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by sayemm 15y ago
Yup, I still have my right-hand Ctrl key on guard for my right pinky. Like the comment below, I just swapped the left-hand Ctrl key and Caps-lock, that's definitely helped me.
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Swapping caps-lock and control was one of the best decisions I made when starting on Emacs, first item on Steve Yegge's list - http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs
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The truth? It’s simpler…and harder than you think.(andyswan.com)
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by sayemm 15y ago
I really like what http://www.githits.me is doing. I think it's a great way to improve your programming skills too by looking at great code written by some of the top github users.
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"In chess there’s a saying, “only the good players are lucky”. Whenever a good player wins a game, the angry opponent often says, “ahh, you were just lucky”. But it always seems the good player gets lucky more than the bad player." - http:
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by sayemm 15y ago
Here's a good piece by Dr. K. Anders Ericsson on Expert Performance and Deliberate Practice , he's the guy who's pretty much behind all this research on deliberate practice and the making of outliers - http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/erics
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by sayemm 15y ago
Agreed. I think one of the best posts ever on startup advice was by @yegg in "Paths to $5M for a startup founder" - http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/06/paths-to-5m-for-... The biggest dilution comes from co-founders and it's so ve
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You're right, I am biased here - the reason being is because I actually used to be a "business guy" before, worked in finance and have since turned into a coder, and I've also failed. Because of that my standards for a business guy are extr
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by sayemm 15y ago
Answer: Look for technical co-founders I'm joking, but seriously, those first 8 bullet points are nothing that technical founders can't do. And if I was working on a startup, it really wouldn't make sense to me to give someone co-founder eq
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I could see this. During my senior year in high school I worked as a waiter at a four-star restaurant on Park Ave in Manhattan. The clientele included a lot of business execs working nearby and they often met for meetings. Some of the regul
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by sayemm 15y ago
High intensity, singular focus, product/market fit ( http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4 ), and determination ( http://paulgraham.com/determination.html ).
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Hackers and Painters is a good answer to this. Is the person who wrote that a "technical person"?
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Awesome passage, thanks for sharing it. Maniacs exemplify "the anatomy of determination" - http://paulgraham.com/determination.html
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by sayemm 15y ago
Excellent analogy
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Know loss, know win.(andyswan.com)
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Twitter Should Move Away from Ruby(pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com)
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by sayemm 15y ago
Great points. What's more is that they pre-empt and sort of sidestep Google out of a big part of this too. People who criticize the high price paid for Skype should also think about their decision to invest in Facebook at a $15bn valuation
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Utility and Happiness(www-personal.umich.edu)
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Here's an excellent blog on some of these techniques and training by Nelson Dellis, the current US Memory champ: http://climbformemory.com/blog/ His older posts go into a lot of interesting detail.
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Joshua Foer, author of "Moonwalking with Einstein", actually met Kim Peek and makes a lot of interesting observations about him. Regarding these competitions, what's incredibly interesting is that all the memory champs have always been trai
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by sayemm 15y ago
I learned Emacs last year from the O'Reilly book, "Learning GNU Emacs" - http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Emacs-Third-Debra-Cameron/dp/... It's an excellent reference and introduction. I also blindly followed Steve Yegge's advice here too,
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by sayemm 15y ago
tech news: http://sayem.me http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://finance.yahoo.com/ Twitter, Reddit, StackOverflow, High Scalability
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by sayemm 15y ago
+1 for James Altucher's blog, no one writes about business war stories like he does. He lays it out straight for you.
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Failure is just experience on the way to success(dondodge.typepad.com)
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What Ruby and Rails Developers Ought To Know?(stackoverflow.com)
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Creativity and confidence propels founder of Groupon(post-gazette.com)
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by sayemm 15y ago
Thanks a lot. I'm building web apps in Ruby and also teaching myself CS. I'm getting humbled by Abelson & Sussman, but it's totally worth it.
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Overall, good post to people learning. I've been teaching myself programming and have more or less followed this advice, though I'm also working through SICP and planning to continue with K&R and Cormen afterwards. For an approach that'
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by sayemm 15y ago
I agree. This economy also isn't getting any prettier anytime soon either... it's going to be tough for investors, and it's going to be esp tough for non-technical founders with just an idea, I think. This is why I suspect Yuri Milner shrew
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As far as the tech world is concerned, I think the next 10+ years will be great for hackers. Costs will keep going down and there will be more opportunities in the internet, more leverage for people who actually know how to build and execut

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