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by xcombinator 17y ago
Who cares? I don't care if this is normal or not, and honestly, I don't know you. How am I supposed to help you? You could be: A bad programmer. A good programmer. A non social person, and hate socializing with colleagues. A social person a
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by xcombinator 17y ago
innovation in - nova - tion nova = new in latin language
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by xcombinator 17y ago
This is good news!! I started using e long long time ago. Now I use gnome(ubuntu). I love e, but it was not practical for me: + I use (and program) a lot of gtk-qt that looks so bad under e. It needs a wrapper that uses e widgets. + Raster
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by xcombinator 17y ago
No, it was not my schoolmates, it was my father's ones, as I wrote before. Yeah, american people are different to european, here and in asia education (and specially memorization) is very important. Some american people will find it difficu
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by xcombinator 17y ago
I'm talking about groups of birds here, they are very real. E.g, the pilot of a big plane saved the lives of the passengers when a big group(thousands) of flamingos take off from Doñana national park in Spain, he did what the book says not
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Sorry for the typo. Fishes die everyday because they eat polymers and can't digest it, their stomachs fill and there is no space for food. It's normal to discover dead sharks and whales with their stomachs filled or nearly filed.
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by xcombinator 17y ago
A very good idea. Start growing an open source web platform.
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Vim, paper and good quality colors pens. Valgrind, grep, gdb, inkscape for drawings...
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Typical american mindset: Everything is money. Use something, throwaway when don't needed, bury it, contaminate the soil, the seas, it's cheaper. Of course they are external cost to recycle, what he doesn't say is that THEY ARE EXTERNAL COS
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by xcombinator 17y ago
I don't like this kind of journalism. He cites something like "Apple is not proud..." in two lines and we have three paragraphs from other person interpretation, telling whatever he wants. Just give me the entire conversation and don't get
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by xcombinator 17y ago
I disagree, I know people who is a "natural" with other people, without studying and have technical skills too. People like them, and buy from them. Working in the industry I met a guy who was a very good mechanic, but really good with peop
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by xcombinator 17y ago
I would choose the large apple. You know, the body is not stupid, eating 110 kcal doesn't mean storing fat. In fact, Apple(look at the nutritional values): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple - Sugars 10.39 g - Fat 0.17 g Peanut: http:
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Today, no passenger wants the computer to control the plane. They are right. Today planes can take off and land using only software and radio signals, even when the pilot can't, like no visibility when cloudy. The problem is that computer u
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Me too. I started reading Reddit when I read a PG easy, I think he was talking about how he didn't liked the name or so, but then was great and simple. I stopped reading reddit when I found the more serious Hacker News, and saw Reddit as th
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Well, maybe it sounds like when I say "had enormous problems" that they didn't pass courses, or were stupid, they passed(with great pain through) and they were not, but I'm talking about boarding school with military discipline(and physical
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by xcombinator 17y ago
I think one can't say to himself he is brilliant, this is so dangerous. My father tells me how much surprised it is when he sees back their school mates,now that he is retired, they expected the brilliant people in class to success. This is
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Of course, you pay property taxes, but with the money you pay you are paying the VAT other people pay(the person who sells you the house needs to, and all the chain).
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Of course, you trust people, and companies trust people, but they want to control in witch ones they trust.
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by xcombinator 17y ago
They need to send their network and security code to NSA for inspection, they look at it and MODIFY, they don't know in some cases what does the modification does. It has been that way from 1995 days(I had family members working in MS at th
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Hey, who you trust more?: a)A program that is in your own servers - computers. b)A program that is on others computers. So difficult to understand why people trust A more than B. Whatever they promise you, they can look at your data if they
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by xcombinator 17y ago
I have. My office leather chair was bought in IKEA more than ten years ago. It was cheaper than alternatives, I bought the alternative because I wanted something good that last. It lasted 6 months of use, I had used a lot of chairs in my li
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by xcombinator 17y ago
My advice is for you to find something you need writing, but is new, this way you are not competing with Shakespeare, Cervantes, or Stefan Sweiz (man, they had been good writers out there). Find something you are unique and good and follow
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by xcombinator 17y ago
I live in Spain, like California: 1) We are frontier with way less developed countries. Africa-Europe frontier. 2)We have good climate all over the year. 3)We got in debt for buying houses. Tens of years of loan debt were given to the gover
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by xcombinator 17y ago
I agree with most advice here: a)Do Meditation and relaxation, yoga, self help books, fill your mind holes. b)Exercise regularly, this is important, if one day you don't have time to run, just go out and run for 5 minutes, but don't stop. c
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by xcombinator 17y ago
No, a long hike is not hard work, just ask Tim Ferris, or Miguel De La Cuadra Salcedo. If a relationship requires hard work, then you have not the right partner to you, it's just natural, like hiking. I think is way harder and unnatural to
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Is not a mistake is design is correct, it seems that we need Apple to rethink what exist to make people realise that other worlds exist. It happened with the touch in Iphone(a phone without keyboard is a huge mistake...), and it will happen
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by xcombinator 17y ago
My experience with pair programming: It is so great when the other person is very good/smart at programming. You sense that your work is way more than the sum of the individual parts. It is like an explosion of creativity because you don't
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Agree, think in the Descartes coordinates, it was Descartes looking at the corner. How many corners had people looked at before seeing before?.
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by xcombinator 17y ago
Microsoft is not the best company to talk about patents. They are a software company and in a lot of places in the world mathematical concepts, ideas and software could not be patented. This is the main issue Microsoft wants to change makin
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by xcombinator 17y ago
The earth magnetism is static, it doesn't change in practical terms(in a window of a second), neither periodic or not. To hear someone tell: this is like the earth magnetism, this is not radiation, is trying to fool people, I'm sorry but I

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