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by sown 14y ago
Perhaps my definition of prototype is wrong. I'm working towards a decent 1.0 version with very basic functionality that people might use. I used to think that having a prototype was enough but now I hear that is not enough to talk to inves
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Ask HN: At what point did you just start working on a prototype?
4 points by sown 14y ago|7 comments
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by sown 14y ago
Heh. Get born into the right family and off to Harvard you go.
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by sown 14y ago
OK, so what do I do when my most persistent determined effort fails? I.e., if I never win and never give up?
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by sown 14y ago
What do you do when your most determined best effort is still inadequate?
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by sown 14y ago
From my own experiences and thoughts on this, I think part of the problem is that this would give people unpresented amounts of freedom in defining their own life. I can barely figure out what to do with my one pathetic life span, with only
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by sown 14y ago
> They’re comfortable. Compared to my other suits, the custom fitted one isn’t too tight or loose in the wrong areas so I don’t feel awkward and geeky in it. I can't agree. They're always oppressively hot for me. All those layers! The
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by sown 14y ago
The future just keeps getting stranger and stranger. I wonder if this is how people in centuries past felt.
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by sown 14y ago
It's an old cycling joke. How do you know if someone in Tour De France isn't doping? They come in last. http://www.theonion.com/articles/nondoping-cyclists-finish-t...
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by sown 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4xaWMKBlw4#t=25s
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Ask HN: How do you really learn a new language?
4 points by sown 14y ago|7 comments
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by sown 14y ago
Maybe it's OK if we don't have the HW now. Sort of like in the 1980s, people we're writing accounting or physics software that needed math co-processors n' stuff -- stuff that didn't quite exist in the early 80s on PCs but people went ahead
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by sown 14y ago
It's mostly commoditized work where I am as well as throughout industry. The glory days of being a branch maintainer are over but there are still device drivers to be made for custom hardware, but a lot of consumer hardware is covered. But
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by sown 14y ago
From what I understand, it was the oil, sugar, or gold of its day. Controlling the spice islands was akin to controlling international trade.
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by sown 14y ago
What about what ever entities that went after the Spice islands? Or east india company? I guess they were commissioned from the monarchies or parliment themselves so perhaps they don't count. Perhaps the oil companies of today?
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by sown 14y ago
It's better than you miss out on a top performer than it is to hire someone into a senior position who turns out to be a bozo. Is it possible that this model stops working when you get to have tens of thousands of employee
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by sown 14y ago
> You didn't even answer someone's direct question toward you, a question that can really help you focus and find the direction you need to improve: "What are you working on now?" I didn't see it. My day job leaves me pretty drained. As
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by sown 14y ago
>If it takes you 10,000 hours to learn the BASICS of organic chemistry, Disclaimer: I had to put in something akin to a 1,000:1 hour ratio type effort to learn stuff like that.
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by sown 14y ago
If I never give up and I never get better, despite trying new methods, what does that mean? Also, if everyone says, "If you failed, you haven't tried enough, despite years of effort", what do I do?
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by sown 14y ago
Drawing at the level of that book isn't a hard problem, as, say, learning organic chemistry. Or is it? some people seem to have a natural ability in some things. In fact, the idea that some children naturally fall into "try harder" vs "this
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by sown 14y ago
I think this isn't a good demonstration of trying hard. These little puzzles only went on for a few hours so a person who is highly intelligent but perhaps not so diligent over a long time won't see bad results in this test. The comments he
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by sown 14y ago
A lifetime of observation of painful personal experiences. I don't really want to go into it publicly.
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by sown 14y ago
... well, if I can learn to DRAW, and I was so BAD at drawing initially, I can pretty much learn to do anything. I used to think like that. If I tried hard and applied myself I could do just about anything...until that s
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by sown 14y ago
I want to do a startup but I can't think of anything people want that I could implement. I'm not good at meeting people and hence, probably not good at understanding what they want. Maybe I'm already doomed to failure.
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by sown 14y ago
ok, that's a good point. thank you.
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by sown 14y ago
> Another is the interviewer will often decide in the first 60 seconds if you're getting hired OK. But why 60 seconds? What did I do wrong in that span of time?
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by sown 14y ago
I had assumed that it was something I did or some area I'm inadequate in that makes me not get a callback. I just want to know what I can do to improve.
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by sown 14y ago
It never gets that far when they tell me 'no'. Maybe someday i'll have that privilege.
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by sown 14y ago
Most of these are at small companies. Thanks for the info, though.
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by sown 14y ago
That's the sort of thing I was hoping for. I genuinely want to improve my shortcomings. "Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points." -- Knute Rockne

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