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I don't find that to be the case either. Anecdotal, obviously, but I've worked for companies that range in size and I never add anyone from work on Facebook. Same goes for my wife.…

I once tried drop shipping but the prices I was getting were worse than Amazon prices. I would have gotten better margins if I had just ordered on Amazon and shipped it to my custo…

Why is caps lock your friend? I can't think of any situation where it'd be more useful than another key such as ESC or my personal preference, CTRL.

I actually use jj for the same thing. It's so much better than using ESC.

The thing I've found to be really effective at learning "what you don't know"is pairing with other more experienced vim users. You'll see some wizardry occur and you can ask them h…

Normally I don't like comments that are just jokes, but this one was too perfect. Well done. And to add just a slight bit more substance to my comment, while I was reading through …

Basing all of your management decisions purely on statistics is a bad strategy. You're assuming that the weighting of good vs. bad candidate is the same, when they're not. Hiring a…

Reddit can be seen almost as an anonymous fork to some degree. Obviously it doesn't share the same network concepts, but the spirit of anonymous information sharing is there.

This works really well for me: 1) Meditation in the form of working out: The key here is the meditation. Having regular times that you clear your mind and focus on nothing but what…

None of the ancestor comments are in the spirit of HN. They're much closer to the kind of comments found on Reddit. See: "The most important principle on HN, though, is to make tho…

Please don't turn HN into Reddit.

The comparison that is being made is the direction your thumb points when your fingers wrap in a particular direction. It's not merely giving it a name - it's specifically likening…

The point is that it's not a convention - it's a metaphor, as hnriot pointed out.

I once read something that Tim Ferriss had said in response to a similar question. I'm heavily paraphrasing, but he was basically asked how he had so much more discipline than most…

> I wish my list would grow past 0 items. > I honestly have no itches to scratch. Looks like you do have an itch to scratch...though I can't think of any good solutions to wishing …

> You read two emails, then you're left on your own to figure out how to do stuff. So, it's just like real life.

Assuming a standard vesting schedule, I doubt he vested at all in 9 weeks.

At my alma mater, we had a club named "Player's Club". Only the sketchiest of people ever went there, and thus the business suffered. One year, they made a single change - they ren…

As accurate as it may be, it's terrible from a PR standpoint. The grandmother next door will be less likely to adopt its use if she associates it with darkness/nefariousness. You m…

I'm saying that Mayor Bloomberg has been highly proactive in pushing the tech and startup sector forward. It would be hard to deny that he's partially responsible for fostering the…

I haven't looked into any research about this, but anecdotally I find this to not be true. Having peaked at 215 lbs. and ~12% body fat at 5' 11", (I'm now closer to 195 lbs. and ~1…

My alarm does 10 minutes regardless of how long I take to wake up. In other words, if I set the alarm at 8:00am, wake up and hit snooze at 8:03am, the alarm will still go off again…

Speaking from my own experience, the NYC startup community is large and very active. I'm hoping this growth continues after we get a new mayor in.

Wish I could downvote this. Snark like this is toxic and is neither useful nor interesting. A lot of folks reading sensationalist articles about the PC market decline are making th…