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Personally, I usually avoid listening to anecdotal evidence on something that has a huge body of scientific research behind it.

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So true. Just like everyone who buys "Websites for Dummies" and becomes a professional web designer. I see that a lot too.

By the way, how do you only charge $250 for a website? Is this like a hobby or do you have a bunch of templates you sell or do you just do small sites super fast and work in bulk? I'm in the website biz myself and my minimum is $1200. Just curious how others run their pricing models.
There is one more reason that copying works is that people become disaffected with the original for whatever reason: poor customer service; failure at a crucial moment; finding out the price point of the original was not the best deal, etc. During the mid to late 1990's McAfee software made serious bank on this model.
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I asked him, here's his response.

http://twitter.com/#!/jwz/status/141017942639902720
I hate to be negative but the title is misleading. There is no way any of this will appeal to people who hate math. A reader who 'hates math', implies that they have very little background in set theory and would be hard-pressed to define a Venn diagram. I am such a person and I couldn't get past the first definitions, although I tried. I need more background knowledge, and asking that I read a hefty Wikipedia article to get up to speed isn't going to cut it.

I'm sure the content is good, and for people who already know what the symbols mean, you've probably done a great job of making it meaningful but the title should be - 'Abstract algebra revisited for serious students of abstract algebra' or something like that.
This is from Khan Academy.

Here is the Khan Academy Link

http://www.khanacademy.org/#venture-capital-and-capital-mark...

Was very much helpful to understand topics - Raising Money, Assets, Equity, Debt and IPO's.
Can't disagree with what she's saying. But I'd add that if we're talking about firms whose business is computers, 15 years feels like 75.
Well, EA was offering up to $1.3B with the incentives. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if Zynga made an extremely stock-heavy offer, which is riskier than cash and currently-publicly-traded EA stock
Perhaps just have a bar/club locator for the users geo-location. If I log-in from San Francisco,CA then the site would automatically recognize my location/zip code and give me the closest bars in the area. Or better yet, you could parse information from Yelp and return searches with the best bars and clubs in the users' locale.

Then just slap some adverts on it.
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I have a few ideas.

1) create a website similar to texts from last night where people can post funny stories and etc.

2) allow people to review bars and post their opinions on their experiences
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Agreed. I understand what this article presented, but in no way was this any different or better than how this material was presented to me in college. At least in school I could go bug the professor after class to explain to me why I didn't get it.
I had no idea frissoning was a unique thing. How repeatable is it for you? I've felt it countless times from music or moments in film or life in general when I experience something that is particularly profound or impressive on a visceral level. It's not a daily occurrence though. I've usually attributed it to the feeling of getting a surge of adrenaline. Interesting.
I think a lot of people miss the point of this statement. He's saying, good artists are inspired by the idea and want to copy it, while great artists understand the underlying concept and produce something genuinely original by stealing that concept.

For example, that HP Envy copies Apple's design, while the Macbook Pro, steals the underlying concept of the Macbook Air and reforms it in the context of a professional laptop. (Unibody was an innovation created for the Air.) Android is a copy, while Windows Phone 7 is an attempt to come up with something new by stealing the concept.
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That's exactly how I view, although I put a pretty heavy negative weight on the hassles of navigating around airports, finding parking, gates, etc. With driving I feel a lot more in control. Driving is also a continuous activity, there's minimal transition times (e.g. With flying you've got find a place to park, find your gate, etc).
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For about a year, I worked on a webapp that I wanted to turn into a startup in the education space. I stopped recently because I realized that I could do something without the challenges of working in EdTech.

Now, I don't know what I should do. I feel like I should work on something new. I've come up with a list of 100 ideas. But, as I look down the list, none of them excite me.

How does one figure out what they want to work on?
This is not working for any other texts that I tried. Any reason why?

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so, this is speaking from personal experience, I presume?
I'm thinking of bio diesel. We have the technology, the delivery infrastructure, clean engines, mechanics, the land. And its as carbon neutral as it gets. But no, instead we have all these massively energy intensive processed "biofuels", or electric vehicles using rare-earth elements for batteries (we've hit peak lithium already) and they're still charged using coal.
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I make sure to block off an hour or two every day for physical exercise. Eating right is only half the battle.

