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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
I'm curious, what do people who get PhDs in music theory study for all those years?
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
I feel there's something inconsistent to be reconciled here. On one hand single-founder startups don't get as big, which is a bad thing. On the other, writing code for 8 years as a single founder is right about the definition of d
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Startups that get big have more than one founder. If your goal isn't just to survive but to grow big, statistically at least you are better off with a co-founder. I say this as a single founder of a startup that didn't grow.
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Ask HN: What would it take to put Dart in browsers?
11 points by yellow_and_gray 12y ago|8 comments
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
This is useful advice. Thank you. How important are references or building a portfolio? And what do you tell clients to convince them to pick you and your rates?
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
> There is nothing stopping Oracle using the same optimization There is. Skill, bureaucracy, grit, and the right motive. The meat here is MemSQL's sophisticated indexing with splay trees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Now I see what you are saying. You are saying to communicate complex ideas one tends to need words a 5th grader wouldn't know. I was saying to communicate an idea one should fit it an a single sentence. Unless I missed something, we ar
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
I don't understand what you are saying. Can you (a) tell me what you are saying in one sentence, and (b) provide a citation that proves what you are saying is true, if possible? Words start to break once you push them too far.
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Overall, freedom is something you earn. A real test of freedom is to look at what people do when they retire. it is often more satisfying to serve others than to cultivate your own egotistical freedom. Being useful is hard. It means
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
The biggest thing I learned from all this downvoting is you can't guide people too fast. You have to tease them with questions. You have to first let them fall into their own traps. They learn better that way. Too high a dosage of anyt
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
That's not exactly true. The world GDP divided by world population is a snapshot of the current state of the world today. It's not a snapshot of everybody doing the "right" thing. It's also not a snapshot of everybo
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
How did you infer Jack Ma, a former school teacher, lacks basic empathy? And why so much hatred towards him in this thread? According to him, one of the reasons people lose is: Lacking understanding I'm not sure people in this
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
For the same reason trees bloom in a disproportionately high quantity the spring before they die. When they sense the end of their lifetime they want to bear fruits. This isn't uncommon in people. The closer you get to the end the more
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
The goal isn't just to get the concept. It's also to transmit it. You'll be surprised how hard it is to get a message through to people, even when it's expressed in plain words in a single sentence. And don't be tri
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
You slightly changed the problem here though. Your point now is that employees should be rewarded more. That's a fair point [1]. But it's still separate to being dedicated to what you do. There are several occupations people enter
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Besides being imprecise you also contradicted yourself. (1) > my advice to young people with drive is ... solve real problems. You say burnout is intrinsic to startups but ignore that hard work is needed for other things that aren't
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Writing doesn't just make you a better thinker. It turns you into a different person. Writing daily turns you into a different person daily. The most interesting result of writing daily is you start to have different kinds of thought
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
This is the mistake: There are high expectations to be met Why are you setting high expectations? Don't set high expectations, or any expectations for that matter. Expect nothing. Expectations are detrimental to creativity (I wish I
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
"I was scrawny when I was young, but I was a terrific fighter," Ma recalls. "I was never afraid of opponents who were bigger than I." He used to go to a local hotel every day so that he could meet people and learn Eng
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Whether you eat the marshmallow at age 5 isn’t your destiny. Self-control can be taught. The secret of self-control, he says, is to train the prefrontal cortex to kick in first. To do this, use specific if-then plans, like “If it’s before
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
You are right that it doesn't guarantee it, but it does allow it. Do you see the distinction? You could have caught yourself when you said there is no correct question. Given enough questions, some are correct. And if why isn't
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Speaking openly about a problem is a sign of strength, not a weakness. It's a sign of a weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness. You want to be educating people of what you are doing. Copying an idea has little to do with the codeb
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Negativity was interpreted negatively in this article. It shouldn't be. Negativity can be positive. Cultivating dissatisfaction is key to doing good work. If you can't bring yourself to say "Man, this sucks, I could do better
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Wasn't WebMynd (now trigger.io) trying to do this? A Tivo for the web. https://www.linkedin.com/company/webmynd-corp http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/webmynd/
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Thanks for the post Alex. It's very informative and I'm looking forward to the follow up blog post. I agree with your number one use case, but it's not the most important use case there is. The biggest reward of a PKB for me
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Thank you for the links and the explanation, I appreciate it. The lesson here is a bigger one: how new tech wins a race when it's chased by a big monster truck. Javascript got out there fast/first, looked familiar, and sidestepped
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Thanks for this link. It points to http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/02/mco2012020007.p... "When Netscape hired Brendan Eich in April 1995, he was told that he had 10 days to create and
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Ask HN: Why did JavaScript win the browser?
5 points by yellow_and_gray 12y ago|23 comments
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Hi Visa, sorry to put you on the spot here but you carry the distinction of being both an expert in the procrastination field and able to describe it well. (1) A link from the link you posted ( http://waitbutwhy.com/2013&#x2F
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
This is spam, posted by someone who created an account 30 minutes ago. Someone please kill this thread.

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