rowaway1

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by rowaway1 15y ago
i said: "it's not about working at night, but going balls out from waking to sleep." if you sleep early, ok. but when you're awake, do you want to spend all your time hacking? then you have the passion. if not, then not. that's my point: it
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by rowaway1 15y ago
where did the term "stove-piped" come from? how did "stove piping" come to signify any system built in isolation from other systems?
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by rowaway1 15y ago
it's not about working at night, but going balls out from waking to sleep. how long u stay awake doesn't matter, but the passion that engages your every waking moment, and makes you want to stay awake longer, so great is your desire to hack
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by rowaway1 15y ago
anyone got the source for this?
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by rowaway1 15y ago
www.toggl.com
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by rowaway1 15y ago
i'm sure their parents are very disappointed that their children won an elite $100k grant before the age of 20. it's gonna be an ugly mark they'll never scrub off their resume, or google searches of their name. worse, should they ever want
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by rowaway1 15y ago
education != school smart, motivated people can teach themselves. the ranks of un-degreed entrepreneurs refutes your skepticism that the un-degreed can't contribute or innovate.
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by rowaway1 15y ago
CEO != entrepreneur many entrepreneurs lack degrees.
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by rowaway1 15y ago
but now they'll start doing great things earlier, and won't be hampered by debt after graduation, which also postpones doing great things.
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by rowaway1 15y ago
victim
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by rowaway1 15y ago
he's not make a point about ordinary people. he's making a point about school not working for everyone. he's taking the smart, motivated people who don't need school and giving them a head start on changing the world. these smart motivated
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by rowaway1 15y ago
the spread of startup accelerators in the style of y combinator suggests that the entrepreneurship-as-education model is growing. not going to scale to everyone, but that's not the point. the point thiel's making is that entrepreneurs fare
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by rowaway1 15y ago
I'd apply if only to outrage you 2.
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by rowaway1 15y ago
tl;dr summaries bad
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by rowaway1 15y ago
you've never stared into a bright LCD in the dark and become blind to the keyboard? if so, cool. but many people have sensitive eyes.
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by rowaway1 15y ago
people who work in the dark, but have not achieved total union with the keyboard, appreciate the backlight. forced battery drain isn't an issue: turn off the light if you don't want.
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by rowaway1 15y ago
do f and j bumps enable you to touch transcribe this string? >}[\|:{%^&?`~]*();"'!@_+-=#$,./< not for me. these keys are the bottlenecks that break my flow and force me to think for a few moments about where things are. your tac
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by rowaway1 15y ago
backlit keyboard aren't just for looking nice. they're for working at night in dark rooms. before touch typing you need to glance quickly at your hand's position above the keys, to make sure your hand position isn't transposed slightly up,