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I always forget my password and leave HN periodically because of ad hominem attacks and irrational behavior by those who lack the self-awareness to understand their own biases and arrogance. Eventually I become so dismayed by the level of irrationality displayed by many members of the community, that I just abandon the account. It seems crazy to me that people who believe themselves to be the most rational people on the planet can behave in such a way.
Coming out of college making 6 figures in silicon valley does not make you a god. It's the other things.
"Who will train all the NFL stars?" That's really what it boils down to. Training the million dollar gladiators for our modern society. Living vicariously through innocent children. Parental adrenaline rushes. It's…
Yeah, I think you're right. Everyone expects a reversion to the mean -- even the batters themselves. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. But maybe it's more than that. The will power to overcome our intrinsic limits…
I was really dismayed when Colin Powell argued for invading Iraq. Yes, there are military people who get it. But just look what's happening. I guess they have to think, what is the alternative? We can't change our role…
No, but thanks for bringing him to my attention! It's amazing how someone like that so long ago could have such an impact on so many fields, while today, it takes teams of people to win the Nobel prize in a single…
Thinking about this and the wisdom of crowds makes my brain feel fuzzy.
Articles like this remind me how rational and practical the military is. I know so many brilliant military minds, yet war itself seems outdated and plagued by so many emotionally irrational decisions. I can't reconcile…
There are plenty of things she could have done before calling me, but she could call me and she had a great experience doing so and now loves the product even more and has more confidence using it, because she knows if…
That's how Hunch worked and it was pretty good.
The only two apps I had in the list were Youtube and Google Maps, both are installed at the factory and it guessed: You are a married guy older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year
This is a fantastic book. Buy it if you haven't already. Fantastic book. Really, one of the best books written in any field. Written by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Highly recommended.…
As big as The Rock, yes. His mom is Samoan. They are huge. If he didn't exercise like he did, he'd be as big as a sumo wrestler. I feel like this kind of attitude stops people from achieving more, "Oh, I can never be…
It is possible to get built. I was a skinny kid, picked on. Got tired of it. Started working out. Upped my protein intake. Went to the YMCA 3 days a week. The dudes in there were humongous and looked at me and smilled,…
Right, yes, I always forget about the dollar! The dollar will be the one to prove them all wrong!
It's ironic that a currency designed to solve the problems of currencies controlled by human beings is now suffering the very same problems that caused all the fiat currencies before it to fail. Human beings are the…
"Join the waitlist" Really? There are only, what, 10 candidates?? Srsly Google?
Customers rarely call me, but when they do, it's fine -- I love them. It's usually because they can't figure out how to log in. It's especially painful when they call at 8:30am on the east coast and I'm on the west…
Just wait until the payee has a comma or a quote in the name and you download a CSV and the programmers can't even properly format a CSV and it's broken in Excel.
Zero to One by Peter Thiel The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Strategy Rules - Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs by David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano These are all timely…
The fact that they are ignoring this is a very bad sign. It's way easier to do and hasn't been done well and instead they are doing something really hard that people can already do easily outside the system. They've…
Lots of different instant messengers like skype. Google chat, facetime, just the regular old phone. Video conferencing tools. Even screen sharing systems like gotomeeting. It's a solved problem mostly, but hard to do…
That is spooky. Both from heart problems too. Maybe the stress of teaching the class takes a toll. Heart attacks are pretty common among men of that age, though. Coincidence, of course. Spooky. For sure.
I wish slack would concentrate on making the app more productive for teams to work together remotely. We can type fast enough, in fact, hackernews tells me I'm typing too fast. The problem is organizing and collecting…
Funny how, at HackerNews, a post with data and intent on progress is still drowned out by useless rhetoric that will never actually make a difference. Someone posted real numbers with a clear intent to find a solution…
Quotas are fine for an enterprise with a decades old sales process that has data to measure. SurveyMonkey was entering a new market and growing the sales force quickly and before they even knew what a reasonable quota…
Modern wood stoves are sealed to the inside and have vents to pull air in from outside the house via vacuum created by the heat pushing the air out through a vent to the outside as well. You'll easily pay $800 for one…