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by gist 7y ago
Passion often drives success and creativity. It would actually be likely that someone who is a hater is able to use that to their advantage and get ahead vs. someone who has no emotion and is not driven. Anecdote wise have heard stories of
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by gist 7y ago
> I'm not a fanboy of pg Predictably there are many fanboys of PG. Very generally a negative comment about PG that is not packaged correctly and with care will get a certain amount of backlash on HN vs. the same about an unknown or
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by gist 7y ago
Core reasons perhaps people are haters? 1) The person who they hate to them (the hater) appears to have more luck than talent. There are others with the same or more talent (maybe even the hater or someone they know) who get no attention at
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> "if we tell good people about risks, then bad people will know about them. If we keep them secret from good people, then bad people won't find out about them". Or, "if we don't make a list of open doors, then b
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The percentage of people that are impacted by NSA et al is exceedingly small compared to the pain and impact on everyday citizens and companies by disclosures. Not all disclosures and for sure an upside but it's out of control and has
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by gist 7y ago
The way I see it, this is what is bad: > We have tried to contact the authors of affected software before announcing this attack, but due to limited resources, we could not notify everyone. Many in the 'security industrial complex&#
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> the client will expect to be able to call you up and get you on the line at pretty much any time I get your point but maybe it's the opposite in some cases? People want to have someone they can get at a moment's notice and wh
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by gist 7y ago
What does that have to do with the point that I am making? Did I make say it started before Amazon?
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You know what is sad about a small business (kjmagnetics.com) that you linked to? They are exactly what will be killed off by Amazon. The small and knowledgeable specialty store very similar as I am sure many of us remembered happened to &#
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Interesting one of the first 'tales' I read about was some person in (I think) Sweden who took his drives home in his car with heated seats. And when they needed to use them they wouldn't work. The point was 'you have to
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That's pretty cool. I had a few old drives and on purpose took them apart. So far I was not able to duplicate what you were able to do (this was last month). I had an idea that it might work in some way. Glad that you can confirm it di
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It's not a newspaper (as only one example) where they hold editorial control over the content and are therefore (in theory) beholden to the people who pay the bills (the advertisers). Forgetting for a second whether it would have any
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> Please consider this. They are a real bargain and provide a real service to humanity. Instead of upvoting this comment, please give them $5 instead if you can. What do users of the archive gain by it being independent of advertising? A
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> 2. Secure server software ($5000). This does not seem to be an absolute necessity; there are a lot of sites on the web where you can send your credit card number unencrypted, and to date there have been no reports of the numbers being
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> High status careers are often structured, full of positive feedback loops, and well compensated Problem is when people are in 'high status careers' that can't take the pressure or the heat of the high status career. And
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> EDIT: One other thing to note is that people who are fairly content with their lives don't often ponder _why_ their life is meaningful. Is meaningful the same as happy? What I think is there are a great deal of unhappy people who
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I like the idea of summaries (like you did) and wish HN would figure a way to do this also for points that people make in comments. Even if not same day or later.
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Yes also from that landing page you can't go anywhere or have any info on dropbox and who they are or what other products they offer. [1] [1] My aunt does not know who dropbox is or what they do. My accountant might not either.
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by gist 7y ago
Actually very good reply to my reply. But I think there is another reason PG is this way. He has a math and a programmers brain. As such he would be more likely not to wrap his writing in superfluous wording and he would be more direct in h
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Documentaries are interesting to watch but by design they are one sided and are typically slanted toward a particular point of view in a big way. This doesn't make them wrong but it's not like they are some rigorous presentation o
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It's in some ways the writing equivalent of the NPR calm and measured voice the intended impact to make it more believable and important and entirely rational sounding and correct.
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My thought is that Paul should view his essays at least as seriously as someone who is writing an important college application essay given who the audience is (college admissions in that case; HN readers in this case among others). Or may
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I am actually surprised that PG doesn't feel uncomfortable about the 'acclaim' that he is getting for writing many of the things he has said that are not related to anything he has expertise in. Reminds me of celebrities wh
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by gist 7y ago
Yep - Read my comment (did not read yours when I just wrote it).
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> Even the smartest, most imaginative people are surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on. People who would never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into working on fashionable problems. How can a state
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I buy into that explanation. In short it implies a few things: 1) It's not about you the reader it's about me 2) I don't intend to have so many tweets but after writing 1 or 2 I am inspired in a way that keeps me going and I
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This is all so ridiculous. Yes so much can be done quickly if you take chances, ignore worker protections, cut corners, and do things like they used to be done back in the day. Let's take this Marinship as one small example of why almo
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> my dad thinks along similar lines. I can't begin to imagine how what I said relates to what your experience was (which I am sorry to hear about). Just because people share some things in common obviously does not make them the sam
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> Spend your focus on acquiring money for your kids leads to kids who want money from you. I didn't say that that. And nothing wrong with kids who want money from their parents. It does not mean that they are worthless in their own

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