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by visakanv 12y ago
Singaporeans, hit me up! :-) Here to listen.
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by visakanv 12y ago
Yup. I think the real problem here is the overly tight coupling of achievement and self-esteem. You have to separate the two, because otherwise you're stuck on a treadmill with no escape. I think Elizabeth Gilbert put together an acces
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by visakanv 12y ago
That's a good point. That would be interesting data to analyze.
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List of school shootings in the United States(en.wikipedia.org)
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by visakanv 12y ago
yup; a specific individual is hard to predict but large groups of people behave in probablistically predictable ways, and that's useful information
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by visakanv 12y ago
The funny thing is that "begging the question" is itself a mistranslation, so I really can't fault people for thinking it means what it literally means. (Throw in the fact that literally now literally means 'not literall
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by visakanv 12y ago
I face that same obstacle over and over again, too. Curses!
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by visakanv 12y ago
Congratulations! Work hard, and remember this if you ever find yourself going through a rough patch or taking things for granted. Kick butt!
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by visakanv 12y ago
It works remarkably well in almost all conditions except in cases of human tragedy. Then it's usually more tasteful/appropriate to be sensitive. (But if you're willing to go there, you could say that seeking pleasure, seeking
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by visakanv 12y ago
Oh yeah, "Files" and "Software" are the opposite end of the spectrum. I'd prefer "Zizoj" to "Files" anyday. I think Pyrex is a genius name, by the way! Just went to look up the etymology of Kodak
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by visakanv 12y ago
You are important to somebody, Peter!
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by visakanv 12y ago
I understand the merit, but I instinctively balked at the idea. Ideally, a name should communicate what the product or service does. If not, it should at least evoke imagery that is related to it. See: Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Viagra, Stan
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by visakanv 12y ago
I never went to University- I got invited to do marketing for a startup right after I was done with my mandatory military service- and it's been great for me. I have pretty bad ADHD and I'm certain that I would've repeated my
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by visakanv 12y ago
Hypothesis: It's more 'smartass' without the context. More obscure, etc.
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by visakanv 12y ago
I've concluded that life is an absurd circus; we're all clowns trying to amuse ourselves in the face of inevitable death and meaninglessness. So politics strikes me as just another sideshow in the larger circus. So I have no polit
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by visakanv 12y ago
Not just the stock market- he could hunt down and invest in every would-be-successful startup, and give them precisely the prescient advice they'd need to avoid making any mistakes. His success rate would shoot through the roof and he
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by visakanv 12y ago
Yeah, exactly. If we could go back in time with just a few pieces of information, we could be gods. Predict and invest in every major startup success, write about it and look like a prescient guru, make even more money from speaking engagem
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by visakanv 12y ago
Disaster on what grounds?
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by visakanv 12y ago
You are confident that you can repeat "doing nothing significant in life" again and again? Whoa, you're really setting the bar high, aren't you? :P
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by visakanv 12y ago
I use wordpress too, and I too find it bloated, tedious and messy. Why can't I just blog on something that mimicks the final product? I'm curious to try http://ghost.org but meh I don't have the time for that righ
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by visakanv 12y ago
I'm definitely using a broad view of causality, yes. Whether that's excessive or not I think depends on what you're trying to achieve. I think of it from the perspective of- would I like to encourage or discourage whatever is
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by visakanv 12y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I think that's an exceedingly narrow view of causality. We've all been inspired by books, films, games, teachers, etc. If we go on to do great things, we owe a debt to everything that got us to wher
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by visakanv 12y ago
The one thing more frustrating than "woo i'm changing the world" arrogance is "woo, i'm making a difference by helping the 'woo i'm changing the world' people get some perspective." If you don&#x
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by visakanv 12y ago
You'll never know. There could be some little girl who played it, loved it, picked it apart and ended up getting into programming herself, and she might be the cofounder of something that improves the lives of billions. You'll nev
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by visakanv 13y ago
yeah, +1 for the 2nd. I'd use it if it had that. Otherwise I'd just write on Quora, Reddit, etc. More social validation.
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by visakanv 13y ago
> As soon as you bring on other people to help, it's hard to call it "stupid" Depends on the people you bring on! If you're upfront about how you feel about your app, and make sure that they relate/agree, I don&#
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by visakanv 13y ago
Yeah, this definitely seems like the inevitable future. Google, what bands will be in Y (town) during X period? It almost feels primitive and painfully slow that we do what we do now.
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It was also getting really tedious and laggy, and there were lots of fake profiles. I used both MySpace (I played in a band) and Facebook in 2007, for seemingly different reasons and different groups of friends... but eventually everyone mo
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by visakanv 13y ago
No, seriously. How is this not a case of "It's never happened before, so it can't be right?" What's the actual counter-argument?
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by visakanv 13y ago
What is the "representative American high school student"?

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