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New comment by pgayed in "Ask HN: Bay Area neighborhoods to meet other startup people?"

pgayed — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 07:12:57 +0000

Thanks! I’m still curious about good neighborhoods for chance encounters though.

New comment by pgayed in "Ask HN: Bay Area neighborhoods to meet other startup people?"

pgayed — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:30:53 +0000

Related discussions on HN, pretty old though!

(2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994459

(2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455531

(2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=296404

Ask HN: Bay Area neighborhoods to meet other startup people?

pgayed — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:11:28 +0000

Suppose you are a solo technical founder and work out of coffeeshops and (climbing) gyms a lot. You want to move to, or airbnb in, the Bay Area to be around other people like yourself. Where do you go?

Edit: Not necessarily looking for a co-founder. Just want to meet others in startup world.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37232385

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by pgayed in "Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler"

pgayed — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 05:33:55 +0000

PG on the problem with fame: “‘The world sucks because of tech, and tech sucks because of Paul Graham.’” lol

New comment by pgayed in "Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler"

pgayed — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 05:08:54 +0000

I don't know if it's possible to build an audience as large as Fridman’s without superficial treatment of wide ranging topics.

(I appreciate his efforts but I don't consider him a geek of any discipline or field, limiting his depth overall.)

New comment by pgayed in "Threads, an Instagram app"

pgayed — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 04:06:45 +0000

Yes, agreed. HN archetype usually predicts failure of the introduced product or its irrelevance.

But maybe it goes the other way with clones. (“[Original thing] doesn't stand a chance. Releasing [Clone] will totally kill the userbase.”)

New comment by pgayed in "Threads, an Instagram app"

pgayed — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 03:38:12 +0000

Interactions on Meta follow “proximity”-based neighborhood customs (birthdays, pictures of kids, social flexing, vacations). Polite society dinner talk.

You do not need to be followed on Meta, only liked.

Interactions on Twitter follow “rules” of interest-based disputes and discussion (sports, finance, AI dooming, technology predictions).

You do not need to be liked on Twitter, only followed.

New comment by pgayed in "Ask HN: Best value computer science book?"

pgayed — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 01:25:34 +0000

It is so difficult to write challenging exams that only top-tier (“devoted”) professors do.

New comment by pgayed in "Trick Yourself into Breaking a Bad Habit"

pgayed — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:08:57 +0000

“Friends”: a group of people who reinforce among themselves a particular worldview and the permissible behaviors that go with it

New comment by pgayed in "Ask HN: How do you approach a problem you are not sure has a solution?"

pgayed — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:19:28 +0000

Deliver an approximate or good-enough solution to buy yourself time.

New comment by pgayed in "Ask HN: How do you approach a problem you are not sure has a solution?"

pgayed — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:15:34 +0000

Reduce the problem to a simpler one you know how to solve.

Vacuum Balloon—A 350-Year-Old Dream (2019)

pgayed — Wed, 24 May 2023 02:31:35 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05171

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36053398

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pgayed in "Listen to Paul Graham talk early internet, web apps and YC"

pgayed — Fri, 19 May 2023 04:11:32 +0000

I would happily welcome a 9- to 10-hour oral history from Paul Graham.

Listen to Paul Graham talk early internet, web apps and YC

pgayed — Fri, 19 May 2023 03:25:16 +0000

Article URL: https://pod.link/1677066062

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35997369

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by pgayed in "Transcending My Father's Abuse"

pgayed — Sun, 07 May 2023 08:19:19 +0000

> After all, I had no right to chastise him for yelling when I was screaming at him myself. Maybe I had the temper problem, not him.

I don’t know what I want to call this fallacy. Maybe tit-for-tat fallacy.

One person’s bad behavior doesn’t “annihilate” or vacate the other’s. They don't “cancel out”.

The tactic is (reflexively) used to derail the interrogator and change subject.

“Yes, it is true I am also verbally abusive but right now we're talking about your verbal abuse.”

It's not that this line of reasoning works with the abuser but at least it's a reminder to oneself what's being attempted.

New comment by pgayed in "The Nature of Code (2012)"

pgayed — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 09:30:05 +0000

I like it!

Here's one I use to decide from a list of free-form submissions whether to generate a link or a Google search:

  (fn [pair-of]
    (let [text (get pair-of 1)]
      (cond 
        (clojure.string/starts-with? text "http")
          (list [:a {:href text} (truncate text 60)] [:br])
        :else (list [:a {:href (str "https://google.com/search?q=" text)} text] [:br]))))

Doesn't always work but works often enough! ;)

New comment by pgayed in "Startup Playbook"

pgayed — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 09:23:56 +0000

Are you describing a particular experience you had?

New comment by pgayed in "The Nature of Code (2012)"

pgayed — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 21:10:20 +0000

  (map link-expander list-of-links)

I wonder what it looks like in Arc. Does HN keep any of its codebase public?

In Defense of No-Code’s Potential

pgayed — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:26:28 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/in-defense-of-no-codes-potential/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662799

Points: 60

# Comments: 41

New comment by pgayed in "User: Junnn11"

pgayed — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:22:12 +0000

Related to this thread, generally, is Simon Baron Cohen’s The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Seekers-Autism-Drives-Inventi...