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by pgayed 3y ago
Thanks! I’m still curious about good neighborhoods for chance encounters though.
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by pgayed 3y ago
Related discussions on HN, pretty old though! (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994459 (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455531 (2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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Ask HN: Bay Area neighborhoods to meet other startup people?
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by pgayed 3y ago
PG on the problem with fame: “‘The world sucks because of tech, and tech sucks because of Paul Graham.’” lol
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by pgayed 3y ago
I don't know if it's possible to build an audience as large as Fridman’s without superficial treatment of wide ranging topics. (I appreciate his efforts but I don't consider him a geek of any discipline or field, limiting his
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by pgayed 3y ago
Yes, agreed. HN archetype usually predicts failure of the introduced product or its irrelevance. But maybe it goes the other way with clones. (“[Original thing] doesn't stand a chance. Releasing [Clone] will totally kill the userbase.”
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by pgayed 3y ago
Interactions on Meta follow “proximity”-based neighborhood customs (birthdays, pictures of kids, social flexing, vacations). Polite society dinner talk. You do not need to be followed on Meta, only liked. Interactions on Twitter follow “rul
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by pgayed 3y ago
It is so difficult to write challenging exams that only top-tier (“devoted”) professors do.
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by pgayed 3y ago
“Friends”: a group of people who reinforce among themselves a particular worldview and the permissible behaviors that go with it
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by pgayed 3y ago
Deliver an approximate or good-enough solution to buy yourself time.
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by pgayed 3y ago
Reduce the problem to a simpler one you know how to solve.
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Vacuum Balloon—A 350-Year-Old Dream (2019)(arxiv.org)
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by pgayed 3y ago
I would happily welcome a 9- to 10-hour oral history from Paul Graham.
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Listen to Paul Graham talk early internet, web apps and YC(pod.link)
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by pgayed 3y ago
> After all, I had no right to chastise him for yelling when I was screaming at him myself. Maybe I had the temper problem, not him. I don’t know what I want to call this fallacy. Maybe tit-for-tat fallacy . One person’s bad behavior do
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by pgayed 3y ago
I like it! Here's one I use to decide from a list of free-form submissions whether to generate a link or a Google search: (fn [pair-of] (let [text (get pair-of 1)] (cond (clojure.string/starts-with? text &qu
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by pgayed 3y ago
Are you describing a particular experience you had?
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by pgayed 3y ago
(map link-expander list-of-links) I wonder what it looks like in Arc. Does HN keep any of its codebase public?
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by pgayed 3y ago
Related to this thread, generally, is Simon Baron Cohen’s The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Seekers-Autism-Drives-Inventi...
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SICP Distilled: Wizard Book in Clojure(sicpdistilled.com)
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Lou’s List(louslist.org)
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REPL JS: Evaluates as you type(repljs.com)
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by pgayed 3y ago
> One warning is perhaps in order---this territory we are entering can become a fantastic time-sink. Hours can slip by, people can come and go, and you'll be locked into Cyberspace. Remember to do your work! > With that, I welcom
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Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet (1992)(legacy.cs.indiana.edu)
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1-Hour Code: Fast Programming is a Powerful Skill(buttondown.email)
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Guile Hacker Handbook(jeko.frama.io)
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SVB Races to Prevent Bank Run as Funds Advise Pulling Cash(bloomberg.com)
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by pgayed 4y ago
Your argument is still circular. Why is the function you’re describing better served by government? For alternatives, see Underwriters Laboratories. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UL_(safety_organization) Note that it
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by pgayed 4y ago
Four years is a long time. Maybe this was your first significant partner. Those breakups can be hard. Open yourself up to people around you. Friends. Colleagues you trust or admire. Have and make dinner with them. Be social. Be vulnerable t
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by pgayed 4y ago
The commentary on this phenomenon is an example of itself.

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