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Are you sure this is what you should be looking for? The hope is to find a good fit individual or two to hack around with to find a big idea. You'd do well to look for a good fit individual or two to work with long term. But not as w
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SKEME: A versatile secure key exchange mechanism for Internet (1996) [pdf](dia.unisa.it)
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Psychology distinguishes rationality and intelligence as two separate concepts. You can be highly intelligent but not very rational.
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Then what trick is more practical than "surround yourself with smart people" that you could derive without smart people? By the way, the first trick was "The first step is to have an explicit belief in change."
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You are afraid. It's a good sign. You are afraid of looking bad: of creating things with computers that you'll then make public, with your name on them. Or that these computers, that you LOVE (your words), might turn out hard to p
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Thanks. I still find it fascinating people do good work without fully understanding an area. It's as if you're not supposed to. I wonder if this could be used as a guiding principle in making things. If what you are working on ori
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Can you point to the sentence where he said that?
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Why Alan Kay came up with object-oriented: I wanted to get rid of data. I didn't understand the monster LISP idea of tangible metalanguage then
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Check out a talk on the mechanism if you want to know more. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-09/antikythera-mech... There's also a simulation (with videos) of the mechanism in Squeak EToys http:&#x2F
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Congrats for bringing this to the world. A few questions: 1. Are you doing the encryption in a browser plugin? 2. How do you send the email without learning who the recipient is? Are you saving it on the server, thus not using SMTP, and the
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Forget a million jobs
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It's natural to have this problem at one point or another. Solution: call launching an experiment. It's incredibly hard to tell if something will work or not. So hard in fact, that you are better off assuming it won't. Becaus
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His rant isn't about decentralization. It's about centralization's bad effects. If there was a way for the bad affects to disappear, there wouldn't be a reason to rant. All things being equal, people prefer centralized u
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> You cannot give up partition tolerance. It'd be more accurate to say you don't want to give it up all the time. You don't want CAP; you want PACELC. http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/probl
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We lost sight of what mattered for our users, focusing on features that were nice but perhaps not as necessary as we thought. We overengineered. We didn't get rid of the crufty unnecessary features. I learned an awful lot. Time for so
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To the same place it will lead C++. A dead end.
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Some of my takeaways: "Product distribution is more important than what the product is." It's not enough to be contrarian. You should also be right. "It's useful to be able to recognize whether you are on track or n
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> to discuss best practices
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Redirect the conversation to what's important. Like (a) asking what problems the company has that need to be solved, (b) how much more productive than the average software engineer you are, and (c) that you are determined : that you&#
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What makes you believe the fix to privacy is more likely to originate from a panel than from (a) a semi-random way of bumping into a dinosaur egg, like Twitter and Facebook, or (b) the efforts of an individual, like Moxie Marlinspike or som
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Thanks for this info. It will be interesting to read about how new brain circuits are created with movement. I originally suspected walking has more to do with psychology, specifically paradoxic intention, than it does with physiology. That
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Good observation. Why aren't they obligated to? You don't have to ask people to supply a comment for every upvote. But you can ask them for downvotes. There are an order of magnitude less downvotes than upvotes.
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> it's about not lowering the signal/noise ratio any further. idea: you can track an explanation why something was downvoted without showing it as a comment. It can be shown only if a user clicks on some type of "why th
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If you already have an HN account, which I do, email is not much easier than posting with HN. Unless one goes through the trouble of creating a new email account, to some extent email can reveal your identity. But I understand that what you
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Expectation. And/or social pressure. Expectation makes me clamp up and produce work that isn't as good/gutsy/valuable. Social pressure makes me spend years on things I didn't want to be doing.
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(off-topic: dang, if you see this, can I ask you to reconsider HN's approach to downvoting? The arguments are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7963116 ) Thanks. (Edit: Great, more downvoting)
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This is the first post by 0xab after 1992 days of being a registered HN user. Imagine (a) the determination needed to not yield to temptation and post something over 5.5 years, and (b) how upsetting immigration is to someone as determined a
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The best advice I've found is: try doing nothing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7864809 Not getting anything done out of anxiety you should be getting something done is a real problem a lot of people have. I sur
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> I also fundamentally disagree that removing choices is a good thing You may want to revise that perspective. Besides constraints being key to creativity, they are also key to good design. Every design needs to limit options. Additional
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Can you explain why you are unsure the seL4 model is the best for a secure system?

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