Something Confusing about "Hard": It's tempting to think that if it's hard, then it's valuable. Most valuable things are hard. Most hard things are completely useless -- (picture of someone smashing their head through concrete blocks kung-fu style). Hard DOES NOT EQUATE TO BEING valuable. Remember Friendster back in the day? You'd sign in, invite friends, have 25 friends, go to their profile, and then it'd show how you were connected to each one. That's an impressive [some geeky CS jargon] Cone traversal of a tree - 100 million string comparisons per page -- it won't scale. Used to take a minute per page to load, and Friendster died a painful death. MySpace -- not interested in solving problems They use the shortcut of "Miss Fitzpatrick is in your extended network" (i.e. even when you're not even signed up for MySpace) They didn't solve the hard problem. But they make the more relevant assumption that you want to be connected to hot women. [LOL] Shows Alexa graph showing that in early 2005 Myspace took off, and quickly bypassed Friendster and never looked back. -- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- LaoTzu
If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)
Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds
Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin
Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe