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I spent a decent amount of my life thinking there was something wrong with me for being an introvert. This is mostly because everyone who isn't introverted sees it as really weird.

I'm just happier alone, or with a small group. And now I accept that, and it's great.

Even though that's true, I loved selling Dyson vacuum cleaners when I was a kid. I still love persuading people to see things my way and speaking in public. So you can be introverted but still able to work with people. It's a developed skill, and I was lucky enough to pick it up through retail in high school.

It's okay to be an introvert if being that way makes you happy. If what you're saying is that you're lonely, that's a different kettle of fish.

Finding fellowship can be a challenge. Being at a university helps – you've got a great shot at finding more like-minded people. If you can strike a balance between alone time and people whose company you genuinely like, you're in good shape. I know it's easier said than done, though. It may help to accept there's nothing wrong with introverted inclinations. People like people who are true to themselves.
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Thanks for taking the time out to write all these suggestions. They were really helpful and I took the time to update my HN profile and give some information about myself, as well as providing contact information. Hopefully I can also find some way to get the cash for some affordable hosting and then I can put up a personal page, as well.

Regarding 2(a): This is so true! A summer back when, I was working at a computer repair shop, I was continuously baffled at the amount of money people would drop to have someone upgrade their RAM or reinstall their operating system. I felt almost guilty of theft when I had to charge someone hundreds of dollars for work that took me 30 minutes. I definitely need practice in correctly valuing my work so that I don't undervalue it to clients.

The main reason I want to do freelance web development right now is so that I can get some true working experience before college and because I really do have a passion web development. For me its fun and educational; getting paid to do it would really be the cherry on top. I don't really care, at this point, if its scalable or profitable in the long term.

Thanks again!
Making observations isn't a testament to authority nor skill.

Stop acting like he's some kind of sacred lamb and go look at the actual work he's produced other than being a 'personality'.

I thought Hackerne.ws would be more circumspect about this.
"The U.S. would be a less likely suspect because it uses offensive cyberoperations infrequently and usually only under specific circumstances when officials are confident the operation will affect only its target, current and former U.S. officials said."

I wonder what a "current or former [any country] officials" would have said other than a paraphrase of above...

Really I'm not being conspiratorial here, just thinking out aloud whether quoted statement is meaningless or not.
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I'm not claiming right to work laws are a magic bullet - I'm only claiming that your original argument proves virtually nothing about whether or not unions are the problem.

If, as you assert, unions can influence outcomes via state law and collective bargaining even in right to work states, then we would not expect right to work laws to have much effect. Thus, the fact that educational outcomes are similar provides no evidence about whether or not unions are the culprit. Your argument is simply incorrect.
Many great minds were introverted. Or so I read.
Being an introvert has nothing to do with having bad social skills, mate. It's just perception directed towards yourself, feeling good being alone, etc. but it does not have to result in bad social relations. It's common among geeks to be introvert just like extraverts occupy f.ex. PR and media, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Frankly I don't get what advice are you seeking - you can't force yourself to hang with people you don't like or are not attracted to, do what makes you feel good.
Played this on a Tandy back in ye olde daye. Then played a lot of Lemmings 2 on my Gateway 486 DX2/66V.
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I had to stop reading when they said he wanted to write a story that would show people how to lead good and happy lives. Too sad.
Thanks! Look out for an update in the coming days.
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Sorry worded that funny, I didn't mean never like absolute never. I did read a few posts early on and wasnt enthralled enough to continue, and so it felt like never as of last week.

You know never like formatting without zeroing out data? ;p
I would argue that any time accuracy (or any feature) is expected, then a lack of said feature does matter. You never know when someone somewhere could be relying on the fact that they can get within 5 yards.
Thanks - this one works for me.
So you're saying that in the states where the public teachers' unions haven't messed things up through collective bargaining, the generic public teachers' lobby has messed things up through legislation instead?

That seems a rather fine and mostly moot point.

If it's still public school teachers' interests and campaigning that torpedoes necessary reforms, then it doesn't matter if that's effected through a mandatory-membership union or collective bargaining or legislation.

The same interests need to be confronted in any case, and I don't know anyone who's suggested that "simply eliminating public sector unions" would "magically solve our education woes". There's no magic bullet, just a bunch of necessary reforms. And teacher's unions in both right-to-work and mandatory-union states oppose most of the necessary steps.
Oh you mean Wesnoth, GPSD, and INTERCAL?

