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by BrandonM 16y ago
> Naturally I logged in and deleted absolutely everything in sight. :-P ...and you probably completely screwed over some hapless soul who was a victim of the same guy who cracked you. Do you think these guys put their IP address and FTP
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by BrandonM 16y ago
To steal a bit from Jack Black and make it my own: Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym. Those who can't teach gym go into politics.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I am not especially happy about the findings of this study, in part, because even if these findings do generalize to the real world, narcissists do so much damage that they still may not be worth the trouble. What? Simply being a narcissi
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by BrandonM 16y ago
There is no doubt that "people" find this relevant and interesting. Do "good hackers", in their capacity as good hackers, find it relevant and interesting? I would definitely expect to see it high on the front page of Reddit, but this is no
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by BrandonM 16y ago
This is one of the first times I've ever flagged an article. This is definitely NOT hacker news: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. http://ycombinator.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> rtm is the sysadmin for HN (yes, that rtm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris ) It always makes me laugh when someone with no knowledge of a website offers advice to that site's sysadmin. It's especially funny when tha
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by BrandonM 16y ago
It may have been uncomfortable and inconvenient for you, but that doesn't mean it wasn't effective. For a few (perhaps inaccurate) reasons, you were flagged as a greater-than-average risk. You were searched thoroughly and found to be safe,
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Exactly. This is a perfect argument for the Israeli style of behavioral profiling as opposed to the American style of trying to imagine every possible way to hijack a plane.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Good post, but there are a few slight inaccuracies: > you only qualify for return of the rake that you "contributed" by winning a pot. So for example, you win a pot of 1000$ and the casino takes 100$ in rake from that. After rakeback yo
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Cascaded tables... A table with a pending action pops to the front, and others go immediately behind it. Various helper programs put the mouse in the right place, set the appropriate bet size, register for new tournaments, etc. Basically al
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I envision a bot as a neural-network-based engine that adjusts its play based on fitting different opponents into different patterns. Honestly, the easiest way to develop a potentially-good bot would be to give it every piece of input and t
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Cygwin can see every Windows file trivially via /cygdrive. Programs compiled in cygwin are mostly native code that at the bottom rely on Windows DLLs. This is a pretty significant difference from an emulator or a virtual machine (someone me
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Why not?
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by BrandonM 16y ago
The majority of recreational players are really bad. All you have to do is make a bot that is a little bit better and not trivially exploitable. It doesn't matter how good you are, you still lose some. All you have to do to win money in the
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> Moving the cursor to the exact middle of the button you want to push every time in <100ms is a dead give away. This seems intuitive, but it is actually false. The majority of "grinders" (mid-stakes players who multi-table 9-24 tab
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by BrandonM 16y ago
You don't have to be a math prodigy to play six tournaments at once. I used to play six 6-handed cash games at once, and one day I played 16 full ring cash games at a time for like twelve hours straight. The craziest players can sustain abo
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Receiving a promotion does not always require a significant shift in roles. Good tech companies allow engineers to climb the ladder while maintaining their propensity for writing code.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> A lot of people compare Facebook to MySpace, but isn't AOL also a good comparison? "Facebook is the new AOL" is about as close as Hacker News gets to a meme.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I use HTTPS Everywhere to force Facebook to use SSL. I can't comment on the effectiveness of their site under normal conditions.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Facebook has an HTTPS version, but Facebook Chat doesn't work over HTTPS.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Good point. I had realized that as I was typing it, but I was trying to wrap it up and get back to work. I have now edited it to be more accurate and reflect my interpretation of the advice. What it used to say was: > What if chasing s
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> Your response is "everything is bullshit"? Nice job taking that statement out of context. I was saying that most advice taken 100% literally can be shown to be absurd. The submission itself reiterates that. Your (and mattmaroon's) com
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That's a pretty dishonest analogy. Your first startup will succeed or fail based on its merits. If you write a book for beginners that is inaccurate, those inaccuracies will be spread in spite of their lack of merit.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
It's a funny joke to be sure, but I think it's a far cry from the advice in the post. There's a big difference between relying on something external to make you happy and following your passion.
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I agree with your general thrust, "Advice isn't worth anything unless you reach those conclusions through your own accord." BUT, one way to reach those conclusions is by listening to advice, considering it critically (e.g. why/how would thi
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> I don't want to write bulletproof code, I want to teach them how and why to write bulletproof code. This confuses me. How can you teach someone to do something if you won't do it yourself? Reading your statement literally, you are eff
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Almost everything is bullshit if you take it at face value. The point of the advice was to promote a certain mindset: Endeavor to do things that you enjoy doing, and do them with feeling and quality. Chasing success, money, competition, or
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> The odds I wanted this are zero, so silently getting it anyway is the kind of ridiculous misbehavior that makes me glad I can avoid the language. Not all useful values have to be order-able. If you just want to generate dictionary key
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I wish your followup focused on things I did both right and wrong, and how I or other people could improve my comments next time, instead of acting so defensive.
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With people like you who have never had a real conversation with him judging him based on a single action, how can he be expected not to act defensive? Was part of that psych degree learning how to form opinions of someone based on one pi

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