https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4759660
edw519's response to "I am a terrible programmer"
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#42I really love this comment on finding a job at a startup by patio11: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11118880
So much so that the comment and surrounding discussion is much more valuable than the actual article it's on! Has helped me and many people I know interview at phenomenal companies.
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#43This one, about recursion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14396692
This one about base cases in recursion is good too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14396104.
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#44burntsushi's performance analysis of string parsing in Rust vs. Go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13268051
I learned quite a few things about both Rust and Go!
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#45User Steuard explains why EmDrive doesn't work and responds to an ad-hominem attack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9473209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476202
Steuard deserves a medal for that thread. (Or a beer, coffee or cookie. Whichever he likes.)
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN comment scores are not public, so I am unsure how you find the "most upvoted comments"
https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments ?
Been using HN regularly for about two years now, and have just figured out two of the features from this topic: /bestcomments and /favorites?id=.
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#47There's a whole series of (long) comments by arcfide [0] about APL, and code in general, in the "Smaller Code, Better Code" thread [1] that I thought were great.
In particular this one [2].
"I'm pushing the other direction. If you can see your entire compiler at one go on a standard computer screen, what sort of possibilities does that open up? You can start thinking at the macro level, and simply avoid a whole host of problems because they are obviously wrong at that level. When you aren't afraid to delete you entire compiler and start from scratch? What sort of possibilities does that open up to you?"
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arcfide
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#48Since our mental wellbeing plays a huge role in how we use our knowledge and skills, one of my favorite HN comments (which is actually a quote from another source): "Human life the Stoics appear to have considered as a game of great skill; in which, however, there was a mixture of chance [...] In such games the stake is commonly a trifle, and the whole pleasure of the game arises from playing well, from playing fairl…
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#49This one will always be my favourite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932261
I love that. Sometimes the lack of whimsy on HN wrecks my head.
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#50Nice idea. I actually save the gems I find here. So in no particular order, wisdom from the archives -
enobrev 673 days ago on 'The self-hating web developer':
> I've always been a fan of collecting money for solving problems and letting others worry about whether what I'm doing qualifies as "real" programming. Knowing how to listen to potential clients has gotten me a lot further than worrying whether PHP is a real programming language.
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kingsidharth 2356 days ago on 'Evernote makes $800,000 per Month':
> This is the biggest mistake most of the people make. If it worked that way, every weekend app released here would be making tons of money. (We have better apps here as weekend projects than out there in market).But this is NOT app v/s app game. This is business v/s app. And you can't take down a business with an app. You need to create a business.
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knob 1217 days ago on Your best passive income? (2014):
ozh: > "Do some freelancing during office hours & double the income."
viach: > This would not be passive.
knob: > You have to think bigger man. Outsource the outsourcement... Interact with top-level outsourcer once per week... he interacts with low-level outsourcer daily. Profit.
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mcphage 653 days ago on Japanese mini Segway “WalkCar”:
> "Can you remember the Segway?"
> Yeah.
> "And how we all thought of it as the new way of human transportation?"
> No, I don't remember that bit.
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cableshaft 619 days ago on '‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups':
pbreit: > I dunno, hopping on board the rocket ship still seems a lot easier than building the rocket ship.
cableshaft: > But building the rocket ship is more fun. Especially if you know it's going to explode midair once it's launched and you don't have to be in it when it does.
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graycat 760 days ago on First Round Capital Open Application for Startups:
> Can a solo founder of an IT startup hope to be successful without equity funding? Should be: All across the US, cross roads to the largest cities, solo founders do well mowing grass, selling pizza or hamburgers, pumping gas, paving driveways, ..., big-truck, little-truck distribution businesses, etc. without equity funding. IT should be an advantage.
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puranjay 838 days ago on 'Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard':
> I have the same issue (find the time). I've set aside 10pm-2am every weekday to learn how to code, plus entire Saturdays and Sunday mornings. I can, at most, manage 20-25 hours, usually when I'm already bogged down. I've been toying with the idea of quitting everything and going all-in for 3-6 months. Would that be 100% retarded or just about 70% retarded? I can live with 70%.
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And my favorite:
blake8086 1962 days ago on 'How Trello is different':
spolsky: > We wouldn't provide that kind of support, nor would be it be expected, for a free and easy-to-use product.
blake8086: > I think you deeply underestimate the sense of entitlement people get about products they enter lots of text into.