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A Black Mud From Africa Helps Power the New Economy(stpt.usf.edu)
2 points by vlad 18y ago|0 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
What he describes is not programming. "Laziness makes you not mind if you copy and paste a function 40 times without abstracting it. Laziness lets you avoid figuring out how to do something better, because you really don’t want to think abo
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by vlad 18y ago
I usually upvote stories to save them or mark them to-read. I don't vote up to thank or agree, though I still do it, subconciously. I reply with a thanks instead. I'm probably starting to rely on other users to do the voting now than it's
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"Lucky things happen to entrepreneurs who start innovative, morally compelling companies."(inc.com)
25 points by vlad 18y ago|16 comments
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Chain Letters Algorithm Detects Genomes, Languages, and Plagiarized Schoolwork(ceng.metu.edu.tr)
3 points by vlad 18y ago|1 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
Many years prior to his "Last Lecture", Randy was Pausch was first famous for his Time Management lecture. I posted the video here 8 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459095
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by vlad 18y ago
Two years ago on News.YC, I posted a well-received* four page article by the author here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20032 It summarizes the essence of founding Tripod and his "I'm not smart, just hard working" attitude more th
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by vlad 18y ago
Another great post. Wow, you guys are awesome today.
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by vlad 18y ago
Great job. While such a discussion really makes me miss Startup News, the more posts like this, the merrier, for me.
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by vlad 18y ago
Great post.
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by vlad 18y ago
Start about 7 minutes in. This professor had a presentation about time management some years back, and in 2007 was invited to lecture at University of Virginia. He is now more known for his "Last Lecture." Unrelated, but I think I saw YC
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Time Management HD Video by CMU CS Prof. Randy Pausch (2007)(viddler.com)
10 points by vlad 18y ago|2 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
Gates did not graduate, he got an honorary law degree. Wozniak went back to finish his degree, and Ballmer did not join Microsoft until after he finished his.
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by vlad 18y ago
Except he had this idea probably 6 months ago, and it took time to implement as well as get it approved by apple.
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by vlad 18y ago
Banknorth used to mention on their web site that they were rated the #1 bank web site.
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by vlad 18y ago
There's a good point to this I want to mention. THere is a good way to tell when you're a prefectionist. (Evefybody goes through this, some more than others.) I am righjt now in the I-dont-careab-out-perfection mode, which actually feels
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by vlad 18y ago
I think you meant, "this begets the question."
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by vlad 18y ago
Yes, that's precisely what my point was. Guido spent all of his money on DVD's until he was broke again, just to give himself a great reason to dedicate another 10 years to improving the language, as well as to build the world's greatest Mo
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by vlad 18y ago
They did kill it. VB.NET is nothing like VB 3-6, their popular offering through the 90's. VB.NET is just C# with VB-like syntax, with the addition of a couple of VB-specific retardations. I truly believe it's entire purpose was to entice
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by vlad 18y ago
The Python language (funny that in this context, I can't just say "Python" on Hacker News) was named after this show.
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by vlad 18y ago
Thanks for your reply. My tool for eBay had an E-mail to a Friend feature before eBay did. eBay later added that feature, and these days it's prominent on top of every auction. My tool also had tabbed web browsing before Internet Explorer
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by vlad 18y ago
Have you never created something before and then later thought of something to add?
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by vlad 18y ago
Obama read it word for word to his secretary, while jogging, over his blackberry phone. It's pretty cool news regardless.
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by vlad 18y ago
Thanks for the reply. However, I fail to see how you could have read the article, or even your own link to Wikipedia, before posting and submitting a reply. This is not a request for proposal, by the definition on the page you linked to.
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by vlad 18y ago
Equity should not be a prize in a contest. When a company gives up equity, it should be for a specific purpose to get something one cannot otherwise, such 1) in exchange for investor money (YCombinator), 2) in exchange for a professional s
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by vlad 18y ago
I don't think you want random entries. Why not interview respectable designers and offer 5% to the the one who agrees as well as has the best portfolio, references, and ideas you like? That's a much more sane thing to do (considering some
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Are Logo Design Contests Even Legal?(thelogofactory.com)
13 points by vlad 18y ago|23 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
Congrats!
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by vlad 18y ago
>> Oh, it's a game all right. You want to make as many dollars as possible by playing the game right. No, you don't. You want to make as many dollars as possible regardless of what you're doing, be it trading stocks or otherwise.
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by vlad 18y ago
Do not "play the stocks game" if you think it's a game. The point of investing is to make money. Don't invest in any company unless you have valid reasons to believe the company will go up in value in whatever time frame you're looking fo

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