pystack

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by pystack 10y ago
In chess, amateurs play for tricks, masters play for position. Amateurs assume competitors will fall for the tricks, but that is dangerous in business. Competitors could be sandbagging, and there's no ELO based on many prior games. You
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by pystack 10y ago
The easiest way to build a big business is to solve the hardest and most important technical problems. The market position would be defensible due to hardness, and the market size would be big enough due to importance. There's many oth
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by pystack 10y ago
In hunter-gatherer times, I would hunt so my family could eat. If I hunt from 9 to 5 and didn't catch anything, I would have to keep hunting, or my family would go hungry. Nature is not a fair employer, it does not give meat to me beca
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by pystack 10y ago
There's reality, and there's the interpretation of reality. Reality is the location of atoms. It's the hard cold facts that all observers can agree on. The interpretation of reality, on the other hand, is fickle. If I am sad,
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by pystack 10y ago
The entrepreneur pits his willpower against the entropy of nature. Nature is huge and moves randomly, while the entrepreneur is small and moves purposefully. There is definitely luck in nature's random movements. But the entrepreneur s
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by pystack 10y ago
From a first principles perspective, it's me and the computer, and I want the computer to do something. My laptop has the following input devices: keyboard, mouse, webcam, and microphone. I mostly use the keyboard and mouse. There are
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by pystack 10y ago
As someone who is awful at Pictionary, I hope so as well. Just today, I defined a class with 4 functions. I had another function that created an instance of the class and called one of the functions. It changed a variable that would show up
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by pystack 10y ago
Once I figure out the difficult specific and rigid details, I just want the most productive way to communicate these details to the computer. Writing code is the most productive, because it is more exact and I am faster typing than drawing&
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by pystack 10y ago
HIPAA compliance is a good checklist even if you don't need the certification. It covers the administrative and physical safeguards in addition to the technical ones. Check it out: http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-prof
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by pystack 10y ago
You have to maintain the current, while pushing forward on the new. Accounting is important, because the incoming money has to pay for the outgoing money (food, clothing, rent). Calculating everything down to the dollar is pointless, howeve
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by pystack 10y ago
Society has a limited amount of resources and manpower. Your capital is your share of society's resources and manpower. The capital can either be used on yourself or to build new products and services. Some people are better than other
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by pystack 10y ago
When I code, headphones block out distractions and music gets me in the right mentality. When refactoring or debugging code, I like fast paced with action-packed lyrics. Dragonforce Through the Fire and Flames, Darude Sandstorm, Linkin Park
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by pystack 10y ago
Facebook, Walmart, and Ford Motor Company were built through hard work and perseverance, not through their founders' socioeconomic background. Building a successful business is so difficult, that the founders' socioeconomic backgr
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by pystack 10y ago
I've realized there are things I can change and there are things I cannot change. I try not to feel too strongly on the things I cannot change, because it distracts me from the things I can change. For politics, I try not to feel too s