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by pj 17y ago
VC's are the best predictors of irrational investment ideas.
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by pj 17y ago
For all the logic required to code, programmers are some of the most irrational people on the internets.
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by pj 17y ago
Lots of hard work. We have been living beyond our means, borrowing money, being greedy... Now it's time to work off the debt the baby boomers have been building up for the past 30 years...
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by pj 17y ago
I share that sentiment. They are writing to their audience, their customers. Individuals who focus on simple things and want simple products. A lot of people will be successful on that path. Imagine if everyone built companies selling tr
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by pj 17y ago
I'd like to see more interviews like this from the 37signals team. Real people, working really hard, providing a product with real value. Nice work guys -- to both Balsamiq and 37Signals on this one.
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by pj 17y ago
I think it's the hierarchies between the journalist and the consumer that deserve lower (not low) pay. The journalists are doing all the work, they should be paid more. The problem with journalism is that the customer of the journalists' p
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by pj 17y ago
Marriage increases your responsibilities and, consequently, reduces your risk tolerance. Maybe it wasn't a choice, just so happened that it was because of the higher risk tolerance that those unmarried individuals could be so risky.
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by pj 17y ago
JavaScript is still fighting the stigma of browser incompatibilities, but it's gotten much much better. It is still a little show though, but that'll change over time.
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by pj 17y ago
I think there is a lot of false hope in what the 37signals guys are telling their audience. Just because someone out there does very little to make a lot of money doesn't mean that's how the average jane or joe has to do it. Anecdotes to
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by pj 17y ago
Do publishers have to pay special licensing fees to print a magazine or newspaper with text in a certain font? I don't understand how font licensing works. Is it because the web browser has to download the font spec to someone's computer wh
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by pj 17y ago
When I see millions, perhaps billions of people around the world living on less than $2 a day -- impossible in the west -- I can't help but disagree with you. How do you reconcile the poverty rate in the U.S. at $12,000 compared to $2 in in
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by pj 17y ago
This is wrong. wrong, wrong, wrong... If I were running mint, I'd shut it down before voilating my users' privacy like this. I'd rather return to the machine than do this. It's why I don't want venture capital. What mint is doing makes
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by pj 17y ago
Do they delete your data when you cancel your account?
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by pj 17y ago
When anyone says "XYZ technology can't ABC" it's usually not a fault of XYZ technology but a lack of that anyone's understanding of the technology. Ruby can scale. Java can be fast and Microsoft can be secure. It's external vs internal moti
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by pj 17y ago
I put animals that mark their territory in this category. Bears scratch the bark off trees. Dogs pee on fire hydrants. These animals are storing ownership information in the form of scents they leave behind.
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by pj 17y ago
You got me! Edited. Thank you.
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by pj 17y ago
Then we should go all the way back to papyrus and stone chisels. Information storage, while not unique to humans, is definitely more prolific in our species.
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by pj 17y ago
I was cautious to come to the comments and offer my opinion, but I'm with you here, not only specifically regarding stocktwits, but this type of funding in general. When I read that StockTwits uses WordPress which was also funded by their i
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by pj 17y ago
When I was traveling in Krakow, Poland, I was living on 10USD a day, including lodging, food (really awesome food), transportation and entertainment. I still don't understand how a train ride away the same lifestyle would cost 50USD a day.
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by pj 17y ago
What about Guttenberg and his printing press. We may not be having this discussion right now if it weren't for him. That could also be said about Tim Berners-Lee and his crazy idea called the World Wide Web.
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by pj 17y ago
Probably because you don't know how to code and you write a bunch of articles and annoy everyone with your pseudo-skills by clogging up every internet news aggregator with your blog spam.
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by pj 17y ago
I've never used memcache, but my understanding is that memcache stores the results of queries whereas adding ram to the database will perhaps help it store indexes, tables, and query compiles, but to the best of my knowledge, the results of
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by pj 17y ago
Your predicament is more common than you may think. There's a book called "Pretending to be Normal" it's about an aspie. You may not be an aspie, but a lot of what the author goes through and her behaviors could be lessons for you. http:
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by pj 17y ago
That's the trick! Find something interesting about people. People want to be appreciated and /almost/ everyone has something to appreciate. As an intelligent person, your job isn't to be more interesting than other people, it is to find
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by pj 17y ago
That's a very good point. Perhaps that also adds to the nonviolence of the Engineering Dance. Less intelligent people want to maintain power by being the top dog and more intelligent people want to learn from those above them and therefor
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by pj 17y ago
All social groups do the "engineering dance" it's just the engineers do it nonviolently and are better able to decipher intellectual capabilities without damaging their ego. It's a natural law. It's supply and demand. Chickens for example w
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by pj 17y ago
I hear ya. When I was in San Francisco, my car battery died all the time because I didn't drive enough. I loved walking. I went in for a checkup once and my doctor asked me, "Do you exercise?" I said, "Not really." He said, "What do you d
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by pj 17y ago
Chinatowns are the least expensive places to find groceries anywhere I've been. I've shopped them in Oklahoma, San Francisco, Vancouver... The west has a lot to learn from the east...
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by pj 17y ago
Years ago, my grandmother got one of those original hand hammered woks from china off an infomercial. It was shiny as a new nickel when she got it, but she never used it so she gave it to me. Now it's black as night. I love it.
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by pj 17y ago
I eat pretty good food on < $10/day.

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