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by tw1010 8y ago
It's amazing what a rich-get-richer effect products and content that really manage to solve problems in a high quality way get in comments sections around the web. (E.g. 3B1B.)
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I loved this format so much. It feels like some of the people who are complaining are acting as if this is going to replace text somehow, which I hardly think will be the case. There is plenty of room for both formats. I thought this was th
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by tw1010 8y ago
That quote reminded me of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXQR-cPXlmY .
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by tw1010 8y ago
Take long 6 hours walks every day after work. No need to do something as drastic as changing careers. I bet ya that you'll get bored with outside play soon enough, and you'll come back with more appreciation for the comforts of an
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by tw1010 8y ago
To Americans reading the parent comment: don't get too full of yourselves, there are smart people in abundance in Europe, no cry fest necessary ;)
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by tw1010 8y ago
Huh, strange. This post was the top comment for a long while (at exactly as many votes as the article itself, 48 upvotes), but then it jumped straight down to the bottom all of a sudden. I didn't know these kinds of measures occurred o
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by tw1010 8y ago
"If you do need to drop out of the process, say so." Poor companies, candidates ghosting them. Hm, hey, don't companies stop responding to candidates all the time, or give little to no feedback about why they chose to reject
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by tw1010 8y ago
"Surprising" only if you're in a small minority of people. To the vast majority, this is not surprising at all. To have an ambitious notion of an ideal life, that is what's surprising. (If you define surprising as whatev
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by tw1010 8y ago
Cool post. But I don't understand this obsession with taking lessons about such miniscule variables as equal/unequal cofounders from such a small sample set, like the top N=10 companies. There's no way, I bet, that that is en
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Companies can do this, there's no regulation against it and there probably shouldn't be any. But there are going to be consequences and they're probably not good for the industry at large. Moves like this fundamentally change
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by tw1010 8y ago
Where did you read that? (I'm curious.) Ben Franklin did basically the same thing.
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by tw1010 8y ago
Yeah, great comment. Definitely a "best of HN comments" candidate.
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There are huge incentives to denying that that is what most socially capable adults do (and spend so so much time thinking about and mastering), so you admitting this is a huge service to all of us for whom it took longer than normal to rea
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by tw1010 8y ago
Yeah, I used to think like xj9 in collage. But I have no idea how it's possible to survive as completely non-social programmer, now that I've seen what work life actually consists of.
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Why giving generalized advice without conditioning on context-dependence is bad. Edit: Sorry, I now see that the real article has all the proper "can"'s, instead of "is"'s, I was missing.
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Society definitely needs more law-enforcers with a high false positive rate.
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I need to start selling shovels.
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by tw1010 8y ago
Game companies optimize for sustained gameplay, often without ever thinking about the people that lie behind the bits. What you described is one of the best strategies there are. I see no counter force, other than regulation, that would pre
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Can HN suggest any good book that compactly deals with "all the non-technical details you need to know about starting a startup"? Obviously I'm not expecting anything comprehensive.
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Only if you let your soul be immovably coupled to a fragile and exogenous variable like your job.
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It'd still require effort. Effort well directed will never be a supply problem.
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Albert Einstein On: Religion and Science(sacred-texts.com)
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But what if countries with a better attitude towards the elderly are also correlated with a higher likelihood of being ok with their taxes going to health care for the old? It doesn't necessarily have to do with respect.
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by tw1010 8y ago
RSS didn't die because of Google. Other services took over once Google Reader shut down. The same will happen when Google cuts off other arms of the octopus.
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I presume you work remotely?
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by tw1010 8y ago
I feel weird about this post. It feels like it's posted by people wanting to somehow give evidence or support to the idea that sleep is good and necessary. I feel weird about the fact that that is something that needs to be proved. Don
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You'd be surprised how much resources you have available if you spend zero time in front of the TV or surfing the web, and spend all your free time on a hard chair with pen and paper studying.
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by tw1010 8y ago
Fuzzy would imply it's hard or impossible to model it, mathematically. But ask any good biologist and I bet you'll hear quite a bit of confidence that the keys behind powerful speech can be understood. For an engineer without doma
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Laziness, premature optimization, better to get your idea out there instead of obsessing over tools. I can think of several.
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by tw1010 8y ago
This is cool stuff. But you guys, the perception that there are no low-hanging fruits anymore is false, and the reason it is perpetuated is because people oddly obsess over frontier techniques and their combinations, instead of innovating a

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