I eat almost completely vegetarian (Indian) which is all home cooked so I can control the type of oil, the amount, and all other variables to make sure it stays healthy. Plenty of restaurants take healthy dishes and make them unhealthy...
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This seems to be Apress's response to the big sale Pragmatic Bookshelf had over the weekend.
I don't think either of these things will provide a solution that the above is looking for. The problem is with the layout of your content and the fact that write like a math professor. I imagine you scare a lot of people off with a ton of math symbols at the opening, maybe leave that for later, or explain it all in plain English instead of using symbols.
I found the comment fascinating "People will spend hours researching a $2 purchase, browsing reviews, emailing the developer, checking online forums. Then they will go to a coffee shop they’ve never been before and buy a $4 coffee."

It is so true, and so weird at the same time. Why the investment in research time for the app and the disdain for the coffee which will pass through your system roughly 45 minutes later? Makes me wonder if they should charge $19.99 for the app and offer a 'trial version' for $4.99 which lets you see if you want to buy it with no expiration date.
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That's a great way to look at it. Safety has costs associated with it. So there may be some benefit to all these precautions, but if the probability adjusted benefit doesn't outweigh the costs then it's inadvisable to continue incurring the costs.
I guess so. Basically, I wanted it to be for people who had learned SOME math in college, but had really hated the experience, and wanted something different.
I asked this question a while back on HN and there were some good responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1731699
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I will try doing that, its just that when I look at math articles, I look for symbols not words :)

But, I'll definitely do that in the next one and see what the response is.
Think of it like this: Why are people still coding in Python 2.x?
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Okay I think I understand the concept much better now. The comparison to Fantasy Leagues (which is essentially another way of gamifying games) makes the value seem a lot more real.

The data part is still a bit puzzling to me, but intriguing. I still am not sure I understand the concept of getting more transparency (e.g. the data of who is betting on either side). My admittedly gut-response to the two examples:

a) Betting with the crowd - surely the team that is favored to win is the team with the "crowd" on its side, right? That's how the line on the game is established in the first place...

b) Matching the bet of a smart friend - this makes sense to me, that if a friend or expert can "beat the market" you could follow along.

I guess my uninformed skepticism is based on the idea that it would be hard to produce a system that could predict sports outcomes more reliably than the market. If such a system worked, wouldn't it destroy the entire gambling industry?

E.g., if such a system worked well, and could reliably beat the market, more than helping people follow along good bets, you could just make a bazillion dollars betting on sports games. Monetization strategy solved ;).
The article says it was all cash

In July, Zynga lost a bid for PopCap, a mobile game company. Zynga offered $950 million in cash.
Could you provide an example outside of apple products, to make your distinction clearer? With the examples given, the difference is colored by my feelings about the companies involved.
The article spells out the opposite:

>"In July, Zynga lost a bid for PopCap, a mobile game company. Zynga offered $950 million in cash."

>"PopCap agreed to a rival offer from Electronic Arts, worth $750 million in cash and stock and the potential of an additional $550 million if certain earnings goals were met."
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how did you get around that

Get around what exactly? I don't think he is saying he got around anything - just that he dropped things he didn't like.

If I know that then I certainly wouldn't be this depressed

It probably doesn't sound useful, but there probably isn't a single simple answer to how. BUT - more usefully, there are simple answers to when. Things will get awesome in somewhere between 1 and 3 years - as soon as you find fulfilling things to do, with people who get you. This will happen. It will take longer than you would like, or seems reasonable, or be easy, but it is achievable.
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Man, this article has the fingerprints of the submarine all over it (http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html). Lots of emphasis on corrective measures, just a passing mention of option clawbacks, with the reassurances that it "affected only a limited number of senior employees."
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This is one of those rules that I feel completely fine breaking. I just wish I didn't have over-zealous flight attendants yelling at me all the time.
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Thanks for the linked article. I can't believe I never ran across this concept before, outside of a formal definition. The links given in the article to applications are convincing about its utility.
Redis and memcached aren't really that similar. Memcached is a key-value cache; it will evict items that haven't been used recently, and it has no persistence. Redis actually makes a serious effort to not silently lose data. (Unless you tell it to.)
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I'm fairly sure it was the same (or a similar) study done by Carol Dweck. She's the mastermind behind the effort/fixed mindset theory.

