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by lee 17y ago
I believe it's possible and will eventually happen. I imagine through some randomness, or directed experiment, a piece of software will exist which will self-replicate and mutate... eventually evolving to some point of self-awareness. Most
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by lee 17y ago
Exactly. It's so easy to jump in and code, without taking a good hard look at the feasibility of the business model, since hackers tend to look at the tech side before all else. Spending a few days or weeks on the business model can save m
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by lee 17y ago
Coles Notes: traveling does not create life long happiness.
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by lee 17y ago
First, no code. Sketch. Sketch using a magic marker on printer paper where the other side has already been printed. Make these sketches quick and not-pretty. Do many. You want to be able to throw these out without hesitation. Using software
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by lee 17y ago
"If you want to reward the staff for working quickly, you can’t make 'hours worked' a constant, because then only quality and quantity remain variable. In a traditional situation where 'hours worked' is a constant, the reward for working qu
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by lee 17y ago
During my co-op term, I had a job in a Canadian federal government department (Statistics Canada). I worked maybe one hour a day, and that was enough to get all my projects finished on time. There were many jobs there that had loads of fre
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by lee 17y ago
if (P(success of startup) * (worth of startup success to you ) > P(success with gf) * (worth of gf to you)) { goto startup; } if (P(success of startup) * (worth of startup success to you ) < P(success with gf) * (worth of
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by lee 17y ago
1 My parents were "boat people" from Vietnam and settled here in Canada.
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by lee 17y ago
I'm setting up PayPal for payment processing next month. Is it really as awful as everyone on HN make it out to be?
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by lee 17y ago
In some cases, centralized planning is the better choice over the alternative. Would the toaster company survive without roads, laws, and a stable currency. Something do not scale well without central planning.
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by lee 17y ago
There are many government grants and loans for small businesses and startup. At my startup, all our rnd salaries are essentially covered by a grant. For companies that have revenues under 500k, the tax rate is only 22%.
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by lee 17y ago
There is no universally accepted definition for rape, so that's a flawed statistic. As well, police infrastucture and local culture may drastically sway how often incidences are reported.
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by lee 17y ago
Depending on which field in Academia you're in, this could change. Several years ago, I was the webmaster for the Hearing Research Center at Boston University. It's a collection of 20 or so labs, each run by a professor, with associated gra
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by lee 18y ago
Too funny!! Lunix! "In order to get rid of it, you will have to send your computer back to the manufacturer, and have them fit a new hard drive. Lunix is extremely dangerous software, and cannot be removed without destroying part of your ha
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Ask HN: online sales taxes?
4 points by lee 18y ago|2 comments
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by lee 18y ago
Not a feature request, more of a bug: I created my account about 2 months ago, however when I go check my comments, I notice that I have comments made from more than a year ago. I'm guessing there's someone else with an account named "lee"
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Ask HN: how do you process payments?
95 points by lee 18y ago|49 comments
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by lee 18y ago
Here's a gem: McKean: Redefining the dictionary http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the... delightful!
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by lee 18y ago
When we make pages that we want html people to maintain, it's been our experience that it's important that the layout pages are primarily html with the scripting added to it rather than a scripted page with the html in a bunch of concatenat
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by lee 18y ago
Speaking as someone who was a beneficiary of several talent/need based scholarships, I'd like to suggest a slight refactoring of your problem. Allow me to invoke Gladwell. Think of this as trying to help someone get their 10,000 hours in to
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by lee 18y ago
3x5 Cards - smaller and more versatile than a moleskine, you can give away the card without ripping a page out. When I had a moleskine, it was like ripping out a little piece of my heart each time. Easy to sort and throw out the ones that a
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by lee 18y ago
It doesn't sound like your high school is offering you much. If you're even reasonably smart, don't bother with high school anymore at all. The limited curriculum and social life dictated by high school alphas is a waste of your time. Apply
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by lee 18y ago
Here are some rules of thumb that may help guide your approach. In my experience, you need to divide up your problem into two different issues to solve: design and branding. Design for functionality and smoothness of user experience. Brand
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by lee 18y ago
Interestingly, the issue was resolved in the 1490s for the Catholic Church with the discovery of the New World. The expeditions required financing and the financing entailed interest. The explorers were painting pictures of golden cities, b
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by lee 18y ago
Check out http://www.scitalks.com - many science talks from various sources.
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by lee 18y ago
Several years ago, I discovered a way to manage my emotional state as a byproduct of something else I was trying to do - relearn Russian for an overseas project. I had read in several places that you can 'replasticize' your brain for learni
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by lee 19y ago
I think this is a trait common among entrepreneurs and other high achievers. I have a similar story, and it's good to find, test and expand your limits. It's good to know that you can crunch in the short term without fear if it's necessary.
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by lee 19y ago
Why guys only? I've had roommate situations with both genders and mixing has never hurt.
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by lee 19y ago
His Baroque Trilogy I found to be the most inspiring read in the last few years - while it's easy to argue that it isn't strictly science fiction. Since it sets up characters who appear in Cryptonomicon, I feel I can get away with it. What
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by lee 19y ago
The most successful transition I ever saw from one to the other was a gentleman who started out as an electrical engineer and used the money he made very wisely to launch and systematically market his photography. It took about three years,

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