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by portLAN 19y ago
> Your issue regarding the appeal to authority is present in real life to a large degree, and not limited to websites. Correct, which is why I mentioned the current situation works if you want a model that reflects typical human judgeme
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by portLAN 19y ago
Articles should also be read and ranked based on content instead of by submitter. With books, you miss out on a lot by sticking with the same author, as there are so many other worthy books you never become aware of; people's usual habits
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by portLAN 19y ago
The problem with giving someone a default high score based on what they've done in the past is it devolves into a type of "appeal to authority" fallacy where deference is because of who someone is , as opposed to what someone is now sayin
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by portLAN 19y ago
I always used YouTube with Flash 7. There was a big gap between 7 and 9 for Linux with no 8.
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by portLAN 19y ago
There are a lot of YouTube clips with Spock and Kirk that would answer your question...
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by portLAN 19y ago
Oh my gosh, now that you mention it, it does look like when Cartman has secret meetings in the basement.
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by portLAN 19y ago
> to crusade AGAINST getting educated is profoundly depressing. That's pretty much the opposite interpretation of what was intended, I think. Learning is always encouraged. The point was not to throw away your life by joining the coo
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by portLAN 19y ago
If you count dropping out of college, and then attending only classes that interest you -- without being enrolled or paying -- as going to college, then sure. Of course that model of self-directed learning is quite opposite the usual cooki
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by portLAN 19y ago
Probably Forbes. The 4 are the Waltons, of WalMart fame. As for the others: Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and Sheldon Adelson. Warren Buffet did get a degree, so actually of the top 10 (2006 list) it's 1 degree, 4
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by portLAN 19y ago
Upvoted for combining multiple relevant sources including Douglas Adams into one post.
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Or they're an incompetent non-technology company that doesn't know how to run things efficiently. That's pretty clear from the way things at MySpace break all the time. It's also the reason I trust them more than Facebook.
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by portLAN 19y ago
There's a balancing act here -- trying to maximize your output today can cost you in your output tomorrow. Everyone knows you can overdo things physically; you can also burn out mentally. If I stay up until 6 am chasing this one bug, eith
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by portLAN 19y ago
When you take pills, you get however many milligrams of the substance are in the pills. You're probably thinking of flax oil and other sources of ALA, which your body must convert itself into EPA and DHA. Yes, one of the reasons to get it
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by portLAN 19y ago
They're Xbox colors.
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by portLAN 19y ago
As far as point number one goes, I'd say to aim for a quick yes.
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by portLAN 19y ago
> pg was absolutely classy, Definitely. > and we really realized that YC was cheering for us even though we didn't get funding. ...Except I look more at actions than words. In these days of a pool of billions of dollars being sunk
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by portLAN 19y ago
That's the thing about being young -- you can fool yourself into thinking that whatever form of scientific, artistic, programming, mathematical, or entrepreneurial achievement you're working on is "really cool" and going to get you some act
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by portLAN 19y ago
DHA and EPA from marine algae instead of fish are available now (google it). Algae is where the fish get it anyway.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Passion is emotional/hormonal and therefore age is a major factor. People do crazy, irrational things when they're younger, just to entertain their buddies.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Hmm... actually you can probably do precisely that.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Precisely. The "proven" ones are already rich; thus you are always going into the trenches with "unproven" people. I don't know why anyone is worried about this -- it doesn't take months to discover that someone isn't dedicated. Setting
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by portLAN 19y ago
One easy way is to have a better (read: shorter, friendlier) interviewing process. From what I read, Google is a 12-step program with a bunch of logic puzzles.
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by portLAN 19y ago
There is no such thing as failure, only results. Just watch out for the ice weasels. We're living in a narrow window between the end of the old paradigm (in which individuals had very little power) and the future one (in which you can do a
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by portLAN 19y ago
Facebook strikes me as a force for evil. They want real names, real background info, real explanations of relationships, all of which they will data-mine ruthlessly to the extermination of your privacy. They even ask for your e-mail and I
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by portLAN 19y ago
I never want to manage employees . I think that model is broken and perpetuates wage slavery. Similarly, I think the concept of "leadership" is primitive -- why is it a given that someone else is going to make our decisions for us? Or
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by portLAN 19y ago
" Stay tuned for a series on the strategies employed by the self-made to become billionaires." Apparently one way is to advertise something you can't actually deliver yet. It worked for Microsoft, and apparently this blog is adopting the
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by portLAN 19y ago
Kaizen is the concept of continuous and neverending improvement. In Japan it stems from W. Edwards Deming's principles of statistical process and quality control imported from America in the 1950s as part of Japan's post-WWII reconstruct
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by portLAN 19y ago
That's not necessarily the case. For example, consider IRC, once the bane of many college students' academic records: Many sites and services actually have negative value, by being addictive time sinks. Economic theories tend to neglect co
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by portLAN 19y ago
The function of most of these sites is to acquire a large user base, so that it can later be monetized. Currently, the dominant strategy for doing so involves advertising, which means you want broad enough appeal to get large numbers of re
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by portLAN 19y ago
Ruby has Rails and Python has multiple mature web frameworks (Django is one of them) and both are much nicer to program in than PHP. > However, what language do you think most developers are interested in ? Java or C#, which is why t

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