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Ask HN: What is the most surprising quote you ever read?
5 points by read 13y ago|6 comments
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It would be ingenious to advertise job postings where you claim to be incompetent. It would appear to hard workers as one of those truly rare opportunities they simply can't miss and start lining up.
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Nevermind evil; malice is too ambitious of a goal! Incompetence is more likely to dominate. A question that's 100x more important is would you manage to even finish the project? Big projects like that suffer notoriously from mismanagem
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The most inconspicuous sign of RethinkDB taking over the world is what they named this release: Nights of Cabiria. It shows they have the strength to laugh at themselves, at how hard it is to build something like this, and how people have t
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(A side note irrelevant to this comment thread. One has to applaud this essay for one of the most strategic uses of "Hell if I know" . I learned a lot about writing by reading what you write. Thank you.)
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I like this goal! What's the best way you've found that helps poke fun at yourself? If I could ask, what kind of prediction about what will make you happy have you been the most wrong about?
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I've found the paralysis can have the opposite effect. On several life-changing occasions it lead me to say to myself there's something I'll never be able to do. As soon as I said that, I was able to have stress-free thoughts
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What is the best country that you know of to store data safely in?
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The specific instance of the technology might have changed but general phenomena surrounding people's perceptions of technology certainly haven't.
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Ask HN: How would you guard your data privacy?
7 points by read 13y ago|1 comments
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Can you elaborate on what put you off Python's indentation?
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A way to execute set-based queries is a major point you bring up here. It's also the most baffling. When tens of filesystems with sophisticated features completely omit what is one of the most common features used by database users, presuma
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I noticed when a discussion like this comes up people separate themselves into two camps that mock each other's assumptions while both talking about the same thing. It would be nice to talk more concretely with benchmark numbers. 1. What ab
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Why is my homedir wide open?
2 points by read 13y ago|3 comments
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Thanks for the detailed explanation. $10-$15 per year is a bit expensive. I doubt a domain that gets no more than 10 hits a day should pay that much. A 1000 or even as little as 100 of them owned by a single person certainly would be expens
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Ask HN: How does domain registration work?
1 points by read 13y ago|3 comments
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Paradoxical as it sounds, that's a pretty accurate observation. You get better the more insecure you are. I've struggled to find an explanation for this, the closest being Prospect Theory. The theory states that people make decisions based
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Is the goal of the site to have people post ideas that ran through their mind as they were reading a book? Or is to share ideas the book was introducing? How can you be sure people will discern the ideas a book introduced? Is the goal for p
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Does confidence really breed success?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by read 13y ago|0 comments
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The trouble with EOM is that you still need to click on the email you received to un-bold it. EOM or not, you are still opening it.
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What do you do instead of working on what are supposed to be working on when you find yourself not focusing?