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by lgieron 13y ago
The startup I work for works from General Assembly in Manhattan. It's very cool - great decor (loft-style), tons of light, good kitchen, conference rooms available. I'd recommend it.
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by lgieron 13y ago
How can you learn something new almost every day? Can you give a couple examples?
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by lgieron 13y ago
I think you underestimate Romero, the book depicted him as a main game designer for the projects.
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by lgieron 13y ago
I'd like to eat large amounts of chocolate without consequences ;) Seriously, someone who figures it out (and manages to not screw up the business side) will be the next Rockefeller.
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by lgieron 13y ago
It's less pertinent to business than to society as a whole - meaning, nowadays, the dichotomy that you're either a highly paid expert or condemned to shitty jobs is more and more prevalent.
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by lgieron 13y ago
What I meant, I don't consider someone who just graduated from Standford and/or worked for a few years at Google "highly successful". It means they're capable and motivated, and that's probably what PG's s
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by lgieron 13y ago
Yeah me too :) I merely applied the measure used by OP to illustrate my point. Agree that there are better metrics for success; as for the measure for procrastination, it's probably spot on ;)
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by lgieron 13y ago
Plumbing? BTW. I now realised I misread the parent poster. It's not true that more than 50% Poles have an advanced degree, what I meant was that more than 50% of people with a degree get an advanced degree.
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by lgieron 13y ago
Poland (and probably a lot of other European countries as well).
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by lgieron 13y ago
My parents pretty much left me to my own devices, and I'm still posting on hacker news. Also, i know people who were forced to learn piano as kids etc. and they are pretty much nowhere as adults. I'd say it's more genetics th
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by lgieron 13y ago
It certainly doesn't work for everyone, I know people who own successful companies and still they're not that happy about having to run them.
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by lgieron 13y ago
Hghly successful people? Isn't he mostly targeting graduates?
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by lgieron 13y ago
It doesn't if the experience gained makes you worth it, despite the implied risk of flight. If anything, it makes you unhirable for positions where employer values above all predictable mediocrity (ie. most corporate grind jobs), which
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by lgieron 13y ago
I doubt this would be used for analysing personalities of key decisionmakers. It's applications lie in the possibility of automated (if crude) analysis of millions of people. For targeted analysis used to aid high-impact decisions, ana
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by lgieron 13y ago
BTW for people whose tinnitus is bothering them enough to shell out a couple grand, check this out: http://www.anm-medical.com/index.php/en/tinnitus/acoustice-c... It seems to be the first therapy for tinnitu
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by lgieron 13y ago
You're not saying _why_ you want to implement those ideas in the first place. Since your motivation doesn't seem to be intristic (if it was, you would've just found time and energy for at least some progress), you're mos
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by lgieron 13y ago
In my opinion, the urge to procrastinate is just our brain telling us that the kind and amount of effort we're demanding from it is not natural. People aren't meant to spend 40+ hours a week sitting behind a desk and concentrating
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by lgieron 13y ago
That is my receipe as well. I live in Poland, where stuff can be hilariously cheap when living on a good "first world" contracting rate. In the last 7 years I've contracted for maybe 3.5 years total. Right now I'm about
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by lgieron 13y ago
Without knowing beforehand how your own aptitude fares compared to others, that x% is the best estimator though.
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by lgieron 13y ago
The scala scripting is an oft-overlooked feature, and I think it's pretty great. You can compile your codebase into a jar, upload it to a server and link to it from a script in Scala you're editing there in a console text editor.
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by lgieron 13y ago
Not sure about "spreading" - it was the norm in crappy Polish software houses when I started there ten years ago.
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by lgieron 13y ago
An audiologist told me that.
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by lgieron 13y ago
It is generally not recommended to sleep in earplugs, as you're risking inducing a tinnitus. Basically everyone has some background noise in his ears/head, but it is ordinarily discarded (not brought to consciousness) by central n
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by lgieron 13y ago
A case to counter your argument: Magic: the gathering online. Many people are paying hundreds of dollars per year for what's essentially bits and a purely digital experience. That experience is just worth that much to them though. The
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by lgieron 13y ago
I've been a PM, and also worked with software on a more abstract level (enterprise architecture). Came back to coding, and am happy with it. I much prefer poorly documented franeworks and half-baked tools to the day-to-day nonsense of
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by lgieron 13y ago
That is so cool. Did you do any research on increased wear of the hardware under load? That could be an additional cost that would start showing up only after a period of time.
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by lgieron 13y ago
I think the story got it wrong - that it's the "thinking" that is harder to automate (as opposed to "doing"). Once we have AI capable of managing a fast food restaurant, the workers will probably be long gone anyway
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by lgieron 13y ago
Sounds like a material for a story in itself ;)
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by lgieron 13y ago
Frankly, I think it's just ugly. I didn't track the internet hype around it, so after updating and seeing it for first time yesterday I was shocked (What have you done to my phone?! I want the pretty iOS6 icons back!).
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by lgieron 13y ago
Aren't drones (at least the more sophisticated ones, akin to modern fighters/bombers) 100% remotely controled by human pilots?

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