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by maeon3 15y ago
A company bribing the government to make policy damaging one of the most powerful innovation tools on the planet is a threat to national security. If the US doesn't stay the innovation leader of the world then national security is comprami
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At one point in history it was asked if everyone should learn to read and write so that they could more easily communicate with people from far away for the purpose of solving problems with collective action instead of as individuals or sma
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He has every right to be bitter. Good candidates are avoiding him like the plague, and what is left over is terrible. It's a feedback loop.
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Stop asking dumb questions: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html And get Motivated, this video gave me years of motivation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSC2vx7zFQ Hold a man underwater, watch him fight, tell him, when you
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Develop your ability to create complete silence in your mind. Subconscious control over the inner workings of your subconscious mind is what Richard Feynman was working on. Thought is about clearing the table, placing the tools on the tabl
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by maeon3 15y ago
Coffee, Espresso, monster energy, redbulls and certain Chocolates are drugs that can put your body into panic, fight or flight mode, use too many of these drugs and your overall output is greatly diminished. Understand the power of the drug
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Will power is a muscle, like your forearm, if it is atrophied then you are not taking time out to purposefully exercise it. Philip Zimbardo talked about the formation of will-power in children, it has a direct influence on the success later
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Learn by heart and be able to name all of the fallacies used in conversation, there are about 200 of them used every day. Practice spotting them on tv, radio and in conversation. Humans are remarkably illogical, knowing the names of every
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You need to focus on and cultivate your tenacity, listen to this video. Video about how our educational system produces (or doesn't) entrepreneurs, the keyword is tenacity. http://fora.tv/2010/04/14/Developing_the_Next_Generation_of_...
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You need to learn how to learn, read the article on page 22 of this HN Magazine, When I read it my life changed. http://issuu.com/babo/docs/hackermonthly-issue1
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Your mind is a symphony of interdependent systems, specifically sulfur ion channels, like dominoes that right themselves. The software that runs on these sulfur ion channels are not optimized for how your brain works because our schools to
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by maeon3 15y ago
Machanics are not asked to recite from memory how to install a cruise control. The fact that programmers are is just to make us feel bad so we accept low pay. They need us so badly that they grasp at anything to show us we dont deserve to
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Two of those 400k Android apps are mine, one is free with ads and restricted, and the other is paid. So duplicates of the same app have to be considered. And most of them are junk apps, poorly built, thrown together by some experimenting
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This is why you should not read or work while lying down in bed. now that I think about it. The most productive years of my life were done in dedicated work areas where I encoded "focused agile work time" into a specific monitor and keybo
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When adding comments via Android to the textbox, it is a nightmare, I have to resort to writing my post in a NotePad and copy pasting. An Android app. I can write one up for you if you need to. Im alost ready to write one myself and ad i
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by maeon3 15y ago
You can teach yourself to be a doctor in one month, that I can understand, but a coder in one month? Impossible.
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Programmers stuck inside who need fitness ideas get out and meet people. Go to meetup.com, type in your area and type in running, health and fitness. Find a running club where you meet up somewhere and run around a loop, trail, or city ar
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by maeon3 15y ago
It's already happening now. SOPA is the present day war against general-purpose computation. Uninstall that program citizen before armed men break down your door and take your device. Drop the device citizen, don't make me taze you. We n
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I oppose my own plan to break into my friends houses and install noise cancelling censorship devices (for my own profit) because there is a lack of consensus. Well, they are getting warmer at least. I get the feeling that the only thing th
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We need a new method of transportation through space. Could the higgs boson be removed from a neutron so that it would not interact with the higgs field? We could create a tin can sized ship with it and accellerate the near zero mass obje
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Movie revenue is dropping for the same reason buggy whip sales decreased with the deployment of engines. Movies are a dead medium walking. Interactive beats mindless observation. The mpaa wont go down without taking a handfull of civil li
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I am not at all disturbed by this toxic decline of a once thoughtful place because I understand why exactly it has taken place. Gresham's law of trolls. Trolls want to get their jollies joining thoughtful polite forums of high intellectual
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I feel as though the victim may be the target here. If you've dealt with customers in any way shape or form you'll see a huge percentage of them need to be put into the corner with the dunce hat on. Him telling them how it is doesn't chang
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Seagate failure rate is ridiculous. Just do a google search for " seagate drive failure rates" for proof. I bought a 256 GB Seagate barracuda back in the day and one morning it just spit read write errors after maybe 3 years of heavy use.
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Radical honesty is considered abuse, especially when your observations are 100% empirically true and spot-on and everyone can see it including the person targeted. They wrote about this problem 3000 years ago. "Correct a fool and he will h
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Information and stealth are the biggest assets in space war so maybe that is why we dont see aliens chit chatting all over. A species wins a war by making the enemy think it has won, while hiding out at a new home base to build up weapons.
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Without citizens like this to assert and reassert our rights in the face of violent psychological bullying at areas of great injustice, nobody reading this would have any rights at all. I don't get to call this country mine as much as she
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Audio book for Tim Sanders, the Likeability Factor. http://timsanders.com/books/likeability-factor.html I listened to this twice, and applied everything he said to do in my life. I went from a lonely programmer to an extrovert in 18 mont
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Replace every site on the internet with a page that says this site is unauthorized by the authority of a few people, nevermind who or you will be tazed.
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If sopa passes maybe there is a way we can get all .gov sites blacklisted with everyone scrambling and wondering why nobody in the world can reach these sites. we need to start programming some weapons into the internet so the people can f

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