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by psyklic 17y ago
I've had this happen many times on random users' systems. If the user is nice enough to work with you (and they were in my case since they were caught pre-deployment in contract work), you can often ask them to try new things with a dev bui
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by psyklic 17y ago
I'm convinced that on these new anyone-can-make-an-app platforms (e.g. facebook, iphone, android), your best shot to make money is to be one of the first out with a product, then with that experience go freelance. The markets become saturat
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Clunkers trade-in list reveals oddities(autoblog.com)
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There are many different (and perhaps more practical) criteria than average coins per transaction. For instance, I don't like a lot of coins in my pocket at once. And, I always want to get rid of coins when I use them! So, what are the le
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by psyklic 17y ago
What is even more shocking to me are the comments on OK Cupid to this post. Many of the commenters who say they are black/Indian/etc seem to acceptingly resign themselves to saying they're part of "less desirable" or "undesirable" groups,
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If a lot of people contact you, then you become more selective.
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by psyklic 17y ago
Years ago I thought this as well. However, once I became good friends with people of different races, I started to become attracted to more people of those races as well. So, I definitely do think that there is some component of "racism" to
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by psyklic 17y ago
I've lived in and traveled to quite a few cities as well. The OP has good points unique to SF, but I feel that a lot of his points are applicable to almost any city. * Difficulty to make real friends; meeting a lot of d-bags. * Traffic/wait
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by psyklic 17y ago
They like the iPhone, they don't like AT&T -- they were just complaining to try and pressure Apple to broaden its carrier selection.
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Choosing what problem to work on is much harder oftentimes than solving it.
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by psyklic 17y ago
It's that way even at top universities. Finding a good business partner is like finding a wife! Students generally aren't passionate about their majors, PhDs usually only consider starting a company if they stumble across something big in t
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by psyklic 17y ago
Thanks a lot, I'll return the favor! http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01gI5QT7TlbdP13YEEhTCqFA==...
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I'm not surprised. Our tech transfer office says that the vast majority of offices actually lose money applying for patents. The ones which are profitable make almost all of their profits on only a few patents.
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I am also against a low initial rate. I did this when I started, and it was a mistake. My initial low rate often attracted clients who did not value your work. These clients have tried to squeeze every penny they could out of me with techni
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by psyklic 17y ago
No offense taken! I honestly didn't expect my comment to be voted up so high. Your point in that paragraph is valid. I was just struck by the contrast between this and when you state later on that people who attend elite institutions genera
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Males are very vision oriented when it comes to partners. I'm not going to lie -- I'm looking for someone attractive and deep -- and I've found it usually just isn't worth the time chatting with people who aren't comfortable with putting th
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by psyklic 17y ago
The author writes about himself, "Coming from two universities with world-renowned Computer Science departments (MIT and Stanford) and having worked at a top-tier software company (Google) as well as at several less high-profile companies .
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by psyklic 17y ago
I don't know what kind of answer you expect ... of course if you're "in the zone" you won't be paying attention to an audio book. The higher concern for me isn't that you'll miss important parts of the book, but rather that you'll make erro
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by psyklic 17y ago
Working hard does not guarantee success, but it improves your chances. So does having good intuitions about which problems to work on ;-)
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The only reason I wouldn't have gotten up and left would have been the guy's story about his deceased student. There are glimmers of a potential performance art, but the video is mostly just awkward. He's lucky there weren't any interruptio
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by psyklic 17y ago
Nah, this is no worse than making IE skins for Firefox, which have existed for some time. The .NET Firefox plugin was significantly more invasive, since it was automatically installed without user consent. As long as this plugin is volunt
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I say that people still care about 'quality' and know what high-quality products are (from a designer's POV). But consumers care about products which produce high quality FOR THEIR USES. Flip phones produce good YouTube videos for instance
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by psyklic 17y ago
I believe that Joel knows that "C++ and multithreading do have benefits" -- the problem is that most people do not know how to properly code C++ and multithreading. So, even if you do use them appropriately, someone will edit the code at so
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by psyklic 17y ago
The key is not to find "who gets HIV" vs. "who does not get HIV." Instead, we are trying to measure "who gets exposed" vs. "who gets HIV." Although we do not know how many people are exposed in each group, we can make sure that the number
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by psyklic 17y ago
I would vote for an institutional subscription model. It might be a hard sell for individual teachers (often likely out of their own pockets), but I bet you could sell the value to institutions which employ teachers.
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Much of this is likely psychological -- in casual conversation at conferences, I definitely ask people about what school they go to rather than what their research project is. Whenever I ask someone about their research project, they launch
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by psyklic 17y ago
Questionable -- they would certainly learn different things if they did it in their basement. For example, so much in university is already set up for you -- constructing your own lab in your basement, calibrating machines, writing custom
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by psyklic 17y ago
From my experience, CULTURE is the most important factor in whether people abide by rules. If you perceive that everyone follows the rules, then you will too; if you perceive that no one follows them, then you may not. Similar to the broken
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haha it reminds me of Operation, because if you hit the edges the screen lights up in blue (in Chrome everything becomes selected) ;-)
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Most startups will fail too, but the true learning happens through the attempt itself. Having skilled, motivated people working with you (usually on different projects in grad school) enhances the experience, but if you aren't working hard

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