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by unalone 17y ago
Damn, wish this was a weekend. I don't think I can afford taking a weekday trip to Boston.
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by unalone 17y ago
Joomla isn't nearly as extensible as Drupal. If you're just trying to put up a few pages and call it a day, it's great, but Drupal can handle practically everything. I use it to mock up web sites because I can't program: It's possible to us
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by unalone 17y ago
It sucks in the way "US democracy" sucks. The idea is good, but there're a lot of flaws in the system that could be fixed if the system wasn't so dead-set on maintaining status quo.
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by unalone 17y ago
Reluctant upvote. Drupal's what I learned in high school. It gives you pretty unparalleled control over your site. Conceptually it's a league above any of its competitors: You can do some incredible things with it without knowing any coding
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by unalone 17y ago
Cleese comes across as more the artisan than certain of his old partners. He was the first to leave Monty Python, because the skits weren't at the level of wit he wanted, and because others were complaining about his need to endlessly revis
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by unalone 17y ago
I liked that MIT removed the extracurricular pressure. This I don't like so much. As a recent applicant, I hold that the two useful parts of my application were the portfolio and the essay. They're the best way to gauge somebody's genuine a
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by unalone 17y ago
I call bullshit on this. Do you know how many fields exist for aspiring writers? It's not all people writing novel manuscripts. If you total up all the people making a living with words, you've got a pretty impressive sum.
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30-Day Jet Set: a second take on the Jet Blue travels(30dayjetset.com)
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by unalone 17y ago
This isn't at all about hipsters. Most "hipsters" aren't artists. Most of the artists that find themselves in the hipster subset aren't hipsters so much as they are the people who set the definition for hipster. That aside, your comment was
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by unalone 17y ago
Good points, but : There are many genocides that target based on race or religion. So I was trying to explain why the Holocaust and not a similar genocide targeting, say, racial groups.
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by unalone 17y ago
I was thinking more about luck regarding people's abilities to make a living with their work. So far nothing exists to easily facilitate an artist's growth into profitability: That first step is still the scariest for that reason.
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by unalone 17y ago
Conformity isn't about nature. It's largely a matter of background, development, social elements, etc. I don't know where this idea of "either you're a conformist or you're not" came from, but it's wrong. Like anything, there's depth to the
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by unalone 17y ago
This. Artists are not the conservatives. They're the people embracing change and seeing what they can do with it. If anything, the artists will win even more now, because with luck there'll be a lower barrier to entry.
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by unalone 17y ago
Selling an mp3 file is different from selling a bundled application that contains a slew of different features and functions. Apple has a whole bunch of things they don't want appearing on applications, because they want to control the co
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by unalone 17y ago
I like that you're quoting one of Ayn Rand's "Communist" talking points rather than talking about Communism proper. Let's get something straight. There is no Communist-central plan. Russia and China each approached Communism differently.
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by unalone 17y ago
Did you see the headings on those pages? "Ah, paperwork." "Ready, Set, Go." Details like that fascinate me. It suggests that even when making a document that very few people see, Apple sweats the small details. Also, it's not branded paper
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by unalone 17y ago
Okay. Tim. I understand why you're mad about the iPhone development situation. I would like to offer you, however, the following points to give you a teensy bit of perspective: * 99.9% of all applications submitted are approved without cont
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by unalone 17y ago
He's talking about the behavior of the employees who made the program.
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by unalone 17y ago
I wouldn't intend to work there and let myself be kicked out.
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by unalone 17y ago
I agree with you. (I've moved past loving Ayn Rand and her cult of assholery, rest assured.) At the same time, I don't necessarily mind rude people as long as it's not excessive or dull. I respect people capable of being both forceful and
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by unalone 17y ago
They would be. I don't think it's just that Paul is famous here and Scott Adams isn't, though certainly there's always a pro-YC bias present. Part of it is also that Paul's essays have a very clear style about them, and they've got a confid
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by unalone 17y ago
Yep! That's the ticket for me, at least.
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by unalone 17y ago
Hacker News isn't here to make money, and it attracts users because people come for YCombinator. Managing a community is much different when you don't have that, and it's very easy to trip up.
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by unalone 17y ago
I think it's fine. He didn't even submit the link; rms, whose name is Kevin, did. If something's good, telling people where they can spread the word is perfectly fine. I like it even more when somebody's manually asking rather than placing
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by unalone 17y ago
There's a lot wrong with this statement, so I'll address the thing that sounds the least wrong. Have you seen how in-depth the translations on Facebook are? I used Facebook Pirate for three or four months because I was so delighted at how m
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by unalone 17y ago
Did you read the article? It mentions how many different things he's tried and how much he's been criticized for his many failings. He's remarkable because he was willing to change his company and himself again and again till it worked.
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by unalone 17y ago
Mark has a reputation for superb arrogance. Have you read the leaked emails he sent to the ConnectU people? They basically read, "It doesn't matter what you wanted, I have a better idea than you, and I won't waste my time trying to make you
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by unalone 17y ago
It depends on whose morale. I would love to work at a place that made an effort to place only brilliant people around me and that didn't tolerate less. Netflix works in the same way.
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by unalone 17y ago
MIT's not a meritocracy. Admissions already chooses who is the best candidate, so this is just an extension. It also lets MIT control the quality of their posts somewhat. On a whim I checked out their blogs and compared them to my college's
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by unalone 17y ago
I was astonished to see Vanilla on the list. Vanilla's kind of been a secret name among big forum people since it launched; it's got some astoundingly innovative features. I love it, but haven't been able to use it in a project before to gi

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