger 12y ago
This is a topic I have been thinking about a lot lately, so this article is quite timely. I was a bad programmer for a long time. For a few years, I was an engineer and basically wrote quick and dirty matlab or python scripts to do physics
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by klunger 12y ago
OK, a few things. 1. Patents are very VERY specific. Someone can have a patent for Thing A and you can make Thing B that is quite similar to Thing A, with just a few minor adjustments, and it is not an infringement. This is why there are to
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by klunger 12y ago
I'm American, but have lived in Scandinavia for a couple years now. When I incorporated my bitty start-up last year, I could choose between incorporating here or in the US. Despite the higher tax burden, I ultimately decided to incorpo
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by klunger 12y ago
I used to work in aerospace, specifically satellite data processing. A couple thoughts: - Their core team does not have anyone with space experience. Success and knowledge from other sectors (looks like they all come from the security secto
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by klunger 12y ago
Carousels are definitely overused, but they can still be a solid choice, depending on your design goals. If you just want to make people look at more ads, then most people will not bother. But, I clicked all the way through before reading t
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by klunger 12y ago
Real first name! I was a Starbucks barista back in college. This is very useful for keeping orders straight when it is busy. If 20 people are in line and the baristas are running around trying to make the drinks, and 7 of those people order
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The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction(buzzfeed.com)
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by klunger 12y ago
I was surprised that the author did not include the Puritan American work ethic as a possible explanation. That is, the idea that work = virtue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic
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by klunger 12y ago
For everyone that was confused by the Coke bottle thing... I am pretty sure it was a hat-tip to Andy Warhol, who is probably someone the author studied in design school. The quote / idea is pretty well known in those circles. http:&#
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Who wants to start a hacker house?(buildingdetroit.org)
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by klunger 12y ago
It is interesting that ;-) was "crying" (instead of a wink and smile, as I think is how most people see it today). Does anyone know if it was actually, dominantly viewed as crying back then, or was it just in this pamphlet, or som
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Actually, I asked about that, since my privacy settings is at the max on Facebook and maybe I used FourSquare once? I also never anchor Facebook posts to a location. His response was basically that they are "trusted partner" (quot
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by klunger 12y ago
A few months ago, I met the founder of a company in the recruiting business. They aggregate online profiles of people, both applicants and other people happily employed at their current jobs. Then, based on the combination of their LinkedIn

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