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by tomasien 13y ago
My dad writes response letters like this. He's taught me so much about how the law actually works, he should design a class that is mandatory for all students to pass the HS.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Agreed. I agree with the thesis of the article whole-heartedly. I'm adding some context of my thoughts, not a counter-argument. That the meat of the book, not the "words and the ability to think will keep us free" message the
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by tomasien 13y ago
1984 and other works of science fiction were always used to represent these psdeu-truths to me growing up. It would range from why socialism was bad, to why America was good, to why reading was important, etc. etc. But it's just a book
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by tomasien 13y ago
Used this for some parts of shockoedenim.com, highly recommend.
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by tomasien 13y ago
It's so encouraging to see a Hacker News comment section that is almost overwhelming informative and positive. I get varying amounts of flak for constantly posting about the quality and nature of HN comments, but as an unabashed optimi
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by tomasien 13y ago
I think it's funny that this was on the front page this morning, and with "Mozilla, EFF, and Reddit" in the title, the TechCrunch article about it blows straight to the top. Titles matter y'all, titles matter.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Ok to be fair: that's how judicial rulings work, based on precedence. There may be (and I believe to be) far MORE precedence saying the opposite, but don't dismiss precedence's power.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Unprecedented empire expansion? You must JUST be saying unprecedented into the Middle East if anything, I would even argue that. I'm a major, MAJOR opponent of the Iraq War especially, but it was arguably an empire expansion at it&#x27
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by tomasien 13y ago
"Facebook keeps me connected to folks I care deeply about who aren’t nearby." He goes on to explain the way in which it works for him, but that's the point. I, for example, don't do anything but see my stream without much hiding and I love
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by tomasien 13y ago
So that's what all those blogs were about! Remarkably similar to what Paul is doing with Dashboard.io except he's been doing it for a while. Not that that's a big negative, I think it's good when smart people are seeing similar opportunitie
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by tomasien 13y ago
But you don't HAVE to. Look at the Buffer guys, especially Joel. He works like 2 hours a day on Buffer, but extraordinarily efficiently, and they were profitable and growing before going back in the red to grow more (I'm not actually sure t
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by tomasien 13y ago
I like that there's kind of a subtle dig to the post-Jobs Apple in there.
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by tomasien 13y ago
It's like people don't understand that coffee is a drug, and a powerful one. It has a long burn and a slow come down, so it has become an acceptable social drug (like alcohol and nicotine) but it's still a drug. Drugs are incredibly valuabl
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by tomasien 13y ago
Voice recognition is NOT the only thing that could do that, and when something else comes along that is better, THAT will really change things.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Glass is cool as shit though. I think it's a step in learning what boundaries we can push. I might even wear it if I almost never needed to talk to it.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Anyone want an unsolicited opinion? waits for everyone to leave I hope Google Glass is an experiment, because voice reco isn't particularly important outside of when you're driving. When I get tired of texting and consider voice reco, 2 t
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by tomasien 13y ago
HN needs to not be an echo chamber, but the comment sections are becoming the opposite. If you're trying to justify a really pedantic but generally uniformative post (you say it's informative - how? I suppose you could have missed the 10 ea
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by tomasien 13y ago
I'm not even mad at noname123 for posting this! I'm not! It's totally legit to make this post, although it's not as good as it could be, it's fine. JUST STOP UPVOTING IT!
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by tomasien 13y ago
WHO IS UPVOTING THIS PREDICTABLY NEGATIVE SHIT ON HN? What is this? How does this happen? I'm just stunned. Every single time. It's never even the "that's awesome! Keep in mind, there's this additional context" posts, it's just the "this is
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by tomasien 13y ago
Only essentially at levels that are extraordinarily achievable with participation. Really, only at the 500 level does it matter.
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by tomasien 13y ago
And Internet forum votes aren't personal. Karma doesn't matter. We downvote bad information, period.
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by tomasien 13y ago
To be clear: MOST startups die. I'm not hating on my community or well funded startups that die, that happens. I think it tends to be that if a startup has found PMF or is desperate to find it AND has money, they tend to grow not die.
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by tomasien 13y ago
PG's thoughts on why he immediately saw that Yahoo had problems upon entering the company have provided some really important context for me. The startups in my town tend to be well funded for no discernible reason or non-existent, and almo
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by tomasien 13y ago
Please add (2011) to the title. It's really important to understand this wasn't written to contextualize this ac.
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by tomasien 13y ago
My best friend was non-suicidally depressed for 2 years, and I just did not believe him. I thought he was just having trouble getting over an ex for some reason, because him being depressed didn't make sense. The thing that finally convince
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by tomasien 14y ago
I think my choice of the word "great" in the second paragraph was off, but I'll stand by the rest. I have a legitimate learning disability when it comes to aesthetics, going as far as not being able to recall what shape almost anything was
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by tomasien 14y ago
The point of this really shouldn't be "I leave it to designers because they're better at aesthetic design" it should be "I leave it to designers because I'm already a good coder, and my time is more valuable". Designing a really great produ
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by tomasien 14y ago
It's important to note that he's not saying the YC Alumni network and the power YC offers for fundraising isn't important, it's just that you can get 80% of what YC gives you BESIDES that without being in YC. Think about how many companies
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by tomasien 14y ago
Maybe it would make things more confusing, but I've never understood why you can't just add extra !'s to !important and make it more important, like a z-index of importance. I can never see it getting very many levels deep, it's only REALLY
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by tomasien 14y ago
It's so funny, but as I become an exponentially better and better programmer, I start finding myself more and more drawn to stuff like this that someone put together in 2 days and is billed as "light weight" over any other feature than some

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