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by microcentury 5y ago
My last comment was in 2013. I'll see you again in 2031. I hope you'll continue to defend the flame of HN.
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by microcentury 13y ago
I'm sure that it is, and many people seem to do it. However, it's a lot easier to see smoking as it really is and be happy to walk away from it.
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by microcentury 13y ago
Have a look at the book or seminar - the enjoyment of cigaretts is dealt with at length and forms a core pillar of the argument. If you don't want to quit though, then you don't want to quit and nothing is going to make you open the book wi
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by microcentury 13y ago
For any smokers out there reading this and thinking, 'God I will never quit if I have to spend the rest of my life resisting the urge for a cigarette', like this article says, note that it doesn't have to be that way. I quit smoking six mon
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by microcentury 14y ago
Also calling shenanigans. The sentence 'As a graduate student at Harvard she had become familiar with the Bing search engine's advanced capabilities' reeks of marketing.
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by microcentury 14y ago
Slightly off topic: Are there no male executives left in the world? All that politically admirable use of 'she' was linguistically very jarring, and an unnecessary distraction from a fine article. Have we not pretty much agreed on 'they' as
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by microcentury 14y ago
This is slightly off topic, but I would just _love_ to know how Musk manages his time. He has the same number of hours as the rest of us - how does he divide them between his personal research and actually getting stuff done? What percentag
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by microcentury 14y ago
-> Interesting. They put a Sales/Ops guy at the helm of Motorola, which implies that (in a way, naturally) all strategic decisions will be made by Google and passed down to the subsidiary. This absolutely does not follow. Woodside is a
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by microcentury 14y ago
Really like it! Only feedback so far is 'Create report from template' is not intuitive to me. Would something like 'Enter today's data' work better, or is there an angle here I'm missing?
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by microcentury 14y ago
Affecting hangouts also for me (Ireland)
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by microcentury 14y ago
Fair point, noted and accepted :-)
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by microcentury 14y ago
She does sound like an incredible person, but what are we supposed to do with that information? Does it mean we should not try and do anything, given there is always someone out there who has a 'better' (for very wide definitions of 'better
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by microcentury 14y ago
I would bet my house this is supposed to be a joke. It just falls slightly short of the mark in a way that's hard to define, and so looks like it might possibly be serious. It comes from the same school of humour that occasionally gets Iris
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by microcentury 14y ago
Same thing here, also 2008, but with an Allied Irish Bank ATM in Dublin. The machine crashed as I was using it and permanently relieved me of my bank card, but the up side was that I got to watch the entire OS/2 Warp boot sequence play out.
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by microcentury 15y ago
The <reviews on Amazon for this book are not very positive: http://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/1455516074/ref=cm_cr_d... Anyone read it and care to comment?
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by microcentury 15y ago
Completely agreed on both points. The first line is so baffling I read it twice. Do they think programmers talk to each other in this mysterious 'code'? The writer of this article would be deeply disappointed by a glance at Code Academy.
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by microcentury 15y ago
It really is astonishing how much bile and vitriol can be caused by a UI change. I guess it's a subset of the general dislike of change most people have. And it's also amazing how absolutely certain some people are that their own view is th
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by microcentury 15y ago
But Google 'gives everything away' (with indirect monetisation), both the products that succeed and the products that fail. So in that sense this is just a list of failed products which are the byproduct of innovation at such a scale, rathe
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by microcentury 15y ago
If you find one I would be interested, as I've also searched for this without success.
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by microcentury 15y ago
The way things are right now, maybe this blows over and the AirBnB business model continues just the way it was, with its associated massive valuation. If they help everyone in the way you are suggesting, the model is _definitely_ finished,
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by microcentury 15y ago
Wowwww that is an insensitive headline. Edit: This comment generated more debate than I expected, and I should have made it a little more detailed in the first place. I didn't mean to start a discussion on the type of information appropriat
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by microcentury 15y ago
This is well written and fascinating but it's an intro, not an article. It's not ready for HN until it's all there, but when it's ready I look forward to reading it!
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by microcentury 15y ago
In fairness your HN headline exactly reflects the article headline, but the article headline does not reflect the article content, so I in no way meant it to be a criticism of the post :-)
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by microcentury 15y ago
So Google's biggest mistake was not taking on a giant merger, though mergers sometimes go horribly wrong, but sometimes they work out? Seems like the message in this article is a little mixed. Maybe someone other than the article writer wro
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by microcentury 15y ago
This is an awful, awful headline. Entirely misleading.
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by microcentury 15y ago
The story that best illustrates Feynman for me is in Surely You're Joking Mr F (I think - it might be the sequel). On a trip to Japan he insists on going to an area where there is 'nothing to see' rather than the standard tour, and of cours
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by microcentury 15y ago
The reality of a large corporation like Google is nowhere near as simple an engineer-vs-manager dichotomy as many of the comments on this thread would make it. Products need to be developed, but they need to be supported and sold too. Which
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by microcentury 16y ago
Vanity Fair interviews people it wants to be amazing, so it makes them look good; the author of a book about Zuckerburg is hardly likely to say he's not worth writing about; and the Social Network is a movie about the drama of the guy's lif
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by microcentury 16y ago
Off-topic: I despise this use of the word 'ask' more than I could ever fully explain, common as it is. It's a 'request'. Even for business speak, this one is a particularly brutal torturing of the language. Other than that, very helpful art
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by microcentury 16y ago
On your home page, 'every-day' should be 'every day'. (You only use the hyphen when it's a compound adjective, e.g. 'every-day event'.) And actually, re the sentence 'Doing something, every-day, until you achieve it', you could remove all t

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