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From the Transistor to the Web Browser(github.com)
3 points by brhsiao 10y ago|0 comments
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StackOverflow Documentation(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by brhsiao 10y ago|0 comments
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by brhsiao 10y ago
You should put your email on your profile so people can email you instead of randomly adding Amir on Facebook.
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by brhsiao 10y ago
Wow, it's amazing what a few hours of quiet reflection can do. Having read the replies, given it a few more moments of silence and exercised some more empathy, I now regret this comment and wish I could still delete it.
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by brhsiao 10y ago
Fair enough, especially this bit: > Simply demilitarizing disagreement can go a long way toward reducing the kinds of friction that prevent people from learning and growing when they're wrong. Here's my attempt at reconciliat
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by brhsiao 10y ago
While I agree with the overall sentiment, people ought to have to earn the privilege of being listened to by meeting a higher standard of reasonableness, self-awareness, and intellectual responsibility than that. The woman was unable hersel
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by brhsiao 10y ago
After reading the replies, I now think my first assumption was wrong, and that Coursera does in fact offer substantially more than raw stacks of torrented pdfs. But that's just my second point. MOOCs are a substantial service built on
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I'll probably get shot down for being that typical negative HN comment, but do MOOCs like Coursera actually do much in the way of making education more accessible or society fairer? All the content offered on Coursera already exists on
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Ask HN: Is secure messaging mainly a usability problem?
3 points by brhsiao 10y ago|5 comments
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I mean the underlying conceptual security system, not the data it protects. Crowdsourced security audits are similar to everyone telling you in public debates why you're wrong.
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I tried turning off syntax highlighting for a while. I actually liked it better. But at the time I was programming in Clojure, where there isn't much syntax, and you just read your code as a tree of tokens mapped to abstract ideas. In
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by brhsiao 10y ago
To be fair, I can sympathize with OP's sentiment; why offer help to someone who not only doesn't want but will actively prosecute you for it? I don't agree, but I could imagine feeling this way in another universe.
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by brhsiao 10y ago
This strikes me as one of the most poorly understood aspects of software/computing. Breaking into a computer system is like criticizing someone's ideas, not breaking into a house. Since anyone can trivially break into a house, we
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by brhsiao 10y ago
The point is that with politics and religion people don't even think they need to be knowledgeable to contribute to the discussion. I wish this "who can know for sure?" relativist hands-in-air sort of sentiment were less prev
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by brhsiao 10y ago
You used 14 words to say what could've been said in 3 or 4.
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JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful(nccgroup.trust)
2 points by brhsiao 10y ago|1 comments
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by brhsiao 10y ago
No, that part's fine. But you're protesting that an organization you've more or less openly criticized won't let you game them.
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by brhsiao 10y ago
More because people thought it would be funny than because they thought it was a fit for the program. Many knew, and 'idlewords acknowledged several times, that it wasn't. The original announcement said: At the end of the month,
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by brhsiao 10y ago
You're saying (a) YC's values are diametrically opposed to yours, (b) your call with Kevin wasn't successful, and (c) YCF isn't designed for companies like yours—but adhering rigidly to the original guidelines you stil
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One Minute of All-Out Exercise May Have Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
43 points by brhsiao 10y ago|41 comments
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The Al-Qaeda Leader Who Wasn’t: The Shameful Ordeal of Abu Zubaydah(tomdispatch.com)
350 points by brhsiao 10y ago|169 comments
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It's Charisma, Stupid (2004)(paulgraham.com)
1 points by brhsiao 11y ago|0 comments
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by brhsiao 11y ago
Some guy makes an inside joke to a female friend that in public might to some group be considered sexist. Someone nearby hears him and yells "this guy's sexist" and soon he's swarmed by an angry mob. "Oh for fuck&#x
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by brhsiao 11y ago
There's a bit of nuance needed re: the paragraphs near the start. Offended people tend to expect others to cater to them. Stephen doesn't; he's simply explaining why people are wrong: for treating "I'm offended&quot
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by brhsiao 11y ago
Some people are saying JSON ≠ Python Object Notation. Here we go! https://github.com/brhs/pon (I used OP's work as a reference. Amazing you can do this in so few lines of code.)
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by brhsiao 11y ago
Thanks!
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by brhsiao 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what does the vb in vb.html stand for?
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by brhsiao 11y ago
I used to do disreputable web browsing in w3m. If you use a scary looking font like 6x13 and something like Solarized, no one stands close enough or cares enough to check.