Concerning Feynman -- that is very interesting. My belief is that although the brain is massively flexible/plastic later in life, how your time is spent during the "formative" years does have a massive influence on what your brain will be particularly skilled at as you get older (though again, it can be changed to a good degree, it just takes a lot of effort). And, how your time is spent during the formative years is largely guided by your own natural inclinations/interests and hence what you naturally focus on, both in the external world and internally. If it was possible to significantly influence/alter what a child tends to care about, what they tend to focus on or spend their time on, and what they tend to think about throughout the days -- their brain will develop in a significantly different way and the child will end up with different core abilities. I don't know how much one can affect a child's natural instincts however.

Thoughts?
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The historical context was useful.
The off switch is almost certainly much more thoroughly tested, and most of its failure modes are much easier to detect.
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I have 3 friends who have worked for EA recently, in different offices in different states. They all agree that things are noticeably better since the EA wife lawsuit. It's not perfect, but it's not the constant death marches it used to be. I'd say Zygna has handily surpassed EA in the horrible reputation department.
a - you'll at least get an idea of where the money is going vs the way it is now... you see a line and you bet it. This transparency isn't necessarily valuable on a per game basis, but when you start to look at trends of certain teams against the spread + the way the public (crowd) picks.. you start to see larger trends that can help you predict with higher probability of the crowds accuracy for certain types of bets or matchups, etc.

b - this drives people to become experts which means more informed analysis, and potential of beating the market through following the picks of 1 or more experts.

-- It's not about beating the market necessarily, it's about leveling the playing field (major disruption). Right now the markets have all the info on who is betting where... think of what would happen when people had that info too?
Meta-emotion will destroy you. I deal with it occasionally and it is absolutely vicious. I'm considering trying cognitive behavioral therapy to get away from it.
I'm not sure we're talking about the same things when you say "faster." Obviously, a Nexus One has a much faster CPU than the original iPhone, and will perform much better on benchmarks (graphics, JavaScript, etc.). However, I've used a Nexus One fairly extensively (as well as even more powerful Android phones like the Galaxy S II), and I think it's completely reasonable to say that the basic UI elements are more consistently smooth and responsive on the original iPhone. Granted, it's been one year since I had hands on an original iPhone, so perhaps I should amend the comparison to the iPhone 3GS.

I'll also concede that in the strictest sense, Android phones are usable: I do have the ability to use them, and many people do use them. Of course, I would also call IE6 unusable, even though it's also clearly usuable in the strictest sense.

I use the term "usable" to describe any product that I would use if someone gave it to me for free and I wasn't allowed to sell it. If you gave me the current best Android phone for free, I guarantee you I would not use it.
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I'd like to add one more thing to your analogy:

"You know the 30-60 minute spin-up time it takes to get your head into coding? Well imagine someone interrupting you every 15 minutes to ask you how to insert a table into MS Word (I'm sorry, didn't your fucking CV say you had MS Office experience?). Now imagine how long your replies would remain welcoming and friendly."
As much as I don't like Zynga and probably would not enjoy working there (too intense all day every day), it is actually nice to read an article that seems balanced. People do work there, and people do like it. It's different than most companies, and it's not for everyone .

I am intrigued by the merit-based systems they are experimenting with.
this year's going to decide my future.