Well, haters gotcha hate, especially when there is a guru.
To truly answer your question, you need context. First of all, remember that everyone has an introverted and an extraverted side. It's just a matter of which one is dominant. A person who is totally introverted would be completely unable to interact with anyone else on any level. A person who is completely extraverted would be unable to do anything without relying on other people. So you can see that it's important for everyone to be both introverted and extraverted.

So with that in mind, being an introvert is a good and wholesome thing as long as you realize that you have an extraverted side that needs attention too. For instance, I make a conscious effort to do something sociable on occasion even if I have to drag myself. In doing so, I can engage my extraverted side without having to turn myself into an extravert.
AngelGate: Chris Sacca Responds To Ron Conway
I think aaron is in agreement with you :-)
The CIA does not seem to be having very good press karma with their drones, if I recall there was a few issues with data stream encryption, and software that allowed hostiles to intercept and view UAV downlinks in the battle field. Perhaps its just tempting to write a story about such a high profile target, but it seems partly like some corner cutting is going on on the CIA's end.
The list consists of signs that indicate when you might want to evaluate the basis of your opinions. It is not claimed that the list items, taken individually or collectively, are necessary or even sufficient for self-identifying your biases. The list does not say, "If your opinion does not much change after talking with more knowledgeable people, your opinion is reflective of your bias." Rather, it's merely that should you find yourself unswayed by seemingly knowledgeable people, some introspection may be in order: do you have a reason for disagreement beyond mere conviction?
Hey, come on... fetchmail deleted a lot of my mail back when I used POP3 over dialup. Without fetchmail, who would have been motivated enough to write offlineimap!?
I guess I really don't understand this part of what you wrote:

it may hurt businesses over the long term even if it provides some short term gains.

On their website for businesses, Groupon markets themselves as a sort of loss leader, hurting businesses in the short term, to help them in the long run. Are you thinking that businesses have such huge markups that they make a profit on 1/4 of their usual asking price, and this is letting people in on that secret?

Also, I'd like to know if you've worked with Groupon, if you own a business, or if this is conjecture on your part. I don't have a business, but from what I've read, I don't understand where you're coming from.
> Crohn's disease

I had a friend who had this from a very young age up until she was 26. She kept switching doctors, and after the nth one, turns out it had been a curable disease the whole time. She is much better now. Not trying to give you false hope, I have no idea how often that happens.
I've also noticed that after an intensive bout of programming, I actually lose social skills. Maybe it's a bicausal relationship.
Julian Weber, who was the model for YC in the sense that he was our seed investor, had a bad case of Crohn's disease. Among other things he had been the first president of the National Lampoon, which must have been a lot of work, though perhaps not as much as a startup. He was a successful lawyer in New York so I believe medical expenses were not as much of a consideration for him as for the average person.

How he managed to get so much done despite the disease, I'm not sure. He was very tough. I suspect he also arranged his life to allow for times when he felt too bad to work.

I do know for sure that, except for feeling like crap a lot of the time, which he always concealed, Crohn's didn't prevent Julian from living well. He made money, had a happy family, and had an interesting life.

http://www.paulgraham.com/julian.html
Redfin.com is doing pretty well right now in cutting down that fee...
But that is work he's produced. I'm not sure whether he's a particularly good sociologist/chronicler of hacker culture or not, but that work should be judged on its own merits. Is it good sociology/history, or is it poorly done/inaccurate/done-better-elsewhere? I don't think looking at the quality of his C code is a particularly useful way of answering that question. I mean, some minimal technical knowledge is probably necessary to do a good job at it, but beyond that I'm not sure if there's good correlation between awesome-coder and great-chronicler.
So this is a single-founder YC company?
Interesting anecdote: up until WWII or so, American commanders had little problem dealing with enemy noncombatants on the battlefield. There was a brief trial followed by an execution.

Over time, the whole trial and such got to be counter-productive for the military, all that publicity and such. Warfare became much more a PR game. So commanders started emphasizing killing over capturing.

