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by seiji 11y ago
It's amusing how our mental model of people has become: anything potentially internally upsetting to a person will psychologically destroy them forever. Therefore, you must never say anything anybody (globally) could possibly have a
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by seiji 11y ago
Many 1-2 person startups use hackerspaces (which have no formal definition) as co-working spaces. So there is a symbiotic relationship there, especially when some hackerspaces cost $100 to $300 per month. Formal hackerspaces (e.g. have a b
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by seiji 11y ago
The only solution is to formalize everything . "Hello, may I speak further words to you?" "Hello, would you be comfortable if I help with your project? Also, I do not want my help to be construed as condescending or demeani
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by seiji 11y ago
Obviously this case is detectable, but it's detectable after it happens since permissions weren't correct in the first place. Who keeps web logs these days? It's all spyware javascript tracking for pretty graph printing. Plu
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by seiji 11y ago
signup flows to see which one onboards users better. The trick is: there is no global "better" — only 'better', given a specific group of users. Which users though? Running a million 40 year olds from Iowa through you
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by seiji 11y ago
This is a great example of the house of cards all our network systems are built on top of. Imagine this scenario: you maintain a network of web servers, database servers, file servers, etc. They all combine to generate a large website used
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by seiji 11y ago
Have you ever seen a toddler obsessed with Google just because of the colorful logo? It happens all the time.
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by seiji 11y ago
They built a multi-billion dollar company on that proposition. As long as it runs on startup, it ships. Any problems can be addressed by paid support contracts (suckers).
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by seiji 11y ago
what other secrets from the future can you share with us since you are privileged to live inside the source of all knowledge?
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by seiji 11y ago
Citation from the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344077
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by seiji 11y ago
CS teaches a lot of underlying stuff that almost none of the self taught programmers I know have yet learned There seems to be two approaches to knowledge acquisition: school method vs. self-taught method. School method: learn everything
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by seiji 11y ago
Great rebuttal to an originally insane WSJ anti-thought piece. Some awkward points from the original WSJ article: University computer science departments are in miserable shape: 10 years behind in a field that changes every 10 minutes. Wh
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by seiji 11y ago
We do know some of these things. Brains don't store "knowledge" like SSDs by capturing discrete electrons then poking them to read the stored data. Brains encode data physically as the arrangement of synapses between neurons
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by seiji 11y ago
neural nets, which can be subject to biases and confusion in a similar way to human brains - rather than a CPU. That's a slight abuse of comparisons. Saying an ANN is not like a CPU would be like saying your stomach is not like a ref
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by seiji 11y ago
goober
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by seiji 11y ago
Key quote: “Lots of founders today weren’t around in 1999 and they don’t know a thing about financial markets beyond what’s happened in the last 24 months,” Mr. Gurley said in an interview. “To them that’s how this game is played, money is
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by seiji 11y ago
die of hunger while also being grossly overweight Another fun diets-aren't-thermodynamics argument: rabbit starvation.
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by seiji 11y ago
Oh, absolutely. I know people who subsist on nothing but ice cream, pasta, chipotle, and orange juice while not gaining significant weight. They aren't ripped, but they aren't overweight either. In the aggregate of society, the
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by seiji 11y ago
blaming the foods for a person's lack of self-control is, as I said previously, incredibly foolish. c.f. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary... burden ultimately rests on
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by seiji 11y ago
beliefs that their weight problems have nothing to do with their personal habits Eating garbage food is a personal habit, but the food is also engineered to be not very filling, high in calories, and mildly to strongly addictive (more pro
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by seiji 11y ago
some food that flipped this on Stop eating bread (yes, pizza counts as bread. beer counts as bread. stop it). Stop drinking calories unless you're exercising for 2+ hours at once (yes, fruit juice is bad for you. stop it). The pr
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by seiji 11y ago
My point is: that's not a lot of money. It's called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullock_paradox — "the low costs of rent-seeking relative to the gains from rent-seeking." Influencing indivi
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by seiji 11y ago
paraphrased: "If you hear someone describe their startup with trendy buzzwords (big data, SaaS, social, mobile, cloud), you should think fraud and run away. The fact you're using trendy buzzwords is an indication you aren'
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by seiji 11y ago
is not one of improving quality of life, it's one of More. Just More. Have you seen which website you're on? More-More-More for Me-Me-Me is pretty much the MO around here.
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by seiji 11y ago
Elliot's most powerful hacker tool: his heart.
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by seiji 11y ago
Anybody interested in an ebook about how to dose yourself (or your entire company) for optimal startup performance? I've thought about putting one together by interviewing people about their non-amphetamine-based get-shit-done regimen
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, it did say "example entry" — not actual entry. (Though, it could be real and just extracted for demo... it's not specified.) Startups in and around SF generate between 500 and 1,000 new millionaires per year on avera
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by seiji 11y ago
YC isn't a summer camp. It's not an incubator. You are not an incubee. They give you money and you can spend it however you want. It's generally assumed the cost to start at startup these days is only food+housing for two
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by seiji 11y ago
Smalltalk was the pinnacle of programatic pedagogy. Hypercard was the easiest way for regular humans to use computers for computer-like automations. But, then you run into the "No Real Programmer" problem. The nerds take over, h
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by seiji 11y ago
ptrdiff_t is signed (because subtraction). size_t is unsigned (because length). This page is a much shorter summary than the article: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Important-... Also

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