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by gull 11y ago
I may use this if it supports built-in encryption. Are encryption keys saved on the client or are they saved on your servers?
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by gull 11y ago
Because it's only then you permit yourself to not do what you think you are supposed to do. Similar to how what people truly want to do is often written LAST in their list. After subconscious pressure is gone.
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by gull 11y ago
Which is more valuable: 1. Receiving email replies fast. 2. Receiving the work you are paying for finished fast.
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by gull 11y ago
I'm curious about this. Does something like wxWidgets offer all widgets that are available in an OS? Does it offer the files listing widget the Mac has in that fourth mode, where flipping between files shows on top an extra area that f
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by gull 11y ago
It's ok to say no. Just as it's important to be agreeable under uncertainty, it's important to say no under certainty. "No, sorry, it doesn't make sense to start sniffing the wire protocol and checking the OS/h
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by gull 11y ago
Learning to write embarrassingly clearly.
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by gull 11y ago
Don't ignore your feelings. You should get pissed, and also understand the forces at play. Not everyone you work with will have an equal or greater work ethic as yours. The harder you work, and the better you become at your work, the m
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by gull 11y ago
How did you choose to work on this idea?
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by gull 11y ago
Peter Thiel's opinion: computers complement humans, not compete with them.
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by gull 11y ago
And also, that knowing the traits doesn't mean you can change yourself to adopt them fast enough or at all.
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by gull 11y ago
If I followed this correctly, the gap is between talking and doing, not between reading and doing. Reading is not the problem.
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by gull 11y ago
I liked you have the guts to make this public. I'd suggest you read the How To Apply guide, particularly the section on Matter of Fact answers: http://www.ycombinator.com/howtoapply/#matteroffact I have trouble un
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by gull 11y ago
Is there any way this be done systematically with software?
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by gull 11y ago
Before doing anything, do you want to sell the company? Read this: http://paulgraham.com/corpdev.html
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by gull 11y ago
Good question. Design by consensus generally produces inferior results. The first version of the most noteworthy innovations are often the result of a single person's effort. But it's also evident big projects are the results of t
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by gull 11y ago
A separate issue - I never know exactly what people mean when they say this: "Diverse teams are more innovative and adaptable than monocultures."
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by gull 11y ago
Although Go is more popular than ever, I'm not sure the following observations are good signs. Something about them makes me uncomfortable. "The decision process was consensus driven." "The first Go program was the pr
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by gull 11y ago
Indexing speeds up a data store. If an extra layer that builds an index was added to git, or was build on top of git, that would make git queries faster. This changes the question. Could one build an index for git? Why doesn't git have
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by gull 11y ago
> It's hell getting into Ivy League universities for middle class people. Corollary: On the Internet no one knows you are a dog.
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by gull 11y ago
> Merit's not a part of it. If you are good enough to build something people want, skip VCs and get paid directly from users.
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by gull 11y ago
Attempt the impossible, often.
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by gull 11y ago
Yes, it's more comfortable than QWERTY. The switch was largely a wake up call in how adaptable the human mind is. The learning process was slow and comical until I started having Dvorak reflexes on a Qwerty keyboard. I finally also lea
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by gull 11y ago
You built good software. How good? So good no one else has even thought of, and actually written, that software before.
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by gull 11y ago
You know a lot about this area. How would one flip advertising around?
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by gull 11y ago
Between this austerity and this default, default is better. See above.
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by gull 11y ago
The Greek finance minister recommends defaulting in (2). Also note one of his points is defaulting would poison the Eurozone. That's one more reason this isn't as simple as "default would be bad" for Greece. It's a
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by gull 11y ago
They weren't that perfectly free. According to Noble prize winning economist Paul Krugman: " if Grexit happens it will be because the creditors, or at least the IMF, wanted it to happen. " http://krugman.blogs.nyti
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by gull 11y ago
Here's a project idea you are free to steal: write a browser plugin that analyzes HN comments and shows up something on the screen. Like "honest", "deceptive", "gratuitously negative". Brownie points for H
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by gull 11y ago
Check this out: http://www.secretlifeofpronouns.com/exercises.php
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by gull 11y ago
This is a good point: Revocation is probably a cure worse than the disease.

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