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The prolific brain – Why do some artists produce so much?(vulture.com)
15 points by msdos 10y ago|0 comments
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“Write Every Day” Is Bad Advice: Hacking the Psychology of Big Projects(calnewport.com)
116 points by msdos 10y ago|35 comments
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by msdos 10y ago
Smaller hypothetical example. The Apple I wasn't designed and hand-built by a team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I
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by msdos 10y ago
That you have no idea how much revenue is attributable to you as an individual doesn't mean revenue in general can't be measured and attributed. Hypothetical example. Your employer has 1 billion users. You create compression that
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by msdos 10y ago
You measure "X" with data. Like revenue generated, or cost saved, or lines of code saved, or time needed to deliver work, based on current or previous work. Is this bullshit for you?
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by msdos 10y ago
Lisp is not a functional programming language. ?
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by msdos 10y ago
real moment. Leave it in
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By 2040, embryo selection could replace sex as the way most of us make babies(kurzweilai.net)
2 points by msdos 10y ago|0 comments
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by msdos 10y ago
When a bank loses money they pay for it. It happens often, for millions, says a friend who works in fraud analysis.
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by msdos 10y ago
Do you have a citation? The researcher in the article believes the opposite.
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Quantum-safe crypto(wpidq.cremarc.com)
2 points by msdos 10y ago|0 comments
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by msdos 10y ago
Why have a limit at 10 years?
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by msdos 10y ago
the HN community seems to shine at not making you feel embarrassed about what you've made. Not in my experience. Several Show HN type of things I posted were highly criticized with harsh words. I'm not posting anything on HN eve
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by msdos 10y ago
How much impact have actual dreams had in your work? Have you ever gotten ideas or answers in dreams?
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by msdos 10y ago
One of the least corrupt countries was populated by prisoners: Australia. How did Australia do it? Starting from a clean version 1?
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How corrupt is your country?(pbs.twimg.com)
1 points by msdos 10y ago|2 comments
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by msdos 10y ago
It'd be less cluttered if "in" wasn't in there.
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by msdos 10y ago
The key claim is: there’s no way with any reasonable amount of resources that you can guarantee that the software and hardware are bug-free and that they haven’t been maliciously attacked The same could be said about other electronic syst
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by msdos 10y ago
This explains it. Thanks.
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by msdos 10y ago
In the US, the lifetime risk of developing cancer is 42% in men and 38% in women Woah, this isn't far from saying living in the US isn't far from a coin toss for a death sentence.
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by msdos 10y ago
https://github.com/cil-project/cil
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by msdos 10y ago
> The math is a little fuzzy The math is off, mathattack. Growing by $5m a year on $100M (5%) doesn't mean you'll grow by $25m a year on $120M (20.8%). You make the good point though that raising the growth rate from 5% to 6% w
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by msdos 10y ago
Also genuine question... How does one get a job when they're completely unskilled?
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by msdos 10y ago
This is also a GREAT opportunity to work on something you typically wouldn't, hacking at night and weekends. If you were forbidden from launching something for 3 years, what's the biggest thing you could be working on?
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by msdos 10y ago
Everyday feeling like a burden for 3 years is better than everyday feeling like a burder for 30 years.
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by msdos 10y ago
My favorite is the Rubik's cube manipulator for which Shannon wrote a four page song. https://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?module=objects&type=rel...
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Claude Shannon's inventions(webmuseum.mit.edu)
3 points by msdos 10y ago|1 comments
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by msdos 10y ago
Vest in peace. In 3 years you'd have made a total of $2mil and can retire and do whatever you want. It's not only ok but also healthy to post this question, because you're full of ideas and want to work on other things. It&#x
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by msdos 10y ago
From http://paulgraham.com/int15.html I'm not involved with selecting startups for Y Combinator anymore, but that is certainly what they are trying to find.
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Venture News(venturenews.co)
2 points by msdos 10y ago|0 comments

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