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by teuobk 16y ago
Too bad I can't admit to feeling a bit of relief upon learning about the impostor syndrome, since doing so would certainly out me as the fraud I am.
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by teuobk 16y ago
Maybe I'm a bit out of touch with the direction AngelList is going, but I can't quite tell if this is an April Fools joke (isn't human curation part of the draw of AngelList?) or an actual feature announcement (maybe human curation can't sc
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by teuobk 16y ago
An interesting extension of this could be to add a poll here on HN asking, "Which number did you pick?" and then comparing the poll results to the actual results.
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by teuobk 16y ago
The missing part of that function is that time is a scarce and necessary input.
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by teuobk 16y ago
While it seems like there could be some issues with this in a (particularly conservative) workplace, I think the concept is great: give users some incentive to practice safe passwording.
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by teuobk 16y ago
Maybe not in quite those words, but there certainly have been politicians who have made abstinence-only sex-ed a part of their platform.
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by teuobk 16y ago
The secret -- the difficulty -- isn't one of having a $100k+ income so much as it is not spending it all. Live like you have a $60k salary, and not only will you still be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle, but you'll also be able to p
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by teuobk 16y ago
A related question that I have is how much people's incomes vary from year to year. For example, the seven years since I finished undergrad have seen me be an engineer, a grad student, a (not yet very successful) entrepreneur, and a consul
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by teuobk 16y ago
Indeed, at least in professional settings. There is a guy at the office where I'm doing some consulting now, and he stinks . But I'm no more inclined to tell him that he stinks than I am to tell a certain woman colleague of mine that she
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by teuobk 16y ago
I lived for about a year in Palo Alto near El Camino and Page Mill. I had a 2-bedroom apartment (1050 sq ft) for which the rent was $1800. I split it with a roommate to bring the cost down to $900 for each of us. Utilities were another $
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by teuobk 16y ago
The farmers markets are good too, and you can often find excellent deals on produce if you know where to look. I always liked the Menlo Park one (near the Trader Joe's) for a good balance of selection and affordability.
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by teuobk 16y ago
On a related topic, what are some examples of well-known conjectures, generally believed to be true, that were later proven to be false?
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Got a trademark? Go phish.(nesota.com)
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by teuobk 16y ago
The problems with these types of techniques is that they don't necessarily improve security, but they do add complexity. In current medical devices that support so-called "distance telemetry," the implanted device is bonded with a base devi
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by teuobk 16y ago
I think that intentional temporary disappearance sounds like a fun challenge. This seems like something we'll be seeing more and more of. No, not the surveillance (though that's probably true), but rather the idea of disappearance as a gam
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by teuobk 17y ago
Mortgage payments are usually calculated to be equal over time. Therefore, a greater proportion of the early payments goes to interest, but a greater proportion of the later payments goes to principal. Payments in excess of the set paymen
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by teuobk 17y ago
Interesting that you should mention the "everything is a problem to be solved" point. I had always considered that to be just "an engineer thing," but now that I think about it, most of my male friends are engineers, and most of my enginee
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by teuobk 17y ago
By function, all (except Emacs) running on Windows: *SSH: Putty *File transfer: WinSCP, TortoiseSVN *Coding: Aptana (Rails), Matlab (Matlab), Eclipse (C++) *Text/hex editing: PSPad *Server-side file touch-up: Emacs *Browser-ba
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by teuobk 17y ago
Well, that's unethical. How would you feel if you had employees who were doing such things while you paid them?
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by teuobk 17y ago
I think this might be an example of "good enough" being the enemy of "perfect." Delta still flies DC-9s built in the 1960s, in large part because they're paid for. Are they as nice as planes built in the past decade? No, but they work fin
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by teuobk 17y ago
Stanford, too, was founded as a tuition-free school. Sadly, they were forced to begin charging tuition in 1920. The good news is that, a century later, the school is returning to its roots by offering free tuition to students whose familie
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by teuobk 17y ago
This appears to be a reasonably complete list (refer to the YC sheet): http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1... According to that list, 14 are dead. That might be an underestimate, as BusinessWeek's Top Angels in Te
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by teuobk 17y ago
In the full paper, the author makes explicit his choice to use the contemporary American sense of the word "liberal." This, of course, differs from classical liberalism, which is similar to modern libertarianism.
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by teuobk 17y ago
Link to the paper from the author's web site: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/Kanazawa/pdfs/SPQ2010OnlineFirst.p... (Source: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/Kanazawa/ )
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Doug, Brian, and Andrew(teslamotors.com)
5 points by teuobk 17y ago|0 comments
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by teuobk 17y ago
I'm a bit confused: is this meant to promote the site or to criticize it?
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by teuobk 17y ago
I like the idea, and I like the simplicity of the interface, but I was disappointed by the results. Most of my results were classified as "not spam," but a cursory inspection suggests that at least 70% were actually spam. Conversely, one
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by teuobk 17y ago
I am not impressed. I was really hoping that Apple would come up with a compelling need for the tablet, but the demos they showed were, in my opinion, unimaginative. Tablets have been around forever as solutions looking for a problem; th
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by teuobk 17y ago
Have you considered going back to finish your degree? If you think you might want to finish it at some point, the sooner the better, because it will only become more difficult to go back to an academic environment. Also, school could give
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by teuobk 17y ago
I'm a big fan of Ian's secure shoelace knot, which I use all of the time on my hiking boots and hockey skates: http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm Easy to tie, easy to untie, and I've never had it slip or come untied on its own

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