galois

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by galois 16y ago
What makes you think you're talented? You say people have always told you you were a smart kid. Do you have any actual achievements to back this up? I come on here and find that the vast majority of people are well below my intelligence lev
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by galois 16y ago
Well is this part of that 30 under 30 thing they do? There's nothing wrong with focusing on a particular demographic.
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by galois 16y ago
Is getting featured on such a list a bad thing? Why do you think these people had to pander to journalists to make this list? They were just doing their own thing. There's so much thinly-veiled jealously in this thread, which, sadly, is exa
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by galois 16y ago
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by galois 16y ago
I would often assume people I met were smarter than I was. I was proven wrong time and time again.
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by galois 16y ago
I guess this is part of the reason to really shoot for a top school while you're in high school: many people who don't make it end up with a colossal chip on their shoulder for the rest of their lives. Ok, you weren't good enough to get int
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by galois 16y ago
TLDR/W = I hate Microsoft because I think doing so makes me cool in this community and I will get freebie points for bashing them.
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by galois 16y ago
"Many fewer" should be technically okay. "Much fewer" is definitely wrong. "Far fewer" would be my choice. Normally, grammar nazis at least know something about, which you clearly do not. Why does someone of such low caliber try to correct
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by galois 16y ago
For me that was one of the turn-offs of CouchDB, that it had been around since 2005 and still was not considered to be production-ready as late as last year.
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by galois 16y ago
I annoys me that people never seem to realize that 37Signals is a company that has "won the lottery", as David likes to say when pejoratively describing the success of companies that have chosen a different route, in a major way with Ruby o