This trend has nothing to do with the war on terror. Eisenhower back in WWII sent out memos to his commanders saying he didn't want to see a lot of snipers being captured. The implications were pretty clear. Drone warfare is just the continuation of this larger trend.
Actually, introverts are probably more likely to like giving presentations than extraverts. Extraverts need social interaction (ie conversation). Introverts are probably more likely to enjoy having everyone shut up and listen to them for a change. :-)

Nor does it mean "bad at selling yourself". An introvert who is speaking about a subject that they are passionate about is a force to be reckoned with.
My perspective is screw what other people think. It is true that for whatever reason most people think introverts are bad, probably because they aren't entertaining enough.

But, once you can say screw it, you learn to treat such social interactions as a game, and you get adept at the entertaining aspect. In fact, I've found that I can say things that spark people's interest more easily because I'm an introvert and I understand what's going on better.
Another lesson learned for India Times:

Do not force a pop-up on me, and another tab in my browser, and after closing both, you provide another video pop-up.
Why did you feel it neccesary to criticize his coding skills when we are discussing a semi-humorous piece of writing though? Does Reymond's skill or lack thereof these days effect whether the Unix Koans are worthwhile? If there's something wrong or inaccurate in them surely you could point that out rather than proceeding straight to criticizing their source.

I'm having trouble understanding your comments here as anything other than defensiveness or elitism.
"Tests asked things like the size of each planet—in other words, to regurgitate facts that one can find in two seconds on Google, which is how I found out what the Kuiper Belt is again."

Isn't this true for the entire undergraduate curriculum?

"The biggest difference between a university and a high school is that universities are designed to create new knowledge, while high schools are designed to disseminate existing knowledge"

This is wrong. There are no "new knowledge" in undergraduate level.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I guess I meant more of a handholding for the process as a whole, not a better way to do search specifically.
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You're shifting your justification. In the comment I responded to, you argued that it was difficult to determine the appropriate level of knowledge. Not that people are sometimes wrong.

I think you're missing the larger point here. The OP is offering a set of heuristics to determine when one might (unconsciously) be adopting positions for the wrong reasons.

These are not general rules, and offering counterexamples is not relevant. If you were to argue that "no, in general, if you find yourself unmoved by the opinions of disinterested experts, you're probably just more awesome than they are", that would be a real objection.
It's important to remember that neither Bush nor Obama are king of the U.S. government. Our newspapers, universities, and civil servants turned on Bush because of his entry to Iraq, acting out of step with the rest of the government (which includes a lot more than people think). Anything they said to reduce Bush's power was fair game. You, like me, probably fell for it. People in the government generally don't have a problem with the government's power and actions. They did pull off a great trick though, assigning everything bad to Bush for six years.
I don't think I would like it if I knew a e-mail intended to be personal ended up on techcrunch. I don't think the leaking of these personal e-mails is very polite.
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That's kind of interesting, because I thought Feynman came up (maybe just popularized?) the cargo-cult idea. Yet he himself advised his sister to aim high in physics.

Yet I agree with you, and somehow feel I'm making an improper comparison here. Why?
tl;dr: Ron, Where Is The Love?
I wonder if people will start using public-key encryption or something to encrypt mails so that only certain recipients can read them.
I'm terrible at gauging that.
Man, don't be like that. I think ESR is a pompous ass, same as everyone. That doesn't mean he's useless. His maintenance of the Jargon File has been going pretty well, and while The Cathedral and the Bazaar had its weaknesses, it was the best introduction to the "Big Deal" about the open source movement the general public had at the time. Since co-founding OSI in 1998, Wikipedia says "He also took on the self-appointed role of ambassador of open source to the press, business and public," which I think he's been doing fairly well at since it's 100% 'personality'.

ESR claims that these koans appeal to hackers. You like them, and you're a hacker, so unless he got lucky, he has at least some small insight into what makes hackers tick.
not at all?
The key idea here is to understand you nature and adapt to it or going against it, depending on what you want.

If you're more comfortable being isolated and feel a pleasure by doing difficult tasks - go further and do some programming or research. You will probably succeeded above average, because focusing, concentration and avoiding distractions is the most important things.

If on the other hand, you feel uncomfortable and sometimes have an urge to be with people (mostly girls) - then you should change yourself, develop a new habits and smooth communication skills. In this case just go out and learn by doing.

