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by benwalther 17y ago
Amazing. Well done. Thank you.
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by benwalther 17y ago
I'm forgetting - which author wrote about 'Friends of Privacy' who would create false profiles and websites in order to protect the populace? Question for you - how much would you be willing to pay for your name, user accounts, and other sp
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by benwalther 17y ago
A very handy question to ask yourself: "How is that serving me?" Today was yet another day I didn't start something from my list of ideas. I didn't have to put in hard work, got to relax, and will be able to avoid possible failure for one m
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by benwalther 17y ago
Great article, and a good moral. It does fail lesson #1 of journalism though: put the important bits at the beginning, not the end. It was tedious to read through a history I already knew.
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by benwalther 17y ago
Relevant link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania It popped all right. The largest players that survived were a sound investment. But then again, if you invested in Microsoft or Cisco in the tech boom, you'd be sitting pretty righ
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by benwalther 17y ago
Tricky. I'm in a similar position (3.5 years of info sec background) and I'm willing to work anywhere in the entire world. The problem becomes interviewing; nobody wants to fly me out to Amsterdam.
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by benwalther 17y ago
As someone who struggles to come up with 'lifestyle business' ideas, his advice on just talking to people was like a punch in the gut. So obvious it hurts, yet I ignore it and spend time 'thinking.'
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by benwalther 17y ago
Why not just post these questions on stack overflow, under the 'security' tag?
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by benwalther 17y ago
Interesting but incomplete. Furthermore, really bad science. This sounds like an undergrad research study (use LUKE, an automated text analyzer, to count 'meaningful' words), then hypothesize about why those words turn up. No reproducible r
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by benwalther 17y ago
Apple won this round because they already had access to people's pocketbooks through existing iTunes users. It will take years (5?) for any other company to build up a marketplace like iTunes. Honestly, Amazon or eBay could out-compete Goog
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by benwalther 17y ago
Check out CouchSurfing for an example of how to solve this problem. Craig is just talking about how to make it universal rather than site-specific. CouchSurfing provides enough trust data that you'll have someone into your home based on a w
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by benwalther 17y ago
There is already a "Great Halving" underway, where people find personal satisfaction and prestige by working less than 40 hours a week. As an ex-pat, I meet a lot of people running 4HWW type lifestyle jobs (which usually turn out to about 2
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by benwalther 17y ago
It's my fault and people like me. Reddit's quality has been dipping significantly lately (there's been 3-5 front page self posts on "are you smart but too lazy to do anything with it?") and so people like me are subscribing to HN again to g
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by benwalther 17y ago
This form of "Do one thing" implies minimal action to solve a complex problem. It's picking off the low-hanging fruit. There are times when it's appropriate and times when it isn't. Another form of "Do one thing" is to focus on one core com