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by yagibear 17y ago
The originals are available at http://web.archive.org/web/20060718121809/paulgraham.infogam... In this case, the intro para just became less specific.
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Tell HN: PG revises 3 essays
19 points by yagibear 17y ago|7 comments
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by yagibear 17y ago
The article assumes that advertisements will remain discrete objects that are readily separable from content. Deeper integration of ads with content (e.g. from ad servers also serving content images, or ads placed within video content) may
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by yagibear 17y ago
And a slightly earlier submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716818
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by yagibear 17y ago
Sign in/out makes more sense to me because it focuses on user activities. Logs are back-end functions that users shouldn't have to think about.
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An Easy Way to Increase Creativity - thinking about distant things(scientificamerican.com)
11 points by yagibear 17y ago|1 comments
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by yagibear 17y ago
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3103 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492853
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by yagibear 17y ago
Not true that "a lecture series only takes as long as it takes to film": they entail lots of preparation, including re-organization of ideas BEFORE the lecture. I think that live feedback from an audience is more important: In a lecture you
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Amazing illusion(blog.ted.com)
5 points by yagibear 17y ago|1 comments
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Scratching Relieves Itch by Quieting Nerve Cells(nytimes.com)
3 points by yagibear 18y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 18y ago
Thanks for the link. Pointers to other writing by Rodgers would be useful. In terms of books, I could only find one from 1993: "No-Excuses Management" [ http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstrip... ] Note also PG's typo
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How Google Decides to Pull the Plug(nytimes.com)
25 points by yagibear 18y ago|5 comments
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Behavior: $1? No Thanks. 100 Cents? You Bet. (nytimes.com)
5 points by yagibear 18y ago|1 comments
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by yagibear 18y ago
For simplicity, his model assumes a plane with 120 passengers seated in 40 rows, each with a central aisle having three seats to the left and three seats to the right of it. So this only works with 50% occupancy? 120/(40*(3+3))
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by yagibear 18y ago
Some examples of small businesses that aren't startups might help clarify the issue. When I visited a local small business advisory centre (in the hope of learn something to help my startup, before I understood this difference) the other f
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by yagibear 18y ago
I'm not sure that online shops are any less likely to try "to manipulate for maximum benefit". The palette may change (fresh bread smells & video surveillance get replaced by cookies and Referer fields) but the motivations and biases s
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Online v. print reading: which one makes us smarter?(sciam.com)
13 points by yagibear 18y ago|5 comments
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by yagibear 18y ago
Real men read in hex.
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Video Shows Every Flight on Earth in 72 Seconds(blog.wired.com)
6 points by yagibear 18y ago|1 comments
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Strategy is Something You Can Learn(blogs.atlassian.com)
1 points by yagibear 18y ago|0 comments
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Brains More Distracted, Not Slower with Age(sciam.com)
15 points by yagibear 18y ago|4 comments
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by yagibear 18y ago
Haven't we already voted in a poll from PG http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349421 asking "Allow stories about the election?", with 49 yes and 218 no when I last checked?
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by yagibear 18y ago
This article has virtually nothing to say about the SCIENCE of driving directions, but many words about the mechanics of collecting mapping data and user expectations about how it is presented.
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by yagibear 18y ago
pg congratulates pseudonym nickb [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152388 ]? I wonder what the number of upvotes for this means... Nevertheless, 20k certainly represents a valuable contribution.
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by yagibear 18y ago
Hacker news?
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Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter(sciam.com)
1 points by yagibear 18y ago|1 comments
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by yagibear 18y ago
But quality is much harder to evaluate than quantity, particularly in the short term.
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by yagibear 18y ago
It's interesting to try to tease out what factors might contribute to these jobs being overpaid: 1. Fear: Wedding photographers, pilots, longshoremen & orthodontists 2. Creaming a little from a lot: Skycaps, real estate agents, mutual-f
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Venture Funding Drops for Youngest Companies As Older Ones Suck Up More Cash(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by yagibear 18y ago|2 comments
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Get a Grip -- Phillips Screws Up the Toolbox(wired.com)
2 points by yagibear 18y ago|0 comments

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