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by tjic 17y ago
> do we really _want_ this sort of thing Replacing labor intensive delivery that involves lots of big brown trucks illegally parking in traffic with an underground, computerized, electrically powered system? Yeah, that sounds horrible.
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by tjic 17y ago
In 99% of life, when quantities go down and demand stays the same, prices go up. Software engineers? Check. Concert tickets? Check. Fruit at a supermarket? Check. It's only in areas where government creates an artificial monopoly - and t
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by tjic 17y ago
Clearly states and townships are allowed to borrow money. Which means that they can issue bonds. If a bond is tradeable on the open market, how is it different from currency? In short: financial engineering has evolved a bit in the last 200
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by tjic 17y ago
> To help the city flourish, the Canadians encourage immigration. It is a place with Canadian judges and Mounties that happily accepts millions of immigrants. Some of the new residents could be Cuban émigrés who So the Canadian governme
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by tjic 17y ago
"business-lobby" ? Does that mean "people in favor of profits, job creation, and value creation" ? Count me in to that lobby. Because, frankly, what's the alternative? Thinking that we have too much entrepreneurialism, value creation, in
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by tjic 17y ago
I note that the relatively little regulated hedge funds did NOT collapse and need a taxpayer bailout in the current recession. Folks like to trot out hedge funds as bad guys, but in fact they do a ton of good, and prove that a lightly regul
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by tjic 17y ago
Ouch! ...but, OTOH, it worked out well for ESR...
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by tjic 17y ago
> If you can write good code, you're probably capable of writing good documentation Indeed, but is that the best use of time for someone who can write good code? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%27s_law
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by tjic 17y ago
When people say "we need to all stop doing X and do Y", I am tempted to reorder the statement into a question: Q: WHY do we reward projects with crappy documentation? Heinlein had a statement: "any time people ask a question that starts w
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by tjic 17y ago
Isn't "living in your parents' basement" and EXAMPLE of families that have joined forces and gotten houses together?
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by tjic 17y ago
> For the first time in history, this gives science a way to control light with matter and vice versa. Typical bad science writing. Mirrors have existed before this year...
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by tjic 17y ago
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! ...or maybe I'm just a software engineer / small company owner ( SmartFlix.com / HeavyInk.com) outside of Boston...
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by tjic 17y ago
Agreed; I block sites from myself, and my increase in productivity (and morale) is amazing. I use this plugin instead: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3145 You can turn on password protection, so that you can't turn off the
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by tjic 17y ago
Funny, but not news.yc material.
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by tjic 17y ago
How many YC lessons is this guy following as well or better than you are? * low cost / Ramen profitable - check! * viral marketing - check! * avoiding bad hires - check! * keeping codebase small - CHECK!
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by tjic 17y ago
> This list is awesome. I would love to work for someone like you. Thank you. I appreciate that.
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by tjic 17y ago
Funny answer: when I go out to grab a $6 burrito with some of my coworkers, I have to borrow ... um ... $6. Serious answer: I think that my people would say that I conduct myself in ways small and large such that they don't wonder for a sec
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by tjic 17y ago
I intended to have the sig block, so that folks could see that I wasn't just pontificating about what others should do. I have, however, removed the link. Good point. Thanks.
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by tjic 17y ago
There's a lot of good advice here telling the employee how to act. I concur with most of it. Let me add something from another perspective: Speaking as a startup owner who has had money problems from time to time: a) crap happens b) your h
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by tjic 17y ago
I disagree with your use of the word "the". What is "the" acceptable movie to watch tonight? What is "the" acceptable website to surf? What is "the" acceptable book to buy? The great thing about freedom is that we can all pick our own answe
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by tjic 17y ago
I love it when folks from the old media, who can't figure out how to provide fact-checked news, distinguish opinions from data, disclose ideological conflicts, or CREATE PROFITS lecture the online world about how we're DOING IT WRONG. Oh no
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by tjic 17y ago
Totally boring / totally overhyped. Short version: if you hit a very few atoms with an obscene amount of energy, you blow some electrons out of their proper orbitals...and everything returns to normal the instant you turn the laser off. The
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by tjic 17y ago
> I believe that it is actually better not to have the option to borrow at 25%. I can think of thousands of reasons why I'd like to have that option. On example: My dog gets hit by a car and it will cost $4k to save her life. I have an
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by tjic 17y ago
I note that iRobot, Boston Dynamics and other robotics firms have not yet denied that their robots feed on the dead. What are they hiding?
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by tjic 17y ago
Amen. I was picked on, and I learned to fight. Everything in life is a cost/benefit trade off. If it's fun to push you around, and the cost is low, people will push your around. If it's fun to push you around, and you land a few dozen punch
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by tjic 17y ago
> Please don't compare standard bullying to sexual assault. The two experiences are not comparable. They're not the same, but, yes, they're comparable.
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by tjic 17y ago
I'm not usually one of the anti-DRM frothing at the mouth folks... but this screams out EPIC FAIL.
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by tjic 17y ago
> Prison and school are in fact natural, it's civilized society that's takes effort Civilized society is spontaneous, and pops into existence whenever two people meet in the wilderness. Both prisons and schools only come into existence
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by tjic 17y ago
> Thinks that his kid is 'less of a loser' when he knows karate What he said was that the kid was going to be able to physically defend himself from assault. Can you disagree with that assertion?
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by tjic 17y ago
Yeah. Folks who are punched, have their fingers broken, and are mocked in the hallways shouldn't harbor resentments.

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