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by rick888 16y ago
"In other words you have written your own framework that suits you well. I would guess the only thing that stops this from being a general purpose framework is documentation and marketing." In a way, yes. It's a boiler plate of classes tha
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by rick888 16y ago
"You say you don't believe that mashing together frameworks is actual development, yet you recommend the jQuery framework for front-end coding. Do you draw a distinction between front-end and back-end - is front-end work not really developm
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by rick888 16y ago
"You may throw something back at me about reaching influencers... yes you can try to do that.... but to a certain degree you're at the mercy of society's whims." You are right about this. But, the amount of companies that became successful
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by rick888 16y ago
"The learning curve these days is not a new language (it takes a proficient programmer just a few days to get her arms around the basics of a new language). The learning curve is with the framework." This is my main problem with this line
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by rick888 16y ago
"like when there's 5 equal products and one is successful for no particular reason." I don't think it's chance. If there are 5 equal products and 1 is successful, there is a reason. You may not be able to see it right away, but it's proba
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by rick888 16y ago
HAHA. At least I know who downvoted me ;-)
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by rick888 16y ago
Please. How many lottery winners are there in this world? not many. Does the lottery winner deserve it? Yes. They gambled with their money and won. This is an example of pure luck. Does a Rich man's kid deserve it? Yes. Because someone
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by rick888 16y ago
"lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations
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by rick888 16y ago
How about pushing for a system based on merit rather than government intervention. Wealth redistribution amounts to the government taking money away from people that earned it through hard work and giving it to people that may or may not de
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by rick888 16y ago
PG's goal is to make money. Period. It may give you the warm and fuzzies to believe that he's trying to find passionate people, but without a profitable idea, the rest doesn't really matter. These questions matter because PG doesn't want
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by rick888 16y ago
"You should think enough (and just enough, no more) about what you want in life so that when unusual opportunities arrive, you notice them, and jump at them." This is more or less my take on it. There are opportunities all around us (IE: t
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by rick888 16y ago
"Paul Graham and most other (good) investors invest in people rather in ideas," If this is the case, why don't people pitch their autobiography and personal interests rather than their new business idea?
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by rick888 16y ago
"Most of us are not physically capable of understanding certain things that others do understand, are able to work at, etc. I happen to be one of those people who can't understand." I don't believe this. Most people aren't willing to put t
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by rick888 16y ago
"What if Gretzky never got better? What if no matter how much pushing and training and practice he never scored a goal? I'm sure there are many people out there like that. I happen to be one of them." Then he's doing something wrong. If yo
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by rick888 16y ago
"I don't believe you can show me a single comment anywhere that implies "it's OK because some of them probably even deserve it," because that sentiment makes no sense. It's extremely rude to put words like that in other people's mouths." It
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by rick888 16y ago
"I am not sure it applies here." Wikileaks wants to show the world the atrocities of the US military but at the same time, releasing this information may harm those involved. From your statement, you are trying to defend these actions thro
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by rick888 16y ago
"Without more context, I find your statement that "Some of them probably even deserve it" offensive. If I had enough karma I would down vote you for that. Which human beings are you saying deserve to die? What facts and which code of ethics
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by rick888 16y ago
"Why/how is it better?" I don't think you got my point. My point is that the people from Wikileaks (not me) believe that it's better to bring this information to light than prevent innocent lives from being lost. "Some of them probably eve
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by rick888 16y ago
"We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, yo
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by rick888 16y ago
Again, If you are down voting me, at least give me a reason. I feel like the supports of this just want to brush the truth under the metaphorical carpet.
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by rick888 16y ago
"And to respond to your statement, you seem to be missing the bigger picture: How many soldiers have been put in harms way and died BECAUSE the truth was hidden from the public? How many more soldiers will die because of that? There is abso
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by rick888 16y ago
I don't know why you are silencing me. I am telling the truth. The guys from wikileaks have freely admitted that they don't care about the innocent lives that may or may not be lost from this information (and even further through their ac
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by rick888 16y ago
"On the math and verbal SAT (a 400-1600 scale), the least socioeconomically disadvantaged student is expected to score 399 points lower than the most advantaged." Many people that are successful have a successful mindset as well. Did they
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by rick888 16y ago
It's okay. As we've seen with earlier releases, it's better for a few innocent people to die than keep some of this information secret. "Some of them probably even deserve it"
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by rick888 16y ago
"Al Gore's electricity bill is high? PAGE ONE BABY. Al Gore's electricity bill is approximately 1 / 100,000,000 or so of the problem. But it makes us feel good to give do-gooders their comeuppance. Serves them right, for trying to improve t
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by rick888 16y ago
"I'll give you the last two, but I'd say you're off by an order of magnitude on the first one. That's a generalization of the site as a whole, mind you. Your figure might be entirely accurate for, say, r/pics." My figure is from every subre
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by rick888 16y ago
"Isn't that exactly what the CBO has estimated as the result of health care reform? A reduction in the deficit despite the increase in scope (and thus surely number of desks) of government?" I don't know if I believe it. I would have to se
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by rick888 16y ago
"i.e. Is it meaningful to loathe an increase in the size of government if the effort will reduce the net cost of government?" When has increasing the size of the government EVER reduced the net cost? "Suppose we could hire a thousand accoun
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by rick888 16y ago
"You obviously haven't been to much of the internet then- it really is one of the better communities." "better" is relative. To me, HN is one of the "better" communities. Reddit is comprised of 1% people that are actually smart, 20% kooks
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by rick888 16y ago
So when are these countries going to learn that expensive social programs aren't sustainable?

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