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by pg 13y ago
It's a fallacy (though a very commonly held one) that if x% of people succeed at some task, the chances you will succeed are x%. That's only true for tasks where aptitude is not a factor.
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Working hours: Get a life(economist.com)
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by pg 13y ago
Comparing maps is no sillier than looking for correlations between any two data sets. And indeed, I suspect the resemblance between your map and mine is not a coincidence either.
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by pg 13y ago
That map looks remarkably like this one: http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/data/facts.html
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by pg 13y ago
Core samples into specific bits that interest you. http://paulgraham.com/raq.html
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by pg 13y ago
Yours! ( http://ycombinator.com/np.html )
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by pg 13y ago
A new search engine that gets better results by considering which other pages link to a page, using what anchor text, rather than simply the text on the target page.
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by pg 13y ago
Palo Alto: Palantir
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by pg 13y ago
Life can't literally have meaning. It's not an expression. But when a lot of the things you're doing have a common purpose, they form a pattern similar to the pattern that indicates signal rather than noise. So when you hav
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by pg 13y ago
Employees can't usually offer the moral support a cofounder can. Unless they become de facto cofounders, but that's pretty rare.
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by pg 13y ago
Empirically, the latter.
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by pg 13y ago
You can certainly bring on more people, but if you didn't know them before you started the company, your relationship is probably not going to be able to withstand the stresses that a startup will apply to it. If we had really designed
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by pg 13y ago
Yes, we still have a higher bar for single founders, because it will be harder for them.
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by pg 13y ago
I don't know whether this is true, but it feels true, and I've been operating as if it were.
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Walter Isaacson on Bill Gates at Harvard(harvardmagazine.com)
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419-million-year-old fish fossil resolves 'missing link' in evolution(abc.net.au)
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by pg 13y ago
This comment seemed to me a perfect specimen of the type that drags down forums: vitriolic and ill-informed. I've hypothesized before that the problem is not that people make such comments (which seems inevitable if you have open, ano
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Mark Zuckerberg Talks With Atlantic Editor James Bennet(theatlantic.com)
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by pg 13y ago
FWIW this was the goal of merging Infogami with Reddit.
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by pg 13y ago
Always hard to predict, but one area where I'm sure there's lots of room is starting startups in industries that didn't previously have them. To use one example of many, LendUp.
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by pg 13y ago
No, actually, I can't think of one person I know who left programming because it didn't pay well enough.
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by pg 13y ago
Oddly enough the best example to contradict this argument is football. The reason Real Madrid has so many foreign players is not that there's not enough infrastructure to train Spanish players, or that Real Madrid doesn't pay pla
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by pg 13y ago
The truth is simply that "incubator" is an older, more general purpose term, and "accelerator" is a new word coined by the Kauffman Foundation to describe YC and things like it.
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by pg 13y ago
"Even in the computer and IT industry, the sector that employs the most STEM workers and is expected to grow the most over the next 5 to 10 years, not everyone who wants a job can find one. A recent study by the Economic Policy Institu
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by pg 13y ago
Please stop.
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Online Color Challenge: How Well Do You See Color?(xrite.com)
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Please stop.
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by pg 13y ago
Such articles can be good. It depends on their focus. It wouldn't be good if people wrote articles talking about how to trick us. But if they tell applicants how to avoid mistakes that will make it harder for us to appreciate them,
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by pg 13y ago
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