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by xianshou 13y ago
Indeed. Perhaps an option to include a video and explain an interesting problem? Definitely something we're considering.
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by xianshou 13y ago
Also, alternative name: Singularity shades.
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by xianshou 13y ago
Damn... Where are our flying cars? Who cares. We have Meta glasses.
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by xianshou 13y ago
"Excellent question!" to any experienced interviewer means, "I have no clue, but I won't admit it!" I immediately dislike any candidate who does it, and vastly prefer the two seconds of silence. If silence is intole
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by xianshou 13y ago
Jarring background. More jarring information. Interesting fact: being a 1-percenter in the US ($370k in 2010) makes you a .02-percenter on the worldwide scale.
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by xianshou 13y ago
Summary - (1) make money fast, (2) say no to new features unless necessary, (3) dominate small core markets, then expand, (4) really listen to feedback, (5) really listen to your team, (6) trust your users. Every time I see one of these
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by xianshou 13y ago
Looks wonderful, and far better than just copying the code from a hackpad into ideone. Unfortunately, the real thief of time here is the phone screen itself - although what would have gone on an online collaborative editor now goes in a REP
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by xianshou 13y ago
The higher numbers will never come from LinkedIn spamming you to say you can make $x - the best jobs aren't and have never been on the market; they're the result of connections and referrals, because that's the only way you build enough tru
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by xianshou 13y ago
Good addition: utilize the Bang with Friends bug and make fun of people using the app. Or relentlessly rag on certain friends of mine who are playing too much Candy Crush.
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by xianshou 13y ago
Excellent and maniacally twisted idea. Nonetheless, a couple suggestions: Don't use full names, and limit to the most prominent FB details, especially shared ones. The cards I generated sounded pretty formal and referenced all sorts of soci
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by xianshou 13y ago
Reminds me of a conversation my friend and I had on the same subject. "He seemed intelligent, talented, attractive, well-adjusted - why would he throw everything away?" By far the easiest story to tell was that of a disturbed older brother
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by xianshou 13y ago
The pricing makes very little sense to me...Square already sells Business in a Box for $250 with a cash drawer and $500 if you want a receipt printer. This stand costs six times as much as similar options ( http://amzn.to/102UtKn ) and the
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by xianshou 13y ago
So many have done this before and recently - Coderwall, Collegefeed, and Path.To, just to name the first three that occur to me - but I've never seen portfolio minimalism done so well. It integrates blogs, projects, credentials, and social
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by xianshou 14y ago
Young genius, hot technology, insufficient adoption, clever acquihire, gentle disappearance. It's the circle of life... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc
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by xianshou 14y ago
Also generalizable. Email pattern-mining software, anybody? It would classify patterns within social groups as defined by LinkedIn and Facebook social network topography.
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by xianshou 14y ago
It's not grammatical English, but nor are a variety of other constructs that we see as normal, such as "ain't no," or even "they" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun (this one matters only to sticklers). Convenience need not obey the rules
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by xianshou 14y ago
Collective-action Prisoner's Dilemma. And everyone cooperated! You might have acted rationally had you decided to take the exam, but you'll find that social pressure will occasionally make everyone (a) much nicer than you, and (b) in blatan
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by xianshou 14y ago
Coursera's free.
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by xianshou 14y ago
Rather, genius is the subset of crazy recognized by society as useful. The moment of recognition is the point at which it becomes venerated instead of derided.
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by xianshou 14y ago
Google: maximizing the sum of consciousness.
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by xianshou 14y ago
True, I gave a suboptimal example, in that the Air may actually be the best tool for the job. However, as you said, we can easily adjust the example so that it demonstrates a suboptimal possession with diminishing returns on improvement. Fo
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by xianshou 14y ago
Well, well, Mr. Galt: "There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil." Much as absolutism makes for simple priorities, applying these general principles out of any context is goi
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by xianshou 14y ago
Yo dawg.
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by xianshou 14y ago
The crux of your argument is the claim that, if the universe becomes a field of equidistant neutrinos, no action or thought in the meantime matters. The implicit assumption behind this view is that events only matter to the extent that they
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by xianshou 14y ago
Even assuming that such a spending recovery would benefit consumers as a whole by ensuring the availability of premium services, to paraphrase Keynes, the customers can remain irrational longer than Virgin can remain solvent.
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by xianshou 14y ago
"per se" (BTW, thank you for saving me the necessity of reading past the first page of the article.)
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by xianshou 14y ago
I've taken both, and the code is in fact not that much simpler than it was in the original class. There are, however, two huge differences: the algorithm is spoon-fed to you, and there is no math. Firstly, think about how much more difficul
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by xianshou 14y ago
Also: Losers have "goals," winners have systems.
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by xianshou 14y ago
I love this idea, because it addresses the two fundamental issues at play here: the social and the financial. Considering YC as a single entity, the optimal funding strategy must take into account both the power law on returns and the prest
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by xianshou 14y ago
The problem is not under-usage per se, but hype. Caldwell's soapboxing about Twitter's failure to live up to its potential raised expectations, but didn't provide a solution to the chicken-egg problem. I'm sure Caldwell & co can build a

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