walterk

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   by walterk 19y ago

   I will, thanks. I guess the thing that bothers me is that I wasn't even asking him for a full reply to my proposal. It was really just small questions that wouldn't have taken more than a few minutes to reply to. Given how prompt and terse
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   by walterk 19y ago

   I've been following YC for the past several months, though it's entirely possible that I've merely skipped over similar threads. That said, I am aware of the sort of answer which you've summed up for me. I'd respond by saying that not all
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   by walterk 19y ago

   Great find. This is part of what I was getting at in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=144616 Specifically, where I say that "Sometimes people manage to acquire the necessary values and thus the skills necessary to do wel
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   by walterk 19y ago

   I agree. The way the site is currently designed, my eyes want to read the headlines in rows (the columns stretch too far down for me to read down the column instead), but all headlines except for those at the top are not aligned vertically
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   by walterk 19y ago

   While in most cases you probably don't want to prevent users from signing up, there are cases where a few hurdles can be a good thing. If you have a site that depends heavily on user-generated content and registration is pretty much exclus
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   by walterk 19y ago

   Same here! Woot!
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   by walterk 19y ago

   >>You'd be astonished at how many who start out with the Ferrari wreck it in short order and how many who start out with bricks become very strong because of it. I had a general idea of how many belong to the former and latter cat
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   by walterk 19y ago

   Nod. If I start life tied to a load of bricks, and you start in a Ferrari, I can do a helluva lot more than you and still get nowhere. The history of slavery should be ample proof of that. It's one thing to say that "We should ask what ar
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   by walterk 19y ago

   Without a doubt, Heidegger's explanation of readiness-to-hand in Being and Time has done more for my usability and process inefficiency evaluating skills than even Don Norman's Design of Everyday Things or any HCI book I've ever read. Whil
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    by walterk 19y ago

    I'm not entirely sure what the humanities requirements amount to at UCSD, but at Berkeley I do not believe that the minimum humanities requirements (typically fulfilled by intro courses) constituted a particularly strong dose of humanities,
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    by walterk 19y ago

    FWIW, PG's thoughts on philosophy are largely confined to "analytic philosophy", which I agree suffers from the problems he talks about. There is a whole other tradition of sorts (sometimes referred to as "continental philosophy"), taking
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    by walterk 19y ago

    This is essentially the Blue Ocean argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy .
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    by walterk 19y ago

    There's merit to the idea that college typically does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, as the prevailing assumption is that you'll go on to apply for a job. Still, I think the author is seriously underestimating the value of going to
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    by walterk 19y ago

    I'll second that. Congrats to Rob and Devin and whoever else is on the team!