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It's bad advice to say "don't listen to what others in this thread are saying". Having more data is better than having less data. It's good advice to trust your gut; but as Nobel prize winning psychologists discover
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Your words: "I think its a waste of time to try to figure out some minimal set of "red flags" Do you truly believe there are no signs for anything?
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Personable != respectful.
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1) The number of attempts from startups to go after a fairly well-defined idea (more specific than general). A high number of attempts indicates a problem is unsolved. A low number indicates unexplored terrain. Ideally I'd also like to
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GMail cost me over $3K in rent. I'm looking for a job, and after sending out resumes (and often a URL to my resume) for over a month I realized practically no one was getting my emails. I was being flagged as a spammer. The only way ar
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published research be available to the public no later than 12 months after publication Why wait 12 months? Why can't published research be available immediately? Does anyone know or have a citation for the rationale behind this?
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Ask HN: How do you really feel about web-based programming?
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2. No geographical boundaries. Reading this always feels wrong to me. Face to face communication is higher bandwidth than text or video.
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Ask HN: Can you make me not feel like a robot?
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What would help breathe life in the medium again? Or what would make you feel writing blog posts remains an act of participation in a community?
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Can you say a bit more? I'd like something short and simpler.
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I don't blog. I'm afraid people will make fun of what I write if I do. I have a similar feeling on HackerNews, that people will jump on me. It's also why I don't use Twitter.
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Ask HN: Why don't you blog?
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Build only 1 feature, only 1 page, and make it as appealing as possible before building anything else. Measure the appeal by number of users. Spend the first day launching, however far you get.
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Lesson. If marketing the product according to plan A does not work, invent plan B. If you can make Minix run on a MacBook Air, AND get wifi working without me having to do anything, I'm willing to try it. Neither Linux nor FreeBSD
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There’s no objective measure of ‘‘merit’’ so there’s no way to know whether your society is meritocratic or not. Is this true?
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To explain something complex I learned that most people may not know.
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The study suggests that the ability to pay attention to something is driven by inhibition. This is controversial. Inhibition sounds like the opposite of openness, and openness is considered vitally important to being a good progra
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Why 10 years and not 100 or 1000? If this is a legal limit, can anyone explain the rationale behind the limit?
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How are XtreemFS and Quobyte different than GlusterFS?
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The article contradicts your first point, and suggests too many takeaways are a sign of trouble. Was it better to let everyone speak as much as they wanted, or should strong leaders end meandering debates? Was it more effective for people
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Harper Lee's words: all I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama.
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We haven’t found a single use case for the problem as stated. Impressive nonetheless.