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by oskarth 11y ago
> (Let the entire existence of the Web, with its myriad flaws, be a lesson to you: your crappiest demo may well become the thing you're known for twenty-five years later, so make sure your crappiest demo doesn't suck as bad as
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by oskarth 11y ago
Woaha, I didn't know you could do that. In the future, when there are suspicious downvotes, where do you want the community to report it? In-thread like this or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com or by some other means? Thanks for your har
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by oskarth 11y ago
I appreciate the honesty and the predicament for someone who likes Microsoft, but surely you can see how this type of pettiness and retaliation is bad for the community? Be better than the Apple fanboys ;)
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by oskarth 11y ago
Every day I see the top comment in a thread being a typical middlebrow dismissal, the type that adds nothing to the discussion. With that in mind, it's really surprising to me that this comment was downvoted. Before I upvoted it, it wa
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by oskarth 11y ago
Is there a crowdsourced list of startups that use shady recruiting practices somewhere? Not too long ago I was approached by a recruiter for a Unicorn company that repeatedly refused to move forward in the process before I disclosed my &quo
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by oskarth 11y ago
There are even more "Top Secret" documents. https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=not+for+public+re... (The above is sarcasm).
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Tips for Naming Computers(c2.com)
13 points by oskarth 11y ago|10 comments
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On “unpleasant truths” in tech books(blather.michaelwlucas.com)
1 points by oskarth 11y ago|0 comments
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OpenBSD: theo.c from mg source code(bxr.su)
1 points by oskarth 11y ago|1 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
Link to Github repo: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
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A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution(dmst.aueb.gr)
2 points by oskarth 11y ago|1 comments
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A short overview of the file system(experiments.oskarth.com)
3 points by oskarth 11y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
> Maybe there's something we're missing? This is the charitable interpretation of the, albeit somewhat delusional, grandparent (showsomeempathy greenie). Since I support charitable interpretations, I'll respond to it. I ge
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by oskarth 11y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data. There are more than 100k stays every night in an Airbnb. You could find a horror story for any big company that does something 100k times or more. This article says more about NYT and its so called jour
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Locks and concurrency(experiments.oskarth.com)
2 points by oskarth 11y ago|0 comments
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No Computer(experiments.oskarth.com)
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by oskarth 11y ago
I noticed this phenomena in my own writing and I think I know where it comes from. In Polya's list of heuristic (from How to Solve It ) he writes about the the two rules of teaching: > The first rule of teaching is to know what you
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by oskarth 11y ago
It's common in the military to train for extreme scenarios, because sooner or later you might encounter them in reality (i.e. war) where you are forced to do it whether you have trained for it or not.
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by oskarth 11y ago
It took me a while to understand how the stack works on a low-level, so I wrote this. I hope someone finds it useful, and if you found something confusing please let me know and I'll try to clarify! The second part in this series, Wha
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What's on the stack?(experiments.oskarth.com)
2 points by oskarth 11y ago|1 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
You are more than welcome to work on it and submit it to HN. However, please refrain from being gratuitously negative in this forum; someone just spent a lot of time and effort into making something, and your comment - which took less than
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The Textbook Manifesto (2010)(greenteapress.com)
2 points by oskarth 11y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
> * France is one of the most notoriously brazen state sponsors of industrial espionage, especially within the EU. I'm not saying this is wrong, but you should back up such a statement with some real sources. > * This stuff is ra
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A Retrospective on Paradigms of AI Programming (2002)(norvig.com)
20 points by oskarth 11y ago|1 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
Author here. Glad that you liked it and that you learned some new things! Would you mind elaborating on what you found confusing about the explanation of pipes?
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Writing a Lisp Interpreter(experiments.oskarth.com)
2 points by oskarth 11y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
Why should someone have to write a blog post that adds little more but what is already implicit in the title? EDIT: The only reason I can think of is that someone might think Bloomberg wrote the title (because of bloomberg.com and possibly
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by oskarth 11y ago
Nonsense. The spirit of the guidelines is what matters. That post would never get on the front page of HN, and the current title is far from clickbait - it's the very reason it's of interest to the community. EDIT: For reference,
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by oskarth 11y ago
This is great advice!
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by oskarth 11y ago
I have never done a Vipassana retreat, but I've played around with that style of meditation with good results. To me this is one of the most admirable aspects of it - so many of these so called "spiritual" (a misguided umbrel

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