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by uuilly 19y ago
Facebook..... obstinate?
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by uuilly 19y ago
Ok but you're jumping down the rabbit hole to quickly. Physicists assume spherical cows, early mathematicians assumed only integers, why can't Rand assume that "self" is the thoughts and actions encased in one's skin? It is a good jump of
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by uuilly 19y ago
I agree with you. Ayn Rand basically says: -People are self interested. -This is not a bad thing. I think those are pretty good axioms to build upon. I don't think Rand came up with a grand unified theory of human behavior but she start
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by uuilly 19y ago
Depends. Here is a case where it wasn't: -Israelis recruit a DOD employee(Jonathan Pollard) to spy for them during the Cold War. -He tells them how to crack our naval codes. -They sell the codes to the Russians in exchange for Jewish Ukr
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by uuilly 19y ago
The US sells lots of weapons to a lot of people. Many times we "black box" technology so they can't see how it works or limit it's capabilities. It's only natural that even our closest allies circumvent these measures. So good for the Au
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by uuilly 19y ago
My god just apply! Your time is better spent working on your startup rather than cracking the PG code. The last few days have been filled with posts like, "does PG prefer blonde or brunette founders?"
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by uuilly 19y ago
#1) Build something people want. #2) P^R
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by uuilly 19y ago
I second the master and commander series. I read all 21. Amazing. Afghan history Books, both incredible: http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wars-Afghanistan-Invasion-Septem... http://www.amazon.com/Great-Game-Struggle-Central-Kodansha/d...
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by uuilly 19y ago
They're doing a bunch of bit voodoo. The ^ operator is XOR, '<<' shifts bits left and '&' is a bitwise AND. That's what they are in C++ at least. x = a&x ? a&b : c+x is a lot like the C++ shorthand if-then-else thing
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by uuilly 19y ago
Here are some thoughts: -How well do you know the person. -How important is this task, decision or event? -How complex is the task, decision or event? Meeting<---------------------------------------->Email Don't know person well--
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Meeting, Phone call or Email?
3 points by uuilly 19y ago|4 comments
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by uuilly 19y ago
You're probably right. By definition we take ourselves too seriously. But I think what you're seeing has been a long time coming. The Rand Zealots in the tech world have been lurking in the corners of Slashdot, Digg and Reddit listening
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by uuilly 19y ago
Mr. Mugabe nationalized all farms in Zimbabwe. There were many British Empire leftovers (white guys) running farms quite successfully. Zimbabwe was actually one of the rare African hopes pre Mugabe. Many said it would be the "bread baske
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by uuilly 19y ago
Clever, I just voted you up, but consider the Apple vs. MS saga. One may have been a better investment, but which one is better?
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by uuilly 19y ago
Where does Brittany Spears fit in the Kardashev Scale? There a millions of people that think she is more important than energy consumption. Should we put them all in the gas chamber? Even if we let them live, Kardashev, brilliant though
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by uuilly 19y ago
"Man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress." -Ayn Rand Her books make the case that individuals working in their own self interest are the best thing for "human civilization." Disagree if you will, but you'll have a tough time coming
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by uuilly 19y ago
The Fountainhead was written in 1943. Depeche Mode saw it's first success in 1981. If even one of the best economic minds in 2045 cite Depeche Mode as their influence then you have a point. 2007 - 1943 = 64 1981 + 64 = 2045
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by uuilly 19y ago
mail.app for mac copied the thread feature. Not as well, but well enough.
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by uuilly 19y ago
I use Mail.app for mac. I have an IMAP account that has squirrel mail access and essentially infinite storage. The squirrel mail was a pain and I went to gmail while I was in the corporate world. Now that I have a startup I am mostly on
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by uuilly 19y ago
While I look forward to Xobni's offerings I wonder how many new.ycers use outlook...
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by uuilly 19y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 I think he has a unique combination of mild autism, artistic stubborness and scandanavian directness. In the end he makes valid points and he sold me on trying git. It is hard to tell if he's
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by uuilly 19y ago
I stopped listening to linus after he layed into gnome.
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by uuilly 19y ago
Ha! It was me who wrote the "white males" comment. I write the way I code. Start with as big a generalization as possible and fix my edge cases at runtime... Alas that a female news.ycer is an edge case. Even when they punch holes in my
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by uuilly 19y ago
Almost everyone here is a young healthy male. Pretty much the only thing we really need health insurance for is car accidents. If you ramp up your deductable > $1000 health insurance will cost less than your cell phone bill. Your com
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by uuilly 19y ago
First off, our gov't should be better at keeping its important secrets. But this guy really has his head up his arse. Just b/c you live in San Francisco does not mean that you get to know the 49ers plays before they're run. Just b/c you
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by uuilly 19y ago
I think of him more as the pied piper leading the children away from the corporations.
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by uuilly 19y ago
I really should have said Americans hate "The Biggest" rather than "The Big" (see my comment below.)
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by uuilly 19y ago
Nobody makes scathing documentaries about Burger King, Target or Ford. McDonalds, Wal-Mart and GM are the lightning rods for our hatred of bigness. The smaller guy's legal fees are also way lower in relation to their size than their bigge
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by uuilly 19y ago
We have a love hate relationship w/ our captains of industry. We glorify their rise and then sue them into a corner and call them robber barrons when they get too big. I would say walmart is reaching its tipping point. MS has passed it a
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by uuilly 19y ago
American's love David and Europeans love Goliath. The British believed in their Empire. They believed that it was right to put Squash courts and Polo fields in far flung countries. They believed that Britishness was the most natural sta

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