It looked so amateur. The interface said 'hello world' to me, and then I left within 2 seconds. Put at least some serious effort, and feel you have something of value before getting people to spend time criticizing something for you. I feel a bit insulted, as if being an HN reader puts my time into the value category of someone doing cent-work on Amazon Turk. At the level of work you've put in thus far, keep the round table of 'consultants' to your mother.
I’ve found that between a quarter and half of the students I consider 'hard-core' entrepreneurs/founders (working passionately to found a company,) self-identified as coming from a less than benign upbringing.
he believes that a quarter of people in a group warrants correlation?
I'm not sure why he feels this is a correlation. But if you consider that access to capital is one of the best ways to reduce risk when starting a business, it may be surprising to see such a large number of those with no access to capital trying to do so.
If you teach critical thinking, the how of thinking, the how to approach problems, the whys of things known, then knowledge comes easy and remains accessible for life. If you teach many facts, then there is little progress of critical thinking. It's like data without a processor. Data is not so hard to find these days, how to process remains mysticism for many.
I know many people who are good at critical thinking. Every one that I have had this conversation with believes that you can't learn critical thinking without practice, and you can't practice critical thinking without learning lots of facts. Therefore you can't teach critical thinking without teaching many facts.
This does not, of course, imply that teaching facts teaches critical thinking. It doesn't. But it is a key part of the process.
the funniest part, more so than ineffective advertisements, is that that which got everyone's panties in a bunch was happiness. down with happiness! heh
The first comment on the page by Krischan is right on:
Space DOES really look like that. If you have the right set of eyes. Hubble and its team just prove this with every picture.
So it does not look like it would look to you naked eye? Nice thing that human eyes are not the standard. Put in some false colours to offset their failure.
You'd have to be stupid to get your N20 out of a Pam can though.
Here's a secret: nitrous oxide is legal to recreationally consume in most of the 50 states and can be purchased at porn stores. Seriously, they keep it under the counter in whipping cream canister form and they will also sell the "cracker" needed to safely pierce the canisters as well as heavy duty balloons.
Don't let the idiot who made this blog post turn your off. N20 is one of the safest medical drugs in existence. It's the anesthetic with the longest history of use and it is as safe as can be. The only danger is that you hold your breath too long, but that's not a big deal, just make sure you breathe some oxygen after a minute. Also, in high doses over a long period of time, N20 depletes your body's vitamin B which is very bad, but this is easily fixed by a multivitamin.
when you're really busy it may in the form of things that go out, like sending e-mails, especially if you're not a programmer -- and sometimes when you're really busy, you have sent no e-mails in a while....because you're busy working on something. today i plan to send one e-mail: prototype complete, and published at this url.
True story. Remember to add it to your notes.