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It's not cheating to copy. - Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
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From 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7902219 (I didn't try it.)
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How about movement? Typing speed is the bottleneck when you are racing to discharge a thought. It's what the article calls: “transcription fluency”: How quickly and fluidly you can get down — “transcribe” — the stuff that’s in your he
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I learned a lot from the article. I liked the research behind it and that it hoped to provide a thorough analysis. I don't understand crypto very well so I wish the article explained things in simpler terms. Shorter would be better for
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using software that you don't have to install on your computers at all That's the important question: what software do you need to install on a computer to make end-to-end crypto possible for web apps. (The good kind of crypto t
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He means crypto from servers can't be trusted. You need something better. You need crypto running in a browser extension. If I understood your article correctly, when you (bren2013) refer to in-browser crypto you mean crypto code is de
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Being vulnerable is powerful. http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability You are vulnerable, but you are not weak. It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness. - Nassim Taleb
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No synchronous messaging API in Chrome in 4 years(code.google.com)
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You are indeed bitten due to procrastination, but it might not be for the reason you think you are. If the company has been dormant since its inception, why are you worried about paying taxes? The IRS doesn't come after dormant compani
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Try doing nothing. You wouldn't be able to even if you tried. Your mind would start wandering to topics you haven't let it. Set as a goal that you'll accomplish less every day, and with zero expectation about what to do with
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It depends on what you are digging. A long expensive digger can be tough to resell. All six diggers[1] used for the Channel Tunnel[2] were buried[3], and their cost was in the order of millions each. What else could you do? Put a 750-foot,
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Is there something specific you do to help you LD? Can you share more about your experience? I also practice LD This comment struck me as odd, since I thought LD wasn't something you can induce on your own, but when I Googled how to
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I liked your extension very much! What I like most is that thinking of your posture becomes automatic. That's the tough part in learning any skill, and for posture this might be the only practical way to remind yourself. You get to hac
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just focus on challenging myself That's a good lesson and its effectiveness is also supported by research. http://www.csulb.edu/~dthoman/Pubs/ThomanSmithSilvia2011.pdf As Heidi Grant Halvorson put it: focus
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The biggest gem for me is this: 193. A writer told me "I didn't get anything done today". Answer: try to do nothing. The best way to have only good days is to not aim at getting anything done. Actually almost every
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Operating with partial context is not only part of real life, but also a branch of mathematical logic called computability theory. That's far from useless. We should also care because social insight often comes from relative comparison
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Anonymous development on a security relevant Project is no longer an option. Why not?
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No, better design. "A-patch-y" was a collection of patches.
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The biggest reason to get a college degree might not be that it's a signal to companies. It might be that it's a signal to you: how do you know you are capable of going into any kind of research, when you don't have signs y
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the grands might go to them The question becomes: why do universities act as if getting grands is what matters and research is a zero-sum game?
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Happiness is a glass half-empty(theguardian.com)
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"Only true peer-to-peer systems that need as little centralized elements as possible can survive." I'm not sure how to interpret statements like this. Decentralization seems ideal. But some of the most successful services so
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Measure your growth rate in users every week. 5% is good. http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
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Am I understanding you correctly that verification IS possible in browsers, just not the existing modern ones (e.g. because of limitations in the existing modern ones) and that browser crypto is possible? (I recognize it might inherently
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You conflated two things. Yes, having full source code is a sufficient condition for security. But you also implied that the hypothetical browser crypto primitives would allow one to do anything they want with the decrypted data, which migh
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tptacek, can you suggest a design for end-to-end email encryption delivered through a browser? As theboss mentioned [1], is: (a) browser crypto theoretically impossible, is it (b) that something's practically from browsers today (like
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Is your goal to learn languages that are in demand? Or is it to become a good programmer -- even if the languages that can make you a good programmer aren't in demand? Don't look back years later to the answers in this question on
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I wish this product explained in one sentence why I need it. How would my world come to an end without it? I often wonder if the ADHD you get from availability of all this data subtracts more than a product adds. " Be your most motivat
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What Every Successful Person Knows, But Never Says(jamesclear.com)
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Thanks for this, I'll try it. I found writing down things I learned (or typing them in) makes them more likely to stick in my mind. Particularly small phrases that pop out.

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