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xtc··on Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn
All German universities free of charge... [paywall]
xtc··on Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft
I think Clippys is now a more suitable name.
xtc··on Will you drown?
Edgy.
xtc··on Will you drown?
Boiling every experience in life to make it nearly meaningless and lack any glimpse of context will eventually become depressing and appear highly relatable to others. Someone get this man some help.
xtc··on Go Fucking Do It
This is becoming farcical. Good bye.
xtc··on Go Fucking Do It
When did I edit my post? Further justifying my belief you don't comprehend what's in front of your face.

I'm really starting to believe this is no different than Reddit.

xtc··on Go Fucking Do It
No I am not, nor did I assume that grand position. Good for scaling? Possibly. Good in general? It does not mean anything especially if you compare to the garbage that winds up within the top 20 links each day.

I defend my position as a sentient being that can offer sane judgement. He's doing 12 'start-ups' in 12 months. I should not have to say anything else to justify why this is such an absurd idea. His reasoning is that he can do this because someone else completed 180 projects in 180 days. The analogy alone should tell you that he is not taking this as seriously as he should for each to be considered a start-up (realistically). Practice is excellent but he's doing this for the number not for the raw value of any particular experience.

Start-ups are solid in the definition that they should have a reasonable business plan to expect anything of value (experience, cold hard cash, what have you). There are objective manners in which to approach whether something has merit as opposed to viewing business plans in a nebulous fashion believing that 'everything is possible!'

Personal projects and start-ups are not mutually exclusive, nor did I state this. I said that a project should not automatically become a start-up.

xtc··on Go Fucking Do It
Does every project someone spits out on a domain name automatically constitute it as a start-up? Is he intentionally building a solid business around this and actively trying to scale it? Is there anything to this other than a preposterous personal goal and obtaining that sweet HN cred?

This is a personal project with no intended future other than the experience. Calling it a start-up is going overboard.

xtc··on Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04
You can install compiz on any distribution.
xtc··on Go Fucking Do It
How in the hell is this a start-up? It's a website.
xtc··on Mars Colonial Transporter
Rekindling my excitement to see a demo of the Raptor engines.
xtc··on Chrome users oblivious to Heartbleed revocation tsunami
Does not happen to me. Windows 7 x64, same version number. Perhaps it's an issue with sync?
xtc··on SpaceX CRS-3 Mission
First a Super Bowl ring, next the first stage of a used rocket.
xtc··on SpaceX CRS-3 Mission
It's already south of Miami? That's a fast tugboat.
xtc··on SpaceX CRS-3 Mission
Launch success. I'm incredibly excited to hear about first stage recovery attempt. This is going to be huge no matter the outcome.
xtc··on IRS misses XP deadline, pays Microsoft millions for patches
I think Windows 7 is quite solid. What's wrong with it?
xtc··on WTF, HTML and CSS?
Hopefully this will work as a means to beating my W3Schools education to death once and for all.
xtc··on Visualizing Git Concepts with D3.js
This is great, thanks.
xtc··on [dead]
neat
xtc··on Elon Musk: Visionary or Rent-Seeker?
Half of the argument in the parent article is a shoddy attempt to make it appear Musk's sole intent for business with a city in Texas is to squeeze money from the poor inhabitants. This is ludicrous.

Also where is the source for Musk stating loans are bad?

xtc··on Debunking Princeton
Rather than refute the negative prediction for Facebook we're presented with a sarcastic appeal to those who don't think Facebook could ever dissipate.

This only speaks more towards an argument that Facebook isn't being serious enough with its own statistics. Of all organizations Facebook should be the first to spot a trend especially with esteemed data scientists like Mr. Develin.

xtc··on How I “hacked” Kayak and booked a cheaper flight
The word hack becomes cheaper and cheaper each day.
xtc··on Snapchat Says Sorry for Data Breach, Updates Apps With Find Friends Opt-Out
Opt-out should be default for this to be even relatively meaningful.
xtc··on Bitcoin drops 50% overnight as China’s Biggest BTC exchange stops Yuan deposits
No matter what you invest in you always worry about the rebound or lack thereof. This is not exclusive only to Bitcoin.

If you're not keen on assessing a general idea of the risk involved then hedging on magical internet money futures is not for you.

xtc··on The Linux Information Project
There's a guide for optimizing dial up performance. It seems a tad dated.
xtc··on Dear Googles: Stop asking
I would really like to see Vimeo become more popular. Their service is much cleaner and far less annoying. Although the recent discovery of Youtube Feather has me intrigued.
xtc··on Elon Musk on First Principles
You need assets to perform a basic cognitive function?
xtc··on Few successful entrepreneurs blog
I think the primary point is that the successful founders we can think of don't blog regularly. I could think of a few exceptions to this that have been mentioned in other comments (Freedman, Musk, Spolsky, etc). However of the exceptions even fewer blog on a regular basis.

There will always be exceptions to this and I hope people don't read remarks like Keith's as how-to guides. It's only a pattern that fits the mold. Don't think that your time is always too precious to 'share insights & experiences' as Hunter stated. That should have its time and place as well. It's very helpful to outsiders such as myself.

xtc··on Discoveries Ten Years Later in Zelda Speedrun
I really enjoy Cosmo's streams. If you like his runs, subscribe on his channel!
xtc··on [dead]
The post date. Someone got nervous from not seeing a Model X front-page post in a month so they took it upon themselves to remind us it exists.

You're welcome.

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