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by oskarth 13y ago
There are two great things about this advice. First, it's based on personal experience. Second, it's limited to only a few suggestions which are either implemented or not, rather than a laundry list of vague suggestions. It's
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by oskarth 13y ago
If you are actively aiding one side or the other (or both), I don't think that counts as being neutral (if it does, it is certainly a very weak form of neutrality). Which is exactly what Sweden has done and is doing, dating back to at
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The Effect of Money on Trust(schneier.com)
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by oskarth 13y ago
My favourite ultrarunner is Yiannis Kouros. Look him up. He uses Greek epics to motivate him when he's running. His attitude boils down to: mind over matter. No genetic freak or such bullshit. Willpower and love.
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by oskarth 13y ago
Are you sure about your first statement? Everyone in my family knows about Snowden. And not because I told them. None of them are even remotely close to the tech world. I'm from Sweden.
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by oskarth 13y ago
Do you mean Startup School? I don't recall him talking at Hacker School.
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by oskarth 13y ago
Have a look at http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/tags/on-lisp to see Stuart Halloway going through On Lisp in Clojure.
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David Miranda and the Preclusion of Privacy(barryeisler.blogspot.com.br)
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by oskarth 13y ago
It's also a weak form of stating the difference between the two possibilities. In practice, "safe" often means "safe" and a slight possibility of being very unsafe (say, by being labelled a terrorist). Not to mentio
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by oskarth 13y ago
Quite the opposite. The dangerous people are the ones who think morality is something you can negotiate about. That's a recipe for unethical behavior. Ethical principles != Fundamentalism.
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by oskarth 13y ago
Or you know, you could read the actual paper http://www.mockingbirdeducation.net/uploads/5/4/0/7/5407628/... where the nature of deliberate practise is deliberated on. Fluff and blogspam.
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by oskarth 13y ago
Why is everyone so negative? Musk just posted a innovative, open-source, thorough, alpha design study which addresses a real problem. Personally I think it's great, and I hope it gets taken seriously by the right people.
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by oskarth 13y ago
What if programming consists of only refactoring? Then there is no separate "refactoring step", just programming and neglect. This is what Bret Victor is getting at. It is about finding the right medium to work in.
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Finding open space(gabrielweinberg.com)
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Trivial Cycles in Object Oriented Programming(brandonbloom.name)
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by oskarth 13y ago
He betrayed the cause of open government. [...] He betrayed the privacy of us all. [...] He betrayed the Constitution. Really? It's like a parody of a bought opinion. Surely there must be better ways of discrediting him.
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Security vs. Privacy (2008)(schneier.com)
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by oskarth 13y ago
What would a concrete example of a "big brother sort of way" be?
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by oskarth 13y ago
As for myself: I don't know. That's part of the problem and the reason I asked this question. I'm very curious to see where people's threshold is.
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Ask HN: What would it take for you to take action?
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by oskarth 13y ago
I think it's interesting how many people make "better" versions of HN. Without exception none of these get to heart of the problems with HN (middlebrow dismissals getting upvoted, mob mentality, etc), something that pg has alluded to severa
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Media for Thinking the Unthinkable [video](worrydream.com)
1 points by oskarth 13y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 13y ago
I find rules of thumb fascinating. Would love to hear what other rules of thumb people use in their day-to-day. Then they measured my right Thumb, and desired no more; for by a mathematical Computation, that twice round the Thumb is once a
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Three rules of thumb (2009)(johndcook.com)
2 points by oskarth 13y ago|3 comments
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by oskarth 13y ago
Cue a test-how-strong-your-password-is service where security conscious individuals can test how their particular password stands up against these new attacks.
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The Muslim Feminist: I speak for myself(muslimmatters.org)
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by oskarth 13y ago
I don't understand. What would the alternative be? If the answer to "can you find out" is "yes", then how?
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by oskarth 13y ago
Pitch it to your boss as things which will increase your performance, which is what they are ultimately worried about. If get a two hour lunch break where I get to go to the gym, my afternoon will be more productive and more than make up f
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by oskarth 13y ago
Regarding Lisp Things got complicated quickly. I was writing too much code to achieve simple things. Plus I was writing a lot of one-off code. I prefer to write as much reusable code a I can. Mostly because I'm lazy and I like to keep thin
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by oskarth 13y ago
What about an email saying something like Looks like you haven't been very active on project <foo> lately, <bar>. Would you like to hand your baby over to <baz> or <quux> perhaps? where baz and quux are peo

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