metaguri

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by metaguri 17y ago
If you work 100 hours a week for someone else and are not bringing in a million plus per year, your wife is going to think you are a chump, because you are. How many people like this exist in silicon valley? a lot. wall street as well. an
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by metaguri 17y ago
I think the modern idea of a "cloud" is the Plan 9 philosophy coming full circle. Many breakthroughs in Plan 9 (distributed architecture, everything as a file, unified user experience) are being recreated on the web (cloud storage/photos/mu
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by metaguri 17y ago
Not to make a shameless plug, this is something that the company I work for is working on: http://www.palantirtech.com/government/analysis-blog/sec-tra...
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by metaguri 17y ago
Agreed. I have a silly item on my todo list that says "become an expert at emacs," but the trick is to use it everyday, and each time you find yourself doing something repetitive, ask yourself "maybe there's a smarter way to do this," googl
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by metaguri 17y ago
Indeed. I, as many others I'm sure, have always wondered if my inability to concentrate was ADHD (although I'm sure it's not). I liked the other article today (link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=570893 ) about focus. I'm going to pi
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by metaguri 18y ago
I was under the impression that Netflix looked at your ratings, found people "similar" to you, and made recommendations based on that. Since signing up for Netflix, I"ve found that at least on the UI side, it's as you describe: driven by ac
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by metaguri 18y ago
I don't think PG is responsible for this any more than the rise of the tech sector (and he defended himself quite sufficiently in his reply). When a new industrial sector emerges, people will get rich, and, well... welcome to the informatio
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by metaguri 18y ago
Bravo. I am definitely going to try this out. A big barrier to entry for Scheme is getting a nice environment set up (you either have to tinker a lot, or just "trust" a pre-configured all-in-one environment and be at the mercy of the mainta
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by metaguri 18y ago
Wow, sounds impressive, but that link isn't working for me unfortunately! Do you know of a mirror?
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by metaguri 18y ago
Where did he say mortgage? This guy has $2M in the bank. The argument is that eliminating the rent expense ($2000/month or whatever) by spending $500k to buy a house outright is better than the tax-adjusted potential return on that $500k if
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by metaguri 18y ago
What about network effects? I'm aware that SV is the best, but perhaps there are some benefits to diversifying their presence? Additional exposure to local mentors, raising startup buzz in the area with media/event coverage, even interactin
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by metaguri 18y ago
I like the feature, and the override. Sometimes I pull up the site and it gently reminds me that I've spent a lot of time reading it lately. Other times it's the weekend or I've left my window open for a while (is this how it works?) and I'
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by metaguri 18y ago
This is why when an investment bank fires a trader, the security guard is there to pick him up after the meeting with his boss ends. They mail you the stuff from your desk in boxes.
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by metaguri 18y ago
Are you arguing that no seatbelt is better than a paper seatbelt? Just because the seatbelt is broken, doesn't mean we should abandon seatbelts. It means we should work harder to make better seatbelts. An argument I see when libertarians ar
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by metaguri 18y ago
Thank you for this. I think that the field of game theory, and as the most simplistic example, the prisoner's dilemma, shows that libertarianism, as defined by the idea that individuals acting in their own self-interest will create the grea
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by metaguri 18y ago
i'm in. i'm on chapter 2 right now. i think irc meetings are a good way to go.
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by metaguri 18y ago
Spot on. Many of Greenspun's points make intuitive sense and thus seem like a good argument on their own, but they are quite incompatible. You can't have your cake and eat it too. I really like your point #1, and it's the most important. I'
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by metaguri 18y ago
If you have an iPhone, it has a nice timer app built in (not necessarily directed only to you creativeembassy, but to the general, largely iPhone-using HN public)
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by metaguri 18y ago
Why does it work best for small tasks? His example tasks are 5-8 pomodoros long. In my opinion, no self-help guide applies for everyone; we all have our own strengths and vices. It seems that this one is designed to help build concentration
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Ask HN: Do you use Twine?
4 points by metaguri 18y ago|3 comments
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by metaguri 18y ago
Indeed. I think there are a lot of "ex-bankers" in the world, especially now. I am an ex-banker as well and was driven to the edge by my BlackBerry going off at 10:00 every Saturday night with more "urgent" work to do. How on earth could th
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by metaguri 18y ago
the point isn't that we've necessarily hit the bottom. if you look at the dividend/price chart, we're probably heading into a big "hill" just like some of the early ones (we've only begun to swing up. the point is that things are relatively
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by metaguri 18y ago
Someone may have said this already, but not succinctly, so I'll have a go: If I understand right, nobody votes, and then who gets elected? You vote to contribute to the sample size, fool! 2 votes for one candidate and 1 vote for another is
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by metaguri 18y ago
I agree with what's been said. You need a "..." Can you truly get behind an idea that's not your own... if you have another reason for being there? Yes. I want to start my own company (based on my own idea) some day, but I'm learning hell o
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by metaguri 18y ago
Yeah, just threw it on my laptop and it soars. Amazing. And still syncs with mobileme (you may laugh, but I have my bookmarks on my PC at work, and when I find a good article on news.yc and bookmark it, it shows up on my laptop at home)
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by metaguri 18y ago
i think that this article was woefully misguided. not that it's easy to write about something as subjective as music (in the WSJ no less) but i think some key ideas were left out. first and foremost, the article only discussed the sales of
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by metaguri 18y ago
read it many years ago. but reading it again it is just as good (even my non-programming girlfriend enjoys it!)