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Re:How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well on Friday October 24, 2014 @02:50AM (#8502413)
Everyone generalises too much.

Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big

Posted by outrightfree on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @01:54AM
from the ask-hn dept.

This Ask HN made for a great thread a few years ago [1].To quote from the original "I've heard many of you love to create side projects for fun, but I also heard that few of them actually took off and grow into a profitable business. So feel free to list if you have any. Statistics will be welcomed as well!"[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772224

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Re:Andreessen on Finance: ‘We Can Reinvent the Entire Thing’ on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @02:21AM (#8419873)
"Bitcoin is a classic venture capital endeavor: It will either work or it won’t. And if it doesn’t work, we will lose all our money. But if it does work, it will work in a spectacular way. Our investments will pay off 1,000 to 1 or 10,000 to 1 or some other crazy extreme, because these markets are so big."
Re:Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @03:42AM (#8393256)
Or perhaps a Sisyphean task?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @05:01AM (#8107082)
I bought Labyrinths of Reason many years ago, and I still love dipping into it every now and then. I always seem to find something new in it (one benefit of a failing memory)

Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone

Re:Circle's Allaire: Bitcoin is Good Money on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @10:50AM (#8102491)
"Further, this energy and computing power bound paradigm creates a dynamic such that, as economic activity in Bitcoin expands, it naturally drives humanity to find sources of energy efficiency, thereby aligning Bitcoin with our global need for sustainable, inexpensive energy sources."

I don't recall anyone making this point before, though no doubt someone has done.

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