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by mannicken 15y ago
>My professional experience involves enough interaction with extraordinarily talented engineers who have extremely abrasive personalities. Often, that abrasiveness is a side effect of their talent: the same ability which allows these ta
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by mannicken 15y ago
Another fun thing from coffee is caffeine psychosis, or generalized stimulant psychosis similar to those sometimes experience by users of (meth)amphetamines.
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by mannicken 15y ago
RTFM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States "Laws prohibiting hate speech are unconstitutional in the United States, outside of obscenity, defamation, incitement to riot, and fighting words." Which means if I say "women a
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by mannicken 15y ago
I realized this shortly before I dropped out of high school. Nobody who hired me ever asked for my grades. I appreciated teacher's critique of my work if I thought his own skill was significantly superior to mine. Yet ultimately I did not g
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by mannicken 15y ago
IANAL as well, but as far as I understand it's completely legal to say "I don't want to hire women". Yay freedom of speech. However, If I am hiring people (which I'm not and never done) and reject a woman based on the fact that she is a wom
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by mannicken 15y ago
Oh, hey, bad news: even if you don't drink juice, never have any sugar, and spend all your time counting calories -- you're still going to die at some point. Sorry, had to ruin the whole health obsession parade here. This is coming from a g
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by mannicken 15y ago
189 cm 79 kg, feeling very fat. Anorexia sucks :\
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by mannicken 15y ago
I interviewed at a Google campus in Kirkland. Unimpressed. Overrated madly, in my opinion. I expected a lot, a lot better campus, sorry. The buildings were boring and I couldn't find the right one because NONE OF THEM have a visible buildin
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by mannicken 15y ago
http://andyrutledge.com/images09/newsSite/images/iphone_nyt_... -- in here lower-contrast is used properly, I think. Low-contrast allowed to hide the low-priority details allowing the brain to quickly navigate through important, high-cont
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by mannicken 15y ago
Put black text on black background and no calibration in the world will help you read it ;-)
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by mannicken 15y ago
Hopefully, in 100 years I'll be able to transport images from my visual cortex into electronic form and edit them through will-power. Only when that technology is perfected within a lag of no more than 200ms, will I give up on pencils. Or p
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by mannicken 15y ago
I definitely feel that in my life. The urge to create things, to grow, to change myself, the condescendence at anyone who is satisfied with current situation. It's like someone is itching my brain, it feels very similar to craving nicotine,
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Hilarious.
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by mannicken 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, what happened to all the horses that were left without jobs?
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At first, yes. Computers were a privilege of rich and intellectual elite, at first. But as you can see, technology gets cheaper and cheaper and more accessible to the general public. Even those who do not have any money at all are able to a
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by mannicken 15y ago
Hallucinations here are not "really" hallucinations in a sense you rarely actually see things that are not there (for that, google deliriants). It's more like, everyone is acting out a certain role or a set of role in lives, and have been d
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by mannicken 15y ago
Weekends have kind of stopped existing for me. I do not understand the necessity of having certain time for work and certain time for leisure. I'm going off of fundamental principles of delivering basic value to whoever needs it in return f
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by mannicken 15y ago
>Society demands a man gets out of bed and goes to work; against his sleeping instinct, man complies. The only case where society actually does demand a man to get out of bed is jail. Usually, a man gets out of bed not because he is dra
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by mannicken 15y ago
It only hurts the first time. After you get fired/quit many times, it's like taking out trash for you. Developing some confidence goes a great way. I mean, look, the first time I had to throw out my sketches in the dumpster because I though
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by mannicken 15y ago
Define procrastination. Perhaps I'm working on research for procrastination articles, or studying design of that web-page. I understand what you're trying to do but a bit of advice for the future: do not offend your reader. You can offend s
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by mannicken 15y ago
This is something I was thinking about lately. That competing for being an alpha male/reproducing is just something society has to have and encourage to exist. It's like going to high school; it's boring, it's not that much fun but it's one
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by mannicken 15y ago
"It pisses me off when people don't concede that they were wrong" In this case, we have saturn exemplifying a pure animalistic instinct of rage. You being pissed off is not an argument that helps the conversation. Humans are not pets of soc
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by mannicken 15y ago
Oh, common, guys. "Evaluate your job and all the possibilities and if necessary stay until you have reached financial stability or have another offer, in which case you can contemplate quitting" just has a bit less zing than "Storm into you
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by mannicken 15y ago
And your goal is to pretend you're making a huge difference that will probably not get noticed by anyone, and even if it does, it will be for a very short period of time and after a while everyone will die and forget about it, and then the
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by mannicken 15y ago
I have to admit I wanted to spice things a bit, playing devil's advocate on purpose. Make the discussion more interesting by challenging status quo and see if it holds up.
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by mannicken 15y ago
Good question. http://ycombinator.com/apply.html tells us that three founders (common situation) will get $20, 000, or roughly $6,667 per person. For three months. That's around $2200/month for skilled work, and it's not even a full-time
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by mannicken 15y ago
There's just one thing about this article that makes me feel eerie. It sounds like a piece of propaganda. PG tries evoking an emotional response out of the reader, pulling some random unsupported facts out of nowhere, like a religious preac
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by mannicken 15y ago
>Are we all really that stupid? Yes, yes we are.
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by mannicken 15y ago
I found abstract art to be related to web-design closely, in that a web-page is essentially a piece of abstract art: shapes of various size and color that in conjunction help us navigate to text/content we want.
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by mannicken 15y ago
Clouds that cover part of the text when I'm trying to scroll down and don't go away? Seriously? Boring article about boring business with a screwed-up design. Sorry, not even bothering to read it.

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