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by mduerksen 13y ago
> it's starting to really gnaw at me Good. One concrete suggestion: Develop the following habit. Whenever you are confronted with an unpleasant task X, there is a moment where your mind starts searching for other, more pleasant thin
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by mduerksen 13y ago
I would suppose not only PG's emotions but also his personality, track record and the OP's general admiration for him, which all add up to his influenciality . If someone puts all of this in the balance, you listen, and it won&#x
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by mduerksen 14y ago
(Generalisation Warning) This is the dark side of the (otherwise desirable) trait of "getting things done" as employee. I you don't actively manage your working hours and hold yourself back , somebody else will suck you out until you have
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by mduerksen 14y ago
One-on-one reviews are tremendously valuable, and I suspect not only large companies would buy them for consulting rates. Consider a startup product on the finish line, which lacks polish because non of the makers is a professional designer
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by mduerksen 14y ago
> HN is ultimately just a podium for YC companies to market themselves. That's irrelevant for the question. The question is about the the value of HN regardless of its intended purpose (which is of course open to speculation). To me, yo
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by mduerksen 14y ago
Whenever a fellow programmer or myself starts even considering that the OS, .NET-Framework, JVM etc. might be responsible for a bug, I have to smile. In that moment, 2 things are almost certainly true: 1. The bug is in your code. 2. You a
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by mduerksen 14y ago
It might not be racist, but could be ideologically charged. The mere observation of an uneven distribution is not enough evidence for a power imbalance. It could also just be caused by deviation of interests, which would be totally fine. Po
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by mduerksen 14y ago
This, if meant to be serious, reveals a very (wrong) fatalistic concept of marriage. The state of a marriage is not set in stone. It is absolutely possible (and happens all the time) that a great marriage falls apart because one or both par
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by mduerksen 14y ago
As a side note, the picture at the end shows the last second of the great fight between Diego Corrales and José Luis Castillo[1][2]. Round 10: After being knocked down twice and hardly beating the clock, Corrales turns the match, traps his
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by mduerksen 14y ago
The Man vs. Horse Marathon is runners against horses with riders on their back. I wonder what the results would look like if the runners would have to carry ~10% of their body weight on their back... Apart from that, I wonder how the long-d
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by mduerksen 14y ago
Apart from the content itself, I would suggest to place the guideline link more prominently. Maybe even at the top, directly before the "New" link. To support this proposal: When I first arrived here (from your homepage), I didn't notice an
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by mduerksen 14y ago
Yes, but by doing this, you potentially scare all other customers off as well, and make them feel uncomfortable. I don't think that is a wise business decision. An alternative would be to just give those worried ones a warm fuzzy feeling, w
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by mduerksen 14y ago
Even here in Germany, the overreaction to the event in Aurora can be witnessed: I went to the cinema last sunday (for Batman), and they had signs all over the place saying something like "In reaction to repeated worried requests about secur
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by mduerksen 14y ago
To those who say that violins improve with age: That just might be a myth, according to this study[1]. [1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/01/02/1114999109 More entertaining version: http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/
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by mduerksen 14y ago
Good to know - place this information somewhere prominently on the landing page now! :) I guess you haven't completely decided how your pricing is going to be, so I understand why you haven't published it yet, but seriously, you have buzz
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by mduerksen 14y ago
Quick Feedback: 1. Looks fantastic! 2. Where's the pricing? Coming from the landing page, I could not find it. You should really make this easy to spot.
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by mduerksen 14y ago
The posted article lacks a lot of details. According to a more comprehensive one[1] (german as well): - The court has ruled that reselling doesn't violate copyright, but nothing prevents a software vendor from forbidding the reselling in it
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by mduerksen 14y ago
>By offering an API, Twitter says "dev for us!" That's true, but in no way is this invitation a binding contract. It's a temporary bargain: The big player gets a cheap way to offer more functionality to his users, and the API-users prof
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by mduerksen 14y ago
As a completely off-topic side note: Since I was introduced to statistics, I always forgot which error was type 1 and which was type 2. I had to read your link to find out. In code, "int errorType = 1;" would be a badly chosen variable :) T
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by mduerksen 14y ago
Follow-Up to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4054638
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Bruce Schneier: The Failure of Anti-Virus Companies to Catch Military Malware(schneier.com)
8 points by mduerksen 14y ago|2 comments
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by mduerksen 14y ago
Sadly, people do, even here in Germany. When I use this example to illustrate how an information that was once "clean" can become "dirty", they don't seem to understand. They act like that "incident" is soo far away, some sort of horror sto
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by mduerksen 14y ago
If someone knows something about you, he gains power over you. This is the most fundamental reason I have seen yet, reflected (often unconsciously) in our daily lives: We have curtains, we talk in private , we have secrets we only tell to
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by mduerksen 14y ago
> You can self-document things with tests that you cannot with just types Absolutely. But I would say that is a different debate. In my case, I don't want to specify the behavior, but only the form , which is the counterpart of a stati
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by mduerksen 14y ago
I'm still torn between dynamic and static typing. The main disadvantage of dynamic typing for me is the lack of verifiable documentation about what data a function needs, and which data comes out of it. This becomes a problem when a) the
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by mduerksen 15y ago
I encourage you to vote next time. Of course no party will ever be fully aligned with your interests. And true, the Pirate Party has only recently started to seriously think about topics outside their main fields. But no party completely pu
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by mduerksen 15y ago
Sadly, not true. Leutheuser-Schnarrenberger has explicitly spoken in favor of ACTA just a few days ago. See this German link: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bundesregierung-sieht...
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by mduerksen 15y ago
The engineers didn't do the best job of communicating the certainty of the problem, the magnitude of the problem, etc. That's a recurring theme when management screws up badly. Intellectual honesty applied to this particular situation: 1.
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German Pirate Party Blackout - Nice Visual Effect(piratenpartei.de)
13 points by mduerksen 15y ago|0 comments
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by mduerksen 15y ago
The train has been stopped, but it's still on track. Time to push it into the other direction and maybe even let it derail spectaculously. But there is more needed than raising awareness with this blackout. This awareness should be exploite

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