Many introverts are trying to avoid unpleasant practices by reading tons of book on subjects. That is a mistake. Information cannot replace actual experience. Knowledge of a theory is not a substitute for a personal realization.
Presumably this wouldn't help because the recipients can always copy out the plaintext of the message to send to TC or whomever. (Unless you're suggesting that TC is intercepting the emails as they travel over the wire, which is quite dubious.)
Do you really think these emails are being intercepted by third parties? Surely the recipients are leaking them and no encryption scheme can prevent that.
My summary (I did my best to represent the gist of what Sacca was saying):

Chris Sacca considers Ron Conway a mentor and greatly respects him. However, he was "hurt" by Conways email. Sacca was at the first meeting, not the second. He wishes Conway had been there, since they would have liked his input on the things they talked about: standard docs for financing, pro-rata rights ("early investors continuing to stay involved"), futility of VCs blocking company sales, giving more liquidity to founders.

He said they are all pro entrepreneurs, they coach entrepreneurs along the way, and they 'bleed' just as much as founders do. Sacca's first deal was paid with a credit card check, which was stupid but he wanted to help.

Because of Twitter and search, they can't "fuck" entrepreneurs, since it would be forever attached to their names. Sacca is upset at Conways "rush judgement" of his (Conways) friends (Conway allegedly privately referred to them as 'dirtbags' to Sacca).

He wants Conway to ask entrepreneurs how working with the Angels in question is, and hopes Conway realizes how hard they work.
I hardly know any grammatical rules, but I don't make very many grammar or spelling mistakes in communication forms where correctness is desirable (customer emails, letters, articles, blog posts).

Why? Reading heavily from age 5 to 18, means I have a built-in spelling and grammar checker.

I grew up when there was no Internet or mobile phones at school going age though, doubt this is easy to get kids do these days.

On the other hand, in IMs, text, or IRC, I write in all lowercase, don't care about typos or grammar, and it's very fast and loose.

OP needs to learn how to tailor their content.
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"Tangible evidence of passion" - points taken! :)
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JanezStupar above, pretty much points out that what I was mentioning. Intent is being read into Krugman's article that does not actually appear in the article, The commentators view seems be colored by previously held beliefs.
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I'm using Sammy right now and so far I have two responses to the question of whether a client application should be designed as if it were a server application.

The first thing is that if you are going to run in a browser, I see it as a benefit to have an application where natural navigation "places" have bookmarkable, back buttonable URLs. Sammy makes that easy.

As for the "rest," you don't need to have anything to do with posts and forms and making things rest-ful if you don't want. Sammy ships with a storage plug-in and you can go to town making a state-ful application.

However, if you do want to sup[port book-marks and the back button, you want to give some thought to the relationship between applications state and URLs.
I think I am an introvert as well. My advice to you is to try getting out of your comfort zone as much as you can. By that I mean try to hang out with people who you don't share your interests with.
> It's important to remember that neither Bush nor Obama are king of the U.S. government.

That is true. I was just using the names as shorthand for the governments they run.

> You, like me, probably fell for it.

Unfortunately that is true. Since then I started to pay more attention to how propaganda works in US.

> They did pull off a great trick though, assigning everything bad to Bush for six years.

Yes that was brilliant of them. It looks like it worked rather well.
When was the last time he tried to contribute code and how was it embarrassing? Actually, you'll need more than one example. You may well be right, but until you provide evidence, your assertions are baseless ad-hominem and I think less of you, not him.
One of the absolute best techie koans I've come across is this "closures vs objects" one by Anton Van Straaten -

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...

Reproduced below -

The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures."

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.
I am strongly of the camp that designers should design, and programmers should build. I think that having knowledge of "rows and tables and backend abstractions and things that make things more or less difficult" simply constrains the artist. From a programming perspective, it is possible to create almost anything the designer requests. If a designer is aware of the challenges their design may entail in the creation, then they may subconsciously limit themselves, a trend I have seen in several people, including myself. "ignorance is bliss" especially when designing. I would prefer to have to put in the extra effort as a programmer to produce a radical new frontend, then have to produce the same 2 column layout with some jquery thrown in for good measure. I think I tend to design myself the easier path when I am doing the designing myself, even if it is accidental.
I am in complete agreement with you :)
I love government contracting. First we pick a schedule, then we pick a technology, then we decide who gets the contract and who will supervise the execution of said contract. The best part? When something gets delivered, no matter how sad a state of affairs it is code-wise, no matter how difficult or expensive it will be to bring up to any sensible standards of maintainability, they won't pay for it. No, they'll only pay for a new feature.

This is why government contracting is fun. You never know when a story like this is going to come out and if you're going to be involved with it.