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by jilebedev 15y ago
Isn't half the thrill in "not wearing anything twice" that you're always wearing something new ? It'd be a bit drab to wear something another person has maybe stained or worn in. A good part of the appeal is the "new clothes" feeling, righ
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by jilebedev 15y ago
For an explanation of buffer bloat in layman's terms: http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction
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by jilebedev 15y ago
> I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. There's a dangerous consequence to saying this. Here's how: 1. Voting is easy. 2. Voting is valueable: it literally changes HN for everyone else. 3. Agreement/disagr
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Picking great leaders? That's a tough one. An easier question is to ask "What prompts a Lead 'Hat' stick with an idea though it doesn't seem to be the 'best' idea?" Developers/designers using OP's two-way criticism style are really removing
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Corroborates a piece posted a few days ago on HN: http://al3x.net/2012/02/29/how-not-to-sell-software-in-2012.... Point #2 on the list: "Don’t make it hard for me to try your software. If I can’t play with a trial version or sandbox immed
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Rather than a post showing that it makes sense to delegate verifiable & menial tasks, I wish the author would have written "How to know you're big enough that your time should be spent on XYZ instead ABC." That's an art and not a scienc
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by jilebedev 15y ago
I agree. In merely linking, bcantrill's post above is more insightful and contains more content than the entire OP. Frankly, this article isn't HN material.
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by jilebedev 15y ago
>I came into the discussion looking to prove something, not learn something. I'm just future-fantasizing here but ... Wouldn't it be a ripe topic of neurochemical study to find out what happens in a brain that decides that ego stroking
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Thinking about the price/speed tradeoffs, carrier brand images, and whether I'll be at home when this package arrives doesn't make my gut feel good. I still feel good that I've bought something, but shipping is a bit of a bad aftertaste. Pr
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by jilebedev 15y ago
> Don't get me wrong, I'm still very enamored by Teslas, and I don't think that this is any different than the owner of a gas-powered car letting it run out of oil and seizing the engine Unfortunately, that's exactly the issue: many uni
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Yet another question for Moser/Dweck: does the almost-immediate negative response to making mistakes diminish if the subject is in a state of flow? From personal experience, a state of flow while performing an intellectually engaging activ
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Solution in search of a problem. Steve Blank speaks about the technology lifecycle adoption curve [1], and I think this entire "health + mobile" market is (optimistically) on the far left end of the curve. The problem isn't the problem - it
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Article: > unless we experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong — that surge of Pe activity a few hundred milliseconds after the error, directing our attention to the very thing we’d like to ignore — the mind will never revise it
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by jilebedev 15y ago
When I write, the majority of my time is spent in diligent focus, refining what I call the "firehose of emotions" that was my first draft. Thus -- a connecting thought from communication theory: "I didn't have time to write a short letter,
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Another perspective: people wear hats. We cater the hat to the audience we're addressing. This isn't just a web phenomenon - we've crafted our identities in the real world for thousands of years in order to manipulate the target audience in
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Hmm, this is an interesting business opportunity. I feel the same, but let me prod it further. I suspect the core problem isn't that you're emailing me - it's that you're doing so out of a focus on you, not me. Hear me out: when I go throug
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by jilebedev 15y ago
>It was "I want to develop my own style, here's what I've done to that end. I've had some success, but here's how I struggled with taking it to the next level. What do you suggest, as someone who's accomplished this?" Connecting thought
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by jilebedev 15y ago
> Make your long-term decisions when your head is at its clearest, then don’t question those until you’ve had time to track results. Great tip - I've come across it myself when learning emotional maturity. A part of self-awareness is th
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Visual nitpick - the tags are very distracting. When I scroll through a page, I want it to be static so my eyes can follow what I'm doing. Things popping in and out of existence really jars me. The tags' color doesn't seem to mesh well with
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I've began reading the first 33 pages by the Stanford link above, and it's very difficult to put down. The issue of customer discovery and validation has always felt like a "large amorphous blob of negative fe
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by jilebedev 15y ago
An ex-HNer commented a while back, while leaving the community, that the primary deterrent was the culture change to where discussion was not valued. He stated that the primary draw to "Old HN" were not the articles themselves, but rather t
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by jilebedev 15y ago
There are two competing methods, as far as I see: use the bacteria themselves to digest plastic, or use extract the enzyme responsible for plastic dissolution and manufacture it the enzyme responsible for plastic dissolution. 1. Bacteria:
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by jilebedev 15y ago
I think it's fascinating in and of itself that large telecommunication companies are inconvenienced in any fashion for the purpose of market diversity and fair competition. I would enjoy reading more about such laws.
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Objectively filtering code as accepted or discarded according to a high standard of quality is fairly easy when judging others' code. It's a lot more complicated when judging our own code :) I'd argue we're naturally biased to hold our own
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by jilebedev 15y ago
A great community is built by a focus on positive actions, on growing in a positive direction. To that end - let me take a stab at the definition of a 'value-added comment'. I would define a value-added comment as lucidly conveyed viewpoint
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Education not only teaches facts, but efficiently exposes a person to unknown unknowns. I'd argue that a student-teacher conversation is more efficient at exposing a student to an unknown unknown, than Wikipedia would be.
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by jilebedev 15y ago
As a person who finds immeasurable delight in programming, I am immediately wary of this idea. My impression is that this HS's curriculum would be narrower than usual, to accommodate a deep focus on SEG. If that is the case, I feel this is
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by jilebedev 15y ago
> what was the effect of the code they wrote? More importantly, the context surrounding the code. I could read someone's code, and find it absolutely abhorrent for any number of reasons: aesthetics, functionality, efficiency, and so on.
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by jilebedev 15y ago
I doubt I'm the only one to suppose that people who do not understand SOPA also have an outdated or narrow definition of "hacker". Both of those are unfortunate, but if we're being constructive about one (through our combined voices), we ma
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by jilebedev 15y ago
Off-topic: I could not click back in Firefox - I was redirected to the current page. While I felt the points in the article were well stated and poignant, the 'forcible no BACK' feature left a sour taste in my mouth. I won't be returning.

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