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by portLAN 19y ago
Why would Steve Jobs be freaking in 1981 when he already saw it back in 1979? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star Also Folklore.Org says the same thing: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story... "This is obvio
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by portLAN 19y ago
My YC idea is going to be YouTube, without ads. Ever. Or revenue.
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by portLAN 19y ago
It was designed as a floor wax.
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by portLAN 19y ago
This is a collection of points PG has made before in other essays and comments. If the ideas are new to you, you may want to check out the others: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html > Perhaps the optimal solution is for big co
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by portLAN 19y ago
Management has decided the sprinkler system in the dev room will be activated and remain on until further notice.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Joel, we know it's you.
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by portLAN 19y ago
The separation of life into school, college, then work is completely artificial in the first place. Trying to fix "undergraduate " education is just putting a band-aid on a broken system. It even assumes the premise that the goal is to r
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by portLAN 19y ago
Facebook has extensive dossiers that its users unwisely volunteered and I predict it is all going to end in tears. John Connor is not a Facebook user.
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by portLAN 19y ago
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by portLAN 19y ago
> To maintain intellectual honesty and consistency, MIT should announce that it would henceforth stop requiring formal credentials in evaluating candidates for this and other similar jobs. In other words, future candidates like her, wh
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by portLAN 19y ago
> If not, YCombinator picks the winners pretty well. Impossible to say without knowing what the selectees would've done on their own. A lot of the winners might have opted to stay in college, for example, if they hadn't been picked.
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by portLAN 19y ago
> the old code was essentially two years of hacks and cludges. The new version is much cleaner, and the new back-end is much more malleable. The idea is that once we get caught up with ourselves, the actual new stuff will come pretty qu
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by portLAN 19y ago
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by portLAN 19y ago
Don't forget you can combine the two. This is often done for you already if you use the pool or hot tub at your apartment complex that kids were playing in all day.
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by portLAN 19y ago
> "It would really bother me to think that in a few years, my successor could weaken something I've spent 35 years building, my entire adult life," says Zimmer, 58. "That would be disturbing." >When pressed, Mason says it's unlikely
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Amazon's 15-year stock gain: 4,381% Amazingly they have predicted Amazon's exact stock performance for the next 5 years. Someone over there better hide the electric drills.
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by portLAN 19y ago
[ - Redacted - ] Alas, News.YC doesn't cope with Unicode.
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by portLAN 19y ago
If anything it's even more glutted now. Which brings this to mind: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691 "Today, there is $230 billion of private financing around private equity backed companies."
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by portLAN 19y ago
You might be making soap while you sleep.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Another asterisk? (= *follow-threshold* 5) The markup eats leading newlines and turns code blocks into normal text, and the normal text eats asterisks. Might I suggest backquote code quoting, and backslash escaping of special cha
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by portLAN 19y ago
And gosh darn it, people like me!
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by portLAN 19y ago
> The only person you can trust to work in your best interest is yourself. If only that were true! A great many people have psychological difficulty in following through on what they believe to be in their best interest. Other people c
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by portLAN 19y ago
That name is just horrible though. I'm not even going to write what it sounds like; but more to the point, it's totally non-descriptive unlike LinkedIn, MySpace, or Facebook, which is counterproductive for a social networking site. Edit: O
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by portLAN 19y ago
Congratulations are in order for creating a community that understands each other. It almost looks like it was all a ploy to get a bunch of new like-minded friends!
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by portLAN 19y ago
I can't count the number of times I stayed up late chasing a bug, only to have it be something so simple that I would've caught it in 20 minutes or less if I'd just gotten a normal amount of sleep and looked at it the next morning. You just
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by portLAN 19y ago
That wasn't a smug weenie thing. It was funny. I was going to suggest web.py just for giggles.
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by portLAN 19y ago
"How to Change the World", apparently by reading about Craigslist job ads, Facebook postcards, "celeb heads", and how to get an autographed copy of his book. Getting a job on CL is the complete opposite of what start-up founders want to do,
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by portLAN 19y ago
Start-ups should be a temporary economic blip. In our lifetime, we should either see convincing virtual reality, or be sitting on the beach sipping umbrella drinks served by robots which have taken over all "work" positions. It's beyond t
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by portLAN 19y ago
Declined -- already got a better valuation. Yeah: Five to one, baby, one in five No one here gets out alive
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by portLAN 19y ago
I'm modding it down to save anyone from being misled into PHP.

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