smarterchild

I didn't dig into the sources enough to conclude that it's truly a better option, but those articles are a good place to start.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe

[2] http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-lif...

Ironically, that's why I'm on HN now. I know I only have 15 minutes and then I won't get to use it for another few hours. :)

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/En-US/firefox/addon/leechblock/

[2]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...

If this is considered "Medium" Severity, how bad would it have to be to become High?

I suppose the entire terminal, by that argument, is an anti-pattern. I feel a little better about not ever getting past mediocre in shell. :)

but the fact that the argument has no (obvious) logical holes causes cognitive dissonance because it's harder to phrase why you dislike it.

If you haven't played any before, your first question may be: Why would I play a game made up just out of text? The IFComp is a good place to start. It really helps to what really talented people can do with the medium. Here are two worth playing:

1) Taco Fiction (http://ifcomp.org/comp11/play.php?id=201) and

2) Violet (http://jayisgames.com/games/violet/), both previous winners.

Inform7 is a very widely used tool for making IF now (http://inform7.com/); I haven't played with it much, but from what I've seen, it does some really great stuff. It's a good way to get started writing your own games.

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Full disclosure: My current project is a way to make CYOA from the browser. (http://adventurecow.com)

That's a fair point. The important part, it seems, is identifying not just which books to read but why. That information would help you and I find our 20%.

Of course we can learn something from reading 30 books. It'd almost be hard not to (if you chose the right genre). The problem is that, while entertaining, I'm sure a lot of us are looking at these books not just for fun, but because we want to figure out how to run our software business.

To take every software book that's imparted some little bit of insight and put it in a huge list only gives you a huge list of books to read, with no indication of which 20% of those books will give you 80% of the insight. And while some of us can digest this list in two weeks, for others it's a huge time commitment they don't have the ability to make.

I apologize for ranting, and this list does have some useful information (especially in the commentary on each book). But I get uncomfortable when I see a "Top X design articles" or "Top Y books" and the X or Y is >10. I feel like we are feeding our desire to gorge on numerically delimited information without necessarily getting substance out of it.

Programming distinction, and no idea why the author used that. Mostly the same meaning though, for conversational purposes.

So I wrote an app to remind me: http://i.imgur.com/exzb0.png

I find this sort of thing most useful if you have chores that you want to do regularly, but not on a specific day (i.e. clean every Tuesday).

Something I noticed after I read your comment: The funny thing about both Starbucks and McDonalds is that, in both cases, it took an outsider who became an employee, _not a founder_, to grow the company. Two companies don't a pattern make, but it does make you wonder...

Also Starbucks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks#History

I don't claim to know whether that model extends to tech companies, but with enough time, I'd be willing to take the long side of that bet.

Pretty cool. But it doesn't really strike me as being useful for domain specific websites.

- Appointment Reminder is probably far more interested in Joe the Plumber/Hair Stylist/Auto Mechanic then me.

- AirBnB could care less if I don't like it - I don't travel enough.

(Comment: If you could get me domain specific users I would pay you.)

If you get enough information, of course you can make a good business. The challenging part is condensing that so you can learn the right lessons in a non-geologic timescale.

http://christopherliu.net/startup-wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Encyclop...

This is the very tail end of Fortune's richest people list.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_The-Wo...

Any one of those people is worth 1 billion dollars, along with all the Gates's and Buffett's of the world. If I were pretty well off and worth, say, $1,000,000, it would take a thousand of me to equal one of him. And if I were a student with just a thousand dollars, it would take one million of me to get to one of him.

Based on that, the top quintile is not rich because of doctors, executives, basketball players or lawyers - it's billionaire company founders, investors, and the like. To test that hypothesis, I tried to find results marked by percentile, instead of quintile:

http://www.lcurve.org/WealthDistribution-1998.htm

The top 0.5% have 25.6% of the wealth and the next 0.5% have 8.4%.

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(Side note, if you're thinking about income taxes: I'll bet there are more than a few people up at the top who get paid a dollar a year in salary.)

I wonder if airlines have ever put seriously delayed passengers up in a first class or other special lounge, to distract them from potential stewing.