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541.
by stray 15y ago
Note to self: read this article in your copious free time...
542.
by stray 15y ago
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to appreciate their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefo
543.
by stray 15y ago
Not at first. At first she was pissed at me for getting us into such a predicament so I left her to hang out in golden gate park while I went out to scrounge for food, money and a job. Once I had proven to her that I'd eventually get us off
544.
by stray 15y ago
Yes - "we" was me and my gf.
545.
by stray 15y ago
Sure. A lot of it is covered in a book I'm writing (working title: The Minglewood Blues)... Things were tough all over in 2000, and the company I worked for held out longer than most. But it died too. And I found myself looking for work
546.
by stray 15y ago
What do you consider successful? I've been homeless twice involuntarily and once voluntarily. How does one rise up from homelessness? Pure force of will and creativity.
547.
by stray 15y ago
Why even worry about getting credit for it? Your life is richer for having learned things you didn't know before. And frankly, I'd hire an autodidact over a college graduate any day.
548.
by stray 15y ago
A lisp version of matplotlib wouldn't suck...
549.
by stray 15y ago
Lozenge... A wrench... Lawrence...
550.
by stray 16y ago
Nice try, illuminati.
551.
by stray 16y ago
13 years == long in the tooth?
552.
by stray 16y ago
It is possible that he's offering some hard-won wisdom. Hard to know without engaging him in a conversation. A couple decades ago I gad a girlfriend who made tie-dye t-shirts and I'd often accompany her to shows and festivals. At one fest
553.
by stray 16y ago
There's nothing preventing you from writing imperative code in Lisp.
554.
by stray 16y ago
Depends on the novice, right? After all, Tiger Woods was once a novice.
555.
by stray 16y ago
A support group for masochists?
556.
by stray 16y ago
Does that mean there is only C++ in India?
557.
by stray 16y ago
Are you asking because you are thinking of implementing a site with geophotos as a central concept? If not, why would it matter?
558.
by stray 16y ago
Ads
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by stray 16y ago
It was actually a bit of an afterthought. We are going to try another startup anyway -- and we realized just days before the deadline that YC was a possibility (though a bit of a long-shot). So we gave it a shot. It's just one of hundreds
560.
by stray 16y ago
flickr?
561.
by stray 16y ago
It doesn't much matter what you do right now. Just do something. Anything that moves you toward your goal. The more trivial the better, imo. You just need to get some momentum. Now move out smartly, troop.
562.
by stray 16y ago
We rarely actually say this out loud, but we do intend to take on eBay. I've got this sling and five stones, you see...
563.
by stray 16y ago
Have they already contacted everybody they're going to contact?
564.
by stray 16y ago
There should be an option for "C was my first programming language and I used it exclusively for years - many years ago".
565.
by stray 16y ago
He'd be on Phish tour slinging phatty grilled cheese and icy cold water
566.
by stray 16y ago
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
567.
by stray 16y ago
You have mail.
568.
by stray 16y ago
Perhaps he's too proud to accept charity from a stranger. Offering to sell it to him for whatever he can comfortably pay (no matter how small) is both generous and respectful. If he cannot afford even a penny, I'm happy to pay shipping as w
569.
by stray 16y ago
How much [cw]ould you pay for a mac mini? I have one sitting across the room from me that I hardly use. It's an early intel model with 1gb. I want to buy a new one to run OpenCyc (which requires 4gb) on but I can't bring myself to just scr
570.
by stray 16y ago
Don't be territorial -- share the code.

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