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Whoops, my mistake. Sorry. Why did I make this mistake? Did I subconsciously associate the initials NY with evil intentions? It wouldn't be surprising if The New York Times become a casualty of the The New Yorker's policy by accid
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Is this a submarine? Why is a site struggling with journalism (NY Times), and a subscription model, and a paywall (that will become permanent in 3 months), and possibly an advertising problem, advocating that another site (Reddit), with mor
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Pay attention to a couple of things in your response. Whatever happens I wish you the best. (1) You contradicted yourself. What multiple years long translates to as you increase the number of years is death. So it's not true that there
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jl, I enjoyed the last talk you gave including the gem: Quietly determined people tend to win because the scenesters usually can't build anything. - Jessica Livingston
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Don't be quick to follow this part of the advice: Don’t let immigration issues ever be a major factor in your long term career decisions. Maybe it wasn't an irreversible decision for the blog author personally. But it can be an
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The voices that interrupt the stillness are the ones that are the daemons. Redefine success as "learning something interesting". External success is a mistake. - Paul Buchheit His goal for Gmail was to get to 10
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Are these 4039 words trying to say that being insecure is better? If that's it, I wish this text said so in the first sentence. The opposite of insecurity, having high self-esteem, can be detrimental to success : http://www.
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Why must you type in qwerty to take the tests? Can't you bring in your own keyboard that supports Dvorak in hardware?
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One more suggestion: consider moving the text indicating the capital needed outside the blue area. Or at least provide another copy of that text outside the blue area. It becomes hard to see that text with low weekly expenses($2500), close
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Ask HN: How would you change your mind?
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I am worried for Hacker News. One of my mottoes is that if you want to get unusual results, work fast and work cheap, because there's more of a chance that you'll get somewhere that nobody else did. Nearly always, the
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An alternate theory would be the whole thing is a submarine: a way of advertising Bitcoin to pizza owners, under the pretense of a threat. What could make them take Bitcoin more seriously than the threat of them being harmed by it? It would
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tkdiff because (a) it installs on Linux with requiring lots of dependencies and (b) supports a -r parameter for diffing against a previous version from source control (but only for Subversion/CVS; not Git)
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I learned a lot about how a vim user thinks and works from this comment. Thank you for explaining.
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it never helps I'm not sure how true that is and I might be able to prove it. (1) One way it could help is: if I could get feedback about where I went astray. That's what I want to know when I'm downvoted. I don't care
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I wonder if there's navigation modern vim doesn't offer. Can you tell if or how you can do the following in vim? In Emacs, Ctrl-<up arrow> moves the cursor ahead of a block of code. If you had a for loop for example, with a
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I interpret it as a positive sign when someone downvotes without an explanation (live above). It's a sign they don't understand a topic well enough to refute its main point. I'm sorry if the comment above also caused you to g
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Why is Esc-/ easier than Ctrl-f (or Ctrl-s in Emacs)? Esc requires you twist your entire left hand sideways up to hit the Esc, whereas Ctrl requires you move only your left pinky to hit the Ctrl. Ctrl is more efficient.
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Why have a mode focused on navigation? Is there something this mode allows beyond navigating? What would be impossible to do if you didn't have this mode? The keyboard allows you to navigate too, without the need for a mode.
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That's too broad of a stroke on what a programmer does with text. It's not just about editing. It's also about (a) moving to the point where you want to edit, (b) moving to an other point right after you just finished editing
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Esc-ping isn't the same either. What makes pressing a key (Escape) to enter a mode better than Ctrl, Alt, Shift to enter a mode? It's also not true that it's impossible to make other editors work like vi. evil-mode in Emacs l
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Efficiency trumps tradition in this istance. The reason for horse carriages is historical too and persists because it is useful but a horse carriage isn't as efficient as a car. One measure of effectiveness would be: to count the numbe
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They know how to program. Do they know what to program?
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What I never heard explained in one sentence about vi is: why have multiple modes? Why not zero modes instead?
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Dynamic typing in hardware seems like one of the best kept secrets. It's probably easier for a software guy to think of adding dynamic typing in hardware than it does a hardware guy to want to program in a dynamic language.
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this guy needs to learn more Verilog That's not a bad thing. Maybe this is why a Lisp processor doesn't exist. Not only do you have to know Lisp well, which only a minority of programmers do, but you also need to want to know ha
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Maybe you don't want to get all those features for free. Maybe you want the opposite: to not have those features at all. If you are going to build a Lisp processor, then you probably don't want a Lisp compiler or interpreter in th
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"to avoid multiple input and multiple links" You could avoid multiple input and multiple links with cookies. That wouldn't require a login. Users might not even know what a cookie is, so they don't ask for one and instea
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A silly question: why did you add a login? Is it because 30 people typed text like "how do I create an account" and you interpreted it to mean "I want an account"? And even if they did explicitly say they want an account
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The problem isn't that you don't know what to do. It's that you know and yet can't bring yourself to do it. From the article: small adjustments to how employees think about work The key word there is: think . It'

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