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Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by aaronbasssett » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 7:29 PM UTC

scott_karana wrote: post #176

aaronbasssett wrote: post #142

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> That now makes you 10x better than most nerds on HN in understanding and handling people At the risk of making your point for you, as one of the "nerds on HN" I would just like to tell you to take your sweeping statements and fuck off. Or have you forgotten you're a member of this site as well, nerd.

The core of your rebuttal was sound, but both you and GP were pretty rude.

Does being Irish/Scot earn me a little leeway? That is probably the minimum amount of swearing I'm allowed per sentence.

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by scott_karana » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 7:56 PM UTC

aaronbasssett wrote: post #181

scott_karana wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The core of your rebuttal was sound, but both you and GP were pretty rude.

Does being Irish/Scot earn me a little leeway? That is probably the minimum amount of swearing I'm allowed per sentence.

Hah, I think if you put /scot at the end of your sentence, I wouldn't have thought twice.

The internet and tone... :)

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by wwwarsame » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 3:34 AM UTC

ghufran_syed wrote: post #180

ghufran_syed wrote: post #149

My daughter and I were in the same position around 18 months ago. Neither of us knew any coding, but we wanted to do a startup. I have an mba and another professional degree and wanted to do a startup, so in theory, I could have tried to find a tech cofounder, but in the end, felt I would be in a better position if I learnt to code. As usual, paul graham says it better than I can, "anyone reasonably smart can probabl…

And by a weird coincidence, this is announced the following day: http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-fellowship

This is great. Doing YC remotely sounds like a good plan for founders with children and a job that won't allow them to take time off.

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by wwwarsame » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 3:40 AM UTC

aws_ls wrote: post #177

wwwarsame wrote: post #154

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This is not in any way meant to sound snarky, but I don't live under a rock. Hacker News will come to you or you will go to it when you question the trajectory of your life.

Your reply reminded me of the Mohammed/Mountain quote[1] :-) All the best to you. [1] "If Mohammed will not go to the mountain, the mountain must come to..."

Nice. I didn't know about this quote.

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by daragh99 » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 4:22 AM UTC

girvo wrote: post #158

makeset wrote: post #148

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The Dunning-Kruger effect is grossly overestimating one's own skill. I think that's the opposite of what you meant.

They probably meant Impostor syndrome[0] instead. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

I have thought about and battled with impostor syndrome a LOT! So much so that I wrote this incredibly long article about it. I hope it's useful.

http://www.geekmindfitness.com/mindfulness/how-mindfulness-m...

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by wwwarsame » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 6:01 AM UTC

Jugurtha wrote: post #14

Welcome, Mohamed.. A little word of advice that I hope will save you a lot of time and frustration: - Don't wait to complete your training to start your project. Start with the knowledge you have and tweak it over time. If you have no knowledge right now, start by sketching in English. It seems stupid but just the fact of abstracting human needs that seem obvious to us and formalizing them into logical steps will hel…

Thank you Jugurtha.

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by ragavans » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 6:21 AM UTC

Hellllloooo

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by wwwarsame » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 11:47 PM UTC

EDIT......

As suggested, here it is....

Blog at FAVORTEXT.com. I've used Wordpress to generate this blog. It looks weird and things are out of place, but I will tackle this bit by bit as time goes on. This is where I will jot down my journey on learning coding, business development and going from an idea to an MVP prototype.

I wish everyone here who took the time to respond a glorious and wonderful life.

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by trg2 » Wed, Jul 22, 2015, 4:02 PM UTC

I would take these two free classes: 1.) http://startupclass.samaltman.com/ 2.) https://www.coursera.org/course/startup

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by wwwarsame » Wed, Jul 22, 2015, 8:33 PM UTC

trg2 wrote: post #189

I would take these two free classes: 1.) http://startupclass.samaltman.com/ 2.) https://www.coursera.org/course/startup

Hi trg2,

I am already taking No. 1, and will now add No. 2 to my favorites. Thank you.