That is totally, absolutely wrong. Just because teachers etc say it doesn't mean you should believe it. I'm sure you've read how Steve Jobs forced himself to go to college because it was what was expected, and then dropped out. Personally, I missed the course I wanted to do, started something else, dropped that and finally ended up doing a computer science degree (which was something I'd ignored for 3 years). (Edit: and it all worked out better than if I'd done the degree I'd initially wanted to do)

There are plenty of examples of the opposite - people who don't go to college straight out of school.

Think it through - there are very, very few decisions that "decide your future" in a way that can't be changed, and the few that are usually are crimes.

Sure, work hard and go to college or whatever, but DON'T THINK "MISTAKES" CAN'T BE FIXED".

When someone tells you "this decision decides your future" nod politely, and ignore the implied pressure. They are incorrect.
I don't have a cofounder because I don't think there are a lot of people that are on the same page as me around here. Most of them might not be interested and won't devote a sufficient time to the project. I thought I can get it done faster and without hassle. I know all the code and cofounder might slow it down a little bit.

Thank you for your answer. Your answer helps.
I meant how did he manage to stop doing that, unless he continues to do so, yet things are awesome for him now.
I want to know how things managed to become awesome if he still continues to drop boring things, or how he managed to convince himself to work on boring things.
Oops. Sorry Tom ;-) I was actually thinking of someone like Bruce Ivins. He wasn't a de-population fanatic and wasn't even proved to have sent the Anthrax letters. He ended up killing himself (or "killing himself" if you are more conspiracy theory inclined ;-), but anyway, I had someone like him in mind. Was surprised that all these movies and books already have the same plot.
:). Got it replaced with "and". BTW, did you like the tool Brandon?
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You've just created an perpetual motion machine.

I'm flipping endlessly between "he's serious" and "he's ironic".

So ... which is it?
Thanks for your answer. Your answer is close to what I was thinking. It confirms it.
Every NDA I've ever signed has had a termination date.

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I think most people here on hacker news understand that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and it's execution that counts. There are -plenty- of things to dislike about Zygna before complaining about the fact that FarmWhatzit works just like Uncle Bob's MyFarmifier or whatever. "But x did it first" arguments on simple things that anybody could up with simply don't help anything in any way.
You have a point there, as long as you define a challenge as teaching someone to remember their own password. Or maybe explaining to people that they should put a customer's ID into the ID field (as opposed to the surname, address or date of birth fields). Or is the challenge explaining to the same people the exact same things for the 20th time, without screaming maniacally?
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From personal experience, texting can work up to about 7,000 feet, but voice didn't.

This was about 10 years ago, so things have likely changed.
I can't repeat it much. I don't go chasing after it; I let it find me. It isn't something you can conjure up over and over. You feel like you are in contact with beauty itself, and then you are forever changed. The experience is fleeting, but I remain grateful for it when it happens.

In my case I found it in some music that I found at the exact right moment in my life and it served as a sort of pivot point to open myself up to life more. It's hard to know what caused what exactly; I don't believe it necessary to boil it down to something that would appease the cynics of the world. I instead see it as something of an omen: that I'd one day be able to participate in this thing called music.

It's a long road, but I thank you for reminding me of it.
It's interesting because throughout history nearly all tasks have been mundane, and it's only recently that this has changed. But smart kids often feel entitled to not do the mundane stuff.
I go for non-alcohol influence..cause it doesn't dumb me down.

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At my school, we have a bit of a "culture of genius" problem. Many, if not most, of my classmates grew up being one of the smartest people they knew. This lead to the widespread (and maybe not untrue) belief that we can do things that other people simply cannot. This leads to a lot of students setting themselves up to fail (epic procrastination, expecting to do well on finals after never going to a class or studying) and most students eventually fail hard at least once, but there are enough success stories to keep the "culture of genius" alive.

This article addresses what happens when the students fail. As the article states, many of us seem to blame failure on not being smart enough rather than just not working hard enough. Personally, I hope I've made away from the genius fallacy. Interning at a startup (as well as competing in athletics growing up) have made it pretty clear that success is more a function of effort and persistence than innate ability.

As bane offered some advice at the end of his post, I guess my mantra could be "Being smart makes things possible, actually working hard makes things happen".