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by mcantor 14y ago
" ... my communication style was flagged as inappropriate and antagonistic. " That's from the anecdote about the beginning of his tenure at Microsoft. Ironically, I think the excerpt from his "resignation" letter shows that his communicati
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by mcantor 14y ago
Very truetruetrue.
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by mcantor 14y ago
Isn't every successful Kickstarter project a counterexample to your point?
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by mcantor 14y ago
"That woman was sexy...Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won't screw you, don't do it for them." Source?
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by mcantor 15y ago
Experiences differ. The same solution won't work for everyone.
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by mcantor 15y ago
> If the door to a meeting is ever locked, I would assume that they could get by without me and never show up for a meeting on that subject again. Unless it was a meeting that you wanted, or needed, to be there for!
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by mcantor 15y ago
Why would you ever write that
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by mcantor 15y ago
And where, I might add, no one rushes to the defense of men with a "cut the sexist crap" article. Why would they? Men aren't being oppressed by sexism!
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by mcantor 15y ago
How do you know...?
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by mcantor 15y ago
I know I'm going to get downvoted for this, but, I wasn't going to upvote you, and then I saw you wrote 'downvote me if you feel like it' so I knee-jerk upvoted you to counteract someone else's knee-jerk downvote without reading the rest of
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by mcantor 15y ago
Once enough time passes, HN explicitly allows duplicates.
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by mcantor 15y ago
All this post says is that it's easy to do something predictable and hard to do something novel.
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by mcantor 15y ago
Title should actually be "How I Re -designed Code Year in 1 Hour".
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by mcantor 15y ago
I thought this was going to be an alarmist article about getting rid of your TV and doing something else with your time.
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by mcantor 15y ago
In my experience, speed of filtering ("is this thing I'm reading cool enough to continue reading?") and fear of being filtered ("is this thing I'm creating cool enough for other people to read?") are 100% orthogonal. They are simply not rel
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by mcantor 15y ago
Just wanted to offer a second opinion. I too went from Adderall to Vyvanse; I still take the latter. It doesn't give me tunnel vision, and it helps me focus where sleep/diet/exercise did not. So don't rule it out or go for it based on our a
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Ask HN: US health insurance
5 points by mcantor 15y ago|3 comments
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by mcantor 15y ago
Or perhaps: CoffeeScript is [ not a language ] worth learning.
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by mcantor 15y ago
By "last words", did you mean, "last words before they were fired/quit/'laid off'," or "last words before I, edw519, quit"?
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by mcantor 15y ago
Thank you!!!!
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Ask HN: What was that minimal shop-builder app?
2 points by mcantor 15y ago|2 comments
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by mcantor 15y ago
I downvoted you because I believe your comment reflects a much more problematic anti-pattern that colors this debate: some companies have 100% distributed teams who deliver work and are happy with their jobs. Some companies have 100% on-si
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by mcantor 15y ago
I honestly do not understand this constant back-and-forth about credibility and validity between "real journalists" and "bloggers". It's as if "real journalists" are some kind of supernatural entity that descend from the universe of Platon
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Traveler joke-tweets at steakhouse, greeted at airport with 10oz fillet(makesmethink.com)
2 points by mcantor 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 15y ago
I like paying for things. I'd rather pay $5 - $50 for a mobile app than see ads.
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by mcantor 15y ago
Anti-free software? I don't think free software is antithetical to the movement for charging a leg and an arm. I think he meant "free as in beer", not "free as in speech".
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by mcantor 15y ago
Apropos: http://xkcd.com/250/
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by mcantor 15y ago
Yeah, but there's a perceived risk.
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by mcantor 15y ago
I just say "Because it weakens my negotiating position." Just because you're playing a game doesn't mean you have to pretend you're not playing it.
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Why I love everything you hate about Java(magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com)
18 points by mcantor 15y ago|6 comments

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