taroth

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by taroth 13y ago
I keep this picture of Elon Musk open permanently in one of my Spaces. When feeling unmotivated or risk-adverse, I'll imagine what he would say if I was sitting in the backseat of the Tesla. http://imgur.com/4tsZOIf
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by taroth 13y ago
Site down. Not cached by google. Anyone have a link?
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by taroth 13y ago
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/xap/3/3/181/
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by taroth 13y ago
You might hope that we would become habituated to reoccurring noises in our environment, but the opposite has been shown empirically. [1] The study showed that while regular office workers become habituated to office chatter after 20 minute
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by taroth 13y ago
Heres an applied class integrating Linear Algebra and Python: https://class.coursera.org/matrix-001/wiki/view?page=overvie... This session started on Monday (July 1st) and if you have an interest in Computer Visio
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by taroth 13y ago
Anyone else find the tone of this article to be condescending? "Let’s focus on how one teenage girl, Jennie Lamere, defeated a room full of smart, motivated, experienced, full-grown men. This would seem to be instructive to the greater argu
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by taroth 14y ago
You are painting a rosy picture of entrepreneurial life in Berlin. That's fine, but entrepreneurship in Germany has several downsides including: -Less VC funding -Regulations make it distinctly harder and more expensive to fire employees -A
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by taroth 14y ago
Interesting. Huda Akil is no obscure quack. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Huda+Akil&...
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by taroth 14y ago
Thank you, your answer bridged a gap for me. Will drop an update here as soon as I apply it.
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by taroth 14y ago
Your point is that people will only appreciate advice that confers direct results (fancy car->invited to fancy parties). I evaluate advice against where I am and where I am aiming to be, which means that advice that isn't practical now
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by taroth 14y ago
Working link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KgbmD-Q... As a college student who likes to pick the brains of entrepreneurs, this post made me feel guilty. I can't really afford their advice, but I need it and value i
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by taroth 14y ago
This put Treehouse on the map for me. I have not seen evidence to suggest that Treehouse's $50/month program is any bit more worthwhile than Codecademy's program, but the notion that I could "save" $1,200 ($50/month * 2 years) on education
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by taroth 14y ago
Um, what? Here we have a product serving the needs of teachers, built for "webmasters". How many course-builders out there want to familiarize themselves with 3 coding languages (HTML, Python, and JavaScript), when a easily conceivable web
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by taroth 14y ago
>"Entrepreneurs are lonely, but they thrive in a community with others. With a private chat room always on and 15 to 20 members sharing their setbacks, failures, and successes, a thriving connection was created. Live chat was wonderful
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by taroth 14y ago
In #13 Networking: >"If you’re in San Francisco looking for a tech job, you’ll want to be using the latest connection apps" I've never seen this in the LA community. Is this the norm up north?
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by taroth 14y ago
>The best way to reduce stress is to stop screwing up and setting up your life to increase your chances of success. Successful people don’t use willpower as a last-ditch defense, they use it to set up good habits and avoid problem situa
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by taroth 14y ago
Making a "code" is like building a habit. Maintaining the code might be tiring at first, but consistently caring about others, just like consistently brushing your teeth, will inevitably get easier. If you truly are feeling exhausted/insane
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by taroth 14y ago
To summarize: a company is genetically either an innovating "Breakthrough"(Intel, Texas Instruments, Google) or a sexy and shallow "Best-Of-Show" (Zynga, Facebook, YouTube). As others have pointed out, false dichotomy is false on several le
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by taroth 14y ago
For clarity, are you saying friend test before releasing to the app store or before advertising?