"I still think Oracle is two engineers thinking about B-trees and then several million salespeople"
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#2incidentally i kept track of two in my personal note of quotes that stuck with me:
“Those ideas are also based in my anecdotal experience, and perhaps it comes from a willingness to question some "fundamental axioms from scratch", but at the same time maybe that's a) not always a bad thing to do from time to time, and b) if your fundamental axioms are good there is no reason that you won't come back to them.” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17296020
“Augmenting human intelligence, while leaving the hearts as they are, is a loss, not a gain.” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196155
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#3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17364748
"Sorry, but we need a Turing-complete language for ads and tracking. Preferably with JITting, and unfettered access to the GPU and other misc. peripherals like GPS, webcam, etc. In return you get free cat videos.
You’re welcome."
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#4“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”
- Mike Tyson
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#5From 2007 on Dropbox
"I have a few qualms with this app:
1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.
3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?"
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#6"JavaScript is the XML, the Yugo, the Therac-25 of programming languages. The sheer amount of human effort which has been expended working around its fundamental flaws instead of advancing the development of mankind is astounding. The fact that people would take this paragon of wasted opportunity and use it on the server side, where there are so many better alternatives (to a first approximation, every other programming language ever used), is utterly appalling."
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#7What pg has called the "comeback of all time". After a back-and-forth about someone's chances of success. from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079:
> Of course it's a bold statement. But if I wasn't bold...
> Did you win the Putnam? If not, please don't be "bolder" than this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Vakil
> Yes, I did.
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#8This is a good collection: https://dnluu.com/hn-comments/
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#9Sorry, I have usernames for these, but not links to where they were.
"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." - Nicholas_C
"We're all on mushrooms, you've just been drinking tequila all night - that means you get to fix the flamethrower..." - bigiaian
"You've got to be a twit to believe Twitter." - hardworkforyou
"Nothing is as dumb as being too smart." - bonesss
"Advice is free, until you take it." - em0ney
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." - philipov
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