heuristix

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by heuristix 17y ago
There's a huge difference between respecting credentials and filtering based on them. The former is not binary. I am simply arguing that an IIT degree is neither necessary nor sufficient to be a successful entrepreneur.
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by heuristix 17y ago
I don't think the announcement of a new govt. office is something to be proud of in and of itself. But as a counterpoint to your argument, the SBIR program, also run by the govt. seems to be working really well for startups I personally kno
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Applying patented algorithms to solve the halting problem..
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by heuristix 17y ago
Actually, I am not waiting for the greencard (seeing how it would take me at least 5 more years to get it). I am waiting to get the startup to a stage where it can sponsor an H1B for me which is very hard to do for reasons mentioned in my p
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by heuristix 17y ago
pg also says do a startup full time. There is a reason for that: startups are iterative and you should develop something in close contact with customers. Trying to do it while working on a full time job makes it very very hard. Secondly, th
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by heuristix 17y ago
You came here on an H1B for your own startup? Were you already venture funded? Because it's next to impossible to come here on an H1B for a startup that doesn't have signficant revenue and/or a decent number of customers. Also it's not gene
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by heuristix 17y ago
> Can an essay whose explicit purpose is not to persuade even make a straw man defense? Yes, it can (and does) make a flawed argument, which to most people would seem to be a defense of Arrington even if not intended as such. What you t
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by heuristix 17y ago
The fact that the essay is mostly about the other ideas and titled as such does not discount the fact that the argument therein that most people dislike Arrington simply because he is curt is flawed. pg cites his own curt/succint approach t
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by heuristix 17y ago
This is a strawman defence. PG is defending Arrington's curtness when you meet him in person and accepting the facts as presented (since I have no personal knowledge), the defense sounds reasonable. However, as many others mention below, mo