bidivia

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by bidivia 5y ago
My father was an elite worker in a Communist country. He cared about his work(in contrast with most of his colleges), was smart and had an independent mindset. He left because his life was impossible to live there. He went away with some cl
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by bidivia 5y ago
I disagree. In my career I started getting close to the people that had already done what I wanted and just asked them for advice. The advice they gave me was incredible and the most useful thing you could do. The most important thing is th
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by bidivia 5y ago
If you learn something in a bad way it takes more effort that learning that straight well. If you learn English pronunciation from Europeans you are not really learning English, you are learning Spanish, German or French pronunciation rules
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by bidivia 5y ago
As someone who has spent more than 10 years working remotely I don't understand what you are talking about. When I was working away I spent two hours everyday on my car commuting breathing the toxic air of traffic jams of big cities. T
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by bidivia 5y ago
>Some people are quite good at focusing at home. It varies person by person. We have some people, who are great at fully remote work. I am really good at focusing at home NOW but it took lots of training to be good at. People are taught
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by bidivia 5y ago
I know extremely successful people and all of them made huge mistakes in their lives. But I don't believe you are using a good strategy here and find your advice is bad: 1. You should quit as soon as possible is you are getting nowhere
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by bidivia 5y ago
The guy had a bunch of great ideas because he did things like dissecting hundreds of bodies, studied and analyzed and drew what he learned so other people could benefit from that. He was a master painter that worked all the time. Most engin
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by bidivia 5y ago
How do you know an idea is awful or not? Paul Graham does not have an idea, and he is a grand master expert in the field. The best ideas from YC backed companies looked awful for Paul Graham, he just trusted the people behind them.
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by bidivia 5y ago
This is a horrible story: Someone works so much that falls sleep and kills his family members. Working so much is the definition of "negative returns": Working over the limits of exhaustion means you do not only not create wealth,
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by bidivia 5y ago
>how on earth am I going to convince my corpo overlords that this language belongs anywhere near a production system? Well, I don't see any difference with any other language you could use, from SQL, to C ,CSS or JSON. The fact is t
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by bidivia 5y ago
Logical people(usually called Smart people) could be really really stupid. Einstein as a young fellow certainly did not change Planck's mind, and Heisenberg did not change Einstein's. Doesn't matter if we talk about Magellan,
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by bidivia 5y ago
I believe the article is an example of overthinking. If you think so much about an issue without the right data you will get wrong conclusions. In other words, garbage in, garbage out, no matter how smart(how good your processing unit is) y
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by bidivia 5y ago
Looks like many companies in Japan are worried about remote working, something that is not a surprise given the slow rate of innovation of Japanese culture. This is just a bad PR campaign against remote working. That someone can transfer mo
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by bidivia 5y ago
>SpaceX didn't develop ground-breaking firsts like Sputnik and the moon landings I would say the ground breaking things were done by amateurs like Mr Von Braun as children playing with rockets. What governments(Hitler first, then US
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by bidivia 5y ago
It is not, for most people. If you are autistic, have Asperger's syndrome like Elon Musk, or have other mental issues, then no matter how much you work, you will be always subpar compared to others on this area, but probably are much b
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by bidivia 5y ago
>All users would have liked Fords with multiple colours rather than black. They did, over time, choose car manufactures with different colors. But they also loved the price Ford could get for them making only one color available, at firs
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by bidivia 5y ago
I agree that YC business is prospecting, but I don't believe they prospect ideas, they prospect people. Ideas are a dime a dozen, and the same idea could be a success or failure depending on execution quality, and execution quality dep
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by bidivia 5y ago
Ancient greeks had actually a very similar system of participation on maritime endeavors. They even supported poets in order to create fiction and propaganda about the amazing things and riches that were abroad. Making young people travel a
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by bidivia 5y ago
They used very low level programming and access to machine low level interfaces. You could do the same thing today but spend at least 4-5 more time developing your software. For example, I was a kid and used to fill the screen using Look up