mrphoebs

An oversimplification

suffering = your self image vs perception of reality self

The argument goes that man is a prisoner of his self image. This self image is a mixture of his desires, wants, tastes, hopes, fears.... This can be seen as a self image that arises out of conditioning by the society and self. You are like a frog in the well and imagine the well to be the universe. You are limited and shaped by the well. How can one know of what the possibilities are unless they ascend from their own intellectual/egotistical/scoietal wells or the well of self image?

On the other hand, I have noticed that rejection of natural tendencies leads to suffering as well. No matter how hard we try the self will never be a blank tape. When you reject the self image your self image becomes "Im he/she who rejects self image imposed on me". So now you are straight back where you started with a brand new self image, only this time you are more observant of your flaws(tendencies of self). So there is still suffering here.

Let me oversimplify again the frog = Neo in the matrix, Ignorance is bliss = Cipher in the matrix

Agreed, in asia a family unit is not just parents and their children. It involves, grandparents, and great grandparents if they are around. It's not a "you have to take care of me" kind of a deal but something like "family takes care of itself" -> when you have kids, grandparents help out actively in raising them, then you are adults you help your parents, physicall, financially. Families often have assets stowed away as a collective unit.

I think "true love for life" is a very american possibly western fairy tale. In asia it's more like "a partnership in the ups and downs of life" and is centered on creating a solid foundation to raise a happy and prosperous family.

agreed, do both.

This is what got me hooked on to startups when I was a kid.

What this article clearly puts on display is "Ignorance". The incidental Ignorance shown by original 'freelance' programmer as far as node.js and the Ignorance shown by marak of what IBM developer works is. It's like calling out PG to remove an article from HN. So as bad as the article was, the title and the blog post is blatant link baiting and an effective hatchet job on IBM. IBM probably doesn't care about node, why should it? Node.js is in no way impacting their bottom line, Node.js isn't even on their radar.

agreed, about the disconnect between state of the art and industry application of CV.

Hi, checkout http://spencerfry.com/on-focus

Besids that article, what to do in this situation obviously depends on your context of-course. Make sure you a 360 degree view of the situation, the pros and cons of either decisions. The regrets that either decision might bring. I always advice people to think about the regret minimization framework when making major life decisions.

Also the hypothesis is success could come by either route but the "by-product" has higher probability and a shorter road to product. Please try and validate this assumption as soon as possible, just so your not building castles in the air and taking a decision on unfounded hunches.

You should really run funnel analysis to see how many people loose interest at each successive screen.

What would happen to apple stock if steve's health takes a turn for the worse? I think no other tech giant's leadership (since bill gates and microsoft in the late 80's and early 90's) has been perceived even by the general public as being so pivotal to a company's vision and dominance?

Hi aditya, take a look at this presentation for some tips.

http://www.slideshare.net/storymix/lean-startup-meetup

Also, cold calling, twitter, looking for introductions or emailing directly are all possible ways to reach your potential customers. One of the primary ideas of customer development is testing hypothesis. One of these hypothesis is how you plan to reach your customers, if there are customers out there. This is a good time to test that marketing hypothesis as well.

Articulating your message clearly to indicate what the person has to gain from talking to you or what the win for him/her is might be a good idea too.

Since there is a potential conflict of interest between the work you do for the company and the work of your startup, I would advice you to take a closer look at the terms of the employment agreement as well as the local IP and ownership laws governing corporations and their employees. Hoping that a corporation might let you of the hook is because what you are doing might be helpful, might not be a good thing to err on.

Cool, just tested with an image of superman.(redundant?)

Agreed. but that's something you have to go through to shatter naive illusions about what building a startup means.

LOL, aaaaaaaaah HN :)

Though, I can see Christoper's Point of view, I wonder about the cost-benefit of this kind a cleanup would be. The main reason seems to be to unclutter the listing of topics in wikipedia. How many people navigate Wikipedia through lists, isn't search more often used? In which case the central argument behind deleting factual information would be more costly than beneficial(even though it doesn't live up to wikipedia' notability standard).

BTW, Why the hostility? and the mob mentality. I thought he articulated his arguments clearly and quite well without malice.

It's great, simple, elegant and gets the job done. The only issue I had was the missing pricing coupled with the 30 day trial thing. I think it would be great if you could mention somewhere that priced plans are coming soon.

Hi guys, Im not associated with nerd fort,so Im not able to provide any photos. Posted the link because I thought it would be useful to other hackers (and liked the design as well).

Youtube has the same policy now. It really annoys me. "You can no longer use your youtube username password".

I recommend that any decision you make should be within a regret minimization framework. For each decision you could take think of the worst case scenario and go in with the full acceptance that this scenario can really happen. The things you might regret are.

* Not taking the deal when it was presented * Taking a deal where the valuation was low * Not being able to work on your ideas * Being cheated * Regrets that go with being employed(there are limitations) * Being stuck in a bad situation for 4 years

As far as the specific circumstances you mention, the deal somehow sounds dodgy, what with them controlling the vesting period and having the ability to terminate your employment as well.

One real possibility is not selling, because you already have a pretty good idea of how the future is going to be down this path and from your post, you seem to be happy where you are. Another factor you might consider here is, How long would it take, for you to accumulate personal wealth at a similar level to what you get from being acquired and what is the level of independence you'll have to work on your ideas.

Brilliant, keep us posted.

I totally forgot flickr, its the site I most visit.

Simply Brilliant

hahahaha, did you just the indian immigrant never experienced something like a texas summer. :)

I say friends, family trumps startup. And since a startup is a high pressure environment I would think twice before putting a relationship I value under that kind of stress.

You could implement an AMQP, based messaging system, with call backs, instead of polling.

brilliant analysis

tags are some what different from categories. Tags indicate a flat structure while an organization based on categories can be both flat and hierarchical. Keywords are used to imply important, descriptive and distinguishing words among other words in content. Since the content is visual Keywords loose their meaning. Lastly, Either way its just a matter of semantics pick the one that best expresses the purpose of the function to the common demographic of the user you are addressing. Do a small listening lab experiment or a usability test.

Tell them that they need to weigh the upside and downside of risks they are taking (financial, time, value) before they take the leap. More often than not starting young has a lot of upsides. No golden handcuffs, More agile/lean , No family to support, Ramen profitability is OK and the delta in learning is huge. Tell them that the upside to failure(which is the worst outcome not considering going into debt) in their first venture is way better than their downside.

Also tell them that the hardest part no one talks about is how starting a company means you are the boss and how you need to plan stuff everyday and get it done. Also, its not the amount of work they get done but the results they get and how driven they are to get those results that matter in the end.

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