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by sskates 16y ago
Agreed. Coincidentally this high historical standard of living is why it's possible for so many people to start companies on their own without needing access to large amounts of capital. Although it might not seem like it compared to our su
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by sskates 16y ago
Really? I think having a hunger for knowledge is great. Knowing I'll never be satisfied ensures I'm not going to drift aimlessly.
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by sskates 16y ago
For some reason it's not saving the company URL for me. It also doesn't like greater than or less than signs (<>)
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by sskates 16y ago
After reading about how it took 6 tries for iamwil to get into YC, it makes you realize how awesome of an achievement it is to be really living the dream: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2345664 Nice job guys!
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by sskates 16y ago
I applied to TechStars with a 3 man team a few months ago. We had full time jobs but gave the above line- that we were willing to more seriously commit if we got into the program. We didn't get in. They advised us that you can send a much s
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by sskates 16y ago
Let's take this point by point. Athletics: There are genetic components for physical abilities, this is well established in the literature. Art: Of course our cognitive abilities that set us apart from other species is genetic. The article
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by sskates 16y ago
Oh I definitely agree here. Great programmers only got good because they love to geek out about it. That's not something that can be trained. Given that the OP shouldn't feel bad for not wanting to program, he should spend his time followin
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by sskates 16y ago
I'm not so sure about this being a good thing from the user's perspective. The fact that it's possible to recover deleted data from HDDs has saved people from grief over years of lost work. Not everyone is smart about backups.
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by sskates 16y ago
My understanding is that there is no innate talent for programming, math, art, or anything else. It's just a question of how hard you're willing to work at learning how to become the best. (This is the thesis of Talent is Overrated, which I
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by sskates 16y ago
"If people are willing to live as legal or illegal immigrants, with rights that range from limited to none, then logically, they should be even more eager to move to a Romerplex, which would promise most of the economic gains of uprooting t
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by sskates 16y ago
I'd say many more people have the opposite problem, where they won't take the initiative to clarify stuff they don't understand, either because they don't anticipate miscommunications, don't care, or are too intimidated.
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by sskates 16y ago
Ouch. This goes against rule number 1 of software: don't lose your user's data. I'm sure they're smart enough that nothing's permanently lost, but even the perception that it could happen is bad enough to seriously tarnish their brand.
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by sskates 16y ago
"Fetchback, a retargeting ad platform claims that 2010 Valentines Day advertisers received a 600% or higher return on investment. They also claim that, in general, retargeting can perform 74% better than a standard pay-per-click campaign."
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by sskates 16y ago
A lot of the outcry reminds me of when Gmail first announced that they would serve ads based on the content of your e-mail. A lot of people freaked out at first but these days few care. Once people understand what's going on I don't think i
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by sskates 16y ago
I don't think the solution to this is to make hunt and peck typing impossible, whether by removing the labels on the keys, making the keyboard invisible, or what have you. People won't learn touch typing as a result, most will instead just
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by sskates 16y ago
The second chart's legend also threw me off quite a bit.
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by sskates 16y ago
I wonder how Greplin feels about this, it's certainly covering some of the same territory that they're in.
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by sskates 16y ago
As much as we like to slam government backed programs, at least it looks like they're partnering with the right people. The TechStars guys certainly know what they're doing when it comes to early stage funding. I'm interested to see how thi
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by sskates 16y ago
Sorry, the government can't create wealth for free. If the government wants to allocate dollars, it must at some point come from taxes (pulling dollars in the economy back out of it) or inflation (printing more dollars and decreasing the
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by sskates 16y ago
The real point is that blog posts like this make your company look bad. Consumers are fine with you jacking up the price so that the cost of production and R&D isn't significant, but if you do anything to intentionally make a product wo
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by sskates 16y ago
A lot of the “aren’t you afraid that somebody is going to use that against you?" remarks are reminiscent of the early days of the internet, when people were afraid to put pictures of themselves or their contact info online. There's now a $5
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by sskates 16y ago
I think he's looking for qualitative, and not quantitative, data. Saying "a good number of people build webapps for reason X" from the results of this survey is okay, saying "Y% of people build webapps for reason X" is not.
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by sskates 16y ago
It's widely held that the best programmers are orders of magnitude better than the worst ones. [1] This also goes for you x years ago versus you now. Why this isn't reflected in pay everywhere is beyond me. While people exploit these ineffi
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by sskates 16y ago
"At our stage companies fail because ... the founders don’t get along" It seems that this is a serious but less talked about problem to watch out for. Anyone have insight into how to avoid one of the less visible mistakes beyond the obvious
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by sskates 16y ago
Could you elaborate why having these people on Quora makes its usefulness go to zero for you?
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by sskates 16y ago
Sorry, I missed the connection the article has to getting fired. Congrats on the article, by the way.
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by sskates 16y ago
It's weird how often people need to be told that they should just go and do the thing they want to do instead of pussyfooting around about it. That being said, the original TechCrunch article may help complete a small piece of the puzzle fo
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by sskates 16y ago
"What would it be like if college students felt that they were called to a vocation rather than simply getting their tickets stamped so they can get middle-class jobs, if they are lucky?" You're not going to spawn Zuckberg, Obama, or the ne
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by sskates 16y ago
This sounds like it's more difficult
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by sskates 16y ago
Lots of people on the Reddit thread are really into it: "It's heartbreaking when it spawns a totally sweet car, upside down." "my entire office is idle cheering nonentities on" It's hard to imagine anyone getting as excited about the swf yo

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