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by jhamburger 15y ago
I think history tends to be written by the winners when it comes to entrepreneurship. It's a lot harder- and a lot more luck involved- than many would admit.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I'm 29 right now, and that feels about right for my permanent age. I always felt a little out of place with the pace of life when I was younger, I like having stable relationships and a reasonable balance between career and social life. I
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I don't think they pay billions of dollars in dues
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by jhamburger 15y ago
"Part of the problem is, that libart-schools are filled with kids who thought stuff will just work itself out, like it has always happened for them. Romantically just following ones dreams to the end." Part of it is that, but part of it is
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by jhamburger 15y ago
A lot of people seem very smug about ridiculing liberal arts majors for their life decisions. Please realize that most of us working in software are also lucky enough to be paid well and love what we do, we followed our hearts AND our head
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I think that advisors at private 4-year schools should have a responsibility to strongly advise against a poor choice of major compared against a bad student loan situation.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Sorry if I missed something from the page but how do we know this really works?
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by jhamburger 15y ago
nullified
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by jhamburger 15y ago
In my experience once most middle eastern/arab people are "integrated", people see their appearance as vaguely mediterranean and don't really think twice about it.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Like Louis CK said in a stand-up routine- "I'm not saying white people are better, but being white is clearly better." i.e., you're not likely to ever have an opportunity denied to you in life due to your skin color, or gender.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I'm not blaming them, racism is always unfair to the recipient but on projects I've worked on Indians have done absolutely nothing to combat it. By that I mean, they hang out together, they go to lunch together, they basically avoid any un
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Exactly, it's an issue of prejudice more than racism- I would bet that a white american with a thick southern accent would probably face more of an uphill battle than any of the above.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Has anyone here ever had their name on a press release for a product launch? Dude gets a 8-figure salary and unlimited autonomy without the risk and management overhead of starting his own firm. There are tradeoffs in life.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
From another HN story: "Showcasing their extensive work together, Jobs and Ive share credit for inventing over 200 patents. Jobs is responsible for the most total patents at the company, at 313." Yeah I'm pretty sure he was doing something
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by jhamburger 15y ago
It was more like "I wish he had done more"...I didn't see how things were any worse than they were before.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I was amused by the author's misappropriation of the gay nineties (1890s).
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by jhamburger 15y ago
In theory if high-end prices go up, it should have a cascading effect with lower-end prices going up to fill the vacuum.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Maybe I'm crazy and it's the end of the day and my reading comprehension is shot, but I honestly can't even understand what the question is. Can somebody explain?
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I see what you're getting at but in this case the author is clearly taking a very humble approach.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
The author's logic isn't "Steve Jobs took LSD, you should too", it's "Steve Jobs took LSD and credits it as a crucially important intellectual experience in his life, so maybe you should too." I'm pretty sure Jobs didn't say the same thing
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by jhamburger 15y ago
When I read articles like this, my first impulse is to pour money into equities.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Warren Buffett made a comment to the effect of, even though he's intelligent and worked hard for his money, he still has to consider it luck that he happened to be born in the right circumstances because if he were born in a primitive hunte
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Given those numbers, you'd have a statistical expectation of one life saved for every 150 hours spent. Say $100/hr for salaries+bennies for two parametics, 15K per life saved. I think it's worth it.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
"Good news, we found a way to treat your cancer." "Great! What is it?" "We're going to give you AIDS." "..."
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by jhamburger 15y ago
The problem is that people go too far with the bashing- People tend to just sneer at anything PHP-related, and don't acknowledge that great work is being done every day in PHP. An app written in PHP by a 8/10 programmer is going to be bett
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Hilarious that this site has advice about text readability
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by jhamburger 15y ago
All the quasi-dating stuff in facebook profiles is kind of awkward anyway, they should probably just get rid of it. It's mostly good for a laugh when a facebook noob signs up and fills it out like an online dating profile. I know people u
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Seems odd to call him a "black hat hacker" just for being at the conference. He could very well just attend all of the security-related conferences. The headline implies to me that he plans to use this exploit nefariously.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Ditto on interland (web.com). They basically hold your domain hostage, and force you to jump through so many phone customer support hoops so that most customers will just give up.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
However, you -did- get in my way. For a long time. 3mph? Cripes, do you know how long it takes to move a rig around another rig at 3mph more while being safe? By my calculations, about a minute and a half at the absolute most. So if you

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