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by mburney 16y ago
Sounds more like banal, run-of-the-mill inspirational speech (not that I have anything against that)
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by mburney 16y ago
How is it not a poor ROI? My experience of "real world" dating has been: 1) Social or physical activities that I enjoy regardless of how many dates I get 2) Meeting/knowing/connecting with people within those activities 3) Flirting with som
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by mburney 16y ago
From a psychological point of view I think they could be reached by ads which emphasize the DDG vs. Google privacy issues, but something brief such that they wouldn't need to spend more than a minute reading it. I already do recommend DDG t
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by mburney 16y ago
I know a lot of people that would use DDG if they actually read this page, but I think the problem is that most of them won't find it or read it. They are not hackers and they don't read blogs or meta/about pages of sites.
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by mburney 16y ago
Thinking that you're smarter than average can also hurt your social life in more ways than imaginable.
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by mburney 16y ago
There was a point in time when 37 signals was inspiring with their anti-enterprise/ror/bootstrap ideas, but do we really need to hear the same thing repeated over and over? Edit: didn't notice at first that this blog entry was from 2007. An
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G20 Community Day of Action illegal search(youtube.com)
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by mburney 16y ago
I don't think debt and bad credit should hold anyone back either. If you're bootstrapping you just have to include your debt payments as part of your expenses. And bad credit sometimes can take years to fix, so you may miss your opportuniti
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by mburney 16y ago
After a couple years of seeing code in the "job world", you will know if you are good or not. If you understand CS topics well and you enjoy hacking, then you are probably good.
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by mburney 16y ago
I thought that 37 Signals argued that constraints are good because they force you to be efficient. Can't a busy schedule with a lot of traveling be considered the same way?
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by mburney 16y ago
I also agree, but I have a feeling that at some point in the 90's when "tech geek" stuff was cool, the model numbers actually helped their marketing.
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by mburney 16y ago
I wouldn't consider them gray areas; more like clever hacks to discover a market without having to spend a lot of money.
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by mburney 16y ago
For example, why is it okay for entertainers, actors and politicians to pursue fame, while programmers must toil in selfless obscurity? Are we supposed to be martyrs? I think it is because we all realize programming will never be sexy eno
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by mburney 16y ago
the example of the drunk woman in the bad part of town, she is responsible only for increasing the probability that that she would be raped, but she is not responsible for the rape itself. This assumes that it is easy to measure the proba
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by mburney 16y ago
Exactly, that is the kind of feature I am suggesting. After all, good software often compensates for errors made by the user.
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by mburney 16y ago
I don't think she should win this lawsuit but it does make me think google could add a new feature describing the safety level of a route.
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by mburney 16y ago
I really like articles like these, because they give concretes rather than just general advice like "be determined, never give up", etc.
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by mburney 16y ago
Definitely some books I will check out after reading this list ("Lisp in small pieces" for example). Also enjoyed the fact that Norvig is a Talking Heads fan. I always thought of Norvig as a new wave kind of guy.
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by mburney 16y ago
I would travel to many different places, and take lots of risks that people don't take when they're afraid of dying. And write an epic (semi) auto-biographical picaresque novel to document it.
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by mburney 16y ago
For better or worse, examples of companies like 37Signals are used because their approach is empowering, and their confidence about it is reassuring. IME most hackers are in a situation where they don't know how/want to deal with investors
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by mburney 16y ago
The compelling part about pg's lisp "triumphalism" is that he describes how lisp helped him build a better product and add/debug features faster. This author doesn't address that point -- he's talking about a kind of elitism that one would
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by mburney 16y ago
how many founders in their young 20s would want a bald guy in his mid-30s for a co-founder If anything your age would be a benefit to a co-founder in his 20's -- the startup would be a good balance of experience/youth
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by mburney 16y ago
Does how much you charge really depend on how much you want to make?
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by mburney 16y ago
Would have preferred more info on the search page rather than having to click "About"
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by mburney 16y ago
A quote from Leo Strauss that I think best describes philosophy: "Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm
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by mburney 16y ago
Upvoted for hilarity factor. But from a logical standpoint this is really a bad argument. Writing often has a destructive purpose; what the person has "created" has very little to do with whether his criticism is valid or not.
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by mburney 16y ago
Amazing. The past doesn't even seem much like the past when it is in colour.
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by mburney 16y ago
Hooking up is more efficient for time management.
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by mburney 16y ago
Actually the only reason I started using duck duck go is because the name sounds cool.
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by mburney 16y ago
I was just thinking of buying cable TV today because I never feel like internet media allows me to just turn my brain off and relax. This product seems like a great solution. I don't think these guys need to emphasize personalized/customize

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